Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

Of course I look forward to your conributions on this list. My points were 
limited to exhorbitant cost and unsubstantiated claims about healing. 
Personally I do have to prioritize tho and won't be researching oils. We face 
the confusion of hundreds of plant based substances supported by nothing but 
anecdotal or traditional use. But when I deal with serious health issues, one 
more item in the toolbox doesn't get it. I have to do better than that.

>From a lot of research we find there are many clinically proven foods and 
>herbs for specific health issues, and almost all are highly affordable to 
>retirees such as myself or easily grown in most climates. The other half of 
>it is what not to eat or ingest. And it turns out that what's bad for me is 
>stuff that doesn't actually grow in any gardens - at least not in a form 
>that's usually eaten. And searching the supermarkets crammed with all the 
>"food like substances" gives Pollan's term a whole new meaning. It's not 
>just avoiding nobrainers like transfats, msg, aspartame, or empty calories. 
>Our gardens don't grow refined sugar or refined flour (or meat grown 
>unnaturally on grains), all of which alter our body chemistry and lower 
>defense mechanisms. And 90%+ of packaged stuff even in the better food 
>stores contain one or more.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 3/1/2010 at 9:03 PM Laurie Ann Powell wrote:

>Paul, you always do a great job keeping the list active and healthy.  I
>know Carrie's purpose was to offer another healing modality, not to
>start a debate.  I hope I can begin to close that down here.
>
>I have been on this list for years because I want to learn to be well.
>With essential oils, I have added one more traditional staple to our
>toolbox of healing.  Many who are eating healthy are still taking
>pharmaceutical drugs unnecessarily, and we have found that therapeutic
>grade oils (read: 'concentrated plant stuff') can make well.
>
>If you are radiantly healthy already, that is so fabulous! Keep it up!
>
>If not:  You may be interested in the extensive research Young did just
>to find a couple of  tiny patches of earth that weren't already
>poisoned, to grow clean plants to distill. You can look him up. Research
>on Essential Oils at the NIH site: pubmed.net.  Read up on the Chemistry
>through David Stewart's book, which won an American Journal of Nursing
>Book of the Year Award.
>
>Or you can write to Carrie off-list.  She grows her own vegetable,
>raises her own meat, spins and knits her own fiber, and still has time
>to read up on the Chemistry of Essential Oils - and to share what she
>learns with others.
>
>Laurie Ann
>
>
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