Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

For my part I'm far more interested in healing foods and herbs we can grow 
and use ourselves where we are. Barb and I both agree with the traditional 
belief that things grown where we live are more beneficial, honey as a prime 
example. For those things not locally produced there are plants and extracts 
available at a fraction of the cost of distilled oils. One example is 
Zyflamend, not a synthetic drug:
http://www.newchapter.com/products/zyflamend
http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/news/press_releases/zyflamend.html
IP-6 is found in high concentration in whole grains and legumes, and it’s 
commonly available as a nutritional supplement.
http://www.uccc.info/for-healthcare-professional/cancer-center/news-publications/directors-message/index.aspx

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

Let food be your medicine.
- Hippocrates

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On 3/2/2010 at 1:01 PM Laurie Ann Powell wrote:

>Pete said, "I want to nominate one native plant I ran into while doing
>some milkthistle (another fine plant - just too much of it) removal the
>other day - coyote mint."
>
>I want to nominate you to do the research :) Distillation methods are easy
>to find  - google, foxfire books, etc.
>It's a lot of work, but may be worth the effort. The best way to do the
>research is to do some tincturing, then smell, and see what happens. Put
>it on a boo-boo and see what happens. Put it on pain and see what happens.
> The first 7800 years of human history, that's what folks did. As far as
>I've been able to find out, there are no deaths attributable to essential
>oils.  Detox headaches sometimes.
>
>In France and England a lot of research has been done on essential oils
>but almost NOTHING in the US - hence, very little on native plants here.
>There are reams of paperwork from the war between France, who does
>research using oils "neat" (and being careful to allow no toxins) and
>England, which doesn't distinguish between adulterated and pure oils and
>therefore says they can be "dangerous".
>
>One reason that the Young company gets a lot of heat is that they refuse
>to do business with farms and companies selling inferior product, and this
>is a pioneer field (in the US) at the therapeutic level.  Hard to put
>"lavender essence" in the realm of "potentially hazardous biochemicals"
>but there you are.  I make shampoo with olive oil and lavender essence and
>I'm practicing medicine without FDA approval. Ha!
>
>We use all the oils neat - even occasionally getting them in our eyes.
>Some of them sting or burn for a minute or two.  That's a side effect I
>can live with. Even the cheap stuff may be mildly nauseating but hardly
>fatal.
>
>I'll be happy to give the coyote mint a spin when you are done!
>
>Laurie Ann
>
>
>
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