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3. Using Essential Oils
How does the body work? A basic tenet of the Wise Woman Tradition as I have taught it for more than forty years is that our gut determines our health. It is now widely acknowledged that gut flora determines our physical health, our emotional health, and even our spiritual well-being.
Gut flora is the term we use to collectively identify the thousands of different yeasts, bacteria, and micro-organisms that live in our large and small intestines.
All essential oils are antifungal (kill yeasts), antibacterial (kill bacteria), and anti-microbial (kill small things). In short, all essential oils kill gut flora. They kill gut flora when inhaled, put on the body, or used orally. Lack of gut flora interferes with the immune system, makes the cells more resistant to insulin, and raises cholesterol, to name but a few of the problems associated with damage to gut flora.
Worse yet, essential oils melt plastic and take the finish off furniture. Their ability to melt plastic (and plastic-based finishes on wood) hints at their ability to disrupt our hormones. This is borne out by the young boys who have grown breasts after using organic lavender and tea tree essential oil products. I personally have two students whose little boys were affected.
Learn more: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/lavender-tea-tree-oils-may-cause-breast-growth-boys
Their ability to melt oil-based wood finishes hints at their ability to melt the lipid layers that protect our cells. Some researchers have found essential oils capable of disrupting, even killing, mitochondria, the energy-producing parts of the cell.
Learn more: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3873673/
Article - Biological effects of essential oils
Aspirin is made by extracting, concentrating, and purifying a plant compound found in willow. Essential oils are made by extracting, concentrating, and purifying the volatile oils found in plants. The processes are the same; the result is the same; there is no way to deny that essential oils are drugs, not herbal medicines. As such, they have detrimental side effects, and – while useful to kill pathogens – are not recommended for everyday use, even as "aromatherapy."
Instead: Use natural scent therapy. Use scented plants infused in coconut oil, like those made by Kuumba.
Throw a stick of cinnamon or an orange peel in a pan of boiling water to freshen the air in your house or apartment. Use unscented body lotions; and ask your favorite maker of lotions to make some without scent. Brush your teeth and rinse your mouth with yarrow tincture. Wash with plain castile soap; and ask your favorite soap maker to make some without scent.
Learn more about gut flora: NIH Human Microbiome Project
There are thousands of scientific and poplar articles on gut flora. Here are a few:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22367888
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160606200431.htm
www.nature.com/nature/journal/v486/n7402/abs/nature11053.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mental-health-may-depend-on-creatures-in-the-gut/
Top Ten Worst Diet and Healthcare Choices
& Ten Better Choices # 2
2. Green drinks
Proponents claim that the best way to get your green is to throw them in a blender. But there are no nutrients available from raw food, nor from raw juices. Worse yet, blending or juicing raw greens is a really good way to get serious food poisoning.
How does the body work? Almost all raw plants harbor bacteria, viral particles, and even minor parasites that can injure or kill us. When blended or juiced, those unwelcome creatures multiply furiously, sometimes by ten thousand times in a few minutes. The first person to die in the spinach/e-coli recall was a young boy whose mom made him a green drink.
Instead: Drink nourishing herbal infusions. Because they are made from dried plants steeped in boiling water, all bacteria, viruses, and parasites are killed. Learn how to make and use nourishing herbal infusions here:
www. youtube.com/watch?v=7pKpe_YGUUw
Learn More: The CDC estimates nine million foodborne illnesses yearly in the USA resulting in hospitalization and death. They attribute 46 percent of these to produce. Produce accounted for 66% of viral, 32% of bacterial, 25% of chemical, and 30% of parasitic illnesses reported. This is a greater proportion then caused by land or aquatic animals for Bacillus cereus; Clostridium botulinum; enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli; Shiga toxin–producing Escherichia coli (STEC) O157; non-O157 STEC; Salmonella enterica serotypes Javiana, Newport, and other; Shigella spp.; mycotoxins; all chemicals; hepatitis A; Cryptosporidium spp.; norovirus; Cyclospora cayetansesis; and sapovirus.
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/19/3/11-1866_article
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Down There: Sexual and Reproductive Health the Wise Woman Way
Publication date: June 21, 2011
Author: Susun S. Weed
Simple, successful, strategies cover the entire range of options -- from mainstream to radical -- to help you choose the best, and the safest, ways to optimize sexual and reproductive health.
Foreword: Aviva Romm, MD, midwife, 484 pages, Index, illustrations
Retails for $29.95
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