Oil Pulling for HEALTH

What is Oil Pulling (OP)?

Oil Pulling is a safe, simple, cheap and gentle ‘do it yourself home remedy’ that cures and prevents diseases and extends your healthy life.

It involves rinsing the mouth with 1 tablespoon (10ml) of oil for 15 to 20 minutes and spitting it out. You can use either sunflower oil or sesame oil, both of which are usually used for cooking and readily available in the home.

This simple therapy is completely harmless as you do not take any medicines - even the oil you use is spit out after OP. By helping the body get rid of toxins that have accumulated, Oil Pulling promotes self healing from within.

Oil Pulling has been mentioned in the ancient texts of Ayurveda. A similar process was also published at a conference of the “All Ukrainische Union, “of the oncologists (Specialists for tumor diseases) and bacteriologists, by Dr.med. Karach. Over the years, this simple therapy helped cure diseases of thousands of people around the world.

I am going to start tomorrow with sunflower seed oil.  I have severe stomach problems and allergies year around.  So lets see what happens.  I also read that you should add 1 drop of WILD oregano oil to the oil for one week about every thress months.  You should also switch to a different oil every two months.  Make sure you do not swallow or actaully gargle the oil BUT make sure it get to your back teeth and in between your teeth.

Butterbur Herb

MAYBE a potential herb for a decline in allergy symptoms, headaches and migraines

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Butterbur photo courtesy of Wikipedia

Butterbur - The Plant

Butterbur (Petasites vulgaris) is an herb that is found in Europe and parts of Asia and Africa. The leaves are large and spiky and can grow to as large as two feet wide. Butterbur is also known as Sweet Coltsfoot, Butterfly Dock and Umbrella leaves. Butterbur is common in England and can be found growing in marshy areas. It is thought that Butterbur got it's name because the large leaves were used to wrap butter to keep it cool.

Butterbur to Prevent Allergies

Historically, Butterbur was used for cough, asthma, and other respiratory problems. A study published in the January 2002 issue of the British Medical Journal showed the Butterbur extract was as effective as the antihistamine Zyrtec (cetrizine) in relieving allergy symptoms. The herb was also less likely to cause drowsiness.

Butterbur to Prevent Migraines

In clinical studies Butterbur has been shown to decrease the incidence of migraine headaches by up to 50% versus those taking a placebo. It is thought that the active ingredients in Butterbur, petasin and isopetasin, reduces inflammation in the blood vessels, thus preventing migraine headaches.
To achieve the best results, the study participants took 75mg of Butterbur extract twice a day.Those taking lower doses of Butterbur extract (50mg twice a day) also had a significant decrease in the number of migraines compared to those taking a placebo.

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White Butterbur Image courtesy Wikipedia

Side Effects of Butterbur

It is important to note that although Butterbur is a natural herb, it is not without side effects. Butterbur in its natural state contains pyrrolizidine alkaloids. Pyrrolizidine alkaloids are toxic to the liver and can cause cancer.
Butterbur should only be taken as a standardized supplement (such as Petadolex) that is labeled PA-free.
Butterbur is also a member of the ragweed family and can actually worsen allergies in people with ragweed allergies. Don't take Butterbur if you are allergic to ragweed or daisies.
Minor side effects can include stomach problems, headache, and fatigue.

Fodder Wheat Grass & Sprouts

 I let the Wheat Grass grow to about 6-8" for my Goats and pony

 No soil needed in growing Wheat Grass

 This is how it looks right after you take the newspaper off and allow it to get some light.

 I also grow them in clam shells for me and for the pony as a one serving size

 You can see the tails starting to form.  I keep them in the dark until you see the yellow grass growing.  Notice I also put sunflower seeds and whole oats in the mix

Right before the tails start to form

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Christmas in the Candle/Soap workshop & store

Our Candle/Soap workshop.  My Mother has it decorated so cute for Christmas.  My Mothers
candle shop is called Candle Hideaway.  You can find her candles for sale on www.amish-craft-furniture.com  Some of my goat milk soaps are also listed on the site.

Sorry about the messy look BUT I just wanted to wish everyone a personal MERRY CHRISTMAS and a PROSPEROUS & HEALTHY NEW YEAR!!!!!

Dinovite for Giant Dogs - Dinovite Products

Dinovite for Giant Dogs - Dinovite Products

I am thinking about trying this product.  Does anyone have any input?  I would also like to try
their natural flea control for dogs

Jill's Home Remedies: How To Clear Sinus Congestion

Jill's Home Remedies: How To Clear Sinus Congestion: Sinus congestion can be the most miserable part of a sinus infection.  To drain your sinuses, try one of the remedies below: One of my favo...

Homestead Survival: Storing onions for winter

Homestead Survival: Storing onions for winter: Storing onions for winter, can store for months in pantyhose. Tie a knot between onions and you can then clip the knot as you need an onion....

Homestead Survival: Dehydrating Intro 101

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Organic Chick Starter

Here is an Organic Chick Starter for anyone hatching out babies.. 2 T raw honey, 1/4 tsp natural salt, 1/4 tsp baking powder all mixed into one cup of filtered water.

Dandelion Root Cancer CURE??!!!

Dandelion Root
Cancer Cure? At No Cost!
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George Cairns Writes... Please save this page as it won't be printed again by me. It may save your life or the life of a love one or a friend. Anyone may reprint this if they print it word for word. Every week around 10,000 people die of cancer. Government figures show the death rate for cancer deaths has not changed in the last 10 years. Chemo and radiation only save around 10% of the people treated. So this shows our doctors don't have much to work with. As this article goes on, I will explain how to prepare this plant and how much to take. There is nothing to buy. For some reason, the Lord has picked me to carry these words to you. I am only the delivery boy, and none of this is my idea. I do believe every word I write here, and I'm living proof it works. The cost of printing is my thanks to God for giving me back my life and health. A little over three years ago I was about done in with cancer. One morning as I was waking up and hoping the end would come soon, a voice came to me and said. "You have to do something about your prostate cancer. Take the root of the dandelion. Don't expect a miracle. It took you a long time to get in this condition." The voice was gone. I thought the voice was kidding to use the dandelion. When this voice tells you to do something, you do it. You must do it, like writing this article. It is the last thing I ever expected to do. Then I thought he didn't tell me how much to take or how to prepare it. As soon as you could blink an eye. I knew how much to take, how to prepare it, and it would take 4 to 6 months to cure me. I also knew I wasn't to make a penny on it. As soon as I got around that morning, I dug some roots and started to prepare it. About a week l! ater I started taking it. Three weeks later the pain in my back and side was gone and my bowels had improved. Five and one half months later they could find no cancer problem in me at all. I, then wanted to find someone else to try it, and that was the biggest problem yet. Nobody seems to want to help. When I told doctors, they just smiled as if I was nuts. Finally, I was telling a friend about it and he said he had a friend that was dying of lung cancer. He had it in both lungs and was bed ridden. They were tapping his lungs. He had been given 4 to 6 weeks to live. After he had been on this powder about six weeks, he was up and around doing his chores and driving his car. He went to his doctor's office, and the doctors could not believe it. They took him to the hospital and gave him a CAT scan. They found no cancer lesions in his lungs and said it was a miracle. I then put an ad in The Northwest Herald offering it free, and four people's aid they would try it. Slowly one person told another and it spread. There was a fair amount of people taking it for different kinds of cancer and several for other things. For instance, a man lost the use of his immune system and was told he wouldn't be able to work again for three years, in six months he is now working ? days and feeling better. I know this is not a cure all. It won't help everyone or all kinds of cancer. I know it is not a cure for skin cancer and it hasn't had luck with brain tumors. There is a doctor in Boston, Massachusetts that has developed a vaccine that is doing great things. This has been successful with prostate, colon, breast, liver and best of all with lung cancer. Five people have taken it for lung cancer and all five have been cured once. The immune system controls the cancer cells in your body. As long as the immune system is healthy, you don't usually have a cancer problem. When your immune system gets run down, it loses control of the cancer cells, and they start eating live cells and this is what they call cancer. This powder made from dandelion root has something in it that builds up the blood and the immune system. When the immune system is built up so far, it gets back control of cancer cells, and they do an about face and start cleaning up the mess they've made. This is why you must have a fair appetite because your body must build itself up and be healthy if your immune system is going to be strong. This will not work for people that have lost their appetite or are on CHEMO. Doctors try to blast the cancer out of your body with Chemo or radiation. By doing so, it destroys your immune system and appetite. These are the most important things your body needs to beat cancer. Operations also knock the immune system haywire. This is why so many people that have operations for cancer find that a short time later it has spread somewhere else. Many of the worst diseases that have plagued the world have been cured quite easily. When I was a boy, women dreaded the goiter more than cancer. A little iodine in the diet cured that. For hundred of years the most dreaded diseases was leprosy and lockjaw. A doctor found he could produce penicillin from moldy bread and could cure them and many more things. How long has moldy bread been around? I'm sure scientists will find many uses for the powder made from the root of the dandelions besides cancer. I have already found it builds up the blood so you heal much faster. To make the powder from the dandelion root you must follow my directions to the letter. Any changes and it won't work. Dig a handful of dandelion roots any time of the year, it doesn't matter. Cut the leaves off just below the crown. DO NOT WASH. Then they must be dried around 100 degrees. I do it in an incubator with no water. You can also dry them under a heat light bulb if you raise or lower it so it's 100 degrees. You can also use the sun or put them in the attic if it's not too hot. It takes about 5 or 6 days in the incubator. I have not done this all the way under the heat light. When you break a root and it snaps it is ready to powder. Take an old iron frying pan and a clean hammer. Take one root at a time and place in the frying pan and start tapping. Don't hit hard or it will fly all over the place. I put my hand around the root to keep most of it in the pan. If it sticks to the hammer and pan, and doesn't crumble in your fingers, it isn't dry enough. Keep it up until you have enough to start. It takes about 20 minutes to ? hour to prepare enough for a week. When you get used to it you can go much faster. I have an old vessel that druggists used to pound pills, this goes much faster. DO NOT USE AN ELECTRIC GRINDER, it won't work if you do. You lose too much of the good part in dust. You must do it as I have said or don't do it at all. I've tried shortcuts, but it seems someone was looking over my shoulder, and I know when I made a mistake. I'm just an old farmer and not a scientist, so I wouldn't know the correct amount to take on my own. Now take a little over one half teaspoon once a day at any time and mix it with water, orange juice, etc.. Do not use in soft drinks, liquor, or anything hot. When mixed, use it all. Don't let it stand around. Keep the power in a dry place. After taking it three or four days, you will feel good, but nothing else. That is because your blood is building up. When you blood is happy, you're happy. In most cases, this will build your immune system in from three days to three weeks to the point it takes back control of cancer cells and thus the cancer stops spreading. In most cases it is going to help. There is no body feeling as it works. You just feel a little better each week. After three weeks most of the pain will be gone in your back and you know it's working if you had pain there like I did. If you have bone cancer in the spine, it will take three months to work. This is not an overnight cure. It took a while to get in this condition and it will take a while for your body to heal. The sooner you start, the quicker you will be over cancer. Young people heal faster than old people, but it will help at any age. I know because I'm 80 and have been taking it for over three years. No cancer has come back and no side effects except when my body has had enough, it lets me know by getting heart burn. Then I back off some. Some people get stomach aches when they need less. It also means your cancer is under control and you don't need as much. You will also find you probably won't catch a cold while you are taking it full strength. The biggest enemy for this root is Chemo. The stronger the Chemo, the less chance the power has to help you as Chemo tears your immune system and appetite down, two of the most important things you need to cure cancer. There is only a ten percent chance Chemo will cure you. With no chemo, your chances are 75 to 80% but you must take it every day. Don't let your doctor give you that old treat if you turn him down that goes, "If you want to throw your life away, I can't stop you". Just remember that 90% of the people that take his advice and take chemo are in the cemetery. Don't blame the doctor, he is doing his best with what he has to work with or you could ask for a written guarantee. I have only mentioned cancers that I know people have had and used this root. It should help pancreas cancer if taken before the appetite is gone and most body cancer. This is food, not a drug. It shouldn't interfere with medicine your doctor may be giving you. Only two doctors have told patients to keep taking the power when they have made a miracle recovery. The rest of the doctors have run the power down and blasted the people even if the cancer has disappeared. The medical world is not going to accept this easily. Going back to not washing the roots and leaving a little soil on them, it is for your own good. A good bit of immunity comes from the soil, it starts as soon as you are born. Your fingers touch something, and you put them in your mouth. A little dirt at first, and more as you grow older and start crawling. Then everything you touch goes in the mouth. When children go outside to play and when they come in, they are the dirtiest around the mouth and hand. The hands go in their mouths no matter how dirty they are. Many diseases and bacteria live in the ground, but they don't seem to cause any trouble but it does build up the immune system. Some animals can't live if they can't eat a certain amount of soil. If you read this article over, you will see it! all goes back to common sense. I wish all of you people with cancer and other problems the best. George Cairns (815) 338-1526 Or send self addressed envelope to: 708 Hughes Road Woodstock, IL 80096 This ad does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Northwest Herald. The dandelion root power you can buy at a Health Food Store is not made the same way. It is not known to help cancer.

Powerful Cucumber

THE CUCUMBER

>1. Cucumbers contain most of the vitamins you need every day, just one cucumber contains Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B3, Vitamin B5, Vitamin B6, Folic Acid, Vitamin C, Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium and Zinc.

>2. Feeling tired in the afternoon, put down the caffeinated soda and pick up a cucumber.. Cucumbers are a good source of B Vitamins and Carbohydrates that can provide that quick pick-me-up that can last for hours.

>3. Tired of your bathroom mirror fogging up after a shower? Try rubbing a cucumber slice along the mirror, it will eliminate the fog and provide a soothing, spa-like fragrance.

>4. Are grubs and slugs ruining your planting beds? Place a few slices in a small pie tin and your garden will be free of pests all season long. The chemicals in the cucumber react with the aluminum to give off a scent undetectable to humans but drive garden pests crazy and make them flee the area.

>5 Looking for a fast and easy way to remove cellulite before going out or to the pool? Try rubbing a slice or two of cucumbers along your problem area for a few minutes, the phytochemicals in the cucumber cause the collagen in your skin to tighten, firming up the outer layer and reducing the visibility of cellulite. Works great on wrinkles too!!!

>6. Want to avoid a hangover or terrible headache? Eat a few cucumber slices before going to bed and wake up refreshed and headache free. Cucumbers contain enough sugar, B vitamins and electrolytes to replenish essential nutrients the body lost, keeping everything in equilibrium, avoiding both a hangover and headache!!

>7. Looking to fight off that afternoon or evening snacking binge? Cucumbers have been used for centuries and often used by European trappers, traders and explores for quick meals to thwart off starvation.

>8. Have an important meeting or job interview and you realize that you don't have enough time to polish your shoes? Rub a freshly cut cucumber over the shoe, its chemicals will provide a quick and durable shine that not only looks great but also repels water.

>9. Out of WD 40 and need to fix a squeaky hinge? Take a cucumber slice and rub it along the problematic hinge, and voila, the squeak is gone!

>10. Stressed out and don't have time for massage, facial or visit to the spa? Cut up an entire cucumber and place it in a boiling pot of water, the chemicals and nutrients from the cucumber with react with the boiling water and be released in the steam, creating a soothing, relaxing aroma that has been shown the reduce stress in new mothers and college students during final exams.

>11. Just finish a business lunch and realize you don't have gum or mints? Take a slice of cucumber and press it to the roof of your mouth with your tongue for 30 seconds to eliminate bad breath, the phytochemcials will kill the bacteria in your mouth responsible for causing bad breath.

>12. Looking for a 'green' way to clean your faucets, sinks or stainless steel? Take a slice of cucumber and rub it on the surface you want to clean, not only will it remove years of tarnish and bring back the shine, but is won't leave streaks and won't harm you fingers or fingernails while you clean.

>13. Using a pen and made a mistake? Take the outside of the cucumber and slowly use it to erase the pen writing, also works great on crayons and markers that the kids have used to decorate the walls!!

Home made electrolyte

Like pedialyte. You can also add some fruit juice, real juice, not from
concentrate, for flavor.

Boil two cups water. Stir in two tablespoons sugar or agave nectar, 1/4 tsp salt
and 1/4 tsp baking soda. Dissolve all ingredients, bottle and keep on hand in
the fridge, for emergency hydration of sick animals or kids, or even yourself.
You could even pressure can it for emergency storage long term.

Hanna and her English speaking fish

This is Hanna Hostetler.  Hanna and her brother Mathew came over today to fish with their
Grandfather.  Hanna is about 4 years old and her brother Mathew is about 3 years old.  Well Hanna
was not very excited about fishing UNTIL I told her that the fish spoke English and in order for her to catch her own fish she had to speek English.

Hanna caught her English fish when she spoke English to the fish.  Hanna and her Grandpa Joseph were really excited about the catch!

Amish family wecomes number TEN child Loyl

Yesterday I stopped by the Hostetlers, an Amish family friend of the family, to see the latest number TEN, yes ten, child.  Loyl is a LITTLE boy with redish hair.  Loyl is a fussy baby, so I am told by his bothers.  His 6 brothers and 3 sisters DOTE over him.  The household stops when baby Loyl cries.  The love and care that the brothers and sisters have between each other is a strong bond that you can actually feel as soon as you enter the farm.  If you are thinking this sounds like the Waltons then I got my point across.  Yes it feels and kind of looks like the Waltons only it is the Hostetlers.

Homemade dishwasher soap

Homemade Dishwasher Soap Recipe:

Ingredients:
• 2 cups borax
• 2 cups Arm and Hammer Washing Soda
• 2 cups unsweetened lemonade (about 50 packets) or two cups lemi shine or
Citric Acid
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0)
• 1 cup Kosher salt

Mix all ingredients well and store in airtight container. Use 1 tablespoon per
load in the dishwasher.


*The Lemonade or Citric acid is the key to not getting the milky, cloudy look
after time. I like using the lemonade; however it can stain the dish soap
dispenser a lemon yellow color, but it smells really good.

Fill rinse dispenser with Vinegar to help cut any residue.

Raw Milk Debates Underway in Several States

Raw Milk Debates Underway in Several States

Herbs & Spices

From the Garden: Catnip – Use dried leaf for flu and colds. Helps ease headaches and relieve restlessness. Tincture used for arthritis. Chamomile - Use dried flowers as tea for easing stomach aches, sore throats and fraught nerves. Add to bath for sunburns or muscle tension. Elder - Use dried flowers as an anti-viral to stave of flu and cold. Use externally to treat wrinkles! Hops – Use dried cones as a relaxant and sleep inducer. Appetite stimulant. Hibiscus – Use dried flowers to replace electrolytes. Flushes adrenal system. Lavender – Use dried flowers for nerve relaxant. Good for cramps, stomachache and gassiness. Lemon Balm – Use dried leaf to fight flu and cold. Reduces anxiety and panic.

From The Spice Cupboard Coriander – Use seed to aid digestion and sooth stomachaches Cinnamon - Use ground bark or chips to treat diarrhea and nausea. Cardamom - Use seeds to ease bowel spasms and stomach disorders. Fennel – Use seeds, fresh leaves or flowers to sooth coughs and sore throat. Eases digestive upset. Garlic – Use cloves to fight colds, flu, coughs. Strong anti-viral and anti-bacterial. Ginger – Use root to ease nausea, cramping, and diarrhea. Also helpful against cold symptoms and hangovers! Rosemary – Use dried leaves to relieve headaches and indigestion. Calming and cleansing.

Farm Hack: Coolbot Walk-in Cooler

Farm Hack: Coolbot Walk-in Cooler