Day 4 - Some Healing Links
Here are a few random links that lead along various paths of knowledge. I'll be adding more as time goes on.
- Erowid
- Alternative Nature Online Herbal
- Mountain Rose Herbs
- Washington Homeopathic Products
- Dandelion Botanicals Company
- Masaobu Fukuoka's Do Nothing Farming
- Guide to Wild Foods & Useful Plants
- Green People Meta Search
- Natural Cures
- Herb Med
- Hyland's Homeopathy (still offers remedies in x potencies)
- Ayurveda
- The True Power of Water
- Hidden Messages in Water
- Water Therapy
Day 3 - Healing My Own Body
I've had severe arthritis in my knees for the past two years or so. Which makes sense, actually, because I have Saturn in Virgo, which has been in return that long. Saturn is the Taskmaster. It rules the bones and knees; it's all about restriction. And Virgo rules the health of those body parts. I've been unable to exercise, even do yoga without considerable pain and very limited movements. Sometimes even going down the stairs was too painful.
Conventional health practitioners advise either cortisone injections or surgery. I wasn't interested in either. Alternative health practitioners such as acupuncturists and chiropractors said they couldn't help me. Even my homeopath finally came to the bottom of his bag of tricks and asked me what I wanted to do. I said, "I don't know. You're the doctor."
I limped out of his office, just as I'd limped out of every other place, on my own. If I had to become my own doctor, then my motto became Doctor, heal thyself.
For a long time I floundered. I studied. I experimented. Finally I read some good things about various herbs and I set to work formulating my own tincture and salve with herbs I had to order online, since they weren't available locally. None of them are all that rare or expensive. Here they are:
Solomon seal, ledum, ruta graveolens, comfrey, gravel root, horsetail, cinqfoil, and a few others. I'll have to go find my list to finish adding them, but there weren't that many. I've been rubbing the salve on every night and morning and taking the tincture (for internal healing) whenever I remember. Before I walk or whenever my knee aches, I apply the salve. Soon I'll post a recipe how to make salves and another to make tinctures.
Anyway, it's been two or three months and my knee feels 80-90 percent better depending on the barometric pressure (yup, I'm one of those people who notice symptoms getting worse with changes in weather). I'm so impressed that I'm going to keep rubbing in the salve and taking the tincture for as long as they take to heal the bone, tendons, ligaments, and connective tissue. Hooray for DIY!
And Saturn moving out of Virgo next month will also be a relief.
Conventional health practitioners advise either cortisone injections or surgery. I wasn't interested in either. Alternative health practitioners such as acupuncturists and chiropractors said they couldn't help me. Even my homeopath finally came to the bottom of his bag of tricks and asked me what I wanted to do. I said, "I don't know. You're the doctor."
I limped out of his office, just as I'd limped out of every other place, on my own. If I had to become my own doctor, then my motto became Doctor, heal thyself.
For a long time I floundered. I studied. I experimented. Finally I read some good things about various herbs and I set to work formulating my own tincture and salve with herbs I had to order online, since they weren't available locally. None of them are all that rare or expensive. Here they are:
Solomon seal, ledum, ruta graveolens, comfrey, gravel root, horsetail, cinqfoil, and a few others. I'll have to go find my list to finish adding them, but there weren't that many. I've been rubbing the salve on every night and morning and taking the tincture (for internal healing) whenever I remember. Before I walk or whenever my knee aches, I apply the salve. Soon I'll post a recipe how to make salves and another to make tinctures.
Anyway, it's been two or three months and my knee feels 80-90 percent better depending on the barometric pressure (yup, I'm one of those people who notice symptoms getting worse with changes in weather). I'm so impressed that I'm going to keep rubbing in the salve and taking the tincture for as long as they take to heal the bone, tendons, ligaments, and connective tissue. Hooray for DIY!
And Saturn moving out of Virgo next month will also be a relief.
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