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Today's question from Gilbert is one that I'm hearing a lot these days all around me and now people are coming asking what can they do to reverse this situation? My answer is working with a lot of people these days but I cannot take the credit for something the Chinese have known for centuries and Dr. Garland brought to us years ago from their Institute of Health...

Steve's Motivator this week, "A MATTER OF TRUST" was something I had to pay close attention to this week with all the computer problems cropping up... If you enjoy his weekly Motivator let him know and tell him you read it in "A Natural Environmental Health Facts Ask Lena Health Q & A ezine." Publisher@LifeSupportSystem.com

Your health questions are being answered to the best of my ability using what I gleaned from 20-years as a Medical Office Nurse and Administrator along with my education in nutritional and alternative modes. I am not a doctor and you should not think of me as one.

Q & A is for your information and education only and in some instances to give you a different perspective on a particular problem! 

My wish for you, in the use of the information gained here, is that you will apply it in a smart and safe manner in order to enhance your life and not harm it! Not to be used in place of your judgment but along with it...

I have always felt that I had to know all sides to a problem and then make a decision for myself and I hope that will be your attitude as well! 

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QUESTION:
 
We went to the doctor this week and Dolores went in with 3 medications and came out with 6.  She now has diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol along with a problem of balance.  The Dr. said she is a "mess". Dolores said she could have told him that!  She is still using a walker due to her loss of balance.  Now she is going to Physical therapy also. Her thyroid functions are all over the ball park even with taking the Synthroid for all these years. I think she can beat this stuff with proper diet and exercise, what do you think?
 
Gilbert
 
ANSWER:
 
I think you are quite right Gilbert!  Sorry she isn't faring well. She is almost where my dad was when he came here in September. Only difference is her balance problem and his blindness problem and swollen cracked legs? I think the same protocol would work for her? Besides not being able to see because of his blindness his lower legs were swollen, cracked, blackish/purple and draining plasma in a lot of pain and had been for months. Has prostate cancer and was getting up 6 and 7 times a night, due to the extremely swollen prostate, so not getting good rest. His blood pressure and sugars were out of control and bouncing all over the graph. Had heart palpitations all the time (post 5-way bypass), severe gastritis and on Nexium along with 7 other prescriptions... I coaxed him into letting me try my voodoo <;-) and got him off his 8 prescriptions within the week and now for over six months he has had normal blood sugars, normal blood pressure, normal heart rate and his prostate swelling is still down and only occasionally getting up nights and no return to prescriptions.  His circulation improved so much that his legs are pink and not swollen or painful after the first week? Even though I know my sister's diet for him isn't the best, he says he now feels 18 again and that's amazing since he just turned 89. All his blood tests except for the PSA has been normal (which will stay up with constant detoxing and the cancer) blood sugars and blood pressure continues normal and his doctor in Oklahoma City says he's doing really well and didn't recommend any changes, which is a miracle for a doctor... She didn't even go off on him for stopping his medications, as most would have. I'm sure she thought his blood tests would be bad and was reserving that episode for after she got them back, but they were better than they had been since she has been seeing him, therefore she couldn't say anything about it... I simply followed Wayne's suggested protocol and got him back in shape in just a few days...

Here is what brought my dad out of it and I think would do the same for Dolores;
* 30 drops minerals twice a day for week then down to 20 drops thereafter,
* DiaB Formula, 2 capsules 15 minutes before breakfast and then 1 capsule 10-15 minutes before lunch and dinner. Got his blood sugars down immediately and ever since, which his prescription hadn't done in the two years he was on them. (Some people require 3 capsules before each meal but should start with one and work up)
* Circulatory Support, 2 capsules three times a day. His blood pressure was down to 117/73 to 119/78 every day after starting that and stopping his blood pressure medication.
* Mind Power Master Formula first week 1 with breakfast and 1 at noon Second week 2 capsules with breakfast and 1 at lunch.
Third week and thereafter, 3 with breakfast and 1 at noon. This is also another circulatory formula that has a lot of natural niacin and also nourishes the brain at the same time helps move cholesterol and toxins out of the body, which will also help her balance problem...
* Iodized natural thyroid - 3 drops in 4 ounces of water with each meal. Stopped this after 3 months with my dad, but Dolores would have to stay on it forever since she has had no thyroid function for years and currently takes synthroid.
* Vision formula 2 capsules twice a day. (He's been blind with Macular Degeneration following Cataract surgery since his early 50's and had no middle vision. But his vision had really improved within three days of starting the Vision Formula.) I know he cannot get full recovery as it's been too many years of atrophy and I told him that but he described my living room and Sam's shirt while sitting across the table and looking straight at him, which he was unable to do before. He says things are blurry but he can see what he couldn't see before and he's happy with that... Dolores may not want to go with this one but what helps and nourishes the eyes also nourish the brain and with her balance problem I would definitely give it a three month try?
 
I do hope she gets to feeling better soon!
Lena
 

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A MATTER OF TRUST

During a flight between New York and Chicago, the captain made this announcement over the plane's intercom: "Our number four engine has just been shut off because of mechanical trouble. There is nothing to worry about, however, and we can still finish the flight with just three engines. Besides, you will be reassured to know that we have four bishops on board."

An 86-year-old woman called the flight attendant and said, "Would you please tell the captain that I would rather have four engines and three bishops!" Experience taught her to place her trust in the aircraft rather than passengers -- even if they're bishops!

Experience, likewise, has taught us to be careful of what and whom we trust. We learn to be careful trusting risky investments, offers to
make easy money, people we don't know, and anything that seems "too good to be true." We are sometimes even afraid to trust ourselves!

Helen Keller learned a great deal about trust in her life as one who
was both sightless and deaf. She learned to trust people, upon whom
she was often dependent. She learned to trust herself and lived a
highly productive life in spite of her handicapping conditions. As a noted writer and thinker, she taught us that trust is vital to any happy life.

That great woman believed there are four great things to learn in
life. They are:

   To think clearly without hurry or confusion;
   To love everyone sincerely;
   To act in everything with the highest motives;
   To trust God unhesitatingly.

Trust. It is a small word which can make a big difference.
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FOOD OF THE WEEK
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Phytolacca americana aka Poke Salat aka Pokeweed
 
Watching the greenery popping their heads through the ground, from all the rain, brings back many memories of a ritual I so miss.

During my years of living in Oklahoma as a young child there was a spring ritual that we had that produced a tasty and healthy vegetable dish. It was known to us as "poke salat pickin time". This tasty green popular wild food is found mostly in the eastern half of the United States but can be found in the western portion in some areas. Each year as spring approaches I start to hunger for these tasty greens.
 
We didn't start that ritual! My ancestors; Native Americans introduced the plant to the early European settlers and fast became such a popular pot herb that seeds soon were being cultivated back in Europe. After a long winter without fresh food, the early settlers looked forward to cooking the first tender green leaves of pokeweed. It gave them vitamins and was a good spring cleansing tonic. They'd cook it up with Lamb's Quarters ? another of my favorite wild greens - and Dock, which are also early spring greens. Some people today still cook and eat poke greens in the early spring although fast food is overshadowing healthy eating that I fear this green will lose it's appeal in future generations. Growing up it was simply understood that everyone ate greens and liked them but now most children have never tasted a green food or if they have most have chosen to dislike them.
 
Salat is the German word for salad, and probably came with German settlers. In towns you'll find pokeweed growing wild in alleyways and vacant lots. In the country it grows in the fence rows and along the edges of woods. When mature, in mid and late summer, it has clusters of shiny purple berries which birds love to eat. Poke is poisonous in uncooked stage and cannot be eaten raw in salads!
 
Pokeweed is a large and coarse herbaceous weed with big leaves, a stout reddish trunk, widely branching reddish stems, and elongated erect clusters of small white flowers that give way to drooping clusters of dark purple berries. The leaves are smooth, long and taper at both ends.  As the season progresses all parts of the plant take on more of a reddish or purplish hue. Pokeberry is an herbaceous perennial that dies back in winter and grows quickly in spring Mature leaves give off an unpleasant odor when bruised. In addition to eating the young shoots and leaves, native Americans and early American settlers made a crimson dye from the berry juice and continues with some today. The berry juice was used for ink.
 
Only the young shoots and developing leaves - before they take on their reddish hue - can be eaten, and only after boiling for 20-30 minutes in at least two changes of water. Be very careful not to get any of the root when picking the young shoots.
 
Native Americans from throughout its range used pokeweed concoctions for a wide variety of internal and external medicinal applications.   It seems the berry juice has been used for pimples and boils, in some cases taken internally in other cases applied to the skin. It has also been taken for joint pain and applied to sore breasts. Leaf concoctions have been used as an expectorant, emetic and cathartic. My mother would make a poke poultice for boils and it worked?
 
Sadly I cannot find the exact nutrient makeup of Poke Salat but is said to contain the same nutrients as other greens and cabbage families. In the spring, the tender young shoots are picked and boiled in two changes of water to help remove any toxic properties. Traditionally cooking; drained leaves are then seasoned with salt, pepper and bacon drippings and then fried in an iron skillet. Personally, any way you fix spinach will work with poke greens.
 
My mother served poke greens two ways.
One; by boiling until tender then she would drain them and put into a skillet and add one egg and one small chopped onion per 2 cups of greens and cook until eggs were set and onions tender crunchy.
Two; my most favorite, was simply boiled for about 15 minutes, drain off water, add more water and a few pieces of beef, sliced onions, salt and pepper to taste and boiled until the beef was fork tender.
Both ways are tasty.
 
I now live in an area that I cannot find wild poke greens and am forced to buy canned ones, which just isn't nearly even the same!

Fresh is best!
Lena

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