Posted in Essential Oils, Herbs, Homeopathics

Poison Ivy Healing

Poison ivy doesn’t affect me as long as I leave it alone but recently I found myself (bitterly) untwisting vines from a couple of our trees due to a rather dubious request.

With my bad attitude in full swing and my mind doggedly figuring a privacy fence into our budget, I accidentally got some of the poison ivy juice on me. The juice is contained inside the vines and is far more dangerous than the oils on the leaves.

As always, my go to is homeopathy. In this case, the same poison ivy that caused the rash is the same poison ivy that cures the rash. Just like ‘the hair of the dog that bit you’ analogy goes, so is homeopathy.

I used homeopathic Rhus Tox. Rhus Tox is the energy of Rhus Toxicondendron, also known as poison ivy.

Rhus Tox 200c stopped the itching for 6 to 8 hours and then I re-dosed. A 30c dose, which is easier to get at health food stores, does the exact same thing, just for not quite as long. I got about 3 hours of relief and then re-dosed.

I also added Apis and Histaminium to handle any allergic reaction.

Because gardening has me currently covered in mosquito and chigger bites, I am also taking Ledum Pal 30C.

A couple of days after my incident, I realized that the poison ivy juice had caused me severe chemical burns, so I added Causticum at both 6c and 30c doses. I got immediate relief from the burning.

I’m happy to say that two weeks, post initial outbreak, my rashes are nearly 100% healed.

I want to list some topical ointments that I used alongside the homeopathics. Combined, I managed the agony of poison ivy rash with chemical burns and continued with all of my busy life activities despite having body parts that looked like they had been on fire.

3 to 4 drops each of Lavender, Tea Tree, and Chamomile essential oils diluted into coconut oil and liberally applied to the blisters and wounded areas of the skin. Also, vitamin E applied to the areas helped the healing. I applied these alongside the homeopathics 4-6 times daily and gradually worked down as healing increased.

The blisters associated with poison ivy juice are sheer hell. They swell, burn, itch, ooze, and while websites say to not open the blisters, honestly, they continuously burst on their own. Because of the incessant itching and weeping of blisters, staph infection is not far behind.

I added herbal Cryptolepis tincture, orally, 3 droppers/twice a day into any beverage. I applied Colloidal Silver to the rash and let it dry. Then, I applied Lemon Balm (Melissa officianalis) tincture, topically. All will successfully beat a staph infection. I did not add these until I could visibly see an infection taking root and gaining ground near the end of my two week nightmare. I got immediate, excellent itch relief and within 3 days, infection was completely gone. I only used the Lemon Balm and Colloidal Silver once. The Crypto I used for four days – infection was gone in three days but I took it one more day to make sure.

Homeopathics, herbals, and essential oils ensure I enjoy my favorite season of growing food, herbs, and flowers. Now, I just need to get that great big privacy fence.

Just a couple notes about poison ivy in case you live in fear of it. It’s true that if you come into contact with the oil, there is a good chance you are going to have an itchy skin rash, but just brushing up against it is unlikely to cause this. Still, steer clear of poison ivy because the juice inside the vines will bring a blistering, painful, chemical burn that is a nightmare to heal if you don’t have the proper stuff on hand at home.

Some people have no reaction at all and many animals eat it freely. There are medicinal uses for poison ivy and the poison ivy plant family, Anacardiacea, actually yields familiar edibles like cashews, mangoes, and pistachios.

Jewelweed or the “touch me not” plant is supposed to be the best remedy for poison ivy rash. It is simply rubbed on the skin after contact to stop the reaction. Plantain and Yellow Dock are two other herbs that can help, but not as effective as Jewelweed.

In nature, herbs exist in a synergistic ecosystem. Something like poison ivy could easily be holding back or keeping in check an herb (or weed) that is equally or even more poisonous. And the opposite, there could be useful herbs that serve humanity, flourishing because poison ivy is growing nearby. It’s harmless if left alone, as I was happily doing in my own yard.

I agree with “leaves of three, let them be” as I will do in the future. Sometimes that bad attitude is there for a reason and I will listen to it should there ever be a next time.



Posted in Herbs

Saving the Honor of Herbs

If you are still using synthetic antibiotics for PANDAS, PANS, or Lyme, this post should interest you. It’s excruciating to read about patients taking heaps of antibiotics, which for Lyme and PANDAS, can be very long term and are sometimes mixed with psychotropic drugs, which is flat out disturbing to me. Symptoms grow seemingly worse and when ‘modern’ medicine cannot provide a reason why or the tools to get through, the whole mess spirals out of control. The frustration highlights the train wreck of ‘modern’ medicine trying to cure disease.

Personally, my number one go to for healthcare is homeopathics. Once you have experienced the life changing, curing miracle of homeopathy you soon learn that synthetic drugs are dangerously suppressive causing further disease.

But homeopathic cure of the issues we had (Lyme, PANDAS, PANS, etc) worked too well. The body couldn’t keep up with the cure, so I needed to slow way down and have more control. Herbs gradually erected the stable bridge of a stronger immune system so eventually, I could cross back over to homeopathics for chronic disease healing. Herbs gave better control over pathogenic death, herxing and organ support. I used some homeopathics for organ support but the herbs definitely worked well, alongside.

With PANDAS, PANS, and Lyme it’s fairly safe to assume that leaky gut, mito, MTHFR, food allergies, endocrine imbalance plus a handful of other auto-immune diseases, even ASD, are already present so this is not the time for long-term, synthetic drug use. The pattern I observe is that dousing ourselves with phony drugs does harm while going all natural provides cure. The body is desperately hungry for authentic support to bring on healing. And frankly, it’s never the time for psychotropic drugs. Mental issues arise from the gut, not the brain. It’s hard to determine which medical field has scarred humanity the most, but psychiatry ranks right up there with greedy pharmaceutical over-use.

Herbs are the genuine, original drugs. Herbs are time tested, potent healers which can often be grown in our own yards. They are fantastic antibiotics, anti-virals, anti-inflammatories, adaptogens, organ supports, anti-parasitics, anti-fungals and so much more. So, why aren’t we using them?

To our demise, we have been outright indoctrinated that herbs are ineffectual, whimsical notions creating a platform for the tyrannical take-over of the pharma industry. The thread is sewn so deep that people will mindlessly pop a pill from a white coat, barely glossing warning labels, which often include death; but mention an herb, and suddenly they scrutinize the smallest jot and tittle.

Another leg of the deceitful agitprop unfairly slanders herbs as weeds, killing them with Round Up in an effort to own the perfectly manicured lawn, signaling affluence.

Well we can’t have our cake and eat it too.

In a predictable circle of death, Round Up is killing people by causing cancer as now determined by two US courts with over 11,000 cases spilling over to be tried. And here is a third case, just in, awarding over 2 billion to the victims who proved Round Up caused their cancer.

Monsanto, who developed DDT in the 60’s (banned) and Round Up in the 70’s, recently sold itself to Bayer before the billions in verdicts came down the pike. Don’t feel sorry for Bayer, both companies were manufacturers of Agent Orange and have peppered pasts of poisoning all life on earth. How about that aspirin a day regimen? No thanks!

If you think you’re safe, think again because Bayer also controls the GMO seed market. Ty Bollinger wrote a deeply sourced article about the history of Dow, Monsanto, and Bayer that every person should read before gardening, farming, grocery shopping, cooking, eating, raising kids or breathing.

The ingredient in Round Up that does so much damage is called glyphosate. If you are not eating organic food then you are helping yourself to some with every bite. The half life of glyphosate is 22 years, meaning that in roughly 45 years, the poison will still be in our food supply even if it is finally and rightly banned. Costco has pulled it from its shelves, but I notice that Home Depot is still selling it.

Herbs are pretty tough, sustaining attacks by both the pharma industry and the agricultural industry.

My favorite author from whom to learn about herbs is Stephen Harrod Buhner. He gives an in-depth education about herbs and the mysteries of our microscopic, pathogenic, and parasitic world which is sorely missing in our American experience. Most cultures do have deep ties to herbs, especially those that are local, and there is nothing ‘alternative’ about them. That’s an agenda-driven, pharma-political gang word meant to groom us that all methods of caring for ourselves are inferior to Western medicine and we should bully those who practice other modalities.

But in reality, herbal care is traditional and conventional, lasting thousands of years versus only a couple hundred years for Western medicine. It’s the same for homeopathy which is grounded, proven on law, not theory. Like herbal care, homeopathy has nearly been driven out by the AMA. Not to worry though, the cream always rises to the top.

Consider that dying in a hospital for a reason other than what you went in for is the 3rd leading cause of death behind number one and two which are cancer (probably partly caused by pharma, cough, cough) and heart disease, pharmaceutical drug use being the 4th leading cause of death, and that the US has the greatest infant mortality rate of developed nations, and is currently experiencing exponential increases in cancer and disease all across the board with 54% of children having an auto-immune disease. I honestly can’t think of a reason, beyond emergency surgery, to risk seeing a doctor.

Because the powers that be preferred to profit off and exploit us, we have new problems where the overuse of drugs cause leaky gut and auto-immune disease, overuse of OTC drugs causing toxicity, misuse and abuse of pharmaceuticals causing harm to the public, and just plain overuse of the medical system in general. I’m dumbfounded at the simple things for which people run to the emergency room. And now we have super-bugs which are resistant to grossly over-prescribed antibiotics.

Think about nature – there are pathogens and medicinal herbs living side by side. One doesn’t overtake the other. Pathogens are controlled by medicinal herbs and the pathogens never build up a resistance. Pharma drugs are synthetic (fake), made to imitate the real in nature (herbs), so why not just use the original in the first place?

The parallels of good and evil are so clear here. The immune system God gave us plus natural herbal medicines He supplied us with are far superior to the silver tongued snake twisting itself around all of life, just like the symbol of the AMA; how appropriate. The revolving door works like this: synthetic drugs are patented and profited from, those that patent drugs also invest into medical schools, and the graduates are new drug pushers. They haven’t been trained in nutrition or herbs. Advertising further cements the paradigm that they are superior and we become their echo chambers.

And their victims.

We have managed to recover, restore, and heal from PANDAS, PANS, ASD, Lyme and co-infections using herbs and homeopathics only. Yes, we had die off but we also had the tools we needed to cool, minimize, and manage it allowing us to see healing on the horizon despite major herxing. Because our doctor is not in business to sell drugs, he honorably understands nutrition, detox, and body systems in order to bring on legitamate healing. If you are still using counterfeit substances that the body will never recognize as healing, please consider going all natural instead. I really do believe, based on my experience and the testimony of others, that disease demands all natural remedies for true, absolute cure.

Posted in ASD, detox, Herbs, Homeopathics, Lyme, New Leaf Holistic, PANDAS, PANS, Parasites

On Detox Road – The Protocol

NOTE: This post, originally written back in 2019, received a make-over in 2023. The original post was riddled with so many products that were purse bursting expensive and, I believe, ultimately caused kidney and gallbladder problems so I cannot recommend them. We had a huge crash and I felt my entire being just melt away after we had come so far. It was a huge let down. I was very disappointed in our doctor, the products, and mostly myself so I went back to the drawing board, found new modalities – namely Biofeedback. I went back to school to learn how to recover as it was clear we just could not receive any help. We were able to get back on track but it took a couple of years of education, research, money, trial, error, and a whole lot of patience.

The number one (and terribly loaded) question I’m asked is “which herbs did you use?” or “What protocol did you follow?” So, I’m listing everything in this post. A loaded question gets a loaded answer and this one IS loaded with information.

Detox (for us) has meant getting rid of symptom-causing pathogens. We also needed to detox biofilm, biotoxins like ammonia and mold, metals, retro-viruses, and other toxins whether they naturally came out with the parasites or pathogens or were individually targeted.

Many of the of the products we used in the beginning came from the professional line of Cell Core Biosciences products which can also be obtained at the Microbe Formulas website. A handful of these I might still recommend, case by case. However, if the organs are not properly working, namely liver and kidneys, you simply should not do this alone. You have to have good functional organs – the liver, gallbladder, kidneys, leaky gut healed, and the ability to evacuate feces beforehand. We used all of the below, and probably the only ones I would suggest to friends today are Paras 1 and 2, and Biotoxin Binder – and only IF the client is able to regularly drink large amounts of liquid to flush out the system. I have found other, less expensive items and protocols that work efficiently and safely, without all these costly products and pills.

  • Para 1
  • Para 2
  • Kidney and Liver Detox
  • Lymph Detox
  • Biotoxin Binder
  • HM-ET Binder
  • Viral and Toxins Binder
  • Biomolecular Oxygen
  • Bio-Active Carbon Minerals
  • Bowel Mover
  • MitoATP
  • ViRadChem Binder
  • Tudca
  • L-Glutathione

But there were others we needed for parasites and Lyme co-infections. As part of my 2023 update – we used all of these below in 2019; however, I deduced that part of PANS for us was chronic Lyme. I began following Buhner’s plans for Lyme. As a practitioner myself now, I still revert back to mostly Buhner’s protocols, classic homeopathy, and some products from Des Bio and Anova health for supports. These are minimal and affordable.

  • Morinda Supreme
  • Clarkia
  • Formula III from Nature’s Pharmacy
  • Prep Phase by Systemic Formulas
  • Body Phase by Systemic Formulas
  • Brain Phase by Systemic Formulas (up and coming)

Apex Energetics products helped leaky gut and provided support.

  • Repair Vite, Repair Vite – SE, Repair Vite – GT As a 2023 Update, I would not recommend this. We used Biofeedback and Intestinal Restore and Des Bio products for a more effective and lasting healing.
  • Clear Vite PCH
  • Neuro-Flam
  • Neuro – O2
  • Vitamin D3

Also used as a binder for extra ammonia from both die off and protein digestion:

  • N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine (NAC) from Zymogen

I also used an array homeopathics on the side. I want to interject here that homeopathics are my number one go to for ailments because as long as the immune system is still fairly intact, homeopathy alone will cure most issues. I have witnessed it countless times using it solely in our home for about a dozen years. I also became a clinical, classical Homeopath myself. However, I have also witnessed that when the immune system is too far debilitated with systemic and chronic infection, classic homeopathy alone cannot make the body function properly the way it can with an intact immune system. Herbs and supplements better that main role while using binders to alleviate the die off symptoms. As we had more immune healing, homeopathics became more effective; but herbs allowed me better detox control and support until we got to that point. Homeopathics are very case specific and require a homeopathic intake to prescribe, especially so with chronic symptoms on board. If you are looking for a professional homeopath come over to New Leaf Holistic and book an appointment.

Other herbs I used came from Sage Woman Herbs and Woodland Essence.

  • Ashwagandha (adrenals in the pm)
  • Chinese Skullcap
  • Cryptolepis
  • Rhodiola (adrenals in the am)
  • Milk Thistle (liver)
  • Dandelion (liver)
  • Passion Flower (anxiety)
  • Cordyceps (lung support)
  • Chinese Cat’s Claw (for damaged physiological structures)
  • Stephania (Bell’s palsy)
  • Bidens Pilosa (excellent anti-inflammatory and calms digestion tract)
  • Red Sage (lymph drainage)
  • Dan Shen
  • Greater Celandine
  • Bacopa

Other detox aids we used to either soothe, support, or further detox:

  • Ionic Foot Bath (further detoxes, so be careful!)
  • Castor Oil Liver Packs
  • Infrared Heat
  • Massage
  • Reflexology
  • Chinese Body Clock

Miscellaneous Supplements:

  • ALA
  • Magnesium
  • Liposomal Glutathione
  • Zinc
  • B6 (as P5P)
  • Vibrant Blue Oils (essential oils) – I used spleen, kidney, bladder, gall bladder, nerve repair, liver, parasympathetic, thyroid, and anti-inflammatory.
  • Vitamin B-12
  • NAC
  • Vitamin C
  • Quercitin

Diet was also key.

  • AIP protocol
  • Organic food
  • Filtered water
  • Remove food allergens
  • Remove inflaming foods – gluten, dairy, eggs, soy, nightshades, sugar, GMO’s
  • Be aware of oxalates, salicylates, phenols, and histamines and adjust diet.

This has been a long haul since I had to take care of ailing members as well as go back to school. If you are coping with PANDAS – the flares, auditory hallucinations, severe OCD, rages and aggression – then I would seriously look into healing by detoxing. It really has helped us, although if your case is severe, plan on it taking a couple of years. If your immune system is still pretty good, you most likely will snap back very quickly! But the cases I have experience with are very extreme and severe with organ problems and a high level of debility, so this is the angle I am coming from. Over the last 10 years, Biofeedback has been, by far, the top aid for recovery. It was so good that I went back to school to become a Certified Biofeedback Specialist. Today, I can use this to glean useful information, deliver frequency to reduce the stress surrounding these ailments, and retrain muscles and brain waves of the body to help it to wellness again. Our life of sheer hot-mess-hell has been turned around. Bright futures are replacing abysmal uncertainty. I now have rest instead of sleepless nights followed by trauma filled days. I still read about parents treating PANDAS with astronomical amounts of antibiotics and psychotropic drugs which points to doctors who really don’t understand the massive amounts of damage alongside die off being caused. Parents don’t understand why cure isn’t happening and why symptoms get worse. PANDAS is not mental at it’s root anyway so why the psychotropic drugs? If you’re looking for a better way come over to New Leaf Holistic and lets work together.