Category: Homeopathics

Posted in Essential Oils, Herbs, Homeopathics

Poison Ivy Healing

Posted on by Annie Eskeldson

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 Homeopathics, Kidneys, New Leaf Holistic

Kidneys Beyond Oxalates

Posted on by Annie Eskeldson

I’m writing from my experience with kidney problems even though I certainly am not an expert. I want to share our struggles and solutions as a spring board for those seeking ideas. We have addressed all of our issues with a doctor but I have found that I’ve been able to greatly contribute to our healing simply by researching, implementing diet changes, and adding supplements that were okayed by him as well.

Our first red flag for kidney problems became obvious years ago from an Organic Acids Test, commonly referred to as an OATs test or an OAT. Information gleaned from the test includes: intestinal microbial overgrowth (yeast, fungal, bacterial); metabolic markers such as: oxalate, glycoltyic cycle, Krebs cycle, neurotransmitter, detox, and folate. The test rates ketones and fatty acid oxidation, important nutritional markers, amino acid and bone metabolites, and measures creatinine. Results come back with a complimentary interpretation by Great Plains Laboratory; however, you will definitely want a functional doctor to interpret the results. Functional doctors operate in reference ranges that detect problems long before a conventional doctor which means easy fixes are still within reach. Several OATs might need to be performed to get a good picture of the processes happening inside. None-the-less, even one OAT is still a comprehensive diagnostic tool that a doctor can use alongside other tests and observations to piece together an otherwise complicated health puzzle to make good judgement calls.

We always learned many things from our OAT tests, but the issue I want to focus on is the kidneys. A marker for kidney problems is the Oxalic acid (oxalate) marker from the test. Ours was typically high unless a low/no oxalate diet was implemented. And with regular OAT testing, we could see the positive results of using a low/no ox diet – that marker would reduce in number. I wrote about Oxalates in a post here if interested.

Despite a low ox diet we recently have another kidney issue which is inflammation. It is not in both kidneys, just the right one. It seems to not be viral or bacterial but irritated. I am assuming minerals may be irritating it but I do not know why the right one is irritated while the left one is fine. Either way, I have applied some suggestions from our doctor as well as from my own research and the relief is obvious and remarkable so far.

Zero Water Filter – Filtering out TDS (total dissolved solids) using a water filter removes a big source of potential kidney problems. The Zero Water system is the only counter/pitcher filter that also filters out glyphosate. This filter is affordable (unless your TDS value is incredibly high, then you might want to look into a whole house system.) Since the kidneys filter out minerals (TDS) in their filters (called glomeruli) they can get coated in material and not filter very well (kind of like all filters – they get dirty.) It is important that our water sources be free of Total Dissolved Solids (and glyphosate.)

Reducing Potassium – This means cutting out or reducing portions of salt, bananas, nuts, seeds, white rice, red meat and other foods that are high in potassium. I completely cut them out because the whole kidney thing is making me nervous and I wanted pain relief. Now.

Cranberry Juice – I added cranberry juice as a medicine, so we are taking 1/4 cup several times/day. Cranberry juice can kill viral and bacterial infections that may be present and reduce inflammation. It is also one of the few berries that are low oxalate. Some urinary problems are worsened by cranberry, so you want to play close attention to any adverse side effects.

Watermelon – A large watermelon per day is helping us flush the system and it also has healing qualities specific for the kidneys.

Huang Bai Tea – This kind of tea is phellodendron (not to be confused with the plant with a close but different spelling) which contains berberine, known to be good for the kidneys.

Recovery – A supplement obtained through our doctor.

Narayani Kidney 4C – This is a homeopathic you would need to obtain from a homeopath when it is clear you have a need for it. If you need a homeopathic intake you can contact me at New Leaf Holistic.

Berberine Vulgaris 200C – Also another homeopathic that is very specific in it’s symptoms but useful for kidney pain and healing.

Chamomilla 200C – This is a homeopathic for pain relief which is often for right sided ailments. But you want to have a homeopath do a actual intake for your chronic case. If you are looking for one, you can contact me at New Leaf Holistic.

Calcium – for absorption of oxalates so they can be removed from the body in other ways besides the urinary tract, which is painful given the pointy, burr-like formation of oxalates. I have actually found that Oat Milk provides a good deal of calcium with little/no oxalates. You could also take a Calcium chew, for example, however, the body prefers food for it’s vitamins and minerals.

I was only thinking about oxalates for kidney problems, but in our case, I see potassium may be an issue too. I wanted to write about that in case there were others who may have missed this important part of the puzzle, like I did. Healthy kidneys will help us detox better so we can manage auto-immune disease and kidney pain will flat out bring a person to their knees; no one can function like that. We are doing really well so far and the pain is noticeably reduced already.

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

On Detox Road – The Protocol

Posted on by Annie Eskeldson

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.