Recovering!
The Role of Fate
This is a quick note to let people know that the following sites appear to be back up and working:
In addition, the wholesale site should be working again very shortly along with the essential oil site. This is a time consuming process, but we are making progress. Please expect a few changes as major updating is taking place simultaneously.
sacredmedicinesanctuary.net
bioethikaoils.com
If you encounter any difficulties, please let me know.
https://invisibleepidemics.com/contact-the-institute/
This might be a time to explain my relationship to herbs and essential oils. To a modest extent, it goes back half a century, but I opened a clinic in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in January 1990. I hired a Cherokee medicine woman to manage the herbs and between various staff members and a new book by Jane Heimlich called What Your Doctor Won’t Tell You, I became acquainted with botanical treatments for cancer. As fate would have it, on very short notice, I was invited to dinner at a very upscale restaurant. It happened to be my birthday, and I was seated next to Jane Heimlich. She was amazing. She asked poignant questions and also responded thoroughly to my queries. She visited my clinic the next day and thus began a wonderful connection with a lady who knew how to get someone shy like me to bare my soul. Her advice was to investigate the history of botanical cancer treatments thoroughly because no one would believe anything unless there were a trail. Several herb journals reprinted that chapter of my book, some with permission and some without following the rules.
Fate is curious. Some time passed and I was invited to speak at the American Herbalists Guild. A colleague drove up to Cincinnati to meet me, and we visited the Lloyd Library and Museum. He asked me which formulas in my book generated the most confidence in their efficacy. I immediately said, “Compound Syrup Scrophularia” so a lengthy process was undertaken to recreate this formula using the original steam displacement method. It was never my intention to start an herb company. I was simply curious, but one thing led to another, and here we are decades later, and I have a fairly extensive product line. All the initial formulas were based on exact replication of historic formulas, but little by little, my long-time interest in Ayurveda led to major additions to the product line.
Then, again, as fate would have it, I bought a house in the Pacific Northwest. It flooded with the first load of laundry to go through the washing machine. It was a nightmare. I am highly allergic to fungi and was literally deathly ill. It was so bad that I could not even remember the name of my best friend. I knew she was a harpist and my best friend, but for the life of me, I could not remember her name. One noun after another vanished from my vocabulary, and then fate knocked again.
After giving a talk at a seminar hosted by Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt, someone I had known from my Santa Fe days. there was a dinner for a few people at the home of a Chilean herbalist who introduced me to jatobá which almost immediately provided relief for my allergies. Little by little, I began to function a bit better, but the recovery took a very long time. Obviously, I am fine now, and the reason for putting so much emphasis on the Mold Journey course is that I have a lot to share, including hope for others whose situations are as desperate as mine once was.
In Europe, I had the opportunity to study the action of many herbs on plasma and blood cells so I can add to this account that my product line is perhaps the only one that has been studied in this particular manner. It helped me to connect many dots because there is a theory in Ayurveda that regeneration involves a progression through seven different types of “tissues”.
This begins with the plasma. It is something like the water in an aquarium. The fish are utterly dependent on the quality of the nutrients and wholesomeness of the water. Likewise, blood cells swim in plasma — and they have locomotion — so they can make decisions and change directions despite whatever we believe based on textbook information. Red blood cells deliver both oxygen and nutrients to cells on the basis of what might be called criticality. The more important the organ functions, the more priority they are given in terms of nutrients. They cart away carbon dioxide and toxins and expel them, mostly via the lungs.
So, the first place to start with regeneration is the plasma which means providing excellent quality nutrients in an easy to assimilate form, juice being the quickest and easiest way to improve plasma. Next, of course, the red blood cells need to be efficient so they are second in line; and they have some very interesting food and herbal preferences . . . and an affinity for red antioxidants, manjistha being my favorite.
As my experience widened, I developed more and more of my own formulas, always, of course, based on what I was seeing clinically, mostly when consulting in various clinics in Europe since I have not been in practice in the U.S. for over two decades.
In honor of the people who shared their knowledge of indigenous medicine with the foreigners who flooded their country, I renamed many formulas. For example, the Compound Syrup Scrophularia, published by Dr. Eli G. Jones as a gift to his fellow physicians, is called Seneca Elixir. Please be patient as we get back up and running. My technician is doing a fabulous job but she has a lot of work yet to do.
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Thank you Ingrid, this helps a lot!