Herbal and Natural Medicine, Plus Some Regular First Aid

I'd like to point out as someone with a chronic illness that yeah, there's an enormous problem with professionalism among the medical profession... outside of hospitals. Within hospitals, you better fucking listen, because they're on their game.

***6/10/22 explanation of the bitchy tirade: seeing people use herbalism as an excuse to abuse and neglect their kids and sometimes also kill them with herbalism due to a mistaken belief that herbalism is somehow less hard to do right than being an actual doctor and is also an okay substitute for the care of someone who's been through medical school.*** Oh ho ho, so you're bitching about FDA approval for the vaccine now, huh? Want your tasty herbs? They're not FDA approved either, and neither is faith healing, magic, most supplements on the market such as various vitamins, or wishful thinking. Hydroxychloroquine, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and drinking bleach are also not FDA approved treatments for coronavirus. Maybe you shouldn't LARP as a doctor. No, I am not nice to people who put children at risk of contracting a potentially deadly and always-unpleasant disease. Besides, I have more reason than just about anybody to distrust 'the medical establishment' thanks to a literal conspiracy in the IDSA, and possibly also the CDC and AMA that is covering up the severity of chronic Lyme disease exactly like it used to with GRID before it was called HIV/AIDS. Torrey vs IDSA More Torrey vs IDSA Hydra Protocol Damn near killed me. And I still listen to doctors because my non-Lyme experiences with ER doctors were fine, my studies of medicine match up with real-life experience (Harrison's Guide to Internal Medicine & the Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy and the articles at www.nhs.uk are good), and believe you me, I probably have more experience dealing with the medical system than YOU. So if you don't believe me that the medical establishment still has a lot you should listen to and still has a lot of merit, go fuck yourself. Also, you should know what pisses me off the most about people with no understanding of medicine is the delusion that we are not really, incredibly, stupendously fragile and we die very, very easily. Diamond-chiseled abs, an organic diet, essential oils, riches, whatever - natural selection doesn't give a fuck about your feelings.

Disclaimer: This is NOT a substitute for a doctor's care and should be used under medical supervision. Do not use anything from this page as a substitute for vaccinations, antibiotics or other conventional treatments. Discuss potential treatments from this page with an M.D. before you try anything. I am not a doctor, just studying to become one. Nothing on this page should be taken as medical advice. Research everything yourself & ask your doctor in addition to what you read here and make your own decisions after that. Herbal medicine can hurt or kill you. I am not responsible for the consequences of your actions should you choose to try something from this page. This page is not an excuse to antagonize or ignore your doctor. If you refuse to vaccinate your kids, you won't have much luck with herbs anyway because herbal medicine also relies on science and doesn't work without it. Before you use anything from this page, learn Detecting B.S. by heart, aka the methods of properly vetting your info sources

Special note for doctors and medical health professionals - Firstly thank you for everything you do. You are heroes, you are appreciated. Someday you'll see how much a large chunk of the general public loves you, hopefully someday soon. - Regarding the stuff on this page: Herbal medicine is a promising treatment modality but it does not have enough research behind it to get incorporated into standardized medicine... yet. This is something I hope happens very soon. Speaking from experience, when herbal medicine is prescribed correctly there are little to no side effects. Compared to conventional medicines with unpredictable, often dangerous side effects, the potential uses here are enormous. There's also the undeniable convenience factor and the fact that herbal medicines are cheap and can easily be grown in pots or a backyard; even foraged for free. And finally, I have seen herbal medicines cause miraculous healing in many cases where conventional medicine could not fix the problem. So I suggest to you that you research herbs by Latin name on Pubmed Central, then try herbal medicines on yourself and your family, see how they work. (Specifically whole herb medicines and not isolated compounds) Take them short term, long term, try mixing different herbs together, try adding herbal medicines to foods. Learn the discipline, experiment and have fun. It's long past time that herbalism and allopathic medicine become unified. Also here are some freebies. Freebies list 1, 101 Healthcare Worker Freebies and Discounts The latter list was published November 2020, so be sure to call ahead of time to ensure the place still has the discount or freebie going on.

Always do a spot test of an unfamiliar herbal medicine by applying it topically, mixed with water, on the inner wrist and waiting for a response for 1 day before taking it internally. Then, take 1 sip of said medicine and wait half a day to see if there is any adverse reaction. Herbal medicines and herbs are not regulated by the FDA. Do not buy any herb or supplement from a source you are unfamiliar with because there's no telling what's in there. In my experience these brands are okay (I'm not being paid to say this): Solaray, Planetary Herbals, Herbie's Herbs, Living Earth Herbs, Doctor's Best, Frontier, Penzey's, Gaia. Herbal tea companies are subject to FDA regulations and therefore the quality is usually better. And the fresher the herb, the better. Home-grown will always be infinitely more effective than storebought, especially if the herbs are used fresh instead of dried. Grow your own herbs if you possibly can. The highest quality herbs are grown in real dirt, not potting soil, so try to find an allotment or plot to grow them on or at the very least ask a friend with land for some dirt to put in your containers. You can mix regular dirt with potting soil in a 50:50 ratio to balance out nutrition and drainage; I add a good handful of granular organic fertilizer when mixing it all up. I like Renee's Garden for my herb seeds but herb plants are easier to transplant/grow.

I recommend you start by taking the American Red Cross's First Aid and CPR Certification Course. You can buy this for about $70 (currently these classes seem to be accessible online - 4/4/20) and it looks great on a resume. Honestly, if you don't know how to disinfect a cut or the difference between cleaning and sterilizing, you shouldn't be practicing herbal medicine, let alone any medicine. Learn the basics.

Basic preventative medicine: NHS Live Well Resources

Very basic first aid information (NOT a substitute for a First Aid course) NHS First Aid page

1/5/22 A new website Patients Like Me and a new app Longhaul Tracker both for assisting with basically any condition you have that is chronic, not acute

These are recipes from my 14 years of experience experimenting with this stuff on myself, my family, and my friends. I didn't just pull these from the internet randomly. I've seen them work. Things I haven't tried are also listed and labeled as such, and these recommendations are pulled from years of research from herbal medicine books.

Miscellaneous

Disinfectants

Preventative Medicine

Herbal Teas

Conditions

Dangerous Herbal/Natural Medicines

General guidelines for preparing and taking herbal medicine

Categories of herbs

All herbs have different properties when dried, fresh, or processed into herbal preparations. Don't give up on using an herb simply because all you've tried were dried preparations of it such as capsules. More often than not an herb that is useless in pill form works wonders if used fresh.

Herbs that are nearly useless medicinally (compared to the fresh stuff) when dried or old and must be grown fresh for the greatest benefit:

Herbs that work okay when dried and are good to have on hand at all times:

Herbs or substances that double as common foods which are good to have on hand:

Relatively safe herbs that can be experimented with, using caution and common sense

The love method of energy healing

This was derived from Reiki by Marsha Burack, Your Hands Can Heal You by Stephen Co, and from personal experience. It's absurdly simple; so simple that anyone can do it. Focus on your love for another person or for yourself. Feel how much you care about them and want them to get well. Now allow that feeling to "charge up" your hands. Hold your hands over that person or directly on them. Don't 'make the energy move' or any of that nonsense; simply focus on how important it is to you that the person gets well. The more love you allow yourself to feel the better this works. Generally speaking only a loving, good person can pull this off! Practice makes perfect; you will not notice much of a difference unless you practice on yourself quite a bit. This method helps when cooking for someone who is sick (the secret ingredient is love), when you're feeling in need of self-care, and it even helps pets. Technically, it's Witchcraft, but chances are you've done this already without consciously realizing it.

There are methods of energetic and magical healing in both Hoodoo and Witchcraft. This is important because (sigh) despite the frequent claims of attention seekers drowning out the voices of people who are genuinely in trouble, curses and hexes really do exist, and can cause illness or make existing illness worse. (Often, going to a religious service weekly can reduce the symptoms of such a thing, as can regular prayer, so organized religion does help a lot of folks. Dedication to science or truth can also help just as much) Hoodoo does not require energetic training to be competent in healing work and you can find all the info you need from the books of Starr Casas. Witchcraft requires about twenty years of training to become proficient in healing magic. No, I'm not kidding. This is a major reason why the Craft and similar disciplines are so often looked upon as New Age quackery when it comes to healing - few bother to truly put themselves through the grueling, lengthy training required to do it right. The love method of energy healing is a good first step. For other methods of Witch healing, you'll have to do the traditional year and a day of intensive research on your own first, see if the Craft is really right for you, see if you really want to have a boot camp thinly disguised as a religion, etc. Or just find a good Witch and have them take care of your magical healing needs, wa la. Yes, I am gatekeeping so you don't hurt yourself, I've seen too many idiots attempt Reiki and other kinds of magic without the proper training. There's rules to this shit.

If you wish to learn more about herbal medicine, first know that it works best in tandem with regular (allopathic) medicine and that if you want to get serious with it, you'll have to actually go to medical school. To start dabbling, you can start by searching for the botanical name of an herb and reading research articles on it here: Pubmed Central. Folkloric and anecdotal stuff that can point you to herbs for research can be found in Rosemary Gladstar's as well as Lesley Bremness's work. Steven Harrod Buhner's work usually includes studies and is therefore a little more reliable. More folkloric resources for learning about herbal medicine include work by Maria Treben and John Heinerman, but be sure to temper these with common sense, experience, and the results of the best studies on herbs you can find. Always take folkloric claims for herbs with a grain of salt.

Specific good books for learning herbal medicine: Britain's Wild Flowers by Rosamund Richardson, Rosemary Gladstar's Family Herbal, Herbs by Lesley Bremness, Herbal Antibiotics by Stephen H. Buhner, Herbal Antivirals by Stephen H. Buhner, actually just about anything by Stephen H. Buhner, Rosemary Gladstar's Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner's Guide

More books for learning a little bit about medicine in general: Anatomy by Frank Netter, Gray's Basic Anatomy (you can never study anatomy too much) by Drake, Vogl and Mitchell, Feed Your Face by Jessica Wu, M.D., The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy (for physicians), Healing through Trigger Point Therapy by Devin Starlanyl and John Sharkey, Fibromyalgia & Chronic Myofascial Pain Syndrome by Devin Starlanyl and Mary Ellen Copeland. Fibromyalgia textbooks are listed in here as potentially helpful to many different kinds of chronic or acute pain patient; reading them is likely to be worth your while.

You can gain surface knowledge about various conditions by reading the contents of the UK National Health Service Conditions database here: NHS

You can learn about synthetic drugs here: NHS Prescription and OTC Drugs Archives

And also here: Drugs.com Prescription and OTC Drugs Info and Reviews

HERBAL MEDICINE IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR ALLOPATHIC MEDICINE.

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