Natural Healing

We are created with the ability to heal.  If you cut your finger, you bleed and then you heal.  There will be a point in time that you will not even have a physical awareness of that injury.  Of course you could still remember but it is not on your mind.  The true healing of disease does not evoke thought or emotion relative to the event.  We continue our life as if nothing happened. 

A “cure” implies the ability to end a disease.  This “cure” may involve a product, surgery, medical treatment, or lifestyle change.  The word cure is often viewed as absolute claim.  So, implying that a product will cure a disease is not accurate as it does not take the individual into consideration.  A cure is effective if when you remove the product or treatment, the symptom does not return.  A remission implies the symptoms of the illness are not present but the illness can return.

Healing is different to me as there could be a product involved, but there can also be mental, emotional or spiritual aspects.  There are many levels of healing.  Some may still have the physical manifestations of the illness but have healed on a spiritual and emotional level. 

There is the common concept that we fight illness.  This concept is counterproductive to healing.  Just think about the mental image of fighting which creates mental disruption.  That is not to say that we may struggle when we are ill, but fighting creates damage.  Fighting is resistance or conflict.  To heal you must be resistance-free.

Most of us have known someone with cancer.  The very word “cancer”, creates a mental picture of the disease and evokes negative emotions.  Every time someone asks, and you say, “I have cancer”, the negative is reinforced.   Even the emotional experience is consumption.  At that moment, the focus is on the treatment for the cancer.  With that focus, one may miss other forms of healing.  One patient told me that getting cancer was the best thing that ever happened to him because he re-evaluated his life and made positive changes.

Illness often starts on the mental, emotional or spiritual plane and erupts in the physical.

Healing starts with changing your mind to create a mental environment that is conducive to healing.  Some healing traditions involve spiritual bathing, a baptism, the anointing of oil, or prayer.   So healing can be finding new balance in your life.  Making a conscious decision to heal creates a path to better health.

Live well!

Beauty and Health Secret of the Past

                                                     Castor Bean

The Hollywood portrait of Cleopatra, the famed seductress known for her beauty, is of course, Hollywood.  The book “Egyptology:  The Missing Millennium, Ancient Egypt in Medieval Arabic Writings” is a more accurate portal.  As a child of royal blood she was highly educated.  The text suggests that queen Cleopatra VII was a brilliant mathematician, chemist, philosopher, physician and author of scientific books.  Many of the medical concepts of today are the result of Egyptian medicine.  CASTOR OILis one of the treasured medicines of this ancient culture.

Just bring up Castor oil to anyone over 50 and you will get a grimace.  A dose of castor oil produced stomach cramping and perhaps explosive evacuation.  One person said his mother would always give him a dose if he came home early from school.  Of course he stayed in school.  Castor oil is well known as a laxative.  It was also a controversial method to induce labor.  I don’t think I would want to be the doctor delivering that child. 

“Cold drawn” from the castor oil bean, also known as Palma Christi for the palm of Christ, the healing touch.  From a native tree of Egypt and India, castor oil has been used as healing oil for ages.  The leaves of the tree were also boiled and spread on the breast to increase quantities of milk in nursing women.  It was a beauty secret as a nighttime face treatment. 

Castor oil has also been used successfully for joint problems including inflammation, pain and degeneration.  This can be highly effective.  This healing oil contains fats that included ricinoleic acid, and linoleic acid.  It can be applied directly to the joints or mixed with another oil.    Blending it with olive oil, sweet almond oil (rejuvenating), apricot kernel oil (rejuvenating), or grape seed oil (toning) can make a wonderful body oil.  Using this for foot massage before bedtime can aid in sleep.  Most commercial castor oil found in the drug store, as a laxative is solvent extracted.  Always use the cold pressed or cold drawn oil for topical use. 

A common naturopathic, use it to make a castor oil pack with cotton flannel.  This is done to “detoxify” organs such as the liver.  It has also been used for problems with the female breast.  Castor oil is a great addition to your natural remedies.

Stay Well