All things being equal as our economist friends never fail to tell us, this series on ebola virus fever should be on holiday from next week. The heat wave of the fear of a possible epidemic is petering off. The world is still holding its breath, mouth ajar, wondering how Nigeria, a country thought to be a place where nothing works, was able to hold the ebola bull by the horns and tame it. Our government, doctors, media and we ourselves deserve a good pat on the back.
The series so far examined many questions related to this matter. I cannot now remember every issue. But I recall:
Fear
This involves why we shouldn’t fear the virus, but through education and action contain it. Fear is a product of our feeling of incapacity. It takes on an ethereal form of the nature of it and, nourished by more thoughts of fear like the watering of a plant, causes this thought form to grow and lowers a bridge to it which connects us with it. Soon, that which we fear materializes physically. In dreams, our spiritual helpers may lead our souls into situations of fear which should inform us of how fear is holding us back in material terms. In dreams, I used to find myself walking on a tightrope at heights of about a 25 storey-building above the ground. I would know if I jumped off or lost balance my body could smash into bits and chips. In fear, I would awake in the physical world. With careful study, I had to review, the trajectory of my earth-life for fear situations and with prayers for strength, strive to overcome them. Isn’t it said that it is only he who dares, who wins?
Immunity
Mother nature planted a defense mechanism, the immune system, in our bodies, and only a healthy immune system can guarantee dominion of the body over germs. The immune system is made healthy through consumption of healthy, living foods, not sugared, fertilizer-grown, refined or packaged overcooked, over-stored and chemically preserved food-less and dead junk foods. The physical body emerged from the activities of mother nature, and is to be nourished by foods produced by those activities in the natural states they are provided. The Creation Diet Plan in the Bible is a guide for Christians. I needed no counseling about this when I read from the Wise one: Neither drugs nor injections, but the right kinds of foods and drinks bring lasting health.
The Black Death
References were made to this epidemic which killed about 200 million people in Europe when it broke out in Italy in 1348. It was brought to Europe from China by infected rats and fleas which were in merchant ships. At that time, 1.7 million of London’s four million population was killed by bubonic plague. The celebrated survivors in Europe were four thieves who protected themselves with herbs such as Rosemary, Sage and raw Garlic infused in Apple cider vinegar.
I smile anywhere I go when I find people over meals, eating raw garlic, bitter kola, alligator pepper or some other immunity – building herbs.
Two professors of medicine who work with Mother Nature are leading advocates of immunity building for resistance against diseases.
Professor Bukunola Adefule – Oshitelu, an eye doctor, for almost forty years, believes the vegetable Yoruba’s call Ewedu is immune building. She developed bitter kola into bitter kola eye drops to lower ocular (eye) tension or pressure and help to improve the visual field in glaucoma patients after an old patient of hers told her he had maintained his vision not with doctor-prescribed hospital drugs but with the water infusion of this herb. Prof. Adefule Oshitelu advises that ewedu be washed with vinegar, blended and boiled in water with no pepper or salt and drunk. Dosage is half a regular table glass. She says there is no harm in trying it for immune boosting since it has been used in cuisine from primordial times and has been found helpful in measles and other viral diseases.
Prof Akibu Oyelami is a pediatrician (children’s doctor) who uses herbs and writes book about them. He has written about grapefruit seeds, aloe vera, and honey which he produces on a small scale.
I haven’t spoken lately on this subject with Dr Abayomi Aiyesimoju, a neurologist and homeopath. But I can take a bet that he would explain the role a clean and healthy colon and support which high colonic irrigation play in immune health. Dr Goke Ibironke, of Ibadan, should have a positive explanation on Guardian Angel, a hand held acupressure device, plays in soothing the nerves and balancing the Central Nervous System (CNS) which plays a crucial role in immune function. I shouldn’t leave out Dr Ajagbe, of Oshogbo, and, of course, Dr Sam Asomugha who, if I guess right, will vouch any day for antiviral herbs. It is a pity these doctors who work with Mother Nature are not invited by the authorities for their opinions on matters such as the containment of Ebola Virus Fever.
Spiritual Activity
The series made it clear, as Surgeon Norman Shealy, working with Journalist/Spiritualist Caroline Myss have done in their book, The creation of health, that man is not bone and flesh, but that vital force, spirit or energy, which inhabits it and animates it. Dr Aiyesimoju has written a beautiful article on this titled, ‘The tree of life’. In this work, he explains what ought to be the right functioning of the frontal (big) and back (small) brains, and how this lop-sidedness of “big” and ‘small’ brain has led to the misconstruction of the human body. If we are observant, is there, indeed, a small eye or a big eye, a small testes or a big testes, a big nostril or a small nostril, a big ear and a small ear, a big lung and a small lung? In Nature, a pair of the same organ is not only symmetrically arranged, in sizes, they are symmetrical. Deviations have explanations in nurture and use. The more used organ is bigger. The less used is smaller or atrophies, that is withers. That’s why the muscles of one arm may be bigger than those of the other.
Similarly, the frontal brain is used more, in thinking and intellectualism/ the back brain, used less, has shrunken. Yet there was a time in human biological history when both brains were of equal sizes. The back brain is the spiritually receptive part of the brain, the front brain the seat of thought and intellect. To control the body, is tool, the spirit acts upon the back brain through radiations of the blood. The back brain, in turn, passes the impression to the frontal brain through the same medium. The spirit picks impressions from the outside world through a reverse mechanism i.e. frontal brain via the blood to the back brain via the blood to the spirit. Anyone who appreciates the navel as a point of connection between mother and child in the womb should appreciate the connection of body and spirit at the
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plexius, somewhere around the navel region, by the silver cord, which detaches at the death of the body to free the spirit from their union. People who do not easily remember their dreams or who cannot interpret dreams well should now see the possible reasons. A poor blood radiation cannot efficiently deliver spirit impressions to the back brain. A withering, a little used back brain cannot hold the pictures the spirit is sending or broadcasting in a dream to the frontal brain. Yet we humans are not expected to think but to receive and act upon what we have received, using the frontal brain to forge a material response. When we misplace something in the house or forget something and begin to trouble ourselves thinking about it, we hardly find that stuff or remember it when we stop thinking, we suddenly receive the right answer in a flash of inspiration, find or remember the stuff! Spiritual (not religious) activities keep the back brain active and glowing, as the spirit glows through it. In a human body through which the spirit is glowing aright as explained above, the immune system is also set aglow and, thus, no disease can thrive therein. This dovetails into the explanations given last Thursday about how the New Age or Aquarian Age, which has come upon us at about the same time as the Cosmic Turning Point, affect the spirit, the blood radiation and the immune system, and why, as predicted in the 1920’s, blood diseases are rampant in our generation.
As we can now see, the blood is made and maintained from within by the spirit, and from the outside by what we feed the body with. The body is lifeless on its own and is animated only by the spirit. That is why a man dies who has lost the will to live. I was once told the story of a paediatrician who always had more premature babies than incubators for them. He would arrange them like sardines in the incubators. If he noticed anyone making great efforts to live, he gave it more leg room by removing the inactive ones. Thus, we heal from within and from without, although, these days, we act largely from the outside. Thus, also, when Ebola Virus symptoms degenerate into bleeding (haemorrhaging) we must find helpful natural means of aiding healing therapies from without.
Bleeding
I still cannot stand the sight of blood, let alone infected blood. That’s why we should send loving prayers to our doctors and medical personnel who are taking care of Ebola virus fever patients at the risk of their own lives. One American doctor who came to Liberia to help on humanitarian grounds reported to be critically ill and in quarantine. A leading Liberian doctor infected has died. The popular hospital in Lagos where the Ebola death occurred was shut. Even if only temporarily, that’s loss of income and deprivation of livelihood for all the staff and the proprietors.
To arrest bleeding of this nature throughout the body, astringent herbs may be useful. They help to tighten the blood vessels to prevent leakage. The Yorubas have a good one called Patanmo. Translated, it means, ‘close your lap’. The English call it, ‘touch-me-not’. It responds to touch by folding the leaves. This suggests to herbalists that it is an astringent herb. The response to touch indicates virile nerve action. If the nerves of the blood vessels would so contract the soft muscles, bleeding would ease. Yarrow, a blood cleanser, is also astringent. Ditto Shepherd’s purse.
Silica is a good sealant. It may be used either as a biochemical cell salt, or in silica-rich herbs such as nettle and Horsetail. In fact, Horsetail poultries are used to stop nose bleeds. A powerful way to use these herbs may be in their tincture forms. Witch Hazel, pomegranate, Oak and guava are useful astringents. The legendary Dr. Linus Pauling, two times Nobel Prize winner, reminds us of Vitamin C. his researches show that, by the time the gums begin to bleed (scurvy), a condition for which the doctor prescribes Vitamin C and perhaps Vitamin K, sub clinical deficiencies of Vitamin C would have long occurred in the tissues, causing internal bleeding. He prescribes a minimum of 3000 mg of vitamin C everyday in normal health and up to 10,000 mg in cases of cancer and HIV for example. It would appear that the hemorrhaging in Ebola virus fever is due to over consumption of Vitamin C by the body to fight the virus, which would then lead to a weakening of the blood vessels. Vitamin C is related to bioflavonoids, which should be administered either as a bioflavonoid complex (all bioflavonoids) or as selected bioflavonoids. For example, Quercitin, a bioflavonoid, fights inflammation and pain, and it is antiviral. Rutin,another bioflavonoid prescribed inglaucoma and Retinitis pigmentosa, two causes of blindness, prevents leakage of blood in blood vessels. Bleeding causes iron loss and anemia. Iron-rich herbs such as Stinging NettleorBeet root or spirulina or Blackstrap Molassesor proprietary blends such as Jobelyn may be given to the patient to replenish his or her losses. Jobelyn,Beet root and Blackstrap molasses are rich in potassium, an electrolyte lost in hemorrhaging; they also contain Vitamin K which supports the blood clotting process.
Immune building
From emerging scientific evidence in medical researches, we all easily succumb to infections of all kinds because
•We do not have enough oxygen in our bodies.
•We are hypothyrodic in various degrees and our metabolic rate is sluggish accordingly.
•Our bodies are toxic with heavy metals from food and water sources, ridden with pesticides from agricultural practices and weighted down by pollutants of all sorts in the smoggy or smoky air we breathe.
•Above all, parasites and germs of all descriptions have made a home of our bodies.
•Worse still, we no longer eat well, to feed our bodies with living nutrients which would support immune function.
Some of these nutrients arm the body with systemic enzymes, which the immune system employs to dissolve or to kill foreign bodies such as Ebola virus. There’s too much sugar, the killing fat, refined foods, monosodium glutamate (MSG) taste enhancers, sugar and animal milk in the diet.
In this toxic, deoxygenated condition, parasites and germs multiply readily.
Parasites and Virus
We can do our bodies a world of good by ridding them of parasites everyday and by increasing the population of the friendly bacteria flora. The gum problem I experienced a few years ago, which led to the loss of one tooth, taught me, every morning and bed time, to swirl around my mouth and then swallow the water solution of one capsule of yarrowherb. With a meal during the day, I take one capsule of Black Walnut Lull. With another meal, I take one capsule of ParasiteFormula, or Parasite Cleanse or wormwood. I do not forget Pau d’Arco an antibacterial, anti viral and antifungal. Amazon AF will soon return to the market. It is anti-Candida. Anyone who has seen Candida at work in a liveblood dark microscopyexamination will appreciate the need to kill them. The blood, rather than being red, is almost all white! The immune cells are immobile or sluggish. The Candida (a yeast) is active and everywhere.
When the parasite load is cleared, and the blood is oxygenated, using oxygenating herbs or proprietary products such as VITALAIRE, the immune cells come alive somewhat. They can be aided with antiviral herbs such as Golden seal root, Astragalus, Echinacea or proprietary formulas such as Amazon AV or Zeolyte AV.
We do not have to wait to be exposed to Ebola Virus, or to develop symptoms of the fever before we take protective action. Waiting, it may be too late, as the virus literally gives its victim little or no time to fight back. Let us be as wise as those four prisoners in Europe who survived the black plague.
When it comes to staunching the blood, improving hematocrit profile to replace lost blood, when there is a need to raise Natural Killer (NK) cell count or CD4 cell count, crucial factors in immune system vitality and fighting force, JOBELYN can be a useful ally. Many studies carried out in Nigeria, the United States and Britain show it readily improves CD4 count in HIV/AIDS therapies. In a recent American study, it was again shown to improve NK cell count and activity. This is besides its high antioxidant value, which is one of the highest among many plants with high ORAC values. ORAC is Oxygen radical Absorbent capacity. Oxygen free radicals damage cells and tissue which form organs and cause rapid aging. Antioxidants donate themselves to free radicals, thereby preventing oxidative destruction of the body. Thus, antioxidants should be helpful in the treatment of diseases, including ebola virus, especially as more than 250 degenerative diseases, including diabetes, cancer, asthma, glaucoma etc, have been linked to oxidative stress.
In conclusion, I believe the point has been well made that, to borrow the theme of Dr. Aiyesimoju’s lecture series, ‘Partnership with nature’, our doctors can avail themselves and their patients with clinically proven herbal remedies which Austrian herbalist Maria Treben rightly describe in the title of her book as Help through god’s pharmacy.
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