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(Nature Provides)Written by
Colin Ifield
I was talking with Katherine's daughter Kim yesterday. She is one of those wonderful souls who is always in touch with everything that is good, one of those who not only lights up a room; but a neighbourhood. Kim had just returned home from doing her weekly shopping and the table was stacked with food. Looking over these goodies, it was obvious why she and her family are generally well and always happy, with fresh fruits and vegetables, fresh fish, and other wholesome, nature provided, foods; not one processed food could be seen.
Kim, not that anyone would have noticed, had recently recovered from a bout of the flu and she made a caring comment about how some people seem to suffer so much with a simple, common cold. I was reminded of someone once saying "why not try some Echinacea and if that fails, there is always euthanasia".
As I was driving home, I was thinking about the Echinacea/euthanasia comment and was reminded of Doctor Vogel's story about the friendship he had developed with the American Indian chief, Black Eagle. How this wonderful, over ninety years old man had shared with him, his ideas about illness and disease and they discussed the importance of medicinal herbs and nutrition, or proper diet. He believed apparently, as many of us are beginning to realise, that the white man's customs and habits had overtaxed the regenerative powers our creator, or nature, had implanted in us and that we often only had ourselves to blame for the resulting diseases.
Amongst others, he expressed his appreciation for what he referred to as a "sacred plant" supplied to us by "the great artist of the universe". His ancestors, he said, used this plant to cure cases of blood poisoning. He told of cures for snakebite poisoning, arrow poisoning and infected injuries. They also used it to reduce their susceptibility to colds and catarrh, in bad and blustery weather. Doctor Vogel had since cured an untreated wound infection from an accident to his leg, through the use of Echinacea and had also used Echinacea to ward off, the symptoms of malaria. Researchers have tried to discover and isolate the plants medicinal properties and have concluded that it has the ability to reinforce the body's own defence mechanism, the immune system. The immune system is weakened by our modern, unnatural way of life. Doctor Vogel believed "It is therefore understandable that an herbal remedy such as Echinacea is gaining stature. Scientific research has confirmed that Echinacea improves and builds up immunity, even though it has not been possible, to date, to isolate a specific substance that is responsible for its remedial effects..."
As I said in previous articles "Nature provides".
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