Staph Infection Protocol
Case Study: Johnny contracted Staph in his thumb from a sliver, which was confirmed by medical testing, and was told to go on antibiotics. His thumb grew to two times it’s size! He had his thumb lanced to release the pressure and fluid. He opted out of the antibiotics and instead followed this protocol: 32 oz. strongly decocted Echinacea Tea daily 3 droppers full of Echinacea Tincture daily 3 droppers full of Baptisia Tincture daily 60mg Zinc Daily 4000mg Vitamin C Daily -Soaked thumb 7-10x a day in a hyper salt water solution: keep adding salt to water until it no longer will dissolve, this solution is meant to be saltier than your body in order to draw things out instead of absorbing the salt water. -Kept wound open with an Usnea, Oregon Grape, Cedar Salve for 4 days Diet: No sugar, grains or anything else that puts stress on the body. Bone/meat stocks, nutrient dense whole foods for healing. Results: After 4 days he let the wound close and continued with the protocol for 2 weeks. The wound healed up nicely and the staph was eradicated.
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I’ve never been incredible at one thing. I’ve split my skills like a hunk of wood into many different pieces, but put together, they make a blazing fire. Maybe I am good at one thing, it just happens to be the culmination of many things, and it happens to be the pursuit of greatness, wholeness and truth. But from what I’ve found, everyone does not agree upon these things, there are plethora of things that taint truth. This has been my biggest war in life, the thing I’ve wanted to understand but can’t. So, I’ve dedicated my life to figuring out what that means, at least for my family and myself. This is what I do. This is what Johnny and I do. We are constantly asking questions and pursuing whatever seems to be the most beneficial to the world at large but we also pursue ourselves. This is key because without that piece we can never fully accomplish what we are here to do, and that is being true, honest, raw, intentional, caring, giving…the list goes on. The world is broken, it happened a long time ago but it seems to get worse the more people we have crammed together. We live in a volatile generation with lack of health, happiness and peace. Our brains have grown so smart that they have forgotten limits, and now we digress. It is our goal to revisit these limits, explore simplicity and sustainability, not because we are weirdos, as some like to label us, but because we want deep connection in life. We don’t want to live by a strip mall and breathe in car fumes for the rest of our days, we don’t want a 9-5 office job or one vacation a year. We want tradition, nature and community infused in our life everyday and we want to be free from degenerative disease. We want freedom in its purest form. We’ve found that corporations, money and power rule the world at the expense of the world. People don’t like to face the facts because the facts suck. They are the worst. It feels hopeless, I know, but I want to imagine that with enough people moving back into simplicity, away from consumerism and greed, that we could support our earth rather than ravaging it. People say to me, “we’re going to die anyway, what is the point?” It’s true, and this usually comes from the people who benefit the most from corporate society. We all say we care about those who are suffering or impoverished in our own country, but we can’t fully care without facing the facts. Society benefits some at the expense of others. The most important thing I believe we could do is feed ourselves. This is why we want to buy land so badly. Whoever controls food, controls the world, and right now, in this county, that is Monsanto/Our government. The American diet is 80% CORN & SOY, brought to you by our tax dollars. So this is what we are fed, and this is why we are degenerating, why disease is wiping us out slowly. I’ve never been incredible at one thing because I see that been self-reliant is the ultimate. To work hard, grow/raise nutrient dense food, play music, write poetry, create beauty, live with intention, all in ways that benefit those around me. The American life is a parasite. We must break free from this system if we are to live in a life giving way. And that is what I want to be incredible at.
These days we talk about issues like a popcorn machine. Today there is this this and this. Tomorrow it's something else. Social media has connected us to EVERYTHING, and we cannot support that weight. I've faced the issues head on, it started when I was 17. I remember a turning point, where I was exposed to something I could not ignore. All of a sudden I was handed this thing and I had to decide what to do with it. I brought it to the forefront of my life and I tried to spur others to see it the same, and not just see it, but do something about it. No one came along side me and it was the beginning of my discontentedness as well as my fervor to push forward. These two feelings have always co-existed for me, I try hard for a season, burn out and then feel lost again till inspiration finds me.
As many of you know, we have been in the process of trying to buy land for a year now. The vision started 6 years ago because of "the weight of it all" this was my answer to the question, "what can be done?" and we've been working hard toward it ever since. For the first 3 years we worked hard in tangible ways, ways that didn't make us any money but gave us the experiences we needed to make this decision. We remodeled a house, hosted hundreds of guests, cleaned up after people, gave people money, shared space, started a community garden, traveled to South Africa to work on farms, and much more. For the last 3 years we have hunkered down with jobs and worked hard to make the money we need for our land. Our work has never been conventional, and I've always given too much of my self and money away. because of these two things, we really don't make that much money, although we work hard. Our work isn't appreciated by the modern culture. (besides Johnny's barista job and my floral design) Day to day we are working hard studying and learning everything we can be successful in the future. This doesn't make us any money, but it's what matters the most to us. I didn't go to college. I didn't see the point of being in school for 4 years plus and being in debt to do something I ultimately didn't want to do. I was told, "you have to do it this way, this is the way it's done". Instead I started my own business and went to trade school for 3 years to study plant medicine and Nutritional Therapy. If you've read any of my other posts you know how important these things are to me. And I know how much they can help people, but still, it's not a job that is going to make me a millionaire. These were my choices, yes, but I've never understood why I needed to waste time doing something I didn't want to do in order to accomplish my dreams. Unfortunately, I'm at this crossroad, where I realize my dreams will never come to fruition without the help of others. In this culture it seems everyone wants me to work "hard" according to the typical system (9-5 job) and earn what I have. It's a depressing system. My dream is to start a retreat center on a piece of property where I can do week long Nutritional Therapy workshops that truly give people the time to relax and change their habits. I imagine cabins people can stay in, saunas, salt water soaking tubs, space to do cooking classes, and of course space to grow true nutrient dense food. The world operates on such a high frequency, I want to create a space people can come and have no obligations. We've lost this ability as a culture, and we feel that weight in many ways. I want a different life than the stays quo, and I want to share that with people. Honestly, I am at a really weird place right now. I'm suppose to be feeling this excitement of completing school and being a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner but the day after I graduated was the day I was told we weren't approved for enough money to buy anything. (well only one property, which was sold later that week) And since then it's been a cluster of mixed emotions, stresses and let downs. I don't know how to start my business while I'm in limbo and we have to move out of Portland within the next 5 months. (because of our living situation). I stay positive most days, but I miss having a community of support. It's been mainly Johnny and I on our own through all these processes and I honestly don't know what I am doing half the time. I've been really happy and content for the last year and sometimes there is a time and place for feeling sadness when faced with the unknowns. I haven't lost hope, I just can't see the light yet. Trying to balance doing things that matter with doing things that make money is a hard thing to do. And trying to respond to the weight of issues being put on us daily is hard. And continuing with a positive attitude is hard. Overall, I know things will work out. Just let me wallow for a moment. As Wendell Berry says, "To make public protest against an evil and yet live dependent on and in support of a way of life that is the source of the evil, is an obvious contradiction and a dangerous one. If one disagrees with nomadism and the violence of our society, then one is under an obligation to take up some permanent dwelling place and cultivate the possibility of peace in it. If one feels endangered by meaninglessness, then one is under an obligation to refuse meaningless pleasures and to resist meaningless work, and to give up the moral comfort and the excuses of the mentality of specialization." That's what I'm trying to do…it's not simple. Let's talk about something that has dumbfounded me for years; Pre-Conception Planning. How often does it happen? And how often does it happen to the extent that it should? Obviously some couples get pregnant on accident, so no planning can be done in that case but having a baby is a BIG deal and if we're planning on it, shouldn't we really PLAN it? We need to make sure our bodies are ready to create another person, after all. You'll never see someone who breeds race horses breeding their sickest horse, they breed their healthiest of course! So why don't we treat our own reproduction like this? Why don't we make sure we are at optimal health before we try and conceive? For most people, maybe it's the length of time it takes to prepare your body. -If you've been eating the Standard American Diet then I recommend 2-3 years of a nutrient dense diet before conceiving. -If you've been eating well I still recommend 6 months to a year of preparation.
I’ve spoken of health for a long time now, well a long time for one who is 26 years young. Now six years into my journey to discover what true, radical health looks like for me, I am utterly floored by what I’ve found. This weekend I accomplished the impossible, I graduated as a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner. And I say impossible, because as my story goes, I was a child put on the back burner in school. While others boiled with high heat, I slowly simmered, unsure of why my brain just didn’t work the same, why no matter how hard I tried I could never pass with what they call “flying colors” which is interesting, because I am chocked full of color. Instead of honing in on what they said made a balance human adult who could “make it” in this world, I stuck to the quite life of my own heart where I wrote endlessly, sang and played music, thought deeply and somehow laid out the framework for where I would be now. Money has never fueled my decisions, and thankfully I am good with the little money that I do have, but I never wanted to decide my future based on what would make me the most money, I also never wanted to go into school debt. Once I left high school behind I knew my next few years would look different than attending college; it wasn’t made for me. I began with attending The Floral Design Institute, for creativity has always been where I feel I thrive. It was the “safe” option for now and over the last 5 years I have built up quite a nice business, but alas, I needed more, I needed something that rocked me hard. Something that could double as a passion and a “job”. I’ve shared this journey before, and I don’t know for sure when it happened, but at some point I remember watching people fall around me, with cancer, heart disease, autoimmunity, allergies, depression; the list could continue forever. I was also struck with my own ailment, 2 years of intense allergies which I have now almost entirely healed with natural methods. I felt like people couldn’t fully be themselves, they were all bogged down by their bodies and even their minds were locked up. I watched some of them die, and some of them barely able to live. I knew this wasn’t how it was suppose to be, and I knew, from my own experience, that the medical industry wasn’t truly helping people HEAL, they were helping people just stay alive, adding a plethora of side effects to their already hurting bodies. I thought to myself, how can I, this uneducated woman who never got exceptional grades, dive into the “medical” scene. I had a deeper driving force than just helping people heal, I wanted to see people’s souls align with their bodies. I don’t know if people realize just how controlled they are by the health or lack of health in their bodies. I don’t know if people know that their bad moods, rollercoaster emotions, depression, anger and so on are sometimes more than just emotional wounds, they are biochemical. My journey began with plant medicine. I wanted to take health into my own hands and feel empowered, plants grow everywhere for anyone to use, I wanted that knowledge. I never expected to make money with herbalism training, I just wanted to be able to use plant medicine in my life and with friends and family. After 2 years of herbal training I felt I had found my place within holistic healing and knew I needed to continue. This is where nutritional therapy came into play. I realized if I didn’t know how or what to eat then my journey would stop there. Plant medicine is amazing, but I felt it needed to go hand in hand with nutrition. It was then and there that I decided to forgo my 3rd year of herbal training in order to jump into nutritional therapy. This also came into play because of the intense allergies I was dealing with. The doctors gave me no hope of ever going back to normal and I was given pharmaceuticals to deal with my symptoms. I did not accept their diagnosis, though, and I went on an intense journey to heal myself. A year later I was enrolled in the Nutritional Therapy Practitioner certification program through The Nutritional Therapy Association. This was a huge step for me. Studying Nutritional Therapy was way out of my comfort zone. I had deep passion about healing with foods but to actually dive into the science behind it was daunting. I didn't know if my brain could work this way. I signed up for the course in the winter last year and slowly felt the anticipation creep into my bones. I knew I was making the right decision, I just had no idea what to expect. February soon came into view and I was on the phone for my first conference call with my class. It's weird to meet all your classmates and teachers over the phone and complete most of your homework online and by yourself. A month few months into the program I headed out to Bend, Oregon for my first in person class. All the voices and online profiles soon became real people and a tribe of healers was formed. I don't know if you've experienced being in a room full of people who all care so deeply about the same thing, but it truly is a magical experience. Tears were flowing from the moment we sat down because we all had stories that brought us to this place, something that doesn't happen often in the college scene, I did my entire 9 months with these same people and we journeyed together. To create a web of support is something I seldom see in other ways of learning. In college you take many classes with many different people, there is something really special about the trade schools I've been a part of and I know that this is the way I was meant to learn. It goes beyond "you need to pass your tests to be a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner" it becomes a support group where we all want to succeed because we know we are meant for greatness and we know we are meant to be healers and that's why we pass our tests. I'll say right now, I was a "C" and even a "D" student growing up, my Nutritional Therapy Final grades: Written Test: 101% Functional Evaluation Test: 100% Client Folder: 100%. Why is it that I can't pass a test in traditional school? Well, traditional school doesn't feel like a community, it doesn't feel like a support system, and I feel lost in it; alone. Over the last 9 months I worked my butt off. I mean really, I completed hours and hours of homework, listened to lectures, read over 15 different books, completed a community project, learned the functional evaluation, went to Bend on three separate occasions for weekend classes, practiced on 15 people, and passed both my midterm and final. I didn't have time to think about anything else in the last 9 months, I was thrown into a tornado and whirled around. And this weekend, I was thrown out of it, at least that's how it felt. Once I completed the course, it took me a moment to gather my bearings. I was in shock. Something I never thought I could do, I did. And I didn't just scrape by like I always had in school; I thrived. I don't know what the next steps looks like, but for now I can say: I am a healer. I am a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner. Why do I want to be a Nutritional Therapist and Farmer?
Because the fullness of being human cannot be expressed with out the fullness of nutrients, and the fullness of nutrients cannot be brought forth with out care for the soil. We’ve lost our ability to see creation as something sacred. We say we love the mountains, the rivers and trees, but these are words we only speak. We take photos to capture the beauty but never arrive at truly understanding our deep connectedness with what is not just one thing, soil simplified and defined as “dirt”, when in reality soil is life, and soil is death, the perfect way to reconcile those two things, which feel so distant from one another. When we began hiding from death, putting up walls between us and the slaughter of animals, forgetting that it was necessary for our living, we disconnected completely so that we didn’t have to deal with it’s weight. We simplified everything and left it in the hands of a few men, people who don’t know how to look past their greed and feed the world in a way that brings vitality to every person’s body. Our food system is made of money, it seems it really does grow on trees. Why do I want to be a Nutritional Therapist and Farmer? Because I’ve lost family members to Cancer and Heart Disease, which could have been prevented, had we known how to eat with intention. People tell me they don’t have the time for this way of life. But I don’t have time for disease, which steals life away. I’ve watched disease steal life away from everyone around me, including myself. I’m not scared of death, for we all must pass over that threshold, but we’ve been given this space in time to live out on earth and we are doing it in the worst way possible. We are degrading everything. Making it un-inhabitable. You cannot say you want to feed the poor and also buy food from monoculture, pesticide laced farming, which perpetuates poverty. We’ve lost the ability to do radical accounting, we only see things in dollar signs, who will account for the acidifying of our oceans or the dead soil they continue to rape with corn and soy? I know that this food and this pollution killed my family members before their time. And I know it is sucking the life out of everything. Why do I want to be a Nutritional Therapist and Farmer? Cause this is ridiculous. We no longer know what it feels like to be human. We are a sick and dying generation. I say, “who wants help” and everyone comes running. We work long de-humanizing jobs under florescent lights, eat packaged food that’s more traveled than we are and fill our bodies with toxins. At this moment in time, we are overpopulated: 99.3% of Americans eat food, and only .7% are farming, and most of that is ruled by Monsanto. There’s no need to worry about overpopulation, though, it’s projected that if we keep eating this way and destroying our soils we’ll all be infertile by 2050 anyway. That’s the direction we are going. This is why I want to be a Nutritional Therapist and a Farmer. Someone has to do it. We need to turn that .7% into something larger with small, locally minded farms. We need to bring the vitality back into our bodies.
"Elderberry has been proven effective against eight different influenza viruses. This may solve the perennial problem of the “mutating flu.” Viruses have the ability to alter their genetics and create new strains. This makes a problem for creating vaccines against viral diseases, such as flu or AIDS, because the vaccine can only be developed against known strains. The host remains unprotected against newly evolved forms of the virus. With the flu virus, the new evolving forms can sometimes be deadly as especially virulent strains develop periodically. We haven’t had an outbreak of deadly flu in recent decades, so many people do not realize how serious the illness can be. One strain killed more than 100,000,000 people worldwide in the second decade of this century — that’s more than have died in all the 20th century wars put together. Some epidemiologists have pointed out in recent years that we are overdue for another deadly flu epidemic, which reoccur, like earthquakes, at regular but not necessarily predictable intervals. Vaccines will be of no use against a new strain, at least when it initially appears. Elder may thus be able to literally save lives, because most strains of the virus use the same enzyme mechanism to penetrate cells. Elder preparations may be superior to flu shots for another reason: 50% of people who get the vaccines report side effects" Vaccine Info taken from: www.cdc.gov/vaccines
Elderberry Info: Paul Bergner: http://medherb.com/Materia_Medica/Sambucus_-_Elderberry_%28Sambucus_nigra,_canadensis%29.htm My own herbal knowledge, http://www.naturalnews.com/025019_elderberry_flu_colds.html#ixzz3llXiMXQm A new study from Belgium found that low- salt diets increase the risk of death from heart attacks and strokes and do not prevent high blood pressure (JAMA, May 4, 2011). The investigators found that the less salt people ate, the more likely they were to die of heart disease. “If the goal is to prevent hypertension” with lower sodium consumption, said the lead author, Dr. Jan A. Staessen, a professor of medicine at the University of Leuven, in Belgium, “this study shows it does not work.” Lowering salt consumption, Dr. Alderman said, has consequences beyond blood pressure. It also, for example, increases insulin resistance, which can increase the risk of heart disease. The thing to take into account with this is that there is a big difference between table salt, the stuff you usually find on your table at a restaurant, and unrefined sea/mineral salts. Table salt is usually highly refined and many of it's trace minerals are removed. It usually is filled with anti-caking agents and is refined into pure sodium chloride. Iodized salt means there is iodine added to it, but you can get this from iodine rich foods like fish, dairy, eggs and especially seaweed. Table salt is an inorganic material and a strongly ionic bonded material and resists being separated into the sodium and chloride ions that are usable by body. Hence it doesn’t replenish properly the sodium needed for our body. Why do we need salt? Our body is full of electrical currents that aid in all the body processes. True unrefined salt is necessary for these processes. Not only that but unrefined salt contains a plethora of minerals. This is why it is important to eat an array of salts so you can reap the benefits from each individual one. Above there is a picture of the jars of salt that line my stove. Right now I've got unrefined Sea Salt, Celtic Sea Salt, Salt from a mineral deposit, and Himalayan Pink Sea Salt. Different salts can contain trace minerals such as: potassium, iron, zinc, calcium and magnesium Some other benefits: -Sodium ions help in the conduction of nerve impulses and contraction of muscles. -Sodium ions help to retain water in the body and maintain water balance. -Sodium ions are important in transport of substances across cell membranes. -Sodium ions play a part in the electrical activity of the heart. Exchange of sodium and potassium ions in the pacemaker cells of the heart’s sinoatrial node causes the heart to beat. -Chloride ions are an important component of blood plasma. -Chloride ions help in formation of HC1 (Hydrochloric acid) in stomach for digestion. -Sodium plays an important role in the regulation of acid base balance in the body fluids including blood, lymph, tears and gastrointestinal secretions. I encourage everyone to purchase some unrefined sea salt or other type and use it instead of table salt!
“Our true name: both wound and blessing”
When a moment comes to awaken us. Our scattered possessions lit ablaze. We wonder about the word. That is our true name. Stuck within the confines of society. Where others define us each and every day. Where assumptions name us. And we know no other way. Because this other way takes risk. Risks we’re not willing to take. But it we started small. One risk per day. We’d find ourselves grown. Into our true name. Which waits To grow up. And be given. No one finds themselves by staying safe. The hardest decisions I’ve made. Have led me to the most indescribable places. Spaces where I filled the room with truth. And my true name: Liberate Since I was a young one. I wondered how I could save others. An overwhelming surge of emotions. That ended up locking me in a room. Because no one ever knew. Of my yearnings. I learned to let my words pour on pages Hoping someday maybe. They’d be shared out loud. Lived out proudly. Shouting. I was born to liberate. I was born to rip out the pages. Of well respected books. Set fire to the “rules”. Break down stereotypes. Like cardboard boxes to be recycled. And I’m not saying that I’m the only one. We all have this word. The one that has followed us throughout the years. Whispered in our ears. But it seems we’re too scared. To let is speak. And yet, we hate to see the world grow cold. Our ever present knowing. Of all that needs to change. And it may sound cliché’. But we are that change. When we take risks. And let our true name. Scream. For me, this word Is LIBERATE. Why do we lead such stressful lives? We seem to gather our meaning from being busy. Honestly, I've never been this person, I've organized my life in such a way that I don't have to be busy. I also never wanted to be in debt. It seems we are a busy, in debt, unhappy culture and we live our true lives on the weekends. I've also been content not attending "college" but every time someone asks me if I have a degree or what college I am learning Nutrition through I have to tell them that I didn't go to college and that my Nutrition course is a certification; this usually leaves an awkward pause in the conversation where I know they are internally questioning of the validity of my life. I wish we didn't define people by how much they work, how much money they make and where they got a degree. I've successfully run my own floral design business for 5 years, learned plant medicine at The School of Traditional Western Herbalism and in October I will be a certified Nutritional Therapist. And guess what; I am in zero debt. Let me segway into something else. Lately, I have felt overwhelmed, it happens every summer in high wedding season. Have you ever thought about what wedding vendors go through? For me, I am in a triple threat kind of situation, I've got my creativity on display to be scrutinized, I have to be organized and successfully run a business/keep track of documents and money, while having meetings, taking deposits, planning out details, ordering flowers at the right time, picking them up and then delivering all by myself. Lastly, I am dealing with the high emotions that run around weddings. TRIPLE THREAT. I am a creative, emotional person, not a businesswoman. I am dirty, hairy and covered in goat hair, I am not a fancy wedding florist. I get so stressed out by events sometimes that I wonder why I even do this job! I've had this feeling for over a year now…but I had to push forward. Don't get me wrong, I love floral design, I just don't like the stress of everything else that comes along with it. So, I think it's time. Johnny and I are buying land this year and moving out of Portland. We plan on starting a farm/retreat center and I will focus more on my Nutritional Therapy. So there you have it, I am phasing out of Forest & Field Floral Design. It feels good to say. I may start it back up when I can grow some of my own stuff on our property but for now, I am done. I'll be finishing out the rest of this wedding season and begin focusing on getting clients for Nutrition as well as doing some retreats and workshops. (this doesn't mean I won't consider doing some weddings, cause I definitely will.) Let's lead lives that invigorate us. Let's lead lives that don't oppress others. Let's lead lives that aren't filled with stress and obligations. Let's be simple, let's be wild and free.
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