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Spring Newsletter
Volume #6, Issue #1.
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Spring 2012
A natural anti-depressant.
Inside this issue:
Stinging Nettle
Skull Cap
Vitamin D
Mercury
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Spring Newsletter
Stinging Nettle.
With the warm weather of
spring upon us, a lot of old
school herbalists are out
looking for a couple of herbs
to use for not only a spring
time tonic, but as allpurpose healing herbs.
Stinging Nettle is just one of
the early greens that we see
proliferating the fence rows
and woodlands. This plant
has a fierce reputation for
the stingers that are a part
of it and hence the name
stinging, however, when
harvesting, wearing gloves
decreases this nasty experience. The fresh spring greens
Skull Cap.
There are over 200 different
species of skullcap and it
falls under the genus of Scutellaria. The most accepted
one being blue skull cap as
shown to the left. The traditional use of this herb is an
anxiolytic in the form of
teas, caps and tablets. The
extract of this herb has its
roots in the Native American tradition for a nerve
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The flu
Muscle weakness
Psoriasis
Diabetes
Asthma
Periodontal disease
Cardiovascular disease
Schizophrenia and or
Depression
Cancer.
Why do the Amish Farm kids have lower Asthma and Allergies?
In a recently published report; Swiss Amish children
growing up on a farm have
less allergy/asthma and respiratory issues than others
and this may lead to the
hygiene hypothesis that
not only are we living in too
sterile of an environment but
the added environmental
and chemical toxins may in
fact be exacerbating the
breathing problems of todays youth.
One of the hypothesized reasons for the decrease of allergies and asthma among this
group of the population may
be linked to the consumption
of raw milk and raw dairy
products as well as the exposure to large farm animals
from an early age.
With this stated, the study
presented at the annual
meeting of the American
Academy of Allergy, Asth-
is leading to antimicrobial
resistance in humans and
more cases of superbugs.
In a recent publication
from the American Society of Microbiology, they
showed how an antibiotic
susceptible staph germ
passed from a human to a
pig, where it became resistant to the antibiotics
tetracycline and methicillin. And then the antibiotic resistant staph
learned to jump back into
humans. This strain
known as ST398 has been
found in retail meat at
conventional supermarkets in America.
Antibiotic resistance is a
natural process that is a
consequences of using