Nutrition & Exercise Blog

"I've harvested wild scallions, wild garlic, wild mustard, wild fennel, raspberries, staghorn sumac, mint, yarrow, burdock, black raspberries, lily sprouts, wild bergamot, wintergreen berries (hollyberry), birch, watercress."

I have used medicinal ayahuasca.

I take gotu kola, reishi mushroom & Siberian ginseng root & horny goat weed at night. I have discontinued use of bilberry.

Question to pose Dr. Jessica Bachman,

"I'm not doing this program for my health only - I need to make a living as a nutritionist or an herbalist - if that's the route I take - I realized a short while ago that this here in school is as organized as the world gets - outside this classroom it is disorganized.

What field can I work in - health care, green company I want to know for sure that people really want to know what I have to offer - health & longevity instruction

-I want to be professionally employable - as an English Lit. major I was professionally unemployable whattayousay what are my options - does this school offer any career services for nutrition majors?"

I promise to start a nutrition blogspot with commentary on that nutrition bible that is The Tao of Health Sex & Longevity with Western scientific verification for Eastern principles and beliefs:

Nutrition news from the Brits

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13190376

Thoughts from latest journal

This is the year when I find out from a Chinaman where the local herbalist lives and where I can learn to become a medicine man & Chinese herbalist - I have been a Taoist for 10 years & want to learn Chinese, the culture, learn TCM & Baguazhang - most of all I desire to live in health & fruitful(ly-ness) for all of my days. The Chinese, the Indians, the Africans are the only people that keep their cultures intact - that above all, is what I honor - a plan & passing of knowledge - not fate.

The greatest capacity of the human body is the ability to heal itself. This is the coda I've lived by for years. I plan to study medicine, not surgery.

To finish a wayward thought regarding the origin of the nutrition blog, it all started with the satisfaction I got writing about the possibility of BILBERRY curing Vericose Veins.

Spmtrh treatment:

Lotus leaves

Dragon bones

Oyster shells

Chicken gastric tissue from gizzard

Chinese yam roots

Horny goat weed leaves

Broomrape fleshy stems

Caltrop mature fruits

Dodder seeds

Rehmannia glutinosa (Scrophulariaceae) roots

Chinese wolfberry

Eclipta prostrata (Compositae) whole plant

Dogwood tree fruits

Schisandra dried berries

Praying mantis eggcase

Blackberry unripe berries

Cuttlefish bone

5/9/11

To clarify, you absorb more milkfat from homogenized milk than you do from pure cream. It is not as I thought, that you absorb more milkfat from low-fat milk than whole milk. Although I hope it could be put to the test. The dairy industry - and how. Reading about what the dairy industry does to turn a profit is disturbing. I defer to George Costanza's pasteurization speech:

GEORGE: It'll be different this time.

SUSAN: I need someone a little more stable.

GEORGE: I'm not stable? I'm like a rock. I take these glasses off, you can't tell the difference between me and a rock. I put these glasses on a rock. You know what jumps into most people's minds? Costanza!

SUSAN: People don't change.

GEORGE: I change I change. Two weeks ago I tried a soft boiled egg. Never liked it before. Now I'm dunkin a piece of toast in there and I'm loving it.

SUSAN: I'm not a soft boiled egg.

GEORGE: And I am not a piece of toast.

SUSAN: I just don't think we have anything in common.

GEORGE: That's okay. That's good. You think Louie Pasteur and his wife had anything in common? He was in the fields all day with the cows, you know with the milk, examining the milk, delving into milk, consummed with milk. Pasteurization, Homogenization, She was in the kitchen killing cockroaches with a boot on each hand.

SUSAN: Why were there so many cockroaches?

GEORGE: Because. There was a lot of cake lying around the house. Just sitting there going with all the excess milk from all the experiments [grins]

SUSAN: And they got along?

GEORGE: Yes! Yes. You know. She didn't know about Pasteurization. He didn't know anout Fumigation. But they made it work!

Addendum to Ayahuasca Journal:

Zoloft:

Need I say more - in order to balance the level of serotonin in the brain, one must take Zoloft, a revolutionary antidepressant, a shortcut, some say, to mental stability (in depressive and anxiety disorder cases).

Let's talk a little about medicine, however, specifically the use of medicinal plants to cure ailments. There's one example in the Poconos, that is the Pocono Mountains - teaberry. Don Miller, local naturalist, open-space advocate, and expert in all things Poconos, has made medicinal drinks flavored with tonic - the way the Chinese take their medicine is with a tonic. Don Agustin Rivas Vasquez, of Tamshiyaku, Peru, an ayahuascero, also takes his medicine with tonic. In dormitory in Iquitos, I saw him drink down his medicine with tonic, I remember him saying "Absolute bodka." in the presence of another drug expert, Edmundo Morales, Sr.

Today I picked and harvested some winterberry, aka teaberry as it is known, to sooth my throat, which had been plagued by a cardio-pulmonary problem, or a deep cough in the lungs.

I started every morning with a dose of Zoloft to cure my depression. Without it I would be catatonic, suicidal, literally, incapacitated.

If you consult your Complete Guide to Medicinal Herbs by Steven Bratman, M.D., you'll find bilberry, closely related to the American blueberry, cranberry, and huckleberry.

This berry is used to treat vericose veins in adults. I have vericose veins on my testicles and on the shaft of my penis so this could definitely help me.

The ultimate search for a varicocele cure should probably be undertaken. If there are berries that could help eliminate the varicocele from the epididymus that would be wonderful. Thus far I've only had two suggestions for the varicocele - one - have it removed, or two, let it be.

The suggestion that Don Agustin has made - Tania R. Lazo Hidalgo actually, an obstetrition from nearby Tamshiyaku gave me a prescription of ciprofloacinal 500 mg 1 tablet a day + Azifromicina 500 mg #02, also other possibilities include Trimetoprima 160 mg (anti-biotics):

Ciprofloxino 500 mg 1 tablet

Sufato Ferroso 75 mg/5 ml (anti-anemia)

converted scripts from Peru to U.S

Rifa - also called AIDS medication

Using the logic of the fantastic film, The Lookout, my journey toward mastery of Herbalism and Acupuncture as follows goes:

I must pass a basic chemistry and anatomy and physiology class

Find a fund or a scholarship to pay for my schooling

Acceptance into an accredited institute
Recieve & apply 3 to 6 years of training from an accredited school of acupuncture & herbalism

"The man studying to become an acupuncturist must become intimately familiar with Yin-Yang theory and the correspondencies. But even when he has mastered them he will not be ready to take up the needles in a village shop of city hospital. They are concepts easily learned and remembered by someone born into Chinese society. Before they are useful to him in alleviating human misery, the acupuncturist must become more sensitive and perceptive than any Western doctor. He must learn to find any one of over three hundred acupuncture points by touch alone and to distinguish between twelve different pulses. He must master the laws of acupuncture and the meridians"
Obtain NCCAOM certification for acupuncture

figure my rates of service

advertise on acufinder.com, sales, promote, and shop idea in a suitable area where there is a potential market for acupuncture

get clients that are willing to undergo treatment using acupuncture,

lastly treat people with acupuncture

A near casualty of the sweeper, an excerpt from The Globe:

"The wildflower coltsfoot (tussilago farfara - meaning "to drive away cough") is called by many names. In England it's coughwort, and here it's also known as horsehoof, donnhove, bull's foot, foal's wort, baccy flant, son-before-the-father (meaning the leaves) and in China the flowers are called Kuan dong hua. The plant gets its name from the leaves which are shaped like a young horse's footprint. It is a slow growing perennial native to Europe. As soon as the snow melts in teh spring, we see them growing along most roadways looking like early dandelions, but only half the size. In early Greek and Roman times, coltfoot was used as a cough and asthma remedy. In the 18th century, coltsfoot pancakes and omelets were a popular delicacy."

Here's a nice article from Local Harvest:

LocalHarvest.org

LocalHarvest Newsletter, September 23, 2011 Welcome back to the LocalHarvest newsletter. Last fall, a couple of weeks before the farmers market was to close for the season, signs started appearing on the public bulletin boards around my town. "Buy out the farmers on the last day of the market!" It was my favorite little bit of food activism all year. We who shop were reminded of the benefits of stocking up on storage crops, and got to express our appreciation for our farmers by filling their pockets with cash on the last day of the season. On the big day I found myself bellying up to a table loaded with the most beautiful winter squash I'd ever seen, and taking home a trunk full. (What does a family of three do with 25 winter squash, you ask? Put them in the basement. Bake three at a time every week, and eat one. Scoop out the flesh of the other two and freeze in large yogurt containers to use in quick winter squash soup all winter.) Stocking up in the late summer and fall extends the buy-local produce season. Garlic, onions, potatoes, sweet potatoes, squash, apples, beets, carrots and other root crops all store easily and well for weeks or months in the basement, garage or frig, depending on the crop and your local climate. (If you are uncertain about how to store particular crops, the Internet has many resources, including these two from the University of Minnesota and Washington State University.) If you are up for canning, drying, or freezing some food, fall offers oodles of fun weekend projects that will set you up well for delicious winter meals. Stocking up goes a long way toward answering the perennial question of what's for supper. Having plenty of food in the house that needs to be eaten limits the menu possibilities in a way that I find very helpful. From now till spring we eat whatever vegetables we have in the basement, with a few things from the grocery store sprinkled in for variety. If you get bit hard by the food preservation bug, and it happens, you're eventually going to want to give thought to some kind of root cellar. Since most of us live in houses built since the habit of thrice-weekly trips to the grocery store took hold, few of our homes have a cool corner of the basement open to the bare ground. But wouldn't it be nice? Fortunately, there are many alternatives to taking a jackhammer to your basement floor. One of my favorites falls in the category of "fruit and vegetable hideaway," and consists of an old refrigerator buried on its back and accessible from ground level. The very best book I've seen on keeping food is called Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits and Vegetables. Filled with photos, line drawings, and stories, it is a great, fun resource to have around if you're even considering expanding your food preservation options. Thanks to Storey Publishing, this month we're lucky to have five copies to give away. If you'd like to enter to win a copy, fill out the little form here by Friday, September 30. I'll email you if you win! Many people are looking for ways to eat local food in the winter. If you live in a part of the country where fresh produce is available year round, lucky you! If not, you can buy in bulk over the next few weeks, and store foods at home to eat in the cold months. For many people, this turns out to be easier than anticipated. It may, however, require shifting your mindset about how and when you shop, how much food you keep in the house, and what you consider "fresh." Remember, until very recently, nearly everyone "put food by." We can too! Do you have a favorite food preservation practice, recipe, or book? We'd love to hear it! Until next time, take good care, and eat well. Erin Erin Barnett Director LocalHarvest Friday, Sept. 30, 2011: I am excited to inform you, blogiary, blog diary, that I have incorporated an exercise element to my Nutrition Blog & made a vow of exercise for a month to study Internal Exercises in preparation for Qigong Teachings of a Taoist Immortal. I started with a simple morning internal exercise after a short toe curl exercise to get the blood & circulation flowing, stretched arm, legs, back. I turned over & in four legged position moved my torso toward my toes 7 times. This is all from The Complete System of Self-Healing by Dr. Stephen Chang, in white. I performed most of the Twelve Zodiac Exercises & all but one of the Twelve Directional Exercises. I also did the Healing Sounds for the various organs. In conclusion, I felt really energetic, could play tennis for longer than usual & am working on being up 18 1/2 hrs straight.

Further reading (links):

added 7/28/11: http://www.acupunctureandherbalmedicine.com/blog.php

http://leungschineseherbnews.blogspot.com/2007/03/forsythia.html
http://www.nccaom.org/

http://eastasianwellness.wordpress.com/education/

http://www.chinesemedicinecenter.com/resume.asp

http://www.bluemorphotours.com/index.php?Itemid=76&option=com_community&view=frontpage

http://pectusblog.com/2009/11/informational-video-on-youtube/

http://www.chengdu.gov.cn/echengdu/index/indexnew.jsp

http://www.naturalhealth-supplements.com/spermatorrhea-nightfall-cure.htm
http://www.taosacu.com/
http://www.coffeeam.com/etyir.html
http://www.bouncingbearbotanicals.com/mapacho-tobacco-logs-p-210.html
http://www.ayahuasca.com/news/a-theory-on-the-reason-oil-still-flows-into-the-gulf-of-mexico/
http://www.danreid.org/
http://laowaichinese.net/
https://studentaid2.ed.gov/getmoney/scholarship/scholarship_search_select.asp?13817/
http://www.woninstitute.edu/index.php?page=directions

Excerpt from the Tao of Health Sex & Longevity

"A glaring example of the failure of the Western approach to health and disease is the so-called 'war on cancer' in America, where this deadly disease flourishes more than anywhere else on earth. Over the past 35 years, the National Cancer Institute has spent more than $20 billion researching a cure for cancer, while suppressing all homeopathic and preventative approaches to the disease. Since 1962, the number of cancer deaths per 100,000 people in America has risen from 170 to 185, and in 1986 close to 1 million new cases of cancer were reported. Yet whenever someone suggests that a raw-food diet or a natural product like 'laetrile' (Vitamin B17) or deep breathing, or some other tried-and-true measure might cure and help prevent the occurrence of cancer, the NCI is the first to launch legal proceedings to suppress it."