Category: Heart, Blood & Circulation

The heart is a vital organ, a pump, we cannot live without.  The question now arises how best to maintain the healthy function of the heart.  The Vegan food program has been proven the absolute best for regaining or maintaining healthy heart function.  Vegetables, fruits, beans, nuts, all the good foods created to fuel our bodies.  If all you do is change from an animal based food program to the vegan lifestyle, this one choice alone can significantly reduce your risk for heart disease.

For more on how to do a vegan food program I suggest you watch an excellent DVD titled: “Forks over Knives”.  This will not only provide all the information needed to make this lifestyle change intelligently but there is also an excellent cookbook filled with tasty dishes for the new vegan.

Herbal Supports for a Sick Heart

Heart disease is a serious life threatening condition.   Below is a program for quickly clearing heart blockage while restoring healthy tone and vigor to the heart muscle.

“Juice-fasting is excellent for people with clogged arteries.”

The food program for the first 30 days should be juices only.  Yes, a 30 day juice fast is the quickest way to thin the blood and unblock the heart.  Depending on the severity of the condition the juice fast might need to be extended and or followed by a period of time on a raw food program.  The patient will then need to maintain an ongoing vegetarian food program for the rest of their lives.

In cases of a failing heart the blood must be thinned and the cholesterol level reduced. Juice-fasting is the quickest way to accomplish both objectives, quickly reducing stress on the heart. Juicing takes all the pressure off. Even a full stomach puts pressure on the heart.  You don’t need any more pressure. Juice-fasting is amazing after just two weeks heart patients experience a reduction of blood pressure, reductions of blood cholesterol levels, the blood is thinner and easier to pump, and they have more energy. The person has totally transformed themselves.

Using two to four tablespoons of Superfood three times a day while juice fasting will provide an excellent amount of Alfalfa along with many other basic nutrients needed for rebuilding the health of the body and heart. Dr. Christopher said Alfalfa would clean the arteries.  We know that not only does alfalfa do it, but garlic does it, and so do many herbs and natural routines.

First Response for Heart issues

Any Chest pain or tightness: add 1 tsp. Cayenne & 1 Tablespoon Hawthorne to cup hot water.  Finish entire cup.  (When healing any heart condition it is important to learn to use cayenne as soon as possible.  Start with a small amount and work up to the full 1 tsp. dose.)

Begin Cayenne & Ginger fomentation’s, or Hot & Cold Hydro-Therapy, this will in most cases immediately relieve angina.

NOTE: For those not used to taking Cayenne you may add 1 tsp. cayenne to shot of juice or water.  Get the cayenne down, just shoot for the back of your throat and swallow.  Then sip on the nice tasting hot cup of Hawthorne tea.

If there is still Nausea or discomfort follow the above process with 1 tsp. each Digestive Tonic & LG/AP formula in 2 ounces water or juice.  The Gallbladder likes to join any party going on in the body, this will cool the gallbladder right now.

HEAL’s Heart Tonic

Here is a powerful Heart Formula for today’s heart problems.

Hawthorn berry, Red Clover, Motherwort, Ginger root, Cactus grandifloras, Cayenne pepper

Dosage: Use 1 teaspoon 3 to 8 times daily.

Heart-Kidney Connection

When there is not enough blood going to the kidneys there will be swelling, edema, in the body.  Often this will show in the lower leg area from the calf down.

The use of Cayenne will stimulate the kidneys as well as help to thin the blood.  Often, with congestive heart failure, you don’t even have heart issues, just kidneys that aren’t working.

You need tremendous quantities of fluids to thin the blood. Most doctors use diuretics to get rid of fluid, when what the body actually needs is plenty of fluids to flush the body out. Starving the body of fluids endangers the person.

1. Batmanghelidj, M.D. says, the body hoards water when it is dehydrated. To get rid of the edema, the patients need plenty of fresh water, with 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon of natural salt for each 8 glasses of water drunk. Readers who need more information on this can get Dr. Batmanghelidj’s book, “Your Body’s Many Cries for Water, Get this book!

What to do for severe clogged arteries

Castor Oil Packs

Castor oil will break up congestion in the body and is an excellent aid for dissolving and clearing severely clogged heart arteries.  The castor oil packs should be applied right over the center of the sternum. The best place is about a steering-wheel size castor oil poultice right over the center of your chest.

Fomentation

The use of cayenne and ginger fomentation is extremely beneficial.  Into 2 quarts of water add two heaping tablespoons of cayenne pepper, and two heaping tablespoons of fresh, grated ginger.   Depending on the person’s pilot light, you’ve got to be careful, because the hot tea fomentation can be pretty fiery.  Alternate the fomentation with the castor oil packs over the heart.

Hydro-therapy

The Hot & Cold Hydro-therapy right over the heart is a little stronger routine.

FYI: Dr. Richard Schultz says he used five or six tablespoons of extra hot powdered cayenne pepper a day while healing his heart. 

Cayenne Dosage

A good internal dose of cayenne 200,000 heat unit powder or liquid tincture is three to six teaspoons a day.  The Cayenne and ginger are counter-irritants. They go into the pores, they warm; they bring blood; they move the blood, especially for conditions like congestive heart failure.

Hawthorn is the #1 Heart Food

Suggested Daily Dosage: ½ teaspoon Hawthorn extract every three hours, for serious cases 1 teaspoon every three hours in cup hot water with cayenne 

Hawthorn berries strengthen and protect the heart.   Cayenne supports circulation, movement of the blood through the body.  The hawthorn is more of a food for the heart—but it should not be underestimated. Hawthorne contains chemicals similar to flavonoids which protect the heart muscle from damage and cause the heart to be stronger.

“Hawthorn lets your heart survive on less blood and oxygen, so if you have a severe heart disease, you’re not going to have a heart attack.”

In heart conditions like blocked coronary arteries, angina pectoris, whatever, hawthorn will buy you time.  The enzymes in Hawthorn bind to heart cells allowing the heart to function on less oxygen and blood.  It’s an amazing plant much like milk thistle toward the liver, hawthorn is for the heart; it protects and repairs.

Changes Must Be Made

Don’t expect the herbs to support the heart while you continue to eat, think, and live poorly.  Those who refuse to reform their lifestyle will one day be shocked when they have a heart attack while taking hawthorn.  While these herbs are very powerful, they will not remove the results of continual bad living.  The bottom line is: if you refuse to feed your body correctly, continue smoking cigarettes, nothing is going to keep you alive.

Definition of Blood Pressure: The pressure exerted by blood upon the walls of the arteries, depending upon the force of the heartbeat, the elasticity of the vessel walls, the resistance of the capillary network and the volume and viscosity of the blood.

Causes of High Blood Pressure: There are four main contributing factors to high blood pressure.   Three of these factors are physical the last and fourth is psychological.

1) Issues with high Cholesterol. There is a thickening of the blood from catarrhal and excess glutinous and fibrinous matters loading the circulatory system.

High Cholesterol can also contribute to a clogging of the bowel with putrid body waste, making it necessary to cleanse the excretory systems (Bowel Cleansing) in order to purify the blood.

High blood pressure in many cases works just like low blood pressure. Cholesterol must be eliminated from the system in order to get the blood flowing more freely.

2) A clogging of the body’s filtering system, the Kidneys. The kidneys filter all the blood, there is not bypass the blood must go through these filters.  The veins in the kidneys are about the width of a hair.  Any puss or sediment can cause the heart to have to pump hard to get the blood through the clogged filtering system.

3) Hardening of the Arteries. This is caused when calcium is leached form the walls of the arteries and veins.  Most people understand the body’s need for calcium and the loss caused to the bones but few understand the wealth of calcium which also exists within the walls of the veins and arteries.  When a need arises the body will also pull calcium from this area causing the arteries to become hard and less pliable. The result is a crimping and bending of the arteries instead of the ability to flow and move with the body.  The heart is now trying to push blood through a crimped straw.  Not an easy task.

The conditions mentioned above are brought about by improper diet, insufficient rest and exercise and a lack of vitality within the system.

4) The Fourth and final cause for High Blood pressure is Emotional Stress.  Stress can kill.  It is important to find ways to unplug and relax.

Herbal Aids:

Kelp: It is an arterial cleansing agent and gives tone to the walls of the blood vessels. It is helpful in some cases of arterial tension (high blood pressure). Practitioners believe that it helps to remove deposits from the walls of the arteries and restore their elasticity, thereby lengthening life. Sufferers from low blood pressure can also have this condition normalized with the use of Kelp.

Take Cayenne, working up to a teaspoon three times a day. This increases the power of the heart and corrects the circulation problems.

Garlic in copious amounts will bring down high blood pressure.

Dr. Shook’s, High Blood Pressure Formula: This formula used along with the foundational programs will greatly benefit those working to regulate their blood pressure.  This Formula is not a quick fix to force down the elevated blood pressure.  It is best to continue using whatever medication you are on until your body lets you know you won’t need it any longer.  It will normally take two to three months for the pressure to begin to come down.  When it does the numbers stay down showing there has been a complete clearing of the causes responsible for driving the Blood Pressure up.