Category: Herbal Healing

Cleansing & Flushing, Herbal Healing, My Opinion

Understanding Bowel Cleansing

Dara Dietz
Bowel Cleansing

So much can be said for the benefits of bowel cleansing.  One of the biggest reasons I hear for not doing a good cleanse is fear of losing control.  This has never been an issue when using the LBF #1 & the LBF #2.  With a good understanding of how these two formulas work you will be in complete control of your bowels.

The LBF #1 increases the output of waste by stimulating the peristaltic waves in the bowel.  This formula does not work on the content of the bowel but goes to the bowel structure supporting the function of waste removal.  When the chemistry in these herbs comes in contact with the bowel wall they cause the squeezing, kneading motion of the peristaltic waves to work more effectively.

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There are those who say a body can become addicted to the herbal laxatives.  I have always understood an addiction to be a negative action causing a debilitation to the area affected.  In the case of these herbal supports they are actually strengthening the bowel over time.  As the herbs affect the muscles to contract with greater strength the muscular tone of the bowel become stronger. Over time the peristaltic action will work effectively without the use of the herbs.  Many who have used these herbal supports have, after several years, strengthened their bowels to the place where they no longer need to use the LBF#1.  Their bowels inability to properly remove waste has been cleared.  This is not the action of an addictive substance.  The need for the LBF #1 will go down over time, not increase.

The LBF #2 is a bowel vacuum.  This formula has the bentonite clay and charcoal, powerful drawing herbs.  It also is binding, which makes it an excellent herbal support for any issues that result in loose bowels.

A rounded teaspoon of the LBF #2 powder shaken in six ounces of water or juice will quickly clear an issue of loose stool.  It will also do wonders when the lower bowel is crampy and uncomfortable.

When the bowels have turned to water a good dose would be one tablespoonful of the powder shaken in twelve to sixteen ounces of water or juice.  This can be done for each watery movement.  Except for the worst cases of food poisoning it will normally solidified the bowel in only one or two doses.

Bowel Cleansing Program

Food Poisoning

The worst instance I ever cleared was a case of food poisoning where the woman passed water from her bowels every hour or so all night long.  We went through nearly a whole eight ounce jar of the LBF #2 that night.  At one point she took two heaping tablespoons of the stuff in twenty ounces of water.  Around five in the morning she finally passed solid waste.  The bowel was back to normal.   There was no after effect from using such large amounts of the LBF #2.  Her bowels just normalized, she did not even need an extra dose of the LBF #1.

Doing the Bowel Cleanse

When using these formulas in a bowel cleanse you are in complete control.  Take one of the LBF #1 capsules with your dinner the first night.  The next morning if you don’t have a, “WOW,” bowel movement, take two capsules with dinner that evening.  Continue to increase by one capsule each day until your bowels are open and working well.

That first evening you might want to do a castor oil pack over your bowel.  This will soften up harden waste clinging to the walls of your bowel, allowing the peristaltic waves to flush the bowels more effectively.

Once the bowels are moving well it is time to take an extra capsule or two of the LBF #1 with your regular dose.  It is time to begin using the LBF #2 or bowel vacuum.  This formula is binding to the bowels so it is necessary to increase the amount of LBF #1 capsules to compensate for this effect.

This is where understanding these two formulas are the control you need to do an effective cleansing without undue stress or discomfort.    Here it is:

The LBF #1 will make the bowels move.  This formula will cause the muscular movement of the bowel wall to work more effectively.

The LBF #2 binds up the bowels.  This formula will slow down the muscular movement and solidify the contents of the bowel.

There you have it.  If the bowels are backed up, not moving well, take an extra LBF #1 Capsules.  If your bowels are over active and crampy take a heaping teaspoon of the LBF #2 to bind up the problem.  The LBF #2 will work in minutes to clear an uncomfortable bowel.

At dinner time each day count out the number of LBF #1 you need to use.  If you bowel were too active that day drop a capsule, if they were a bit sluggish add one.  You are in control.

Cleansing & Flushing, Herbal Healing, My Opinion

Thought on Bowel Cleansing

Dara Dietz
Dara Dietz

As humans most of us have little understanding beyond what we have experienced and feel is normal.   I believed it was normal and healthy to have only one bowel movement each morning.  This is how it had always been for me.  The healing journey I had begun that year was going to teach me many things I did not even know to question.  The Father and I were to take this journey together joined from time to time by other also on this path.  Looking back at the beginning of what is not yet finished, I have been privileged to know so many who have shared freely with me from their own experience.

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My First Bowel Cleansing

My introduction to Bowel Cleansing and the LBF #1’s was pretty normal.  My bottle of Capsules arrived with detailed instructions from my friend who had introduced me to all things natural healing.  As I unloaded the box I put all the items away one at a time.  She had sent Superfood, the #2 formula, Echinacea extract and the LBF #1’s.  I quickly started the Superfood and Echinacea but never touched the Bowel Cleansing products.  Two weeks later when it was time to begin the liver cleanse I still had not taken my first #1 capsule.  Why?  I figured my bowels were doing just fine and the bowel cleanse was optional.  Wrong!

I’d been walking around for years with a roll of poop setting right under my bust line.  I looked five months pregnant.  Of course I didn’t know that roll around my middle was a stuffed bowel.

Two weeks after receiving my package I was scheduled to fly to my friend’s clinic for a month’s stay.  When I arrived she wisely started me on the bowel cleanse routine.   Fourteen days into the program and my bowels were still not working well.  The thirteen capsules I swallowed each night had started something moving but it was not enough to clear thirty eight years of constipation.  My friend arrived in my room that evening with a castor oil pack.  She placed it over my colon, covered it with a towel and said good night.

The next morning I could not believe how much poop was still in me after fourteen days of juice fasting and an enema in the morning and evening.   Under my breast I had been carrying a roll for years, now half the roll was gone.  That’s right; half my stomach was flat the other half looked five months pregnant.  Another castor oil pack was placed over my colon again that night with similar results the next morning.  My stomach was now flat.  The roll I had assumed was fat all those years was my colon filled with poop.

Staying open and willing to be taught can be the hardest part of healing.  All the answers do not lie within us, we must be willing to continue to learn and grow.  As long as there is life there is learning to be done.

Cleansing & Flushing, Herbal Healing, My Opinion, Weight Loss

A Summary of My 2012

Dara Dietz

December 31, 2011 I began what I hoped would be a sixty day juice fast. I had been inspired to do this after watching the movie, “Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead”.  The juice fast was going very well; I had made it to day 37 and had lost a total of 46 pounds.   My energy was through the roof, I felt emotionally great, everything was looking up, I was sure I could do the whole 60 days.  Day thirty seven was a Sunday, my regular massage day.  Neither Darlene nor I thought to question the wisdom of a massage while doing such an intense juice fast.  The next morning I was feeling quite sick. My kidneys were kicking me hard for way too much abuse.  The weight loss had been all they could handle now with the added toxins needing to be processed from the massage they were over whelmed and I was in a world of hurt.

Monday & Tuesday I drank the kidney flush drinks and supported my kidneys with the herbals they liked the most.  Tuesday afternoon I went to bed and was out for several hours.  I woke up around 9 pm to find my husband working on his computer in the lounge next to our bed.  I struggled to the bathroom and then back to the bed where I slept until 2 am.  I woke needing to make a fast run for the bathroom, it was all good.  My kidneys no longer hurt, I felt all better.

Wednesday and Thursday I felt great.  Friday I woke up with thick green puss coming out my eyes and nose.  My vocal cords were so coated with the stuff I could not make a sound.  My head was full of that sticky green stuff.  It took several weeks and a couple of ELF’s to clear the worst of my symptoms.  Even so I was weak as a kitten.  The day before my crash I had easily done two miles on my treadmill.  Over the next few months I continued to be very weak, I could not go more than a quarter mile on the treadmill without my knees buckling and feeling totally exhausted.

I kept expecting to begin feeling better but as the months slipped by my condition was growing worse.  I regained all the weight I’d lost plus a few pounds.  Motivation for doing a healing program with lacking, the idea of exerting myself in any direction required extreme effort.  Whatever had infected me in February still had a hold in my system.  December arrived and I was determined to do something to help myself feel better so I decided to begin by going on a raw food program.  I lasted for a couple of weeks before modifying to a low carb mostly raw food program.   Simply put I cut out all bread, pasta’s, and processed foods.  I also started doing an ELF once a week.

With only those few minor changes I started feeling a bit better.  My energy was moving up the scale.  Then in January a friend needed help with his incurables program.  We all decided it would be a great idea for him to stay here and do it with me.  I needed the support and he needed someone to show him how it was done.

Last week we did our first week of Liver Flushing and juice fasting.  We were not perfect.  I’m sure we will get a good rhythm to our day as we continue on the program.  This week it is Kidney Flushing and we are eating raw.  Finding time for all our drinks and programs is the real challenge.

The year that began with such promise floundered in the middle but ended on an upswing.  I learned a lot about myself in 2012.  Discouragement need not destroy; The Lord provides the strength I need to rise above whatever life throws my way.

Cleansing & Flushing, Herbal Healing

Liver flushing

Dara Dietz

When you can smack your lips over a glass of apple juice and olive oil with a little garlic and ginger thrown in for good measure, you must be doing a liver flush.  This week a friend and I are flushing our livers together.  All year I’ve been trying to talk myself into a good cleansing season.  Several months would be great.  Just having someone here who is doing the same work is so encouraging.

My tail has been dragging all year.  I thought it would pass but improvement has not come.  Monday morning we began and managed to do one flush and juice all day.  Trying to stay on schedule has been the real challenge.  Today we have done two flushes and juiced all day.  Tomorrow I want to do all three.  The problem is there are not enough hours in the day to do it all.

How do I feel on day number three?  Tired, though my head feels clear, I managed to do some work on our much neglected website today.  I have also updated the liver-flushing E-book with the ELF instructions.  All this is creative work I’ve not been up to for the better part of last year.  Good things always come when you clear out the waste.

Onward and forward, it’s time for my Detox Tea!!! And then Superfood, and then a little more juice…..

Cleansing & Flushing, Herbal Healing

ELF Party

Dara Dietz

liver flush drinkSaturday night we had an ELF Party.  Several of us decided to support a friend having serious gallbladder issues.  Over the past year or more he had mistakenly believed the pains in his upper chest and shoulder areas originated from pulled or over used muscles.  Earlier in the week when he shared his story with me I suggested he try the gallbladder attack remedy.  Within minutes he was completely out of pain.

As a retired nurse he understood the varied symptoms a gallbladder attack can have.  Before coming to the “light” he had spent his nursing career in Chemotherapy, mixing and administering all types of poisons.  Mistaking a gallbladder attack for something else is not uncommon.  Anytime you are dealing with abdominal discomfort or discomfort in the chest that arises after eating, it is not hard, with the use two specific herbal combinations, to rule out or in a gallbladder problem.

Bowels Must Be Moving Well

Clearing the pain was only the beginning; he would need to clear his bowels before he could clear the gallbladder with an ELF. He had already tried using the LBF #1 unsuccessfully.  As he progressed with the bowel cleansing program the pain in his chest and shoulders had become worse.  When he could no longer deal with the pain he had been forced to discontinue work on his bowels.   With the aid of the Gallbladder Attack Remedy he swallowed six LBF #1’s without problem.  For the first time in months he slept deeply thought the night not waking until well after 10:00 AM.

Before retiring for the night he had applied a castor oil pack over his bowels.  The Castor oil pack is used externally over the bowel, liver, heart, lungs, or tumors to break up congestion.  The use of a heating pad for an hour or two before bed had encouraged the castor oil into his bowel.  A pack was applied over his colon each night that week making short work of his backed up bowel.

Doing the “Roto-rooter” ELF

Saturday evening he arrived a bit apprehensive with the idea of drinking large amounts of Olive Oil, but empowered with the ability to quickly stop the painful attacks.  He decided to join our ELF Party.  After a bit of discussion he agreed to do the “roto-rooter” version of the ELF, sixteen ounces olive oil mixed in sixteen ounces of citrus juice.

We were ready to begin.  Gloria served us each an ounce of fresh ginger juice and our glasses of oil and citrus juice mix.  The citrus-oil drink is a great chaser for the hot peppery ginger juice.  We hardly knew we were drinking the oil.  As soon as the drinks were down the kitchen timer was set for 45 minutes and we all laid down on our right sides on the living room carpet.

The floor time went quickly; it was fun lying around with friends.  Now it was time to go downstairs and kick back in the loungers with our castor oil packs over the liver and heating pads over the packs while we watch a movie.  Our detox tea continued to prevent upset tummies.  We each drank a good sized glass while we watched our movie.  During a break in the movie we all got up to stretch our legs and moved around a bit.  We quickly discovered walking around made us sick to our stomachs, so we returned back to our loungers to watch another movie before heading to bed.

Our nurse friend did very well all evening.  He had no more discomfort than anyone else, even though he consumed twice as much olive oil.  The next morning he reported another good night’s sleep and everyone reported passing gallstones by noon.

All in all no one was any worse off for having come to our ELF Party.  A good time was had by all.

Food & Nutrition, Herbal Healing, My Opinion

I’m becoming a Raw Foodie!!

Dara Dietz

I’m becoming a Raw Foodie.  Yes, I’ve been holding out on you.  Around the first of December I began a juice fast that evolved into a raw food program.  Many of you will remember the 40 day juice fast I crashed from last February.  The effects of that crash are still plaguing me.  An overall feeling of weakness has settled into my system and a stubborn cough that will not clear.

To recap, last February, on day 37 of what I had planned to be a 60 day juice fast, I received a massage.  Neither Darlene, my massage therapist nor I had any concerns.  A massage on day 37 of a juice fast, I discovered, is a really bad idea.  I had lost 47 pounds which was taxing to my kidneys.  (A weak point in my body). The massage was on Sunday afternoon, by Monday evening the pain in my back was so intense I could hardly walk.  To make a long story short, I used the herbs to support my kidneys enabling them to clear the waste and return to normal function by early Wednesday morning.  The real crash arrived on Friday when I woke up with thick green puss coming out my eyes, nose and mouth.  The stuff coated my vocal cords preventing talk for several days.  The puss seemed to fill my entire body, gumming up my liver, Kidneys and bowel function.

Since February I’ve done several liver flushes and used the herbal tonics in an effort to clear this awful mess from my body.  Some success has been achieved but it has been slow.  Starting in December I decided to do a full out battle to clear this goop from my system once and for all.

Exactly what have I been doing?  The first of December I juice fasted for a week.  After five days of nothing but juices I felt worse.  All the waste was trying to flush out all at once.  I had a headache, felt very weak and could not get enough sleep.   I did an Elf and cleared a lot of the toxic symptoms.  I should have done two or three in a row but didn’t.  Instead I decided to go raw for a while.  My body simply did not want cooked food.

I did nothing but salads for two weeks before I realized I needed a better plan.  Google provided an excellent raw cracker recipe.

Ingredients:

  • 2 cups ground flax seeds
  • 2/3 cup whole flax seeds
  • 1 teaspoon sea salt
  • 2 tablespoons red pepper (chopped very small)
  • 2 tablespoons parsley (chopped very small)
  • 2 teaspoon chili powder (or your favorite savory spice)
  • 2 and 2/3 cups of water
  • 1 and 1/3 cups of sunflower seeds
  • 1/2 cup black sesame seeds (or regular white sesame seeds will do fine)

Directions:

  • Mix everything together in a mixing bowl.
  • Spread batter on parchment paper or a teflex sheet.
  • Remember that the above recipe should make two dehydrator sheets worth of crackers. Spread the batter out evenly. Using the back of a spoon works well.
  • Score the crackers. Use a knife to score the crackers along wherever you want the crackers to separate. This will make them easier to break later on.
  • Start dehydrating the crackers. I generally dehydrate everything at 120 degrees for the first hour, and then reduce the temperature to 105 degrees for the remainder of the cooking time.
  • After 8 hours remove the parchment or teflex sheets and place the crackers directly on the dehydrator tray.
  • Set timer for 12 more hours and finish dehydrating. Some people like their crackers a bit moist. I like them to be very dry. If you plan on keeping them for a few weeks or more in storage, then you must ensure that there is no moisture left.

Hint: A good way to make sure that they are really dry and dehydrated is to pinch them hard. If all of the moisture is gone, you should not be able to feel any movement. If you pinch a cracker and it gives a little, it needs to be dehydrated longer.

 These crackers are great!  You can put nearly anything on them.  Tomato, Avocado, onion, ect… just build up a great cracker.

And so the story continues…. More to come…

Herbal Healing, Skin, Wounds & First Aid

Clearing A Plantar Wart

Dara Dietz

Clearing A Plantar Wart using Garlic & BF&C

Use a petal of garlic fastened over the wart for several day to a week as needed.  When applying the garlic over the wart use a little Vaseline around the edge to protect the healthy skin.

When the garlic has cleared the virus (6-10 days) begin using a BF&C pack made with the BF&C Salve spread on a double layer of Flannel.  Place this over the affected area until the issue has cleared.

Testimony

One member shared how she cleared a very painful wart.  She used the garlic until the skin around the wart had become a bit sore.  She then switched to the BF&C Paste and continued until one afternoon her foot developed an itch.  She reached for a straight edge ruler laying nearby to relieve the itch.  Rubbing the ruler roughly along the bottom of her foot the thick skin that had developed around the wart fell off exposing the new healthy skin beneath.

She has had no more issues with Plantar Warts

What is a Plantar Wart?

A plantar wart is a wart caused by the human papillomavirus occurring on the sole or toes of the foot. Plantar warts are usually self-limiting, but treatment is generally recommended to lessen symptoms (which may include pain), decrease duration, and reduce transmission.

Plantar warts are almost unknown in habitually barefoot cultures and people, this is because walking barefoot for extended periods of time strengthens the skin and keeps it dry and uncompromised as well as wearing off the virus through friction on the soles of the feet, preventing infection. While infection occurs in an estimated 7–10% of the US population, plantar warts tend to affect only 0.29% of people who have never worn shoes.

Food & Nutrition, Herbal Healing

DRUG THERAPY

Dara Dietz

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Drug Therapy

Excerpt from article by Dr. Robbins, Health Through Nutrition

 If you have a headache, the doctor prescribes aspirin. The headache disappears and everyone is happy. No one ever asked the question, “What caused the headache?” Based on the treatment prescribed and the resultant “cure”, we can conclude that the headache was caused by an “aspirin deficiency”.

However, a little research will tell us that aspirin is composed of salicylic acid – an absolute poison to the body, thus an “aspirin deficiency” is out of the question. In fact, any drug on the market, we will find, is composed of chemical toxins, which are poisonous to humans. How then can drugs alleviate symptoms, cure ills, wipe out disease and generally make us feel better if they are poisonous?

To understand how drugs “cure” symptoms, let us look a little deeper into how aspirin takes away a pain.

Did you know that aspirin will relieve any pain in the body, whether it be a headache or a toe ache? The only exception to this is stomach pain. Aspirin will not help stomach pain. Ask the pharmacist how aspirin works, he will tell you that it has some sort of numbing effect over the entire body, so regardless of where the pain is, it is relieved. But isn’t the stomach part of the body? Why doesn’t aspirin take care of stomach pain? He will reply that this is one of the great mysteries of aspirin.

Let’s say you are out on the farm hunting and you get a thorn in your finger. It is quite sore, so you decide to head back to your truck to get some tweezers to take care of the problem. As you pass through the barnyard you step on a nail. Do you still feel the pain of the thorn in your finger; in fact do you even remember it is there? Was it suddenly cured when you stepped on the nail? No, not at all. Then why is the thorn no longer a concern? Simply because your body now has a higher priority – something more life threatening to worry about – the nail in the foot.

Then as you are passing through the barbed wire fence to finally reach your truck, you shoot your toe off with the shotgun (the other foot of course). Are you now aware of the thorn? No. How about the hole in your foot from the rusty nail. I don’t think so. Why not? Once again the body shifted its focus to the most life-threatening situation. There is only x amount of energy in the body. If we create a crisis in one part of the body, energy must be “borrowed” from other parts of the body to cope with the crisis.

Every aspirin (buffered or not) causes a teaspoon worth of bleeding in the stomach.

If you have a headache, which is generally caused by toxic blood from something we’ve eaten which is harmful to us, and you take an aspirin causing internal bleeding, which do you think would be more life threatening? In most cases the internal bleeding. The body must now shift its attention to the higher priority problem (stomach), and the headache disappears. Did the aspirin remove the toxins from the blood stream? Not at all, just created a more life-threatening situation.

If the aspirin does not take away the headache, it simply means that the internal bleeding is not more life threatening than the toxic blood. So now take six aspirin, and a more life threatening situation will take place in the stomach and the headache dissipates.

 Why doesn’t aspirin take care of stomach pain?

If you have stomach pain then your body’s attention is already focused on the stomach. Additional stress there will not force the body to shift its attention elsewhere in the body. Tylenol, however, will alleviate stomach pain because it plays havoc with the liver, causing the body to move its attention from stomach to liver.

Thus all drugs produce symptomatic relief without actually removing the cause.

 

 A drug “cures” your complaint by creating a disease of its own.

If the poison of the drug, whatever drug you want to name, is more life threatening to the body than the symptom for which you took the drug (or the doctor’s prescription for such), then your symptoms will disappear. If the drug is not more life threatening, then it will not produce symptomatic relief and the doctor will prescribe a stronger, more poisonous, more life threatening drug. Now the body will be forced to focus on the drug so that the drug literally doesn’t kill the body. You become symptom free.

Yet the cause of the disease was not eliminated, and true healing did not take place. Since there is no such thing as a drug deficiency, the body simply put the disease process on hold to eliminate the drug. How many children do you know that take antibiotics for infections? The antibiotic stops the symptoms. As soon as the antibiotic is stopped, the infection returns.

It is because the antibiotic does not kill the infection, rather the antibiotic is so toxic to the liver and rest of the body, that the body must wall off, or put on “hold” the infective process to deal with the drug before it kills the body. Once the drug is dealt with, the body will, as soon as it has built up adequate nutrients and energies, resume the cleansing process via the infection. If the taking of the antibiotic was so devitalizing to the body, lowering its frequency, the infection may not return, only a more serious chronic disease at a later date.

One of the great laws of nature is the law of cause and effect.

We do not gain anything without working for it. Diseases are not “caught”, they are earned by not taking care of our bodies. How then can we not stop doing the wrong that made us sick, take a drug and get well? It is the same as the drunk saying, “Sober me up with a pill, but let me keep drinking”. This is Impossible to do. Disease is no exception.

When an anesthetic is administered to knock one out for surgery, the same principle applies. The anesthetic is so poisonous to the body that the body must put itself to sleep to free up the tremendous amount of energy that is used for consciousness. This energy is then utilized to eliminate the toxic anesthetic from the body before it causes death.

Why do you think people are so sick and groggy after surgery? Why do something like 2% of people who undergo surgery die from the anesthetic if it weren’t a poison? Different drugs rob energy from different parts of the body, thus they have various effects or “cure” different symptoms.

The bottom line is that they rob energy from the body and change the body’s priorities to focus on the drug – a more life threatening situation – and the cause is not eliminated. We are actually still sick, just as some must stay on drugs a lifetime to stay symptom free, constantly increasing the dose as they become sicker and sicker. Others are “cured” by the drug and can stop taking it, only to face another more serious disease down the road. If we would just listen to the body when we become ill, and let the illness tell us our symptoms are due to something wrong (wrong diet or life style), and stop doing it, then the illness as well as the need for drugs would be eliminated and a more healthy life would result.

Side-Effects

“Side-effects” which often result when drugs are administered are the body’s effort at eliminating the drug. ie: breaking out in a skin rash – body pushing drug out through skin, getting drowsy – body conserving conscious energy in order to stay alive while eliminating the drug.

The Logic of Drug Therapy

Drug therapy defies all logic when we consider that any drug administered to a healthy person will make him sick, and yet the doctor prescribes these very poisons to a sick person and expects him to get well. How can a body be poisoned back to health?