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Brain, Nerves & Sleep, Emotional Healing, Herbal Healing, My Opinion

Emotional flushing

May 30, 2016September 29, 2026 Dara Dietz

Healing hurts also heals the body.

Emotional clearing can be as important to the healing of the body as the clearing of physical toxins. Learning to let go of the past is the first step in the healing journey only you can take. Letting go takes many forms. Learning to truly forgiving yourself and those who have wronged you is one way to begin. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. Holding onto old hurts will eat you up from the inside out, destroying your capacity to receive or give love.

Finishing what you began, freedom from past obligations is also an excellent way to release the past. Deciding to choose something new and better for ourselves requires we make room in our lives for the new. When closing a chapter of your life it must be finished or it will continue to call you back.

Author Reading Preview “Whatever Good May come”

How is this done? What does it look like? Stop for a moment and take a walk with your mind and heart through the chapter of your life you want to finish. What memories or people still call out to you? What promises have been left undone or projects unfinished? With pen and paper make your chapter closing list. Finish what was begun and move on.

Several years ago I discovered Life had played a dirty trick on me. In the process of writing my story I finally found my voice and the emotional strength to confront my violators. Yeah for me! Will not so great, they were all dead. So what does one do with all the words that must go unsaid, and all the questions that will go unanswered in this life?

Maturity has brought with it a wisdom and understanding of the soul capable of the atrocities I endured in my younger years. The bits of wisdom providence saw fit to share with me I have been privileged to pass on. Sharing through the written word and one on one as the opportunity arises has turned the hurts I endured into a healing balm for shattered hearts. The painful past is over, that chapter is closed, and today I stand here, where the Lord has placed me, strong in His strength. The broken girl I was is now a capable woman.

Cleansing & Flushing, Emotional Healing, Herbal Healing, My Opinion

HANDLING THE CLEANSING CRISIS

May 30, 2016September 29, 2026 Dara Dietz

healing crisis Someone recently asked me for a bit of natural healing support for dealing with the all too common detoxing backlash known as “The Cleansing Crisis”.

A cleansing crisis need not drive a frightened first timer to the emergency room. A good understanding of the process and the use of a few herbal supports can quickly clear any uncomfortable detoxing reaction when applied with understanding. Before freaking out “think,” ask the question; “What is really happening?”

I will deal lightly with the most common symptoms below, for a more detailed discussion and explanation of how to handle the issues refer to various articles found in the Lady of Herbs website.

Breaking out in Hives would indicate the liver is unable to process toxins out through normal channels so is using the skin to detox. This is not the best of ideas and can be quickly remedied by doing an ELF once assured the bowels are open and moving well.

Vomiting will occur when the bowels are not open. There are several supports that will aid the body in moving a flush along, calming an upset tummy quickly but they will only work if the bowels are open and waste is moving well. When the bowels are backed up leaving no open avenue for natural removal of the flow of toxins vomiting will occur. Don’t be discouraged, do the necessary work to clear the bowel before continuing onto the more detoxing programs.

Swelling can occur for many reasons. Depending on the issues in the body proper herbal support needs to be in place for any heart or kidney issues before moving into the stronger detoxing programs. The scary painful swelling that occurs when infection is rapidly moving from the lower levels to the upper systems for elimination can appear with sudden intensity. Only the most experienced natural healer would not lose it when facing this crisis. Truthfully it is easily handled and quickly cleared with the Charcoal Flaxseed (infection) poultice applied as needed over the affected area. The body is doing its job perfectly; our job is to support the process of infection removal.

Lose to Watery Bowels again can be the result of waste moving rapidly from the system. This is often not something to be arrested unless the condition persists; in which case dosing with the LBF #2 formula will quickly clear the issue. Use the LBF #2 episodley to tighten the bowels back up. Using a rounded teaspoon in 6 oz of water works well for lose crampy bowels. If the bowels have turned to water use a large tablespoon in 12 oz of water with each episode.

Dizziness also known as Vertigo; Chest pain; in fact any issue dealing with the movement of blood can be cleared instantly with a good dose of Cayenne Tincture. No one hits the floor with a mouth full of Cayenne. Cayenne moves blood quickly clearing any blockage carrying oxygen rich blood to the affected areas.

Constricted breathing, asthmatic conditions will end with the next intake of breath when using Lobelia.

Lobelia is also natural healing first aid for muscle spasms, Charlie horses, cramps ect.. relief is normally found in five to fifteen minutes.

Keep your Cayenne and Lobelia handy when detoxing they work quickly often preventing a bump in the road from becoming a crisis.

Herbal Healing, Herbs & How to Use Them, My Opinion, Skin, Wounds & First Aid

Making an Herbal Salve

May 30, 2016September 29, 2026 Dara Dietz

Making Salve pouring Today let’s put something together for those brave souls willing to advance into salve making. Over the years many of our members have asked for a good set of directions.

The Salves made by HEAL are done by extracting the properties of the herbs into extra virgin olive oil then hardening the oil with a bit of bees wax. The salves can then be used to saturate the area needing support with the herbal nutrients by way of the skin. Drinking a supporting herbal extract in water or juice three to five times a day will work in addition to the salve to aid in clearing the condition.

To begin the process one will need three equal amounts of the herb or herb mix to be extracted into the olive oil. The larger the amounts of herbs the more salve you will be able to make. Three 8 oz portions of herbs will extract into around 70 ounces of the olive oil. The three packs of herbs will be extracted one after the other into the same oil. This is called making a salve to the 7^th powder. When this triple extraction process is completed I don’t believe the oil could hold more nutrients.

Use a dehydrator oven set to 150 degrees.

Mix the first pack of herbs into the amount of oil you will be using. This is the only time you will add oil to the process, be generous but at the same time don’t over dilute the herbs. Depending on the type of herbs in the formula the amount of oil used can be increased or decreased. A good rule of thumb is the use of between 8-9 oz Extra Virgin Olive Oil per 1 oz dry herb or herb mix.

Set pan with oil and herb mix in the oven for three hours at 150 degrees

Remove hot oil mix from oven and strain through wire mesh strainer. Allow the oil to drip from the loose herbs for an hour or so to ensure as much of the oil has been recaptured as possible. Do not use any cloth material when straining out the herbs as it will absorb a large amount of your oil.

Add second herb pack into oil and return to dehydrator over for another 3 hours at 150 degrees.

Remove Hot Oil –Strain out used Herbs—Add Third Pack and return to over for another three hours.

Your oil is now finished. You can use the oil as is or continue on to thicken it into a slave.

Adding the Bees Wax

When adding the Bees Wax you will need the following items:

Bees Wax: The amount used will depend on how much oil is being processed.
Two Cooking Thermometers
Small pot for melting wax
Pot for warming oil
Salve Jars
Turkey baster for transferring the liquid salve to the jars

Pour the nutrient rich oil into large pot and warm to no more than 150 degrees. Ensure this with the cooking thermometer.

Pour an amount of bees wax into small pot and heat until liquid. This will be well over 200 degrees when melted. Allow wax to cool to at least 180 degrees before mixing with the 150 degree, cooler oil or the wax will clump instead of mixing throughout the oil mix.

Start by mixing only a small amount of wax into the oil mixture. Now sprinkle a few drops on a cool surface to see the consistency. You are looking for something a bit firmer than Vaseline. If after the drops have cooled properly they are not quite firm enough then add a bit more wax. Remember adding more is easy, removal when too much has been added is impossible. Take your time with the process.

When the salve consistency is correct here is a tip for quick wax clean up.

Line a storage container with foil and pour any left-over wax from the pot into the storage container. After removing as much of the left over wax as possible from the hot pot add 1 or 2 cups of the oil into the wax pot. Swish the oil around to absorb the residue of the wax from the sides of the pot. Pour oil back. The wax pot should now clean easily with soap and water.

Use your turkey baster to transfer the hot liquid into your salve jars.

Cover jars with clean towel; leave lids off unto completely cooled: Overnight is good.

Label and enjoy. Store in cool room or fridge.

Emotional Healing, My Opinion

‘People-watching’ has changed.

May 30, 2016 Dara Dietz

No-Cell-Phones-at-the-dinner-table-cover No one is with anyone anymore. It used to be fun watching how people interacted together but those days are gone. I was watching a lively group of friends exit the same car each was talking or texting, completely ignoring the society surrounding them. Over and over again it was the same, setting at tables in the restaurant whole families, each member silently tapping away on their cell phones. Everyone seemed to have something to say just not, apparently, to anyone at their table.

What has amazed me is no one appears offended or embarrassed. Ignoring present company would seem to be downright rude or at the least in poor taste, unless all in company share an unspoken agreement. This would seem to be the case.

A single friend beginning a new relationship shared how her date spent the entire evening texting or talking on his cell phone but still expected the rewards of an intimate date. No connection required. Have we stopped showing up even for the fun stuff?

Life is all about showing up. How many of us have stopped showing up. Wherever we are we’re on the cell texting or talking. Life is happening right in front of us but we miss it because we are looking down. We are somewhere else. How boring is it to have someone in your pocket 24\7. There is nothing new to share when you are side by side breathing the same air.

Maybe I’m old fashioned but I remember how much fun it used to be to have a girl’s night out to catch up. We’d share the new stuff in our lives. The words that passed between us were full of life, our facial expressions and tone of voice added depth to our words. During the evening together an emotional connection was made. The warmth of that connection stayed in our hearts long after our visit was over. It’s called making memories.

Emotional Healing, My Opinion

Going Home Again

May 30, 2016 Dara Dietz

It has been some time since I sat down with the intent of writing a new thing, allowing the truth in me about my life to flow. My life has been in flux, many changes and new realizations. Truth can be painful, the truth about myself is much easier to ignore than embrace. What is this truth? Even now as it flows from me the distastefulness of owning this part of me begs leave to be heard.

I’ve been dealing with feelings of depression, anger, and the urgent desire to lash out at… what? Will I ever allow myself to know what is driving me? Must I continue blindly on with all this emotional confusion never knowing why?

Both my parents are now dead. My Father passed a few months ago, my mother nearly 10 years ago. My initial reaction is good riddance to all the badness they created. Watching the lives of my siblings, each one so broken, yet they seem so unaware of the evil done to them. The insidiousness of our parents’ refusal deal with their emotional issues infected each of us. Spending our formative years in constant company with these emotionally sick adults warped our perceptions making what a heathy individual would understand to be atrocious behavior a common place occurrence in our lives. Our children and grandchildren are showing the twisted brokenness of a soul misused and abused. Who has done this to these little ones.

The healing that has come into my life over the past 30 years has not been achieved without cost. The biggest cost has been that of discovering or at least to some degree discovering how deep the rabbit hole of debauchery extends within my family. I’ve also learned a few things about broken people; as long as they are comfortable in their lives, regardless how broken, they will refuse to change or acknowledge their need for change. More often than not the pain of life must become overwhelming before we are driven to our knees or to the office of a qualified counselor.

The loss of the intimate ties of family became necessary as my healing journey has emotionally separated me from the people and environment I grew up in. Conversation topics and daily occurrences that were once common have become unbearably distasteful. Those who have failed to work on themselves no longer fit in my life. They are missed.

There are no easy answers or fitting tripe replies to smooth over these issues. The loss is real. The inability to help is frustrating. The Serenity prayer so many have used seems fitting here but still of no real help. Yes, I accept the thing I cannot change. The wisdom to know the difference came years ago. The only person I can truly affect or change is me. The changes in my life have served to irritate those who refuse to work on themselves while attracting those who have.

So why the depression and anger? My life is good, I’ve been so blessed. The death of my father opened a door to the past allowing a flood of its badness to wash into my life. I’ve been awash in all the “should haves” and “could have’s”. Time to let it all go once again, shut the door, and move on.

My healing Journey continues, part of my healing process was done when I shared my story, Whatever Good May Come. The Book is available as an Audio, Kindle or Paperback copy.

Herbal Healing, Herbs & How to Use Them, My Opinion, Skin, Wounds & First Aid

Using Herbs Topically

May 30, 2016September 29, 2026 Dara Dietz

Taking the best herbal support will avail nothing if the nutrient rich food is unable to travel to and through the affected area. Good Circulation ensures adequate nutrients into the areas needing healing and the removal of waste for disposal through the kidneys and liver. During each cycle through the damaged or sick area the blood drops off the incoming load of nutrients while reloading with wastes up for removal from the system.

Applying nutrient rich salves, poultices, and lotions over an affected area is an excellent way to speed-up the healing process. The purpose of any topical application is to saturate the affected area with the nutrients needed to best affect the sick area. Often the use of hydrotherapy is applied to blast through the blockage enabling the healing herbs to reach the sick or injured area. Hydrotherapy can be enhanced through the topical use of herbal stimulants which encourage the circulation of nutrient and oxygen rich blood through the damaged or sick area.

Fomentation’s have been used for centuries to encourage circulation and the saturation of needed nutrients into an ailing area or body system. H.E.A.L. has found the use of Salves effective while being much less messy or time consuming. In the salve we have a concentration of nutrients which when applied quickly penetrate sending their powerful healing aids deep into the affected area.

A second type of topical application is one that draws infection directly from the body. Depending on the type of poultice used these may be applied hot or at normal room temperature.

Castor oil packs break up congestion in the body. Castor Oil is an excellent aid for breaking up congestion in the Liver or Bowel. It is also useful in dissolving tumorous growths in the body.

Any topical application of herbs will prove more effective when used in conjunction with the internal herbal supports and nutrition. The Bowels must be open and working well, the immune system must be well boosted, and the blood loaded with nutrition from fresh juices and superfoods if the body is to do its part in the healing process.

Emotional Healing, My Opinion

Your Best Will Be Enough

May 30, 2016 Dara Dietz

Alvis I learned today about the death of a lady I used to know. I have not spoken to her since I was in California after the death of my mother. She lived across the street from my childhood home with her six children. She did the best she could with what she had and it was enough. Her children have all done well. They remain a tight knit group. She can rest in peace knowing her best has proved to be enough.

Do the best you can with what you have, and it will be enough. This is all any of us can ever do. We have all made regrettable choices and will likely make a few more before we are done. The only safeguard against the long term shipwreck of life is emotional honesty.

Own your choices, good bad or just dumb, they are all yours. Forgive yourself and be willing to extend to other erring mortals this same consideration. Very few in life are truly evil, most are just ill informed or angry individuals needing our love and pity.

Emotional Honesty is being willing to see all sides of life, not just your own. This is only possible when one is internally grounded. This grounding, for me, has come from knowing the one who loves me most knows me best. Whatever the wind blowing through my life I continue to abide safely because I am loved. No longer tossed from pillar to post I’m grounded to the unmovable rock of ages.

Cleansing & Flushing, Herbal Healing, My Opinion

Liver Flushing- The Preparation

May 30, 2016September 29, 2026 Dara Dietz

liver flush drink Doing anything well requires a bit of groundwork and understanding. Liver flushing is no exception. Understanding what the liver flush is to accomplish and how best to prepare for this work can be as important as the process itself.

Liver Flushing, put very simply, is the process of changing out your internal vacuum cleaner’s bag. The liver is the vacuum cleaner of the entire body. If there is waste needing to be cleared the liver is what will be doing the work. When there is injury or disease the liver is hard at work clearing out the old diseased or injured material while the body is working to heal and rebuild. Massive nutrition along with good steady flushing of the bowels, liver and Kidneys will support the body as it does the innate work of self-healing.

Supporting the Process

The Bowels must be open and working well before any type of liver flushing can be attempted. The problem is many of us think we are doing just fine in this area when in fact our bowels are actually backed up. One bowel movement a day is not enough. A good functioning bowl will move upon rising and after every meal. This is how the body was made to function. The liver is working through the night filling the bowel with waste which begs to be eliminated shortly after rising each morning.

When a meal is consumed the process of chewing and swallowing initiates the peristaltic motion of the intestines and bowels. This symmetrical contraction and relaxation creates a waving motion which moves the food through the digestive tract, the small intestines and colon.

Current Meal: The meal being consumed is moved to the stomach and small intestine where it will be broken down and the nutrients absorbed.

Last Meal: The meal from before is moved from the small intestine to the colon, where absorption of nutrients continues and the excess water is resorbed.

Two Meals Back: The meal from before this one will be eliminated within an hour or so of eating.

Using the Lower Bowel Formula #1 will ensure the bowels are working well. Once you have established good daily movements it is time to begin liver flushing. To ensure the bowels are truly working well The Prune Juice Flush is an excellent one day program for clearing any lingering waste in the bowel.

Food Program

Leading up to the Liver Flushing Program a normal healthy food program can be maintained. Consuming two or three 8 oz glasses of apple juice each day for the preceding five days will aid in softening the waste in the liver. These glasses of apple juice should be consumed alone, between meals. During the week or days of liver flushing the best food program is Juice fasting or Raw food only. (See the liver flushing E-book and Video in Member’s area for details.)

Cleansing & Flushing, Getting Started, Herbal Healing, My Opinion

How to Begin to Cleanse

May 30, 2016September 29, 2026 Dara Dietz

Several articles are available to explain the “why”. Today we are going to unwrap the question: “How” to begin?

The decision has been made; it’s time to do some internal spring cleaning. Everything you need to cleanse the bowels, liver and kidneys is now setting next to the open box on your dining room table. Surveying the bags of tea and brown bottles of extracts it is easy to feel a bit overwhelmed. Where do I begin is the first of many questions you are asking yourself. Today we are going to open the box together as we go through the basic startup of a good cleansing, healing program.

the Incurables Program; An Overview

The Unpacking of the box

Grouping the items together for the flushing programs is a good place to begin.

Foundational Items: Superfood, Echinacea, (Bowel Formulas) LBF #1, LBF #2

Foundational Download

Liver Flush: Detox Tea & Detox Tincture, LP formula, Echinacea

Liverflushing pdf Download

Kidney Flush: Kidney Flush Tea & Kidney Tincture, Cayenne, Echinacea

Kidney flushing Download

Support Formulas: This would be any specific formulas for your personal conditions. Example would be: High Blood Pressure, Female or Male formula, Pancreas Support, ect… These items can be started today. Begin using the dosage we discussed or look up the information sheet on line in the Member’s Area. You can also email if you need and someone will be happy to send you specific information on how to use these formulas.

The Directions: If you do not have the Flushing E-books feel free to download them from the member’s area or email and we will send then as attached pdf files. The flushing E-books contain directions and schedules.

Today: At Dinner time take 1 LBF #1 Capsule. That is it. Very simple, continue with your regular food program while you establish your bowel program.

Day 1: Breakfast is 2 table spoons of Superfood in your fresh juice. Midmorning take a full ounce of Echinacea in a large mug. At dinner time take two LBF # 1 Capsules.

Day 2: Repeat day 1 but take 3 capsules with your dinner. Continue to increase the LBF #1 until your bowels are open and working well.

Day?: Somewhere between day 3 and day 10 most of us find our LBF #1 number, (how many caps we have to use daily to maintain good bowel movement), once you have found your number it is time to begin using the LBF #2. Most of us have to increase the LBF #1 by 2 or 3 caps daily when we begin using the LBF #2. The LBF #2 is a black clay powder formula which moves slowly through the system. It is a bowel vacuum, pulling waste from the walls as it passes along. Follow the directions using 1 rounded teaspoon every three waking hours.

When the bowels are open and working well it is time to begin the liver flushing program.

The five day Liver Flushing program can be done with the degree of intensity desired. Beginning with an E.L.F. (Emergency Liver Flush) is a great way to kick off your week of cleansing. It is always a great idea to end with the E.L.F. on day five. See the video in the member’s area for more details on doing an E.L.F.

Five Day Kidney Flush: After completing the week of Liver Flushing it is time to flush the Kidneys. The Kidney Flush is also a five day program. See E-book for detailed instructions.

Emotional Healing, Herbal Healing, My Opinion, Skin, Wounds & First Aid

The Emergency

May 30, 2016September 29, 2026 Dara Dietz

Senior hands Several years ago I discovered my mother in law passed out across her bed. The year was 1997 and she was in her early 80’s. She’d had several strokes over the past 10 years brought on by high blood pressure. Earlier in the day she had seemed agitated and ill tempered. A fretful disposition would often precede an episode of elevated blood pressure. Fearing she was working herself up to a crisis I’d kept a close eye on her throughout the morning. After lunch her disposition had greatly improved leaving me free to get some work done. Just before dinner I discovered her apparently unconscious, her lips and finger nails were blue tinged while her skin was all but white.

Moving quickly across the floor to her I grabbed the lobelia extract from the dresser and pressed a dropper full into her mouth. Her shallow breathing was detectable as I exchanged the lobelia for the Cayenne extract setting close by. The small amount of liquid lobelia had caused no problem as it was quickly absorbed into her mouth. Within Seconds her body relaxed from the tight fetal position.

The first dropper full of Cayenne had barely had time to absorb into her mouth before her skin color returned. Dropperful number two had just emptied into her mouth when her eyes opened. She moved herself from the bed to her chair where she consumed her normal ½ ounce of cayenne extract followed by a swallow or two of cool water.

She appeared oriented and alert. What would she like to do? We asked. She wanted to go to the emergency room. So we packed her up in the car and headed for the hospital. She continued to talk freely during the 20 minute trip to the hospital. Once there the doctor determined she had stroked over her speech center. They admitted her for observation. The doctor was not impressed with the use of Cayenne and refused to allow her any further dosing of the cayenne.

The next day we arrived during visiting hours to find her unable to form language. She was alert and had things she would have liked to say but could not form the words to speak. She grabbed several time at my purse where she knew I kept a bottle of Cayenne. Since she had been hooked up to a heart monitor it was not possible for me to let her have the extract. The doctor had been very stern that I was not to interfere with any of my herbals.

cayennepepper They released her after 5 or 6 days with aftercare appointments for speech therapy. She had been unable to speak since the morning after she arrived at the hospital, nearly a week.

My daughter and I helped her into the back seat of the car, out of the sight of the nurses and doctors, before pulling the bottle of Cayenne from my purse. She reached out for her dose as I handed it into the back seat. She tossed the cayenne to the back of her mouth, followed by a few sips of water. Within seconds her speech returned perfectly clear. Her first words, “What is wrong with those crazy doctors?” She had no speech issues the rest of her life. She passed in 2003 after a fall in her residence.