Dara Dietz Blog

There is much to be said about the value of a topical herbal application to aid in faster healing.  The use of the herbal extracts as an internal aid for rebuilding a sick or damage system is invaluable but when the use of extracts is added to the topical application of the herbs the body responds very quickly.  The frequent internal use of the herbs keeps the healing nutrition constantly available allowing the body to draw on these nutrients when needed during the day as the healing work continues.  Applying an application of the herbs directly over the injured or affected area will saturate the damaged tissue with the healing herbal combinations allowing an intense work to be affected where most needed.

Topical application can be used for any of the following reasons:

Soft Tissue Injury: The BF&C Salve packed over a soft tissue strain or sprain depending on the degree of injury will quickly clear the issue often overnight.   Apply a good amount of Salve over the affected area, cover with flannel material, then plastic wrap.  Leave in place 6 to 8 hours or overnight.  Repeat if needed.

Tight or spastic muscles: Massage M&L Salve over affected muscles.  Relief is often noted very quickly but can be in as much as five to ten minutes.

Swollen or enlarged lymph nodes: Pack the M&L Salve over affected lymph nodes.  To pack a salve apply a good amount to a double thick piece of Flannel; apply salve side of pack directly over affected area. Hold the pack in place with Press-n-seal, plastic wrap.

Nerve Pain: The General Nervine Salve or the NF Salve will calm the nerves stopping the pain.  Nervine Herbs stop nerve pain.  These Salves are excellent aids for the pain of Shingles, painful tender knees, hands ect. They directly affect the throbbing, spastic nerve, quieting the nerve down so the pain stops.  The awareness of injury is still there but the pain has stopped. This is an excellent tool to calm painful inflamed conditions while not numbing the body.  The use of pain medication which numbs the affected area creates a situation where it is easy to over use the injured part causing more damage and pain.

Whip Lash, Neck Injury: Use the M&L Salve to stop the muscle spasm in the neck then pack with the BF&C Salve to heal the injured, torn, neck tissue.  Treatment can be repeated as needed until the body has mended; often in three to six months.

Remember all these natural healing suggestions are provided with the understanding that the foundational healing programs are being followed.  Good Nutrition, Bowel Cleansing, Boosting the Immune system.  See the Foundational E-Book in our member’s area for more information.

Foot pain can destroy the quality of life, preventing free movement further impeding good circulation throughout the body.  Everyday activities become a trial when every step taken creates pain.  Here today are a few suggestions for naturally clearing foot pain.

Plantar Fasciitis is an inflammation caused by excessive stretching of the plantar fascia. The plantar fascia is a broad band of fibrous tissue which runs along the bottom surface of the foot, attaching at the bottom of the heel bone and extending to the forefoot. Achilles tendonitis causes inflammation and degeneration of the Achilles tendon. The achilles tendon is the large tendon located in the back of the leg that inserts into the heel.  Herbal Remedy: This issue is quickly cleared by applying a BF&C Salve pack over the affected area.  Relief is often found quickly using the BF&C Extract internally and applying a pack of the salve over the affected tendon area.  Leave pack on all night.  Pack can be reapplied and left on during the day if needed.

A heel spur develops as an abnormal growth of the heel bone. Calcium deposits form when the plantar fascia pulls away from the heel area, causing a bony protrusion, or heel spur to develop. Herbal Remedy: Apply BF&C Pack over affected area to dissolve spur. Heel Spurs are often cleared in six to ten days when packs are applied nightly. (The packs can also be applied during the day for faster healing.)

Bunions, Corns, Calluses; are some of the most common foot problems. A bunion is a prominent bump on the inside of the foot around the big toe joint. This bump is actually a bone protruding towards the inside of the foot. Some of the symptoms of bunions include inflammation, swelling, and soreness on the side surface of the big toe.

The Formation of Calluses is caused by an accumulation of dead skin cells that harden and thicken over an area of the foot.

Corns like calluses develop from an accumulation of dead skin cells on the foot, forming thick, hardened areas. They contain a cone-shaped core with a point that can press on a nerve below, causing pain.

Tailor’s Bunion, also known as a Bunionette form on the outside of the foot towards the joint at the little toe. It is a smaller bump that forms due to the little toe moving inwards, towards the big toe.

Herbal Remedy: Bunions, Corns & Calluses are slow to clear usually taking several months of continued herbal support to dissolve and complete clear the lumps & bumps.  Apply BF&C Pack daily over affected area.  In addition use the BF&C extract ½ to 1 tsp. three times a day in cup of hot water or juice.

Toenail fungus infection occur when microscopic fungi gain entry through a small trauma in the nail, then grow and spread in the warm, moist environment inside the socks and shoes. Fungal infections can affect the fingernails as well as the toenails, but toenail fungus is more difficult to treat because toenails grow more slowly. It occurs most often on the big or small toe, but might occur on any toe. Herbal Remedy: Black Walnut Salve and Extract are the most powerful anti-fungal remedies available.  Applying a application of Black walnut over the affected area will aid in clearing even the worst nail fungus infection.  See our Feet Info sheet for more detailed instructions.

Athlete’s foot is a fungal infection that causes red, dry, flaking skin, sometimes accompanied by pain or itching. The condition usually occurs between the toes or on the soles or sides of the feet. In its acute stage, the infected foot exhibits blisters that itch or “weep”. Athlete’s Foot can spread to the toenails, causing chronic fungal infections. Often when a patient thinks the feet are only dry and cracking, Athlete’s Foot is responsible for the problem. Herbal Remedy: Black Walnut Salve and Extract are the most powerful anti-fungal remedies available.  Applying a application of Black walnut over the affected area will aid in clearing even the worst fungus issues.  See our Feet Info sheet for more detailed instructions.

By Dr. John Christopher

Natural food should be eaten in moderation and in simplicity. The fruits are especially good for cleansing the system after your night’s fast during sleep and it will satisfy the need and craving for sweetness. The green herbs of the garden, used fresh and tender in salads and chewed well, will build strength and vitality into the body tissues. The bulbs, roots, and starches in grains will provide fire and heat for the body, but these should be eaten only as needed for the more strenuous physical labors. The sprouted seeds are nourishing tonics to restore the body constitution and in resisting ill health. The nuts of the trees will provide the nutrient “meat” (protein) for man and will season other foods. The culinary herbs will provide variety, flavor, and seasoning as nutritional agents. And in the whole of your daily activities, you must achieve a varied and harmoniously-blended whole: fresh air, sunshine, exercise, work play, song, prayer, reading, meditation, recreation, etc.

FASTING

The “no breakfast” procedure:

So many times you will hear people say, “But breakfast is my main meal; start the day with a big breakfast and you start the day off right.” This “big breakfast” idea is pushed hard by the breakfast-food, egg, milk, and coffee merchants, and some of their advertising plays on emotional fears. But this is so wrong, as better health is found in countries where people have the custom of not eating breakfast, except maybe a warm cup of liquid, and the first meal of the day is eaten at noon. And there are places where the evening meal is the first and only one, as the partaking of food is considered a privilege only after the work has been done and the right to eat is earned. So as you try the “no breakfast” experiment, the first few days may be a little rough, with headaches, light-headedness, grumpiness, etc.  This will only last a few days and you will see great improvement in health. There are many that champion the fast as a cure for anything and everything, or that fruit alone will answer your health problems, or juice therapy alone, or all raw fruits and vegetables. But in your properly-balanced program, some of the food will be raw, while some of it will be steamed, baked or low-heated.

A bodily famine is not required:

Periodic fasting is good to cleanse the body, but a bodily famine is not required as a sacrifice for cleansing. A cross-country runner would be committing suicide to make a grueling competitive twenty or thirty mile run without preparation and so it is with the fast; a person must work up gradually to the longer fasts.

MEAT AND ANIMAL PROTEIN

All animated life can only live in health on vegetation of some type. Some of the birds, animals and men live on the carcasses of other higher animal life, but these carcasses are ones that have received their health and vitality from vegetation. This is second-hand or secondary food that has lost a lot of its value, but it still has some nutrient value in it that can be traced back to the original or primary food source in the vegetation. The bird that eats the insect gets its real food value from the tree, plant or shrub that the insect has fed on, and not from the insect itself.

You are culturally conditioned to believe that meat and milk are an absolute dietary necessity, and you react almost without thought: “Yes, but what about protein? We need the protein so badly, and we will wither up and die without sufficient amounts of it.” And where do most of our people go to get their main source of protein? From the lower animal kingdom, steaks from the carcasses of slaughtered animals. And where does the meat-providing cow obtain its protein? From eating grass. The only value in meat is what the particular animal has received from eating green herbs.

Over the course of the past 6 months or so, I found that using the BBB Mole Salve to naturally remove a rather sizable mole located just above the ear has worked quite well. All that remains is barely some scar tissue and no more large mole! This too continues to heal more and more every day.

More importantly, I found that the process of breaking down the mole tissue, and healing the area was greatly accelerated by using another healing remedy, in conjunction with the Salve. I use a product called Cellfood (which can be found at www.cellfood.com).

Cellfood, in and of itself, has many uses, as it gives the body an oxygen supplement  to heal, inside and out (You can drink it with water as directed as well… I do.). The addition of this to the treatment had amazing results! The Cellfood (full strength – a few drops on a Q-tip) applied, 2x per day, followed (a few minutes later when dry) by the Salve to coat the area, seems to do the job quite well. I noticed that without the Cellfood, the Salve alone on such a large mole might take months or even years to work, at the speed it was progressing. Adding the Cellfood to the treatment caused the process of breaking down and healing the area to be greatly speeded up.

As well, trying to use the Cellfood alone, caused too much drying of the skin and actually slowed the healing progress. Applying the Cellfood, waiting a few minutes, then applying the Salve to maintain the moisture, both in the morning and at night, has worked quickly and without pain, discomfort or even surgery as recommended by conventional doctors. A fantastic combination…(Another Happy Member!!)

The question of alcohol consumption comes up often since so many of our members, including myself, choose not to consume alcohol.  Below is my answer to this concern.

In the Bible we are told that there is a purpose for “everything under the sun” this would include alcohol.  Although alcohol has been an abused substance since the flood it does have properties that have proven extremely useful in the healing arts.  When looking at the value of alcohol for the making and long term storage of medicinal herbs it can been seen there is no other substance under heaven that can do this job.

Alcohol is a “preservant” “extratorant” and “solvent”. When the herbs are added the alcohol dissolves the fibers, extracts the properties and preserves them for hundreds of years just the way God put them together.  When ready to use the extracts the alcohol is easily removed by adding hot water.  The alcohol is evaporated, removed,  from the portion in the cup when hot water of at least 170 degrees is added.
When it is not desirable to consume the alcohol add the dose to be use to any tea cup, then pour boiling water in on top the extract to “shock” the alcohol off.  You will often see a puff of white smoke rising from the cup.  This is the alcohol being removed.  Allow the brew in your cup to cool to a comfortable drinking temperature, add honey if needed and enjoy.