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Member Question:

I was wondering if you could tell me if you carry a Dr. Christopher type formula for helping with tooth enamel and tooth strength.

I was reading elsewhere about this combination…

Dental Formula

• 1 cup – Black Walnut hull, dried and crushed
• 2 tbl – White Oak Bark
• 2 Tbl – Marshmallow Root
• 2 Tbl- Peppermint leaf
• 2 Tbl– Horsetail herb

Would you offer something like this in a combination formula or liquid or even bulk herb form?

HEAL Answer:

I’m not sure where you are getting your information from.  I have done a complete research in Dr. Christopher’s material and not found the formula you are referring to.  I would also have great reservations about putting black walnut directly onto the teeth.  Black walnut is an excellent dye and could likely dye the teeth black if used in direct contact with the teeth.  If it is found of value I would suggest it be taken as an extract in a cup of tea, not applied directly to the teeth.

I cannot even find a place where Dr. Christopher speaks of black walnut even being good for the teeth.  I did find someone on line who claims Dr. Christopher said something but I don’t know this person and since Christopher’s material does not back up what he has said I don’t think this is his formula.

Black walnut is the strongest herb in nature for clearing fungus issues.  As an Anti-fungal it is unsurpassed.  It does contain a high amount of calcium (89%) which would give credence to it being a support for the teeth.  It being such an excellent dye, again I would caution applying it directly over the teeth.  Follow the link for the complete Chemical Composition of Black Walnut.

We do provide Dr. Christopher’s tooth powder.  The only one he has ever written of:

Herbal Tooth Powder:

Oak Bark, Comfrey Root, Horsetail Grass, Lobelia, Cloves, Peppermint. This tooth powder should be used to supplement the Calcium Formula.

This herbal food combination consists of oak bark, oat straw, comfrey root, horsetail grass, lobelia, cloves, peppermint.  This formula is used to help strengthen the gums (bleeding and pyorrhea-type infections of the gums), and assist in tightening loose teeth.  This type tooth powder will brighten the teeth’s luster and make for a healthier mouth.

For severe cases place this powder combination between the lips and gums (up and lower) around entire tooth area and leave on all night, six nights a week (as well as brushing regularly) until improvement is evident.  Then continue on with regular tooth brushing with this herbal food combination.

For additional Support See our Teeth & Gum Information Sheet

The weight loss plateau occurs because your body thinks there is a famine and has slowed down your metabolism in order to conserve calories.

This usually occurs within about a month of starting a weight loss diet, and may reoccur periodically thereafter.

What’s the solution to the weight loss plateau?

SPEED UP your metabolism.

How?

By increasing your activity level.

Boosting your activity level will boost your metabolism and re-start weight loss.

For example, if you exercise for 20 minutes each day, increase this to 25-30 minutes each day, and weight loss should return to normal.

Calorie Intake & Eating Habits

As well as increasing your activity, please check your calorie intake is adequate. Many dieters fail to eat enough. This alone can trigger the weight loss plateau effect. Also, do not go too long without eating. This is not good for your metabolism/metabolic rate. For a woman, 3 hours without food is a reasonable maximum. And always eat breakfast!

Avoid going too long without food. Going without food for long periods can also trigger a weight loss plateau. Ideally eat something (e.g. piece of fruit) every 3 hours (women) or about every 5 hours (men). This reassures your body that food is plentiful and facilitates calorie burning.

Try to be patient. Your weight loss plateau will disappear, I promise. But it typically takes anything between 1-4 weeks.

If you join a healthy weight reduction program, you’ll get tons of support and motivation to overcome your weight loss plateau.

Starting your weight loss program with gusto, losing a few pounds and then finding that your progress has come to a dead stop is a natural and common occurrence for many dieters. This plateau is a result of the body’s constant need to maintain equilibrium.

When you start a new diet or fitness plan, you usually consume fewer calories but also burn more through exercise. ‘Because you’re expending more energy than you take in, your body burns those few calories for energy first, then you begin to burn stored fat quicker than before, when your calorie intake was higher.

However, like a finely tuned machine, your body settles into this new pattern of outgoing and incoming calories and gradually adjusts by burning fewer calories in order to safeguard its reserves. The result? Weight loss slows down as your body tries to retain fat stores so it can use its reserves as sparingly as possible.

It’s at this point that you’ll notice your eating and exercise efforts aren’t producing results and that you can’t seem to shift the weight any more. In order to break through the plateau, you have to do two things: alter your eating habits and change your exercise program in a way that challenges your body.

Start first with your diet. Review the following tips and try to make the changes today.

1. Keep a food diary: If you’ve been following a diet plan for some time, you may be bored and your motivation for staying with it may be fading (after all, what’s an extra Hob Knob now and then?). Keeping a food diary, or a record of what you eat each day, will help you pinpoint situations where you might be indulging more than you realize and help you get back on track.

2. Try again: Many people get trapped in cycles where, amidst their efforts to follow a healthy diet, they stray and can’t seem to get back to a healthy pattern of eating. This is often due to an ‘all or nothing’ way of thinking, whereby dieters feel guilty or angry with themselves for the lapse and then continue eating poorly because of these negative feelings. The first step is to forgive yourself. Look at past patterns and see how unhelpful these emotions are. What you’ve eaten isn’t the problem, but how you’ve reacted to it is. If you’ve fallen off the wagon, remind yourself that no one’s perfect and focus on getting back to your eating plan.

What is a Diuretic?

A diuretic is a medication or chemical that promotes the elimination of fluid in the body. This can lead to an accelerated metabolism that flushes out the fatty deposits that lodge themselves on cells. Diuretics break down fatty deposits into small chunks making it easier for your body to flush these nasty little things out of your system.

Asparagus

Asparagus contains the chemical asparagine. This is an alkaloid that stimulates the kidneys and improves the circulatory process. These alkaloids directly affect the cells and break down fat. It also contains a chemical that helps to remove waste from the body by breaking up the oxalic acid, this acid tends to glue fat to cells, so by breaking the acid up, it helps to reduce fat levels.

Beets

Beets are a strong diuretic that focuses on the liver and kidneys. Beets flush out floating body fats. They have a special iron that cleanses the corpuscles. (Corpuscles are blood cells that can contain fat deposits).  Beets also contain chlorine, which assist the lymphatic system in clearing fat deposits from the body.

Brussel Spouts

This vegetable stimulates the glands, the pancreas especially, which releases hormones that have a cleansing effect on the cells. They also contain minerals that stimulate the kidneys to more quickly release waste.  Which helps to clean out the cells.

Cabbage

This cleanses your body of waste matter because it contains Sulphur and iodine, which helps to cleanse the mucous membrane of the stomach and intestines. Cabbage is a great food if you should have a potbelly or a middle age spread. The diuretic cabbage will help to break up the fat in this area.

Carrots

Carrots contains carotene, a form of Vitamin A, this carotene will start a fat flushing reaction in your system. This reaction will literally wash out fat and waste quickly. The carotene will be transformed into vitamin A in the intestines and this process will create a speed up in your metabolism and cause a reaction in your cells to remove fat deposits.

Celery

Raw celery has a high concentration of Calcium in a ready to use form, so when you eat it, the calcium is sent directly to work. This pure form of calcium will ignite your endocrine system. The hormones in your body will break up the accumulated fat build up. Celery also has a high level of magnesium and iron, which will clean out your system.

Cucumber

Cucumber contains a high Sulphur and silicon content. These minerals work to stimulate the kidneys to wash out uric acid, which is a waste product. With this uric acid being washed out, it stimulates the removal of fat, and loosens the fat from the cells.

Garlic

Garlic has mustard oils and these oils create a cleansing action in the body. They promote a vigorous action of peristalsis, which is muscular contraction, and this will loosen fat and help wash out fats. They can also breakdown clumps of fat. So eat garlic and thin down.

Horseradish

We’ve all seen horseradish, few venture to use it, but it has an amazing effect of dissolving fat in cells (no side effects) and also as a cleansing effect on the body.

Lettuce

Lettuce contains iron and magnesium. These minerals will enter your spleen, your spleen helps your immunity and protects the body from illness. The spleen will use these minerals make them stronger, and send them to the cells and tissues.

It will also help the liver, increase your metabolism, and wash out fatty cells. The darker lettuces have more of the minerals. So add Lettuce to your diet.

Onions

Onions, similar to garlic, have minerals and oils that will help to breakdown fat deposits and speed up your metabolism. Have raw onions every day, it has more power than garlic and with the milder smell, it will make an excellent addition to your diet.

Radishes

Radishes scrub the mucous membrane of the body because it contains high levels of Iron and Magnesium. These minerals actually help to dissolve fat in the cells.

Tomatoes

Tomatoes have high Vitamin C and Citricmalic-oxalic acids. The acid will accelerate the metabolic process. It also helps the kidneys to release more water and helps to wash away fat.

The natural acids with the enzyme-activated minerals prompt the kidneys to filter out large quantities of fatty deposits and then you eliminate them from your system. So add tomatoes to your daily diet and your metabolism will thank you for it.

Supertonic

(Apple Cider Vinegar) Use this diuretic in small quantities.  You can mix a tablespoon full into a glass of water as a refreshing drink or add it with olive oil to your salad as a dressing. It is a powerful diuretic because It is made from apples and the malic acid in apples will create a fat burning process. Another factor with this vinegar is the fermentation process causes the vinegar to have constructive acids that join with alkaline elements and minerals in the body. This produces a cell scrubbing effect. It also contains high levels of potassium, which has an antiseptic quality to that helps to eliminate fat deposits.

Here is a list of foods that will wake up your metabolism and help you flush fat out of your system.

*Remember never mix Fruit and Veggies at the same meal.

Citrus Fruits

Citrus fruits like, oranges, grapefruit, tangerines, lemons, and limes contain high concentrations of Vitamin C (this is also called ascorbic acid). This Vitamin C has a fat burning quality.

Vitamin C reduces the effectiveness of fat. It reduces its content and can liquefy or dilute fat. By diluting the fat, it makes it less effective, and easier to flush out of your system. Vitamin C also works on cholesterol deposits. Vitamin C can help burn out the cholesterol, hence, making it difficult for cholesterol deposits to form in blood vessels.

By adding Citrus Fruits to your daily diet, try every meal and also a snack, you will great increase your metabolism, increase your ability to get rid of fat, and also help you to control your cholesterol levels.

Apples, Berries, Fresh Fruit

Apples contain large amounts of a chemical call pectin. Pectin is found in smaller quantities in the cell walls of most fruits and berries.  Pectin limits the amount of fat your cells can absorb. Putting a natural limitation on the amount of fat your cells can absorb. Once in your system, Pectin has a water binding property. Which means it has the ability to absorb watery substances.  These watery substances in turn bombard the cells encouraging them to release fat deposits.

Add applesauce (it’s loaded with pectin), apples, fresh fruit and berries, to your diet and let the power of pectin pulverize the fat that accumulates on your cells. An apple a day can help keep the fat away.

Garlic Oil

Garlic oil or the juice of garlic has a significant protective quality to cells, which help to reduce fatty deposits. When taken, it brings down the levels of fat. Garlic, garlic oil, or anything with garlic, also has an antibiotic property to it and can be used to cure many ailments. It can be used as an antibiotic; it also destroys bacterial infections, and has the power to reduce fat in your cells dramatically.

A recent question from one of our members was stated as follows:

“Various articles and info sheets on your website include stories about successful herbal healing cases from Dr. Christopher’s practice and suggested remedies for dealing with a specific health problem.  Although the herbal “success stories” are encouraging in terms of motivation for taking an herbal approach to wellness and health care, if the herbs and/or products that are mentioned are not in your product shopping cart how do we take advantage of the information???  The information is purely academic if there is no source for the products that are mentioned.”

At HEAL we are here to support our members in their healing journey’s.  That said over the years we have offered a special formula setting service to members who have asked.  We have never advertised or written about this service in the past because it was not asked for very often.  The details are offered below:

The Special Setting Service:

When a member finds a formula we do not currently produce of special interest we are happy to source the herbs and combine the formula for them.  The Fee for this combining service is $50 in addition to the cost of the dry kit or herbal extract.  Just let us know how much you would like and we will put it together for you.

Our Special Setting & Combining program works something like this:

Special mixing of herbs for the dry kits is as follows:

$50 Special combining Fee, and either:

• $60 for an 8oz Dry kit or
• $120 for a pound of the herb mix

We do not do 4oz kits for the Special Combining program. 

All fees must be paid in advance.  Herbal Combinations will be shipped as soon as formula is finished.  Usually about two weeks.

Special setting of the extracts fees are as follows:

$50 Special combining Fee, and either:

• $210 for a 32oz Bottle of the finished extract
• $420 for a half Gallon of the finished extract
• $630 for a gallon of the finished extract

All fees must be paid in advance.  The Finished Herbal Extract will be shipped when squeezed off and ready to use.  Usually 3 months from date of request. 

Is There a Standard Dose for Herbs?

I don’t know about a standard dose across the board for all herbal extracts but let me try to put them into a couple of categories which might make it a bit easier to determine how to use the different extracts.

In my experience the herbal combinations that create a lot of “die-off” are the ones to be most careful with. “Die-off” explained in a nut shell, what the body must neutralize and dispose of as an infection or disease is being cleared. If the immune system is not able to neutralize (a simple way to put it would be “deal with”) the die-off as the detoxing herbs support the body to clear out an issue then the waste is reabsorbed and the body begins to feel toxic, sore, and sick. When the immune system is able to handle the exiting waste the body will usually feel no ill effects from cleansing.

Immune Boosting

Echinacea is the best immune stimulator available. No healing program should be attempted without regular dosing with Echinacea. There are many immune support herbs in nature but none as powerful as Echinacea.

Detoxing Herbs

Three Categories ought to give us a pretty good rule to go by. First are herbal mixes and herbs intended to detox the body. Never use these without preparing by boosting the immune system & clearing the bowels. When the bowels are open and working well and a good regiment of Echinacea has been established start with a low dose and work up.

A person of 150 pounds might begin with ¼ to ½ tsp every three hours. If this is handled well the dose can be increased if desired. The herbs in this category are powerful detoxing aids and will make the difference between getting well or not, but should always be used with respect.

Pay attention to how you are feeling, if and when you begin to feel toxic it may be necessary to back off for a while allowing the immune system time to catch up and clear out the current load of waste.

Nutritional Healing Combinations

The next set of herbs and herbal combination are the ones that target a sick system or injured area with specific nutrition needed to heal the affected area. An example of this would be our BF&C formula. This formula is packed full of herb that knit a body back together. There is a degree of die-off processing out from the injured or sick area but not like the detox formulas which are system wide in their detoxing effect.

When healing an old injury it may be necessary to “Do an Elf” once or twice a month. The liver is clearing waste and could use a bit of support from time to time.

The herbs in this category can be used to clear an issue and then discontinued or may be something used continually as a nutritional support supplement. Dosage of these herbs would again be based on need. When I fell and tore up my knee I took a dose of BF&C every hour that afternoon. The next day I dropped down the 1 tsp every three hours. My knee healed very well. I was walking without support in just a couple of days.

An example of herbal combinations in this second category would be: Pancreas Support, Prostate Formula, Heart Tonic, ect… as can be seen from the names these are specific formulas for supporting very specific areas. Normally they would be used as an addition to the foundational programs with added periodic detoxing programs for Liver and Kidney support.

Herbs for Life

The third set of herbs and herbal combinations are the ones you will use every day for the rest of your life. They are food for the body. Different people require different food because of lifestyle and or physical make-up. Cayenne is a highly used general herb for daily use. You can read more about Cayenne at our website. This is one of God’s most misunderstood but all the same special gifts to this world. Changease, our Hormonal Food combination would fit here. Single herbs such as Licorice Root, Hawthorne berries, milk thistle seeds, Dandelion root, Red Clover, to name a few are also gifts for life.

The herbs in this category are used once or twice a day, for many becoming a habit for life. I love to start my day with a glass of Apple Cider Vinegar, a little maple syrup and Cayenne. This is a tonic for my kidneys as well as the rest of me. A lot could be said for Apple Cider Vinegar but for starters it is an excellent digestive aid. Superfood also known as the Green Drink would be an example of Herbal Food for life.

1.) Is there a “preferred” way to alternate the Herbal Antibiotic and the Infection Formula tinctures, e.g., alternate every other day or one week with one then one week with the other?

A: When dong your infection work I have found it of great benefit to alternate between the two infection formulas.  When doing the moderate infection program you would take an infection formula every two hours.  Using the two formulas, the Herbal Antibiotic and Infection Formula it is great to switch between the two every other dose, it would look like this: 2 pm take Herbal Antibiotic; 4 pm Infection formula; 6 pm Herbal Antibiotic ect…

When you want to do an extended work with the Infections formulas (meaning both the Herbal Antibiotic & the Infection Formula) there is no problem in continuing to do the infection work for an indefinite period of time.  Continue with this until the system has been cleared of infection.  The Body will not be harmed by the extended use of these healing formulas.  :Infection Information Sheet

2.) In the infection program Echinacea is taken four days a week, but the time frame on the herbal antibiotic is specified only in doses per day but nothing stated about days per week. Is it the same four days as the Echinacea or daily for the entire regimen??

A: The infection formulas are used six days a week.  Remember to always take the Lord’s Day off from your healing programs.

3.) What suggestions do you have for amounts and frequency of taking fresh garlic in addition to the tinctures?  I have the page of your suggestions for how to take it (ways to eat a lot of garlic) but am unclear as to how to determine when and how much.

A: Depending on the degree of infection you are clearing from your system you can use an additional 5 to 10 cloves a day or for serious cases up to 50 or 60 cloves a day.  The extended use of garlic would depend entirely on the extent and severity of the infection being cleared.

4.) Since I also intend to work liver and kidney flushes, would it be best to do those before starting an infection project in case some of the issues are being caused by liver overload?

A: Doing a good ELF at the onset of the infection work is a good idea.  This will ensure the liver is open and able to clear the die-off from the system as it processes out.  Continuing on with a week of liver flushing followed by the Kidney flush will ensure the body is on top of the work you are doing.   Again the amount of extra programs you work will be determined by the extent of infection you are clearing from the body.

5.) I believe my bowel situation is where it needs to be for cleansing as I usually have 2 and sometimes three bowel movements a day as long as I maintain my regular probiotic regimen and normal diet.

A: I have learned from experience never to endorse a liver flush for anyone unless they will do at least one week of complete bowel cleansing with the LBF #1 & #2.  So often we believe our bowels are doing well but because we have never experienced good bowel function we have no idea how poorly they are actually moving the waste out.  Just one week to see how you are REALLY doing is not too much to ask, and will ensure a lot less drama during the liver flush.

It’s a real downer to get everything together, your mind and heart ready to do the hard work and then throw up your flush, or worse, because your bowels are not as open as you had believed.