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Saturday, June 29, 2013

Are you a "Lover of Nature" too ?

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Do you see him? The Diaphanous Man!

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On June 17, I posted my take on the astrology of what promised, last week, to be an action-packed adventure:

This week's astrology features Sun/Jupiter, Galactice Center and Summer Solstice: EXPAND TO GREET THE LIGHT!

And yes, the feeling of the entire time was extraordinary.

Notes on this Glorious Summer Solstice Day

At some point during this onrushing glory, I posted, as a sort of aside,  that I was considering the idea of changing the tagline for this blog from "Bridging Above and Below" to "Blending Above and Below," and a day or so later, did change it, by including rather than choosing:  "Bridging/Blending Above and Below."

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I love how Nature Spirits and the Faery Realm continue to reveal themselves more and more through photographs and videos. Here's a Summer Solstice photo taken by Ann Kreilkamp of Exopermaculture, a fellow InDiana resident. (We've agreed to refer to our state as InDiana -- "in the Goddess of the Woods." Love it!) Just wanted to share her photo, as well as the subtle ways these revelations from Nature interweave with the more mundane revelations of whistleblowers. It's all happening right now for those with eyes to see. What do *you* wish to view? What kind of world are *you* inviting and engaging?

We are made of Light and shine it out ....

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Biophotons: The Human Body Emits, Communicates with, and is Made from Light

June 27, 2013 | By

Flickr-light-IncaseSayer Ji, Green Med Info
Waking Times

Increasingly science agrees with the poetry of direct human experience:  we are more than the atoms and molecules that make up our bodies, but beings of light as well. Biophotons are emitted by the human body, can be released through mental intention, and may modulate fundamental processes within cell-to-cell communication and DNA.

Nothing is more amazing than the highly improbable fact that we exist. We often ignore this fact, oblivious to the reality that instead of something there could be nothing at all, i.e. why is there a universe (poignantly aware of itself through us) and not some void completely unconscious of itself?

Consider that from light, air, water, basic minerals within the crust of the earth, and the at least 3 billion year old information contained within the nucleus of one diploid zygote cell, the human body is formed, and within that body a soul capable of at least trying to comprehend its bodily and spiritual origins.

Given the sheer insanity of our existential condition, and bodily incarnation as a whole, and considering that our earthly existence is partially formed from sunlight and requires the continual consumption of condensed sunlight in the form of food, it may not sound so farfetched that our body emits light.

Indeed, the human body emits biophotons, also known as ultraweak photon emissions (UPE), with a visibility 1,000 times lower than the sensitivity of our naked eye. While not visible to us, these particles of light (or waves, depending on how you are measuring them) are part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum (380-780 nm) and are detectable via sophisticated modern instrumentation.[1],[2]

The Physical and "Mental" Eye Emits Light

The eye itself, which is continually exposed to ambient powerful photons that pass through various ocular tissues, emit spontaneous and visible light-induced ultraweak photon emissions.[3] It has even been hypothesized that visible light induces delayed bioluminescence within the exposed eye tissue, providing an explanation for the origin of the negative afterimage.[4]

These light emissions have also been correlated with cerebral energy metabolism and oxidative stress within the mammalian brain.[5] [6] And yet, biophoton emissions are not necessarily epiphenomenal.  Bókkon's hypothesis suggests that photons released from chemical processes within the brain produce biophysical pictures during visual imagery, and a recent study found that when subjects actively imagined light in a very dark environment their intention produced significant increases in ultraweak photo emissions.[7]  This is consistent with an emerging view that biophotons are not solely cellular metabolic by-products, but rather, because biophoton intensity can be considerably higher inside cells than outside, it is possible for the mind to access this energy gradient to create intrinsic biophysical pictures during visual perception and imagery.[8]

Our Cells and DNA Use Biophotons To Store and Communicate Information

Apparently biophotons are used by the cells of many living organisms to communicate, which facilitates energy/information transfer that is several orders of magnitude faster than chemical diffusion. According to a 2010 study, "Cell to cell communication by biophotons have been demonstrated in plants, bacteria, animal neutriophil granulocytes and kidney cells."[9] Researchers were able to demonstrate that "…different spectral light stimulation (infrared, red, yellow, blue, green and white) at one end of the spinal sensory or motor nerve roots resulted in a significant increase in the biophotonic activity at the other end." Researchers interpreted their finding to suggest that "…light stimulation can generate biophotons that conduct along the neural fibers, probably as neural communication signals."

Even when we go down to the molecular level of our genome, DNA can be identified to be a source of biophoton emissions as well. One author proposes that DNA is so biophoton dependent that is has excimer laser-like properties, enabling it to exist in a stable state far from thermal equilibrium at threshold.[10]

Technically speaking a biophoton is an elementary particle or quantum of light of non-thermal origin in the visible and ultraviolet spectrum emitted from a biological system.   They are generally believed to be produced as a result of energy metabolism within our cells, or more formally as a "…by-product of biochemical reactions in which excited molecules are produced from bioenergetic processes that involves active oxygen species,"  [11]

The Body's Circadian Biophoton Output

Because the metabolism of the body changes in a circadian fashion, biophoton emissions also variate along the axis of diurnal time. [12]  Research has mapped out distinct anatomical locations within the body where biophoton emissions are stronger and weaker, depending on the time of the day:

Generally, the fluctuation in photon counts over the body was lower in the morning than in the afternoon. The thorax-abdomen region emitted lowest and most constantly. The upper extremities and the head region emitted most and increasingly over the day. Spectral analysis of low, intermediate and high emission from the superior frontal part of the right leg, the forehead and the palms in the sensitivity range of the photomultiplier showed the major spontaneous emission at 470-570 nm. The central palm area of hand emission showed a larger contribution of the 420-470 nm range in the spectrum of spontaneous emission from the hand in autumn/winter. The spectrum of delayed luminescence from the hand showed major emission in the same range as spontaneous emission.

The researchers concluded that, "The spectral data suggest that measurements might well provide quantitative data on the individual pattern of peroxidative and anti-oxidative processes in vivo."

Meditation and Herbs Affect Biophoton Output

Research has found an oxidative stress-mediated difference in biophoton emission among mediators versus non-meditators. Those who meditate regularly tend to have lower ultra-weak photon emission (UPE, biophoton emission), which is believed to result from the lower level of free radical reactions occurring in their bodies. In one clinical study involving practitioners of transcendental meditation (TM) researchers found:

The lowest UPE intensities were observed in two subjects who regularly meditate. Spectral analysis of human UPE has suggested that ultra-weak emission is probably, at least in part, a reflection of free radical reactions in a living system. It has been documented that various physiologic and biochemical shifts follow the long-term practice of meditation and it is inferred that meditation may impact free radical activity.[13]

Interestingly, an herb well-known for its use in stress reduction (including inducing measurable declines in cortisol), and associated heightened oxidative stress, has been tested clinically in reducing the level of biophotons emitted in human subjects. Known as rhodiola, a study published in 2009 in the journal Phytotherapeutic Research found that those who took the herb for 1 week has a significant decrease in photon emission in comparison with the placebo group.[14]

Human Skin May Capture Energy and Information from Sunlight

Perhaps most extraordinary of all is the possibility that our bodily surface contains cells capable of efficiently trapping the energy and information from ultraviolet radiation. A study published in the Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology in 1993, titled, "Artificial sunlight irradiation induces ultraweak photon emission in human skin fibroblasts," discovered that when light from an artificial sunlight source was applied to fibroblasts from either normal subjects or with the condition xeroderma pigmentosum, characterized by deficient DNA repair mechanisms, it induced far higher emissions of ultraweak photons (10-20 times) in the xeroderma pigmentosum group.  The researchers concluded from this experiment that "These data suggest that xeroderma pigmentosum cells tend to lose the capacity of efficient storage of ultraweak photons, indicating the existence of an efficient intracellular photon trapping system within human cells."[15]  More recent research has also identified measurable differences in biophoton emission between normal and melanoma cells.[16]

In a previous article, Does Skin Pigment Act Like A Natural Solar-Panel, we explored the role of melanin in converting ultraviolet light into metabolic energy:

Melanin is capable of transforming ultraviolet light energy into heat in a process known as "ultrafast internal conversion"; more than 99.9% of the absorbed UV radiation is transformed from potentially genotoxic (DNA-damaging) ultraviolet light into harmless heat.

If melanin can convert light into heat, could it not also transform UV radiation into other biologically/metabolically useful forms of energy? This may not seem so farfetched when one considers that even gamma radiation, which is highly toxic to most forms of life, is a source of sustenance for certain types of fungi and bacteria.

The Body's Biophoton Outputs Are Governed by Solar and Lunar Forces

It appears that modern science is only now coming to recognize the ability of the human body to receive and emit energy and information directly from the light given off from the Sun. [17]

There is also a growing realization that the Sun and Moon affect biophoton emissions through gravitational influences.  Recently, biophoton emissions from wheat seedlings in Germany and Brazil were found to be synchronized transcontinentally according to rhythms associated with the lunisolar tide.[18]  In fact, the lunisolar tidal force, to which the Sun contributes 30 % and the Moon 60 % of the combined gravitational acceleration, has been found to regulate a number of features of plant growth upon Earth.[19]

Intention Is a Living Force of Physiology

Even human intention itself, the so-called ghost in the machine, may have an empirical basis in biophotons.

A recent commentary published in the journal Investigacion clinica titled "Evidence about the power of intention" addressed this connection:

Intention is defined as a directed thought to perform a determined action. Thoughts targeted to an end can affect inanimate objects and practically all living things from unicellular organisms to human beings. The emission of light particles (biophotons) seems to be the mechanism through which an intention produces its effects. All living organisms emit a constant current of photons as a mean to direct instantaneous nonlocal signals from one part of the body to another and to the outside world. Biophotons are stored in the intracellular DNA. When the organism is sick changes in biophotons emissions are produced. Direct intention manifests itself as an electric and magnetic energy producing an ordered flux of photons. Our intentions seem to operate as highly coherent frequencies capable of changing the molecular structure of matter. For the intention to be effective it is necessary to choose the appropriate time. In fact, living beings are mutually synchronized and to the earth and its constant changes of magnetic energy. It has been shown that the energy of thought can also alter the environment. Hypnosis, stigmata phenomena and the placebo effect can also be considered as types of intention, as instructions to the brain during a particular state of consciousness. Cases of spontaneous cures or of remote healing of extremely ill patients represent instances of an exceedingly great intention to control diseases menacing our lives. The intention to heal as well as the beliefs of the sick person on the efficacy of the healing influences promote his healing. In conclusion, studies on thought and consciousness are emerging as fundamental aspects and not as mere epiphenomena that are rapidly leading to a profound change in the paradigms of Biology and Medicine.

So there you have it. Science increasingly agrees with direct human experience: we are more than the atoms and molecules of which we are composed, but beings that emit, communicate with, and are formed from light.

[1] Herbert Schwabl, Herbert Klima. Spontaneous ultraweak photon emission from biological systems and the endogenous light field. Forsch Komplementarmed Klass Naturheilkd. 2005 Apr;12(2):84-9. PMID: 15947466

[2] Hugo J Niggli, Salvatore Tudisco, Giuseppe Privitera, Lee Ann Applegate, Agata Scordino, Franco Musumeci. Laser-ultraviolet-A-induced ultraweak photon emission in mammalian cells. J Biomed Opt. 2005 Mar-Apr;10(2):024006. PMID: 15910080

[3] Chao Wang, István Bókkon, Jiapei Dai, István Antal. Spontaneous and visible light-induced ultraweak photon emission from rat eyes. Brain Res. 2011 Jan 19 ;1369:1-9. Epub 2010 Oct 26. PMID: 21034725

[4] I Bókkon, R L P Vimal, C Wang, J Dai, V Salari, F Grass, I Antal. Visible light induced ocular delayed bioluminescence as a possible origin of negative afterimage. J Photochem Photobiol B. 2011 May 3 ;103(2):192-9. Epub 2011 Mar 23. PMID: 21463953

[5] M Kobayashi, M Takeda, T Sato, Y Yamazaki, K Kaneko, K Ito, H Kato, H Inaba. In vivo imaging of spontaneous ultraweak photon emission from a rat's brain correlated with cerebral energy metabolism and oxidative stress. Neurosci Res. 1999 Jul;34(2):103-13. PMID: 10498336

[6] Y Kataoka, Y Cui, A Yamagata, M Niigaki, T Hirohata, N Oishi, Y Watanabe. Activity-dependent neural tissue oxidation emits intrinsic ultraweak photons. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2001 Jul 27;285(4):1007-11. PMID: 11467852

[7] B T Dotta, K S Saroka, M A Persinger. Increased photon emission from the head while imagining light in the dark is correlated with changes in electroencephalographic power: support for Bókkon's biophoton hypothesis. Neurosci Lett. 2012 Apr 4 ;513(2):151-4. Epub 2012 Feb 17. PMID: 22343311

[8] I Bókkon, V Salari, J A Tuszynski, I Antal. Estimation of the number of biophotons involved in the visual perception of a single-object image: biophoton intensity can be considerably higher inside cells than outside. J Photochem Photobiol B. 2010 Sep 2 ;100(3):160-6. Epub 2010 Jun 10. PMID: 20584615

[9] Yan Sun, Chao Wang, Jiapei Dai. Biophotons as neural communication signals demonstrated by in situ biophoton autography. Photochem Photobiol Sci. 2010 Mar ;9(3):315-22. Epub 2010 Jan 21. PMID: 20221457

[10] F A Popp, W Nagl, K H Li, W Scholz, O Weingärtner, R Wolf. Biophoton emission. New evidence for coherence and DNA as source. Cell Biophys. 1984 Mar;6(1):33-52. PMID: 6204761

[11] Masaki Kobayashi, Daisuke Kikuchi, Hitoshi Okamura. Imaging of ultraweak spontaneous photon emission from human body displaying diurnal rhythm. PLoS One. 2009;4(7):e6256. Epub 2009 Jul 16. PMID: 19606225

[12] Masaki Kobayashi, Daisuke Kikuchi, Hitoshi Okamura. Imaging of ultraweak spontaneous photon emission from human body displaying diurnal rhythm. PLoS One. 2009;4(7):e6256. Epub 2009 Jul 16. PMID: 19606225

[13] Eduard P A Van Wijk, Heike Koch, Saskia Bosman, Roeland Van Wijk. Anatomic characterization of human ultra-weak photon emission in practitioners of transcendental meditation(TM) and control subjects. J Altern Complement Med. 2006 Jan-Feb;12(1):31-8. PMID:16494566

[14] F W G Schutgens, P Neogi, E P A van Wijk, R van Wijk, G Wikman, F A C Wiegant. The influence of adaptogens on ultraweak biophoton emission: a pilot-experiment. Phytother Res. 2009 Aug;23(8):1103-8. PMID: 19170145

[15] H J Niggli. Artificial sunlight irradiation induces ultraweak photon emission in human skin fibroblasts. J Photochem Photobiol B. 1993 May;18(2-3):281-5. PMID: 8350193

[16] Hugo J Niggli, Salvatore Tudisco, Giuseppe Privitera, Lee Ann Applegate, Agata Scordino, Franco Musumeci. Laser-ultraviolet-A-induced ultraweak photon emission in mammalian cells. J Biomed Opt. 2005 Mar-Apr;10(2):024006. PMID: 15910080

[17] Janusz Slawinski. Photon emission from perturbed and dying organisms: biomedical perspectives. Forsch Komplementarmed Klass Naturheilkd. 2005 Apr;12(2):90-5. PMID: 15947467

[18] Cristiano M Gallep, Thiago A Moraes, Samuel R Dos Santos, Peter W Barlow. Coincidence of biophoton emission by wheat seedlings during simultaneous, transcontinental germination tests. Protoplasma. 2013 Jun ;250(3):793-6. Epub 2012 Sep 26. PMID: 23011402

[19] Peter W Barlow, Joachim Fisahn. Lunisolar tidal force and the growth of plant roots, and some other of its effects on plant movements. Ann Bot. 2012 Jul ;110(2):301-18. Epub 2012 Mar 20. PMID: 22437666

About the Author

Sayer Ji is an author, researcher, lecturer, and advisory board member of the National Health Federation.

He founded Greenmedinfo.com in 2008 in order to provide the world an open access, evidence-based resource supporting natural and integrative modalities. It is internationally recognized as the largest and most widely referenced health resource of its kind.

Disclaimer: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of WakingTimes or its staff.



Are you hungry for beauty as well ?

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Hungry for Beauty

June 28, 2013 | By | Reply

Flickr-beauty-jane rahmyCharlotte Whitelock, Guest Writer
Waking Times

We are living in a time of global starvation. According to World Hunger, 13% of the world population are hungry and malnourished. Even more startling, is the global starvation of the soul. People are forced to rummage in the metaphorical rubbish bins of the Matrix, for the next fix, to fill the hole that will never be filled by the system. People are searching for something. Is it love?….beauty? Maybe, if it is only covered by addiction and temptation. How can you search for something when you don't know it exists. Pure love.

To give an analogy: when I finished a detox, my body felt so clean that the thought of eating junk food made me feel ill. But we are surrounded by junk of all kinds, and those temptations can easily reel you back in like a fish on a hook. Before you know it, you are back on the junk train and that crisp vitality seems like a distant memory. It is the same with the world and deep soul love. If are always distracted by addiction, how can you know true love even exists. The system pulls you off course, it wants to control you, it wants you all to itself.


So the energetically malnourished are knocking on all the wrong doors – there is no button on the TV control that says 'Heavens Gate', there is no 'Inner Peace Channel'. Filling the supermarket trolley with coloured packets has become a substitute for nurturing the inner self. But when these doors seem like the only options, what do you do? The obvious spiritual path for most people has become twisted and corrupted at a deep level: Religion, for many people is yet another tangled web, though it can provide a framework of strength for some, if that's what floats your boat. The New Age movement doesn't seem that appealing either, with its elitist vibe. But you don't even have to be 'spiritual', just a true Human Being.

Where I live in the UK, tension is high. You can only squash so many people onto a little island, tow them around by the nose a bit, and rinse them dry (a lot) without them getting a teeny bit antsy. Yet the Human Spirit is a wonderful thing

In spite of everything the system throws at us, nothing can stop a cheerful chap talking to a passing neighbor, from expressing his joy of being alive. Despite working in the belly of the Matrix, nothing will stop the overworked Nurse from rising at 4.00AM to tend to the sick and needy, with a smile. That is a hard thing to do when you live in a country where Summer is merely a slightly warmer version of Winter!

'Spiritual' people are everywhere, if you look for them: People who are alive, connected and breathing, who have a heart and care. Not necessarily sitting in a lotus position chanting, maybe just the little old lady next door who would love you to try her freshly made coconut cake.

Maybe that is the way for the globally starved. The Human Spirit will succeed in the end. It is strong, it can be strangled by the system but people wont keel over altogether. Thankfully there is a new light weaving its way through the world, creating a brighter future. In the meanwhile, look for the beauty in others, what Soren Dreier calls 'The Heart People': "The Heart People are bringing water to the desert people caught in the matrix". Like aid workers, subtly, humbly, softly…one smile at a time. With kind words, caring intent and the fun-loving spirit radiating out from their souls!

Maybe if/when the Matrix crumbles and the distractions are removed, people will turn inwards and look for that deeper love, that was sat in their hearts all along, the internal Wellspring. Without the addictions to feed, maybe that hunger for beauty and thirst for soul love will have a chance to rise up. After all, isn't it that hunger and thirst that drives our journey to wholeness?

Dive through your heart: Feast, drink and be merry!

"You are the truth, the light, the way." Stuart Wilde

About the Author

Charlotte Whitelock is trained in various therapies including Hypnotherapy, Stress Management, Laughter Yoga and Massage. She runs a blog called Blissful Life, which was set up with the intention of helping people to feel good and find a bit of peace and joy in our hectic world. Please visit her blog at www.blissful-blog.com and her main site at www.blissful-life.org.

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Weißdorn

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Weißdorn


Der Weißdorn - Crataegus monogyna -  wächst in Europa, Nordafrika und Westasien.

  
 

Ich werde zu Beginn eine Geschichte über diese edle und zarte Pflanze erzählen:

An einem Tag führten zwei griechische Bauern, die beide Ziegen züchteten, folgendes Gespräch. Fragte der eine den anderen: "Wie kann man eine Ziege so stark und agil machen, wie wir es am Ende des Sommers sind und es gibt hier keine Weide. Wie kann man dieses Wunder vollbringen?"

Antwortete  der andere: - "Nun, ich werde dir ein Geheimnis verraten, siehst du diese Büsche voller Dornen mit einigen kleinen roten Beeren? Suche nach einem dieser Büsche und gib diese Beeren den Ziegen als Futter und das gibt ihnen pralle Hintern. In wenigen Tagen wirst du die Ergebnisse bereits feststellen können."

Es wirkte. Die Ziegen des Nachbars erhielten eine Vitalität, wie er sie noch nie zuvor an ihnen gesehen hatte.


Es mag sein, dass diese Ziegenhirten Ihre Erfahrungen dem Dioscorides zuschrieben, da er ein brillanter Botaniker und berühmter Arzt war, der dies als Rat empfohlen hat, um den Körper zu stärken und verschiedene Krankheiten zu heilen.

Der Name der Pflanze "Crataeugus" kann  gut aus dem Griechischen kommen, denn auf Griechisch  bedeutet bedeutet er "starke Ziegen".

Der Weißdorn wurde schon immer als Medizin geschätzt. Schon im neunzehnten Jahrhundert konnte man wissenschaftlich beweisen, wie wunderbar seine Wirkung auf unsere Gesundheit ist..
Es war nur dieses Mal, dass Gennings und andere amerikanischen Ärzte die kardiotonische Eigenschaften dieses Strauch untersucht haben. Seit dieser Zeit genießt der Weißdorn großes Ansehen als Heilpflanze und ist Teil von zahlreichen pharmazeutischen Rezepten und Anwendungen.

                                                                
Eigenschaften und Indikationen:
Die Blüten und Früchte vom Weißdorn enthalten verschiedene Glykoside flavónicos. Das sind chemisch gesehen Polyphenole, denen eine heilsame Wirkung auf das Herz-Kreislauf-System zugeschrieben wird.

 
 
Kardiotonische Eigenschaften:  Diese sind hauptsächlich zurückzuführen auf die Flavonoide dieser Pflanze, die die Wirkung von Adenosintriphosphat hemmen.
Flavonoide haben eine zersetzende Wirkung auf Adenoseintriphosphat und sind als Enzym eine Quelle der Zellerneuerung einschließlich des Herzmuskels,  steigern die Kontraktionskraft des Herzens und regulieren deren Geschwindigkeit.
 
Aus diesem Grund hat der Weißdorn folgende Indikationen für seine Anwendung:
Herzinsuffizienz, Herzrhythmusstörungen, Angina pectoris. Normalisieren des Blutdruck und als Beruhigungsmittel.

Vorsichtsmaßnahmen:
Bei sehr hohen Dosen (12 oder 15-mal höher als empfohlen), kann Bradykardie  (verminderte Pulsfrequenz) und Atemdepression eintreten.
Empfohlene Dosen erzeugen keine unerwünschte Nebenwirkung.
 
Welche Pflanzenteile können verwendet werden:
Blumen, Blätter und Früchte.

1 - Interne Verwendung:  als Infusion mit 60 g Blüten (etwa vier Esslöffel) pro Liter Wasser. Frische Blumen sind effektiver als getrocknete. Davon sollten 3 bis 4 Tassen täglich getrunken werden.
 
2 - Getrocknet:
Zwar ergibt dies eine geringere Konzentration von Wirkstoffen, sie sind jedoch ebenfalls wirksam, und eine Handvoll dieser getrockneten Pflanzenteile als Infusion/Tee können 3 mal täglich getrunken werden.
 
3 - Trockenextrakt:
empfohlen wird eine Menge von 0,5 bis 1 g dreimal täglich.
 
Quelle: Dr. George D. Pamplona Roger.

Rückversicherer von José Cariano.

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Hawthorn

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Hawthorn


Hawthorn,- Crataegus monogyna - Europe, northwest Africa and western Asia.

                      
 
I'll start by telling a story about this noble and delicate plant:

Talking one day two Greek farmers who also raised goats, asked each other: - How can you have a goat as strong and agile as we are at the end of summer and there is no pasture, how can you effect this miracle?

Replied the other: - Well I'll tell you a secret, you see those bushes full of thorns, with some small and red berries? Looking for one of these bushes and eat berries gives ace your goats. In a few days you will notice the results.

Effectively, the neighbor's goats acquired a vitality as he had never before seen.

It may be that those goatherds were telling your experience to Dioscorides, as it was a brilliant botanist and famous doctor recommended this plan to strengthen the body and to cure various diseases.

The name Crataeugus, may derive from this time because in Greek it means "strong goats".
The Hawthorn always has been appreciated as medicine. It was in the nineteenth century that scientifically proof about their wonderful effects on our health were found.
It was only this time that Gennings and other American doctors who studied the cardiotonic properties of this shrub. These days the Hawthorn enjoys great prestige as a medicinal plant and is part of numerous pharmaceutical preparations.

                                                                 
Properties and indications:
The flowers and fruits of Hawthorn also contain various glycosides flavónicos which chemically are polyphenols which is attributed to its effect on the heart and circulatory system.
 
Cardiotonic:
Its property is mainly attributed to flavonoids which inhibit the action of adenosine triphosphate.
This enzyme is a substance that decomposes serves as a source of energy for cells, including cardiac muscle and produces an increase in the contractile force of the heart and a regularization of her pace.
For this reason, the hawthorn has the following indications:
Heart failure, arrhythmias, angina pectoris. Normalizing blood pressure, sedative.

Precautions:
At very high doses (12 or 15 times higher than recommended), may present bradycardia (decreased pulse rate) and respiratory depression.
Recommended doses do not produce any undesirable side effect.
 
Part used:
Flowers, leaves and fruits.

Internal use:

1 - Infused with 60 g of flowers (about four tablespoons) per liter of water. Fresh flowers are more effective than dry.
To be taken 3 to 4 cups daily.
 
2 - Dried fruit: although there is a lower concentration of active ingredients these are also effective  and may be   taken - a handful of them -  3 times of such amount by day.

3 - Dry extract:
recommended 0.5 to 1 g three times a day.
 
Source: Dr. George D. Pamplona Roger

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AVISOS GERAIS: Sempre que utilizar plantas comestíveis ou medicinais, certifique-se de colher a planta correta, e que a planta esteja saudável e tenha crescido em bom solo. Ou seja: evite plantas próximas a esgotos, lixo, sujeira, etc. Evite plantas com sinais de muitos ataques por insetos ou fungos. Não recomendo o uso de produtos agroquímicos sobre qualquer planta, sejam plantações ou populações selvagens, para qualquer finalidade. Para plantas medicinais comerciais, o uso de agrotóxicos é proibido. Leia atentamente as dicas, recomendações, e receitas. No mundo biológico todo detalhe é importante. Se tiver dificuldade para identificar uma espécie, entre em contato comigo ou algum especialista que conheça (eu não sou capaz de reconhecer qualquer coisa, claro, mas posso indicar alguém que talvez possa resolver seu problema).

Ver mais cuidados em Introdução: http://glossarherbalapotheke.blogspot.pt/search/label/Introdu%C3%A7%C3%A3o

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GENERAL WARNINGS:When using edible or medicinal plants make sure you pick the correct plant, and the plant is healthy and has grown in good soil i.e. avoid plants nearby sewage, garbage, dirt, etc.. Avoid plants with signs of many attacks by insects or fungi. For any purpose it is not recommended to use any plant disposed to agrochemicals whether on plantations or wild populations. For commercial medicinal plants, pesticide use is prohibited. Carefully read the tips, advice and recipes. In the biological world every detail is important. If it is difficult to identify a kind, please contact me or any expert who knows (I'm not able to recognize anything of course but I can indicate someone who might solve your problem).


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Kale: One of the World's Most Important Super Foods (3-Minute Video)

by Solar Bee

Need some ideas for this super nutrient-dense leafy green? Sayer and Tania elaborate on how kale's sulphate content improves vibrancy inside and out: skin, hair and heart. Learn to balance goitrogenic tendencies of raw kale as well as how rubbing your kale can turn it into a delicious flavor-dense slaw.
Learn more by reading Sayer's article: Crouching Garnish, Hidden SuperFood: The Secret Life of Kale http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/crouching-garnish-hidden-superfood-secret-life-kale 
  

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Permaculture and the Sacred: A Conversation with Starhawk




https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zV-MsQYrW0g

Published on: 18/03/2013 
          
Starhawk, contemporary witch, activist, and permaculturist, spoke at HDS on March 7, 2013, about how earth-based spirituality can inform and empower efforts to build sustainable communities and societies.

Starhawk is a founder of Reclaiming, a contemporary Pagan tradition that blends Goddess spirituality and social activism, and of Earth Activist Trainings, which equips people to combine permaculture design with political organizing and spiritual practice. A leading interpreter of feminist Wicca, she is the author of "The Spiral Dance," "The Fifth Sacred Thing," "The Empowerment Manual," and many other books.


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Here's How to Find Out If It's a GMO Product





http://www.nongmoshoppingguide.com/what-is-organic.html

Non-GMO advocate Jeffrey Smith helps you figure out if the products you are buying are genetically modified or not. Few products are labeled so it's hard to tell on your own.
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Why We Must Fight To Label GMOs


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"The Best Result in Relapse Prevention Ever:" Healing Crohn's Disease with Diet:



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AVISOS GERAIS: Sempre que utilizar plantas comestíveis ou medicinais, certifique-se de colher a planta correta, e que a planta esteja saudável e tenha crescido em bom solo. Ou seja: evite plantas próximas a esgotos, lixo, sujeira, etc. Evite plantas com sinais de muitos ataques por insetos ou fungos. Não recomendo o uso de produtos agroquímicos sobre qualquer planta, sejam plantações ou populações selvagens, para qualquer finalidade. Para plantas medicinais comerciais, o uso de agrotóxicos é proibido. Leia atentamente as dicas, recomendações, e receitas. No mundo biológico todo detalhe é importante. Se tiver dificuldade para identificar uma espécie, entre em contato comigo ou algum especialista que conheça (eu não sou capaz de reconhecer qualquer coisa, claro, mas posso indicar alguém que talvez possa resolver seu problema).

Ver mais cuidados em Introdução: http://glossarherbalapotheke.blogspot.pt/search/label/Introdu%C3%A7%C3%A3o

curadora64@gmail.com


GENERAL WARNINGS:When using edible or medicinal plants make sure you pick the correct plant, and the plant is healthy and has grown in good soil i.e. avoid plants nearby sewage, garbage, dirt, etc.. Avoid plants with signs of many attacks by insects or fungi. For any purpose it is not recommended to use any plant disposed to agrochemicals whether on plantations or wild populations. For commercial medicinal plants, pesticide use is prohibited. Carefully read the tips, advice and recipes. In the biological world every detail is important. If it is difficult to identify a kind, please contact me or any expert who knows (I'm not able to recognize anything of course but I can indicate someone who might solve your problem).


Ervas e Curas - O Glossário Herbal Copyright © All Rights Reserved. You may copy and redistribute this stuff so long as you do not alter it in any way, the content remains complete, and you include this copyright notice link:
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