The majority of the following information is from

Biotherapeutic Drainage using the Unda Numbers by Dick Thom, DDS, ND.

Thanks Dr. Thom!

Background:

The castor bean (Oleum ricini), also known as Palma Christi, due to its shape and healing properties, is known principally as a cathartic (strong laxative).  A gentler use is absorbed into the lymphatic circulation to provide a soothing, cleansing, and nutritive treatment, which stimulates immune function and tonifies internal organs.

Use:

The castor oil pack has many applications, and has been used in specific cases such as uterine fibroids and ovarian cysts that are non-malignant.  Other conditions which respond well include: headaches, liver disorders, constipation, diarrhea, intestinal disorders, gallbladder inflammation or stones, conditions with poor elimination, night time urinary frequency and inflamed joints and most important, general detoxification.

It is to be used with caution in pregnancy or during menstruation as it may create additional bleeding.

Materials Needed:

Castor oil

36” x 10” white cotton flannel or wool flannel

hot water bottle or heating pad

sheet of plastic (garbage bag OK)

old towel

Procedure:

1. Fold flannel into 2 x 3 thickness to fit over your abdomen.

1. Drizzle approximately  ___ cup of castor oil to the flannel.  Fold flannel in half to saturate.  Unfold and apply to abdomen.  Note: The first couple of weeks you use the pack you will have to apply a tablespoon of oil about every 3-4 days.  Eventually, the pack will be saturated enough that reapplication of oil should only be needed every couple of weeks.  The pack should not be dripping with oil.  As an example, it should have just enough oil to make a slight oil mark on furniture as if you were going to polish it.

1. Lay an old towel out on the surface you will be lying on.  This will prevent STAINING as castor oil stains and you will not be likely to get it out, so be cautious.

1. Lie on your back, with your feet elevated (use of a pillow under your knees and feet works well), placing flannel over entire abdomen, cover with a small sheet of plastic and towel and then place a hot water bottle or heating pad on top.

1. Leave pack on for 45-60 minutes.  This is an excellent time to now practice visualization, mediation or relaxation breathing.  (This involves placing 1 hand on your diaphragm and the other on your lower abdomen.  As you breathe in, force your lower abdomen to swell like a balloon.  With each breath out, practice relaxing your jaw and shoulders.  As you practice more, relax all muscles in your body.  Alternatively to these you may just sleep.  Some people will wear the pack all night using an ace bandage to hold it in place.

1. After finishing you can remove the oil with a solution of 2 tablespoons of baking soda to 1 quart water or often hair conditioner works well.  You can also choose to leave the oil on the skin to be totally absorbed over time.

1. Store the pack in a large zip-lock bag.  Reuse the pack many times, adding more oil as needed to keep the pack saturated.  Replace the pack after it begins to change color (usually after several months).

1. For maximum effectiveness, it is necessary to apply the pack as often as possible.  Try for at least 4 consecutive days per week for at least 4-6 weeks.  Patients who use the pack daily will receive the most beneficial effects.

The “DO ANYWHERE” CASTOR OIL PACK

1. Soak flannel in castor oil until saturated.
2. Apply to abdomen and cover with a piece of plastic.
3. Then wrap abdomen with an old towel so it overlaps at front.
4. Tie this comfortably tight by using 2 ace bandages, on around the ribs and the other around the waist, to keep the pack close to the body.
5. Apply heating pad or hot water bottle to maintain heat.
6. Wrap up in a robe/gown and read or relax for 45 minutes to an hour.
7. Store pack as previously described.
8. Use the pack as often as possible.

Alternatively:

Use a castor oil pack holder that is available from various retail outlets.  It is a “self-contained” unit and eliminates ALL the “mess”.  Once you try it, you will love it.

ALTERNATIVE METHOD

Many patients now apply the castor oil directly to the abdomen without the flannel pack.  You then proceed as before covering with plastic, towel and place a heating pad or hot water bottle.  This is often applied for the entire night and in the morning the castor oil will be totally absorbed through the skin.  Remember to use old sheets on your bed, as the castor oil does stain (which cannot be removed).

While this may be more convenient, it is not as effective as using the flannel pack.

Vaginal Weakness:

A small piece of clean organic cotton flannel can be soaked in castor oil and placed inside the vagina while sleeping.  This can provide relief from vaginal soreness and help with different forms of discharge.

The majority of the following information is from

Biotherapeutic Drainage using the Unda Numbers by Dick Thom, DDS, ND.

Thanks Dr. Thom!

This procedure should be user at the first indication of any congestion in the ears, eyes, sinus, throat, lungs.  It has also be used effectively for headaches and a variety of other conditions.  Try it, you will like it!

The warming socks treatment is best if repeated for as many nights as necessary to improve the condition.  Children love the treatment.  You can put the socks on AFTER the child has gone to bed if you wish.

Procedure:

1. If your feet are cool or cold it is important to warm them first.  This is very important as the treatment will not be as effective and could be harmful.  Warming can be accomplished by soaking in warm water for 5-10 minutes or taking a bath or shower.

1. Next, take a pair of cotton socks and get them wet with cold water.  Be sure to wring the socks out thoroughly.

1. Place the cold wet socks on your feet.  Cover with thick wool socks.  Go to bed.  Avoid getting chilled.

You will find that the wet cotton socks will be dry in the morning.  Many patients report that they sleep much better during the treatment.

Flu season is here.  You will most likely be bombarded with offers for free flu shots, and your doctors recommendations to receive one yourself.  I have included a link to a video on my website about a professor of nursing and her personal experience of what happened to her when she took a flu shot.  She and her doctors believe that she will be permanently disabled from ALS brought on by the flu shot.

For years, my clients have enjoyed protection from the flu using a tried and true method from Europe.  I provide homeopathic flu protection with a homeopathic combination of 10 of the most virulent flu’s that have ever plagued human kind.  These support your immune system in recognizing any flu threat and strengthening your immune system while fighting off the flu so quickly that you will not even realize that you have been exposed.  None of my clients have ever gotten the flu when following the simple regime of taking 1 homeopathic pellet of muco coxsinum 1 time a week.  I usually recommend Monday or Sunday morning.  Families, and businesses a like have enjoyed a flu free fall and winter.  If you would like to protect your loved ones and yourself.  Just give us a call and we will make sure that we take wonderful care of you.

By the way.  The professor with ALS doesn’t know of the work of either Dr. Natasha Campbell-Mc Bride called GAPS or the wonderful work of Dr. Guenot and Dr. Thom who have seen hundreds of their patients completely healed from any of the 90 diagnosed auto immune diseases.  I have taken both of these fabulous doctors programs this year and have become a Certified GAPS® practitioner to better serve you.

This year has been one of the most profound years of my life as far as education and synthesis of my previous work with the new.  I encourage you to look within and see if you are ready to make a deep commitment to the learning how to support your body in providing you vibrant, exuburant health.  Each year you can become not only wiser….but healthier.  It would be my great honor to show you how.  Call and we can set up your private consult and support your unique needs.

Blessings…..Meridian Grace

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About a year ago, I started working with making smoothies with vegetables. I noticed it had a wonderful effect on my skin, joints, brain, energy and waist line. I have lost 20 lbs with out working hard at it. For those of you who know me well, you have heard how it took me over 17 years to rebuild my endocrine system after fanatical, excessive raw food eating, fruitarian diet and 4 times a year water fasting. I have enxtensively studied bio-chemical individualized nutrition and believe in balanced diet . Eating from awareness instead of “isms”, no matter how good they may sound in the book. After years of working with balancing my diet, working with herbs, amino acids, nutrients, bio-therapeutic drainage and homeopathy, I finally had a slender vital body…..and then menopause hit. And on came the 35 dreaded post menopausal pounds that many women suffer. Nothing seemed to help take them away. That’s when my joints started hurting again, just a little, but enough to make me think twice before going hiking, or dancing, and I started having more of those “senior moments.” I have done my best to keep up with the latest research, reading volumes of professional news letters, attending at least 4 professional courses and listening to at least 12 courses on CD per year. I also try everything I deem valuable on myself before I share it with my clients. When I look back on what I have done in the last year that is working, it seems to be a combination of receiving oneness blessings, adding vegetable smoothies to my diet and deepening my meditation and psycho/spiritual wok with some of the principles found in 2 books, Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach and Byron Katie’s work called Loving What Is, using cold lasers, working with principals of restoration of function of glands instead of replacement of hormones cleaning up the electrical and chemical toxicity in my home, using frequency technology and diodes to keep my self and home free of parasites, molds, fungi etc. These and other therapies I joyfully share with my clients.

My next big leap came with adding unusual substances to my vegetable smoothies like avocado pits, These monster seeds contain the single most soluble fiber. Soluble fiber gets the plaque out of the arteries, and this seed along with other key foods have helped 100’s of people to reverse so called irreversible arteriosclerosis. One of the things that we add to a smoothie for arteriosclerosis is the avocado itself. It is high in beta-sitosterol. 433 mg per 100grams of avocado. I have used capsule of this in the past for working with heavy metals and heart disease, and here it is in the delicious avocado…and don’t worry, it won’t put weight on you. It has the type of fats that help you to lose weight. Okra is also very high in soluble fiber and great for the bowel. It is the prime ingredient in a supplement that I have used for years to cleanse the small intestine. Eggplant has the action of absorbing things from the body, especially fats and oils. One of my favorite ways to enjoy it is in babaganoush. Using just 6 stalks of celery each day, you can watch your blood pressure go down. It contains active ingredients called pthalides which helps relax the muscles around the arteries and allow those muscles to dilate. The leaves of the celery are endocrine supporting. To lower homoscysteine and improve the blood, one whole beet and one pomegranate a day. These 2 foods can help cleanse the blood and remove plaque It is the betaine in the beet that helps to cleanse the excess homocysteine and cleanse the blood.

For every illness that plagues man kind there are natural foods and herbs that can greatly assist in the healing process. In the space of this article I couldn’t possibly tell you everything you need to help you specifically. We looked a little at heart disease above. I have smoothies for diabetes, for helping prevent and fight cancer, auto immune diseases, hormone support, anti aging etc. Soon I will be working on DVD’s to address these issues at home with life style change and food. In the rest of the article we can begin to address some of the key concerns and hopefully you will come to see me and we can take your individual needs to heart and find exactly what foods can rock your world.

I have the solution to he problem of how to find the time to eat all these. It’s a 2 or 3 horse power blender. A regular blender just can’t do it. I was just in workshop with Jeff Primack where he challenged us to chew on a bite of apple with the skin, 100 times and then spit it into a glass of water. Our teeth did not break down the skin, yet the skin has numerous phyto-nutrients that we can all benefit from. Most of us do not chew our food 100 times like we would need to get the benefit from the above mentioned beet… and who has that kind of time to eat? The way to get around this is to get a 2 or 3 horsepower blender to do the work for you. In no more than 5 minutes, you can make a filling delicious drink to help heal your health challenges. Even the busiest person can find 5 minutes to make a meal that can greatly benefit the quality of their life. Un like a juicer, these blenders take less than a minute to clean and no more than a minute or 2 to provide you with a form that you can digest and make easy the absorption of the nutrients found in the foods. (Juicers can take more than ½ and hour to make a quart of green juice and 5 minutes just to clean them) Many of the phytochemicals we benefit by are found in the fiber of foods, like the white of citrus, just beneath the peel, the top of the pineapple where the leaves are, (remove the leaves and use the small nub at the top for some of the strongest enzymes known to man), the white filaments in strawberries, raspberries ( extremely high in cancer fighting antioxidants like eligic acid) and great bowel movements are a side benefit of getting all this great fiber. We often remove the skins, and seeds when using a juicer, and unless you are using a very expensive press, a large amount of the vitamins and minerals are discarded with the pulp. This doesn’t happen with the 2 or 3 horse power blender…we get the benefit of all the nutrients from blending. I have been using chunks of ginger and garlic with the skin on, mint, rosemary, basil, cilantro and parsley, stem and all, making my smoothies more nutrient dense than juice while greatly reducing my time expenditure in the kitchen.

At Awakening Health, we can show you how to obtain the most economical 3 horse power blender for your use, and find the specific God given foods and herbs, to create the foundation for your healing, in addition to taking you into our teaching kitchen and showing you how to make these drinks and testing you for sensitivity to all the ingredients in your specific recipes. Of course we will also play detective to uncover the hidden causes of your maladies and support you with healthy life style and the most up to date testing that science has too offer. We won’t throw the baby our with the bathwater. Homeopathy, and nutritional programs will be offered in addition to sensitively exploring emotional components and stress factors. Lets talk, and look at what foods you can add to your life that will create the foundation of your “in kitchen pharmacy.”