Native American Healing Tips

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From the group Balanced Health

 

Native American Healing Tips

 

** A little bit of wisdom handed to me from my grandmother about

native

american shananism**

 

HEALING TIP 1

Natural healing has been used for thousands of years.

 

HEALING TIP 2

Other alternative treatments - acupuncture and ayurveda -

developed in

parallel to Native American healing.

 

HEALING TIP 3

American and South American Indians have given modern society

more than

200 drugs.

 

HEALING TIP 4

The plant osha is a strong antibiotic.

 

HEALING TIP 5

St. John's wort is a natural anti-depressant that outsells

Prozac in

Europe.

 

HEALING TIP 6

Pitch of pinon pine is " nature's own Band-Aid "

 

HEALING TIP 7

Our sauna shares many concepts with the Indian sweat lodge.

 

HEALING TIP 8

Thistle combats the ravages of alcohol and liver damage.

 

HEALING TIP 9

Today's patient-centered approach reflects the holism of Native

healing

practices.

 

HEALING TIP 10

Mixing natural remedies and traditional treatments can be unwise.

One of the main plants we are looking for is osha, which is also

known as

chuchupate. Chuchupate is a very strong healing medicine and a

natural

antibiotic.

Each nation of Indian tribes throughout the country have a species of

ligusticum. They use it for ceremonial, symbolic and ritual use.

However,

ligusticum is also as a strong analgesic for the throat. It has mild

anti-viral properties

Yerba de burro, otherwise known as [willow] thistle, a healing

plant. It's

as tough as the people that drink it. It will clean your blood. It

will heal

your liver. The common cold is a very interesting thing to heal. We

usually

use the very tips and the bark of a willow just to relieve the aches

and

pains of the physical body.

COTA

Cota is a safe herb that Hopi women give their daughters during

pregnancy

This is a common weed growing in the Hopi Reservation, along the

Navaho

Reservation, roadsides in New Mexico, Arizona. It's called thela

sperma

gracilis, that's the scientific name. The common name in Spanish is

called

cota, in Hopi they call it hohoysi, in Navaho they call it chileweh.

It is a

really nice delicious beverage tea. During pregnancy, women have to

be very

careful as to what they ingest and they can't take a lot of herbs.

However,

Cota is a safe plant during pregnancy, and the Hopi women give this

to their

pregnant daughters when they have high blood pressure.

 

GARLIC and SWAMP ROOT

Garlic has been used by Asians for centuries to lower blood

pressure. Swamp

root is a topical antiseptic.

This a plant that we call swamp root or in Spanish they call it

yerba del

manzo. yerba meaning herb; manzo, of the swamp where this plant

grows. Its

scientific name is anemopsis Californica. But it grows in Arizona,

not

abundantly, but in many swampy areas.And this is a root that is used

as an

antiseptic - a topical antiseptic and also internally. You can drink

it as a

tea to soothe the pain of ulcers.

 

MULLEIN and COMFREY

Mullein is good for people with lung congestion; comfrey will help

heal

bruises.Mullein is very, very good for asthmatics and it's also good

for

people with any lung congestion. Comfrey is used as an edible and a

medicinal. Comfrey is one of the plants that will help heal bruises

like

arnica montana and it is also used to clear up bone and digestive

disorders

such as ulcers.

 

EPHEDRA and CEDAR

Ephedra can be a coffee substitute, a bronchial dilator and a blood

purifer;

burning cedar can clear a house of `dark energy.'

In Arizona there are about six varieties of the species ephedra and

there is

a similar plant that grows in China that they call ma huang.

Sometimes it's

called Mormon Tea or Indian Tea. This plant if you brew it up into a

tea

makes a delicious beverage. It's also a bronchial dilator and a

central

nervous system stimulant. You can use it as a substitute for coffee.

It's

good as a remedy for sinuses, congestion, and they've used it

extensively in

the southwest as a blood purifier.

 

CAUTION: The use - and frequent misuse - of ephedra (particularly

as " diet "

or " pep " pills) has become a subject of widespread scrutiny and

controversy.

Many governmental and health agencies have discussed outlawing

ephedra or

regulating it through prescriptions. As there are many known

negative side

effects, please use extreme caution and research this substance

before use.

 

One of the things that my grandmother taught me to use cedar for is

when

somebody that comes to my house that has very dark energy. Burn

cedar to

clear the house.

 

PITCH of PINON PINE

Pinon is `nature's Band-Aid;' it can be applied topically to a cut

or sore.

It can also be a mild expectorant.

Pinon sap cream can be used for diabetics who have a lot of

circulation

problems.This is very antiseptic. You can either take it right off

the trees

or get it on the ground and warm it up and apply it topically if you

have a

cut or an open wound or a sore and it's very, very soothing and

healing and

it acts like a Band-Aid - very antiseptic. You can also take a

little bit of

it and put it in your mouth and just dissolve it between your cheek

and gum

and it acts as a nice mild expectorant.

 

YERBA de BUENA

Yerba de buena can be used in `ear cones' to relieve earache and

makes a

soothing tea.

Ear coning is a centuries old way to relieve earache, to fight

infection,

and remove toxins and wax from inside the ear. Tapered cones of

muslin are

inserted into the ear and lit. The warm, dry smoke draws out excess

fluids

and wax while the vaporized bee's wax and the herbal essence of the

smoke

fight infection in the ear, the sinuses and the lymph drainage

system.

 

ST. JOHN'S WORT

St. John's wort can fight depression and outsells Prozac and other

anti-depressants in Europe.

St. John's Wort is a very common plant and in some places it's even

considered a weed, but it has a nice effect on the central nervous

system

and on actually increasing seratonin in the brain.We can also use

this for

pre-menopausal women and for pre-menstrual syndrome. It seems to

take the

edge off a little bit.

 

ECHINACEA

Echinacea, from the common cone flower, is used for flu symptoms and

for

menstrual cramps.

Echinacea is the beautiful cone flower that can be made into tea.

It's used

for many febrile syndromes probably influenza or the classical flu

symptoms

that people get, colds and those kinds of things. It's been used for

cramps

and menstrual problems and those sorts of things. Also builds the

immune

system

 

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