How to grow your own pharmaceuticals

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Wednesday, August 17, 2005

How to grow your own pharmaceuticals

 

It's very easy to grow powerful medicines that can lower your

cholesterol, protect your heart, reduce your risk of cardiovascular

disease, enhance nervous system function, and protect you from

diabetes and many other chronic diseases. Every plant is a

pharmaceutical factory provided by nature. It's like a multi-million

dollar pharmaceutical laboratory that takes raw materials and converts

them into healing medicines. It does this free of charge, without

asking anything back from you other than a little bit of care, some

water, and some sunlight.

 

If you think about how plants operate, they're quite remarkable

manufacturing engines. They take nutrients out of the soil, carbon

dioxide out of the air, water, and photons from sunlight. Then,

through a complex system of metabolism and photosynthesis, plants

manage to convert those elements into healing phytonutrients,

including vitamins, enzymes, heart-healthy oils, fiber, proteins, and

complex carbohydrates. Plus they produce all of these fantastic

phytochemicals which we're now learning more about in terms of

preventing, and even reversing, chronic diseases such as cancer.

 

Plants give you one more thing, too: the energy of life. This is

another form of nutrition, which I call " vibrational nutrition (see

related ebook on nutrition). " It's something that you can't get from

synthesized pills or manufactured foods. You can only get it from

plants, because it has to do with the energy of living, breathing

organisms.

 

For nearly every chronic disease, there is a plant that can treat it.

Are you battling cancer? Grow yourself some garlic, onions, and

broccoli. Are you battling high cholesterol? Grow and eat some

blueberries. Are you suffering from macular degeneration? You can grow

a wide variety of berries. If you're in the right climate, you can

grow nut trees that provide heart-healthy oils right off the tree. In

fact, regardless of what type of climate you're in, there are plants

as healing medicine that can be grown in your region, whether you're

in the great white north, or the jungles of Central America. Whether

you're in a dry desert climate, the plains, forest, rainforest,

swampland, the icy north, the Rocky Mountains, or the Smoky Mountains,

there are plants you can grow that will help heal you.

 

This is one of the main areas of research on which I'm focusing right

now. I'm working on finding new ways for people to more easily grow

plants that have a healing potential. I'd like to share with you what

I've learned so far, and then invite you to stay in touch, because

there's a lot more good information coming on this subject. One goal I

have is to create or promote some sort of device that can function as

a home pharmaceutical factory, with which people can plant seeds and

basically enjoy a hands-off operation that grows these plants without

requiring much effort on their part.

 

It's quite silly to pay $100 per pill to a pharmaceutical company when

you can grow more effective and safer pharmaceuticals right in your

own home, balcony, or backyard. In fact, the word " pharmaceutical "

means " plant medicine. " The word " pharma " has the same root used in

the word " farming, " of course. So medicines really do have their

origins in plants. It's only through the atrocious politics of

pharmaceutical companies today that people have forgotten the plant

origins of medicine. What I'm hoping to do is help you get back to the

plants, because the plants have the healing characteristics that we need.

 

For widespread adoption, we need something that works without soil.

Soil works great for the outdoors, but if you really want a system

that works for people who don't have yards, soil is obviously not the

way to go. There are now plant growing technologies available that

grow plants far more efficiently with far better yields than with

soil. They aren't necessarily new, although there are some new

technologies emerging in these fields. I'm talking about hydroponics

and aeroponics. Hydroponics has been around for quite a while. It is

the growing of plants in nutrient solutions that have no soil.

Basically, you're exposing the plant roots to liquids containing the

nutrients needed to grow. This is achieved through an ebb-and-flow

hydroponic system, or some other hydroponic configuration.

 

You may be surprised to learn that you can grow plants without soil.

The reality is that the soil is just a medium that holds nutrients for

the plants. So if you get rid of the soil, but still provide the

nutrients to the plant roots, they're going to be just fine. In fact,

you can increase yields through this technique versus growing them in

soil. I've done this myself in many experiments, in which I've planted

the same plants in soil vs. a hydroponic system. I have found much

faster growth and greater yields in a hydroponic system. Hydroponic

systems do require electricity, and they take some effort to learn how

to operate correctly. But they can be very rewarding. They're also far

more portable than growing plants in soil, because it's easier to move

a tray, a timer, and a pump than it is to move 400 lbs of soil.

 

If you want to boost yields beyond those achieved by hydroponic

systems, a better system to use is an aeroponic system. This is what

you see at the Epcot Center in Florida, where hydroponic scientists

are using this technology to grow vertical stands of plants. They

essentially spray the roots with a nutrient solution on timed intervals.

 

Spraying the roots of a plant every 15 minutes with this nutrient

solution has advantages over the hydroponic approach, because you're

able to create even more surface area between the nutrients in your

liquids and the roots of the plant. In my experience, an aeroponic

system produces substantially greater yields than the hydroponic

system. If you think about what's responsible for that increase, you

realize that it's the greater surface area of the smaller droplets of

water being sprayed on the roots.

 

You can purchase home-built aeroponic systems on the internet. None of

them are really elegant, but they work, and they do produce

outstanding plant yields. Right now, I'm growing tomatoes, peppers,

zucchini, herbs, strawberries and even watermelons on aeroponic

systems. Plant growth is very aggressive, although I am having some

challenges getting the tomato plants to fruit (it's probably just a

nutrient oversight on my part, due to my relative inexperience in

plant chemistry).

 

When I'm ready to retire these plants for the season, I'll snap some

photos of the root mass to show you just how effectively aeroponic

growth systems can be. You'll be absolutely amazed at how quickly and

aggressively these plant root networks can grow.

 

The bottom line here is that I believe home-grown plants are going to

make a big comeback in the years ahead, and we're going to see

nutrient-rich varieties of plants (like red carrots with lycopene)

that treat and prevent chronic disease, coupled with new technologies

that allow hands-free cultivation of healing plants. After all, who

needs to build a $100 million drug factory when nature can manufacture

all the medicine you need for the price of a handful of seeds? I say,

let nature build the medicines.

 

Trust in nature, not synthetic drug labs.

 

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