Lessons from a Dandelion

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I received this email from a friend about a week or two ago and only managed to read through it today. I wished I have read it earlier but it's better late than never. In this article, Dandelion was deem as a weed as the author's parents cursed the presence of the flower in their lawn. Some people will not even hesitate to spray it with weed killer and stop the dandelion from interfering with the perfection of the lawn. However, no matter how hard you tried to get rid of the dandelion in your lawn, they will always be back. True enough, there is much we can learn from the dandelion; its strong staying power teaches us to always fight bravely against all odds and not let our fighting spirits die off.

"I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go." - Abraham Lincoln

 

As I tried to Google for more information about dandelion to share with you, I was further amazed by how useful and beneficial the dandelion is to us both externally and internally. It has other names like Lion's Tooth, Priest's Crown, Pu Gong Ying, Swine's Snout or Dent de Lion. That little weed is actually an incredible source of vitamins and other substances that can be greatly beneficial to your health. Many people still don't realize that the dandelion is even edible, much less are they aware of the amazing benefits this natural herb can have on their health. So the next time round when you see a dandelion sticking out in your lawn, you might want to reconsider your immediate reaction to spray it with weed killer.

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I agree. There is so much healing power in plants. Thought I would

share this man's opinion of dandelions.

 

HOW THE LORD TOLD ME TO CURE CANCER

 

by George Cairns

(This is a reprint of the article in The Northwest Herald)

 

Please save this page as it won't be printed again by me. It may save

your life or the life of a love one or a friend. Anyone may reprint

this if they print it word for word.

 

Every week around 10,000 people die of cancer. Government figures

show the death rate for cancer deaths has not changed in the last 10

years. Chemo and radiation only save around 10% of the people

treated. So this shows our doctors don't have much to work with. As

this article goes on, I will explain how to prepare this plant and

how much to take. There is nothing to buy. For some reason, the Lord

has picked me to carry these words to you. I am only the delivery

boy, and none of this is my idea. I do believe every word I write

here, and I'm living proof it works. The cost of printing is my

thanks to God for giving me back my life and health.

 

A little over three years ago I was about done in with cancer. One

morning as I was waking up and hoping the end would come soon, a

voice came to me and said. " You have to do something about your

prostate cancer. Take the root of the dandelion. Don't expect a

miracle. It took you a long time to get in this condition. " The voice

was gone. I thought the voice was kidding to use the dandelion. When

this voice tells you to do something, you do it. You must do it, like

writing this article. It is the last thing I ever expected to do.

Then I thought he didn't tell me how much to take or how to prepare

it. As soon as you could blink an eye. I knew how much to take, how

to prepare it, and it would take 4 to 6 months to cure me. I also

knew I wasn't to make a penny on it.

 

As soon as I got around that morning, I dug some roots and started to

prepare it. About a week later I started taking it. Three weeks later

the pain in my back and side was gone and my bowels had improved.

Five and one-half months later they could find no cancer problem in

me at all.

 

I then wanted to find someone else to try it, and that was the

biggest problem yet. Nobody seems to want to help. When I told

doctors, they just smiled as if I was nuts. Finally, I was telling a

friend about it and he said he had a friend that was dying of lung

cancer. He had it in both lungs and was bed ridden. They were tapping

his lungs. He had been given 4 to 6 weeks to live. After he had been

on this powder about six weeks, he was up and around doing his chores

and driving his car. He went to his doctor's office, and the doctors

could not believe it. They took him to the hospital and gave him a

CAT scan. They found no cancer lesions in his lungs and said it was a

miracle. I then put an ad in The Northwest Herald offering it free,

and four people said they would try it.

 

Slowly one person told another and it spread. There was a fair amount

of people taking it for different kinds of cancer and several for

other things. For instance, a man lost the use of his immune system

and was told he wouldn't be able to work again for three years, in

six months he is now working ½ days and feeling better. I know this

is not a cure-all. It won't help everyone or all kinds of cancer. I

know it is not a cure for skin cancer and it hasn't had luck with

brain tumors. There is a doctor in Boston, Massachusetts that has

developed a vaccine that is doing great things. This has been

successful with prostate, colon, breast, liver and best of all with

lung cancer. Five people have taken it for lung cancer and all five

have been cured once. The immune system controls the cancer cells in

your body. As long as the immune system is healthy, you don't usually

have a cancer problem. When your immune system gets run down, it

loses control of the cancer cells, and they start eating live cells

and this is what they call cancer. This powder made from dandelion

root has something in it that builds up the blood and the immune

system.

 

When the immune system is built up so far, it gets back control of

cancer cells, and they do an about face and start cleaning up the

mess they've made. This is why you must have a fair appetite because

your body must build itself up and be healthy if your immune system

is going to be strong. This will not work for people that have lost

their appetite or are on CHEMO. Doctors try to blast the cancer out

of your body with Chemo or radiation. By doing so, it destroys your

immune system and appetite. These are the most important things your

body needs to beat cancer. Operations also knock the immune system

haywire. This is why so many people that have operations for cancer

find that a short time later it has spread somewhere else.

 

Many of the worst diseases that have plagued the world have been

cured quite easily. When I was a boy, women dreaded the goiter more

than cancer. A little iodine in the diet cured that. For hundred of

years the most dreaded diseases was leprosy and lockjaw. A doctor

found he could produce penicillin from moldy bread and could cure

them and many more things. How long has moldy bread been around? I'm

sure scientists will find many uses for the powder made from the root

of the dandelions besides cancer. I have already found it builds up

the blood so you heal much faster.

 

How To Make It . . .

 

To make the powder from the dandelion root you must follow my

directions to the letter. Any changes and it won't work. Dig a

handful of dandelion roots any time of the year – it doesn't matter.

Cut the leaves off just below the crown. DO NOT WASH. Then they must

be dried around 100 degrees. I do it in an incubator with no water.

You can also dry them under a heat light bulb if you raise or lower

it so it's 100 degrees. You can also use the sun or put them in the

attic if it's not too hot. It takes about 5 or 6 days in the

incubator. I have not done this all the way under the heat light.

When you break a root and it snaps it is ready to powder. Take an old

iron frying pan and a clean hammer. Take one root at a time and place

in the frying pan and start tapping. Don't hit hard or it will fly

all over the place. I put my hand around the root to keep most of it

in the pan. If it sticks to the hammer and pan, and doesn't crumble

in your fingers, it isn't dry enough. Keep it up until you have

enough to start. It takes about 20 minutes to ½ hour to prepare

enough for a week. When you get used to it you can go much faster.

 

I have an old vessel that druggists used to pound pills (Mortar &

Pestle), this goes much faster. DO NOT USE AN ELECTRIC GRINDER, it

won't work if you do. You lose too much of the good part in dust. You

must do it as I have said or don't do it at all. I've tried

shortcuts, but it seems someone was looking over my shoulder, and I

know when I made a mistake. I'm just an old farmer and not a

scientist, so I wouldn't know the correct amount to take on my own.

Now take a little over one-half teaspoon once a day at any time and

mix it with water, orange juice, etc. Do not use in soft drinks,

liquor, or anything hot. When mixed, use it all. Don't let it stand

around. Keep the powder in a dry place. After taking it three or four

days, you will feel good, but nothing else. That is because your

blood is building up. When you blood is happy, you're happy. In most

cases, this will build your immune system in from three days to three

weeks to the point it takes back control of cancer cells and thus the

cancer stops spreading. In most cases it is going to help. There is

no body feeling as it works. You just feel a little better each week.

After three weeks most of the pain will be gone in your back and you

know it's working if you had pain there like I did. If you have bone

cancer in the spine, it will take three months to work. This is not

an overnight cure. It took a while to get in this condition and it

will take a while for your body to heal. The sooner you start, the

quicker you will be over cancer. Young people heal faster than old

people, but it will help at any age. I know because I'm 80 and have

been taking it for over three years. No cancer has come back and no

side effects except when my body has had enough, it lets me know by

getting heart burn. Then I back off some. Some people get stomach

aches when they need less. It also means your cancer is under control

and you don't need as much. You will also find you probably won't

catch a cold while you are taking it full-strength.

 

The biggest enemy for this root is Chemo. The stronger the Chemo, the

less chance the powder has to help you as Chemo tears your immune

system and appetite down, two of the most important things you need

to cure cancer. There is only a ten percent chance Chemo will cure

you. With no chemo, your chances are 75 to 80% but you must take it

every day. Don't let your doctor give you that old treat if you turn

him down that goes, " If you want to throw your life away, I can't

stop you. " Just remember that 90% of the people that take his advice

and take chemo are in the cemetery. Don't blame the doctor, he is

doing his best with what he has to work with or you could ask for a

written guarantee.

 

I have only mentioned cancers that I know people have had and used

this root. It should help pancreas cancer if taken before the

appetite is gone and most body cancer. This is food, not a drug. It

shouldn't interfere with medicine your doctor may be giving you. Only

two doctors have told patients to keep taking the powder when they

have made a miracle recovery. The rest of the doctors have run the

powder down and blasted the people even if the cancer has disappeared.

 

The medical world is not going to accept this easily.

 

Going back to not washing the roots and leaving a little soil on

them, it is for your own good. A good bit of immunity comes from the

soil, it starts as soon as you are born. Your fingers touch

something, and you put them in your mouth. A little dirt at first,

and more as you grow older and start crawling. Then everything you

touch goes in the mouth. When children go outside to play and when

they come in, they are the dirtiest around the mouth and hand. The

hands go in their mouths no matter how dirty they are. Many diseases

and bacteria live in the ground, but they don't seem to cause any

trouble but it does build up the immune system. Some animals can't

live if they can't eat a certain amount of soil. If you read this

article over, you will see it all goes back to common sense. I wish

all of you people with cancer and other problems the best.

 

George Cairns

(815) 338-1626

Or send self addressed envelope to:

708 Hughes Road

Woodstock, IL 60098

 

This article does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the

Northwest Herald.

 

The dandelion root powder you can buy at a Health Food Store is not

made the same way. It is not known to help cancer.

----

--September, 2007

 

[Note: Here are some updated instructions that George has been giving

to people since the first article was published. He recommends that

people concentrate on the harvesting and processing the dandelions,

and hope they are in season when you need them.]

 

To make dandelion root powder, let's start at the beginning. This

would be collecting the seed. The seed is at the base of the white

fluffy crown that appears when the yellow flower matures. Blow on

them and they fly away. These little seeds do not grow until the next

spring. I collect the seeds in May and June, then I put them in the

freezer. This way you fool Mother Nature as the seeds must freeze

before they grow. This way you can grow the seed the same year you

collect them. Work up the land where you are going to plant them and

spread the seeds on top of the ground and rake them [into the soil]

very lightly and water [them]. I usually plant the seeds in August.

 

I dig up the seedlings the next April. I try to do all my

transplanting in April as by the end of April they start blooming

which takes the energy away from making roots. It's a good thing to

pick the buds off for the first couple of months. When I dig the

seedlings up in April, I plant them about 6 inches apart in rows 18

to 20 inches apart. I hoe them when needed and keep the weeds and

grass out of them. After about 2 months you won't be able to hoe as

they will cover the ground. Then I pull the weeds and grass out of

the bed. Water when needed.

 

I usually start digging them up in October. By this time some of the

roots will be 1 inch in diameter. I shake off most of the dirt [but

not all] and slice lengthwise the bigger roots to about 1/4 inch so

they will dry evenly. To dry them I use a forced-air incubator

without any water in it. I set the incubator at 100 degrees or a

little less. It takes about 5 days until they are ready to grind. You

can use a dehydrator set around 100 degrees. If it doesn't have

settings, don't use it. You can also dry in the sun if you put them

in something the wind can blow through, like a small potato or onion

sack. Hang them in the sun but take them down in late afternoon and

put in a plastic sack and tie it. If you don't they will pick up

moisture and you will be back where you started. Then put them out

the next day when the sun is up. Once you have heat in the house,

it's no trouble as they will dry OK most anywhere there is heat, like

near a register or stove. The excess dirt will pop off as they dry.

Mother Nature knows how much to leave. If the roots are very clean,

add a little dirt as this powder won't work without the dirt.

 

When you make powder, try not to lose anything. Pound the roots flat,

then put in an electric coffee grinder for 25 seconds and you have

powder. You can also keep pounding and crumbling until you have it

the right fineness. What I did for a long time, a friend gave me a

cast iron pestle and mortar. With this you can get it down as fine as

you wish.

 

To store, put in an air-tight jar and fill as near to the top as

possible. I've kept it 10 months this way. Also, keep in a dry place.

 

George Cairns Woodstock, Illinois, USA

 

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, " dunno76 " <dunno76

wrote:

> I received this email from a friend about a week or two ago and

only

> managed to read through it today. I wished I have read it earlier

but it's better late than never. In this article, Dandelion was deem

as a weed as the author's parents cursed the presence of the flower

in their lawn. Some people will not even hesitate to spray it with

weed killer and stop the dandelion from interfering with the

perfection of the lawn. learn from the dandelion; its strong staying

power teaches us to always fight bravely against all odds and not let

our fighting spirits die off. So the next time round when you see a

dandelion sticking out in your lawn, you might want to reconsider

your immediate reaction to spray it with weed killer.

> > Read the whole article at: http://www.symphonyoflove.net/blog/?

p=118

> <http://www.symphonyoflove.net/blog/?p=118>

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