(From the book, “Natural Healing With Herbs,” by Humbart Santillo, BS, MH; 1991)
Avoid
meats, dairy products, coffee, tea, tobacco, and refined foods. A three day fruit fast monthly will aid in
cleansing the blood and joints. Eating
just grapes for two weeks is excellent to overcome this condition. Clean the bowels weekly with an enema.
Drink
distilled water and fresh juices made from carrot, orange, kale, wheatgrass,
parsley and apple. Juice one raw potato
and dilute with 25% distilled water or vegetable broth for a morning cocktail.
Two
ounces of liquid chlorophyll can be taken daily mixed with apple or carrot
juice.
A.
Internal: Mix the following herbs together:
4 parts chaparral
2 parts yucca
1 part dandelion
1 part sassafras
1 part prickly ash bark
1 part black cohosh
1 part ginger root
1 part burdock root
Powder herbs and put into #00 capsules. Take two, three times each day.
B.
External: All purpose liniment:
1 quart rubbing
alcohol
½ ounce oil of
eucalyptus
½ ounce of
wintergreen
Mix
all ingredients together. Use for
arthritis, rheumatism, sprains, backaches,
etc.
C.
Ginger
Fomentation
For
painful joints, grate five ounces of fresh ginger root and simmer in two quarts
of distilled water for ten minutes. Use
as a fomentation
– dip natural fiber cloth into hot liquid and cover the body part. Cover this with heavy wool blankets and keep
heat in. Repeat procedure when fomentation
cools off.
D.
External: Fomentation for pains, sprains, and rheumatism:
2 parts ginger root
1 part slippery elm
1 part cayenne
1 part lobelia
Make into
a fomentation and apply to affected area.
E. External: Dry
brush the skin daily and get plenty of exercise. Massage
and spinal manipulations will aid in circulation.
F. Hydrotherapy: Morning and evening take alternating warm
and cool
showers for ten minute durations. Take
warm, whole baths three
to four times a week.
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