The Systematic Approach to Herbal Therapy. Herbal remedies were intended by God to be a blessing,...

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Herbal remedies were Herbal remedies were intended by God to be a intended by God to be a blessing, but they can only blessing, but they can only serve their purpose if we serve their purpose if we know how to use them. know how to use them. Today we are going to look Today we are going to look at some principles of how to at some principles of how to use them in our homes and use them in our homes and in our ministry to others.in our ministry to others.

The systematic approach to The systematic approach to herbal therapy is the herbal therapy is the healing of the body as a healing of the body as a whole. It is understanding whole. It is understanding the the cause, prevention cause, prevention and cureand cure of disease. It is of disease. It is understanding the understanding the howhow and and whywhy herbs work for so herbs work for so many diseases.many diseases.

Here is how it works:Here is how it works:

1. 1. AllAll herbal remedies are herbal remedies are drawn from drawn from four basic groups.four basic groups.

2. The 2. The effecteffect of the herb taken of the herb taken is is defined by what group it is in.defined by what group it is in.

3. Focus is on 3. Focus is on the bodythe body rather rather than the than the injured part alone.injured part alone.

As with any other natural As with any other natural remedy the focus should be remedy the focus should be on the body as a whole and on the body as a whole and not on the injured part not on the injured part alone. 1 Corinthians 12:26, alone. 1 Corinthians 12:26, “And whether one member “And whether one member suffereth: all the members suffereth: all the members suffer with it.”suffer with it.”

Herbs themselves do not Herbs themselves do not heal, but they react upon heal, but they react upon the body by kindling its the body by kindling its vital force. Just as fire vital force. Just as fire from burning wood from burning wood produces heat. Nutrients produces heat. Nutrients from food and herbs from food and herbs produce energy (vital produce energy (vital force). force).

The four categories of The four categories of herbs can be separated herbs can be separated into two types. The first into two types. The first type are those that type are those that influence the actual influence the actual life life processprocess of the body. The of the body. The second includes herbs second includes herbs that directly affect the that directly affect the structure structure of the body.of the body.

Having Therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in fear of God.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Body Four Herb Categories Body

Function Structure

Cells Tissue Aromatics Astringents Speed up, Stimulate Tone & Tighten Tissue, Contracts

Demulcents Bitters Sooth & Soften, Slows Down Loosens, Cleanses,

Causes Oxidation

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. Romans 12:1 To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen. Romans 16:27

How do herbs influence How do herbs influence the body functions?the body functions?

1. Aromatics - Speed up and stimulate cell functions. This includes all spicy and fragrant herbs that you can smell, like Peppermint.

2. Demulcents (or Mucilaginous) - Calm down, soothes and softens cell activity. This includes all slippery or slimy herbs, like Aloe Vera.

How do herbs influence How do herbs influence structure?structure?

1. Astringents - Contract, tone and tighten tissue. This includes all herbs that make your lips pucker when you put them in your mouth. Roots and barks are examples for this category.2. Bitters – Loosen and relax tissue structure. This includes all herbs that make you want to spit them out when you put them in your mouth.

How do the herbs How do the herbs work?work?

1. Aromatics – Stimulate the nervous system causing an increase in the systemic functions of the body as well as an increase of activity on a cellular level. These work on the circulatory system.2. Demulcents – Absorb toxins like a sponge, drawing away poisons that cause inflammation thus easing the localized pollution. These work on the intestine and the colon.

How do the herbs How do the herbs work?work?3. Astringents – Have the ability to contract

living tissue because of the presence of tannins. They affect mainly the immune system, blood and urinary system.

4. Bitters – Help by bringing in a large amount of oxygen. This property alone tends to accelerate the body’s ability to absorb other active compounds that strengthen the cell wall and other components of the cell. These have an affect on the liver.

What are some examples What are some examples of herbs in their groups?of herbs in their groups?

1. Aromatics – garlic, peppermint, ginger, cayenne, chamomile, sage, fennel, lavender, hops, cloves, rosemary, anise, coriander seed.2. Demulcents – aloe vera, flax seed, comfrey, fenugreek seed, wild violet leaves, marshmallow root, slippery elm bark, sassafras.3. Astringents – yellow dock, white oak ark, yarrow, plantain, shepherd’s purse, cranesbill, raspberry, rhubarb root, uva ursi.

What are some examples What are some examples of herbs in their groups ? of herbs in their groups ?

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3. Astringents – yellow dock, white oak ark, yarrow, plantain, shepherd’s purse, cranesbill, raspberry, rhubarb root, uva ursi.

4. Bitters – dandelion, pau d’ arco bark, chaparral, wormwood, barberry root, buckthorn bark, golden seal, valerian root, burdock root, nettle.

What are some examples of What are some examples of herbs that fit under these herbs that fit under these

categories?categories?

Aromatics

Demulcents

Astringents

Bitters

Peppermint

CayenneGinger

Garlic Plantain

Yarrow LeafYellow Dock Root

White Oak Bark

Fenugreek Seeds

Comfrey

Flax Seed

Aloe Vera Dandelion Root Pau d Arco Bark

Chaparral

Worm- wood

What category of herbs What category of herbs would be good for giardia?would be good for giardia?

Bitters Bitters

What category of herbs What category of herbs would be good for diarrhea?would be good for diarrhea?

AstringentAstringents s

What category of herbs What category of herbs would be good for lack of would be good for lack of

energy?energy?

Aromatic Aromatic

What category of herbs What category of herbs would be good for breathing would be good for breathing

??Demulcents – Fenugreek, Demulcents – Fenugreek, comfreycomfreyAromatics – Eucalyptus, Aromatics – Eucalyptus, peppermintpeppermintAstringents –mullein, for glandsAstringents –mullein, for glands

Bitters – Lobelia, for drawing Bitters – Lobelia, for drawing mucus from lungsmucus from lungs

What category of herbs What category of herbs would be good for Malaria?would be good for Malaria?

Bitters – Artemisia Bitters – Artemisia Annua Annua

What category of herbs What category of herbs would be good for skin would be good for skin

rash / cuts and wounds?rash / cuts and wounds?


What category of herbs What category of herbs would be good for athletes would be good for athletes

foot and ring worm?foot and ring worm?

BittersBitters

Immune System & Auto Immune System & Auto Immune Disease?Immune Disease?

Astringents – wheat grass, Astringents – wheat grass, astragalus, ashwaganda, astragalus, ashwaganda, essiac tea, carrots, beets, essiac tea, carrots, beets,

spinach spinach

What category of herbs What category of herbs would be good for would be good for

headache?headache?

Aromatic – ginger, Aromatic – ginger, cayenne, peppermint cayenne, peppermint

What category of herbs What category of herbs would be good for poison would be good for poison

ivy?ivy?


The Cure of Disease and the The Cure of Disease and the prevention of disease are prevention of disease are

both the same: both the same: A low fat, low protein and high fiber, equals good circulation. A total vegetarian diet with a high alkaline pH:

Perfect Circulation

Low Fat, Low Protein, High Fiber Alkaline Diet Produces Pure Blood

Fruits produce the hydrochloric acid needed for digestion. Lemons, oranges, grapefruit, apples, grapes, ect!

Vegetables like lettuce, kale, cabbage, cauliflower, garlic, onions, potatoes, carrots, beets, celery, parsley, spinach, cucumber, ect., are base. The kidneys produce salt bicarbonate from acid and base foods which neutralize toxins in the blood. Fruits and vegetables should be eaten at separate meals.

Nuts and Legumes, olives, avocados, coconuts, lecithin are buffers or emulsifiers which help balance the pH and the hormones.

Seeds and Grains like apricot seeds, grapefruit seeds, apple seeds, ect., and wheat, oats, rice, ect., are bitters. Bitters have the ability to stimulate the production of gastric juices. The liver is the largest gland and if properly taken care of will take care of all the rest of the glands, pancreas to the hypothalamus.


Having Therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in fear of God. 2 Corinthians 7:1

Four Food Categories

Fruits Vegetables

Nuts Legumes Seeds-Grains


Four Tastes of the Tongue

Sweet Sour

Salt Bitter



Five Senses In Four Categories

Smell Taste (Pucker)

See, Touch, Hear Taste (spit)



Four Body Areas

Circulation Blood Heart Immune System, Kidney/Bladder

Prostate/Urinary

Colon Liver Stomach, Intestine Gallbladder, Pancreas



Four Categories of Disease


Heart Disease Cancer

Constipation Diabetes



Causes of Disease

Poor High Protein

Circulation

Low Fiber High Fat


What are diseases caused by a high fat, high protein low fiber, and a low pH acid diet?What are diseases caused by a high fat, high protein low fiber, and a low pH acid diet?


Heart Disease Cancer Arthrosclerosis Aids, Tumors Leukemia,

Arteriosclerosis Arthritis

Stoke, Angina High B. P.

Constipation DiabetesPolyps, Diverticulitis, Hemorrhoids Hypoglycemia, Hepatitis, Cirrhosis


Cure & Prevention of Disease


Perfect Low Fat

Circulation

High Fiber Low Fat

““God would have his people God would have his people clearly understand that clearly understand that they will be visited they will be visited according to their according to their obedience or transgression. obedience or transgression. Wickedness and disease Wickedness and disease have increased with every have increased with every successive generation. The successive generation. The land has labored under the land has labored under the curse which man has curse which man has brought upon it because of brought upon it because of continued disobedience. continued disobedience.

"The earth mourneth and "The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people away, the haughty people of the earth do languish. of the earth do languish. The earth also is defiled The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants under the inhabitants thereof; because they have thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore hath covenant. Therefore hath the cursethe curse

devoured the earth, and devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are they that dwell therein are desolate." Many marvel that desolate." Many marvel that the human race have so the human race have so degenerated, physically, degenerated, physically, mentally, and morally. They mentally, and morally. They do not understand that it is do not understand that it is the violation of God's the violation of God's constitution and laws, and constitution and laws, and the violation of the laws of the violation of the laws of health, that has produced health, that has produced this sadthis sad

degeneracy. The degeneracy. The transgression of God's transgression of God's commandments has caused commandments has caused his prospering hand to be his prospering hand to be removed.”removed.”

Spiritual Gifts, vol.4a Spiritual Gifts, vol.4a p.123p.123

““It is just as much sin to It is just as much sin to violate the laws of our being as violate the laws of our being as to break one of the ten to break one of the ten commandments, for we cannot commandments, for we cannot do either without breaking do either without breaking God's law. We cannot love the God's law. We cannot love the Lord with all our heart, mind, Lord with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength while we soul, and strength while we are loving our appetites, our are loving our appetites, our tastes, a great deal better than tastes, a great deal better than we love the Lord. We are daily we love the Lord. We are daily lessening our strength to lessening our strength to glorify God, when He requires glorify God, when He requires all ourall our

strength, all our mind. By our strength, all our mind. By our wrong habits we are lessening wrong habits we are lessening our hold on life, and yet our hold on life, and yet professing to be Christ's professing to be Christ's followers, preparing for the followers, preparing for the finishing touch of immortality.”finishing touch of immortality.”Councils on Diets Foods p.44.3Councils on Diets Foods p.44.3

““In the Ten Commandments God has laid down the laws of His kingdom. Any violation of the laws of nature is a violation of the law of God. The Lord has given His commandments to be a wall of protection round His created beings, and those who will keep themselves from the defilement of appetite and passion may become partakers of the divine nature.

Their perceptions will be clear. They will know how to preserve every faculty in health, so that it may be presented to God in service. The Lord can use them; for they understand the words of the great apostle: "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not

conformed to this world; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.””

Signs of the Times, April 4, 1900 par.9

““What a God is our God! He What a God is our God! He rules over His kingdom with rules over His kingdom with diligence and care, and He diligence and care, and He has built a hedge--the ten has built a hedge--the ten commandments--about His commandments--about His subjects, to preserve them subjects, to preserve them from transgression. In from transgression. In requiring obedience to the requiring obedience to the laws of His kingdom, God laws of His kingdom, God gives His people health and gives His people health and happiness, peace and joy. He happiness, peace and joy. He teaches them that the teaches them that the perfection of character He perfection of character He requires can be attainedrequires can be attained

only by becoming familiar only by becoming familiar with His Word. The psalmist with His Word. The psalmist declares, "The entrance of declares, "The entrance of Thy words giveth light; it Thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto giveth understanding unto the simple" [Ps. 119:130].”the simple" [Ps. 119:130].”

13 Manuscript Release p. 13 Manuscript Release p. 261.4261.4

Acid/Alkaline balance is very important to prevent sickness and disease. Normal pH is 6.4 using the urine, saliva test paper. Cancer range is about 4.6, which means a very acid condition of the body. About 80% alkaline and 20% acid should help keep the pH at the normal range.

Most all fruits and vegetables are alkaline. Most grains, seeds, nuts and legumes are acid producing. Alkaline producing grains are millet, quinoa, and buckwheat. Alkaline nuts are almonds and brazil nuts uncooked!

Animal products take twice the amount of hydrochloric acid for digestion. Some may take up to three days to go through the body. Animal products are high in fat, high in protein, and have no fiber. Congestion creates heat, heat creates inflammation, inflammation causes sickness, and chronic sickness causes disease.

Other items that create an acid condition are coffee, black tea, soda (Is a 2 pH which takes 32 glasses of water and may take up to three days to neutralize), alcohol, tobacco, drugs, sugar, table salt, white flour products, oils and free fats (oil separated from vegetables & nut butters).

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. Romans 12:21

Mike Bunnell, P.O. Box 600, Mill Spring, N.C., 28756 828-894-0316 www.healingherbs.biz

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