Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 They decided what kind of soil was best for growing tea plants and chose the Szechwan district as the first tea-growing area because its soil and hilly terrain met their requirements.
Demand continued to soar. Even with new sources of cultivated teci, farmers were having trouble keeping China's thirsty teapots Med. Soon tea farmers began growing tea plants in the Yangtze valley and along the coast. The increasing attention paid to tea in Chinese culture is epitomized by the Ch'a Ching or Book of Tea, written by Lu Yu in a.d. 780. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You're building up the soil because the pesticide and herbicide are basically creating an addiction of the planet, of the planetary soil. Whereas organic does just the opposite, it builds up a healthy soil that's very important for us. Genetically engineered food is a problem because it's polluting all the other organic foods on the planet, which is no small deal because they don't know what they're doing.
Mike: Right, they experiment.
Cousens: I'm not criticizing because they don't know what they're doing; because no one knows. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 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. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| You're building up the soil because the pesticide and herbicide are basically creating an addiction of the planet, of the planetary soil. Whereas organic does just the opposite, it builds up a healthy soil that's very important for us. Genetically engineered food is a problem because it's polluting all the other organic foods on the planet, which is no small deal because they don't know what they're doing.
Mike: Right, they experiment.
Cousens: I'm not criticizing because they don't know what they're doing; because no one knows. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Ultimately, when you analyze the soil that that plant is growing in, there are certain key minerals that are missing, and if you put those minerals in the soil, all of a sudden that plant's disease goes away. You can take that metaphor and draw it out into animals and humans, and you can see what's really the big thing here. Mineral-deficient food is really the ultimate cause of all the food problems that we have today. That's why we have weakling plants that need to be sprayed with pesticides and have artificial fertilizers. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| They decided what kind of soil was best for growing tea plants and chose the Szechwan district as the first tea-growing area because its soil and hilly terrain met their requirements.
Demand continued to soar. Even with new sources of cultivated teci, farmers were having trouble keeping China's thirsty teapots Med. Soon tea farmers began growing tea plants in the Yangtze valley and along the coast. The increasing attention paid to tea in Chinese culture is epitomized by the Ch'a Ching or Book of Tea, written by Lu Yu in a.d. 780. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Military sites pose yet another source of contamination: today there are about 1,400 Department of Defense sites where the soil or water is contaminated by TCE. In many locations, especially those with porous ground that allows vapors to seep upward, TCE lingers in the air, particularly inside buildings. (Trichloroethylene is a highly volatile chemical, meaning that, like many chemical particles, it is easily released as a vapor into the atmosphere around us when used in industry or manufacturing. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 The bulk of the 90 nutrients essential to human health have been depleted from the soil by fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, irrigation, acid rain and other factors. Then during food processing up to two-thirds of vitamin and mineral levels in most foods are eliminated. To make matters worse, when food processors claim to fortify these foods by adding vitamins and minerals, they are inserting chemicals that imitate, not really replace, the natural nutrients found in food. These are poor imitations that may do more harm than good. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Many areas of the world, including the m i/>
United States, have soil that is selenium defi-
—I cient, meaning you won't get much from the plants or grains that are grown there or the J> animals that eat them. Do yourself a favor and O take a supplement, or eat at least one or two C~
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EVER WONDER why you have a sweet tooth? No, it's not just nature's way of playing a rather mean-spirited practical joke on you. There's an important functional reason for that sweet tooth. In fact, that sweet tooth probably kept your ancient prehistoric ancestors alive Why? |
| You've probably heard of pH, as in the pH of water; if you have a garden you might have measured the pH of your soil. What pH stands for is potential of hydrogen—it's a measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution. It is measured on a scale of 0 to 14—the lower the pH the more acidic the solution, the higher the pH the more alkaline (or base) the solution. (Remember that from high school chemistry? Don't worry, neither did I.)
When a solution is neither acid nor alkaline it has a pH of 7, which is neutral. Distilled water is completely neutral at about 7. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Besides, foods such as tomatoes, potatoes, fruits, and vegetables change their nutritional contents according to seasons, preparation, and storage and have different constituents in different countries due to varied climatic, soil, and geographical conditions.
In addition, the information that indigestible fiber contained in whole foods doesn't release calories is incorrect. It is true that our body has no enzymes to digest fiber but we have plenty of bacteria in our intestinal tract that can do this job even better than enzymes do. All fiber reaches the colon in undigested form. |
| Ionic Liquid Minerals
Your body is like living soil. If it has sufficient minerals and trace elements to work with, it is able to nurture you and produce everything you need to live and grow. These essential materials, however, can get easily depleted when you are not getting enough of them through your food. Centuries of constant use and overuse of the same agricultural fields have led to foods that are highly nutrient-deficient. The situation worsened with the onset of chemical fertilizers that manipulate crops into growing more rapidly, with no regard to nutrient availability. |
| Most of the metallic minerals are derived from oyster shell, limestone, soil, clay, calcium carbonate, and sea salts. In fact, taking metallic minerals can lead to serious mineral deficiencies.
It may be beneficial, on the other hand, to take extra ionic liquid minerals. Plant derived minerals are water-soluble, ionic and enzymatically active which makes it very easy for the body to digest and utilize them. The iron, contained in Lapacho tea, for example, is of ionic form and has an immediate positive effect. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| The majority of soil samples showed lead levels ranging from 19,900 to 46,700 parts per million—far exceeding the Environmental Protection Agency's safety level of 400 parts per million in areas where children play, or 1,200 parts per million in other areas of a property. The site at 858 East Ferry exceeded New York State's criteria for a hazardous waste site nearly forty times over. |
Andreas Moritz
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| Raw whole foods supply us with plenty of vitamins and if the soil is naturally fertile also with many minerals. But this doesn't necessarily mean that we need them all and that we can use them in such large quantities. The initial boost in energy and vitality after going on a raw food diet is not due to the vitamins; it is rather caused by the sudden mobilization of the immune system which tries to counteract the massive influx of enzyme inhibitors and antibodies contained in the food. In time, the digestive system becomes increasingly dependent on large supplies of vitamins and minerals. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| These airborne lead particles drift to the ground after a week or so, and pollute the soil and water sources. Drinking water can be contaminated in this manner, or from traveling through lead-based plumbing materials. Pipes, for example, can become corroded, resulting in higher concentrations of lead in the water. Many homes built before 1940 are danger zones, especially if lead pipes haven't been replaced and the walls were painted with lead-based paints. Tobacco smoke can also contain dangerous amounts of lead. |
| Parasites may be lingering in the soil, just waiting for their next host. Wear gloves to avoid direct contact with parasites and wash your hands when finished.
• Be careful where you swim. Never swallow water while you are swimming, whether you are in a river, lake, or public or private swimming pool. Chlorine does not kill many parasites so their presence is entirely possible. Avoid swimming if you have any open cuts or sores.
Consume a high quality Probiotic on a regular basis to help populate beneficial flora in your digestive system. |
Andreas Moritz
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| It states that once an element is extracted from the soil and incorporated into plant life, its properties change greatly. All this can be greatly confusing for those concerned about fluoride poisoning.
Yes, fluoride is found in tea and also in mother's milk. This applies also to areas where there is no fluoride in the drinking water or air. Numerous plants contain naturally occurring fluorine or fluoride compounds. The hideous version of fluoride that is added to drinking water in so many parts of the world is the poison we ought to protect ourselves against. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 Molybdenum is needed in the soil used for food crops. If plants do not get enough molybdenum they may contain more cancer-causing nitrosamines. With sufficient molybdenum, plants can convert nitrates to amino acids, lowering the nitrosamine levels.
Summary for Molybdenum
Main function: metabolism of sulfur-containing amino acids. RDA: adults, 45 meg. Toxicity: low toxicity.
Tolerable upper intake level has been set at 2 mg. Deficiency is rare.
Sources: beans, lentils, whole grains, and nuts. Forms in the body: found in the enzymes sulfite oxidase, xanthine oxidase, and aldehyde oxidase. |
Andreas Moritz
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| Plants take up mineral salts (inorganic compounds) from the soil and convert them into colloidal minerals (organic compounds). The inorganic minerals, also called metallic minerals, are very difficult to be absorbed by a healthy digestive system, and even more so if the small intestine is impacted with toxic waste material. In the case of a very healthy adult, the absorption rate for metallic minerals is 3 to 5 percent; the rest merely passes through the body system without benefit, but often not without causing harm. Although these minerals now come in chelated form, i.e. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Gas chromatographic determination of chlorothalonil in leaves and roots of Scrophularia and in soil. J AOAC Int, 53:587-8, Mar-Apr 1996
Pauli GF, Ofterdinger-Daegel, S, Teborg D, Digitalis, Scrophularia &Co. In: DAZ 135(2):111. 1995.
Filipendula ulmaria
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Fish Berry
Anamirta cocculus description
Medicinal Parts: The medicinal part of the plant is the ripe, dried fruit.
Flower and Fruit: The plant's petiolate inflorescences are paniclelike, 16 to 40 cm long, and usually inserted in the stem. Male flowers are occasionally axillary. |
Healing Children's Attention & Behavior DisordersDr. Abram Hoffer, M.D., FRCP(C)
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| Some years ago I pointed out that in some places in Vancouver the amount of lead in the surface soil is so great that people growing their own vegetables would be poisoned by it if they did not wash off the soil particles very carefully and thoroughly. There is more lead in the surface soil of some places in Vancouver than there is downstream from the lead smelters in Trail, British Columbia.
There is less lead about since it has been removed from the gasoline but plenty is left. |
Mike Adams
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| The seed on the left was planted in desert soil that has very low nutrition (it's mostly sand). The seed on the right, which was planted at the exact same time and day, was planted in topsoil made from forest compost products, such as leaves, pine needles and so on. As you can see in the picture, there is a great difference between the two plants. The plant on the right is far healthier and is taller, more vibrant, and is obviously benefiting from the superior nutrition it has been provided. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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| They are in pairs and depending on the dampness of the soil the leaves may remain on the bush for 2 to 3 periods of growth.
Characteristics: The oil from the fruit has a pleasant scent and taste.
Habitat: The plant is indigenous to areas extending from the Sonora dessert of the U.S. to northwest Mexico. It is cultivated in India and Israel.
Production: From the cultivation (of plants) in Mexico and in South America. Liquid Jojoba wax is a clear, light yellow, oily liquid, that is extracted from the seeds of Simmondsia chinesis. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 The plant prefers well-drained soil in full sun to partial shade.
BACOPA
Botanical Name
Bacopa monnieri
Family
Scrophulariaceae (Figwort Family) Etymology
The genus name is believed to be Aboriginal in origin. The common name brahmi is derived from that of Brahma, the Hindu god of creation. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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| Cultivation is possible in low-lying, sandy, humus soil that is well supplied with lime and situated in a damp area. The root is harvested in September. The fresh roots are washed, chopped, and carefully dried in circulating air under 40° C.
Not to be Confused With: Confusion with other species seldom occurs since the plant is primarily supplied via cultivation. The most dangerous adulteration of the plant occurs with the addition of the roots of Veratrum album. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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 The amounts of iodine in land plants can be greatly increased by fertilizing food plants with seaweeds applied directly to the soil as topical mulch or tilled into the soil.
The complexity of many thyroid dysfunction cases precludes a simple set of all-purpose formulas. Each thyroid patient has a unique thyroid presentation. I try to compose an individualized functional treatment plan for each, using a few basic methods. Diet and behavior modification also are very important in thyroid case management. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| These invading organisms can enter the human body through air, soil, food, and water. Their interaction with a human host can be unpleasant (and let's face it, pretty gross). I simply must address the threat of hostile organisms (parasites). Everyone is affected by parasites at some point—this is one of the most overlooked health problems facing humanity. Just ridding your body of parasites can boost your energy levels and overall sense of wellbeing. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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| The rootstock is dug up, pounded to remove any soil residue, washed and air-dried.
Other Names: Garden Violet actions and pharmacology
COMPOUNDS: SWEET VIOLET RHIZOME AND HERB
Volatile oil (0.04%): salicylic acid methyl ester (formed out of glycosidic precursors during plant drying), beta-nitropro-pionic acid
Saponins
Alkaloids
EFFECTS: SWEET VIOLET RHIZOME AND HERB
The drug acts as an expectorant due to its saponin content. The alkaloid violin has an emetinelike effect.
COMPOUNDS: SWEET VIOLET FLOWER
Volatile oil (0. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| Much of the TCE- and PCB-contaminated soil was turned up and excavated from the facility. The six remaining full tanks of chemical waste were emptied, and the basement hazardous waste storage area was closed off. Even so, in May 1996, follow-up testing showed that volatile organic compound contamination still existed in the groundwater, albeit at lower levels—slightly half of what it had been prior to remediation in 1994. However, in one monitored area, the contamination level of VOCs had actually risen after the cleanup. |
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