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add the following together.
3/4 Cup Almond oil (can substitute vegetable oil or herbal infused oil, such as Calendula)
1/3 Cup coconut oil
1 teaspoon lanolin
1/2 oz beeswax
Melt together in a pot then let come to room temperature, i.e. cool down, could take several hours.
The trick to cream is all the ingredients need to be at the same temperature, so get the ingredients for mixture number
2 ready and have them come to room temperature before combining in the blender and adding mixture number 1.
Mixture number 2
Add the following into a blender:
2/3 Cup distilled water
1/3 Cup aloe juice (or more water)
2-3 drops of essential oil
¼ - ½ teaspoon vitamin E
Turn blender on high and SLOWLY pour in Mixture number 1 above which included your Calendula oil.
We usually divide it up into small baby food jars (run jars through dishwasher to sterilize, let cool and have ready for
your batch of creams). Keep creams refrigerated until ready to use, once openned the cream will probably on keep a
couple of weeks. To retain freshness longer return opened container to refrigerator.
MACA
QUESTION: have you heard of MACA? The latest Psychology Today had an ad in
the back section for it. It is listed on the website
http://www.thesimpletruth.com/ . It sounds interesting, but just because
it is from a rainforest in Peru, doesn't make it an automatic save for
the planet. I'm trying to research it and have found nothing except on
their site.
ANSWER: Maca, Latin named Lepidium meyenii and L. peruvianum Chacon, is a vegetable root or tuber that grows in
the mountains of Peru at an altitude of 11,000-14,500 feet and additionally at lower elevations in parts of Bolivia,
Argentina and Peru. Native Peruvians have used Maca for it's medicinal and nutritional value since before the Incas.
Maca flourishes under these harsh growing conditions producing an amazing herbal medicine and food crop. Maca
was domesticated about 2,000 years ago by the Inca Indians and primitive cultivars of Maca have been found in
archaeological sites dating back as far as 1600 B.C.
The dried roots can be stored for up to seven years. Native Peruvians have used Maca since before the time of the
Inca's for both nutritional and medicinal purposes.
Recent medicinal research on the herb has found claims that it is a panacea, curing sexual dysfunction in both men
and women, used as a treatment in place of HRT and included post hysterectomy to help with hormone problems, in
addition to many others.
Maca has been studied for many years and its active constituents have been established as essential fatty acids (such
as linoleic, palmitic and oleic acids), sterols, alkaloids, tannins and saponins, aromatic isothiocyanates,
p-methoxbenzyl isothiocyanate, glucosinolates and it has a high mineral content as well. Maca herbal medicinal
qualities are listed to improve sexual relations as aphrodisiac, increase fertility, act on hormonal issues such as hot
flashes, memory problems, fatigue, and male impotence.
It has been reported that indigenous population used it traditional to increase energy levels, stamina and endurance. It
promoted mental clarity and treated male impotence. For females it helped with menstrual irregularities and female
hormonal imbalances and controlled hot flashes, fatigue, mood swings, and other pre ands post menopausal issues.
Today Maca has be reported as an Adaptogen like herb. Adaptogen herbs help the body deal with stress. Other
Adaptogen herbs include the Ginsengs, Chinese, American and Siberian.
PC-SPES FOR PROSTATE
QUESTION: My father was diagnosed with prostate cancer and has undergone radiation
therapy. He read an article in which it stated that an herbal remedy known
as PC-SPES is supposed to help a person who has been diagnosed with not only
prostate cancer, but other forms of cancer as well. Can you tell me more
about PC-SPEC and where can this be purchased? I am having a difficult time
trying to find information on this product. >>
ANSWER: The information I have found on this product is limited. I have never had
a client use it and so cannot provide first hand feedback but read this and the following
answer for help
While I studied at Donnie Yantz's Cancer Clinic in Connecticut, which is
called Wellspring Center for Natural Healing, I picked up from Donnie's
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