Traditional herbs in a bolus to treat your unmentionables ;> (how to)

I thought I would share this since it's good for so very many things from a traditional herbal use perspective. It's a mixture of 8 herbs into a bolus for placement in those areas folks don't like to talk about. You can also make herbal douches and enemas from the same herbs if you'd prefer to treat that way instead of with the bolus, although the bolus treatment is stronger. 

The information below is distilled from two different books: Cancer Salves by Ingrid Naiman and The Herbal Medicine Maker's Handbook by James Green. The Cancer Salves book is outstanding and well worth the price. If you hit it just right you may even be able to find a used copy on Amazon a bit cheaper. 

These herbs and this particular bolus treatment has been traditionally used for conditions ranging from cervical cancer to prostate cancer to colo-rectal cancer, as well as conditions that are not quite so severe, including most gynecological ones (yeast infections, vaginitis, HPV treatment, etc.). Many of the herbs are antimicrobial --- antiviral and antibacterial --- while others are soothing and nourishing to the healthy tissue helping the body not only in the specific area but also in a systemic way as they are absorbed in your blood stream so it can fight off the attackers. (The mucus membranes in the areas where these are used are very thin so the blood is close by.) They stimulate the blood and lymph system to carry away toxins. Many of them are also mild laxatives to ensure those toxins are flushed from the body.

Most of these herbs are readily available, although some are easier to find in season. (The most expensive herb on this list is goldenseal. Buy the smallest quantity possible since we're only going to use a small amount.) My favorite place for purchasing organic herbs (because you do want organic for this use and most herbal uses) and associated supplies (including the cocoa butter or coconut oil) is Mountain Rose Herbs in Oregon. They safely pack everything by hand for shipping and you can be assured there are real herbalists on the other end if you ever have any questions. I also love their large bottles with corks that are made from recycled glass. My kitchen is full of them! If what you're looking for there isn't in stock or is out of season, then check on Amazon.com and you can usually find it. Make sure you include "organic" in the search term for the particular herb. 

So, here's the recipe and instructions below.
(Note: If you are pregnant, do not attempt. Partridgeberry can cause miscarriages if taken in the first or second trimester. If you are on any prescription meds, talk with your doctor before trying this because the herbs may interact with the prescription drugs. Also be aware that the FDA only approves herbs as dietary supplements --- you know, the standard statement: The information provided is for informational purposes only. These statements have not been evaluation by the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.) 

Ingredients:

• Partridgeberry (mitchella repens) --- Well known among American Indians, it was used mainly for female concerns, but also appears to have antiinflammatory properties as well as being astringent and having the ability to stop bleeding.
  
• Yellow Dock Root --- antimicrobial, antibacterial, anticancer, anti tumor, and anti fungal. In the same family as sheep sorrel, one of the main "essiac" herbs. Blood & lymph cleanser. High in Vitamin C and iron.
  
• Chickweed --- Rich in vitamins, minerals, and trace elements. Strong anti-inflammatory and blood purifier.
  
• Mullein Leaf --- Antibacterial, anti inflammatory, anti-spasmodic. Also mucilaginous and helps sooth the healthy tissue.
  
• Marshmallow Root --- Anti inflammatory rich in amino acids, vitamins, minerals, and trace elements. Stimulates the immune system. Also mucilaginous and helps sooth the healthy tissue.
  
• Goldenseal Root --- Wild harvesting has put it on the endangered list, so buy it from reputable source. Commercial herb growers are growing it now to meet demand so the wild sources can come back. It has a long history of use among Eastern American Indians for everything from from eye washes to mixing it with bear grease to make an insect repellent. :) Antibacertial, antimicrobial, antiseptic, antibiotic, and strengthens the immune system.  

• Slippery Elm Bark --- Mucilaginous and helps sooth the healthy tissue. Another herb also in the "essiac" herb formulation. High in antioxidants. Traditionally used by American Indians in slaves for healing wounds, boils, and skin inflammation. It was taken internally for coughs, sore throats, diarrhea, and stomach problems.
  
• Comfrey Root (aka "knitbone"; optional) --- It makes cells grow faster so may want to omit it depending on what condition you're using it for specifically. It's also anti-inflammatory.
  
• Cocoa butter or coconut oil --- nourishing to the healthy cells as well as provides a delivery method for the herbs.

Directions (cold process):

• Powder the herbs if you couldn't purchase them powered.
  The easiest way to do this is with a coffee grinder, just don't burn it out. Powder small amounts, starting with 1 Tablespoon. Some of the herbs are "poofy" (mullein leaf) while others (roots) can be very hard on the grinder. Pulse it in short bursts so you won't burn out the motor. 
• Mix equal parts of each herb once powdered.
  Start with 1 Tablespoon each, which will give you 8 Tablespoons of herb to mix. 
• Add the cocoa butter or coconut oil and mix well.
  You should have a sticky, gooey mass like Toll House Cookie dough if using cocoa butter and a very thick and stiff mix with coconut oil.
• Form the bolus.
  Use clean hands and make little "tootsie roll" forms about the size of your little finger. Place them on wax paper as you finish. You can either wrap them in plastic or aluminum foil when done. 
• Use 1 at night at bedtime.
  Folks use it differently, but the general agreement seems to be daily for 5 to 7 days. Use a pantiliner to catch any discharge.  Others have used it every other day and some others more infrequently when in maintenance mode or preventative mode. Some don't have a discharge, which just means the body needed and absorbed everything in the bolus --- herbs, oils, and butters.

Tips!

Cocoa butter can be hard to work with if you melt it, add the herbs, pour into a form then cool. Once it's above a certain temperature it melts at a lower than body temperature. That's why we've given directions above for making it using a cold process --- the simplest way possible. If you prefer to melt the carrier, add the herbs, and pour into a form, please use coconut oil instead as the carrier.

Angelic assistance during regression therapy --- change your life in 3 intense sessions & 6 weeks

As you may know, I see clients who want to explore past / other lives (regression therapy) and what dawned on me today is that during those sessions we not only explore those lives but we do it in a very unique, safe, healing way with our higher selves called in / plugged in, with the angels and the circle of light, and with whatever ascended masters and teachers we intuit to invite in well. Most traditional hypnotists / hypnotherapists do not work this way, but you will find many spiritual healers, energy medicine practitioners, preachers, energy therapists and transpersonal therapists work this way. The Archangels nearly always present in these sessions include Raphael, Haniel, Ariel, Michael, and Gabriel. Ascended Masters that usually sit in include Jesus / Jeshua, Kwan Yin, St. Francis, St. Germaine, and others depending on your own personal spiritual beliefs will pop in as well. 

Major Healing
These sessions often become a major healing for the person working with. Areas and issues that may have come up for them during other modalities and other therapies during their personal growth that may not have been fully understood or fully experienced become both fully understood and fully experienced during our work together, and this experience happens in a very safe manner so that if you don't want to completely "feel" that experience we're examining, if you don't have to. I use techniques so that you are safe and comfortable at all times and we would never force you to face something you're not ready to experience. 

3 Sessions over 6 weeks (or less) 
A series of three sessions seems to work well whether you're an old hand at meditation and focused concentration, or whether you're new to it all and have never experienced it before. The first session is usually pretty light but can touch on areas that need further investigation. That's what happens in the second session and that session is usually the one that will give you what you need at this particular time for wherever you are in your life at this time. The third session is always a surprise but will be what is needed at the time. This may involve a healing for you, your loved ones, it might be deepening that understanding received in the second session, it might be resolving some unresolved issues. I never know what it will be, but it will be just as powerful.

This type of work is very intense and each session lasts a full 2 hours (Not just "clinical hours," which are usually 45-50 min; this is a full 120 min.) and is best done in person. Lighter work is fine to do by phone and in Skype, but this type of intenseness is just better held with both in the same physical room surrounded by the Circle of Light with the energies held together. Not only does it seem to sit better, but I can also see and feel what's going on with you better and hold a hand or touch your shoulder if as we experience it together. You're not alone during this intense work.  

I have done some intense work on myself by phone (soul fragment retrieval with me on the client / receiving end) where the session was only 1 hour and afterwards I still felt... not quite done? Certainly not grounded and certainly still doing some major processing around the whole thing. In fact, I continued to process for an entire week and it's a good thing I had pre-arranged to take that following week off before hand.

Because these sessions are so intense and so healing and so long (2 hours each), scheduling them every other week instead of every week works for many because it gives them time to process in between sessions. So, over a 6 week period we can accomplish some major work for your own growth, for clearing any blocks you may have run into, for understanding what your own work has brought to the surface, for even understanding what your dreams and meditations have been trying to tell you. This is often the first place deep-seated issues will surface.  

Qualifications for this Work
Wondering who I am to be able to help guide you through this? You know parts of it if you've read the first book and other parts of it from the blog here and the over at Luna Wellness. Many would call me a "real" person, because I tend to be very grounded and came from "real" people --- farm girl, remember, from generations of farmers, coal miners, and nurses. ;>). 

The therapies I use to guide you are therapies I used in my own healing at various points in my life. I have been on both sides of the couch, like most healers and therapists. Many American Indian's have a saying:  You cannot truly know a thing until you have experienced it for yourself. That points out a big difference between "book learning" and first-hand experience. Some would call that the difference between theory and practice and often those differences are major.  

Since many folks find comfort is seeing the credentials, here's the list of I've accumulated since 2002. I've tried to group them by areas. I've been practicing energy medicine since 2002, hypnotherapy since 2003, and held ULC ordination since 2003.  

• Past Life Healer (Doreen Virtue)
• Advanced Counseling for hypnotherapists

• Karuna Healing Master Teacher (Center for Wholistic Health)
• Usui Reiki Master Teacher (Center for Wholistic Health)
• Integrated Energy Therapy Advanced Practitioner (Center of Being)
  IET is a form of cellular release therapy closely connected to angels, especially Archangel Ariel.
• Reconnective Energy (hands activated during a reconnection)

• Spiritual Counselor & Soul Therapist (Universal Life Church*)
• Doctor of Metaphysics (ULC)
• Ordained Minister (ULC)   
  * ULC is non-denominational and believes we are all children from the same universe and looks to change the negative perceptions of religion, faith, and spirituality by encouraging all to take control and speak their truth, whatever that truth may be. All beliefs are honored here. Christian, Jew, Gentile, Agnostic, Gnostic, Atheist, Buddhist, Shinto, Pagan, Wiccan, Druid, etc., and even those who are anti-religious are welcome. It is not unusual for old souls to have many, many issues with religion to work out since many old souls have had past lives as nuns, monks, priests, preachers and teachers of various sorts. Many were burned as "witches" or "sorcerers" down through the ages. Those old souls - YOU if you are still reading here - held the higher energies for Mother Earth, anchoring them in during those dark times and are truly today's Lightworkers. Welcome Back and I am honored to be working with you again! :) 

• Clinical Hypnotherapist (American Council of Hypnotist Examiners)
• Forensic Hypnosist (National Guild of Hypnotists)
• Certified Hypnotherapist (National Guild of Hypnotists)
• Registered Psychotherapist (NLC#8036) with the state of Colorado.Required for hypnotists / hypnotherapists in Colorado. Colorado is one of the few states that closely regulates its hypnotists / hypnotherapists. California is another.

Additional training and certs in various hypnotherapy areas, including rapid inductions, diabetes, smoking cessation, transformation and transpersonal. In fact, by looking at this list you could say I've been practicing energy psychotherapy and transpersonal psychotherapy since before it was cool. ;> 

Where & When
If you're ever in the Denver area and want to schedule your series of 3 sessions for some very deep and intense work, shoot me an e-mail and I'll get you scheduled. 

Word from some of my super-sensitive friends is that starting this summer (2014), the Denver area will be inundated with folks looking for regression therapy to explore past lives.  :)

This area is home to many wonderful, old souls who are drawn to the energy here and all up and down the Rocky Mountain West region --- it holds the heart energy for the country, the freedom of the wide open spaces, and what is left of the Old West. 

Come to Denver and heal your heart, touch the angels, and reconnect with yourself and your intuition. You'll take it all home with you. 

natural grease cutter, sanitizer & disinfectant for the kitchen and around the house

I've been doing a lot of work with essential oils lately (in case you hadn't noticed from the posts, lol ;>), and whipped this up last week and have been using it for the kitchen counters & appliances. You could probably also use it in the bath --- I just have tried it there yet. It's a nice alternative to the bleach wipes and even just ammonia and water for cutting grease, which is something the bleach wipes don't (or didn't) do.

If you work extensively with essential oils, I'm sure you could wipe up something similar from scratch. I just found it easier to use an essential oil mix already on the market --- one similar to what the pick pockets used during the plague in Europe.  See what you think and feel free to adapt and change the ingredients as needed.  Enjoy!

Natural Grease Cutter, Sanitizer & Disinfectant

Shopping List:
     - 1, 10 ml (1/3 oz) bottle of Plant Therapy Germ Fighter essential oil mix. This mix contains essential oils of Lemon, Clove, Eucalyptus, Cinnamon, and Rosemary so be careful not to touch your hands to your eye area during use or while mixing. Clove, Eucalyptus, and Cinnamon oils can burn! A 1997 study (Weber State University) showed these oils are 99.96% effective against airborne bacteria, so you know they'll kill surface germs as well.  
     - 1, 16 oz spray bottle
     - 12 oz to 16 oz bottle of isopropyl alcohol (70%) or witch hazel, whichever you have on hand. It's ok if some has been used and it's not a full bottle.
       The alcohol evaporates fast and kills germs in its own right. I had alcohol on hand and used that.  Witch Hazel is a tad more expensive but also germicidal as well as astringent. (I use it as a skin toner and makeup remover before moisturizing.)  Besides their antimicrobial properties, these two also helps us mix the essential oils with water.
     - Tea Tree essential oil (2 to 4 droppers full)
       Tea Tree essential is also a well known antiseptic / antimicrobial / germ killer.
     - Filtered water

Directions:
Add the alcohol or witch hazel to the spray bottle first. Then add the Germ Fighter and tea tree essential oils. Fill bottle with filtered water. Shake well before each use. Spray and wipe like you would with any other disinfectant. I think it smells much better (and cleaner) than what you get with the chemical wipes, and it's just as convenient once mixed.