Although cat’s claw is one of the most confusing nutritional supplements, it is also one of the most effective. Of the 16 plants in the world named cat’s claw, or “Una de Gato”, Uncaria tomentosa is the plant most frequently sold as cat’s claw supplements. Although all cat’s claw supplements are made from Uncaria tomentosa, some are made from the bark, or stems, while others are made from the leaves. Even though all of these supplements claim to help the immune system, the root of Uncaria tomentosa is the one that actually contains health benefits. After extensive studying of each part of the plant, scientists have discovered that only the root possesses the power to treat and prevent disease.
However, not all Uncaria tomentosa roots, which are grown in the rainforests of Peru, actually contain healing properties. There are no visible differences in the plants or the roots, but Ashaninka tribal healers, who have used the plant for thousands of years to cure illness, are able to see the good spirits within the plants that contain healing properties. By using high performance liquid chromatography, scientists are able to “see” the good spirits too. These good spirits are actually important medicinal compounds called pentacyclic oxindole alkaloids (POAs). Scientists are also able to “see” the non-healing properties, or tetracyclic oxindole alkaloids (TOAs). As the POAs have very supportive effects in the immune system, the TOAs have different effects, none of which help the immune system cells at all. If these two compounds are mixed together, which is the case in most cat’s claw plants, the plant is useless to healing and health. Therefore, cat’s claw supplements that are 100% TOA-free from the root of the Uncaria tomentosa, is the only supplement that provides powerful and helpful effects in the immune system.
One helpful effect provided by the POAs is keeping us healthy by interacting with the disease fighting cells in our body, the white blood cells. Another effect on our health is helping macrophages, or white blood cells that engulf and digest foreign material, work faster. A third effect caused by the POAs found in cat’s claw is the increase in the production of interleukin, which is a chemical protein that is secreted by macrophages that has important immune enhancing properties. These properties include: alerting resting white blood cells and spurting them into action, as well has helping to make other biochemicals that are essential to the immune system. POAs also help increase the supply of B cells in the body, which are white blood cells that make antibodies which kill germs. The most important effect is that the POAs found in cat’s claw root help to increase the number of T-cells, which destroy cancer and are also important in diseases like AIDS.
Maitake mushrooms, found in the forests of Japan, are large mushrooms recognized by their rippling caps. They are associated with good health in those who eat them and are known by many names, including: “Grifola frondosa”, “Hen-of-the-Woods”, and dancing mushrooms. Because they are known as healthy food, they have been studied extensively by researchers. Many maitake compounds have major health-promoting potential, specifically maitake D-fraction, which has powerful anti-cancer effects. D-fraction stops the growth of cancer cells and cancerous tumors, as well as, stimulates the activity of macrophages and natural killer cells, which triggers the production of interleukins. Maitake can also inhibit some of the devices that promote the spread of cancer cells in the lymph system and bloodstream. Thanks to this, maitake D-fraction is used to help with breast cancer in addition to chemotherapy.
After being studied for over twenty years, scientists found that IP-6, a substance found in the bran of brown rice, combined with inositol has extremely powerful effects on the immune system. IP-6 with inositol is able to affect cancer cells by causing them to lose their aggressive nature, stop dividing uncontrollably, and eventually die, and yet the combination does not affect normal cells. This combination also increases the activity of natural killer cells, which naturally kill cancer cells and those infected by viruses, as well as acts like an antioxidant to help prevent cellular damage.
When combining both IP-6 and inositol together, very powerful cancer preventative effects and good cancer killing effects happened. If only one substance is taken on its own, you will still get the good cancer preventative effects as well as the good cancer killing effects, however, they will be much less powerful. IP-6 is broken down into IP-3 once it enters the human body, which is more active than IP-6, but also very unstable.
One of the most amazing aspects of all three of these products, POA cat’s claw root extract, maitake d-fraction, and IP-6 with inositol is their ability to modulate the immune system. The POAs in cat’s claw root extract strengthen the body’s immune system, while maitake d-fraction encourages the body’s own immune system regulators to act on cancer cells. Along with this, IP-6 with inositol increases NK cell activity. The combination works synergistically to strengthen and balance the immune system without the fear of over-stimulation.
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FLU RECIPE
¼ ounce Plurisy Root (expels coughing mucus to “slice the virus”, respiratory infections)
1 ounce Orange Peel (clarity to emotions, release of trauma)
¼ ounce Fuling (reduces moisture and pain)
¼ ounce Liquorice (expectorant, anti-inflammatory, strengthens all the ingredients)
¼ ounce Fresh Ginger Root (relieves upset stomach, fights infection, has Vitamin K)
Pinch Horsetail, known as Puzzlegrass, (Opens the lungs, Internal bleeding, kidney stones, rheumatism, bladder and urinary tract diseases, and stomach ulcers, fights infection)
Pinch Avocado Seed Shavings (High dose of Vitamin E, fights infection)
1/8 ounce Skullcap (calms the nerves)
10 drops Almond Oil (spasms)
¼ teaspoon Salt (changes the ph balance)
1 Plum (fights coughing, and a weak immune system)
10 drops Milk Thistle (Strengthens the immune system, high in vitamin K) Can substitute 2 teaspoons of dry seeds
5 drops Iris Rootstalk ( lymphatic swelling, liver– Iris was the goddess who served as messenger for Zeus and Hera, transmitting messages between heaven and earth on the pathway of a rainbow) Can substitute ½ teaspoon rootstalk.
Put all the ingredients into four cups of boiling water. Let it steep, or simmer for one minute, and let it set for three minutes. Then drink 4 ounces at least twice a day. For herbs please contact http://tomgrayhorse.tripod.com.
**For general flu please remove three ingredients from the Recipe: Avocado Seed, Plum, Iris Rootstalk.
Hello Everyone,
The making of this formula occurred after the prophecies began to insinuate a medical and or environmental catastrophe would happen in the future to earth’s inhabitants.
“Also in the Atlantic there will be a rise of land which will be a cause of those waves which will bring about great disasters upon the Americas, the Irish and Western European shore, involving all of the low-lying British coasts,” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He further predicted, “A period of natural convulsions during which a large portion of the human race will perish; earthquakes of great severity and enormous tidal waves would seem to be the agents.” Written July of 1930.
I had experienced in a psychic journey that this formula would be needed by the World. I asked my circle of friends, several Herbalist, Lightworkers, and Energy Workers around the globe, to come up with a way to help with symptoms involving the lung and heart. This was before the shortage of flu vaccinations. I had “dreamed” that I needed to have a ceremony to heal Mother Earth through the Four Directions of the Medicine Wheel. It was two months before the Worldwide Medicine Wheel Ceremony.
I held a Harmonic Earth Energy Ceremony on the Harmonic Concordance yahoo web group. I realized at the time that anyone with a sincere intention could use distant healing as a way to extend our energy and love to heal. The ceremony was a success, and we used many modalities toward healing the environment.
Esekial’s vision; the zodiac; the Wheel of Life, the Serpent swallowing its tail; the Wheel of Law, Truth and Light, one of the eight emblems of good fortune in Chinese Buddhism; Navajo sand-paintings showing the creation of the world, with glyphs of the sun, earth, water, the Four Winds and the Four Powers ruling the Directions; these and myriad more are the mandalas of the Medicine Wheel.
I asked participants to draw a picture or make the pattern of the 30 stones of The Medicine Wheel, using a larger stone in the middle, signifying the Great Unknown, and it represents Wakan-Tanka, Great Energy, and Source of all. You acknowledge the 13 stones around it in signifying the 13 Moon Cycle. You should see the cross of four stones out from the Middle Stone on all four sides, signifying North, South, East, and West. You many honor the Four Directions, to the Seen and unseen, to what is Above and Below, and for all the animal and plant life, to guide and help us on this healing journey.
Each stone in the Medicine Wheel is a tool to help you understand your ties with the ancient past that molds both personal and planetary, present and future. Each position in the Medicine Wheel will directly affect you at some point in your life. The Medicine Wheel will help you understand your relationship with all of the beings on the earth.
We can change our attitude toward the people and situations in our daily living. We can adopt the blessed relief of living in the now, responsible only for the short interval of the passing hours, flowing with the flow, endeavoring to remain in harmony with the Great Spirit and to be open channels for That One’s blessing to the world. We do not have to think about the past or to anticipate the future. We are in the now, which is all that anyone can have. When we change our attitudes towards our surroundings, a corresponding change will take place in ourselves.
.In the Ceremony I used a combination of drums, rattles, bells, gongs, synthesizers, eastern drone instruments and voice. The music sound will energize your work and provide a sound stimulus to extend your consciousness into the higher subtle planes. Each physical sound and its subtle sound counterpart create certain effects on healing, channeling consciousness, and affect the subtle bodies and the physical plane.
You can use a mantra, or work with “seed” sounds. They are based on the human voice, and can be combined to produce words or groups of words that produce specific effects on your physical and subtle bodies. They can also open your consciousness to the higher planes.
When you use “charged words” or mantras, each vowel and consonants creates a vibration that is tied to a specific subtle energy current that is located inside the body as well as in the corresponding subtle plane.
The mantras RAM, SAT NAM, RA, MA and WAHE GURU are repeated internally to open the subtle hearing and are heard better with the inner ear. When working with sound you can work with tone, rhythm, instrumentation, seed sounds and mantra. The Intention is for creating certain healing, or consciousness raising certain vibrations.
I also asked participants to use a circle, as a geometric formation to create a like arrangement of vibrational energy patterns in the subtle and inter-connected physical plane. The circle, the Great Symbol for Life, is the center and source of all things, and represents a reconstruction of life cycles, the symbol of rebirth and the origin of life. Never ending. Never beginning. It has three basic parts, 1) the circumference, 2) the directions, and 3) the center.
The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new, everything becomes sacred. This ceremony is to help promote the highest good of all those involved with them.
The Iris flower was the last ingredient added to the recipe, for it was “dreamed” with the help of Quan-Yin or Kuan Yin, a Mahayanna Buddhism bodhisattva (enlightened being), who is known as “She who harkens to the cries of the world.” Kuan Yin interceded that this formula would be needed in the future as part of the Cree Indian Prophecy about the “Warriors of the Rainbow.” The person who visioned the future is a Warrior of the Rainbow.
The Cree Prophecy explained that an old woman, named “Eyes of Fire,” had prophesied that one day, because of the white mans, or Yo-ne-gis’ greed, there would come a time, when the earth being ravaged and polluted, the forest being destroyed, the birds would fall from the air, the waters would be blackened, the fish being poisoned in the streams, and the trees would no longer be, mankind as we would know it would all but cease to exist. There would come a time when the “keepers of the legend” would be needed to restore us to health, making the earth green again. They would be mankind’s keys to survival; they were the “Warriors of the Rainbow.” There would come a day of awakening when all the peoples of all the tribes would form a New World of Justice, Peace, Freedom and recognition of the Great Spirit. The poor, sick, and needy would be cared for by their brothers and sisters of the Earth.
This is a call for all Rainbow Warriors. The Rainbow Ray is a composite of all the known colors of the spectrum, as well as the colors of gold, silver, platinum, and copper. It is a force of light that is natural to your being. The planet as well as you, have for the most part, integrated the rays singularly, and are now ready to move to this integration. It is very powerful, and will touch you in ways that you have not experienced before.
I am a Rainbow Warrior, Lightworker, and Crystal/Energy worker. I realize that the healer facilitates the energy flow and assists this process by providing a safe and nurturing environment of energy and healing thoughts. The energy flow is controlled by the thoughts coming from the subconscious, conscious, and super-conscious levels. Always remember, we heal ourselves.
This formula is hereby dedicated to all of mankind as a way to survive these trying times on Earth. Through the visions and help of others who believe in the Rainbow Warriors creed to help mankind, with that in mind, we hereby dedicate ourselves to further the health of all on Earth.
Written by Kim, Gypsy Rainbow, Yellow Cosmic Star
Kim and Tom Grayhorse
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We also have a drinkable cold formula, healing medical oil for Arthritis, and two topical medical oils for pain.
