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A while back I spent a day looking at all the toothpaste labels in a large health food store, and they all contained glycerin. I'm still looking for one that doesn't, and the one or two I find have other nasties like SLS. Maybe what you saw about Vicco wasn't a full listing? I found the ingredients: Purified Chalk, Water, Sorbitol, Glycerine, Sodium Lauryl Sulphate, Gum Tragacanth, Extracts of Indian Licorice Root, Indian Almond, Common Jujube, Currant, Sarsaparilla, Cinnamon, Sappan Wood, Persian Walnut, Rose Apple, Medlar, Barleria Prinoitis, Prickly Ash, Asian Holly Oak, Bedda Nut, Bengal Maddar, Bishop's Weed, Cateche, Mayweed and Geranium Menthol, Thymol, Oils of Clove, Eucalyptus and Peppermint. Too bad, because many of these "natural" toothpastes have nice herbal formulas otherwise. Dr. Bronner's liquid soap, peppermint flavor is my favorite. Or the unflavored baby soap and mix in a few drops of your own essential oils. Cheap, easy, healthy! And soap really doesn't foam up any more than toothpaste does. Just use a drop or two and find your desired foam level

Fluoride filters contain aluminum particles, not something you want to expose your water to. Vicco toothpaste just like almost all toothpaste contains glycerin, which coats the teeth so they can't remineralize well. Brushing with soap is the way to go.

Karen The recipe for the healthy chocolate "fudge" that uses coconut oil is here. It's more a concept than a recipe - I never measure anything, just mix stuff in to taste. So simple to do, you do it right in the container that you want to store it in, no need for a blender or anything else. All you mess up are a few spoons, which you of course lick, so cleanup is simple. What I've been adding to it recently is hemp seeds! Gives a bit of a crunch if you use enough of it. Real super food.

Hi rain, I'm so used to using the term "Heel" to refer to the name of the company that makes the detox kit, that I didn't realize it sounds like it refers to feet! Well, on some other level I'm sure it does The foot wrap is somewhat limited, and doesn't target all of the organs of elimination. The Heel detox kit is more broad spectrum and addresses drainage as well as detox, in a way that's gentle enough for most people. You might not notice anything physically, or might have some temporary healing symptoms, depends on a lot of factors. -Karen There are many ways to handle the problem of toxic water. Homeopathic Arsenicum can be used, according to the law of similars, to help remove the energetic disturbance caused by trace amounts of arsenic in the water. It's possible to even make a homeopathic remedy out of the water itself!

I don't know a lot about fish, but even if you distill water and put back a good mineral balance, there's more to healthy water than that. Living things need the biophysical, energetic qualities of the substances they take in, and the biochemical level is secondary to that. Water, Salt and Hydration

The main problem with toxins such as fluoride is the energetic damage it does, moreso than the biochemical. Using tissues salts of an energized (commonly called homeopathic) fluoride compound can help remove that damage and allow the body to eliminate the crude fluoride. Calc Fluor is the name, in the US it's made by Hyland's. Fluoric acid is another homeopathic that can be used for this purpose, although it might be harder to find. Also drainage/detox remedies, and these usually should be individualized, but a good kit for general purposes is the Heel detox kit. Once water has been highly processed to remove toxins, it loses life force and is difficult to re-energize, but using an orgonite charging plate can help (sold on the Orgone Crystals site), and a tornado tube water vortex-er comes with it. You could buy a tornado tube separately too for a couple bucks, and they're fun! -Karen

There's a chapter of Esther Gokhale's book that can be downloaded free from her website, www.wellstackedback.com. Also there are quite a lot of excerpts from it at google books.

Scotty, let me know how you like the book. I have been basking in it the past week. Even just the photos are inspirational. What a shame that the cover had to be so tacky by comparison! I hope she produces a DVD at some point.

It may seem surprising, but citrus fruits are actually a very poor source of vitamin C, unless you can get them biodynamically grown. But don't depend on the usual modern variety as a source of Vitamin C. Goji berries are high, and a few good vit C supplements from natural sources are here.

I just found out the full list of ingredients in the Ganozhi ganoderma toothpaste - Dicalcium phosphate, water, sugar, glycerin, sodium alginate, menthol, Ganoderma, peppermint oil, sodium lauryl sulphate! Sugar, glycerin, SLS.. really kind of cancels out any benefit from the ganoderma and sodium alginate. Now if someone could only formulate it without the junk!

You might like to look at Esther Gokhale's work - try this 1-hr presentation: <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value=" name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

Not having the will to change can be part of the expression of the disease itself. In other words, sometimes the will is reflecting the true destiny, but often it's reflecting a disease state which can be removed. If she is willing to get a kind of treatment that doesn't require going anywhere, just talking to a practitioner by phone and taking "homeopathic" remedies in dropper bottles,you could refer her to a Heilkunst practitioner. Even a family member could do consults for her, with her permission. I was in a similar life-threatening condition, for many years. For months I was so cardiovascularly unstable from malnutrition and dehydration that I couldn't walk a few steps without getting out of breath. I did the whole gamut of alternative treatments, including brainwave entrainment, and had some brilliant healers in many fields do their best, but nothing could penetrate the very deep layers of blockages until I had Heilkunst treatment. I'd also recommend individualized hypnotherapy. sessions as an adjunct, also can be done by phone. In the short run, TPN or tube feeding can be a life saver until she can work through the blockages. Hopefully she's considered that or is doing that, if her nutritional status is dangerous. Best. Karen

Great, thanks. And a tooth gel might be good for people who can't get used to the idea of putting soap in their mouth.

seadog, I'm glad you mentioned Ganozhi, because I've tried to find out whether it contains glycerin - the ingredients say "food gel" which sounds like it might be glycerin, but I haven't gotten an answer to the inquiries I've made. Do you know? apepch7, see the discussion after the article here. -Karen

Right. Oxygen is fascinating when you look at it in terms of polarity - it has a dual function, one is anabolic, the other is catabolic. Oxygen brings consciousness (the astral impulse) into the body, in a very direct way. That's why breathing exercises are so powerful. Oxygen is necessary to neutralize amines and cyanide which would otherwise overstimulate the sympathetic nervous system - in fight-or-flight we need some stimulation produced by those amines, but they become poisonous if sustained, and oxygen deactivates them. There's a whole "dynamic physiology" that goes beyond the biochemical level.. I find that looking at these things on the biochemical level only leads to more and more confusion if we don't bring in the larger context. Like in quantum physics, after a certain point the material substances seem to disappear completely . That's why when we apply any therapeutics we want to know exactly what principle we are using, not just what "works" to get the effects we want. Because you can make symptoms go away easily by getting a lobotomy, if making symptoms go away is the only criteria Okay, so botanical antimicrobials.. bottom line is, any anti-microbial substance if it is a crude substance is going to act on the law of opposites, unless you energize/dynamize it into a "homeopathic" remedy that can be used safely on the law of similars. Some substances will be more gentle than others - some may have more nutritive value like honey and have some other supportive properties as compared with an antibiotic drug. But the important question is, what are you treating? Are you just trying to get rid of microbes in order to make symptoms go away? That's palliation, and that's fine if you know that's what it is, and if you know that you're not addressing the real cause. So then you can use manuka honey, or colloidal silver or whatever anti-microbial you want, IF you have determined that the microbe is what you need to target, and the "anti-" principle, the law of opposites, is the one you really need to invoke. The deeper cause of the symptoms may be a disturbance of a different kind, in a different jurisdiction than the law of opposites. That can be diagnosed and removed according to the law of similars. Then the symptoms, the cascade of effects, including the microbes, disappear. Now, if you want to target a particular microbe, say you want to palliate while you're working on the deeper causes, you can use that specific microbe in homeopathic form, called a nosode. That is going to target only that microbe, nothing else. Of course then you will have the necessary healing reaction after that, where the system readjusts in so many ways accordingly. But you won't be killing off or inhibiting any beneficial processes. It's pure elegance Oh, about oil pulling, I think it stimulates the detoxification process, and the oils are also nutritive and supporting - I don't see it being very directly antimicrobial. -Karen

Good question, and the reason goes beyond the usual explanation of how the oil somehow "sucks out" toxins from the whole body through the mouth. It's more about the subtle energy properties of the oils and how the tongue relates energetically to the whole body. You might want to check out Bruce Fife's new book on oil pulling for more details. About the concept of disinfection, we have to look at why the germs are there in the first place. If we just kill them, and the same conditions exist, they'll just come back, which is the whole problem with anti-biotics, anti-fungals, anti-everything. In serious life-threatening conditions you do need to push back these organisms. And other times it can be helpful to take off some of the microbial load if a person is very weakened. But in all cases we want to get to the root of why the microbes are there in the first place. In many cases what conventional medicine interprets as pathogenic is only an inflammatory process, and that may actually be part of a very important positive process. But all inflammation is thought of as bad, because they mistake effects with causes. The symptom of inflammation is not the cause, so removing it is like killing the messenger. Sometimes it can buy time, if that's what's needed, but most often it's band aid treatment and doesn't address the real cause of what is going on. And as you mentioned, the crude means of killing germs isn't selective, so you kill the whole ecology. This is the problem with crude drugs in general (using the term drug in its broadest sense). They have no capacity to be selective, so they have "side effects" which really aren't side effects but primary effects, because their primary effects are so non-specific that they do a lot of things we don't want. But energy medicines ("homeopathic") can target a specific entity without affecting anything else. But the bottom line is really the whole paradigm of seeing germs as culprits. Sometimes they are, but it's important to distinguish between the real pathogenic ones and the pleomorphic ones that are really only there because they are "seasonal workers" called in to help establish balance in a disturbed environment. See Dr. Hamer on the role of microbes -Karen

That's the standard answer you get when you go to a dentist. What they don't tell you is that fluoride can harden the outer enamel of the teeth, while at the same time weakening the teeth. It's a similar concept as bone density - you can have great bone density but the bone may be brittle. They're measuring the wrong thing. I recommend avoiding fluoride completely. Gums need Coenzyme Q10 in a big way. You can supplement with it, and that often makes a difference that people notice after a few weeks. You can use Vitamin C and even rinse with it. In severe cases, use a dental syringe and squirt hydrogen peroxide into the gum pockets on a daily basis for a few weeks. Oil pulling. For instructions, see http://www.guideforselfhealing.com/2007/06...do-oil-pulling/ Flossing can be helpful, but remember that it can also make matters worse as you can push the material into the gum as you floss. Floss very gently. Brush with soap, never toothpaste. Toothpaste inhibits the natural remineralization process of the teeth. Warm salt water rinses are very soothing and help heal inflammations. Now, you should know that it's actually very normal for gums to be inflamed from time to time. Gums and teeth are often a reflection of what's going on in the rest of the body, so inflammatory processes in the mouth are not necessarily a problem, but part of a healing process. I've gone to dentists who said I "needed" periodontal surgery. I waited, worked with home care and nutrition, worked through other life issues, and the gum inflammation resolved. I saved myself the expense and unnecessary trauma. Just an example to show you the possibilities. There are many other things that can be done for teeth and gum health, depending on your individual situation. Plaque at the deepest level is a type of emotional armoring, so if you work through emotional issues you may find that you don't get as much plaque. Hope that helps. -Karen

Unfortunately, nutritional needs can't be figured so mechanically - would be easier if it could! Biochemistry is a complex interaction, and never static. And even biochemistry alone isn't the whole picture, because it's only the surface of the deeper energetic functioning. You have to look at your individuality, and typology, and then put it all together creatively, not mechanically. On your own, for typology, you could look at metabolic typing, which tells you about macronutrient ratios (protein, carbs, fats) and also mineral balance to some degree. There's a questionnaire to get an idea of your metabolic type, in the book Metabolic Typing by William Wolcott. There's also a more detailed one for a fee. I integrate blood typing, glandular typing, and sometimes metabolic typing when called for, if you want to go further. I also do email consults and generate customized eating guidelines, to create individualized programs for people. And have a lot of free info on my website. Take care, Karen

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Who says things aren't already crazy? When you take an opportunity to confront your deepest fears, that's when the real shit starts going crazy. We don't have to wait for crazy external shit to happen. It's all inside. Many times over. It's personal experience.

The material mind can only look at the challenge in material terms, look to material solutions, and go into fear. But there isn't a material solution, and the challenge is for us to change our consciousness, not to focus on the outer appearance of the problem and try to apply an outer (political) solution. When something that you thought you needed goes away - access to pure food, your health, your personal sovereignty in so many contexts, it's really a challenge for us to embody those things on a deeper level. And that's actually why the outer environment is providing those lessons for us now. When there's peace and prosperity and few challenges, we don't grow. So the world is The Matrix, and "bad" things happen, but it depends on how you look at it, same as with disease. You don't sit back and allow it to take over - you fight it - but in fighting it you have a chance to re-evaluate your relationship to that "bad" thing, and extract the higher spiritual meaning of it for you, personally. It becomes a great gift. The fighting itself is the experience we need to learn to fight not with brute strength but by activating our creative power, which is our source for all the things we expected to get handed to us on a silver platter from the outer world. Now the world isn't making it easy for us anymore, and now we have the opportunity to develop higher consciousness. The outer world is a mirror for us. -Karen

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Hi Jane, I'll see if I can find something that addresses it directly, but meantime the book Biological Transmutations by Louis Kervran shows the way the body can produce metals, and there might be info about his work online. Unfortunately, the system doesn't work very well, especially when the "peers" have vested interests and are not really looking to discover the truth but to support the desired outcome. That's fair enough - I don't believe it either . In other words, it's not just a gut feeling. I looked at the clinical work that my teachers have done. Treatment for emotional traumas in kids with high mercury load, resulted in the body getting rid of the mercury, when even the most aggressive chelating methods couldn't do it. This happens in case after case. I looked at the scientific principle that accounted for that. Exactly how the emotional traumas are treated, would take a longer discussion, but that's also grounded in principle. But there are many things that I didn't resonate with even 10 years ago, that I do now, as I've opened up to new connections, so things keep shifting. Could be that the tests weren't reflecting the true tissue stores. Or, that you didn't need to hold onto the metals and were getting rid of them naturally. -Karen

Re. Chinese medicine and cinnabar, yes.. and also Ayurveda uses bhasmas which are made from toxic substances like heavy metals, but they are in a purified form and it's a bit like the law of similars. The Arndt-Shultz law states that small doses stimulate physiological processes, and that's how small doses of toxic substances can be used medicinally, but best to do that in energetic form (homeopathic). Cilantro for chelation may be effective for some people, some of the time, and especially when the body is ready to release the mercury.. but the question is always, what does the individual need at a particular time. Just because someone has decided they need chelation doesn't mean that there is a one-size-fits-all best way of doing it. -Karen

Hi SFJane, Unfortunately, those studies are too expensive for smaller researchers, and often flawed by design, but we can look at independent research critically and use what's valuable there. Clinical studies are being done, especially at the Hahnemann Clinic and College for Heilkunst, although they may not be in the mainstream literature, but that doesn't necessarily disqualify them from true science . As for published material, you could read Kevran's work with biological transmutation, which proves the principle that the body can produce metals on its own. Then there is Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer's clinical work that demonstrates the link between emotional trauma and disease. -Karen