HERBS AND NATURAL FOODS by Phil Cutrara


Venice Produce Market

In the study of nutrition that shows how natural foods keep the whole person healthy, only a small percent of the chemical properties are needed for a normal person to retain well being. Homeopathy has shown that when a similar symptom that a chemical property exhibits upon a person's body is ingested at a small percentage found in its natural state, it exhibit's a greater healing property. Powers of 10X-6 to 10X -80 are within their range. Common prescribed are X6 to X10 (.0000001) to (.00000000001)% of the natural amount found in food.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the condition of the tongue is used to help determine the condition of the body. While searching the Internet for Cat Scratch Fever and eye drops, I found a Russian article on the language of the tongue. I used AltaVista's translation feature to give me a good understanding of the topic.

Tongue Diagnostics of the states of the language

There are many pictures of the tongue, examples of illnesses of the body and treatments using homeopathic formulae. Those ingredients that I wanted to find out more, where researched using the "Image" feature of the AltaVista search engine.

In many cases those searches would lead to other countries and other languages that were also translated using AltaVista's translation feature. When I did not know the country of the Internet address, I put that into the search engine to find what language the site was written in when it was created.

The Internet is being made more helpful for researchers. Many of the closed stacks in the libraries of the world are being opened to the WWW.

Chemical component databases of foods and herbs are being added every day to the web. The relationship of foods to animals and to humans is found even in the great manuscripts of the middle ages.

Certain butterflies prefer their own types of flowers and they have certain healing properties for humans. I remember researching herbs and found a manuscript filled with water colored paintings of butterflies with the flowers they liked.

I compared these flowers with the commonly used herbs used to treat the aliments of modern human beings. There are only three copies of this book in the world. One of them can be found in the library of the University of Pisa in Italy by searching the Internet.

The chemical component database of foods can be used to discover what helps us be healthy. There are basic requirements the body needs to have the proper nutrition to be fully healthy.

In some cases, we need very little of a vitamin, but often times the body might have a difficult time making what it needs. Humans need very little B12; however doctors used to rely on often times, expensive B12 shots. Today, we can ingest all the B12 formula we need by keeping a pill under our tongue for a couple of minutes.

Nutritionalist have formulated a synergistic combination of B12 with B6 and folic acid that we can take under the tongue.

Better yet, we can see what foods contain these and eat them when we need them and watch out for them when they are in season, and when they are the freshest.

We do not need to shop at the nearest store any more, we can do a little traveling to other markets, and even use the Internet to do some special shopping for certain foods, herbs and homeopathic remedies.

With a little study you can become a smarter shopper, or even our own natural doctor that does not use harmful chemicals; but only natural foods to keep you fully alive, and totally well.