MOVIES MADE IN PITTSBURGH
Movies Made in Pittsburgh

Some say the soul and your gardian angel are so intimately connected that they share information about the future and how and when you will die...

The Mothman Prophecies

This list of Made-in-Pittsburgh films was gleaned from the International Movie Data Base . Many of the films on this list are no longer available on videotape, and could not be reviewed.

But those we could review, we did so with an eye on those scenes shot in Pittsburgh, how recognizably Pittsburgh are they? and does the script call them Pittsburgh or is our fair city playing the role of somewhere else?

The higher the rating, the more Pittsburgh it is!

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Click here for an excellent essay which, although written in 1992 at the height of Hollywood Film Making in Pittsburgh, offers some insight into why the industry has "dried up".

Rating year title, Pgh scenes
n/r 1983 All the Right Moves
Johnstown, PA
n/r 1951 Angels in the Outfield
**** 1996 Assasination File
CMU track, Union Trust bldg, outside Margaret Morrison, Dobson St (hill dist), Mellon Park, Pittsburgh's 1 block "Chinatown", Mon incline, Grand Concourse exterior, Wm Penn interior, Smithfield St. Bridge, city skyline.
n/r 1995 Backstreet Justice
--- 1991 Bloodsucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh
Not any Pittsburgh I'm familiar with!
Bad, but not bad enough to become a cult film.
** 1992 Bob Roberts
Certainly Western PA but hard to identify exact locations. Heinz Hall ext; ballroom, Mt. Lebanon High School
** 1995 Boys on the Side
Ft. Pitt tunnel and bridge, city skyline, parkway north, Greenfield? Courthouse - courtyard, stairs, hallway.
n/r 2000 Brat 2
n/r 2000 The Bread, my sweet
Strip district
****** 1993 Cemetery Club
Squirrel Hill, Homewood Cemetery, Fort Pitt Tunnels, Station Square, Heinz Hall, 16th St. Bridge, Crewser's parking lot, Westin Wm. Penn, PPG Place, the Point, Brownsville Rd.
****** 1992 Citizen Cohn
Union Trust Bldg, Grand Concourse, Heinz Hall, Margaret Morrison, Penn Sta. Mellon Institute , Carnegie Music Hall, Frick Building, Allegheny River, and Pittsburgher Pip Theodore
n/r 1999 Cola for Tea
n/r 1993 Coming in Out of the Rain
* 1982 Creepshow
Margaret Morrison - CMU
*** 1993 Dark Half
Edgewood (Maple Ave.) - W & J college, Washington, PA
n/r 1978 Dawn of the Dead
* 1978 Deer Hunter
Clairton, Duquesne Heights,
n/r 1996 Desperate Measures
** 1996 Diabolique
One brief drive through Pittsburgh, across the bridges; mansion in Squirrel Hill
n/r 1991 Diary of a Hit Man
I hear it is actually Youngstown
n/r 1995 Dog eat Dog
*** 1999 Dogma
Pgh. airport ; USX Plaza & Steel Bldg; Grand Concourse
Pittsburgher Betty Aberlin
****** 1988 Dominick & Eugene
Southside
n/r 1979 Fish that Saved Pittsburgh
Northside, Civic Arena
*** 1983 Flashdance
Carnegie Museum (art), Carnegie Music hall, Oakland streets, Smithfield St. Bridge, Heinz chapel, Mon & incline. Pittsburgher Don Brocket
n/r 1994 Flesheater
n/r 1984 Flight of the Spruce Goose
* 1993 Groundhog Day
Opening shot of Pittsburgh riverfront
Waukegan ILL and Woodstock ILL.
n/r 1971 Going Home
* 1986 Gung Ho
Mesta Plant, Homestead; Allegheny Airport
n/r 1984 Hambone & Hillie
n/r 1993 Heartstopper
* 1992 Hoffa
Strip District; Mellon Institute
*** 1995 Houseguest
Carnegie Museum (art), PPG Place, airport, West End Bridge, Sewickley
n/r 1991 Incident in Baltimore
Geo Westinghouse Castle, Wilmerding
**** 1992 Innocent Blood
Great aerial view of the city at night; Market Square, Union Oyster House, West End Overlook, Frick Bldg, 5th Ave. , Troy Hill, Northside near stadium, Liberty tubes.
****** 1999 Inspector Gadget
Pittsburgh is clearly itself! Wonderful shots of downtown, PPG place, bridges.
The best is the duel on top of the 6th St. Bridge!
n/r 1991 Iron Maze
**** 1997 The Journey
McMurray, Oakland, WDUQ, Fallingwater, Center for the Arts
n/r 1987 Kenny
n/r 1989 Kid Brother
n/r 1996 Kingpin
Mars, PA, Rochester PA
n/r 1981 Knightriders
**** 1989 Lady Beware
Old Hornes, Mt. Washington, North Side, Grand Concourse, Duquesne Incline, Troy Hill,
****** 1989 Lightning over Braddock
Tony Buba's documentary on the decline of Braddock
n/r 1999 Looking for Oscar
n/r 1992 Lorenzo's Oil
Ben Avon; however the house was torn down.
n/r 1986 Majorettes
n/r 1984 Maria's Lovers
n/r 1978 Martin
Braddock
*** 1994 Milk Money
the usual, over the river, across the bridge, skyline shots
and McCartle Roadway!
**** 1993 Money for Nothing
8th Ave White Oak, South Side, Mattress Factory, Old International Airport, Mon river off Carson St. Pittsburghers Don Cannon & Harish Saluja
n/r 1988 Monkeyshines
****** 2002 Mothman More detail...
Pitt campus; Mellon Square (as Chicago), Interior offices Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Shadyside, Kittaning PA

** 1984 Mrs. Soffel
County Jail
n/r 1991 My Worst Enemy
*** 1968 Night of the Living Dead
Monroeville Mall
n/r 1992 North of Pittsburgh
n/r 1992 No Pets
Regent Square
film by Pittsburgher Tony Buba, written by Pittsburgher Jim Daniels
n/r 1994 Only You
n/r 1999 Out of Courage
* 1992 Passed Away
bridges, Allegheny cemetery . Mainly interiors, could be anywhere.
Pittsburgher Don Brockett, Helena Ruoti
** 1995 The Piano Lesson
written by Pittsburgher August Wilson.
South Side hillside, Union Trust Bldg, The Garden (North Side)
n/r 1988 Prince of Pennsylvania
n/r 1995 Rappin
n/r 1984 Reckless
n/r 1987 Robo Cop
*** 1995 Roommates
Munhall Cemetery, South side, Cathedral of Learning, Rainbow Kitchen, Dormont Park, Pittsburgher Ron Jaye
n/r 1996 Santa Claws
n/r 1996 Scream Queens
n/r 1972 Season of the Witch
**** 1991 Silence of the Lambs
Carnegie Museum, Soldiers & Sailor's Hall , Liberty Tubes, Air Force Reserve Wing, Pgh Airport, Oakland, Layton PA, Shackleford & Maxwell
n/r 1990 Simple Justice
** 1993 Striking Distance
Pittsburgh's rivers - the Mon, the Al & the Ohio - locks - most of Pittsburgh's bridges. Many street scenes -- Bigelow Blvd, Carson St. Grant St. -- Armstrong Tunnel - Science Museum - Mellon Institute - City County Bldg - Point Park - newscaster Sally Wiggins
n/r 1977 Slap Shot
Johnstown, PA
n/r 1995 Sudden Death
Civic Arena
n/r ? Swan Song
Homewood
n/r 1999 Tempatations
n/r 1988 Tiger Warsaw
n/r 1994 TimeCop
n/r 1989 Two Evil Eyes
n/r 1995 Undertakings
n/r 1989 Unremarkable Life
**** 2000 Wonderboys
CMU: Kresge Auditorium , Rochester PA , Beaver PA, Pgh. International .
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Article One Hundred

Life is all about knowing the truth and following it. Life is simple, if you understand it. Human beings are influenced in many ways by people who say that they know the truth.

It is written in the Bible that we should ?seek the truth and the truth will set you free.? One of the first things we should do is to know our self. Our parents are our primary teachers.

We are also influenced by many other educators in the schools, churches, communities, workplaces, businesses, and by many other ?authorities? through out creation, since the beginning of time.

The greatest teacher is perfect love. God is love and our transformation through it. Grace is the shared process we have with God our Father, Jesus the Son of God, and the Holy Spirit, who loves us all unconditionally.

Our Lord said, ?Come and follow me, and I will make you fishers of men!?

The world will be a better place, when all men know that I am God. Go and preach the Gospel to all nations. Baptize in the name of the Father, the Son and Holy Spirit. Tell them about my life, death and resurrection from the dead, proving to all men that I am your Lord and God.

Happiness

Happy people have found that life is filled with wonderful gifts to help us keep healthy, holy and whole. They are aware that there are countless aspects that make a person feel fully alive and energized with optimism for the future.

Some of the aspects are called physical, mental or spiritual; yet they all make up the whole person that experiences these as sensations, emotions, and feelings of union with our spiritual destiny when we become "beings of the hereafter."

A healthy person eats a balanced diet filled with every nutritional need to promote well being. He has a normal thirst for clean water, pure air and a healthy desire to be physically fit and morally strong.

The normal process of the digestion of food causes oxygenation, and chemical reactions to everything we ingest. Free radicals are oxygen molecules that cannot find a mate and destroy anything in their path.

Rusting metal and rotting fruit are examples of the free radical activity that goes on outside of our bodies. Free radicals can equally cause problems inside our bodies. You do not feel the damage that is taking place inside of you, however, it is ever present. Then it may be too late. In addition, high body fat percentages contribute to much higher incidences of free radical damage.

Antioxidants = Free Radical Scavengers

We have known for decades how to stop free radical activity. Most vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes, and herbs are the best known free radical fighters. They are also called antioxidants. The ones that are not direct free radical fighters have other jobs that directly or indirectly help the antioxidants. They are all synergistic, meaning they do a much better job when they have each other than when they are taken alone.

People from different parts of the world are affected in different ways to the harmful effects of the environment. There are many harmful substances in the water, air and food that we eat and the substances that we touch. Not all of the products that we use are complete safe and harmless to our health. Just about every medicine that has been created has several harmful side effects that can even cause us to die.

The cold remedy you take makes you sleepy. The antidepressant gives you a headache. The sinus decongestant makes your heart race. Why are side effects so common?1.

To understand this you need to realize that your body is an immensely complex structure built from chemicals that must be regulated in order to function smoothly. Chemicals such as hormones and other molecular messengers usually make these adjustments. Medicines often work by taking the place of one of the body?s regulating chemicals to readjust the balance. When this restores functioning it is seen as helpful.

However, two things complicate the picture. First, the body often uses the same chemical to regulate more than one process. This means that a medicine may retune not only the desired target but also others that don?t need readjustment. An example of this is that the drug prednisone turns off inflammation, but also causes thinning of bones.

Secondly, medicines are not always as selective as we would wish. This means the medicine may alter a number of unrelated processes at the same time. For example, the antidepressant drug amitriptyline can help depression (by acting on serotonin receptors), can also lower blood pressure (by affecting nor epinephrine receptors), cause blurred vision, dry mouth and constipation (by blocking acetylcholine receptors) and produce sleepiness and weight gain (by binding to histamine receptors).

One of the more surprising aspects of medications is how two people taking the same medicine can have such different experiences. One person may have severe or troublesome side effects that make the medicine intolerable, while another person finds that the medicine does only the good that it is intended to do. In fact when many thousands or millions of people use medicines, the list of observed side effects can become long indeed.

Side effects may be rare or common, serious or merely annoying. A medicine with frequent mild side effects may be tolerated by the majority of people and be regarded as relatively safe. On the other hand if a medicine has a less common but more serious side effect it can mean that the medicine should only be used when there is no alternative, and then with close monitoring.

These considerations require doctors to assess the risk of side effects versus the expected benefit of any medication. In a life-threatening disease, even serious side effects may be worth the risk; but for a mild, transient illness, little risk or even discomfort should be tolerated.

As we learn more about the way our bodies are regulated, more medications are developed that allow us to intercede when diseases disrupt our functioning. It has been a prominent goal in the development of new medications to avoid more serious side effects.

But it is likely that until we can foretell who is especially susceptible, at least some people may experience side effects from otherwise beneficial medications. Many of us may have to keep going back to our doctors to try a second or even a third medication before we find one with the strongest therapeutic effect and the fewest side effects.

Supplementing vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes, and herbs in the manner to neutralize free radicals is virtually unknown to most people. Or, the information is not well known by our traditional American Medical establishment.

Unfortunately, we tend to be educated by the popular media, multi-level companies, or health food store employees. It has been my experience that these individuals know enough about vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes, and herbs "to make them dangerous."

They are far from being experts in this field. Of the hundreds of multi-level and health food store owners/employees with whom I have spoken over the past couple of decades, few have any idea how much to take and how often to take them. Multi-level companies in particular are full of pseudo-scientific individuals being led around with the promise of making "big bucks" someday.2.

Some of the best food there is made, we have cultivated over the eons to keep us totally well. Food is the bread of life that keeps us happy. Herbs and spices were undoubtedly made for use in those climates where they grow, but the natives of those climates use them much more sparingly than we do.

We may reasonably suppose that they are more adapted to the wants of hot climates than of cold ones, as nature has placed them in the former, and yet we saturate our food with them, mix them together, destroy the flavors of each by so doing, and make a stimulus to appetite by a conglomeration, which is a most unnatural one, and gradually injures the very power of digestion.

We thus conceal, also, that fine aroma of vegetables and meats which distinguishes one from the other, and deprive ourselves of the pleasure God designed we should feel in partaking of them.

There is a delicate fruit of the tropics resembling a muskmelon, which grows, however, not upon a vine, but upon a tree, the taste of which is so finely delicate, that a foreigner can not even perceive it at first; but if he does not cover it with pepper and salt, as we have seen many foreigners do, to 'give it a taste,' he will, after partaking of it a few days or weeks (according to the simplicity of his appetite), appreciate its flavor, which is that of the most delicate aromatic nut. In our climate we lose the flavor of many vegetables in the same way, by covering them with pepper, and also by putting them into water below the boiling-point when we cook them.

Every one who is so happy as to live in the country, and can gather vegetables daily from his own garden, knows the difference between them when gathered thus and properly cooked, and those which have been picked and kept for market even one night.

When substances like rice, corn-starch, and farina are used, which have very little taste (rice, because it has been so long exposed to the air after it is gathered, and corn-starch and farina, because; from the mode of their preparation, they lose a great part of the nutritious ingredients of the corn), a delicate flavoring of spice may be used without injury to health.

Science may at last bring us to the conclusion, that each climate and region produces those articles of food which it is most healthful to eat in their respective localities.

It is not the most costly or most luxurious living that we would advocate, but it is a variety of food. The difficulty is, that we are tempted sometimes by a great variety of dishes at one meal to eat too much. This is no argument against variety of food.

It is important that we should study to increase earth's products, and improve their quality, to produce the highest condition of perfection in man. A man, it is true, may be a glutton, and consume mountains of flesh and rich dishes, but that is not the point. It is that we all should consume the best food possible to be produced, and in sufficient variety to give healthy results.3.

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Patients explore complementary medicine

By Marjorie Wertz
TRIBUNE-REVIEW (Suburbian Pittsburgh, PA. newspaper)
Monday, April 21, 2003

For practitioners of holistic medicine, a healthy life is not just the absence of pain. Whole health is the normal functioning of the physical, emotional and chemical self, according to Dr. Phil Westerbeck, a chiropractor at the West-Land Clinic, in Latrobe.
"It is the physical, our posture, muscle tone and weight," said Westerbeck. "It is the chemical, or what we put in our body, and it is the emotional portion of the body. My purpose is to find out why a patient's body is not healthy."

Westerbeck has been a licensed chiropractor for eight years. And while the chiropractic segment of his practice focuses on treating the dysfunctions of the body's joints, Westerbeck also concentrates on nutritional therapy and contact reflex analysis.

His patients seeking nutritional therapy are not alone. Prevention magazine's national survey on the self-care movement reports that 158 million consumers use dietary supplements to stay healthy, spending about $8.5 billion each year.

An estimated 22.8 million consumers use herbal remedies instead of prescription medicines, and an estimated 19.6 million combine herbal remedies with prescription products, according to the American Holistic Health Association.

Similarly, about 30.3 million people use herbal remedies instead of over-the-the counter drugs; approximately 19 million combine herbal and over-the-counter remedies.

Vitamins and minerals are essential to a person's overall health. For a fairly healthy person, a good multivitamin with trace minerals, essential fatty acids such as flaxseed oil or fish oil, and extra antioxidants, will keep him on the road to good health.

The best source of calcium, Westerbeck said, is calcium citrate. Vitamin D and magnesium helps the body assimilate calcium, while antioxidants prevent cell damage caused by free radicals.

"When you get free radicals in your body, it will pull electrons off cells," he said. "Anything that protects the cells from getting disrupted or destroyed is a good thing.

"Contact reflex analysis is similar to acupuncture," Westerbeck said. "We monitor the electrical system of the body by testing various points by using electrical stimulation. Sometimes a patient will have a nutritional problem that causes an imbalance; sometimes there is a CRA imbalance."

In the mid-1980s Deborah Barr, founder of Whole Health Resources in Pittsburgh, began conducting classes in natural weight loss.

"It all starts with a basic need to be happy and healthy," said Barr. "People have a lot of fear about changing their diets. It's about finding the imbalance in the person because sometimes it's how we're eating, not what we're eating."

Barr's training is in traditional Chinese medicine, which looks at the therapeutic values and the energetic properties of food.

"Our diets are terrible. It's not even real food," said Barr. "I'm never surprised when people change their diet and after a week they feel better. Holistic healing focuses on what causes the problems and what new choices I can make. Then you need to create a plan to do those choices.

"We teach and facilitate an understanding of the relationship between diet, attitudes, lifestyle and wellness."

Barr consults with each patient to customize a program based on the person's condition, constitutional strengths and weaknesses, lifestyle, age, activity level, and personal health and lifestyle goals.

"There is no one way for each person to achieve the results they want," she added. "There is no one perfect diet."

In addition to dietary healing, Barr provides attitudinal healing, which is a therapy used to uncover the mental/emotional and spiritual causes of health problems; shiatsu therapy, an energy-based massage; herbal and vitamin therapy; yoga therapy and corrective exercise; meditation; visualization and spiritual development, for her clients.

"We strive to uncover the cause of problems on every level," Barr said. "This is the only way to achieve lasting results."

Sixty-four-year-old Karl Hayek, of Forest Hills, Allegheny County, used to have constant headaches and heart palpitations. He began treatments at Medical Wellness Associates, in Jeannette, in December.

"I just didn't feel right," said Hayek. "I wanted to build up my immune system and have some chiropractic treatments. Now I have more energy and I've lost 11 pounds. I hardly have any heart palpitations and my headaches are infrequent. I attribute that to the diet and nutrition."

His new diet consists of lots of fruits and vegetables, little carbohydrates, and very little meat. He no longer consumes dairy products. Hayek is nearing the last of his immune drip treatments, a series of 12 intravenous infusions of vitamins and minerals specially blended for Hayek's immune system. The treatments are part of Dr. Martin Gallagher's 90-day wellness plan.

"The program has eight steps, each of which is a tool to get well and stay well," said Gallagher.

The steps are: detoxification; diet; optimizing digestion; food, chemical and environmental allergy identification; exercise and conditioning, nutritional supplements, attending to stress and rest; and chiropractic.

"Over the 90 days, we see very profound changes. The patient has more energy, less arthritic pain, the cholesterol lowers, and the blood pressure is lower," Gallagher said. "We also see an improvement in the emotional and spiritual well-being. These methods are natural, but patients must follow a natural lifestyle."

Gallagher, a licensed chiropractor, has a syndicated cable television show, "Nutritional Healing," aired on Sky Angel, The Health and Healing Channel, Cornerstone Television, and Family Land. He also has a radio show, "Alternatives 2 Medicine" on WEDO-AM (810) and KHB-AM (620) from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturdays. He can also be heard on WEDO from 1 to 2 p.m. weekdays and on KHB 10 a.m.-noon Thursdays.

On any given day, between 25 and 30 of Gallagher's patients receive chelation and infusion therapy. Chelation therapy consists of a man-made amino acid (EDTA) which is infused intravenously. EDTA removes toxic metallic agents involved in the buildup of arterial plaque and free radicals. Medical insurers, including Medicare, will not cover the costs involved in chelation treatments.

"We need to develop a method where we start with natural methods first in treating health problems," said Gallagher. "Doctors should be teaching patients on how to get well. There is, however, a place for drugs and a place for surgery in health care."

Westerbeck noted the importance of working with other health care providers in attaining the best possible care for the patient.

"They (medical doctors) are essential," he added. "You are going to find things in patients that they need to be referred to other doctors, such as oncologists or other specialists. That's very important to refer those patients to the physician who can best help them."

Marjorie Wertz can be reached at .

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CURE FOR THE COMMON COLD
Herbal cure for common cold?

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- Echinacea might not fight cold symptoms, further evidence

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- Echinacea fails to reduce severity of colds but may cut frequency

21/09/2004 - Scientists in Germany, Austria and Canada are claiming that their combined work may have led to a natural ?cure for the common cold?.

Calgary-based Factors R & D Technologies in collaboration with researchers at the universities of Alberta, British Columbia and Dalhousie in Nova Scotia, as well as the Heinrich-Hein University in Dusseldorf, Germany and the Karl-Franzens University in Graz, Austria have pooled their knowledge and resources to produce Echinilin - an Echinacea extract phytopharmaceutical.

In contrast to over-the-counter cold and flu treatments, the product is supposed to be a preventative treatment, which does not mask or suppress symptoms.

?When clinical trial participants were given Echinilin, we saw an immediate and sustained increase in natural killer cells which target virus infected cells and destroys them,? said Dr. Richard Barton, co-director of the human clinical studies. ?This indicates that their immune system had been stimulated to target and destroy the viruses. The end result was an immediate and marked reduction in both severity of symptoms and duration of the infection.?

Factors R & D Technologies claim they spent eight years in research and development at a cost of over $5-million dollars to produce this product.

Many researchers are still undecided about the ability of the herbal Echinacea to reduce symptoms of the common cold and help patients recover faster.

A study published in June in the Archives of Internal Medicine (164:1237-1241), for example, showed that the herbal remedy had no effect on severity of symptoms and the time taken to recover from a cold compared to those given placebo.

The findings were based on a trial of 120 adults, who took 300 milligrams of an echinacea juice preparation daily at the first sign of a cold and supported the results of a study in children last year.

This trial, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that echinacea did not reduce the severity or duration of infections although it did appear to cut the number of respiratory tract infections in the children.

Echinacea is thought to stimulate the immune response and is widely sold as a cold remedy. However it is available in different forms, made from both the above-ground herb and/or root portions depending upon the species used. The product tested in both the new and JAMA study used the fresh-pressed juice of the above-ground part of the Echinacea plant.

The researchers from the US-based Marshfield Clinic concluded that "further studies using different preparations and dosages of E purpurea are necessary to validate previous claims.?

Common Cold Cure

Cayenne Pepper for Improved Blood Flow


Cayenne pepper (also called Capsicum frutescens) is a stimulating herb made from the dried pods of chili peppers and is well known for its pungent taste and smell. Cayenne is a popular spice used in many different regional styles of cooking, but it has also been used medicinally for thousands of years. Cayenne is often referred to as chili, which is the Aztec name for cayenne pepper.

The main medicinal properties of cayenne are derived from a chemical called capsaicin. Capsaicin is the ingredient which gives peppers their HEAT. A pepper's capsaicin content ranges from 0-1.5%. Peppers are measured according to heat units. The degree of heat determines the peppers' usage and value. Generally, the hotter the pepper, the more capsaicin it contains. In addition to adding heat to the pepper, capsaicin acts to reduce platelet stickiness and relieve pain. Other constituents of cayenne are vitamins E, vitamin C and carotenoids.

Today cayenne is used worldwide to treat a variety of health conditions, including poor circulation, weak digestion, heart disease, chronic pain, sore throats, headaches and toothache.

Ayurveda also utilizes cayenne to treat poor digestion and gas. Chinese medicine uses cayenne for digestive ailments.

When taken internally, cayenne soothes the digestive tract and stimulates the flow of stomach secretions and saliva. These secretions contain substances which help digest food.

Cayenne is the greatest herbal aid to circulation and can be used on a regular basis. Dr. Richard Schulze, the medical herbalist, says that "If you master only one herb in your life, master cayenne pepper. It is more powerful than any other."

Cayenne moves blood
There is no other herb which increases your blood flow faster than cayenne. Cayenne moves blood. When people ask Dr. Schultze, "What are the 10 most important herbs to have in the home?" He tells them, "At the top of the list is cayenne pepper, because it will make the other 9 work better."

Cayenne is the greatest blood circulation stimulant known. You can take all the milk thistle you want, but if you have bad circulation to your liver, it's not going to do you any good. Cayenne increases your blood circulation immediately within seconds, more than any other herb.

When you have a sick area, there's often a restriction of blood flow to that area. Blood flow is what takes nutrition and the healing properties of herbs to those cells. Blood flow is also what carries out and removes waste material. Cayenne pepper is like TNT. It blasts through all that blockage to get to that area which is sick, taking with it all the minerals and vitamins from the foods you eat, and all the vital chemicals from the herbs you take - all the way to the sick area.

Cayenne pepper is usually labeled 40,000, 60,000, 90,000 or more heat units. Generally, the higher the number of heat units, the more beneficial. The lower-heat cayenne peppers are a lot less efficient, and they are the ones which are most highly contaminated. These are the ones you see labeled for 30,000 heat units. These are the ones to stay away from.


People who are not used to cayenne just need to work their way up. One problem people have is that they blow their mouths with cayenne, right off the bat. For those who have never used cayenne pepper before, a good initial dosage is 1/16th of a teaspoonful in some juice. Work your way up in dosage slowly. Put a small amount in some juice, stir and drink. Delicious.

Cayenne powder
It is recommended that the cayenne powder be used, as opposed to capsules. It is believed that you are only getting a small part of the potential effect of cayenne pepper by taking it in capsules. When you put cayenne in your mouth, your stomach secretes digestive juices before the cayenne ever gets there. So when the cayenne gets down there, your stomach is ready for it.

But if you swallow a capsule, your tongue tastes nothing. A capsule goes down in your stomach, and your stomach notices nothing, at first. Then, 5 minutes later the gelatin bursts, and you have a 1/2 teaspoon of cayenne pepper in your stomach and your body is shocked. You surprised it.

What is going on is that some of cayenne's healing action occurs right in your mouth. As cayenne touches your tongue, the cayenne absorbs in seconds and nerve endings send signals throughout the body - sending waves of fresh blood throughout your body.

My favorite source for high quality, non-irradiated cayenne pepper 90,000 heat units by the pound is here. (If the link goes to a blank page, just search their site for 'cayenne'.) I also like Puritan Pride's special "Buy 2 Get 3 FREE" promotions on cayenne.



I highly recommend the book "The Health Benefits of Cayenne" by John Heinerman if you want to learn more about the power of cayenne. There is no other herb stronger or more effective than cayenne to make immediate physiological and metabolic changes in the body.

Sure, there are a few heating herbs like ginger and horseradish, but what other herb can you put in somebody's mouth and all of a sudden it makes their faces look like cherries? I don't know another herb that will do that, and cayenne does that through your whole body. Use it to improve blood flow throughout your body.

Cayenne Pepper for Improved Blood Flow

Dr. Christopher's Heart Treatments

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Description: Heart circulation, cholesterol, heart disease, palpitation, heart weakness, heart attack, how to strengthen the heart, stress on the heart, etc.


Herbal Aids

Cayenne for Heart Circulation: Take cayenne, working up to a teaspoon three times a day. This increases the power of the heart and corrects the circulation problems. [SNH p.31]

Wheat Germ for Cholesterol and Heart: Wheat germ oil is excellent for feeding the heart and helps cut the cholesterol and smoothens its removal from the area. [SNH p.31]

Heart Attack: Prop up the patient and pour hot cayenne tea down, ( use a teaspoonful of cayenne in a cup of hot water), and have the patient drink the full cup. and the attack will stop immediately. We have been called in the middle of the night so many times. A teaspoon of cayenne should bring the patient out of the heart attack. In case cayenne is not around and you have a heart attack, the dosage on black pepper can be tripled and used. [SNH p.409]

Hawthorn Berry Syrup: Dr. Christopher's Hawthorn Berry Syrup to help Build and Strengthen the Heart: The heart is our life pump, and when it is not properly fed (with wholesome foods) it suffers malfunction (weakness and heart attacks) causing the heart failure condition that is one of the world's greatest killers. The mucusless diet used over a period of time can rebuild a heart to a good strong condition, but if the heart, its valves, and other working parts are in a weakened condition and need quick help we use a great "heart food or tonic" to assist it back to health. This food is the hawthorn berry ... This herbal formula is thought of by many to be a wonderful aid for organic and functional heart disorders such as dyspnea, rapid and feeble heart action, hypertrophy, valvular insufficiency sufficiency, and heart oppression. Hawthorn berry syrup is made with hawthorn berry juice concentrate using grape brandy and glycerine as aids and preservatives. Recommended dosage is one half teaspoon three times in a day.[HHH p.184]

BPE: Dr. Christopher's Blood Circulation Combination: This formula is given to assist blood purifying teas to work more efficiently and to also help aid the clearing up of allergies, etc. This group of herbs feeds cayenne (a stimulant) and ginger (stimulant) into the circulatory system where the cayenne works from the bloodstream to the heart and arteries, out into the veins. The other herbs in the formula assist these two herbs and work together to equalize the blood pressure (whether high or low) and to bring it to a good systolic over the diastolic reading. Blood flow is life itself. The blood circulatory combination consists of ginger, cayenne, golden seal, ginseng, parsley and garlic. [HHH p.185]

Adrenetone: Dr. Christopher's Adrenals Formula: to Compensate for Stress Placed on Heart From Adrenals: Contains mullein, lobelia, Siberian ginseng, gotu kola, hawthorne berries, cayenne, and ginger. As this formula helps correct any imbalance in the adrenal gland it also compensates for any stress placed on the heart. [EWH p.208]

Juices for Functional Heart Troubles: Carrot, cucumber & cabbage, endive, carrot & spinach, apple. [NL 3-5]


Testimonials

1. A New Life Through Proper Diet and Herbs. Not long ago, we had an experience that we will not forget for a long time. A gentleman came to visit us on his way through the area with his wife, and when we saw him the previous year on a business deal, he was so bad that rigor mortis had almost set in. In fact, the medical doctors had refused to give him any more medication. He had a heart condition that had gone into dropsy, and his blood pressure was so high that he was just tottering around. There was so much mucus in his body that the tissue was completely loaded to suffocation. At the time, knowing of my profession, he asked what could be done. We started him off with a very simple procedure: We put him on nutritional herbs (fruits and vegetables--our Regenerative Diet) and on Medicinal herbs. Now, a year later, the man had just finished 8,000 miles of touring! He had the finest skin-color you ever saw, and it was a thrill to see a man so full of pep and energy. Tears dropped from his eyes in our meeting, because he was so happy to be alive. These are times that make it worth all of the trouble we have suffered to assure others (seeking vibrant life today or in the future) and to have the legal right to use and obtain healing with medicinal herbs. And here is a living example of our chief message that health begins in the bowel, for when the colon is clean, when we are free from the morbid matter that is toxifying and defiling the system there, then the system can be fed properly, and we begin to live! [SNH p.176]

2. Stops Heart Attack: One doctor who had learned the formula for Hawthorn berry syrup from Dr. Christopher raised his hand after a lecture to tell the following story. He had gone on a house call in response to a call about a heart attack, one so serious that the family was afraid that death was imminent. The doctor had no cayenne in his bag and the family had no cayenne; the doctor began to panic. He remembered that he had a bottle of Hawthorn berry syrup with him. The usual dose is a half-teaspoonful, but the doctor thought a little more might help, so he gave the patient a full tablespoonful. The patient drank it down, sat right up, and said, "Well, I feel okay". The doctor checked him with the stethoscope and the heart sounded alright. As the doctor said, "Talk about quick relief!" [UW-Hawthorn]

3. Hawthorn Cures Lifelong Heart Problems: During the second World War a man had been accepted to work in a large chemical depot. The firm had hired him because he was physically unfit for military service--he had a heart leakage--and they were short of manpower. They placed him in their construction division without a physical examination when he was sixty-two years of age, and he worked for them until he was sixty-five years old. He had begun using this heart tonic when he was sixty years old, using it faithfully because, according to him, it tasted good. Now he was sixty-five years old and the war came to an end. He was called into the company's main office, where they complimented his work record and asked him if he would remain as an employee. He wanted to, but feared the necessary physical examination. He finally agreed to take the examination.

You may imagine his surprise when he found that he had been given a clean bill of health. He asked the doctor, "What about my heart leakage?" The doctor replied, "I wish I had a heart as good as yours. You should never worry about dying from a heart attack; in fact, if you don't get hit by a truck or lightning you will probably die quietly in your sleep from old age and won't even muss up the covers." This man worked several more years at the plant, retired, and then lived on until he was in his eighties. On a July evening in 1970, he went to the rodeo with his family and enjoyed the evening like a kid as he watched his son ride and perform. The next morning one of his sons came over to his home and found his father lying peacefully in his bed. He had passed away with his hands folded over his chest and, just as the doctor had predicted, the covers were not even mussed up. No heart attack, just the final sleep of old age. [UW-Hawthorn]

4. Hawthorn to Feel Better: A lady once came to Dr. Christopher to have her irises read and was told that, among other things, she had a heart weakness. She was advised to use a half teaspoon of Hawthorn berry syrup three times a day. She began using the tonic on a Tuesday; before the week was even over she had experienced a dramatic improvement in her condition. [UW-Hawthorn]

5. Wheat Germ Oil Saves Man: I remember an incident well over twenty years ago when I was called upon to visit a home in Idaho to see a patient who was lying helplessly in a bed with a severe heart condition. He was not even allowed to get out of bed to use the bathroom and how he hated that bedpan! His family had been informed that he would live a few days because of his heart and they were also told that another attack might suddenly take him at any time. This gentlemen was from the old school of eating--a meat, potato and gravy man. He ridiculed the idea of a mucusless diet, a cleanse program and the use of cayenne, saying, "I love eating the way I have always eaten and would rather die early with a belly full of steak than live your way." Knowing that he was a cattle man I asked him what he did for his sick cattle. He explained that experience had taught him that the best medicine for sick cattle was wheat germ oil and he purchased it in large drums to supply his herds. I asked him if there was any reason, seeing that the wheat germ oil was good enough for his prize stock, why he himself could not use the same procedure. He was then instructed to use three to six tablespoons of the wheat germ oil each day.

One day two years later as I was waiting in the lobby of a Salt Lake City hotel I saw a man run up the front steps in great haste and into the lobby where I was sitting. When he saw me he came to a screeching halt, yelled my name, and vigorously extended his hand to me.

"Bet you don't remember me," he said. "I am that 'dying' heart patient in Idaho you saw a couple of years ago. I took that 'cow oil' (wheat germ oil) and in a few days was up and around; in a few weeks I was out on a little business and in six months was out with the cattle, doing a hard day's work. Boy, am I a ball of fire today. Thanks Doc."

His thanks meant much more to me than any money I had been paid to make that house call. [NL 1-5]

6. Man Recovers Totally from Heart Attack: I have some friends where the wife was using some herbs, with good results, but her husband did not believe in them at all. One day he had a heart attack and was in the hospital for two weeks and was then sent home to rest. He was given an appointment to come back for tests such as the tread mill and that he may have to have a very dangerous surgery. His wife finally talked him into taking Cayenne and Hawthorn syrup. In slightly less than one week he went to the doctor. He went the full length of the tread mill without it even slightly affecting the heart. They then told him they had never seen such clean arteries.

One month later he went back for another check up and he was told that in the fifteen years they had been treating him, never had his heart beat been so strong. [NL 1-11]

7. Woman Able to Stop Taking Heart Medicine: After purchasing your book 'School of Natural Healing' and learning the value of cayenne pepper, I have been taking it regularly since last December. I have had a heart problem 18 years and have had a pace maker for the last six years. I had been on digorin and inderol for seven years. With the use of the cayenne along with your health food program, my health has improved greatly. I no longer have to take any heart medication and my health in general is much improved. I am even rid of most of my varicose veins. [NL 1-12]

8. Various uses for Dr. Christopher's Hawthorn Berry Syrup: Monday afternoon we took a bottle over to my 85 year old sister-in-law who has been in and out of hospitals for years with a bad heart and a bundle of other ailments. She kept a large oxygen tank in her living room, as she had trouble with breathing spells. Believe it or not, after the first 1U2 teaspoon of hawthorn berry syrup she never used oxygen again, in fact, they had Medicare pick up the tank last month. Then they charged her $240 rental.

I have another business friend that weighs 440 pounds--63 years old. His heart stopped as he came home in an 11 in. snow storm April 5th. He was in the hospital 14 days. But the doctors never figured out why his heart stopped. When he came home from the hospital I gave him a pint of syrup and he is doing fine now....

My wife and I take the syrup morning and night. My wife noticed pains in her chest when working in the garden and shoveling snow last winter. Now she does not feel it any more, since she is taking the syrup. [NL 3-9]

Dr. Christopher's Heart Treatments

Issue Date: July 1, 2001 In this article:
Anti-cancer grilling recipes:
Teriyaki Sauce
Turmeric Garlic Marinade
Rosemary Tea Marinade
Blueberry Burger

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Cancer-proof your barbecue

High heat creates carcinogens in meat. But you can reduce the threat any of these 10 easy ways.

Those burgers, steaks, or ribs sizzling on the grill are cooking up chemicals that can help turn your cells cancerous. High heat reacts with proteins in red meat, poultry and fish to create heterocyclic amines, chemicals that are linked to cancer, especially of the colon and breast. Because these HCAs form within cooked meat, you can't get rid of them by scraping off char. But scientists have come up with ingenious ways to dramatically reduce the hazard. Precisely why these methods work is still a mystery, but research shows they do.

1 Flip burgers often. Turning burgers once a minute and cooking over lower heat reduces HCAs and kills potentially deadly E. coli bacteria, finds a new study at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. Important: Use a meat thermometer to make sure a burger's internal temperature reaches 160 degrees Fahrenheit, needed to deactivate E. coli. Just because meat is brown doesn't mean it's thoroughly cooked.

2 Use the right marinade. Slash HCAs by marinating raw meat in a thin, very liquid sauce for at least 10 minutes, or more to taste. The Cancer Research Center of Hawaii found that a teriyaki marinade reduced HCAs 67%; a turmeric-garlic sauce, 50%. The key is to use a watery sauce: When a thick, concentrated commercial barbecue sauce was used, it actually tripled HCAs. So dilute thick sauces.

3 Microwave first. Partially cook burgers, poultry, ribs and fish in a microwave oven before grilling, and be sure to discard the juices. Microwaving a hamburger a couple of minutes or a batch of ribs and chicken 10 minutes eliminates 90% of HCAs, says James Felton, Ph.D., at Livermore Lab.

4 Add anti-cancer soy. Mix half a cup of textured soy protein into a pound of ground meat before grilling. This cuts 95% of the expected HCAs in burgers without appreciably affecting the taste, according to tests by John Weisburger, Ph.D., at the American Health Foundation.

5 Enhance with E. Adding vitamin E to raw ground meat hinders HCAs, says J. Ian Gray, Ph.D., of Michigan State University. His tests showed that 120 milligrams of vitamin E powder mixed into or sprinkled on 3.5-ounce patties can reduce HCA formation as much as 72%. Just crack open a capsule of powdered vitamin E.

6 Try a "fruit burger." Mixing a pound of ground meat with a cup of ground, fresh, tart cherries before grilling suppresses 90% of HCA formation, according to research at Michigan State. A possible reason: Cherries are high in HCA-blocking antioxidants. Researchers say other deep-colored fruits rich in antioxidants (grapes, blueberries, plums) should work, too.

7 Add garlic and herbs. In tests, garlic, rosemary and sage reduced HCAs, Gray says. Mix them into burgers, use them in marinades or just eat them in a meal with grilled meat. Antioxidants in citrus fruits also block HCAs.

8 Don't order meat very well-done. The longer meat is cooked at high temperatures (grilling, broiling, frying) the more HCAs are produced. Cooking steaks very well-done, compared with well-done, doubles HCAs. To minimize HCAs, grill beefsteaks and lamb rare or medium-rare. But always cook burgers, pork and poultry well-done to avoid food poisoning.

9 Wash down barbecue with tea. Chemicals in black and green tea help detoxify HCAs, Weisburger says. He recommends drinking hot or iced tea brewed from bags or loose tea (not bottled teas or powdered instant teas) regularly -- and especially with barbecue. Or marinate meat, poultry and fish in concentrated tea (let a tea bag steep in 1/4 cup hot water for 5 minutes).

10 Skip the meat; grill "green." Fruits and vegetables don't contain creatine, the animal protein needed to make HCAs. Pineapple and peppers are great grilled. Also, eating fruits, vegetables and green salads along with barbecued meat lessens the cancer hazard.

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Tips 2,7 & 9 in action:


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Teriyaki Sauce
1 garlic clove, crushed
1/2 tsp. minced fresh ginger
2 tsps. brown sugar
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/2 cup water

Mix all. Pour over meat, fish or poultry. Marinate at least 10 minutes. Makes 1 cup.

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Turmeric Garlic Marinade

2 tsps. garlic powder
1 tsp. ground turmeric
1/2 cup orange juice

Mix all. Pour over meat, fish or poultry. Marinate at least

10 minutes. Makes 1/2 cup.

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Rosemary Tea Marinade

1/2 cup concentrated tea (2 bags brewed in 1/2 cup hot water 5 minutes)
1 tsp. crushed rosemary
1 garlic clove, crushed
2 tsps. honey
2 tsps. soy sauce

Add rosemary, garlic, honey and soy sauce to hot tea.

Cool slightly. Pour over steaks, ribs, burgers, chicken or fish. Marinate at least 10 minutes. Makes 1/2 cup.

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Tips 6,7 & 8 in action


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Blueberry Burger

1 pound ground turkey breast or extra-lean ground beef
1 cup blueberries, ground in a food processor or blender
3/4 tsp. dried thyme
2 garlic cloves, crushed
Salt and pepper, to taste

Combine ingredients. Form into 4 burgers. Grill until well-done.

Per turkey burger: 290 calories, 31g protein, 6g carbohydrates, 15 fat (4g saturated), 1g fiber, 124mg sodium.

Contributing Editor Jean Carper is the author of "Your Miracle Brain" (HarperCollins).


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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.