Ancient Healing Herbs: Ancient Healing, #1

By R J Boldt

From ancient times we have used plants to heal our mind.bodies and spirit. Today we are relearning that what we forgot plants heal.

This is a simple three volume set easy to read understand and use if you are wanting to go homeopathic route or for knowledge.

• Language: English
• Publisher: R J Boldt
• Release date: Jun 25, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393512189

R J Boldt

Ronald Boldt has worked in the medical field first in the US military then as EMT Paramedic Paramedic SAR and as a nurse.  He was trained in both in modren medicine and as a Native American healer.  With over 40 years experance in use of herbal remedies. He has written several articles as a investigative journalist and is currently working on two other nonfiction books which are due to come out by August aqbout the outlaw Jesse James  and October Native American Beliefs 2019. He lives in Washington state.

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INTRODUCTION

Since the dawn of time man have discovered that there were plants that heal and those that kill.

Through trial and error they discovered and today we are rediscovering the healing benefits of plants that man have used for eons.

It is no longer considered fringe healing homeopathy was for years considered hippy mentality yet today pharmaceutical companies spend billions researching ancient healing herbs to make synthetic drugs.  This is a multi billion dollar money maker.

Here are some examples:

Honey is a natural antiviral antibacterial and antifungal healing agent.

From Emory University in Atlanta Georgia analyzed some plant extracts that the Confederacy used during the Civil War.  Three plants showed excellent antimicrobial properties effective against multidrug resistant bacteria linked to wound infection, specifically against Acinetobacter baumannii, staphylococcusaureus, and klebsiella pneumonia.

These three plants were white oak, tulip poplar and shrub called devil’s walking stick.

Willow bark contains sylic acid where aspirin was created from.

Marijuana is now known to effectively treat and cure cancers heal the body and alleviate pain.  This plant can treat over 150 diseases and disorders.

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As you can see with the use of this book you will be able to heal yourself and loved ones with a more humane means without addictions and extreme side effects that many man made drugs produce.

CHAPTER ONE

ACONITE 

Aconitum napellus

Monkshood

Part: Whole herbs mainly the root

CLASSIFICATION: Toxic potent sedative, nervine agent

Uses: Used as a cardiac sedative, topic agent for tooth pain when mixed with iodine, locally for neurological pains, lumbago, and rheumatism

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ALDER BUCKTHORN

Rhamnus fragile

Arrowroot, black dogwood, glossy buckthorn

PART: The bark and berries

CLASSIFICATION: Laxative properties are contained with in the bark.

USES: At one time it was considered to be protective against spells and demons.

Laxative, headaches, its charcoal is used in early gunpowder, the bark makes a yellow dye. Constipation, the unripe berries make a green dye,

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AGRIMONY

Agrumonia eupatoria L.

Rose family.

COMMON NAMES: All heal, Church Steeples, cooklebur, philanthropos, stickwort

PARTS: leaves seeds stems, whole plant

PROPERTIES: anti-inflammatory, antibiotic, and astringent are all due to the presence of large qualities of tannin.

Medical treatments: eye ailments, tea for diarrhea, and disorders of the gallbladder, liver and kidneys. 

Solution made from the leaves and the seeds for healing wounds.  Steeped solution is also used for athlete’s foot. Skin ailments, asthma, coughs, gynecological complaints as well as a gargle for sore throats. The flowering stems tips and dried leaves are used for a tonic, a diuretic for digestive disorders.  Apply tonic and bruised plants to slow healing wounds.

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ALDER

COMMON NAMES:

PART: Leaves and Bark

PROPERTIES: Diuretic, astringent

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Use the leaves when you can get them. Very useful for swellings and edema of all kinds. When you can get the green leaves, crush them and lay them on painful swellings. Will relieve the pain and take down the swelling.

The green leaves, or dry leaves made into poultice will allay the inflammation in a swollen and painful breast. Take a heaping tablespoonful to a pint of boiling water. Let steep half an hour. If used for poultice, take just water enough so the leaves are moist. The fresh leaves are excellent for burning and aching feet, when laid in the shoes under the bare feet. Also good to bathe the whole feet in strong tea.

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ALOES

Aloe socotrina.

COMMON NAMES: Bombay aloes, Turkey aloes, Mocha aloes, Zanzibar aloes.

PART: Leaves

PROPERTIES: Cathartic, stomachache, aromatic, emmenagogue, drastic. Promotes menstruation when suppressed.

Will expel pinworms after several doses.

Aloes is one of the most healing agencies there is among the herbs. It is used in many cathartics. Aloes is one of the best to clean out the colon. It is excellent on burns, scalds and scar tissue for its healing effects.

ALOE PREPARTION FOR CONSATPATION

1 oz. powdered buckthorn bark

1 oz. powdered rhubarb root

1 oz. powdered mandrake root

1 oz. powdered calamus root

4 oz. powdered Socotrina aloes

Dose: starting, with one-fourth teaspoonful, then increasing or decreasing the dose as needed.

It cleans the morbid matter from the stomach, liver, kidneys, spleen, bladder, and is the finest colon cleanser known. It should be used in any case where a laxative is needed, does not gripe, and is very healing and soothing to the stomach.

Aloes may be used alone for any kind of sore on the outside of the body; is a very excellent remedy for piles and hemorrhoids. Take a heaping teaspoonful to a pint of water, strain, and use.

Useful on burns and scarring.

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ALFALFA

Medicago sativa

Buffalo herb, Lucerne, purple medic

PART: sprouts and herb

CONTAINS: Highly nutritive especially high in vitamins C, D, E, and K

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USES: food and used in treatment of cancer to increase the immune system.

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ANGELICA

Angelica atropurpurea.

COMMON NAMES: Dead nettle, purple angelica, masterwort, high angelica, archangel, American angeilca.

PART: Root and Seed

PROPERTIES: Stimulant, carminative, emmenagogue, tonic.

Angelica is a good tonic, and remedy for stomach troubles, sour stomach, heartburn, and gas; colic, la grippe, colds, and fevers; tea made from this herb dropped into the eyes helps dimness of sight, and into the ears helps earaches; diseases of the lungs and chest, eases pains in colic, stoppage of urine, suppressed menstruation, expels afterbirth Good in sluggish liver, and spleen; it should be taken hot to break up a cold quickly.

For general tonic, one to three cupfuls should be taken every day. Angelica is a most effective remedy in epidemics and to strengthen the heart.

A tea made of angelica dropped into old ulcers will cleanse and heal them. The powder of the root may also be used for this purpose.

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ANISE

Pimpinella anisum.

COMMON NAMES: Anise seed, common anise.

PART: Seed or root

PROPERTIES: Aromatic, diaphoretic, relaxant, stimulant, tonic, carminative, stomachache.

It will prevent fermentation and gas in the stomach and bowels, and check griping in the bowels when taken as a hot tea; good stomach remedy to overcome nausea and colic.

It is useful to mix with or take with other herbs to give them a palatable flavor.

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AMERICAN GINSING

Panax quinquefolius

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COMMON NAME: Five fingers, tar-tar root

PART: Root whole or powdered

CLASSIFICATION: tonic, mild sedative, stimulant

USES: Stimulant, prevents stress, treatment of colds, aphrodisiac, asthma, anemia, lower back pain.

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APPLE

Pyrus mains.

COMMON NAMES: Apple tree.

PART: Bark, fruit, juice made from fruit

PROPERTIES: Fruit: Diuretic, laxative.

Bark: Tonic, febrifuge, reduces fevers, febrifuge.

Tea made from apple tree bark is excellent in intermittent fever, biliousness and for gravel in the bladder, to induce perspiration, good for suppressed menstruation, digestion, nausea, vomiting, low fever, liver, spleen, kidneys, bladder, griping in bowels, dysentery, boils, insect stings, mad dog bites, toothache.

The delicious fruit also has valuable medical properties. Eat the peeling; along with the fruit chew them thoroughly. 

The bark is most useful for gravel in the bladder, as a tonic, and for bilious and intermittent fever. The apple tree itself has medical properties, being rich in potassium, sodium, magnesium, and iron salts, which contribute to the building of blood and bone. Those who have too much acid should select sweet apples, which have little acid, and those who have not acid enough can eat sour apples.

Apple is especially good for diabetes and is also excellent for the liver and kidneys.

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ARTEMISIA

Artemisia vulerius, A. Tridentata (US) A. Absenthium

COMMON NAME: Basin sage brush, common sage brush, beg sage, mug work, wormwood, common Artemisia, sagebrush

PART: Whole plant, root

CONTAINS: bitter principle, essential oils, tannic acid, volatile oils

CLASSIFICATION: Bitter principle, narcotic, anthielmintic, sedative, diuretic, sudorific (perspiration) enmenagague

USES: treatment of epilepsy (1-2 grams I a cup of water boiled briefly) Powered form 1 t QD mixed in water or other fluid.

Menstrual cramps and disorders if taken 3-8 days prior to menstruation will alleviate the cramping. Powered form 1 t QD mixed in water or other fluid.

Edema, kidney and bladder disorders; neutralizing effect on fatty foods; dust and smoke and drink works as a de-wormer and removes fleas and lice; enmenagague, bug repellant-smoke, carmative, colds, sore eyes eye wash, headaches, diarrhea, sore throat, vomiting, bullet wounds.

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AUTUMN CROCUS

Colchicum autumnale

COMMON NAME: Meadow saffron, wild saffron, colchicum, meadow crocus

PART: Seeds

CONTAINS: colchicines, the strongest mitotic poison known

(when treating other plant seeds with colchicines will cause erratic mutation in the plant)

CLASSIFICATION: analgesic, diuretic

USES: gout, over acidity of the organs, European/Summer Cholera, dropsy, tumor of the thyroid glands, drives away lice when dusted on the scalp, relieves the pain and the inflammation of gout.

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BALM

Melissa officianlis.

COMMON NAMES: Garden balm, sweet balm, lemon balm.

PART: Herbs and flowers

PROPERTIES: Diaphoretic, carminative, febrifuge, tonic.

A warm tea of balm will produce perspiration, it is also very helpful in painful or suppressed menstruation, aids digestion, and in cases of nausea and vomiting; low fever, liver, spleen, kidney and bladder troubles, griping in bowels, toothache remedy, and dysentery.

A warm