And yes, I will say we have had the flu at our house.  Some of us got it hard and some of us just got a light cough and some of us didn’t get sick at all.  Those who got it hard were worn out and in the habit of eating junk food.  The rest of us took one of my many anti-plague remedies.

I could write a long or multi-part article series but I decided to write my ideas and remedies into a PDF and you can get it free by subscribing to this blog.  Now as you can see from the archives I don’t write all that often so don’t worry about getting hit with a new blog entry every week.

I ignored it until it got rather concerning. Now I am not a fan of going to doctors or chiropractor at the drop of a hat but I was getting a bit concerned!

But I remembered the Egoscue exercises and that there are specific ones for shoulder problems so I began the menu yesterday. I have to tell you that while I was doing them I was a bit skeptical as my back ached even more while it was settling into the positions. But I hung in there and did the full course without shortcuts and you know what! The pain is reduced by 50% easily and the tingling is GONE!

Besides the shoulder problem isn’t the only difference I felt. I have a bunion that gives me fits and the arch in that foot burns after walking for a while. Well, that was gone too.

Check out his book, “Pain Free” for this “cure” as well as exercises for any pain from your feet to your head and everything in between.

Read more about his books in Recommended Reading.

While I could go on and on about it, I really want to call your attention to the following videos which really do a much better job explaining MMS from A – Z.

Here is an “ad”:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeZsY7iMiqc&NR=1

This is a great testimony:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaOEA7W8PNk

Learn how to mix MMS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1tZ22UEQwU&feature=related

Here is a doctor’s testimony: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp1eqTajcpQ&feature=related

a new MMS video documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF-fQPo_3Ns&feature=related

The small skin cancers (squamous cell keratosis) I have all over my body are more ugly than dangerous, anyway.  My dad is 77, has it all over the sun exposed parts of his body and his doctor “burns” it off with silver nitrate, leaving horrible ugly scarring all over.  I don’t know what is worse.

Anyway, it’s the regular brown moles I have all over that I watch.  So when two of them were suspicious I decided to practice what I know.  Read the earlier posts to find out more.

There is scarring on my arms and legs where I tested the VE and neat little white “plug” pulled out of my skin.  I am assuming it was the cancerous spot and the surrounding tissue.  But I know for a fact that when you get a cancer biopsy they take a CHUNK of skin, not just the mole in question, and you get a scar, too.  Either way, there will be a scar!  I look at it this way – I saved time, money and anguish using VE and doing it at home.

There are more choices to cure cancer than conventional medicine will admit.  I am not here to get into why they won’t consider more natural, less intrusive ways to cure disease but really what it is all about is faith.  Your own faith in something to get you well.  Faith that the herbs will work or faith that chemotherapy will work or the surgery will get it all.  Faith that it will just go away with a prayer…

Ultimately it takes faith to live, move, relate, etc.  I am talking about a general kind of faith, not a religious faith (though faith in God has supplied me strength to get through each day – with or without cancer). 

No, the faith that I mean here is really believing you will get well doing what you’re doing.  Not a wishy washy, “I should have done this or that” kind of faith.  But confident, “I will live fully till I die” kind of faith.

 Whatever it is we do in life…how we relate to our spouse, what job we decide to take, the philosophy of life, source of life, all takes faith!  I hope that you, reader, know who you are, why you are here, Who is in control, – have purpose; direction; FAITH; or you will wander from one idea to another, one religion to another, one kind of cancer cure to another, etc

Life is full of choices.  The AMA and the FDA has forced their view of disease cure when there are other viable more effective choices.  Use your God-given brain.  Study and research.  Make a decision and then go for your decision – IN FAITH. 

(dare I say this) You will have a better chance to get over any disease using drugs and conventional medicine if you do it in faith than if you sort of, kind of “try” herbs, half believing they will work for you.

What a subject for a first post but I had to get this down before too much time passed.

We “natural cures” fans are thrilled to find cures for diseases from cancers of all kinds to diabetes, heart disease and even AIDS.  We are thrilled because we can have some say in how the illness will be dealt with.  We call the shots so to speak.  And doing it for ourselves is less expensive, too.

Expense always was a factor in the beginning.  I believe chiropractic and osteopathy are very useful and viable alternatives to back surgery and other intrusive intervention.  But with a large family on a small budget, even when we had insurance, we just couldn’t pay for the deductibles. 

So, what is a budget conscious natural cures fan to do?  You can’t just be your own chiropractor. 

Well, the answer to the question came when I asked my osteopath basically the same question.  I told him straight up that we just could not keep coming to him all the time and did he know if there were some things folks could do to help maintain the adjustments and perhaps eliminate visits.

Imagine my doctor’s reply.  He said that he was aware of a book that told how to do your own back care through simple body positions and gentle exercises.  He was rather hesitant about bringing it up though, as he admitted that it would eliminate the need to visit him.  But this man was more humanitarian that profiteer.

The name of the book: The Egoscue Method of Health Through Motion: Revolutionary Program That Lets You Rediscover the Body’s Power to Rejuvenate It by Pete Egoscue.  I am here to tell you it has kept me from needing to see him anymore!!  This stuff works and when I get numb in my hand due to over staying at the computer, I do a few simple moves and it goes away.  Bad headaches?  9 out of 10 are due to tension and strain in the back and neck. 

There are simple positioning exercises that “naturally” get rid of the pain.  Sometimes it took 20 to 45 minutes for just one or two days sometimes longer, but I ask you:  We all can afford time for the things that are important to us.  Hey, it takes up to an hour to visit the doctor if you include the trip, the wait, and the actual adjustment time.

Borrow or buy this book.  You will not be sorry and think of the dollars and trips to the DC or Osteopath! 

It wasn’t long before I came to believe that natural cures were what the Creator intended for us to use as a part of keeping the body in balance. 

I will state up front that I believe there is a time and a place for doctor visits.  I recently heard the following comment and that is that doctors are excellent body “mechanics” - that is that they really do shine in fixing what we have broken.  Bones can be set and pinned.  Cuts can be mended.  They are so good at fixing but when they extend their skills to replacing “sick” body parts & organs, rather than attempting to work with and help the body to heal itself, here is where I believe they leave their skills behind.  Here is where they truly “practice” medicine.

Not all physicians are guilty of this, I admit.  I really believe most health care professionals mean to treat/cure their patients.  But they come at it from the point of view that this body of ours is more mechanical than dynamic, living entity.  It seems they are taught in med school that disease is the enemy that must be cut out, poisoned, irradiated – eliminated by force.

Natural cures as a part of alternative healing comes with point of view that the body is intelligent.  More than that it acts on one thing – to stay in a healthy balance.  Thousands of processes happen at any one time, interacting one with the other all with one purpose in mind and that is to repair and replace cells, tissue, organs as they die or become diseased.

Think for a minute about the simple healing of a cut.  Many processes happen as the body senses a “problem”.  Blood acts to bring the repair team to patch up the cut from the inside.  The blood itself thickens or clots as it reaches air.  Meanwhile, white cells sense intruders that took advantage of the opening into the body and immediately begin to attack and destroy them.  The skin itself, always repairing and replacing anyway, simply goes about filling in and closing up the wound till 7 to 10 days later, depending on the depth and size of the wound, there is but a silvery pink scar as the only reminder.

If this happens for a simple cut we must conclude that similar processes happen all throughout the body.  And in fact it does!  We are bombarded daily with potential pathogens – some cause a cold or flu; some cause TB or malaria; some cause cancers of all kinds.  For all intents and purposes we should be dead from the day we were born.

But no.  We are blessed with this amazing complex body machine that will stay healthy at all costs.  It is only when it is deficient in certain necessary elements that it begins to weaken and break down.  Over time the lack of proper nutrients due to poor diet or careless sleeping habits or stress all begin to take their toll.  When the body’s stores become depleted disease takes it opportunity.  It moves in and takes over.  Eventually, the tired malnourished body succumbs.

As an intelligent owner of this beautiful creation, we must respect the instruction manual.  What instruction manual!?  Well, there isn’t one per se although the Bible and other ancient books leave specific instructions that kept other people from other times healthy when nations around them died.  We also have a God-given brain with the ability to think and reason. 

Many thanks to others from times past as well as current who believe the body is supremely intelligent and have observed over the years and recorded the actions of certain herbs or therapies and how they positively or negatively affect the body. 

I hope to share what I have learned using natural cures as well as share new remedies and therapies that work with our body to stay well.