COMMON LIME

(Citrus aurantifolia [Christm.& Panz.] Swingle)

This kind of lime (also called acid lime or sour lime) is not to be consumed raw because of its extreme sour bitter taste. Sour lime has been used for many purposes, such as a cleaning agent (it removes fat in dishes and stain in metal utensils), fresh beverage, as spices in many cooking recipes, and not least as an alternative medicine.

As an altenative medicine, lime is good to cure cough, remove phlegm or mucus (mucolitic) or simply to make our body fresh as it clears blockage in our vital energy channel. Lime can also function as dieuretics and helps digestion.

More specifically, lime (the fruit) can be used to cure the followings health disorders:

1. Influenza and cough
Get one ripe lime fruit. Half and squeeze it to get the extract. Add some 60cc hot boiled water. Then add ½ teaspoon of quicklime (Ind. kapur sirih) and mix them well. Drink it twice daily, two tablespoons each.

Tips: to get more extract out of a lime, before you half the fruit, squeeze the fruit against the table with our palm, until the fruit becomes soft. This way. More juice can extracted.

2. Cough (not followed by influenza)
Extract one lime fruit into a glass. Add approximately the same amount of honey or black soya sauce into the lime juice. Drink it twice daily until the cough stops.

3. Stomachache, Menstruation Disorder, Diarrhea
Get about 5 tablespoon of lime extract, 2 tablespoon of cajuput oil, and a small amount of quicklime (about the size of a peanut). Mix them well, and rub it on the neck (cough), chest and belly (stomachache, diarrhea), lower belly and waist (menstruation disorder/pain on menstruation). Do this 2 – 3 times daily.

4. Headache/ Dizziness
Pick about half a handful of lime leaves, rinse them well, then crush thoroughly. Add on 1 tablespoon of lime juice and mix well. Rub this mixture on the nape of the neck, forehead, and temples, 2 – 3 times daily.

5. Sore throat
Get three ripe lime fruits and get the extract. Add on ½ glass of hot water and 1 tablespoon of honey. Mix them well and, while it is warm, gargle with it for 2-3 minutes. Do it three times a day

6. Excessive phlegm
Add a small amount of salt into a glass of lime juice. Drink before meal, 2 – 3 time a day.


7. Infant or Child’s Fever
Get the extract of a lime in a small bowl. Add into it 3 pieces of crushed shallot, a small quantity of salt and 1 tablespoon of coconut oil. Mix well, and spread on the child’s upper head

8. Fever in Malaria
Get 3 pieces each of lime leaves, Kendal leaves (Cordia obliqua Will.), Sembung leaves (Blumea balsamifera) and 5 pieces of Prasman leaves (Eupatorium triplinerve Vahl.). Boil all the leaves with 3 glasses of clean water. Keep boiling until the water reduces to one glass only. When it gets cool, strain it and drink, half a glass at a time (in the morning and in the evening).

9. Menstruation Disorder
Mix well 2 tablespoon of lime extract, 3 tablespoon of (pure) honey and 1½ glass of warm boiled water. Divide the mixture into 3 parts and drink one part a day.

10. Dandruff
Slice a lime fruit into 2-3 pieces. Rub the lime onto the scalp thoroughly. Let the wet scalp dry, then rinse it well with clean warm water.



Disclaimer: the above article shows information about certain Indonesian herbs for educational purpose only, and does not suggest medical therapy whatsoever. Please consult your physician for further application with the herbs.

BROCCOLI

(Brassica oleracea var. italica)

Consume Broccoli to Prevent Cancer.

Everyone knows broccoli. Although children sometimes hate to eat it, broccoli’s chemical contents are good for human body. Broccoli is actually flower in its earlier stage. It is usually harvested before the real yellowish flowers come to bloom. Broccoli shares similar characteristics with cauliflower, only the latter is whitish in colour whereas the former is dark green.

Broccoli contains of water, protein, fat, carbohydrate, fiber, calcium, iron, Vitamins (A, C, E, thiamin, riboflavin, nicotinaminade, beta carotene, and glutation. Broccoli also contains cianohydroxybutene (CHB), sulphophrane and iberin, which stimulates human body to form glutation. Sulphophrane is a substance that can prevent cancer from occurring.

Main indications

- Preventing cancer
- Accelerate the curing (healing) process after a serious illness

Serving Suggestion:

To accelareate curing process, slice a medium size broccoli into smaller pieces, rinse with clean water, and cook in boling water (too long cooking would damage the chemical contents). Consume the medium-cooked broccoli with salt or pepper as you like, or cook it with your favorite recipes.




Disclaimer: the above article shows information about certain Indonesian herbs for educational purpose only, and does not suggest medical therapy whatsoever. Please contact physician or expert in this field for further application.

Ayurveda as A Preventive Medicine

It should not be hard for anyone to imagine that man sought medicine to maintain life and gain knowledge since the time of his being pre-hominid and eating plants while learning which ones killed him. Your puppy or kitten will show this when it goes outside for the first time and eats grass to help its gastrointestinal processes. The Therapeutae of Pythagoras who some say developed the pentagram were learning from far more ancient insights that were being lost and we have lost a lot of the knowledge of healing he had in his chanting or ‘Singing of the Spheres’.

Ayurveda includes the use of herbs and plants combined with psychic arts of a healing nature. The proper practitioner includes psychology as part of the diagnosis and getting the patient to use their own mental or soulful energy. It comes from very ancient shamanism and has many names for its practice. This art is called ayurveda in India, and it has Taoist and Yogic corollaries.

When I lived in Vegas I grew Aloe Vera, and its Vitamin E may be part of why it works to heal so many things. Comfrey tea is something my brother took to help a broken leg that wasn't healing in the traditional medical approach. There are many ways to enhance the immune system along with our natural ability to heal and help each other. 'Cleansing' auras or meridians of 'Chhi' or pranha, positive visualization and what is sometimes deemed wholistics have been available for longer than books or politicians were practicing their questionable arts. The ancient priests and shamans who were corruptible became even more so as this knowledge grew. The Inca’s 'magic' and healing may have been one of the best balances of knowledge and compassion ever exercised on behalf of every citizen.

Can you honestly say you trust the future of gene therapy and near immortality to our current system? Do you want more transparency or honesty? Shouldn't we all become 'informed consumers' and have alternatives considered when they make sense? Much of what Western doctors learn about anatomy and diseases is easily input and reacted to by modern computer and diagnostic tools. Can you imagine them ever putting these things in the public forum and trying to engage us all in honest dialogue that might diminish their power, money and influence? In China you don't pay the doctor when you are sick and preventive medicine is the rule. Bill and Hillary Clinton tried to emphasize 'preventive medicine' and ran into the same kind of lobbying that George Bush and Dan Quayle saw when they ran with a commitment to institute 'tort reform' in the legal system.

The idea that a fully diluted homeopathic tincture might heal through some imprint left by Cyanide found in peach pits or laetrile is just one of the conundrums that science still struggles to face. But the fact is cyanide kills cells and results have been achieved by some people who might have attuned themselves with that small amount of Cyanide that Japanese researchers found in peach pits after the US researchers said there was no possible agent that could kill cancer cells in peach pits. The implications of this extend to genetic rituals that modern science cannot see the effects of, and other energy lattice memory or Intelligence.

There are forces in society which seek to keep certain knowledge hidden or what one might term ‘occulted’. We do need to learn to stop these shelving efforts that would rather have a monopoly and power before seeing all mankind capable of greater things.



About the Author
This is an entry of my encyclpoedia which can be found at World-Mysteries.comAuthor of Diverse DruidsColumnist in The ES Press Magazine