RSSRAKE He mealworms Recipe You're listening to the Hour of the Time. I'm William Cooper. Conference 97. Day 3. Fourth year. Michael Cotty here. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We talked about a lot of different things. Questions today on some of the things we've covered. Do you have questions on some of the ramblings so far? Any questions? Questions today? Any going ones? Any choice? Question. Do you recommend a book for those books from the Texas area on identifying the plant? There's a couple books. I recommend the Michael Muller books highly, because a lot of the plants in Texas, plants in Texas, even though his boats are the desert sea canyon southwest, or the desert canyon's west, and the mountains west, and the Pacific west, plants are where you find them. And you'll be amazed at how many plants that grow in the southwest that you can find back east, that you can find in Texas. And a lot of the ecosystems in Texas aren't that much different than parts of New Mexico. So any of Michael Moore's boats, not only because they'll cover some of your plants, but because Michael Moore is my most revered and respected teacher, that's why we took the time to film him in the field, to put two films together, to capture his oral tradition on film so that people could learn from it. His anatomy and physiology is immense, and he can paint a picture about the anatomy and physiology of the human plant in relationship to the medicinal plant better than anyone else alive. There's also another book, a good book, it's the Peterson Field Guide series, I believe it's the medicinal plants of the east coast. There's a lot of nice photographs, put out by Stephen Foster and James Duke. Very good for identification, gives you some medicinal uses. Usually you have to have several books. You have to have a really good identification book or two, and you have to have some good medical herbal books. There are very few books that actually combine all of those. Botanical medicine is immense. If you want good identification books, if you want good books on medical herbalism. And, you know, in the 1800s, probably many of you out there are bibliophiles, book lovers, people who haunt rare bookstores and use bookstores. Try to find old medical texts from the 1800s. Specifically, the United States dispensatory or the national formularies of the 1800s. When you do that, sometimes you can pay four or five dollars for this book, and other places you'll spend hundreds for the same book. Some people don't recognize the value of it, some people do. The old medical books of the 1800s, especially the United States dispensatory that was put out almost every ten years from about the early 1800s of the 1800s, every ten years up until today. They still do the United States pharmacopoeia, as some people say. These dispensatories and these United States pharmacopoeias list botanical medicines at the height of herbal medicine. It's when science and medicine came together to form part of the best days of herbalism that we've ever had. And that's what doctors used in the 1800s. 90% of what's in those books is herbal medicines. The remaining percentage is usually minerals, sulfur, etc. etc. They talk a lot about water therapies. The difference between spring water, rain water, well water, river water, lake water, pond water, because each one of these different sources of water have a different series of properties. Rain water needs to be considered incredibly medicinal. These days, if you collect rain water to capture its medicinal properties of electrically charged weighing, you might want to filter it before you drink it because of the air pollution that we have. Stream water, pond water, lake water, it's just not like it once was. In the old days, they used electricity. They used colloidal silver in the 1800s. Colloidal gold, they used metals and minerals and things like sulfur and charcoal. So the other 10% that's in these dispensatories are interesting medicines, some of which we don't use anymore today or are not available. These old dispensatories, United States dispensatory, old national formularies. Tom Brown books are good. Survival insights, medicinal plants, how to use plants for survival, how to build shelters, how to recognize animal tracks. Good source. Good source. Tom Brown is a authority. First hand experience. He lives it. He lived it intensely. He teaches it intensely. His information is first hand experience. Like the Michael Moore books. Michael Moore not only researches and writes and teaches, but he's owned herb stores. He's taught medicine at medical colleges, anatomy and physiologists, doctors, anatomy and physiology and how herbs affect this, how they affect the human body. First hand. You want references that are first hand experiences by the author. There's a lot of great books out there, but there's nothing more than well researched, compiled, edited, pre-books. The author is not an herbalist. The author is a good researcher. These books may have some value. They may have some good pictures and some good recipes, but you want books where the person has done it, picked it, made medicine, used it with thousands and thousands of people, and this is what he or she is writing about. And those are the valuable books. And there are very few. Very few of them. Michael Moore, James Duke books, Stephen Foster. These are some that come to mind. Susan Lee, she covers female herbal medicine very elegantly and very accurately. She's one of the elder ladies, the elder witches, you might say, of the herb world. Not a witch, but you know, that's what they were called as they were being burned, slaughtered by the thousands in the old days. That's how we lost a lot of our herbal medicine, because we killed off our herbalists. Because those who knew about plants, those who helped people use plants for healing, well, I don't have to explain. You know, it's a mixture of self-sufficiency and that's a threat. Midwives. Midwives were persecuted. Midwives are, you know, were male, mostly women, but they were female and male healthcare practitioners that helped deliver children. They were often herbalists combined with being able to deliver babies. They were persecuted, destroyed, burnt, declared witches. By who? By the allopathic male medicalists, male medical practitioners of the time. Because midwives had too much power, too much respect for nature, too much, they were too effective. And they didn't cost anything. And they were very, they were a threat to the medical business of the days. And so, one of the reasons why there was such thing as witchcraft or how the persecution of witches was because basically somebody wanted to eliminate somebody else because of greed and money and power. And we lost a lot of herbalists. We lost a lot of tradition, a lot of lore. There's a few herbalists out there. Susan Weed, you know, one of them. James Green, who wrote The Male Herbal. Highly recommended for men. The Male Herbal is a sensitive, well-written, reflection on male health, prostate problems, prostate cancer. It could be the most important book for men to deal with cancer and health problems that have a tendency to specifically affect men. Prostate problems, reproductive problems, impotence, things of that nature. The Male Herbal by James Green. That's another good book. There's a lot of them out there. That's the ones that come to mind. Any more questions? Michael, we're getting a, looking for a water processor or something because the water that comes into our homes usually is chlorinated and not all that healthy. Is there any kind of recommendation for what we should be using or looking for or considering in order to be able to protect our intake of water? What kind of water filters? What kind of water filters are beneficial or what? How? That's a, that's a, you have to spend some time. I found that there's a multi-level marketing scheme out there. The company, a multi-level marketing is a very successful way of protecting companies, making lots of money for the companies. Those people who are aggressive actually do well, but it's, it's a form of capitalism that benefits a lot of people. A lot of big products, there's one multi-pure. Multi-pure water filters, which is a multi-level, you have to find a distributor of a multi-level marketing, a multi-level marketer of the water, the multi-pure water filters that this company puts out. They have several patents and in fact they supply filters to a majority of other companies. So they are the regional patent owners and designers of some of the most sophisticated and effective water filters on the market. They have two to four hundred dollars depending on if you want just a sink or if you want a whole house system. These are incredible water filters. You got to find a distributor. I'm not a distributor, but I've used multi-pures and they're very effective. They're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're chalk water filters, water filters, there's silver nitrate, there's reverse osmosis. They all have their drawbacks, their whole limitations. Sometimes it's a combination of two. You kind of have to, depends what area you live in. Are you working towards parasites and amoebas or do you have more heavy metals? That might lead to more. Those are the questions you ask yourself. And the best way to make your choice about water filters is to read a lot, educate yourself, look at the different models and become basically an expert. Then you can, then you know what you need and ask, ask those questions like, what are you trying to filter out? Is it this chlorine? Then a good charcoal filter, but doesn't cost too much. Is it chlorine and heavy metals? Is it pesticides, herbicides? Is it, you know, is it amoebas and parasites? Heavy metals and chlorine? Is it all of those? And that can help you in your choices. I just found that's what I've used. That's what I've used. That's what I've used. That's what I've used. That's what I've used here. It's the multi-tier. To me, satisfied my needs for chlorinated water and heavy metals. Is there a difference between drinking distilled water and drinking pure filtered water? Distilled water, if not done properly, what are those things? Hydrocarbons. It may not be removed, but maybe, I'm not sure. I know there are some, if distilled water isn't properly distilled, some things can still remain in the water. Good distilled water, actually, is probably okay. You know, we get vitamins and minerals from our vegetables, from our plants. The things I worry about is chlorinated water. I like to stay away from chlorinated water as much as possible. 100%. I'm a smoker. I like to smoke tobacco, even though it's organic. The nicotine and the chlorine are still going to come together to form something quite deadly. So, I have to stay away from chlorinated water all the time. Plus, chlorine will kill off your intestinal flora, your flora, your friendly bacteria, your friendly funguses, and as a result of that, you can have so many health problems you wouldn't believe it. Just because you don't have enough bacteria, enough flora to form in your intestinal tract. You can have Candida problems, chronic fatigue problems. You can have an immense amount of problems. Just because you drink chlorinated water, it kills off the bugs in your gut. The good bugs in your gut. So, chlorine is what I wanted to remove. I'm drifting. Distilled water versus mineral water. That was your question. Those are some of the things. Chlorinated water, main things are limited. Heavy metals, another thing. Pesticides, herbicides. I don't know. One of the things I looked on a bottle. It's a glacier springs water once. At first glance, it looks good. The picture is good. But it says bottles in Miami. It's a multi-billion dollar business. It's a lot of suspect. Swindling. I mean, there are many companies that I bet just run into a charcoal filter, take out the chlorine, call it spring water. So, buying that type of water, it's just, it's a shot in the dark, I think. It's a multi-billion dollar industry. And we all know when money comes into play, people are going to take shortcuts, be cheats, be greedy, etc., etc. So, the best thing is research the filters and carry your own, filter your own, carry your own water. At least one of the most important medicines is worth all the energy and effort to do that. I was going to say, I think I can answer this question. If you have something that's in the water, like gasoline, like you mentioned hydrocarbon, if it evaporates the same way or quicker than water, it's going to go right with the water. And I know that some of these, you know, they have the outside evaporate a lot. Some of those are kind of the huge, like you know, people go out and still capture the water. But, you know, basically, what you're worried about is what's in it that could evaporate my water. Exactly, yeah. And distilled water doesn't ensure, depending on the process and who distilled it, that everything is removed. And we often think it's the purest of all the waters. But the hydrocarbons are sometimes very hard to get rid of. It's very hard to get rid of it. It's very hard. I don't know if I have to, just the water is not a pure form of water. And the University of Tennessee, over to a physical planet, we have to provide water, still, de-agonized, and filtered with certain filters and run through only a lot of purgling pipe to become pure water to a certain land. That's pretty intense. That's a lot of water. That's a lot of water. That's a lot of water. ... ... ... That's more than what most of these distillers are going to be, they're probably one. ... I don't know. I don't have to know enough about that. Anybody here know? I'd be dubious about it. Go ahead. Well, I heard about that and I can't confirm that, but if you have it's still water that doesn't have a pencil, the thought is that when you drink it, it's going to absorb water. I don't know if that's true or not, but that's a good way to hurt. Okay. Okay. A lot of information out there that maybe that requires a little bit more research and maybe even the industry doesn't ever talk about it. I mean, it sounds like there's a lot of unanswered questions with that. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I can't explain to you. I don't know. I could make something up, but I don't know. I would be honest. I don't know. Coming out the ice cubes. Yeah, but our ice cubes, just every so many cubes, those are the leaves. I've seen that. I don't know if it's an action of the formation of ice, and there's ice in the box, and it's whisking up some of the water out of the tray and just forming an ice crystal. But I've seen that on my ice cubes. And we've got, our water comes out of, our water is geothermal. It's a hot springs water. It comes out of a cistern where hot springs seep out of rocks into a cistern, and then we go out and feed it down to the house, and it's probably about 100, 105 degrees at the source. And by the time it gets to the house, it's warmer. It's probably, you know, I don't know. I don't remember. I don't know. I'm gauging the temperature. I'm gonna guess 85. It's not quite body temperature, but it's pretty warm water. I don't know what that was about. But any more questions? Alright, I want to talk about, I want to talk about an herb called milk thistle. Milk thistle, for 70% of us in this room, can probably be, you'll use it at one point or another in your life, and this could be the most important plant that you ever learn about and ever use for serious medical problems. Milk thistle. It's a thistle-sized plant. We don't have any growing around here, but we could grow seeds out. If we have the seeds of milk thistle, we could throw it out, and they would grow with a little water. It's a thistle. Fisttles are hard to eradicate. Once they become established, in fact, parts of the United States forbid the sale of milk thistle seeds. I just heard recently that Washington State still allows you to sell milk thistle extract, but the seeds of milk thistle are now outlawed in the healthcare shops. Because it becomes a noxious plant, quote, noxious, you know, cooking or whatever, end quote, and takes over farmers' fields and pastures and it will. It'll form an incredible, big, giant, thorny rosette with these giant stalks with big purple thistle-like flowers. And if anybody, if you don't know what thistle is when we're outside, ask me and I'll point out a thistle. It won't be milk thistle, but it'll give you an idea of what to look for. The leaves of milk thistle are green and white. They're what's called variegated. They have a predominant green on the outside, but they have white blushing running down the middle of the vein going off on lateral or side veins. So it's mottled. It's white, mottled appearance on a dark green leaf. The seeds are what we use of the plant, the seeds of milk thistle. And they contain a substance called silymarin. Silymarin was isolated from milk thistle probably close to 20 years ago in Europe. In France, I think first, maybe Germany, Spain, Italy, Great Britain. They all do research and there's hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of papers that have been written on milk thistle, but specifically on the active ingredient or the active constituents, silymarin. Silymarin is an amazing substance. Now, you can use milk thistle in a number of different ways. You can take the seed, you can eat it. I can classify milk thistle as a food slash medicine. It's somewhere between pumpkin and sunflower seeds in taste. So you can eat milk thistle seeds on a regular basis, bringing them into your diet as another seed. Contained oil, protein, and mottled. You can also make an alcohol extract from milk thistle seeds. You make a dry seed extract, a 1 to 5 ratio. You'll learn about this later on when I show you that. And after you've made the extract, then you go through another process to make what's called a glycerite. You basically double boil your herbal extract, remove all the alcohol and put glycerine in. And as an alcohol evaporative process, you remove the alcohol and transfer it to glycerine. Glycerine is a very sweet substance somewhere between alcohol and water in its solvency. It's a weak solvice. Those with the science background, would you classify glycerine as almost like an alcohol? Is that correct? For those that may know about glycerine on the molecular level, I always classify glycerine as it's like, it's very similar to alcohol in its solvency strength. But its molecular structure is a little bit different, but it's a solvent. It's sweet tasting and it's one of the solvents that we use in herbal medicine. When you make a milk thistle, you either eat the seeds or you make the alcohol extracts, you get all the silamarin out, then you evaporate the alcohol and you now have a sweet tasting glycerine. Because the reason why, it's a liver herb. Milk thistle is a liver herb. And in many conditions, you don't want any alcohol. You know, like when you're treating cirrhosis of the liver. You don't want any alcohol in it. So we make the alcohol-free glycerides, as we call them, using this substance, glycerine. After we've initially extracted the seeds. It's hard to describe with this. There's several processes I'm talking about here. Milk thistle seeds by themselves can be eaten. You can take a milk thistle glyceride. And you need to either eat the seeds or use an alcohol glycerine extract because it's not water soluble. The silamarin, you will not get if you make a tea from it. That's why I'm trying to labor this. You have to use either the extract or you have to eat the seeds in order to get the silamarin. And the silamarin is what you're after. It's not water soluble. You can't make a tea from the seeds. So, that gives you a little background on the preparations and stuff. It's a liver herb. And the liver will, the liver by itself, let's talk about the liver for a moment. The liver is the organ that filters. Filters waste. It's the organ that's responsible for a major portion. There's the liver stomach relationship and digestion. The liver's important in filtering. The liver's important in assimilating and moving vitamins into the right, and minerals into the right areas of the body. The liver is important for making the immune system very strong. And in various ways, the liver's responsible for helping to make red blood cells, absorb vitamins, eliminate waste. The liver is responsible for metabolic transfer, absorption, elimination. The liver is the first organ online to deal with heavy metals and toxins. It has to process these, filter these, direct these to be removed out. The liver deals with fats and cholesterols in conjunction with the gallbladder. The liver is important. And those are just some topics, some things that the liver does. It does many more things. When the liver becomes diseased or becomes exposed to solvents like alcohol, in the case of alcoholism, and cirrhosis of the liver, industrial solvents, pharmaceutical drugs, recreational drugs, all these things can damage the liver, causing cirrhosis. Cirrhosis of the liver is when part of the liver gets basically damaged and shut down and becomes hard. That's what cirrhosis means, a part of the liver, or hardened liver. You have a part of your liver that's shut down, no longer making cells, no longer doing all those various functions. People die from cirrhosis of the liver. People die from cirrhosis of the liver. 20, 30, 40, 50% of your liver becomes cirrhosis. There isn't much that Western medicine has to offer you. Basically, some narcotics for the pain, and put you on the list for liver transplant. That's here, in this country. Now, in Europe, if you were to have cirrhosis of the liver, they would prescribe an intravenous solution, or a concentrate, of silymarin. Because what silymarin does is it regenerates liver cells. And I have seen through studies that I have performed in conjunction with doctors, for people with a 40% cirrhosis of cirrhosis. We have watched a 40% cirrhosis of cirrhosis within six months go from 30 to 20 to 10, back to normal. All of the cirrhosis was eliminated through the use, not of the intravenous solution that they have in Europe. We can't get it. It's illegal here to get milk thistle, intravenous injections of milk thistle here. Number one, in Europe, nobody gets liver transplants, because milk thistle is available pharmaceutically, intravenously. And you could be having liver failure due to a massive exposure of solvents. And they will shoot you up with so much intravenous silymarin that immediately the solvents stop damaging the liver, and the cells begin to grow in the liver, and your liver cells regenerate, and tissue comes back. And the reason why, they found that this active chemical, silymarin, actually puts a protective membrane around each individual liver cell. Millions of cells in the liver. And a healthy liver will make its own cells to keep business going. You know, it's only when you become diseased or exposed to solvents or toxins, is when the liver can't keep up with the production of cells. A healthy liver will make all the cells it needs. But, in the case of solvent poisoning, aminida, mushroom poisoning, toxins of severe nature that damage the liver, that literally dissolve the liver, they will shoot people up with intravenous solutions of milk vessel, and immediately the decay will stop. Cells will regenerate. And it's because that silymarin puts a protective membrane around each and every cell in the liver. And this membrane allows all the liver functions to take place, but prevents toxins and heavy metals and solvents from reaching those cells. How that, I mean what I'm saying is that, you take milk thistle seeds, you take milk thistle extract, or you're in Europe and you do an intravenous injection of milk thistle, what you receive is a protective membrane around all of your liver cells. That all the poisons and toxins in the environment, or the poison that may be in your system, destroying your liver right then and there, do not reach the liver anymore. And that's why the liver functions can carry on. I don't know if I said that well enough, but what I've said is one of the most, that's why it's the most important herb really in today's world. We have no other substance on the face of the earth that actually will put a protective membrane around each and every liver cell. Now that's where all the research was focused. They also show that the possible peripheral research shows that it puts that cell around the kidneys, that membrane around the kidney cells, around the spleen, and around the brain. Now if that is true, it's more immense and more important than ever before. Question? Why is it illegal? Why is it illegal? Intravenous, why is it illegal? Why is milk thistle, intravenous solution of milk thistle, of the cell of the marine illegal in this country? It would take a lot of millions of dollars. The Europeans are that wrapped up into that heavy duty of spending that many millions of dollars to produce something that helps thousands and millions of people. In this country, the average pharmaceutical drug, I forget the latest statistic, for the last time I remember it, the average pharmaceutical drug takes $250 million to research, market, develop, and get out approved. Now, they could probably get their money back with a Silomarin concentrator. But the problem is, Silomarin is readily available in milk thistle seeds. Silomarin in large and in very effective quantities, Silomarin is available in good quality herbal extracts. I'm not Silomarin. You're saying that the Silomarin is in the seeds and not in the milk thistle itself? It's throughout the whole plant, but concentrated medicinally. The Silomarin is concentrated medicinally mostly in the seeds. So, if you want to help your liver and really give it some help, you would use something with the seeds instead of the plant. Is that correct? Yes. Anything from protecting yourself from environmental toxins to dealing with cirrhosis of the liver. You should want to use the seeds over any other part of the plant. And if you see a thistle, it's really hard to use the other parts of the plant because they're very spiny, very thorny, and very hard to deal with. When milk thistle is very young, first coming up, and the spines aren't formed to harden, they're not hard-formed spines, you can harvest the young shoots and use it as a vegetable. And there's enough Silomarin in that to help provide the liver with good medicine. But most of the medicinal value is locked in the seeds. I think it may be a matter of time before any intravenous solution will be here in this country. It will be hard to stop. I think that... Why is it that to be intravenous? Well, in the case of... Why does the milk thistle have to be intravenous? That's a question. That's a question. She's asking why does the milk thistle have to be intravenous? Well, what they do... It doesn't have to be intravenous. I'm saying you can eat the seeds of milk thistle. I'm also saying that you can make an herbal extract from the seeds and use that. But in serious situations... I'm going to give you an example to explain this. Those of you in California... Well, last year... It was very recent. I was wondering... It was within two years. Maybe it was even last year. But those people went out... A whole group of people... And ate the Amanita phylloides mushroom. Amanita phylloides mushroom. The death calf mushroom. Anybody remember that story? Sacramento, San Francisco, Oakland, maybe somewhere in that area. Well, several of those people got a liver transplant, didn't they? And several of them died. In fact, I think one of the heirs to... One of the... Not the Gallo... It was a Gallo... It was a Gallo... Sebastiani. Mushrooms are great. They're gourmet. They're good tasting. They're a lot of nutrition. There's like a lot of people who like to go out and hunt them. Because they taste good. And they're very good medicines and filled full of vitamins and minerals. The heir to Sebastiani Wines, evidently, ate one of these death cat mushrooms. So, some people died in California. Some people ended up... I think the little girl ended up with a liver transplant. I don't know if she died or lived as a result of the transplant. But you know what? That would have never happened in Europe. Because these people would have got the concentrate of Silamerin. For most of us, there's milk thistle seeds and extracts enough. But when you're dying of liver failure, when you take Amanita phylloides mushroom, the substance thalodyne is literally dissolved in your liver. You don't have time for an herbal extract. You need the Silamerin extracted concentrate, which can only be delivered intravenously. Does that sort of answer your question? There are times when your liver is so shut down and so damaged, you don't have time to do the same simple long-term herbal medicine. You need to go to the concentrator. And that's what they've done in Europe. They've concentrated the Silamerin so that in these life-saving situations where people used to die, now they don't die anymore because they can go to the hospital, get an intravenous injection of Silamerin, and their liver stops breaking down and immediately begins to regenerate. You know, the fatality rate in France for the dead cat mushroom ingestion used to be over 90%. That was over 15 years ago. Now that they use milk thistle in the hospitals and for these particular types of mushroom poisonings, the fatality rate has dropped to less than 1%. In this country, those people died, and those people, the only choice that was offered to these people was a liver transplant. Across the ocean, nobody's dying from this same mushroom because of the intravenous Silamerin solution. That, I mean, I don't know why it's not in this country. It saves lives. Liver transplant is a big... Well, liver disease is the third largest killer in this country. And I'll tell you what, for 90% of all those liver problems, milk thistle would be the answer. Now, we're talking about an industry. 90% of these people would benefit, get healed, go on about a healthy life if they had access to milk thistle. This country is a medical monster, a medical business. Between the insurance, the pharmaceutical drug companies, and everything else in between, it's a monster. And if you brought milk thistle in intravenously, the third largest disease would not long... The third largest problem in health, liver disease, would not be a problem anymore. It'd be pushed down to 20th or 50th because of one plant and one isolated chemical, the Silamerin. And that's probably why it's not in this country, to be honest with you. It's not because of their take. It's because that's the bottom line. A lot of people would lose money, you know. A lot of money. A lot of money. I mean, how much does a liver transplant cost? I wanted to say, my mother is dying with cirrhosis. She got it from diabetes, so you can get it from other health problems. And I know what you're saying, and so this health is not available to her. He's talking about this, so we're using the extract he's talking about with her. And she didn't know that it's done improvement, although I still don't think she didn't live because she needs more than what we do when we do for her here. Right, your mother is using the muscle because she has cirrhosis. And there's a lot of factors. We're talking about, hey, you're 15 years old, 20 years old, 35, 45, 55 years old. These medicines can make the difference. That treatment is available. The problem is you have to go to Europe to get it. And most kids can't afford that treatment. Correct, Bill. That treatment, that solomerin injections is available if you leave the country to get it. The closest thing you can get now is a dry powder concentrate of 85% solomerin. It is available now, and you have to put it in capsules and take it. That's the latest thing that's become available. You can get the dry powder, but you can make an intravenous solution of it without risk. And that is now available. 85 to 90% solomerin powder is available. What is the timeframe between the actual rabia and the healthy liver again? What is the timeframe between taking milk thistle and the healthy liver again? It's a very hard question. I'll give you some examples of other reasons and other parameters to use milk thistle. So, rosalism liver is a major problem. Milk thistle is an herb to research. Keep in mind it can't save your life. It can prevent a liver transplant. I don't think any of us in this room, I know I can't afford a liver transplant. And I'm glad I know about milk thistle. And I've actually seen it work so many times with science backing it up with doctors. I've got 12 doctors in our town using milk thistle on a regular basis because it's such an important herb in their practice. They use it to improve the health of the liver on a number of different planes which affects so many different problems. The dermatologist in town uses milk thistle. Highly recommends he sends people down by the groves to the herb store for milk thistle and he's the dermatologist. Now you're going to say, what skin problems and liver have to do with each other? The liver is the main organ that governs the quality of the skin. Without the liver being healthy, your skin won't be healthy. If your liver is not healthy, your skin won't be healthy. Any skin problem you see on the surface is a reflection of 80% of the time the liver, the other 20% of the time the kidneys. And often a combination of both. Eczema, acne, psoriasis, almost all dermatological problems, skin allergic reactions are not necessarily what you would call what I would call skin problems. They are liver problems. They are a sign. You see it on the skin, but it's actually going on in the liver. The skin is the largest organ system in the body, but it takes the liver and kidneys to maintain its health. So when you see a problem on the surface, like eczema, psoriasis, these weird dermatological problems, acne, these are liver problems. To give you an example, remember jaundice. Babies get jaundice, right? We know, all of us who know a little bit about medicine know that jaundice is a liver problem. If you've had a child that's had jaundice, the doctor says, well, the skin is going to turn yellow, the eyes will turn a little yellow, but it's because of a vitamin deficiency, you need a little bit more sun, you know, this and that. But basically those who ask the questions find out that it's a liver problem. But you see it in the skin. And so as a result, we use milk thistle to treat skin problems. And when I started doing that, the success rate of results went from pretty good with skin ointments and kind of cleansing teas to almost 100% for eczema, almost 100% for psoriasis. If you try to find some pharmaceutical medicine that will deal with eczema and psoriasis on that success level of almost 100%. Drinking more water, taking a lot of milk thistle, if you have psoriasis, I can almost stand out here and guarantee that within two weeks, if you took, and we sat down and talked, you had psoriasis. I recommended X amount of milk thistle, X amount of water, and if you took to that and stayed to that, if you didn't see a result, a beneficial result, you'd be the first person I ever met out of the thousands that I've recommended milk thistle to. I was just going to ask, what's the situation in Mexico? I understand you can get a lot of things over there that might be available with the herbs. I guess it's fine, I've asked frequently, because I've perused the pharmacies and looked for obscure medicines that may be of benefit in Mexico, and I imagine you might be able to order it. You might be able to get it in through the right channels. I don't speak fluent Spanish, but if I did, I thought I could find, I could get a conversation going, talk to a pharmacist, and it might be, I think you could bring it up. No one so far has been able to, even a few people that can speak Spanish who said they have tried, but I don't know if they did or not. So I don't know about the availability. As of today, as the last time we tried, maybe a month ago, no such luck. Can you give us a tracking comment that I met with milk thistle, whatever the name you were explaining, but can you give me the botanical name so I can put it picture? You bet. The botanical name for milk thistle, that's your question, what is the botanical name of milk thistle, is Silly Bum, S-I-L-Y-D-U-M, I believe. You know, I'm kind of a writer, not a speller. That's what editors are for. Silly Bum, Marinarum. Marinarum. Marinarum. Marinarum. M-A-R something. You can look at one of the books in the back and you can put these. I'm tired. I mean, I could probably spell it about 11 in the morning, but now I don't think I get this spell. Silly Bum, Marinarum. And the active constituent of milk thistle seeds is Silla Marinarum. So, the liver governs the quality of the skin. So, by improving the functions of the liver, by improving the filtration of the liver, by bringing liver health up, you can improve the skin, digestion, eyesight, constipation problems, fat absorption problems, a lot of things. But, if you have skin problems, I suggest you try milk thistle for almost any skin problem. What about liver spots? Liver spots. Liver spots and the liver, could be a number of different things. You might want to talk later on. But, without a doubt, milk thistle. Without a doubt. You're not going to get any overnight results or any two-week massive results. That's something you're going to take a little bit further. Maybe after two months. Not of continuous use, but maybe a month of heavy use, then you start tapering off. If you want, I'll tell you more specific doses and then we'll talk about a few other things because it might be some kidney herbs too. But, milk thistle for sure. Absolutely. Without a doubt. You will get some food. Plus, you know, and maybe a lot, depending. It might be just, how long have you had it? A couple years? There might be some other things we can tell you. Because if you had them 20 years, it might be congenital or inherited. But, if you only had them for a few years, milk thistle, you probably do really well with milk thistle. It's probably a good time to try it. Milk thistle is the most important plant that you probably can maybe take out. All the plants have some value and some importance. But, let's face it. There's heavy metals everywhere. Polluted water everywhere. Toxins everywhere. People, we mean just toxins. We drink a lot of coffee. We smoke a lot of tobacco. We eat polluted food, etc., etc., etc. Our environment has these elements in them. The more you read about milk thistle, the more you use it, the more protected your liver will be from these problems in our environment. And, if you get some serious problems, like cirrhosis, like eczema, like psoriasis, you will find about the only answer available in this country. Because, I'll tell you what, those of you who know medicine, some of you out here, there may be doctors out here. Those of you who know what I'm talking about, I know this plant. You know there's nothing for cirrhosis in this country. You know there's nothing for eczema because you get it. It keeps coming back every once in a while. And it may temporarily go away, but you haven't addressed the real problem. Most dermatological problems are reoccurring. Eczema, dermatological problems, psoriasis, keeps coming back. You know that our medicine system as it is, has nothing to offer for these problems. If you're somebody who takes cortisol, somebody who takes anti-inflammatory drugs, somebody who's on a lot of prescription medicines, you need to take milk thistle. Because those drugs are going to stress the liver, and they're going to damage the liver. And milk thistle can keep those drugs, especially the anti-inflammatory drugs, like cortisone, prednisone. As in asthmatics, who use inhalers, it's often a prednisone-based drug. Anti-inflammatory. These drugs take the toll on the liver and set the stage for massive disease and illness later on. These drugs are anti-inflammatory pharmaceutical drugs that are available to destroy the liver. And there's this much information available for those who care to show and approve that. You have a question? I'm like your problem with Sully here. We're on our way to download this. Two words, S-I-L-Y-B-Y-U-M. Okay. And the second word is M-A-R-Y-A-N-U-M. Very awesome. Excellent. I forgot the Y on the syllable. Michael Moore, he's one of the most fantastic herbalists on the face of the earth. But your question is spelling sometimes. Questions? Did you have a question? Yeah. Yeah. I just wanted to say the first word is Sully here. S-I-L-Y-B-Y-U-M. Well, he's got a spelling of Y-U-M. S-I-L-Y-B-Y-U-M. Okay. Are we going to work? This is Michael Moore's book. I was just going to ask you. If I was, if I wanted to, what should I say? If I wanted to do some preventative maintenance, could I eat some of those seeds or could I eat, I mean, could I eat too many seeds and hurt myself? How many seeds, what is the dose of grains? You're asking how many seeds you can eat, whether they have toxicity. Of the milk thistle seeds, there is no known toxicity. It's incredible. The only side effect that you will get that may be irritating, if you take too much milk thistle, you'll end up with a laxative effect. And what you have to do then is decrease the amount. You can eat the seeds. Bring them in. We're talking about the most important plant medicine that I would get to, I mean, the case histories that I could relate of what a terminal case is, liver shutters, seroded liver cases, etc., etc. It's an amazing plant. And here, the side effects, I mean all plants have some side effects. Here, the worst side effect is a laxative effect, which believe it or not, those people who are usually liver deficient, liver stressed, who have cirrhosis of the liver, who have eczema, who have psoriasis, all have a tendency to be constipated anyways. And here's an herb that you take, I mean, it's almost, some people who have serious liver weakness and deficiencies by nature will be constipated. And so here's a plant that is ultimate for rebuilding liver cells, for negating toxins and the damage to the cells, and the side effect is a laxative with most of those people in those situations. So it's not a bad plant. I mean, it has no known toxicity. Incredible amounts are given. And in case of cirrhosis and some of these serious exposures to solvents, you're really going to have to take a lot of it, a lot of milk for solvents. Let's talk about a maintenance dose for, let's say, the average human in this room. Whatever that is. There's no average human in here. But the average person with no liver, major liver problem. Just the normal liver stress and liver anxiety and liver problems that we all have at the least. You might want to eat, you know, half teaspoon of seeds, two, three, four times a week. You can grind the seeds up, put them in breads. You can grind the seeds up, sprinkle it on your salad. You can grind the seeds up, put it in soups, eat it. Straight seeds, chew them, eat them, cook with them. Heat doesn't destroy the Silmarin. That plant is very hardy. I mean, it needs alcohol. It takes ingestion to break down and absorb the Silmarin. Heat doesn't really affect it and destroy the Silmarin at all that I've seen. No research. It's very heat stable. So you can cook with it. You can also use an extract, a non-alcohol glyceride, maybe two or three times a week. Or if you know you've been exposed to a solvents. If you're a painter, if you're a welder, if you're somebody who, a mechanic, if you're somebody who works with solvents on a daily basis, you should be taking milk with the salt. Mechanics, painters, people who work with solvents on a daily basis, have smoked a lot because they're weak livers, require smoking as a stimulation for digestion. They usually drink a lot more alcohol. They are exposed to solvents. They usually are good drinkers. And they usually die of a liver deficiency or liver problems. So if you're exposed to solvents on any level, whether it's artistic or industrial, use milk thistle to protect you on the job site and at home. Anybody who, I don't know, I won't ramble. Questions about milk thistle, that's the most important thing. If you ask me questions about milk thistle that may pertain to you or you may want to know. Canadian thistle, would that be like milk thistle? No, there's sow thistle, there's Canadian thistle. Those all have different Latin names. Milk thistle is, actually milk thistle is the only thistle that I've ever seen that has a variegated leaf structure. The green and white leaf structure. You're asking pure chlorines, acids? Yeah. Absolutely. You're asking if milk thistle will help you be protected from it. Sometimes it'll be in the disreact to your liver or hurt. That answers your own question. You better believe it. Those are all solvents, those are all toxic. Remember the liver is the first organ to deal with these. Whether you breathe them, whether you absorb them through the skin. I mean you may get immediate skin reaction, but the real organ, the first organ that comes in contact with these solvents, whether you touch them on your skin, whether you breathe the vapors, is the liver. You better believe it. You better believe it. In fact, it could make, you know, say you were to do that and totally be absorbed into it for many years. You might die as a result of the worst of the liver. Do your job being exposed to those, even if you take precautions because, and say you were drinking a lot, smoking a lot, stressing yourself out. All the other things that meet the week to stress, are you going to do that? Do your job being exposed to those, even if you take precautions because, and say you were drinking a lot, smoking a lot, stressing yourself out. All the other things that meet the week to stress, livers. How about strong acids? All acids, all household chemicals, bleaches, all of that. All the industrial solvents, all of the cleaning agents, all the mechanical solvents, those all affect the liver. And if you do it for a long period of time, you'll get, I mean you get cancer from using those things. And the reason why you get cancer is because you've stressed your liver out and your liver can no longer keep you healthy fighting cancer. That's how you get the cancer. As you get exposed to certain substances, it weakens the liver. The liver no longer can keep you fighting healthy against cancer cells and they take hold. So, it becomes a very important, any solvents, any chemicals, any substances that you may read about, any of these things that affect the liver, milk thistle. I mean, it's safe, it's benign, it has no toxicity. You can treat it as a food slash medicine and in those cases when you want to use it as a medicine, cirrhosis, cirrhosis of the liver is a killer. And here I'm telling you about something that actually will save your life if other conditions are right. If you take enough of it, if you stop your alcohol abuse, you stop your exposure to solvents and things like that. So, any solvents, acids or chemicals. Can we get this in the morning? You can buy the extract in a lot of herb stores and health food stores and some of those, that 85% concentrate can be obtained. Yeah, it can be obtained. Just like a good health food store or if you have an herb store. Can we get it to grow out here? No, but you can get it to grow. It's a Mediterranean plant that naturalized in North America. And it is a waste-field plant. It grows anywhere to lay the seed down basically. It's very, very hard. Is that the first time you've had cancer like cold cancer or other things that could result in some trauma to many other areas? Essentially, you've had risk for cancer. Meaning like the liver. Is it working with the liver for other types of cancers or? In other words, if someone had a problem in the cold and the doctor said, well, this isn't cancerous now, we're going to remove this. But you are at risk for this in the future. Because you get in this situation. That's not an immediate threat by strengthening the function of the liver using this. Absolutely. All cancers have something to do with the immune system. And the liver is one of the main players in the immune system. So anytime you have cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, immune system, deficiencies, HIV, AIDS, hepatitis, any virus infections that are weakening you. Strengthening the liver with milk thistle. Strengthening the kidneys by more water. Strengthening the digestion system by starting to eat maybe the appropriate foods. You bet. You bet. You bet. You can't really address the immune system without addressing the liver in many cases. A milk thistle is a very good herb to address the immune system weaknesses with good results. If it's ground up seeds put into the capsules or that concentrated extract, that's fine. Ingestion. You need to eat it or use an alcohol glyceride transfer extract. I don't know if it's anything to do with the liver, but I've worked with many people and I've eaten shingles. And I know it's like a cleaner. Is that? Right. You can work with the liver with shingles. But shingles is a herpes virus and it's a nerve-ending retrograde virus. So I'll use milk thistle to strengthen the liver because definitely it plays a role. But what I use is St. John's work. It's probably the best herpes medicine and it's specific for shingles because shingles is a herpes. Let's see. Herpes simplex is the cold sore. Herpes zoster is the shingles. And it can have some relationship to chicken pods early on. It's definitely an immune system viral problem that the liver plays a role in. In fact, I don't know how many percentages of the time. A lot of the time I would put a two-ounce bottle with maybe 30% milk thistle and two-thirds hypericum or St. John's work in the formula. The St. John's work is antiviral. It's specifically antiviral for retrograde viruses like the herpes virus. And it also rebuilds the nervous system, helps to stimulate the growth of the sheath endy, mylar, myelin sheath, at the end of the nerve endy. 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