Comments on: Growing Your Family’s Pharmacy

By: Debra Ratcliffe

Debra Ratcliffe — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 01:55:41 +0000

I discovered that Aloe Vera was also good for pain on small cuts. It works instantly.

By: Debra Ratcliffe

Debra Ratcliffe — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 01:50:17 +0000

Hi Deborah

I think your comment was wonderful and I just want you to know that and to apologize for the error I made in clicking on the report comment. I didn’t know how to withdraw it so I posted a comment explaining my error. This is the comment. I’m sorry, I thought that the reply/report comment at the bottom of Deborah’s post was a reply from someone and I clicked on it wanting to read it but it was a report the comment. Please withdraw that click as I didn’t want to report it. I think Deborah is wonderful for taking the steps she has to give up medication and gain control of her life. I gave up antidepressants because I felt they made me feel worse and I use meditation and natural foods and herbal remedies instead but still have much to learn.

Anyway, sorry Deborah for clicking on the wrong thing at the bottom of your comment.

By: Debra Ratcliffe

Debra Ratcliffe — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 01:47:40 +0000

I’m sorry, I thought that the reply/report comment at the bottom of Deborah’s post was a reply from someone and I clicked on it wanting to read it but it was a report the comment. Please withdraw that click as I didn’t want to report it. I think Deborah is wonderful for taking the steps she has to give up medication and gain control of her life. I gave up antidepressants because I felt they made me feel worse and I use meditation and natural foods and herbal remedies instead but still have much to learn.

Anyway, sorry Deborah for clicking on the wrong thing at the bottom of your comment.

By: Deborah

Deborah — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:05:30 +0000

I have lived in the city most of my adult life. I have worked for 20 yrs as an athlete. I am now retired and due to a trigger and severe abuse of an ex. I have begun to remember and relive the extreme torture I endured as a child from both my ‘parents’. I am now (as the Dr’s say deep in PTSD, and anxiety disorder and something about the fight or flight that my body is shooting far too much adrenaline into my system every min of every day. I cannot stand to be touched or be around people and my startle response is out of control, I actually scream and without deliberation fly across the room sometimes knocking over the TV and such. I even made my daughter cry because she said hi to me when I didn’t know she was there. I have what they tell me is sleep psychosis as I refuse to allow myself to sleep because the nightmares are too much for me to handle. Of course I was made to see a physiatrist and put on 8 different meds. I also live in pain on a scale of 8 every min of my life and they told me it was the PTSD and all in my mind and left it at that without one test.
I have now found out I have extremely advanced osteoarthritis and ostiophites in my spine and was hospitalized. I have started to slowly quit all the CRAP the Dr’s have given me and have been going through withdrawal here and there however I now have to live the rest of my life on morphine and a small dose of clonazapam (as needed). I am moving to a cabin in the mountains and am determined to allow Mother Nature and I heal me and I to wish to grow my own herbs. I am also working at a horse sanctuary to heal them and that in turn will heal me. I am going to learn every plant that grows in my area and from what I read here and, from the other posts I am so glad I am getting rid of the meds one more will go my next appointment and I am dropping 25mg on another. Is there a herb that can help me with this anxiety and with the clonazapam of which they have had me on 5mg a day for 3yrs.
Any advice would help me
Thank you all for writing; it has given me the courage to write this.
Deborah.

By: KatB

KatB — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:17:38 +0000

I have been looking for a simple list. This is wonderful.
I grew up in the medical community–my father was a medical doctor who had a unique view– diet and exercise before drugs. He didn’t like the numbers of drugs his patients had to take and prefered they take care of themselves first. And there were plenty of other MDs who prescribed at the drop of a hat. Most of the drugs now manufactured were based on early herbal remedies, then tweaked and twisted into the barely helpful, mostly harmful drugs they are now. You can’t patent an herb–although they are now trying to do just that.
I am actually going to be growing many of these this year–and many years to come– to dry and put into hot/cold packs for our chiropractic patients. We can use them to educate our patients in a more healthy lifestyle.

By: Joyce from Loris

Joyce from Loris — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:13:50 +0000

I am a former pharmaceutical chemist. I DO NOT take medicines, as I KNOW what is in “it”. When people get sick, go to the doctor, and the doctor finds 14 different things wrong with them, then the doctor prescripts 2 different drugs for each ailment. Most of the health issues that people have come from the MEDICINES that are prescribed for them. If they only knew! I worked for one generic pharmaceutical company that was caught falsifying the contents of their drug! Yes, the FDA shut them down, but not before years of selling this drug with NO active ingredient in it! When the patient was not getting better, the doctor would just up the dosage, many times threatening the life of the patient. It is so scary what people are just willing to open their mouths and place in their body. Never have we had such cases of cancer, diabetes, autism, etc. We all should get back to the basics, the God given remedies for what ails us. We are all going to die, sooner or later, and have to accept that. We are meant to die. But these small comforts in the form of herbs make our lives better.

By: Vindi

Vindi — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:02:47 +0000

Everyone needs to learn to grow & use natural, GOD made medicines, and stop relying on Big Pharma and running to the doctors office. These natural herbs/plants don’t require a lot of work, or anything special. Just be sure they get the right amount of water, natural fertilizer (horse poop) and allow GOD to do the rest.
Read up on how to make tinctures, decoctions, salves, etc. It’s not hard!!!! If I can learn to do it, anyone can!!
Use the cheapest scotch whiskey/vodka you can buy to make your tinctures. Save all your old brown glass medicine bottles with the glass droppers.

Good Luck….