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A Practical Guide to Herbal Remedies

Lee Wellard

A Practical Guide to Herbal Remedies - Part 2

A Practical Guide to Herbal Remedies - Part 1

Father in heaven, thank you, Lord, for the sunshine of Jesus Christ.

Thank you for the hope of eternal life that frees us not only from the guilt of sin, but the grip of sin.

I pray that we will be able to move forward and that you will add value to what we hear today so that it may illumine each individual heart, that we may hear with the reasoning of the Holy Spirit and not even the orientation of our own hearts.

We pray for clarity, we pray for wisdom, We pray for your presence in this room today.

Okay, so I don't have to spend 20 minutes with my disclaimers.

All right, so to this presentation, I want to share a little bit more into specific herbs that could be used for specific conditions, okay?

This isn't medical advice, this is education, right?

If we could swallow some education, we can avoid a lot of what?

So we're getting back to this approach on herbal remedies that what we need is these things coming together.

I remember a saying that said, it said, common sense is not a gift, it's a punishment, because you have to deal with all the people that don't have it.

So anyway, but so as this sister was saying, just because a little is good doesn't mean you can take 4 times the amount, right?

And then we also need a clinical-based approach.

We need to see the scientific evidence, and we also need to see that it's working in a realistic way in people's lives, that we have not just the science to support it, but we have the manifestation of seeing it in people's lives.

And then we also need to have it based upon the word of God.

And I think if you've got all those things together, All those things converging together, you're on a very safe path when it comes to herbal remedies.

In a study entitled, A Gap Between Acceptance and Knowledge of Herbal remedies by physicians, the need for educational intervention, it revealed that of 192 physicians interviewed, most or 60.4% believed that herbal remedies were beneficial to health.

78 physicians, that's 40.6%, admitted having used herbs in the past and 60 of these, or 76.9%, were satisfied with the outcome.

So even doctors are actually sort of closet herbalists, in a way.

So there's A lot more doctors that are using herbs personally and also even recommending them.

And if we were to go back to 1970s, that would be a totally different picture than we have today.

In fact, from 1930s to 1970, herbalists were run out of town in the United States.

But we have much more acceptance even in the medical community than we've ever had in the recent history in America.

Patients are reluctant to tell doctors about their herbal medicines.

Unfortunately, a study in New England Journal of Medicine found that nearly 70% of people taking herbal medicines, most of whom were well-educated and had a higher than average income, were reluctant to tell their doctors that they use complementary and alternative medicine.

So there is a fear about that because they're maybe afraid that their doctor will berate them or maybe tell them to avoid it.

And as I mentioned earlier, you know, it's a good idea to tell your doctor what you're doing.

They, they probably, they may be taking the same herb as you are.

So just tell them, but sometimes there is a problem, because if they don't know that you're taking a herb for a particular problem, it could potentially conflict with a medication.

So let's look at some of the common herbs that you could find, even in some cases your backyard, that you could use for many different complaints.

And anyone know what we're looking at here?

Now we have an American elderberry that you need to cook.

If you use elderberry wild, make sure you cook it because it has cyanide in it.

It's, it's, it's not enough to kill you, but it can cause a stomach problem, indigestion, or you may have a little bit of nausea.

So we use the Sambucas nigra, which is from Europe.

You could take it raw, but we use it dry and we make a tea or decoction out of it.

This is a great way to get your children.

And 1 of the reasons for that was because we had a son that couldn't breastfeed.

My wife had Reinhardt syndrome of the breast, and so the milk wasn't letting down.

And so we had to put him on a formula, and he was getting sick half his life.

And so we thought there's gotta be a remedy for this, and the Lord directed us to a natural remedy called elderberry.

Didn't necessarily stop him getting sick, however, it did greatly reduce his symptom time.

So instead of having a cold for 3 weeks, we found 2 or 3 days oftentimes would be his recovery time.

So we're really, really thankful for that.

Elderberry has been used in times of pandemics when there's been viruses going around that cannot be contained or quarantined.

Historically, elderberry has been a go-to herb for viruses.

And remember a few years ago, Ebola was, looked like it was just starting to break out.

In the United States, people were buying up elderberry.

You just could not get a hold of elderberry.

So if you've got viruses, Getting a cold, starting to feel run down, maybe you should think about taking some elderberry.

It's, it tastes great and it doesn't take too long to kick in.

Most of the time you'll find that, you know, if you get it early enough, that's the key.

If you, If you start to feel run down and you take it quickly, you've got more of a chance for it to be effective.

Boy, I better change my presentation here.

Now, hemp looks very similar to marijuana.

So let me talk a little bit about CBD because this is a big topic.

Just a few of you, okay, so most of you are familiar with CBD.

And CBD is to do what we call cannabinoids.

And this is particularly helpful for pain, and so it's often advocated in the place of opioids.

So these are some phytochemistry here that helps with blocking the pain transmission.

Now, CBD you can get from hemp and you can also get from marijuana.

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