Wednesday, November 7, 2007

emerald Tablet, trusty Translation

Newton's translation

One translation, by Isaac Newton, found among his alchemical papers:

1. Tis true without lying, certain & most true.
2. That which is below is like that which is above & that which is above is like that which is below to do the miracles of one only thing.
3. And as all things have been & arose from one by the meditation of one: so all things have their birth from this one thing by adaptation.
4. The Sun is its father, the moon its mother,
5. The wind hath carried it in its belly, the earth its nurse.
6. The father of all perfection in the whole world is here.
7. Its force or power is entire if it be converted into earth.
7a. Separate thou the earth from the fire, the subtle from the gross sweetly with great industry.
8. It ascends from the earth to the heaven & again it desends to the earth and receives the force of things superior & inferior.
9. By this means you shall have the glory of the whole world & thereby all obscurity shall fly from you.
10. Its force is above all force, for it vanquishes every subtle thing & penetrates every solid thing.
11a. So was the world created.
12. From this are & do come admirable adaptations where of the means (or process) is here in this.
13. Hence I am called Hermes Trismegist, having the three parts of the philosophy of the whole world.
14. That which I have said of the operation of the Sun is accomplished & ended.

Saturday, November 3, 2007

Growing New Flesh

I saw it coming, knew better, didn't think then wam! My thumb went through the table saw blade. It was like an electric shock and the pain was going to take a minute to set in. I shut off the saw and got the nerve to look. there was meat hanging loose, I could see the bone and the bleeding was copious. I was wishing this hadn't happened and wanting to pass out. alone in my shop, a mile from the nearest person and 15 miles from an emergency room. I wiggled the end of my thumb and was grateful the bone was not cut through. A clean rag wrapped tight was the best badge/tourniquet I could do. I tried to cell phone for help but got no answers and busy signals. Decided to drive to the hospital, I was bleeding heavy but figured that was good, clean it out. Shock and pain were my problem now. Took twenty minutes to get to the Emergency room at Martha Jefferson. Got a call through to a friend and asked him to call the hospital and tell them I was coming.
In America not having health insurance is messed up. I was told to wait for a doctor in the waiting area. They took away my tourniquet and gave me a sterile 4x4 gauze to "place on my cut". I sat there and slipped into deep shock, passed out and was pouring blood on their floor. My friend had followed me to the hospital and was holding me and looking for help when I came around. They brought me to a room. Put on a new tourniquet to stop the bleeding and I waited an hour for a "Specialist". Some dumb ass came in and tried to collect a few hundred dollar fee from me as a deposit. Then a doctor rolled in a big cart and said "so your the one who needs a skin graft". I asked if he could just sew it up and he said there was nothing left to sew. He looked at my chart, saw that I had no insurance and pushed the cart back out of the room with his foot. "Stick your hand under the sink". He ran water on me, gooped me up with neosporin, scripted me some codeine. and walked me to the back door to the street. Come back in three days and let's have a look at it then. No antibiotics? No, he said.
Three days later I went to the local doctor, he wasn't in but his new young partner unwrapped me and looked at it. "Hold on". he says. A minute later a nurse walks in and say the doctor wants me to clean it myself in the sink. I do so and when the nurse tries to re-wrap me I stop her and do it myself. when the doctor comes back I ask if I need a skin graft. "That would have worked a few days ago, but now it's too late". I asked what am I supposed to do and he said hope that scar tissue can start growing. And if it does I'm looking at months to heal, poorly. No antibiotics. This is how doctors work....if I get infected they will amputate. It's easier money for them than actually healing you. I had to help myself or lose the thumb. I keep a paper in my wallet now telling the doctors to let me die, with my lawyers cell phone number on it.
At home I read my chinese medicine book and thought about how the best care I got was in my shop and how shitty doctors could be. I called my veterinarian, he's a born healer, I have helped him operate on cancers and do amputations on my pets. they all heal and live well from him. Healing is healing, isn't it? Keep antibiotic cream on for a week and wear a loose cotton glove over it, that will let the flesh grow and help scar tissue from closing in on the bone too fast. Then use a comfrey liniment to speed up skin growth and seal the open wound, again cover loosely. My herbal book agreed with the comfrey so I spent the week growing flesh and making the "Grows skin" liniment.
The bone had recovered and the flesh was attaching. I cleaned it twice a day in water and re-applied antibiotic cream. My thumb had a new shape, was 3/4 the size it used to be but it was a thumb. I changed over to the compound, kept up the dressing schedule and a miracle "My friends called it" happened. I had new skin cover in one week. It was not great skin and took some care to return to normal. I am now 100% healed, have regained full sensitivity and you have to look closely to see that anything ever happened. The power of healing can begin with a word of confidence from someone who heals, instead of a doctor that applies treatments that insurance companies suggest. If I knew then what I now Know I would have chucked the antibiotic cream and just left the comfrey out of my compound for the first week. Don't be squeamish, it's too late, Take small, sharp, clean scissors and cut of dead flesh while your dressing the initial wound and growing flesh. Once the skin process starts the wound is self debrising. I cut the fingers off the cotton gloves to make ten bandages per set, and extra covers from rubber glove tip to protect. I cut the old rubber tips into bands to hold the cotton on. Air is important, so is moisture. Never dry, never wet.

to make compound use in equal measure
marshmallow root
mullien
sculcap
Black walnut hulls
white oak bark
gravel root
libelia
St. johns wort flower
Measure or weigh, then add that amount of
comfrey root
to be clear; the compound is 1/2 comfrey
Use all ingredients finely ground, place in double boiler and cover with virgin olive oil, and and an equal proportion of beeswax. heat till wax melts, stir and hold hot for ten minutes. Pour this through gause to remove any large particles place in jar and let cool. If it's runny at 75 deg reheat and add more beeswax. To avoid antibiotic cream leave the comfrey out for the first week. Reheat the salve, add oil and wax, restrain and go to stage two.
Towards the end the fast skin was drying out to fast. the cotton glove tips were irritating. I cut fresh aloe and smeared the gel on a fresh mullien leaf. Life supports life. then I covered it with a cotton tip. sometimes I just cut a piece of aloe and shove my thumb in it. Usually in the evening so I don't have dry thumb in the morning. Truly, Allah is merciful and compassionate, I am grateful for the creators blessings and bounties.

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Thursday, November 1, 2007

Recipe for disaster


Recipe for disaster <> 10/30 10:14:50

Rather than get into temporal issues or amaze people with youtube videos, I thought I'd share a bit of practice. Today is tea making day and I'm brewing up gallons of it. Rather than making six kinds of weak tea for specific uses I do the chinese thing and lump them together in a decoction (strong).
As all the ingredients are natural herbs I don't have to worry about overdosing people...their are however a few common sense caviats. Women who are pregnant or nursing, people with unknown allergies, taking maoi (antidepressants), sedatives or are allergic to sunlight should consult a doctor first....
I donate what I don't use to a domestic violence shelter, a detox clinic and the local methadone clinic. It has manifold uses which include.
Manic-depressive symtoms
opiate withdrawl
insomnia
muscle and nerve pain
crack overdosing, meth too
It doesn't seem to help with alchoholism issues except during the withdrawl period.
I did not invent this stuff, the Romans and Chinese were brewing it 2000 years ago and celling it an "Elixer of youth" I got the recipe while reading Paracelcus and again in a book on chinese herbal medicine. I brewed my first batch and OMG this stuff really worked! Localy it's known as "Davids ass tasting tea" a name well deserved. considering it's uses I thought the title appropriate. here's the deal...
1 gallon spring (Not distilled or tap)water
1/4 cup each cut and sifted herbs
St. Johns wort
Passionflower vine
Vervain
Skulcap
Valerian root
lemonbalm
Bring water to a boil then turn to low simmer 180deg. stir in herbs and hold at 180 for one hour, covered. set aside to cool for eight hours, strain through a fine sieve and refrigerate.
8oz is a dose. 32oz is a treatment so 4/eights a day is about the theraputic limit, your body just won't process anymore. if your in for the long haul (I am) taper down to 8 oz per day don't skip more than two days and then take the missing doses. This tea does nothing but taste bad for about one in ten people...I don't know why but I suspect some form of substance abuse/denial problem that I can't see.
While your brewing, meditate on this...Does my vote count more than the money I spend and where I spend it?

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