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White Pond Lily
THE CENTER
For all those who desire answers to physical problems
and desire to build better health naturally.
"MY PEOPLE PERISH FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE."
HOSEA 4:6
Herewith the historical use of herbs…
The Center For Building Better Health Naturally
Inc.,
founded by Dr. Eugene C. Watkins, provides information on how to repair the body
and maintain health. Its sole purpose is to educate through books, written
materials, lectures and other information to show how you can be
responsible for rebuilding, maintaining and improving your own health. It
features a great deal of information on the use of herbs to do this. Herbs are
plant food substances. (A food is something which helps you more than it hurts
you after it is eaten). We know a little more about herbs these days than we
used to, as we can exchange observations and experiences more easily. The Center
draws heavily on the copyrighted works of Dr. A.B. Howard. Additional
information and experiences of many other herbal practitioners of note, both
living and historical, are resourced for the common good of humanity everywhere.
The Center For Building Better Health Naturally
Inc., had its
formal beginnings about 1972. Dr. Watkins was searching for an understanding of
how the body actually works and how to repair and maintain his health and that
of others. His search lead him to many other countries and studies with experts
in natural healing. Additionally, after considerable study and research he
graduated with a degree in natural medicine as a naturopathic doctor from
Arizona College of Naturopathic Medicine in 1981. Since that time he has devoted
himself to practice and further research and published materials through The
Center For Building Better Health Naturally, Inc. In the process (which is still
ongoing) a great number of solutions for regaining and maintaining health have
been assembled. The Center published the first Book, "Herbal Extracts"
in 1983 since renamed in 2009 "Herbs For You Build Better Health Naturally" and the book was an immediate success. As more experience was gained, a number of
other successful works have been published and are available through the Center.
It is the intention of the Center to share this information so that a person can
be responsible for their own health.
Elecampane
OUR PURPOSE
It is the sincere intention of these works, the
"HERBS FOR YOU BUILD BETTER HEALTH NATURALLY" and the supplement to the "HERBS
FOR YOU BUILD BETTER HEALTH NATURALLY" books and practice volumes by Dr. A. B. Howard,
that you can read it for pleasure and also to gain knowledge to alleviate
unnecessary suffering. Please be assured that there is a physical solution to
every physical problem or it would not be a physical problem.
This work addresses a host of physical problems from
the standpoint of what to use and how to fix them. These are practitioner's
books about how to use herbs to get the body healthy and strong and keep it that
way. The word herb is used here with a meaning of: a plant food substance that
helps you more than it hurts you when you eat it. You may not find many familiar
plants that you regularly eat for food in this work, but then some problems you
have require some very special herb foods that you can make part of your regular
diet. After all, what gets you well, usually keeps you well. It might not
normally occur to you to eat a purple sea vegetable called Dulse for breakfast.
But if you do, your hands and feet and the tip of the nose may warm up. The choice
of herb or herbs that are given here to correct problems, focuses on the real
cause of a problem. In the case just mentioned here, this
is a gland in the neck, known as the thyroid, that needs some decent nourishment
to "set your thermostat on warm and comfortable" by increasing the
rate at which your body burns food.
You can do much with the herbal foods the
Creator has provided for you. But remember, some problems are, of course, not
that simple or just "skin deep" and may take much longer. For example, in the
correction of the "bad-cells" that takes 6 months instead of 2 weeks, you may have had to
correct and did correct something much deeper in the body. This work does not
shy away from the serious plagues of dis-eases that worry and torment us today.
Heart disease, "bad cells" and immune problems are attacked with equal fervor. As
well as new, successful approaches to familiar old plaques from arthritis to
broken bones to varicose veins.
It is evident we know more about herbs these days
because we can and do exchange information and experiences much more rapidly
than in days gone by. By touching the right numbers on a communications device
we can whisper in someone's ear on the other side of the world or send them a
picture or written message with the speed of light. Please know that no one
practitioner stands alone. Nor is the practitioner responsible for this work any
exception. The contributions of others to this field are freely acknowledged and
much appreciated. The practitioner of this work has, as the great 20th Century
thinker, Albert Einstein admitted,"...I have stood on the backs of
giants" to achieve what he was able to achieve.
Be that as it may, it is an ambitious and impressive
work, seen together in its scope and breadth. We are faced with momentous
problems these days. As an example, we have the nightmare of the now epidemic
occurrence of cancer. The incidence has grown right along with the latest
developments of the modern industrial age. It is not caused by genetics or
because you have bad genes, as we are lead to believe by science today. Granted,
a person may have weaknesses that can be picked on; but, it is, for the most
part, caused by poisons. We have plenty of them around these days in our air,
water, soil, food and now our bodies too, from agricultural poisons, (there are
4 times the amount of pesticides in the breasts of women that have breast cancer
as those who don't) and the manufacturing wastes of all the "things"
made to make our lives easier. We breathe air that has been run through an
automobile or bus or truck engine before we breathe it. Even fresh air in the
country makes us lightheaded and sleepy. It is not necessarily safe to drink
even rain water anymore. Chemical medicine and organ removal and radiation type
medicine can not do what needs to be done. Radiation can make a well person
sick. Not only that, it is also far too expensive for people, at large, in the
world to use. Modern medicine has essentially become a study that knows more and
more about less and less. The fact is, we have to learn to help ourselves, and
each other, if we are going to make it. Yes, this is folk Medicine and or
Natural Medicine we turn to in our hour of need, and it is valid and we can rely
on it. If you don't believe in it, at least don't persecute it- you may need it
someday too.
Please understand, you do not get sick or a disease
because you have too many organs or glands. Yes, yes, we hear, "my tonsils
have gone bad." Well, what really happened here? This is the same problem
as with an organ transplant; whatever you did to make the original organ go bad
will make the transplant go bad too. Eating foods which contain poisons such as
pesticides and herbicides can make you sick. Breathing industrial pollution and
drinking it in the water can make you sick. Repressing natural body functions
(bowel movements for example) can make you sick. Eating foods grown with
chemical fertilizers lacking needed nutritional elements and sprayed with
"bug" poisons or poisons to kill other types of plants can make you
sick. You don't get sick because you are suffering from single or multiple drug
deficiencies. Some chemical medicines or drugs can make you sicker. They don't
really cure anything. Basically, they stimulate, numb, force, mask symptoms or
in some other way trick the body. But, there is hope. Unlike your car or other
machines, your body does constantly grow new parts. Thank goodness! You have a new
soft tissue body every four months anyway, so clean, nourish, oxygenate, move
and circulate and remove physical trauma from the nervous system, support weak
structures, regenerate, and grow your own new "whatever" and do it
right.
You may have to change your lifestyle in the process.
If so, do it. Do what ever you have to, to get well. You could start by working
at a job that helps others more than it hurts them, or at a job that does not
make your stomach twist in knots. If you need to make something right with
someone or something, do it. You could live with someone who actually likes you
and whom you like. You could eat food prepared by someone who likes you. You
could stay away from gripe-y, mean, humorless people when you eat. You could
start treating others the way you would like to be treated, and if they won't do
the same in return, then don't play with them anymore. Find some different
playmates. Watch children when they are playing to learn the true meaning of
that awful word "exercise," and then you find some way to play that
makes you happy too. Stop eating "junk food." We "cut too many
corners" in this country in food production, even when we know it is wrong
in terms of how it affects health. Is your cheese not yellow enough? No problem,
inject it with Yellow #5 dye. Want volumes of rich-looking,
long-lasting and unnatural foam on your beverage? No problem, here is a chemical
compound that will make it foam like a fire extinguisher and make the
foam last for 2 days in the glass after the beverage is gone. And, while we are
at it, there are literally 56 other chemicals to alter your beverage in other ways
to save money or time or both. Don't want to grow or pick lemons or squeeze the
juice? Want something that tastes like a lemon, smells like a lemon, has a lemon
color and is real sweet and never seen a lemon? No problem. We have a chemistry
set and we will give you some delicious, convenient to use chemicals instead,
and show your child's favorite cartoon characters laughing and drinking it and
telling your child to drink it too; and that it tastes just like real lemonade, boys
and girls. Never mind what happens to your children's blood stream with the
stuff in it, or if they get sick on it. You get the idea?
We have bought the concept of "better living
through chemistry" instead of better living through nature and what is good
for health. Look for and eat food that has not had poisons or radiation put on
it to kill "bugs" or increase shelf life. Avoid artificial hormone fed
and antibiotic grown animals for meat. Avoid chemically altered foods that are
force grown with hormone treatments or and contain chemical additives,
flavorings, preservatives, stabilizers, flavor magnifiers, chemical colors,
chemical drying agents, chemical anti-caking agents, etc., etc., etc.,
chemicals.
If you can't always do this, for goodness sakes, take poison antidotes. Try to
eat real foods that have not had the perishable (nutritious parts) removed and
then chemically altered. Do eat whole grain breads, cereals and baked items,
fruits, 100 percent juices, clean meats, seafood, whole diary products and
fertile eggs. Then the advice given in this work will probably work for you.
With the best of all possible regards to you and for
you,
Dr. A.B. Howard
NOTE: The
information on this web-site or it's materials is the about historical
observations and historical information relating to herbs. This information is not
intended to be a substitute for medical advice by licensed physicians. A reader
should consult a physician regularly in all matters relating to medical
problems, especially in matters of diagnosing, treating or curing diseases or
other physical or mental conditions. This information has not been verified by
the American Medical Association or the Food and Drug Administration.
(Official web-site Center For Building Better
Health Naturally, Inc.)
(C.B.B.H.N.) Home Base Southfield, Michigan
U.S.A. All rights reserved Copyright ©
1983
Photographs By: Barbara Jacobs
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