My favorite uncle wrote an incredible little
book towards the end of his life. He was an oceanographer
who authored big tomes and a collection of his favorite thoughts. My
favorite was, "If you wish to understand Nature, do
not disturb Her."
As we learned, mold's task
is to decompose matter and speed the return to dust of what
is dead (or dying.) To become active, most people believe
that mold requires humidity and warmth. What better
place to find this than the rain forest. For a tree
to survive in tropical jungles that are teeming with insects
and mist, it must possess some magic that makes it impervious
to all but the chainsaw!
Thus, we find the barks of
many trees full of strange chemicals that either smell or
taste so bad that the enemy is deterred or the compounds
in the bark actually contain fungicidal properties. We
simply need to learn which trees have these gifts. Fortunately,
shamans and ethnobotanists have done this work for us. Now,
we just need to protect our tropical forests so that the
medicine chests remain for future generations.
When I was still a school child,
my mother began taking courses at UCLA. One of these
was about world politics and nuclear risks. The professor
had provided a list of foods that would still be safe to
eat after a nuclear attack. I don't know exactly why
I remembered this, maybe because my mother was a fascinating
person and good teacher. She said that bananas have
a peel that protects them completely but that all foods have
some kind of protective layer. For instance, the orange
peels from which the TKO Orange cleaning
product is made are both antimicrobial and fungicidal; and
oranges were also on that list.
Later, as I developed the material
for Kitchen
Doctor and became very interested in cancer diets, I
came to understand that something as common place as the
potato has opposite chemistry in the peel as inside. The
peel is alkalizing and the insides are acidifying. The
alkalinity protects the potato from enemies the same way
that bitter tasting barks protect what grows above ground. Nature
is truly amazing and we need to study Her to appreciate Her
gifts.
My understanding of anti-fungal
herbs is actually not all that sophisticated yet. I
expect to become much more schooled in these herbs in the
years ahead, but I have already said that I owe my life to
jatobá. This said, I had the opportunity some
months ago to study how Myco Extract worked on mold. A
Russian lady had spent twenty years going from doctor to
doctor. Most thought she was a hypochondriac because "nothing
was wrong." Her blood was full of mold with hyphae. The
white blood cells were avoiding the mold but after only a
few hours of use of Myco, the hyphae broke and white blood
cells began attacking. Fascinating, really fascinating!
Ingrid
Naiman
27 October 2005
Updated 7 August 2006
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Jatobá, 2
oz., $
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Jatobá Jungle Chai , 4.8
oz., $
Approximately 30 servings
Contains: Qat tea, jatoba,
SolcanaT dried cane juice, cinnamon bark, orange peel,
cloves, allspice, fennel seed, cardamom, and licorice
root.
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Sun's Soma, Lung
Formula, 2 oz., $
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Tulsi Ear Oil, 1
oz., $
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