Do you have herpes in your stomach, Perl?

Mike

ps.  "Nearly two dozen little known facts about tea":

http://www.angelfire.com/grrl/paghat/teafact1.html#top

----- Original Message -----
From: "M.L.S." <msoja9@newsguy.com>
Newsgroups: alt.support.herpes
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 8:57 AM
Subject: Re: Proteins Bound by Prunella vulgaris Polysaccharide

Liver, kidneys' problem can be at the origin of herpes problem.

The components of teas aren't being filtrated or distroyes at the
time they reach these or other organs (blood, skin, etc)

http://www.planetbotanic.ca/fact_sheets/self_heal_fs.htm

Scientific Name: Prunella vulgaris

Uses: Immune

Self-heal is no secret – it's used on every continent human beings
call home. The fact that this plant is also known as heal-all and
cure-all should give you some insight into what people have found to
be true of it. They don't call it sometimes-heal, or might-heal, or
every-once-in-a-while-heal, they call it heal-all.

Self-heal is a mint relation, and as with all the other mints, if you
plant it once, you never have to plant it again. Incredibly vigorous,
the plant spreads by underground stems that shoot out in every
direction once the first root is stuck in the ground. If there is
anything to the doctrine of signatures, prunella should make anyone
who takes it into his or her body stronger than an ox.

In the southern United States, ground-hog plantain, or square weed as
it is called, is collected in the spring as a tonic plant. It is also
eaten as a spinach substitute, prepared in a big pot with a piece of
hog meat by cooks who follow the traditional southern style or with a
little vegetable oil by more modern cooks concerned with the bad
publicity animal fats have received in recent years.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Self-heal has a widespread reputation for keeping people well during
an outbreak of infectious disease. This, of course, makes it perfect
for life in the modern world.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

In China, where, as it does worldwide, the plant grows great guns, it
is called hsia-ku-tsao and is widely used as a tonic. The Chinese, who
collect the plant as it spikes into bloom, take the lower leaves and
flower heads from it to treat fevers and rheumatism. They also use the
leaves and flower heads as an alterative, a substance which helps the
body change from a state of sickness to one of health. When self-heal
is taken in tea, the Chinese feel that the plant can keep the entire
body well. It is said to assist liver function, resulting in bright,
clear eyes. As such, self-heal is used to treat patients suffering
from eye or liver trouble. It is also used to treat lumps in the neck
and swollen glands. This ties in with its use as an immunity booster:
when your body gets run down, those lymph glands swell right up.

Knowing the Chinese use self-heal as an alterative, we should not be
surprised to learn that the plant has an antibiotic effect.
Experiments indicate that self-heal has broad antimicrobial powers and
also kills many pathogenic fungi, the kind that attack the body and do
you no good.

Self-heal is well known in Europe, and our friend Gerard had
additional uses to list, noting that "the decoction of Prunell made
with wine or water, doth joine together and make whole and sound all
wounds, both inward and outward, even as Bugle doth." His reference to
the plant's ability to make things whole after the body has suffered
both external and internal injuries is consistent with other European
sources: as the name says, the plant helps healing. Gerard also wrote
of prunella's potency as a headache treatment when "bruised with oil
of roses and vinegar, and laid to the forepart of the head," and he
recommended the plant "against the infirmities of the mouth, and
especially the ruggedness, blackness, and dryness of the tongue, with
a kind of swelling in the same. It is an infirmitie amongst soldiers
that lie in campe."

I'll tell you one thing: if I ever woke up and found I had a black
tongue, I would get real nervous fast. Having your tongue turn black
is Mother Nature's way of saying that you need to work on your health
regime. Gerard's reference to soldiers "that lie in campe" is
significant. Soldiers live in close quarters, and when a sickness hits
the barracks, it spreads like wildfire, kind of like a cold running
through the office. Self-heal has a widespread reputation for keeping
people well during an outbreak of infectious disease. This, of course,
makes it perfect for life in the modern world.

In colonial America, self-heal should have been called
heal-anything-you've-got, as its uses were incredibly diverse. It was
used to treat sore throats, stomach cramps, and urinary and liver
problems. It was also prescribed to kill worms and to help folks who
suffered from fits. Its main use though was as a tonic.

The Shakers sold lots of self-heal to treat internal bleeding, sore
throats, and cankers in the mouth. Also in agreement with Gerard, they
believed that self-heal was good for black tongues and cold sores. The
gypsies of Eastern Europe, who gave a double ditto on self-heal's
ability to cure sore throats, used it as an ingredient in their
medicine show tonics for that problem.

In New Zealand the plant gets wide use as a first aid ointment – the
ground plant is applied to cuts, wounds, bruises, and sores that won't
heal. The Kiwis are not alone in the thought that whatever the plant
touches heals a lot faster than it otherwise would. Like Gerard, they
say that putting the juice of its leaves and flowers on the temples
will take care of a headache in short order.

Most would agree that the heart is an organ we would like to keep
pumping away, trouble-free. Self-heal is featured in an Irish
heart-disease treatment called Cailleach's Tea. Chinese researchers
have found the plant to be an effective remedy for hypertension, a
fact that would indeed make Cailleach's Tea useful for someone whose
heart troubles stem from high blood pressure.

"Heal-all" is a steep claim, but even if it's only partially true, we
would all be better off with self-heal prunella in our tonic pot. As
I've already mentioned, growing it, or more accurately letting it grow
itself, is no problem. Stick some in the ground and stand back. When
you are harvesting self-heal for the tonic pot, cut the plant as it
breaks into bloom, trimming it off one inch above the roots. The plant
won't mind – as a matter of fact, this gives it an incentive to grow
more.

----- Original Message -----
From: "M.L.S." <msoja9@newsguy.com>
Newsgroups: alt.support.herpes
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 8:57 AM
Subject: Re: Proteins Bound by Prunella vulgaris Polysaccharide

Mike, you see, that's where your own prejudices are
hiding the truth from you.

The real origin of a certain disease that is manifesting itself
on the lips or in the genital areas can be in the liver, kidneys,
intestines, etc.

At the time the tea components are reaching those organs, they are
not much different from their original form in the plant.
Even after being filtered by the kidneys, liver and all that,
they can still reach the blood, the skin, etc.

Perl Molson

http://www.planetbotanic.ca/fact_sheets/self_heal_fs.htm
Scientific Name: Prunella vulgaris

Uses: Immune

Self-heal is no secret – it's used on every continent human beings
call home. The fact that this plant is also known as heal-all and
cure-all should give you some insight into what people have found to
be true of it. They don't call it sometimes-heal, or might-heal, or
every-once-in-a-while-heal, they call it heal-all.

Self-heal is a mint relation, and as with all the other mints, if you
plant it once, you never have to plant it again. Incredibly vigorous,
the plant spreads by underground stems that shoot out in every
direction once the first root is stuck in the ground. If there is
anything to the doctrine of signatures, prunella should make anyone
who takes it into his or her body stronger than an ox.

In the southern United States, ground-hog plantain, or square weed as
it is called, is collected in the spring as a tonic plant. It is also
eaten as a spinach substitute, prepared in a big pot with a piece of
hog meat by cooks who follow the traditional southern style or with a
little vegetable oil by more modern cooks concerned with the bad
publicity animal fats have received in recent years.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Self-heal has a widespread reputation for keeping people well during
an outbreak of infectious disease. This, of course, makes it perfect
for life in the modern world.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

In China, where, as it does worldwide, the plant grows great guns, it
is called hsia-ku-tsao and is widely used as a tonic. The Chinese, who
collect the plant as it spikes into bloom, take the lower leaves and
flower heads from it to treat fevers and rheumatism. They also use the
leaves and flower heads as an alterative, a substance which helps the
body change from a state of sickness to one of health. When self-heal
is taken in tea, the Chinese feel that the plant can keep the entire
body well. It is said to assist liver function, resulting in bright,
clear eyes. As such, self-heal is used to treat patients suffering
from eye or liver trouble. It is also used to treat lumps in the neck
and swollen glands. This ties in with its use as an immunity booster:
when your body gets run down, those lymph glands swell right up.

Knowing the Chinese use self-heal as an alterative, we should not be
surprised to learn that the plant has an antibiotic effect.
Experiments indicate that self-heal has broad antimicrobial powers and
also kills many pathogenic fungi, the kind that attack the body and do
you no good.

Self-heal is well known in Europe, and our friend Gerard had
additional uses to list, noting that "the decoction of Prunell made
with wine or water, doth joine together and make whole and sound all
wounds, both inward and outward, even as Bugle doth." His reference to
the plant's ability to make things whole after the body has suffered
both external and internal injuries is consistent with other European
sources: as the name says, the plant helps healing. Gerard also wrote
of prunella's potency as a headache treatment when "bruised with oil
of roses and vinegar, and laid to the forepart of the head," and he
recommended the plant "against the infirmities of the mouth, and
especially the ruggedness, blackness, and dryness of the tongue, with
a kind of swelling in the same. It is an infirmitie amongst soldiers
that lie in campe."

I'll tell you one thing: if I ever woke up and found I had a black
tongue, I would get real nervous fast. Having your tongue turn black
is Mother Nature's way of saying that you need to work on your health
regime. Gerard's reference to soldiers "that lie in campe" is
significant. Soldiers live in close quarters, and when a sickness hits
the barracks, it spreads like wildfire, kind of like a cold running
through the office. Self-heal has a widespread reputation for keeping
people well during an outbreak of infectious disease. This, of course,
makes it perfect for life in the modern world.

In colonial America, self-heal should have been called
heal-anything-you've-got, as its uses were incredibly diverse. It was
used to treat sore throats, stomach cramps, and urinary and liver
problems. It was also prescribed to kill worms and to help folks who
suffered from fits. Its main use though was as a tonic.

The Shakers sold lots of self-heal to treat internal bleeding, sore
throats, and cankers in the mouth. Also in agreement with Gerard, they
believed that self-heal was good for black tongues and cold sores. The
gypsies of Eastern Europe, who gave a double ditto on self-heal's
ability to cure sore throats, used it as an ingredient in their
medicine show tonics for that problem.

In New Zealand the plant gets wide use as a first aid ointment – the
ground plant is applied to cuts, wounds, bruises, and sores that won't
heal. The Kiwis are not alone in the thought that whatever the plant
touches heals a lot faster than it otherwise would. Like Gerard, they
say that putting the juice of its leaves and flowers on the temples
will take care of a headache in short order.

Most would agree that the heart is an organ we would like to keep
pumping away, trouble-free. Self-heal is featured in an Irish
heart-disease treatment called Cailleach's Tea. Chinese researchers
have found the plant to be an effective remedy for hypertension, a
fact that would indeed make Cailleach's Tea useful for someone whose
heart troubles stem from high blood pressure.

"Heal-all" is a steep claim, but even if it's only partially true, we
would all be better off with self-heal prunella in our tonic pot. As
I've already mentioned, growing it, or more accurately letting it grow
itself, is no problem. Stick some in the ground and stand back. When
you are harvesting self-heal for the tonic pot, cut the plant as it
breaks into bloom, trimming it off one inch above the roots. The plant
won't mind – as a matter of fact, this gives it an incentive to grow
more.

Thanks Perl - that's much better.

Of course you still have to put the link in to anyone that is interested
(and more people may well be if you give a summary) can go and check it out
for themselves.  Otherwise we only have you word for this, and I'm always
suspicious of anything I read if I can't validate the information.

Now if only I could get people at work to summarise their emails in a
simliar manner (am sick of getting long emails forwarded on with just a
simple FYI at the top - like I'm going to want to trawl through the whole
thing for one small relevant point?)

--
G.