Healthy For Life with Dale Tamminga

4 day fishing trip with my boys - what a blast!

A miraculous healing awaits the planet once we decide to tend the garden rather than fight over the turf. ~ Bruce Lipton

Ragw**d Allergies
for what it's worth...

Ragw**d allergy reactions are pretty severe this year, but
Homeopathic Apis 30c has been quite effective

Ya might want to give it a try - 3 or 4 pellets under your tongue - nothing by mouth 15 minutes before or after - use the cap, don't touch them with your hands.

Anything Conflict Can Do, Peace Can Do Better
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If everyone in our nation read the very short book, "TRIBE"
we just might come back to our senses
and start living in community again
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Not many people know who Sabastian Junger is
He wrote "The Perfect Storm"
But... He also wrote "TRIBE" (135 pages)
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do yourself and your community a favor, and give it a chance

I believe that we, as a nation, are being trained to argue, protest, and fight against each other
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Even though most of our values are in harmony, we're daily forced to concentrate on our differences
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But If you want harmony...
If you want unity...
If you want domestic peace...
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Don't look to Washington
We... You and I must move in unity, because
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divided, we fall

Where's the New England Aster?

I'm all out of New England Aster, which is an herb I wildcraft every year to make medicine. It starts blooming in August; so this past weekend I drove out to my favorite spot by Wabasis Lake to see how it looked. But there was none there.

Someone landscaped the area to make it look all nice and neat and such, and tore out all the N.E. Aster! Cleared... gone... none left.

So if any of my herbal friends out there have a secret place they'd like to share, I'd appreciate some help. It's almost harvest time, and my clients need their medicine!

Sorry, I don't have an herb to cure this

A disease no herb can heal “A new modeling study is raising alarm bells after it determined that the number of young people in the United States with diabetes will increase by nearly 700% over the next 40 years.”

Sunday afternoon with my crazy wonderful family.

“The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat,
can influence your life by 30 to 50 years” ~ Deepak Chopra

No matter what your health concerns, in the midst of complicated issues, sometimes it helps to get back to basics... ☝️like the quote above ☝️

My city grieves the death of a neighbor
shot and killed by a police officer.

And it's "Good Friday"???

Good?
Are you kidding?

We're stunned
Sad
Enraged

So many questions and thus far…
few answers.

We grieve with his parents. Why? Why did it have to happen?

But...
It’s Good Friday, and

I choose solitude tonight

I Remember One who was executed because he taught Truth
I Remember the One hideously tortured because he moved in Love
I Remember gross injustice, shed blood…
of the One I call

“Great Spirit”… Eternal “I Am “

The city has chosen to protest… in Peace.
Our city DEMANDS justice, yet we’ve done so…
Without violence

So tonight... For my community I speak the way of my Teacher...
Love…
Peace…
Justice…
Mercy

I’m such a Damn Hypocrite... so inconsistent

Still tonight…

I remember. I believe

I do my best to follow Jesus' way of Love

God bless Grand Rapids. God bless the Lyoya family.

(Image by Sergei Tokmakov)

"Normal" does not describe my amazing family.

Your best herb to use for cuts, wounds, even lacerations

Use Calendula for
→ External wounds
→ Lacerations
→ Open, torn, cut skin
→ Even grotesque wounds such as amputations
→ Open ulcers
→ Wet oozing wounds
→ Burns
→ Tears
→ Ripped tissue
.

Also Lymphatic
→ Thrush
→ Swollen lymph glands and nodes
→ Lymphatic stagnation
→ Tender, red, swollen tissue
→ Damp oozing pus
→ Inflamed skin
→ Sunburn
→ Burns that have blistered or are oozing
→ Skin irritation
→ Chaffing

Thank You EVERYONE

To all of you who posted well wishes during my recent Co.vi.d illness

Your response was heartwarming... Thank you.

I experienced a significant improvement in less than 2 days, and…

completely symptom free in 4 ½ days

HERE’S WHAT I DID:
→ 4 drops of homeopathic nosode, every 2 hours
→ 1 capsule of Nattozimes 3 times a day on a completely empty stomach
→ 1 pellet of homeopathic lachesis12c, 3 times a day
→ Lots of fluids, herbal teas, soups & smoothies

LESSONS LEARNED:
→ This virus is here to stay for a while. It’s strong. It’s painful.
→ I’m grateful that the human body is designed to be healthy and SELF HEALING
→ I’m grateful that everything we need for health and healing has been provided in nature

Till next time,
Live Healthy… for life
Dale Tamminga

Saying good bye for a little while

Sunday I woke up at 3:00 am feeling really sick, and tested co.vi.d POSITIVE later in the day.

So I'll be taking some time off of posting news about herbs to take care of myself.

I'm using the same homeopathic and herbal program that has helped dozens of my clients, so once I'm back, I'll share it with anyone interested.

See you soon

Damaged Nerves & Painful Nerves
St. John’s Wort to the rescue:

→ Injuries, trauma, causing nerve damage
→ Sharp shooting pains
→ Pain from fractured bones
→ Sprains
→ Sciatica
→ Carpel Tunnel pain

I’ve also seen impressive results using St. John’s Wort in cases of
→ Shingles
→ Post op. issues with damaged nerves
→ Trigeminal neuralgia - the intense sharp pain from the 3 branches of nerves that extend into your jaw and cheek
→ Even foot pain, as in “plantar fasciitis”

Ya want to do a “deep dive” and learn more about St. John’s Wort?

I featured it in my herbal newsletter this week
(Just go to my "about" at the top, it's listed under web sites)

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Seems there might be a Second Pandemic in our country

From a deadly VIRUS... “Division”

The Symptoms?
… Arguing
… Separation… Taking sides
… mask people vs. no mask
… vaccine vs. no vaccine
… conservative vs. progressive
… Issue vs. issue

The strength of our country has always been UNITY, but...
I see less and less of it.
And it seems “Argue” is becoming our first language

But I say…
“WE can change this, TOGETHER”

✔ Decide, “I need to understand you. I don’t need to win an argument.”

✔ Decide, “I choose unity, not separation”

✔ Decide, “I will do my part to bring peace today”

✔ Decide, “I will love all people just as much as I love myself” -
(that might change things)

✔ Decide, “people with different views are not my enemy"

✔ And come on... Just ADMIT it. Most Woke is Fake Woke and we’ve been manipulated
.

But don’t get LAZY & look to Washington for the solution
They’re the problem (both sides)

Don’t look to the media to help spread peace
They “throw gas on the fire”... every day… after day… (both sides)
.

This is OUR job…

We can live with different views... even strong views

Peace comes from YOU and ME

I think WE can do this

Solid wisdom from a friend and colleague, Bob Huttinga.

"Some of you know that many years ago, I was forced by the hospital in Alma where I worked as a PA in the Urgent Care, to make a choice. A flu shot or my job. Mandatory flu shots. There was no choice for me.

I had become violently ill from a flu shot five years before and spent two weeks in bed. I really thought I was going to die. I vowed to never take another shot.

They said I could wear a mask for three months. Some of the nurses did just that. But I decided not to go down that road.

Feeling that this mandate was not right, I asked, “why was this demand being made by the hospital?”.

The answer was that Medicare was going to dock the hospital 2% on all Medicare payments on all patients for the year if they did not have 90% compliance. As a business, I understood that they had to make that decision.

But why was the government, Medicare, using the health care system to force people to get flu shots? Who knows?

I was fortunate to have the luxury of going to work for myself at The Healing Center. Many people do not have that option. Many people in their workplace, school, or military are now being faced with this choice. What do you do?

First, do nothing until there is an actual mandate in writing. In most cases it is just a threat at this time. They are hoping for compliance without having to actually mandate it.

If you are forced, read what a friend of mine wrote. I am passing it on.

“Some companies who are mandating the shot are requesting letters of resignation from employees who will not 'comply'. My feeling is that no one should present a letter of resignation, as it will be legally binding that termination was initiated by the employee. IF this mandate is not legally overturned, let the company fire you, then write a formal letter to the company (human resources) outlining your understanding of the details of the termination.”

“When and if down the road, the lack of efficacy and safeness of the shot is revealed there would be a chance for recourse. If one resigns, there is not... “.

I know it takes a lot to stand up to this. If you firmly believe that there is too big of a risk to take this shot, you must stand up.
If you feel that you do not have any other choice, then take the shot and follow it with the clot buster remedies and then the scar tissue remedies that I laid out in my website. I believe that doing that will give you some chance of reduced side effects. Please understand that is not guaranteed.

I realize that my position on this issue is not the standard medical opinion. You must follow your own guidance based on your own strongly held beliefs.

For me, my decision to leave the organized health care system was the best decision I could have made. You must believe that whatever you decide and how you do it, will be in your own best interest.

You must put your health in your own hands and then live with that decision with certainty and no regrets.

Sometimes these things are just the push you need to take your life in a whole new direction."

Creepy “Creeping Charlie”

✔ Ground Ivy… but we angrily named it “Creeping Charlie”

✔ Removes Lead - Painters used to drink it as a tea (Ivy Tea) as it is proven to help the body remove lead

✔ Old name was “Ale Hoof”, a main herb used in brewing beer until a drug law in Germany prohibited anything but hops be used.

✔ It smells really strong (we call that an aromatic) Your kidneys react to stinky aromatics.

✔ That’s why your kidneys start to flush out toxins.

✔ I will call on Ground Ivy in times of a bladder infection or UTI

✔ Congestion - head colds, stuffed sinus – use as a tea or a steam inhalation

✔ Excellent with a sore throat when the throat pain is going into the ears

When to use Black Cohosh... PAIN

✔ Severe pain. When one is unwilling to speak of all the pain for fear of being considered a hypochondriac.

✔ So bad is the pain, one will withdraw the information, thinking no one will believe them

✔ Whiplash

✔ Spinal issues - serious back injuries - compression injuries

✔ Severe headaches

✔ Black Cohosh is very much tied to the liquid economy of the body - cerebrospinal fluid mostly of the neck but not exclusively.

✔ As with all herbs, this is not a magic “chiropractor in a bottle”, yet I’ve seen impressive results using Black Cohosh in the above health and injury issues

Health and Healing are found in Nature

People stay sick, surrounded by medicine

It grows in the cracks of the driveway
On the fringes of your garden
It tries to dodge the W**d Killer you sprayed last Spring because...

Nature provides herbal medicine... Everywhere
For those who can see it

So proud and thankful for this special young lady in my life. National Dance Competition in Myrtle Beach

Top 15 in Solo. Elite Top First Place for he Adjudicated Award.

But more than that, she's my amazing Grand daughter whom I love.

Comfrey in bloom.

Everything you need for health and healing has been provided in Nature.

Step outside, you are surrounded by medicine

For What It's Worth...

Maybe we all should be more concerned about poisons in our home.

We might want to start thinking, "What are we tossing down our drains, into the ground water, streams, and lakes?"

And "What toxic chemicals do we willingly (and regularly) bring into our homes?"

For example...

Look at just some warnings on the label of Comet Cleanser:
.. eye and skin irritant.. harmful if swallowed.. harmful if inhaled .. keep away from eyes, skin, clothing.. keep away from pets and children.. use rubber gloves.. do not mix with ammonia, vinegar, acids, toilet bowl cleaners

Personally, I say we don't think enough about the harmful chemicals that are in our common household products, soaps, even toothpaste.

For What It's Worth.
"People, Plants, the Planet, before profit"

Dale

Ah-maize-ing ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Never knew corn is a medicine
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The corn flower: ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀.. Helps you feel grounded ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀.. Helps when you feel claustrophobic, like in an airplane or stuck in a small apartment. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀.. Used in some formulas for mental wellness, mental acuity, focus and attention

Choose the Road Less Stupid ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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When solving a problem in your life ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
First find out what needs to be BROKEN ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

✔ How did things get this way?
✔ Why do they stay this way?
✔ Am I the one self sabotaging? ⠀
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You need to ask some hard questions.
✔ What is happening that needs to STOP?
✔ What is NOT happening that needs to happen?
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Know this… If you’re on the wrong road, speeding up isn’t going to help.
Few things are worse than running the wrong direction enthusiastically. ⠀
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(Thoughts taken from Keith Cunningham “The Road Less Stupid”)

Kicked Poison to the Curb

I eliminated Every Household cleaner and product that contains harmful chemicals.

SMOKING A PACK OF CI******ES
A recent study claims that using toxic household cleaners as little as once per week is as bad smoking a pack of ci******es a day

And Worse… most of those chemicals end up down the drain & into our lakes and ground water

IT'S TIME to help people get the chemicals out of their house and...
Replace them with GREEN products.

https://www.google.com/.../cleaning-your-house-may.../amp/

Here’s the actual study -
https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/full/10.1164/rccm.201706-1311OC

Gentle does NOT mean Weak

Say hello to Mighty Chickw**d
.

POST SURGERY CONVALESCING
Chickw**d is Nutrient Dense, high in...
Calcium, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Vit. C, to name a few.

Simply cut it up and add it to a salad, or atop your burger

Make a hot infusion, steep it for 4-8 hours for a nutrient dense refreshing drink
.

SKIN ISSUES
Use the fresh leaves and make a poultice.
Apply topically to Boils... ulcers... eczema... hot inflamed skin... scrapes... rash... insect bites... stings... blisters
.

POISON IVY
Poison ivy – plus jewel w**d. Chickw**d on poison ivy ESPECIALLY early in the year when it is strong, and jewel w**d isn’t out yet
.

LYMPH
Stagnant lymph, interstitial fluid, swelling
Benign cysts, ganglion cysts
Internal use on this one
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SALVE
Chickw**d and Plantain are part of the base for almost every salve I make
.

DRY COUGH
Dry irritated lungs - use Chickw**d in a tincture or a tea.
.

URINARY
It’s a decent Diuretic. NOT your main UTI remedy, yet combines well with other remedies
.

FAT
Chickw**d is emulsifying – it helps the body dissolve fats in the food and elsewhere.
I include chickw**d when addressing fatty tumors – lipomas, but remember…
the two stalwart herbs are cleavers and red clover for fibro-cystic issues
.

FEVERS
Chickw**d is indicated for fevers when the person FEELS HOT.

If they have chills and a fever, it is NOT indicated

This little guy is ONE Today!!

A great day on the river with my sons. Flat River float - Smyrna to White's Bridge

"A Lost Soul"

A culture that has lost its folk medicine

A culture that has lost its ability to heal and cure with nature...

Has lost a part of its soul.
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If we are to restore our Western Culture to health, we need to restore its lost folk medicine soul.

How?

People must return to trusting their personal resources and make decisions for themselves, rather than...
.

Be controlled by statistics, manufactured fear, and,

The consensus opinion of bureaucrats' and media's counter-intuitive advice.
.

(inspiration and some verbiage from herbalist Matthew Wood)

WHY IS IT...? Over 600,000 deaths.

Last year 1.8 million Americans were diagnosed with cancer, and there were over 600,000 cancer victim deaths....

(almost sounds like an epidemic, doesn't it?)
BUT...
.

I don't see anyone mandating healthy living...
restricting carcinogenic toxins in our food...
or banning ci******es.

I see no laws...
that call for removing the POISONS from your personal hygiene and everyday HOUSEHOLD cleaning products.
.

Question?... Any government concern for the herbicides, fertilizers, growth hormones, chemical preservatives, or pesticides...

found in last night's dinner? But,
.

Carry on.... (and don't forget your mask)😷

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p.s. statistics taken from National Cancer Institute

How we do birthdays... (and pretty much every other reason to get the family together)

Are Kidney Stones Painful?

Ask anyone who's had them. And just lately...

I’ve had several people approach me for help with
the EXCRUCIATING Pain of Kidney Stones.

But…

People groups in “primitive” societies rarely develop kidney stones
MUST HAVE something to do with caffeine... alcohol... chocolate... sugar... and junk food
.

So here’s my protocol, in order of importance (if that’s possible)

✔ Avoid caffeine, beer, peanuts, chocolate, pretty much all nut products

✔ Hydrate. Drink lots of water. Squeezing some lemons into your water will help a lot. Limit coffee and beer, as both will DEHYDRATE your body, and that… is a major cause of kidney stones.
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✔ Joe Pye W**d. An herb that sounds like something from the ‘60’s. It’s also called Gravel Root; and it’s MY #1 REMEDY for kidney health and for stones. VERY LOW DOSAGES! 5 drops 3x day

✔ Hydrangea does NOT dissolve stones, as some claim, but it does literally “take the edge off”

✔ Calcium Magnesium blend... this is a blend that helps you assimilate your calcium and eliminate the coagulation of the oxalate that FORMS INTO STONES
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✔ Lobelia to relax the ureters (tubes running from kidneys to bladder)

✔ Marshmallow Root is a mucilage, in that it will help to LUBRICATE and soften the urinary track.

We don't need a NEW LAW or one more government sub- committee to study this.

We need people who care enough to change their habits.

Are you someone brave enough to make a difference?

It's Really Simple
.. Keep it Green.. Keep it Organic.. Keep it Glass.. Keep it Local
(Photo credit David Maitre)

Gentle does Not Mean "Weak"

Chamomile - Gentle AND Powerful

Your 4 best uses for Chamomile

✔ That "BUSY Child" who just can't be still
constantly moving... changing directions
running from toy to toy, activity to activity.

First indoors, then to the basement, back outdoors. Then...
“Oh no!” Now running toward the street.
.

But not JUST for children.

The adult who jumps from activity to project to new idea
A very short ATTENTION Span
an inability to FOCUS

Chamomile is CALMING and SEDATIVE. And the tea actually tastes great
.

✔ The "NERVOUS tummy ache“

"I have a tummy ache, Mommy. I can't go to school”

For the nervous or scared child who EVERY morning
doesn't feel well because
they are nervous or afraid of the coming day's events

Chamomile will address that fearful nervousness, and even more, I even use it in instances of HYSTERIA.
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✔ COLIC - COLITIS - IBS. Chamomile is one of my remedies used for times of colic and colon inflammation
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✔ MILD INJURIES - like bruises, cuts, and sprains.

Chamomile is anti-inflammatory, soothing and a DISINFECTANT

Apply as a wash by first making a tea, then soak a cloth in the tea and apply it to the injured area. You can use it as a compress for wounds or sprains

“Stinging Nettle” can be one of your Best Friends

LOADED WITH MINERALS
Nettle is dense with minerals
Many of which aid with Healthy Hair - Skin - and Nails

I often use the dried leaves to make an infusion, a hot tea
.

ARTHRITIS REMEDY
I ALWAYS include Nettle Leaf my client Protocols for .. Stiff Joints.. Joint Pain.. Even Arthritis

It’s a powerful ANTI-INFLAMMATORY
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KIDNEY HEALTH
I’ve used Nettle SEED successfully as a kidney remedy, even in cases where the client had been medically diagnosed with
“Kidney Failure”

The seed in a tincture is my “go to”
for DEGENERATIVE kidney disease
.

NERVES - STRESS - ENERGY
Nettle Seed is also an adaptagenic in that
it helps one adapt to STRESSFUL situations and times of pressure
.

PROSTATE HEALTH
Most every herbal blend you see that claims to be the answer for Prostate health, will have...

Nettle Root as one of its main ingredients

This is a "must see", informative report that brings understanding to the Covid crisis. I think Dr. McCullough's testimony should be viewed by everyone.

Watch to the end, even when it looks a little dry because of the 2 questions being asked by the committee. His last comment is bold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR3lFtMDWkp4tH3q0q_woUoJA5bWvp1pxVJ4WVejeaZqlIvNDhE6gjSsroQ&v=QAHi3lX3oGM&feature=youtu.be

Peter McCullough, MD testifies to Texas Senate HHS Committee Testimony given March 10, 2021. Patient Guide at https://aapsonline.org/covidpatientguide/

Nature’s “Anxiety & Stress Remedy”

Lemon Balm is KIND and GENTLE
.

🌿 5 Ways to Unleash the Power

🌿 … Depression. Deep, long, painful sorrow
I use Lemon Balm for clients dealing with long terms of depression. Use as a hot soothing tea, and drink 4 – 5 times a day in a relaxed environment
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🌿 … From Panic to Calm. Stuck in fight or flight

Lemon Balm helps the body shift out of that stuck fight or flight (sympathetic access) and addresses Panic Attacks,

helping the person move into a more calming experience. Again, use it as a tea and in a liquid herbal tincture.
.

This is NOT some magic potion and IN NO WAY do I minimize the severity of stress, long term anxiety, and severe cases such as PTSD.

A dose of Lemon Balm isn’t going to make all that go away. But it IS part of my protocol that I’ve used for years.

Combine with LINDEN and NETTLE LEAF, both in liquid tincture to calm down the adrenal response to stress.
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🌿 … For you ESSENTIAL OIL users

Lemon balm in aroma therapy is called “Melissa”. Apply the oil topically to chest, the underside of wrists, and bottom of feet

Then sit in a quiet place and smell the aroma. Melissa helps to provide calming, and the fragrance itself is delicious

🌿 … STRONG antiviral

I’ve used Lemon Balm effectively in dealing with herpes virus, simplex A and B and other strains, including SHINGLES

Drink as a tea 4-5 times a day during the initial period. Also apply as a salve to the shingles breakout area
.

🌿 … Use in a salve

Even put a drop of MELISSA essential oil into a salve of beeswax, add liquid Lemon balm tincture as well, and apply to affected herpes virus outbreaks.