Echinacea, Allergies and an intro

[Guest guest]

Hi Everyone:

 

I just joined the group and I'm very curious to read back through

your posts. I've been interested in natural healing methods for

more than 20 years and have been a practitioner of massage and

acupressure for most of them. I'm a big believer in herbal and

naturopathic remedies and I'm very excited to learn more.

 

I am also very curious about what you think about Echinacea

Purpurea. Recently it was announced that they didn't really see any

evidence that it's really useful for immune boosting, but I don't

know if I agree with that. I have used Echinacea myself quite

extensively and found it quite useful. My wife and I came down with

the flu a month ago and I sincerely believe Echinacea really helped

us get better faster. What is your opinion? Do you use it

yourselves?

 

Reading through some of your posts about allergies, I have a story

to share with you. I used to suffer from horrible hay fever and

pollen allergies. During allergy season I should've bought stock in

Benadryl and Claritin, I took so much of it. I hate taking

pharmaceuticals, I just don't like the idea of putting those

chemicals in my body, but there was just nothing else that would

bring me relief.

 

My wife is a physicist and teaches at a local University, and a

colleague of hers mentioned that his wife had gotten over a terrible

allergy to wheat, that I should try what she did. They say that you

grow new cells about every seven years and that sometimes the new

cells grow *without the sensitivity* to whatever substance you had

an allergy to, so it may be attributable to that. But this

gentleman's wife had used Reiki and an " affirmation " and inside of

three weeks, her allergy was gone. Reiki is an all natural, non-

technology-based, energy therapy that has been proven to be

effective at certain things. It may sound like hoodoo, but I tried

what she suggested and it works! I did a ten-minute session every

day for three weeks, and I haven't had even a sniffle during allergy

season in the nine years since! I was so impressed, I went and

found someone to teach me the system. Has anyone else heard of

using energy to cure allergies?

 

We live near Columbus, GA and have been looking for a reputable

herbalist with reasonably priced herbs, especially Echinacea. If

anyone on the list knows of someone reputable in the area, we'd love

to hear from you offlist.

 

Thanks in advance, and keep up the good work.

 

Jay

My Reiki Story and learning resources (all 100% free :-)

www.reikirevolution.org