Medicinal Plants Workshop w/ Dr. Adams

Dhr. Seven, Xochitl, Ananda (DBM), Parker Davis (hardycalifornians.com), Wisdom Quarterly

(mtnviewsnews.com)

SPECIAL EVENT: On Saturday, Dec. 3, Hardy Californians (a new local-plant nursery, stemming from the Arroyo Seco Nursery in Hahamongna headed by Parker Davis), is hosting a special workshop with Dr. James Adams.

He is the co-author -- along with Native American Medicine Woman Cecilia Garcia -- of Healing with Medicinal Plants of the West.

Dr. Adams will share details of how the Chumash Indians of Malibu and Ventura used native plants for medicine, and he will teach some traditional methods to combat pain. Dr. James will be traveling down from San Francisco to lead this medicinal plant workshop. 

• To sign up, contact Parker Davis: (626) 674-4504
• Email: parker@hardycalifornians.com.
• Or sign up for the event at the Hardy Californians Nursery:
• 238 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., Sierra Madre (next to Pasadena)
• Cost: $70, starts at 1:00 pm with time Q&A and demo
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What happened?

Dr. Adams spent 25 years teaching at USC.

Home gardeners, botany students, environmental activists, and would-be shamans gathered at Hardy Californians Nursery -- the result of Parker Davis and Porsche -- in the foothills of Sierra Madre to learn the real cause of pain in the body, even anxiety, headaches, and trauma. It's chemokines in the skin.

Yes, no matter what we've been taught -- about aspirin, acetaminophen, NSAIDS, opioids, and other standard painkilling treatments. They're not true. Do not ingest something for pain. Treat the skin. It was demonstrated over and over. It even helps arthritic pain, but the best way to deal with that is dieting, losing weight, and walking. Walk every day. We crossed the street and met our plant allies for the day, California sagebrush (not a true sage), white sage (Salvia apiana), and Cleveland sage, a plant very close to purple sage and black sage.

Healing with Medicinal Plants of the West

After learning a great deal about plants, the cause of pain from the world's leading expert, USC's Dr. James Adams, Ph.D., and how to approach our natural environment, which is full of wonders in the state with more unique flora and fauna than all the other states put together, we got to know the plants then proceeded to make a simple tincture that takes six weeks to be ready to use: Stuff a mason jar full of fresh California sage, a diced avocado seed, one white sage leaf, and fill with isopropyl alcohol (70%). Let sit in the dark for six weeks. Then drain and place the liquid in a dark spray bottle, preferably glass. It's ready to use on any bodily pain.

To treat chronic pain, take two handfuls of Cleveland sage (or purple or black), place in a glass container with filtered water (or sea water). Let sit in the sun until the water changes color, becoming purple in sea water and discolored in tap water. Use filtered water rather than tap, as it is cleaner. After it becomes a sun tea, break it up with the hands and pour on the sufferer's feet. Allow to soak for 20 to 30 minutes a day for seven days. There goes the chronic pain.

If needed wait a week and repeat for seven days. The same soak may be used repeatedly -- for one and only one person -- up to seven times. Do not use someone else's soak, as it has become bound to that person. At the welcoming for the event, Dr. Adams' assistants and trainees Michelle Wong and Enrique Villasenor explained many things and offered us a three medicinal foods -- dark chocolate (85%), which is good for the heart, nopal (prickly pear cactus pads with needles removed) made into a health smoothie (1.5 cups of cut fresh nopal pads, 1 green apple, 1 orange with skin removed, and two cups of water, mixed in a blender), which is good for blood sugar levels and provides a lot of fiber.

The third item was a gelatinous cube of acorn flour (available at most Korean and Chinese markets), which was made by boiling a cup of acorn flour brought to a roil and kept on the fire for 7 minutes, sweetened slightly with raw agave or coconut crystals (a kind of unprocessed brown sugar). It is a complete protein with tremendous health benefits, particularly for vegetarians. Go vegetarian. It's the best thing to do for the body, the environment, the animals, and the climate.

Afghanistan is home to weed.

During the Q&A the ditzy blond woman, who kept falling over the friendly Cocker spaniel wanting everyone to pet it, asked about CANNABIS, and the Black woman with the pain in her lower regions shouted that maybe THC/CBD could be added to the liniment we were about to concoct. Dr. Adams became livid.

We've all been lied to about "marijuana." We've been told it's a Spanish word from Mexicans in North America (Mexico itself being in Mesoamerica, not South America) that means "Mary Jane." It's a lie, a purposeful piece of propaganda by the US government.

A fluent speaker of Chinese married to a Chinese woman for 42 years, Dr. Adams shows that marijuana is a Chinese term for cannabis: Má is "hemp," there's a middle part for "leaf" (ri or li?), and hua or huáng, which means "flower." The Chinese had been using cannabis for 12,000 years (as had India) or had historical records extending back that far for its medicinal and industrial use.

• Similarly, jasmine flower in Chinese is Mo Li Hua

Largest hemp field in Europe

In fact, Dr. Adams further recounted, California did not have real cannabis until the Beatles brought it back from India, having been exposed to the "real thing" by the musician Ravi Shankar. Up until then what California had was hemp, or very low THC/moderate CBD flower.

Where is cannabis from? Formerly Buddhist Afghanistan mostly, but the entire range between India and China, such as Kashmir and those Himalayan and Hindu Kush (technically an extension of the Himalayas mentioned in Buddhist accounts of the Buddha's hometown, Kapilavastu), its valleys and foothills (as is mentioned in Oliver Stone's movie Savages).