This is the 2nd method of preparing mother tinctures which is used for the flowers and twigs of the trees, bushes and plants, most of which bloom early in the year before there is much Sunshine.
Care should be taken to get the wild flowers or their bushes and plants from their natural habitat in jungles or mountains. Cultivated varieties of the Remedy Flowers such as Clematis, Cherry Plum, Gentain, Honey Suckle, Mimules, Rock Rose, Star of Bethlehem are not Suitable for Flower Remedies.
There are also several varieties of the following :
Centaury, Elm, Gentain, Heather. Honey Suckle, Mustard. Oak. Pine. Rock Rose, Scleranthus, Star of Bethlehem and Willow.
It would be well worth one’s while to check the plant or tree with the illustration and the botanical description before preparing any tincture.
The flowers and twigs are gathered at about 9 A.M on a fine sunny morning from many trees and plants of the Same Kind, in a stainless Steel saucepan about 6 pint capacity. Three quarters of the saucepan is filled with the dowering sprays, leaves and twigs (about four ounces) and covered with its lid.
It is carried back home as quickly as possible and the flowers and twigs are covered with two pints of spring water or bottled mineral water, and the sauce pan with cover removed, is placed over the heat till the water boils. During this operation, the flowers and twigs are pressed below the water by a twig of the same tree from time to time.
Take 2 small glass Jugs and one one-ounce glass bottle, sterilize them in boiling bottled mineral water (or spring water) and dry them and wrap The jugs in a clean cloth. When cold, the one-ounce bottle is half filled with brandy, properly corked and labelled with the name of the tincture of the Remedy lying in the sauce pan.
After the liquid in the Saucepan has cooled, the leaves and twigs are gently removed with a twig of the same tree, and the liquid allowed to stand for some time to enable the sediment to settle as much as possible.
The decantered liquid is poured gently in one of the small glass jugs. Again the liquid in this Jug is allowed to stand for sometime to allow further settlement of Sediment. Cover the 2nd Jug with two or three layers of blotting paper, and gently transfer the liquid from the first Jug without disturbing the Sediment underneath to the second Jug where it is filtered.
Fill the remaining half of the one-ounce bottle (half-filled with brandy) with this filtered essence.
The mother tincture is ready, from which Stock Bottles are prepared.
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February 22nd, 2011 :: Filed under
Herbal
The reader will be aware by now, if you are suffering from second stage stress breakdown symptoms, that you got this way by using your will-power to ignore the anxiety signals of nervous system overload.
However, if you are experiencing stage one symptoms only, and if you followed all my suggestions so far, you should not develop stage two symptoms. But if you do, you will not be afraid of them, because you know that the second stage symptoms of losing control of your emotions and being unable to ‘psych’ yourself or motivate yourself into doing something you don’t want to do, are just a sign that you must now rest, get help to relieve the stress, and that you must now get some more sleep.
Second stage symptoms are your marching orders, your instructions that this is the end of your ability to stay in the stressful situation without behaving abnormally.
In stage three breakdown you will not be aware, usually, that your abnormal behaviour is due to stress and you will not be able to do anything meaningful to help yourself. When you develop stage three stress symptoms, you will need a ‘rescuer’ to take over and help you.
Therefore, you should regard the symptoms of stage two breakdown, the loss of emotional control and the inability to motivate yourself as easily as before, as a potentially serious threshold not to step over.
If, however, you either choose or are forced to ignore these symptoms and try to continue on under the stress as before, then you will experience serious stress breakdown. If you are to be helped out of your stage three breakdown, the person helping you will have to take into consideration those factors which caused you to ignore the stage two stress breakdown symptoms. You may, in fact, be too strong to stop yourself from breaking down further. You may not be weak enough to prevent breaking down. I know these statements seem paradoxical, but they indicate a basic truth about stress breakdown – strong people are more likely to break down than weaker people.
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February 15th, 2011 :: Filed under
Anti Depressants-Sleeping Aid
Let us assume you discovered that in fact your anxiety was due to your trying to push your nervous system beyond its capacity. If you just stop doing that, your anxiety will subside. No harm done. The alarm mechanism has done its job.
However, like many other people, you may not think it is possible for you to reduce the load on your nervous system. You may have convinced yourself that there is no alternative to pushing yourself beyond the comfortable limits of your nervous system’s processing capacity. I have to ask you then some more questions.
1. Are you sure you can’t get any help, or is it your pride that makes you determined to do this work or face this problem without help?
2. Are you doubling your problem by setting time limits on work when you have no way of guaranteeing the performance of others who are also involved?
3. Are you fruitlessly trying to work out by yourself, in advance, how to deal with problems that may arise, when in reality the solution to those problems will require the cooperation of others?
Perhaps you might find after answering all these questions that you are in fact a person who has no alternative except to continue putting up with the anxiety because nobody else can really help. You may in fact be the only person who can stay up all night with a sick child or a dying relative, or you may have to see a task or problem through because you may be the only person qualified or able to do the job.
In this case, you might still be able to avoid further stress breakdown if you realize that immediately after the urgency has passed, you must pay back the psychic energy you borrowed in order to keep going under the stress. And remember, you are like Cinderella: your magic will definitely run out. However, Cinderalla had the advantage of knowing it would run out at the stroke of midnight; you aren’t sure how long you can keep going under stress, ignoring the warning signals.
If you decide you cannot slow down or avoid the stress, you must make sure that you get as much sleep as possible, snatching forty winks here and there as you can. You must eat regularly and you must not try to drive yourself to keep going by using stimulants. You should not take alcohol or sedative drugs. When the worst of the stress is over, you should rest and be looked after for a few days.
Above all, you must not make wrong assumptions about the anxiety symptoms you experience. Anxiety is not a sign of weakness, it is a sign of a normally functioning nervous system.
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February 8th, 2011 :: Filed under
Anti Depressants-Sleeping Aid