Dear David: I have been reading many different books and websites and some say herbs are great for you if used correctly. Others say that the reaction such as with cayenne peppers heating action, stimulation is bad because it is the body just trying to get rid of the “poison” and the stimulation, the circulation warming point is the body’s reaction to get rid of this poison. You seem to be very much in favor of having herbs included in our diets. How can we know if we are doing our body harm or good?
Dave: Well I think you have to use your own common sense about it. The natural hygiene approach which is basically saying all herbs are bad and cayenne is bad and garlic is bad and all that stuff is, is just, it's ultimately complete nonsense. It’s not true. For example, you know, onions are supposedly, you know; it’s stimulating and you know ayurveda says it’s stimulating, natural hygiene says it’s stimulating. Onion, in terms of like centenarians is the number one eaten food by people who have lived over 100.
LF: Really?
DW: Yah, that’s the number one food that’s common to all centenarians. So it’s like woah wait a second, you know, what’s going on with onions? And that, that’s a stimulating, I mean you cut onions up, you’re going to be stimulating something. So food is a stimulant no matter what food it is. So if somebody says, you know this is all bad, all these herbs are bad, whatever, but bananas great, apples great, whatever, let me tell you something, that banana and that apple is as much a stimulant as anything else because you dump that kind of sugar in to your body and you’re going to be stimulating yourself.
LF: That’s an excellent point.
DW: It’s like this drug question. Like what’s a drug and what’s not? Actually everything is a drug that you put inside your body, it’s just which drugs are you going to be on, are you going to be on the drugs that cause you to die and get wiped out like cocaine or are you going to be on cayenne pepper? So we know for example that people who consume cayenne pepper in Mexico don’t have lung cancer, that’s a known thing, that’s been, a study on the internet, punch in cayenne pepper and lung cancer and you’ll pull up all kinds of studies on the subject. So we know that there is an effect of these herbs in terms of fighting off certain types of infections, fighting off certain types of diseases and we also know that some herbs are more powerful than others, meaning there are superherbs. In the Chinese system, we’ve gone through that list you know a few times but in the Central American, South American system of herbs, cayenne pepper does hit in the top ten of all herbs. It’s one of the most touted, revered, important and, and we should pay attention to that because it doesn’t come all the way into this age, through all the eons of time for us to go oh that’s a drug, stimulant, whatever, we don’t want it and then go guzzle bananas which is, you know some kind of a seedless, hybridized, you know, fruit that causes, you know all kinds of sugar problems.
LF: Are there any researches you could point us to that would maybe help show us some of the long term effects of herbs?
DW: Well I think you’ve got to crack in to, I tell you what, Ron Teeguarden who runs DragonHerbs, he used to have a book out, I don’t know how you can get it, Truth showed me his version of it that has all the studies done in China on all the different herbs and it’s outrageous information like Reishi spores for example. The spore of reishi that has been cracked, so the spore has been cracked so it doesn’t get in your body and reproduce you know fungus, it’s so filled with ORMUS that it actually, listen to this, it’s actually seventy times more powerful an immune system stimulant than reishi itself and reishi is top in the world, I mean reishi out of every single thing in the world, reishi is top and the reishi spores are seventy times more powerful and that information is coming right out of a hospital in China.
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