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Hoxsey Formula
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Oregon Grape Root |
This herb has been a classic in the Hoxsey formula for over a century. Oregon grape improves the flow of blood to the liver and acts as a bitter tonic, stimulating the flow of bile and intestinal secretions... |
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Did Animals Know about Herbal Medicine?
By Dr. Geoff D'Arcy Lic. Ac. Accupuncturist and Herbalalist |
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"Herbalists have long known that many of the defensive compounds found inside plants make effective herbal cures. They know that the natural environment provides a seemingly endless supply of potential medicines. |
However, the idea that animals might also use herbs (or anything else) to self-medicate has, until recently, been dismissed as romantic. Plants generate compounds for protection, and animals have, by trial and error, learned over millennia how to use these compounds. Humans have learned from animals how to use the plants in their environments. The studies are fascinating and provide us with a wealth of information about how animals instinctively understand how and when to use plants as medicine. Continued below |
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Observations of animals using herbs.
Pregnant elephant uses a borage tree to induce birth:
According to World Wildlife Fund scientist, Holly Dublin, African elephants seek out a particular species of tree when preparing for labor. Holly followed a pregnant elephant for more than a year in Kenya, and observed that the elephant followed a uniform diet and daily behavior. However, at the end of her pregnancy, the elephant walked 17 miles in one day, many more than her usual three, and ate a tree of the Boraginaceae family from leaves to trunk! Within four days, her contractions started and she gave birth to a healthy calf. Dublin never observed this creature eat this species before or after this particular incident. She also found that women in Kenya brew tea from the leaves of this tree to induce labor.
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Did Animals Know about Herbal Medicine? (contd. from top)
Animals have been on the planet for hundreds of millions of years. Animal knowledge about the use of plants as medicines may be passed along genetically over the ages, or it may come from instinctual understanding. It may also come from the animal's ability, like the those of the plant kingdom, to call to itself those substances needed to return to balance.
"The idea that animals can convey meaning, and thereby offer an attentive human being, illumination is a commonly held belief the world over. The view is disparaged and disputed only by modern cultures with an allegiance to science as the sole arbiter of truth. The price of this conceit, to my way of thinking is enormous."
-Barry Lopez, The Language of Animals
Traditional peoples have always learned from animals and assimilated this knowledge into their own systems of healing. Even in recent history, the cancer treatment practiced by Harry M. Hoxsey, (1901-1974), one of the longest-lived unconventional therapies of this century, came to us from an animal. The "Hoxsey treatment" was developed in 1840 by John Hoxsey, Harry Hoxsey's great- grandfather. It was derived from grasses and flowering wild plants growing in a pasture where one of John Hoxsey's horses, afflicted with a cancerous growth, grazed daily. The horse's cancer reportedly disappeared, and John Hoxsey surmised that the wild plants had caused the recovery. He gathered some of the plants from the pasture, and later added ingredients from old home remedies for cancer. He used the resulting herbal mixture to treat similarly afflicted horses near his farm in southern Illinois The herbal formula was bequeathed to John Hoxsey's son, then to Harry's father John, and finally to Harry Hoxsey in 1919, whose father charged him with using it to treat cancer patients "if need be, in defiance of the high priests of medicine." Although Harry's father, a veterinary surgeon, was the first to use the formula to treat people with cancer, it was Harry Hoxsey who made it famous. This Hoxsey Formula in truth was originally developed by the horse of Harry Hoxsey's grandfather. Continue on our Website |
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