During 2000 and 2001, GLIFWC staff interviewed tribal elders regarding non-medicinal uses of plants. With approval from the elders, we have decided to share this information in the form of a harvest calendar.
In this section, the harvest calendar is devoted to those plants that may be gathered for non-medicinal uses during the upcoming ziigwan (spring) months of onaabani-giizis, hard crust on the snow moon (March); iskigamizige-giizis, maple sugar moon (April); and waabigwanii-giizis, flower moon (May).
Miigwech to those speakers in Mille Lacs, Minnesota and Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin for their help in providing us with the Ojibwe names for these plants.
*We have been unable to find the names for these plants in Ojibwemowin.
Tea
de'imin aniibiishan—strawberry leaves
apakwanagemag aniibiishan—red pine leaves (new growth)
While the list identifies those plants that can be harvested during the summer months, we strongly recommend that before you pick them, you meet with elders in your community to talk about proper ways of harvesting, times of harvesting and proper preparation of the plants before eating them.
This is important because some plants need to be harvested in certain ways to ensure that they will continue to grow, while other plants need to be properly washed and prepared prior to eating or using them. In addition, those elders can also help you in different uses of these plants.
Thursday, June 16, 2016
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Awareness with regards to cannabis as a treatment and potential cure for cancer has been rapidly increasing over the past few years. Several studies over the last decade have clearly (without question) demonstrated the anti-tumoral effects of the plant.
Cannabinoids (any group of related compounds that include cannabinol and the active constituents of cannabis) activate cannabinoid receptors in the body. The human body itself produces compounds called endocannabinoids and they play a very important role in many processes within the body to help create a healthy environment.
Since radiation and chemotherapy are the only two approved treatments for cancer, it’s important to let people know that other options do exist. There’s nothing wrong with exploring these options and finding out more information about them so people can make the best possible choice for themselves. It’s always important to do your own research.
A number of people have used this treatment to help treat their cancer. The latest article we wrote is a great example (amongst many), where a 9-year-old girl used cannabis to cure her cancer. You can read more about thatHERE.
Below are some links to articles that have sourced studies and provide more human cases as examples. For more information you can browse through our website:
As more become aware of the healing power that this plant has, the next question to be asked is how is it used? Linked above (second from the top) is an article titled “Teenage Girl Uses Cannabis To Treat Leukaemia & Great Results Were Seen,” you can click on the case study embedded within the article and email the doctors, hopefully they can answer your questions if it is an emergency.
The article highlighted in the second paragraph about the 9-year-old girl who used cannabis to treat her cancer has a link to her website. ClickHERE to go there. It goes through all the steps they took, they titled it “Making Medical Marijuana 101.”
So, you can start there. Another option that seems to be quite popular is Rick Simpson’s Hemp Oil. He is a medical marijuana activist who has been providing people with information about the healing potentials of Hemp Oil medications for quite some time. His inspiration came from his own experience when he cured himself of a metastatic skin cancer in 2003.
Again, I just want to help others further their research on how to do it. You can try contacting the doctors mentioned in the paragraph above, you can take a look at the way 9-year-old Mykyala (also mentioned in above paragraphs) did it and you can check out Rick Simpson’s way. Hopefully this will lead you to what you are looking for. Feel free to also contact me with any questions or concerns.
To make Rick Simpson’s hash oil, start with one ounce of dried herb. One ounce will typically produce 3-4 grams of oil, although the amount of oil produced per ounce will vary strain to strain. A pound of dried material will yield about two ounces of high quality oil.
IMPORTANT: These instructions are directly summarized from Rick Simpson’s website. Be VERY careful when boiling solvent off [solvent-free option], the flames are extremely flammable. AVOID smoking, sparks, stove-tops and red hot heating elements. Set up a fan to blow fumes away from the pot, and set up in a well-ventilated area for whole process.
Place the completely dry material in a plastic bucket.
Dampen the material with the solvent you are using. Many solvents can be used [solvent-free option]. You can use pure naphtha, ether, butane, 99% isopropyl alcohol, or even water. Two gallons of solvent is required to extract the THC from one pound, and 500 ml is enough for an ounce.
Crush the plant material using a stick of clean, untreated wood or any other similar device. Although the material will be damp, it will still be relatively easy to crush up because it is so dry.
Continue to crush the material with the stick, while adding solvent until the plant material is completely covered and soaked. Remain stirring the mixture for about three minutes. As you do this, the THC is dissolved off the material into the solvent.
Pour the solvent oil mixture off the plant material into another bucket. At this point you have stripped the material of about 80% of its THC.
Second wash: again add solvent to the mixture and work for another three minutes to extract the remaining THC.
Pour this solvent oil mix into the bucket containing the first mix that was previously poured out.
Discard the twice washed plant material.
Pour the solvent oil mixture through a coffee filter into a clean container.
Boil the solvent off: a rice cooker will boil the solvent off nicely, and will hold over a half gallon of solvent mixture. CAUTION: avoid stove-tops, red hot elements, sparks, cigarettes and open flames as the fumes are extremely flammable.
Add solvent to rice cooker until it is about ¾ full and turn on HIGH heat. Make sure you are in a well-ventilated area and set up a fan to carry the solvent fumes away. Continue to add mixture to cooker as solvent evaporates until you have added it all to the cooker.
As the level in the rice cooker decreases for the last time, add a few drops of water (about 10 drops of water for a pound of dry material). This will help to release the solvent residue, and protect the oil from too much heat.
When there is about one inch of solvent-water mixture in the rice cooker, put on your oven mitts and pick the unit up and swirl the contents until the solvent has finished boiling off.
When the solvent has been boiled off, turn the cooker to LOW heat. At no point should the oil ever reach over 290˚ F or 140˚ C.
Keep your oven mitts on and remove the pot containing the oil from the rice cooker. Gently pour the oil into a stainless steel container
Place the stainless steel container in a dehydrator, or put it on a gentle heating device such as a coffee warmer. It may take a few hours but the water and volatile terpenes will be evaporated from the oil. When there is no longer any surface activity on the oil, it is ready for use.
Suck the oil up in a plastic syringe, or in any other container you see fit. A syringe will make the oil easy to dispense. When the oil cools completely it will have the consistency of thick grease.
All directions were taken directly from Rick Simpson’s website, Phoenix Tears. You can find more detailed information there.
There is a possibility to treat all of these conditions and plenty more with the use of hemp oil. Here is a video about how to make it.
For the Desana people, singing to the Water is a key to healing
The science of cymatics literally shows us that sound influences the structure of water, but there are many who believe in the scientifically controversial idea that water can hold a ‘memory’ from the influence of light, sound and even human intention. In recent years many people have been captivated by the work of Masaru Emoto, with his images showing the world precise details of how intention may be affecting water on a structural level. For the first time we were able to clearly visualise what a particular intention, such as gratitude, may look like in the form a single snowflake-like structure, photographed under a microscope.
The list of different photographs that could be taken using Masaru Emoto’s technique is as long as as the list of different emotions and all the different sources of water on planet earth combined. In fact people have believed in our ability to influence water since the days of antiquity, with the Christian tradition being the obvious example, with the ongoing performing of rituals they claim turns regular water into holy water. Vibrational essences and the water from flower baths are just a few other examples of people believing in the capacity for water to be affected intentionally for healing purposes.
Dr. Emoto’s water blessed by gratitude (left) and Holy Water (right)
Indigenous Healing With Water
We shouldn’t be surprised to learn that there have been cultures who have held this understanding since long before microscopes and cameras existed to show them that their prayers or intentions were having some kind of tangible effect. Verification instead came to them in the form of efficacy in healing. Water was charged with healing intention, and then given to someone who was sick, and when their health was restored, the practice was deemed useful and it’s use was continued. In this way, this practice has been carried through to the present day from ancient times. One such culture which has found this practice effective is the Desana tribe who continue to reside in the Amazon on both sides of the Colombian/Brazilian border.
The practice of charging liquids, particularly herbal medicines with intention is widely practiced throughout the Amazon basin among many different language groups, most often done with whistling or song, and/or the blowing of tobacco smoke over the liquid.
Members of the Desana Tribe
Imbuing Water With Healing Intention
One term used in spanish is curar, to cure – used in much the same way we use this word when referring to clay tiles curing in the sun, or salted meat being cured, inferring that the intention is perhaps preserved in the structure of the water molecules. It has a double meaning in that one cures the liquid etc. in the preserving intention sense, in order to cure the patient in the healing sense. This is likely part of why a healer in the amazon is most commonly known as a curendera or curandero: one who cures. Another term for this practice in the Amazon is icarar.
The verb icarar means to sing or whistle an icaro [medicine song] over a person, object or preparation to give it power; water over which an icaro has been sung or whistled and tobacco has been blown, for example is called agua icarada…
Anthropologist Luis Eduardo Luna tells of how [mestizo shaman] Don Williams Vasquez deals with difficult childbirth, singing icaros [medicine songs] of slimy fish, demulcent and mucilaginous trees, the slippery boa, and the ray, which can give birth in any position. He sings these songs over a glass of water, which is given for the woman to drink. – Steve Beyer, Singing To The Plants
Blessing water with sacred tobacco
The Desana Tribe Of The Vuapes River Region
The Desana stand as a particularly good example of this practice because in their culture exists a field of specialisation in this exact art. The Desana are unique in that they have three distinct types of shamans and the ones that work with incantations, usually over liquids, are known to be capable of healing with water and intention alone. This person is referred to as a kubu or kumu.
The kumu cures by the inaudible recitation of highly formalised therapeutic spells over a liquid the patient then drinks.’ – Steve Beyer, Singing To The Plants
A term that isn’t loaded with quite the same negative connotations as ‘spells’ is the Desana word bayi, which speaks of curing in both the healing sense as well as the encoding of intention into a liquid. Bayi also brings with it the same kind of reverence and sacredness as the word ‘pray’.
For the Desana, this object [often water], which gives the incantation a material support, functions as a “medium”; it transfers the incantation to the patient. – Domonique Buchillet, Portals Of Power
The Desana Tribe of the Amazon
Why Not Simply Sing Or Speak The Incantation Over The Sick Person?
According to the kubu shamans of the Desana, their incantations when used without some kind of physical carrier like water have more precision and are able to target the exact cause of the illness with more accuracy, but work more slowly. Perhaps the effect is slower to arrive, or slower to manifest into some kind of physical change, or both.
When reciting their incantation over a physical agent like a liquid for drinking or a plant for rubbing on the person, the Desana claim that the cure is faster acting, more penetrating, has more materiality and permanence, though it not as precise.
Cultivating The Ability To Encode Water With Healing Intention
If Dr. Masaru Emoto is right then we are very likely accidentally affecting the environment around us with our thoughts and feelings every where we go, every single day – and water seems to be particularly conductive and sensitive to the emanations of our consciousness. If we wish to more actively affect the quality of the water around us the following lessons can be learned from the kubu of the Desana tribe.
The apprentice kubu, kudu pegi, is literally ‘the one who listens’. – Domonique Buchillet, Portals Of Power
Learning the practice of deep listening
Deep Listening
For the Desana, much of the listening required is the listening to the incantations being passed down in a lineage, so I’m sorry to say that those reading this article are unlikely to gain the powers claimed by a kubu. What we can do however is examine the qualities that they are trying to cultivate while they are learning the incantations of their ancestral line. There is a depth to the type of listening that they are trying to cultivate. The Desana speak of learning to be able to sit still on a bench that in their tradition is ‘intimately tied to thought and reflection’. Their term for intelligence is partly derived from a word that means: to listen, to hear, to comprehend, to understand, to know.
Indigenous Australians, Kalahari Bushmen in Africa, Apache Indians, Indigenous Hawaiians and many more traditional cultures place a profound level of focus on deep listening to nature. For example the Lipan Apache philosophy as taught by Stalking Wolf / Tom Brown / Jon Young, is that as we listen deeply we develop threads of connection to the living world. This could explain why deep listening allows for more powerful incantations as the person is able to call on the aspects of nature he has formed strong threads or even ropes of connection with. For more information on the cultivation of deep listening practices check out our article about the Indigenous Australian concept of ‘Dadirri’.
Indigenous Australians have a deep connection to nature through listening
Purification and Fasting
Another aspect of gaining knowledge and the ability to focus and transfer intention powerfully and accurately is the practice of purification and fasting. Purification through emetic plant purges apparently removes blockages preventing knowledge from coming in.
For you with your tape recorder and notebooks, it is easy to learn this incantation. For me it was very difficult. I had to fast and remain awake all night to learn it. – A Desana Kubu, Portals Of Power
One of the fundamental methods of shamanic training in the Amazon is the practice of self imposing strict limitations on diet and spending time in isolation in the forest, listening for the songs of the plants that one is trying to establish relationships with. Perhaps it is the mental and physical discipline gained from fasting that hones the ability to focus intention in a powerful way, however the deepest lessons come from actually doing the practice yourself and receiving knowledge and experience directly. If you choose to explore fasting, please do extensive research and proceed with care. Getting a checkup and speaking to your physician is advised before exploring this path.
A modern day Tambo for isolation diets and fasting
How Is This Helpful In My Daily Life?
Whether you believe fully in the possibilities outlined in this article or whether you are a more sceptical, it can be helpful to remember that in recent studies science has found that even when a person knows they are receiving a placebo it is still effective in a statistically significant way.
So the next time you sit down to eat a meal, think of all the cultures that give gratitude for their meals and consider that almost every piece of food you are likely to eat contains water. What would the image look like if Dr Emoto took a picture of the water in that food now charged with gratitude? What would the image look like of the water in our body that had come into contact with this water from our gratitude charged food?
The next time you’re cooking soup for a loved one who isn’t feeling well, you could consider singing it a song that warms your heart. When you run a bath for yourself at the end of a long stressful day, consider the affect the epsom salt crystals, the essential oils and music may be having on not only the water in the bath, but the water in your body that makes up approximately 70% of who you are.
Can we positively affect our water before we drink it?
Healing With Water On A Global Scale
If water is extremely conductive of electricity then this conductivity could also extend to more subtle levels of energy that science is now only at the edge of being able to measure. Remember also that water has also been observed by eastern traditions as perhaps the best example of being able to adapt and change to any situation. Conductivity and adaptability.
We may not be masters of encoding water with intention like the Desana, or masters of focus like buddhist monk, but what we lack in depth of focus we may be able to make up for with sheer volume of people. What excites me is the idea that millions of people may be able to collectively use their intention to take advantage of the conductivity and adaptability of water, by coming into a space of deep listening and receptivity and then focusing our intention on sending their blessing to the waters of this planet. This may be to bring healing to the waters themselves, but like this practice of using the water as a carrier for healing individuals, a large enough and focused enough collective may be able to bring about healing or re-alignment in not just the water but all those who come into contact with it – and there is nothing this planet needs more than that.An Indigenous Approach to Healing with Water
House and Senate Memorial Day recess. (Senate recess begins May 28 and ends June 5.)
June 6
9:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Benjamin Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor to the President; Setsuko Thurlow, Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor; and seven other speakers, "Global Nuclear Challenges and Solutions for the Next U.S. President." Sponsored by the Arms Control Association. At the Carnegie Endowment, Root Room, 1779 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington. Registration is closed. Broadcast and webcast on C-SPAN2.
June 6
2:30 p.m. CET (8:30 a.m. EDT) IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano holds a news conference in connection with the Board of Governors meeting. Iran's compliance with the nuclear deal will be covered. Vienna. Webcast on the IAEA website.
4:00 p.m., Senate resumes floor action of the annual National Defense Authorization Act, S. 2943, which includes the nuclear weapons and nonproliferation programs of the National Nuclear Security Administration. Broadcast and webcast on C-SPAN2.
10.00-11.30 a.m., Fabian Hamilton MP; Kelvin Hopkins MP; and Kate Hudson, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, report launch of AWE: Britain's Nuclear Weapons Factory. Sponsored by Nuclear Information Service. House of Commons, Committee Room 10, London.
June 7
6:00-8:45 p.m., Sivan Kartha, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists; Oliver Morton,The Economist; and Beyza Unal, Chatham House, “Three Minutes to Midnight.” University of York, Memorial Hall, York, United Kingdom. RSVPonline.
June 7
Ramadan begins at sunset. Through July 7.
June 7
California, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota presidential primaries, and North Dakota Democratic caucuses.
June 8
10:45 p.m., Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks to a joint meeting of Congress. Washington. Broadcast and webcast on C-SPAN.
12:30-2:00 p.m., Mark Fitzpatrick, International Institute for Strategic Studies, "Asia's Latent Nuclear Power: Japan, South Korea and Taiwan." Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (VCDNP). VCDNP Conference Room, Donau-City-Strasse 6, Andromeda Tower, Floor 13/1, Vienna. RSVP online.
June 13
10:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. CET (4:00-6:30 a.m. EDT), Federica Mogherini, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy; and other foreign ministers, "CTBTO 20th Anniversary Ministerial Meeting." Vienna International Centre, M-Building, Vienna (closed). Webcast on theCTBTO website.
2:00-3:00 p.m., Deborah Lee James, Air Force Secretary, "Defense Budgeting and National Security." International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2121 K St. NW, Suite 801, Washington. RSVP by email.
June 13
3:00-5:00 p.m. CET (9:00-11:00 a.m. EDT), Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), “CTBT@20: The Way Forward-–The Role of Civil Society,” with eight speakers. Webcast on the CTBO website. Part of the CTBTO ministerial meeting. Vienna International Centre, Conference Room M-2, Vienna. RSVP by June 8 for the event or the website online.
Week of June 13
House of Representatives floor action on the annual defense appropriations bill, H.R. 5293 (possible). Broadcast and webcast on C-SPAN.
Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism 10th anniversary meeting. The Hague, Netherlands.
June 16
8:00 a.m., John Harvey, former Principal Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Nuclear and Chemical and Biological Defense Programs, "Sustaining Consensus on Triad Modernization: Transition to the New Administration." Part of the Huessy Congressional Breakfast Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St. SE, Washington. RSVPonline.
June 17
8:00-9:00 a.m., Ron Lehman, former top arms negotiator for President Reagan, "Nuclear Weapons Reductions and Strategy of Diversity." Part of the Huessy Congressional Breakfast Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St. SE, Washington. RSVP online.
June 20-21
Strategic Deterrent Coalition, Annual Symposium. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
8:00 a.m., Vice Adm. Terry Benedict, Director of the Navy's Strategic Systems Programs, "The Navy's Contribution to Nuclear Deterrence." Part of the Congressional Breakfast Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St. SE, Washington. RSVP online.
June 24
1:30-4:30 p.m., Thomas Countryman, Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation; Randy Schriver, Armitage International; and speaker TBA, "The Korean Peninsula Issues and U.S. National Security." Sponsored by ICAS Liberty Foundation. G11 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. RSVP online.
June 25-Jully 4
House of Representatives Independence Day recess.
June
Senate floor action on the annual defense appropriations bill. Broadcast and webcast on C-SPAN2.
June or week of July 11 or 18
Senate Armed Services Committee, hearing on the nomination of Dimitri Kusnezov to be Deputy Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration (possible). Webcast on the committee website.
Dr. Emoto’s water blessed by gratitude (left) and Holy Water (right)
Members of the Desana Tribe
Blessing water with sacred tobacco
The Desana Tribe of the Amazon
Learning the practice of deep listening
Indigenous Australians have a deep connection to nature through listening
Can we positively affect our water before we drink it?
