Herbal Tonics

Tonics are botanicals that strengthen the entire body functions. For example, heart tonics (Motherwort) improve the heart function, whereas nerve tonics (lobelia and Hops) strengthen the nerve system. Other famous tonics are ginseng, sage, and red raspberry.

Saponins

Saponins are naturally occurring substances in plants. Soybeans, for example, contain a significant amount of saponins. Saponins are glycosides and may be classified as steroidal or tri-terpenoid. The steroidal saponins mimic the female sex hormones whereas the tri-terpenoids act similar to the adrenal hormones.

The Rhomboids

These muscles are located underneath the trapezius muscles. There are a couple of these muscles minor and major. They originate from C7 - T5 vertebrae. Their insertion points are found along the medial border of the scapula. The Rhomboids are important for scapula movements (downward rotation, retraction, and elevation).

The Trapezius

The Trapezius muscle (upper, middle, and lower) They originate from occipital bone and C7-T12 vertebrae. They insert into the acromion process, the spine of the scapula, and the lateral clavicle. Their main function in the back involves the movement of the scapula. The upper trapezius also extends the head.

E-mail Solicitations--Fraud

I guess many of you have heard of fraud e-mail solicitations. They try to get information on you so that they steal your identity. Here are few examples of what I have received recently:

"PLEASE CALL ME AND GET BACK TO ME ON EMAIL: 00226-71-19-15-57 FROM THE DESK OF ALLAUDDIN MUHAMADADAUDIT/REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT OFAFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB)OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASOPHONE: 00226-71-19-15-57 Please for security reason you can contact me on my privateEmail Address; http://us.mc1122.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=mmuhamadad1@gmail.com DEAR FRIEND (CONFIDENTIAL) I KNOW THAT THIS EMAIL WILL BE A BIG SURPRISE TO YOU, BUT IWANT YOU TO CALM DOWN AND READ VERY CAREFULLY. I HAVE A BUSINESS WHICH WILL BE BENEFICIAL TO BOTH OF US. THE AMOUNTOF MONEY INVOLVED IS ($ 15,200:000:00 FITEEN MILLION TWOHUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS) WHICH I WANT TO TRANSFER OUTOF THE COUNTRY TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT, ALL TO MY FINANCIAL BENEFIT AND YOURS TOO. AND ALSO TO TAKE MY WIFE ABROAD FORTREATMENT OF LIVER DAMAGE. THIS MONEY IS OWNED BY A MAN CALLED JIN SUN, A BUSINESSCOMMERCIALIST I WEST-AFRICAN REGIONS. HE HAS BEEN DEAD SINCESIX YEARS AGO AND SINCE THEN, NO CLAIM HAS BEEN PLACED ONHIS BANK ACCOUNT BALANCE. WANT TO TRANSFER THIS MONEY OUT OF THE COUNTRY BUT SUCH FUND CANNOT BE TRANSFERRED WITHOUT ANEXT OF KIN ATTACHED TO THE FUND. THE FUND COULD BE TRANSFERRED IN THESE WAY; YOU SHALLPRESENT YOURSELF AS A BUSINESS ASSOCIATE TO THE DECEASEDPERSON[JIN SUN] AS DETAILS SHALL BE THAT YOU ARE THECARE-TAKER BUSINES ASSOCIATE TO MR. JIN SUN AND HISPROPERTIES. I SHALL MAKE AVAILABLE TO YOU MATERIALS AND INFORMATIONWITH WHICH A SUCCESSFUL CLAIM SHALL BE PLACED ON THE FUND. ISHALL ALSO BE YOUR GUIDIANCE AND INSTRUCTOR THROUGHOUT THEDURATION OF THIS TRANSACTION SO AS TO ENSURE A SWIFT ANDSURE TRANSFER OF THE FUND TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT. AS TO YOUR BENEFITS, YOU SHALL BE ENTITLED TO 40% OF THIS FUND FOR YOURCO-OPERATION IN THIS TRANSACTION WHILE 5% WILL BE SET ASIDEFOR EXPENCES INCURED DURING THE COURSE OF THIS TRANSACTION. SO IF YOU ARE INTRESTED, SEND A REPLY TO ME IMMEDIATELY ANDIN YOUR REPLY PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR [PRIVATE PHONE AND YOURFAX NUMBERS] URGENCY HASTO BE IMPLIED AND THIS BUSINESS MUSTSTRICTLY BE A DEAL BETWEEN BOTH OF US. WAITING FOR YOUR URGENT RESPONSE SO THAT I CAN MOVE AHEADAND GIVE YOU THE INDEPT DETAILS CONCERNING THIS TRANSACTIONAND ALSO THE STEPS TO TAKE FOR A SMOOTH TRANSFER OF THE FUNDINTO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT. Please for security reason you can contact me on my privateEmail Address; http://us.mc1122.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=mmuhamadad1@gmail.com BEST REGARDS,ALLAUDDIN MUHAMADAD"

And here another one:

"From The Desk of Mr mohamed musafa
The Auditing And Accounting ManagerAfrican Development Bank (ADB)Ouagadougou-Burkina Faso.
Telephone 00226 78 60 35 53 Dear Sir/Madam I sincerely ask for forgiveness for I know this may seem like a complete intrusion to your privacy but right about now this is my option of communication. This mail might come to you as a surprise and the temptation to ignore it as unserious could come into your mind; but please consider it a divine wish and accept it with a deep sense of humility. I am aware that this is certainly an unconventional approach to starting a relationship.
I am Mr. mohamed musafa, the personal account officer to the great late diseased who has an account in one of our banks here in Burkina Faso . The account was opened in 2001 and he died in 2004 without a written or oral WILL and since 2004 nobody has operated on this account again hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing and Government of Burkina Faso will confiscate the funds for their personal use which I personally don't want such incident to happen being that this is a great opportunity for me. My contact is for you to please assist me to transfer the fund ($10.6000.00 USD) Ten Million Six Hundred Thousand United State Dollars from a Cooperate Bank here in Burkina Faso to an overseas account. First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction. This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential. I am sure and have confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of this great magnitude. I solicit your assistance to enable us transfer the said amount into your safe account for onward investment. You can either provide us with an existing account or to set up a new Bank account immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end of this important business trusting in you and believing that you will never let me down either now or in future because this business is my life. The owner of this account is a foreigner and no other person knows about this account or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and until his death he was the manager of the company. My investigation through the National immigration department & Ministries here proved to me as well that he was single as at the time of his entry into the Republic of Burkina Faso . As a matter of fact, I have decided to transfer this fund abroad for investment and also to use my own share of the fund to take my wife to abroad for liver damage treatment. Your assistance as a foreigner is necessary because the management of the bank will welcome any foreigner who has correct information to this account which I will give to you immediately, if you are interested to do this business with me. There is no risk in this business. With my position here in the bank the money can be transferred to any account you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending our physical arrival in your country for sharing. Upon successful transfer without any disappointment from your side, I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be approved to a local person here, but can only be approved to any foreigner who has the correct information of the account, which I will provide for you. So you should provide me with your correct account details where you will like the fund to be transferred to, or you can set up a new account for the transfer even an empty account is ok. At the conclusion of the transfer you will take 40%, 10% will be for any expenses both parties incurred in the process of this business and the remaining 50% will be for me. As soon as I hear from you and upon your strong assurance that you will not let me down once the fund goes into your account I will then send you the Text of application form which you will fill with your banking information and send to my bank here for immediate transfer of the fund to your account. If you are interested, please forward the following information as below: {1} Your Name/company's name and full address, {2} Bank Name:............ {3} Bank Address...{4} Account No:.........{5} Swift Code...{if any}{6} Account Holder's Name: ..........{7} your telephone Num. both Home, Office & Cell/Mobile and faxNumbers...{8} Your Occupation {9} Your Valid ID Waiting for your urgent replyBest Regards,Mr. mohamed musafa"

And yet another one:

"Dearest One,
I am Mrs Mariam Sule. a widow being that I lost my husband,my husband was a serving director of the Cocoa exporting board until his death.He was assassinated by the rebels following the political uprising, before his death he made a deposit of Eight Million USA Dollars ($8,000,000.00) here in Ouagadougou Burkina Faso in one of the Security Company,he intended to buy a Cocoa processing Machine with the fund.

I want you to help me for us to retreive this fund and transfer it to your account in your country or any safer place as you will be the beneficiary and recipient of the fund which we will use for joint investment in your country.

I have plans to do investment in your country, like real estate and industrial production. This is my reason for writing to you. Please if you are willing to assist me and my only son Boureima,indicate your interest by replying urgently.

Thanks and best regards .
Mrs Mariam Sule."

Here is an interesting one:

"ATTENTION: WINNERThis is to inform you that you have been selected for a cash prize of 800,000,00 (Eight Hundred Thousand (British Pounds) and this promotion was held in LONDON UK,The Selection was carried out through a Computer Random Selection System and your email address came out as one of the Three Lucky Winners.Contact our fiduciary agent for claims with:Agents Name: Mr.James BrownEmail:http://www.blogger.com/mc/compose?to=mr.jamesbrown_ukclaimsdepartment@live.comFill the below details"1. Name:2. Sex3. Occupation:4. Age:5. Address:6. Country of Residence:7. Telephone Number:8.Amount won:9.NationalityAnna MartinOnline Co-ordinator"

This one is laughable:

"RE -REMITTANCE OF $15.5 MDear Friend,I am Mr.TITI WALLA ,from Burkina faso in West Africa.I got your e-mailcontacts from computerised datas after my extensive search via thewebsite for trust-worthy person to bestow this transaction which isthe only hope of our survival into his or her hands.When i got youraddress,I prayed and meditated fervently over it and i commited itinto the hands of almighty that you should be the rightful person tohelp us out before I made up my decision to contact you.I am TheManager of Auditing Department of Our Bank ,Ouagadougou Burkina Faso.In my department we discovered an abandoned usd$15.5M( FifteenMillion five hundred thousand United States Dollars). In an accountthat belongs to this our foreign customer who died along with his wifeand and children in the plane crash.Since we got information about hisdeath, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claimhis money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for itas the next of kin or relation to the deceased, as indicated in ourbanking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposednext of kin or relation died alongside with him in the plane crashleaving nobody behind for the claim.It is therefore upon thisdiscovery that I decided to make this business proposals to you andrelease the money to you as next of kin or relation to the deceasedfor safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for itbecause I don't want this money to go into the bank treasury asunclaimed Bill.The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that if such moneyremains unclaimed after five years, the money will be transferred intothe bank treasury as unclaimed fund.The request of foreigner in thistransaction is necessary because our late customer was a foreigner anda Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner,I agree that30% of this money will be for you as foreigner partner in respect tothe provision of a foreign account. 10% will be set aside for expensesincurred during the business and 60% would be for me , after which Ishall visit your country for disbursement according to the percentagesindicated.Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund toyou as I have arranged,you will furnished me with a good receivingaccount details where the money will betransfered,your private tel andfax number for easy communication.Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or e-mail a textof the application which you shall retype and fax to our foreignremittance manager,for easy execution of the transaction.I will notfail to bring to your notice that this transaction is 100% hitch-freeon both side. As all required arrangement have been made for thetransfer and more so all the documents backing this claim will besupplied to you after you might have applied.Please I would like you you keep this transaction confidential and asa top secret as you may wish to know that I am a senior Bank official.Forward me your full details informations below,1. Full Name:2. Your Telephone Number and Fax Number3. Your Contact Address.4.Your personal photo or id cardTrusting to hear from you immediatelyYours Sincerely,Mr.TITI WALLA
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And this one has French in it:

"
Vous êtes invité ::

BUSINESS COLLABORATION
Par votre hôte:

Sulaiman Umanru

Date:

mercredi 9 septembre 2009
Heure:

7h 00 - 8h 00 (GMT+00:00)
Rue:

My name is Mr sulaiman umanru, I'm the auditor and head of computing department in Bank of Africa Ouagadougou Burkina Faso.I have business proposal which involves about $25m, (Twenty five Million United State dollars only).And after the successful transfer, we shall share in ratio of 40% for you and 60% for me.If you be interested, please contact me through my private email (sulaiman.umanru@yahoo.fr ), so that I Will give you more information on how we would handle this project, to enable us commence on all arrangements.Thanks umanru sulaiman

Viendrez-vous ?

Répondre à cette invitation"

Okay, now you know who they are.

Therapeutic Massage: Type of Strokes

In therapeutic massage several strokes are commonly used during the session by the therapist. These are effleurage (gliding), petrissage (kneading), tapotement (tapping), friction (rubbing), vibration (jostling), and rocking (moving body sideways). Massage is known to stimulate the immune system and is an excellent way for stress relief.

Kava kava

Kava is an herb used for anxiety. This powerful herb has been linked to liver toxicity and failure reports. Several European countries has already banned the use of kava on its territories, however, the herb remains available in the US. The FDA has issued warnings on kava's potential liver toxicity, however, these warnings are not widely publicized to the public. It is not yet known the exact "source" of its toxicity; some people believe it is related to the way it is processed in the West by botanical companies. This belief stems from the fact that no reported cases of liver toxicity was found among the natives who drink kava aqueous extracts. The Western extracts are normally prepared using organic solvents and not water.

Health Care Bill

It is anticipated that by November of this year the Congress of the United States will pass a Health Care Bill to establish an organized health care system for everyone in this country. It is a dream that the late Senator Ted Kennedy fought and advocated for. I propose that the Congress name this bill "Ted Kennedy Health Care Reform Initiatives".

Fenugreek

Fenugreek powder may be used as a poultice for the treatment of external inflammations. Internally, the herb is primarily used to increase the production of breast milk. Patients who are on oral medications should avoid taking fenugreek with their medications, as the herb coats the surface of the gastrointestinal tract mucosa with mucilage that acts as a mechanical barrier for the absorption of drugs.

Jin Shin Jyutsu®

"The truth is that within each of us lies the power to cast all misery aside and to KNOW complete Peace and Oneness to BE that beautiful creation of perfect harmony to truly KNOW (Help) Myself" - Mary Burmeister

To learn more about Jin Shin Jyutsu®, visit http://jsjinc.net/

Seminars on Jin Shin Jyutsu are given by CNHP. See their schedule at http://www.cnhp.org/seminars/descriptions.php?id=66

Where was I on September 11, 2001?

I was sitting at my desk at work when one of my co-workers walked in and told me about a plane "accidentally" hit a tower in New York City. She was trembling in terror. Her voice was full of terror and fear impressions covered her face. After all, it was September 11, 2001, the day when everything changed in the United States. I still remember the days where I could walk all the way to the terminal to say good bye to my brother. I still remember the days where passing through airport security did not look like a scene from North Korea. I still remember you could go to any official Federal or State building without being asked to pass through detectors or empty your pockets out. I still remember the United States the way my father described it to me long time ago, America the Beautiful. America you still are and remain beautiful in my eyes. God Bless America.

"You Lie", said Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina

During a televised speech to the Congress and to the nation, President Obama addressed the nation on Wednesday concerning the upcoming debate on nationalized health care. During that speech the President was rudely interrupted by Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina shouting and pointing finger at the President "You Lie". The Congressman later officially apologized to the President by calling the White House. The President graciously accepted the Congressman's apology in a Christian manner. Thank You President Obama for doing all you could in this important issue on health care. We Love You.

No more computers!

In the future, perhaps within the next 30 years or so, computers as we know them will be become obsolete. Think about how typewriters faded away, even the most sophisticated ones are gone. Computers are next in line. Some new technology will replace them. I believe the new system will be one that does not use a typing pad. The new system will operate solely on voice commands. Communications via this new system will become a way of life, like the cellular phone nowadays. The new system will be light enough to be carried everywhere, and will operate on solar powered batteries.

Bad Breath

Bad breath is extremely common. Finally, bad breath has found its match. The solution is Smart Mouth. Check it out:

http://www.smartmouth.com/

Satan

There is a huge question that no religion existing on this planet has answered it to my satisfaction. The question is "why does God allow Satan to exist?"

If you know an answer please comment on this blog.

Are any botanicals extract available in the USA for injections?

The US FDA does not allow any botanical formulations to be injected. Only those for oral or topical administration are allowed in the USA. In Europe, some extracts are permitted for injections. Of course, those are intended for injections must be prepared under aseptic techniques, and they should be free of any microbial contamination or pyrogen. Thus, injectable preparations are sterile. Injecting contaminated preparations can lead to systemic infections, fever, and death.

Cautions and Warnings

1) Botanicals or herbals must never be taken by the following people (unless it is recommended by their physicians): the very young (under 12 years), pregnant women, and nursing mothers. This is a general precaution.

2) Always communicate with your physician concerning any herbal treatment that you are currently taking.

3) Never take any herbal product if you are on prescription or over-the-counter medications.

4) Drug/herb or herb/herb interactions do occur, and consequences could be severe, and even death may occur.

Luck, Lucky, and Murphy's Law

If you have not heard of Murphy's Law here it is "If things can go wrong, they will". Murphy's Law, as it seems, was just written for me. Other people have enough luck, or they are just lucky, Murphy's Law does not apply for them. I hope you are one of them.

I recently bought a new computer, the cheapest possible and was on sale, after I saved for it the last 3 years (I managed to save 30 cents daily in a jar.) The last day I stumbled on a piece of furniture and I dropped it. The glass monitor broke and created a big black spot on it. Unfortunately, I cannot fix it (it cost $75), and I cannot buy another one for the next three years. Murphy's Law never fails.

Tomorrow is September 9, 2009

It will not happen again, a triple 9s, 09.09.09.

Lotus Flower

This ancient respected flower from Asia and the Middle-East is used by herbalists for its astringent and anti-diarrhea effects. Its strengthen the kidneys and the spleen as well. Other beneficial effects include lowering of serum cholesterol and strengthening the blood vessels and the heart.

Writing is a form of healing

Alternative health practitioners consider writing as a form of healing. If you are depressed, stressed out, or sad, try to write down your thoughts and feelings. As you write them down their negative energy is transcribed into a positive one. You will feel rejuvenated and refreshed. And, only may be, you may end-up with a book of your own. Remember the Chinese proverb "a thousand-mile journey begins with a single step."