Pam Montgomery
See book keywords and concepts |  There is a clear conflict between the commonly held view and the success of plant life. Only now are we beginning to expose the remarkable complexity of plant behaviour. A revolution is sweeping away the detritus of passivity, replacing it with an exciting dynamic—the investigation of plant intelligence is becoming a serious scientific endeavour. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
See book keywords and concepts |  This indicates that the process of overload and shutdown can be traced back to plant life. In the case of overwhelming sun energy, two researchers point out that the leaf damage is the same as a sunburn. Plants seem to have a warning system that puts other parts of the plant not yet exposed on alert.
What we often see in therapy is that after a primal reliving, the system automatically shuts down for the moment. As if to say, "I've had enough for the day." It is a time for the patient to rest, not to be pushed further into an overload. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  Saponins are a kind of "natural detergent" found in a wide variety of plant life, especially beans. Saponins bind with cholesterol, preventing it from being reabsorbed into the system. Recent studies at the University of Toronto department of nutritional science indicate that dietary sources of saponins like alfalfa and alfalfa sprouts can be part of a chemopreventive strategy and may lower the risk of human cancers. |
Andreas Moritz
See book keywords and concepts |  It states that once an element is extracted from the soil and incorporated into plant life, its properties change greatly. All this can be greatly confusing for those concerned about fluoride poisoning.
Yes, fluoride is found in tea and also in mother's milk. This applies also to areas where there is no fluoride in the drinking water or air. Numerous plants contain naturally occurring fluorine or fluoride compounds. The hideous version of fluoride that is added to drinking water in so many parts of the world is the poison we ought to protect ourselves against. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  There, you'll find an abundant diversity of plant life featuring impressive adaptations to living in a nearly water-free environment. Some of the trees, for example, have green bark and almost no leaves in order to reduce water loss. Small weeds have incredibly strong tap roots that thrust deep underground to find every last drop of moisture, and succulents have developed water storage techniques that capture water in an internal matrix of unique long-chain polysaccharides.
After a rain in the desert, you can actually watch the succulents swell to 130% their usual size as they take in water. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  In addition to identifying acid rain as a major aftereffect of burning sulfur-containing fossil fuel, Scattergood included the following among the "evils arising from smoke": decreased sunlight causing loss of warmth, increased expense cleaning the dirt left by pollution, and the destruction of plant life. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  All raw foodists agree that returning to a living foods diet is crucial for the future of life on Earth (human life, plant life, animal life, etc.). And all raw foodists also agree that consuming raw living foods is an important foundation for spiritual growth and the evolution of human consciousness.
If that last phrase seems odd to you, I'll ask you to suspend disbelief and learn more about raw foods before deciding what's true about it. I can tell you from experience that it IS true: The more living foods you eat, the higher your vibration becomes. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
See book keywords and concepts |  Animals eat other animals and plants, but their major source of nutrients is plant life. If there is a deficiency of one of the important nutrients or compounds that the cell needs in order to function, the whole procedure slows or stops. Just as in a factory that assembles cars, if one vital part does not get delivered in time, the whole plant shuts down.
When a cell is not working properly because it is lacking an essential substance, that natural substance cannot be adequately replaced by a xenobi-otic substance - that is, a chemical or drug that is foreign to the body. |
Erich Grotewold
See book keywords and concepts |  Vesicular traffic: an integral part of plant life, Curr Opin Plant Biol 5: 513-517.
Wagner, G. J., and Hrazdina, G., 1984, Endoplasmic reticulum as a site of phenylpropanoid and flavonoid metabolism in Hippeastrum, Plant Physiol 74: 901 -906. Walbot, V., Mueller, L. A., Silady, R. A., and Goodman, C. D., 2000, Do glutathione S-transferases act as enzymes or carrier proteins for their natural substrates? in: Sulfur Nutrition and Sulfur Assimilation in
Higher Plants, C. Brunold, H. Rennenberg, L. J. Kok, I. Stulen, and J-C. Davidian (Eds.), Paul Haupt
Publishers, Bern, pp. 155-165. |
Pam Montgomery
See book keywords and concepts | | PLANTS—THE MOST ACCESSIBLE AVENUE TO HEALING
The experiences that I and others are having with plants are the same as those that were documented several years ago in The Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins, in which he described the work of research chemist, Marcel Vogel: "man [and woman] can and does communicate with plant life. They radiate energy forces that are beneficial to man. One can feel these forces! They feed into one's own force field, which in turn feeds back energy to the plant. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts | | Chlorophyll is sometimes called "the blood of plant life."
Then there's the issue of acidity and alkalinity. As every gardener knows, the relative acidity and alkalinity of the soil can be determined by measuring its pH. The body also needs a balance of acid and alkaline for optimal health (pH can be measured in urine, in blood, and in saliva). "I believe the future of preventative medicine is in managing the pH of your body," Pettersen told me. "All kinds of things can cause acidity—stress, rock music, sugar, and many foods. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
See book keywords and concepts |  Range and Appearance
Birch flourishes in cold, moist environments, areas where other plant life may be sparse, and thus is considered a symbol of reawakening. There are at least sixty species in the genus, native to Europe, Asia, and North America. Birch trees are deciduous and can attain a height of up to 50 feet. They have a silvery white bark. The small leaves are alternate, toothed, and simple; they are bright green during the warmer months and turn yellow in autumn. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
See book keywords and concepts |  They are both broad spectrum herbicides—designed to kill all other plant life. When farmers buy HT seeds, they are also required to buy the company's corresponding herbicide.
The glyphosate in Monsanto's Roundup kills plants by inhibiting an enzyme (EPSPS) that is needed for producing key amino acids. Some scientists discovered bacteria in a chemical waste pond near the Roundup factory that survived in spite of the presence of the herbicide. They discovered that the bacteria's version of the enzyme inactivated glyphosate and thereby resisted inhibition. |
Lynne McTaggart
See book keywords and concepts |  The simplicity of this single-celled organism with its single giant nucleus not only offered up the secrets of the cell in bold relief; it divulged the whole of the building plans of plant life. Working with Acetabularia allowed one to sit in stunned witness to the complex morphology of life within the totality of a single cell, large enough to be visible to the naked eye.
Acetabularia also represented a model organism for my first intention experiment. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
See book keywords and concepts |  No magnesium, no plant life. We humans need magnesium for more than three hundred enzymatic reactions, bone formation, and muscle and nerve function, in addition to the job of buffering acid waste from protein digestion.
Here are some problems you may suffer if you have insufficient magnesium:
?Your body will have more trouble converting vitamin D to the activated vitamin D that your body can actually use.
?You won't be able to produce and use the important energy unit ATP.
? |
Alex Steffen
See book keywords and concepts |  Bioremediation—the process of restoring contaminated land and water using living organisms—introduces vibrant plant life to formerly lifeless landscapes. In Toronto, marshlands between the Don River and a wide stretch of highway received a revelatory work of ecological art that transformed the space around it. Noel Harding's "Elevated Wetlands" made a noticeable impression far beyond its immediate surroundings, standing as a multilayered example of both bioremediation and transformative public art. |
Carlo Petrini
See book keywords and concepts |  Some foods are highly nutritious, but people spurn them because too much time and effort are needed to produce them, or because of the adverse effects they have on soils, animal and plant life, and other aspects of the environment.2*
The simple expediency of not "having negative effects" on the environment should alert us to the fact that we are doing something wrong on this planet, that the costs are beginning to outweigh the benefits. |
Henry Hobhouse
See book keywords and concepts |  The Nilgiri Hills, which had been chosen from four possible areas as being suitable for cinchona cultivation, were covered with native vegetation including rhododendrons, berberis, gaultheria, lilies, lycopodia, ilex, cinnamon, viburnum, acanthus, and jasmine, into which abundance of plant life the English had already introduced vegetables and fruit from northern Europe, together with oranges, lemons, limes, bananas, nutmegs, loquats, and plantains, as well as tobacco, sugar cane, and the European nettle, which grew with fierce abandon and stung with subtropical savagery. |
Alex Steffen
See book keywords and concepts | | Lawn care can actually be easy: by-avoiding invasive species and taking a step back from obsessive maintenance, we can allow naturally occurring plant life to spring up and become part of a pleasant, diverse garden. By-planting species that arc native to our region, we can integrate our own yards into the larger ecosystem. Plants are better able to take care of themselves in their native habitat, which means we have less work to do.
To attract hummingbirds and butterflies to our backyards, we can plant vibrant colored flowers and masses of plants rather than single flowers. |
Win Wenger, Ph.D. and Richard Poe
See book keywords and concepts |  In their quest for more efficient ways of killing, devouring, parasitizing, and otherwise overpowering their rivals, these gene colonies evolved, over billions of years, into ever more complex forms of animal and plant life. According to this theory—which Bloom cites from the 1976 book The Selfish Gene by Oxford zoologist Richard Dawkins—we humans are little more than the latest weapon system developed by our genes in their relentless campaign to dominate the natural world.
The Secret Weapon
One day, a particularly enterprising set of genes developed a secret weapon—intelligence. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  It means all the animal life, all the plant life, the living Earth itself and also the humans. It's peace on all those levels, and then we can heal the planet. I am convinced we will heal the planet. It's not maybe; we will heal the planet.
Mike: How does that unfold? In three minutes or less, what does that look like?
Cousens: It starts with the individual. It starts with an individual eating a healthy way, living a healthy way and thinking healthy thoughts. Then, as the mind gets clear, being able to create what I'm calling the global brain. The global brain already exists. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
See book keywords and concepts |  OPCs are found throughout plant life; however, the two main sources are pine bark extract (Pycnogenol), produced from a French coastal pine tree, and grape seed extract, made from the seeds of the wine grape (Vitis vinifera). Pycnogenol was the first source of OPCs discovered, and the process for extracting it was patented in the 1950s. Pycnogenol is a trademarked name for pine bark extract, not a generic term for OPCs from other sources.
Pycnogenol
See under Oligomeric Proanthocyanidins in this section. |
David Wolfe
See book keywords and concepts |  The home of the Sunfoodist is often surrounded with radiant plant life. Eating raw foods truly reconnects you to the fabric of life.
True progress in the field of nutrition has been made in this world. Solutions have been found. The confusion of nutrition is the most perplexing challenge humankind has yet faced. The Sunfood Diet brings us closer to solving the confusion of nutrition by simplifying our dietary essentials and presenting a balanced nutrition program consisting of raw plant foods, allowing any single person to achieve an extraordinary level of health. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Research shows that minerals are essential for plant life, and therefore essential for human life. The role of plants is to convert the minerals into ionic or angstrom-size minerals for humans to absorb.
7. Manna is the ultimate alchemical mineral; it is the Philosopher's Stone. It is the most powerful mineral for transforming consciousness.
Chapter 29
Living Water
The Mystery of Water he basic substance on which all life is based is water. Without water, life doesn't happen. So, what is the mystery of water? What
J_ is the mystery of the chemistry of life? | | For healthy plant life, corn requires about forty-eight minerals, and wheat and oats utilize about thirty-six minerals. Soybeans, apples, pears, and peaches take more than thirty elements from the soil. Most vegetables, including peas, potatoes, tomatoes, carrots, and lettuce, require more than twenty-five elements from the soil. Repeatedly used ground that is not regenerated gets depleted. The foods that grow in it get depleted as a result, and therefore the humans and animals that are eating those foods also get depleted. |
Joseph E. Mario
See book keywords and concepts |  Lignite is the fossil remains of prehistoric plant life containing nutrients, Trace minerals, humic and amino acids, bactericides, fungicides, and antibiotics. Mistingtopically attracts Oxygen andNitrogen from the air to the skin for better penetration, absorption, and results. CAW micelles are not toxic, corrosive, carcinogenic, or mutagenic.
Carotec's Crystal Energy Concentrate electro-colloidal Minerals reduce surface-tension resistance in molecules with microclusters, mimicingthe charged glacier water drunk by longevitous cultures in Hunza and other mountains. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | We know that sodium chloride in straight concentrate seawater will indeed kill plant life on land; however, this does not happen with dilution.
One interesting experiment done in 1940 by Dr. Murray was with peach trees. Every other peach tree was designated for experimental tests, which used 600 cc of seawater per square foot, applied from the base of the trees out to the edge of the foliage to cover the main areas of nutrition. The second and fourth trees were designated the control group and received no application. All the trees were sprayed with curly leaf virus. | | Murray began his research in 1936 when he attempted to determine which elements in the sea were the secret to helping plant life. He started with hydroponics. He covered all the plants in a liquid solution, which gave him the opportunity to control which elements would be present in the nutrient development of plants in his experiments. His experiments produced very exciting results. It has now been conclusively proven, on the basis of his work, that the proportion of trace minerals and elements present in seawater was optimal for the health and growth of both land and sea plants. |
David Wolfe
See book keywords and concepts | | Here, at the first step, Nature dictates the necessity of animal life upon the underlying matrix of Sun-imbued plant life - animal respiration depends specifically on solar energy.
The foods we eat are energy reservoirs of transformed Sun energy. Through photosynthesis, plants capture energy from the Sun and lock that power into their stems, leaves, seeds, roots and fruits. All animals are transformed plants. The body of the zebra is nothing more than grass. The body of the lion is also grass, as it preys on the grass-eaters. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
See book keywords and concepts |  These are naturally occurring substances found throughout plant life, and are concentrated in grapeseed and pine bark extracts. PCOs, which are highly water soluble and are rapidly absorbed by the body, help to promote cardiovascular health, balance body fluids, and strengthen capillaries. They also are believed to provide certain benefits for people with arthritis and allergies. They have a special affinity for the collagen-based tissues of the body, such as the skin. These biologically active compounds support the body's defense mechanisms and fight bacteria. |
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