Now that the warm weather is here, our schedule is changing…. we will be back at the Black Mall this fall. We are so grateful to announce that we will be joining the Sat Nam Community Healing Circle every FIRST FRIDAY from 6-10 pm.
Sat Nam is located in the West Loop at 1304 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607
Community Healing Cirlce Friday 5.3 6pm-10pm with Community Healers A “healing circle” is a group of like-minded people who give or receive healing, energy work or bodywork. Power is created by the intention of the group to heal, learn and give.
We LOVE working in the Community. Get a taste of this amazing healing modality, then schedule a visit to the Healing Temple at the Light Being Wellness Center.
While at the Haji on Super Sunday Sanctuary, you can also receive healing sessions from the other practitioners. You must schedule an appointment here:
KemeTones will not be at Haji Healing Salon in May due to the Light Being Spring Concert on May 19. KemeTones will be presenting a workshop at the Concert, so you can get you mini session there!
Comfrey is one of the main ingredients in the Dr. Christopher Bone, Flesh and Cartilage Formula. (Also known as BF&C, Bone Formula or Regeneration Tea) This Bone Formula is in many of the TeaChiya Medicinal Salves. Dr. Christopher came up with this formula when a mother came into his office with her teenage daughter. The daughter had a strange skin condition, that conventional doctors had given up on, and had given her a week to live. He describes it as gruesome: the flesh was literally falling off of her bones. He said he was horrified, and had no idea what to say to the mother. He tried really hard to not show his emotions, and prayed to God for something to say to this woman. What came to him was the now infamous BF&C Formula. He wrote it down, told her to “Try This” and handed her the piece of paper.
The mother and daughter returned a week later, and the condition had improved! By the end of a few months, the young girl was back to her normal state of health!
Many of my friends and clients, as well as myself, have also had amazing results with the BF&C Formula. Some are even miraculous. Now that the formula is included in some of the TeaChiya line of Light Being Wellness Products, I decided it was time to investigate further into the healing properties of the individual herbs and learn why the TeaChiya Salves are so effective.
So, let us begin this wellness journey with COMFREY…..
People have been using this herb for generations. Some call it a folk remedy. Native Americans called it “Knit Bone”. One thing that I did not know is that Comfrey is related to Borage, which is a blood purifier and helps make yummy breast milk.
from Mountain Rose Herbs:
Comfrey leaf has been used since Roman times, dating back thousands of years. This herb has been utilized in folk medicine throughout Europe and North America and has been widely cultivated. Much debate surrounds the safety of comfrey due to various parts and preparations containing potentially toxic alkaloids. It is important to understand that the part used, species, and time of harvest all come in to play when determining the safety of this herb. A large body of traditional use supports its safety and efficacy if used intelligently and cautiously.
from verywellfit.com
Comfrey Tea Health Benefits
Comfrey root and comfrey leaf benefits are widely promoted because of the herb’s long history of use. These rumored benefits include:
wound healing
relief from excessive menstrual flow
diarrhea
bloody urine
scar reduction
burn relief
treatment of bronchitis
treatment for rheumatoid arthritis
treatment for rashes or insect bites
treatment of broken bones, sprains, strains
relief from general aches and pains
improved dental health (stronger teeth)
better blood circulation
smoother skin
acne treatment
cancer prevention
herbsarespecial.com.
“The leaves or roots applied as a wash, poultice or ointment are used for bruising, sciatica, boils, rheumatism, neuralgia, varicose veins, bed sores, wounds, ulcers, insect bites, tumours, muscular pain, pulled tendons, gangrene, shingles and dermatological conditions.” The list of internal uses includes: “Indigestion, stomach and bowel problems, excessive menstrual flow, hoarseness, periodontal diseases, bleeding gums, thyroid disorders, diarrhea, gastrointestinal ulcers, hernia, glandular fever, coughs, lung conditions, hemorrhaging, cancer, catarrh, anemia, sinusitis, lupus, lowering blood pressure, hiatus hernia, blood purifier, and to ease inflammation of the joints and mucus membranes.” Comfrey leaves are rich in chlorophyll, which has been scientifically proven to help rejuvenate old cells and promote the growth of new ones. The plant also contains allantoin, which increases white blood cells.
Now this next website has more information on the “scientific study”. Here are some excerpts: Is It Safe to Use Comfrey?
Comfrey is Banned in Foodstuffs
Let’s start with comfrey’s status as a banned herb in South Africa as reported by one of our daily newspapers. Fact is, it is banned as an ingredient in foodstuffs. Yes that is right, you may not sell a foodstuff containing comfrey. And if you are into legal stuff then please read Regulation R1541 dated 13 December 2002 in terms of Act 54 of 1972 to see if there is any mention of growing it, having it, making a poultice or ointment, or any of the other ‘banned’ things as hyped up by the media.
The reason for its ban as a foodstuff ingredient is simple. Comfrey contains a class of substances called pyrrolizidine alkoloids or PA’s for short. Under certain conditions they apparently can cause the destruction of liver tissue by creating a condition known as hepatic veno-occlusive disease (HVOD), in which the cells lining the veins in the liver proliferate and choke off the veins.
Are You Human or a Rat?
So in comes our scientific method. To proof, or disproof, this to be the case, researchers fed a bunch of infant lab rats a diet of comfrey, twenty-eight times their body weight, over a period of nine weeks. During this time they were also injected isolated comfrey extracts. When the poor infants perished it was discovered that they did indeed had HVOD and, lo and behold, it was proven that comfrey was the cause.
Now since policy and law makers think that our human metabolism is identical to that of the rat which is susceptible to these PA’s, and not to that of the sheep which is resistant to PA’s, they had no choice but to take this scientific research seriously. The fact that you and I, as humans, would have to eat somewhere in the region of 80 comfrey leaves every single day for a period of nine weeks, to produce a similar ‘human experiment’ is of no importance.
THANK YOU FOR THAT. I have the same feelings about this so called scientific study. We are NOT rats, and who would eat 80 leaves per day for 9 weeks??????
The author goes on to state that since 1980’s, there have been 4 cases of toxicity, each one involving basically overdosing: drinking ten cups a day plus taking capsules, also taking other pharmaceuticals and other health issues that probably contributed to the issues. The article also states that BEFORE THE 1980’S THERE WERE NO REPORTED INSTANCES OF TOXICITY! Which explains why the medical industry and FDA decided to conduct these tests on rats…..
Basically, anything that works naturally, the medical industrial complex will do their very best to discredit or ban the product. Then they will say that their artificial version is better. This of course we already know leads to side affects and a lifetime of addiction to harmful substances.
Elderly woman corrects anemic blood with comfrey. Emsie du Plessis, 78, was among the comfrey eaters in the Doubleday trials conducted by Dr. Clare Anderson. After feeling weak and dizzy in her garden one day, she went to the doctor who said she was a bit anemic. Ms du Plessis began consuming three to four leaves of raw comfrey every day, and when she went back for a checkup a few weeks later, the doctor said her blood was perfect.
89 year-old comfrey user claims MD says he’s in perfect health. In 1991 Andrew Hughes, a comfrey user, published Comfrey, Nature’s Healing Herb and Health Food, which includes anecdotal stories of the benefits of ingesting comfrey. The 89-year old Hughes had been taking from 85 to 135 grams of comfrey in tablet form daily for 28 years, at the time of writing, and he says his regular check-ups revealed perfect health. Hughes first discovered the power of comfrey in 1956, and upon moving to Japan, became an advocate for it. His efforts led to a comfrey boom in Japan, the plant being widely used by Japanese farmers because it increased productivity enormously.
Australian man’s stock is legendary for its health. Foster Savage, who takes credit for introducing comfrey into Australia in 1954, fed it to his stock in great quantities (and ate quite a bit of it himself.) He found that milk production increased dramatically in his cows, with the bonus of thick cream. He also fed his pigs as much comfrey as they could eat and the quality of his meat became legendary. His butcher remarked that he had never seen pigs with such healthy livers.
I keep reading how sheep are immune to the toxicity, yet the tests were only done on baby rats…..
If it is good enough for human babies, then….
from indigo-herbs.co.uk
Research has now shown Comfrey to contain the plant chemicals allantoin and rosmarinic acid. Allantoin is able to accelerate cellular mitosis (meaning it speeds up the process of new tissue growth), while rosmarinic acid helps to relieve pain and inflammation. Allantoin is even part of the developmental process of a fetus – the placenta contains this compound as the baby grows, eventually dwindling as full maturity is reached. Also present in breast milk, a small supply of allantoin continues to be supplied to the baby after birth.
Product labels and websites must post this warning, and so I will as well:
Warning: Contains Comfrey. For external use only. Do not use if pregnant or nursing.
Now isn’t THAT strange: it is already naturally occurring in the placenta, as well as breast milk, and yet, pregnant and nursing mothers are advised to not use it at all?????
We are no longer allowed to sell the tonic with Comfrey, but the Tea can still be used for topical applications. Think about it: would the medical industry approve of something called knitbone? For THOUSANDS OF YEARS??? Pinhole glasses were banned for 25 years in the US by the FDA….I can think of another powerful herb that has also been negatively portrayed by the medical industry and the FDA….and now that it has been legalized, the pharmaceuticals only want us to buy it from them, a synthetic version of course!!!
The FDA has tried to make people afraid to ingest Comfrey. They isolated a few elements, then tested on rats, and said it was unsafe for humans even though humans have used this herb for thousands of years. And yet, the same people that tell us this little plant is dangerous, are the same people selling invasive techniques and deadly pharmaceuticals for their profit, not caring about our safety. Such hypocrites. If you are really concerned, then we suggest you also do a liver flush when using the herb, which we should all be doing any ole way…
It appears that the main ingredient in Comfrey, the Allatoin, that is responsible for the powerful healing, mending, growing, great feeling on the skin, etc, is the ingredient that was isolated and overfed to baby rats, and they say is what causes liver damage and cancer. They do NOT mention the fact that the rats were fed the equivalent of 80 leaves a day for 9 weeks! WOW. Mindblown….
Here is a comment from another website:
Straight shooting from the hip Didi, Australia & the USA are world leaders in banning the ‘good stuff’. In Oz you are allowed to buy borage, as a vegetable in a restuarant, yet it is banned as a herb, it’s ok to eat as food but not as a herb?
Comfrey is often eaten in our home, we add a cut up leaf or two to many dishes, we add it to the mince or stew or meal once we remove the pot from the stove or turn the heat off.
I occasionally drink the Tonic, although not everyday. Not because of fear, I just forget! LOL!!
I hope this report has shed some light on why Comfrey is in the Bone Formula, and why the Bone Formula is in TeaChiya Medicinal Salves and Teas.
TeaChiya: a natural blend of wildcrafted and native herbs found in the Waya Equoni Medicine Wheel Garden at the California Mountain home of Tchiya Amet. This blend includes:
Mint
Lemon Balm
Motherwort
Feverfew
Blackberry
Dandelion
Plaintain
Mullein
Comfrey
Rosemary
We now carry formulas for Bone, Arthritis, Skin, with Cannabis Infusion and without. The most popular formula contains everything!
You can purchase this amazing salve online and also in person at special events, mobile clinics, at The Black Mall (533 E 79th Street) or here at the Light Being Wellness Center in Chicago 8008 S. Ellis Ave #2. Stay Tuned for grand opening of the brand new lightbeingwellness.com website for more information and for placing your order. You can just email me at lightbeingwellness at gmail.com, or call at 707-972-6831
1. “These words will open up the mouth of Asar_____________.Oh Ptah! Open my mouth! Loosen the heavy weight of the bandages placed on my mouthy the god of my town. Come Djehuti, filled and equipped with words of power to loosen these double bandages of Set which are shielding my mouth.”
2. “Atum repulses the obstruction of these fetters. My mouth is opening now. As for Shu, he opened the mouth of the gods and goddess with the iron harpoon of heaven.”
From the Pert M Heru
Book of Coming Forth by Day, pg. 210
by Dr. Muata Ashby.
Opening of the Mouth symbolizes the initiate’s special memory of being one with the Divine.
“If the mouth is bound, there is no memory of the True Self because there is no expansion of consciousness, The mouth is the mystical symbol of consciousness.” from the gloss on pg. 211 Dr. Muata Ashby
This means that during the Ip New Moon, Ra is still expressing harmony and balance. This will help us tremendously as we continue our journey towards our manifestation of establishing Maat upon the Earth. Ip is the shortest month of this calendar system, as it is only 7 days long. On Novemebr 30, we move into Imhotep (Ophiuchus), the 13th constellation along the Ecliptic that is an integral part of the HeruScopes system.
What can we expect to experience this week? And what are some ways to observe the New Moon?OPENING OF THE MOUTH! CONSCIOUSNESS,AS WELL AS SPEAKING UP AND SPEAKING OUT. SING A NEW SONG!I
The New Moon is an excellent time to make a list of intentions for the coming moon cycle/. Even if you do not see them manifest by the upcoming full moon, you can best believe that they WILL manifest by the next full moon, or the one after that! Just be sure to hold the space, onto the vision you had when you made the intention. There are so many ways: planting seeds, making a vision board, or mind movie, writing a list and burning the list in the fire. As this new moon is still in Maat, I am going to try something different this Moonth. let’s see…..hmmm, I will keep you posted when the results manifest at the full moon.
Maat is Balance, Truth, Order, Harmony, Justice, Reciprocity and Righteousness. Ip represents our desires, our truest and purest heart’s desires.
Ra Maat
Creating balance by illuminating where there is darkness and ignorance,
beaming brightly from within the light of justice and truth.
This has been so true for me all month, in so many ways, that I can hardly write them all down. The words of my song, AST MAAT are ringing in my head right now, asking the question,”Am I Sirius Enuf?”, to maintain these standards of integrity, this lifestyle, to hold this space for the Light?
Aset is in our hearts and only needs to be revealed.
Ra moves into the sign of Ip on November 23. For just 7 days, we have the opportunity to be creative with our desires, and enhance the process of manifestation that was begun duringg Aspolia, when we planted Seeds of intention for the year. As this transition occurs right after the New Moon, we have the extra power of New Beginnings to help us. LIke starting over again, AGAIN!
Sesheta Ra
Ip Sesheta
This alignment suggests that One’s desires are to be brought into alignment with the Divine. This would be an excellent time to start writing in a journal, as Sesheta is the Female Scribe. Our mind and emotions, energy in motion, are ruled by the Moon. Our desires are symbolized by the Scorpion. For a brief moment, both Ra and Sesheta are vibrating with Pure Desire. Let’s tune into this frequency.
Selket
The New Moon is the time for New Beginnings. This is also an excellent time to write out your new moon abundance checks.
November 22: New Moon
November 23: Ra Ip
November 29: First Quarter Moon
November 30: Ra Imhotep
December 6: Full Moon
December 14: Last Quarter Moon
December 18: Ra moves into Pi Maere
Djehuti Maat until end of November. Ip is next. Even though Ra is moving on, this is still an excellent time for expressing truths and speaking out against injustice and An Maat (unrighteousness), just as at the time of this post, more and more women are speaking out against sexual assault cases involving Bill Cosby. When Djehuti Ip arrives, will be about expressing one’s desires.
HetHeru Ip for 2 more days, then onto to Imhotep. 2 more days of the Beauty Path of Desire. Then the Journey along the Beauty Path of Self Care and Healing begins. This is an excellent time to begin that health care practice, sign up for that yoga class. Start running, or initiating a fast. Whatever it is that you have been putting off, this is a very auspicious time to begin, during the New Moon.
Set/Muruga Pi Maere, the Archer until first week of December. Then Hupeneius. Put your focus, direct all of your energy towards your goal during this time. With accuracy and intensity. You will reach your destination. at the Full Moon, right around the time Set moves into the next sign of Hupeneius. Representing the manifestation. Revolution, tenacity,
PiCheus Sekhmet for rest of month and beyond. Wisdom and Expansion in the areas of healing and the life force energy.
RaPhan Maat learning lessons in life by either aligning with Maat, or going against Maat. There are 2 Roads in Life, which one will Humanity choose?
Heru PiCot Sahu Making efforts and taking courageous action to save water: What should be our most cherished resource on Earth, is sadly, our most misused. Both Emotions and Higher consciousness are activated and utilized for the highest good.. Even going so far as taking heroic stance against corruption.
NebtHet
NebtHet KuUrKu Outpouring of truth, wisdom and healing. Creating Order, Maintaining Order.
Again, I am reminded of the women that are choosing to speak out against sexual assault. Be mindful of the possibility for deception and betrayal. This transit will last until 2022, and then PiCot Sahu, so we may be hearing more about this issue for quite sometime….
NebtHet is symbolized as a vase or vessel, KuUrKu is symbolized as a human pouring out water from a vessel….
Asar Pi Maere Through Mid-December and beyond.
Transformation is achieved through expansion, beyond any preconceived notions, opinions, limitations, or beliefs.
Chiron KuUrKU Self healing through the power of water. How ironic: the water that can heal we the people is the thing the corporations enjoy destroying the most. This is the time to heal the water and to protect the water. Now is the time to learn and gain knowledge from the water. Chiron is in the sign of KuUrKu until December 25, then moves into PiCot Sahu, another watery sign. During this time, emotions , energy in motion, can be healed and purified, with water, and vice versa. Yes, remembering the work of Dr. Emoto and the effect we can have on water.
Sedna
Sedna Apis Sedna is the archetype for survivor of assault and family violence. Turning poison into medicine. Sedna: represents overcoming Trauma and betrayal through self love and forgiveness. Fortunately, with the energy of Apis, we are loved, nurtured, adaptable, eloquent, and establishing value. WE have along time to work with this energy, so let’ do this! All the signs are pointing to this time as being the time for facing and heralding from sexual assault. Find a way to transform the predominant culture from a rape culture to a healing culture. This is what Imhotep/Ophiuchus is all about: a shift in humanity towards natural healing and confronting and conquering our lower sexual nature. NOW IS THE TIME!!!
“Here is what Dr. Kathleen Jenks says about Sedna. “When victimization moves to the goddess-level as it does with Sedna, (it) signals us that there’s an extra depth of compassion for the abused. It also tells us that this goddess-archetype has the wherewithal to make a difference and empower that person whose (planets) are resonating with Sedna’s sphere of power. Sedna may come to represent an extreme terrain of the unconscious, one where issues of power, authority and respect for life do not separate from a respect for oneself.”
Sedna was discovered on November 14th, 2003 at 17 Taurus 58. Hapi Anniversary!!!!
ASTEROIDS: raising awareness of the Divine Feminine Principle.
Aset/Ceres in Imhotep until December 30: The Divine Mother is the Ultimate Healer and Nurturer.
Maat/Pallas Athena in Uraeus/ Serpens, until Mid-December: dealing with one’s sexual nature, health. The serpent also represents the twin goddesses, Aset and Nebt Het. There is so much symbolism with the Uraeus, that I cannot go into right now…The Uraeus is associated with the energy of Virgo due to the proximity. Balance in consciousness of the material realm and the spiritual realm. Being aware of both realities at the same moment.
Juno is in another serpent, the water serpent, Hydra!
More messages and confirmation that this is a time of healing from sexual assault, and obtaining Justice in the process.
Vesta: Imhotep now, then moving into Pi Maere on November 27. Now is a good time to work on healing relationships, or healing from them. When we move into PI Maere, the energy will shift towards expansion, travel, leadership, etc. Becoming more goal oriented as well.
With Ra, HetHeru and Sesheta aligned in Maat for a few more days, we can experience the balance just a litlttle bit longer before Ra enters Ip for 7 days. Will be joined by HetHeru and Djehuti. At beginning of December, we will find Ra, HetHeru and Aset/Ceres all in alignment in the sign of the healer, Imhotep. Emotions, Violation, Healing, Transformation, Water, which represents the divine feminine. All the forces and issues are in our favor. All things are coming into alignment, everything is illuminated. It is a matter of activating them within us, and living with the awareness. At HeruScopes, all the signs are pointing towards a cycle in time of women speaking out against, as well as healing from, sexual assault, and domestic violence. Individually, collectively, and worldwide. Can you imagine this? If you can see it with your mind’s eye, and feel it with your heart, soon, you can see it manifest on the physical world as well. The New Moon in Scorpio, Sesheta Ip, is wonderful time to initiate a new strategy, a new plan for dealing with sexual assault and domestic violence. Most importantly, the time has come to END THE SILENCE, END THE VIOLENCE.
from Star Signposts NOTE: the sidereal astrologer at starsignposts.com does NOT recognize Imhotep/Ophiuchus. This is the cause of much discrepancy in readings and in life! HTP.
Sat Nov 22
This New Moon is taking place in the early degrees of sidereal Scorpio, a sign that calls forth our depth, our hidden shadows, our ability to die to our former selves so we may be perpetually reborn anew. Embrace and allow for that natural transformation that defines this season each year to occur. Don’t try and stop it. You can’t anyway. Appreciate what you are harvesting and be grateful for what you can gently release and complete by the coming Winter Solstice on December 21. This year, miraculously, the next New Moon will occur on Solstice, launching 2015. Right after today’s New Moon, which occurs in the morning hours, the Scorpio Moon will align with both Venus and Ceres. This is a giant portal of deep feminine wisdom bathing our Earthly paradise. If we will do our very best to care for Earth, we will continue to fed by Earth and all her animating presences. Though some of you may be tired at years’ end, with the help of today’s Scorpio influence, you can dig deeper and discover new reserves of will and desire to keep you from giving up. Exciting times ahead. Rest, release, anticipate the resurrection energies of 2015.
Sun Nov 23
There’s a fabulous sky triangle of watery energy today which can make for amped up emotion, cooperation, sharing deeper feelings, crying happy tears. The investigative Scorpio Moon trines family oriented Jupiter in Cancer and trines South Lunar Node which honors the history we came from. This would be a great day to dig out the family photo albums and share stories, and share it all, both the light and shadow that comes with each lineage.
Mon Nov 24
You may wake up trying to obsessively pry some confession out of your beloved or just want to discuss something deeper. That’s because Mercury is now entering the terrain of Scorpio. Overnight, the emotional Moon aligned with focused Vesta, so you perhaps you couldn’t get some thought/feeling out of your mind, going over and over the same useless line of thinking. Now that you are awake, use these same energies to consciously redirect your thinking in a more positive direction.
The most important thing for you to know and remember about HeruScopes is this:
YOU ARE THE HERU, THE HERO/HEROINE IN THE MYTH OF YOUR LIFE. The Neteru are Cosmic Forces, just like gravity, magnetism, electricity. Once you become aware of the forces of Nature/Neteru and align with them you can accomplish whatever you desire, as long as your desire is in alignment with Maat, with Truth. This means that even though your ancestry may be from Turtle Island (North American, Native, etc), these forces still exist within you. THey are in our DNA. Your tradition may refer to them by a different name, but when you look closely, you will see the vibration is the same. NIUK PU HERU. I AM Victorious.
Dua Sesheta Ip. Hapi New Moon in Sidereal Scorpio: May your wishes, prayers and intentions that are for the highest good of All That Is, come true!
ASHE! AHO! NAMASTE! AND SO IT IS! FOUR DIRECTIONS.
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Djehuti Maat until end of November. Ip is next.
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