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Several weeks ago I had a dinner with one of our loyal readers of the Healing Grapevine and it was a real pleasure to connect.
I’m going to give him the fictitious name of Joe.

Joe and I conversed for hours and covered all kinds of topics. One of the things that we kept coming back to was why he was still experiencing the creepy crawly activity on the skin.

He has been utilizing all the detox principles available and following advice from all the sources since he contracted Morgellons 2 years ago, and yet he is not fully recovered. I forget the value he put on it…let’s say he is 85-90% better but he still feels the sensation of a body bug movement. And he still fears that he may be contagious based on his previous experiences when friends had contracted the Morgellons symptoms after spending time with him. (On that note, I was not concerned and came away from the evening with just my normal scratch and itch moments. I am confident that the recovery techniques I have learned will always keep me safe and healthy.)

I had to laugh when at some point he said…’you are scratching; you’ve scratched your head 6 times and your shoulder 3, but you haven’t scratched your nose yet’.
God I so remember when every single sensation on my skin was “THAT”, and then as I was recovering, I remember how amazing it was to recognize that an itch is just an itch and not some freaky body bug, agro-bacterium, or advanced nano material trying to wrap me in plastic or hatch it’s next generation.

Today, I go through my day scratching a lot if I happen to pay attention and that brings up the point that we do become hyper sensitive and need to be sure we are using products on our skin and eating foods that are not aggravating BUT are promoting healing.

Not only do we have to detox and clean the skin and entire system, we must feed and nourish it properly to help it rebuild. It is imperative to employ both strategies!

So back to the point of this story…
As we got toward the end of the evening, we ordered a glass of wine. I have drank alcohol on and off my whole life, but this moment in the evening brought up the recommendations from the alternative communities that state when you are actively employing a detox and recover program, you should NOT drink alcohol. Joe was admitting this was one of the things he had not completely followed.

So what if this is the one last trigger that keeps his system too acidic and therefore continues to invite the problems?
What if he stopped drinking alcohol to help himself recover? What if this is all that is left to correct?

What an amazing idea…we already know alcohol is damaging to our system in large quantities, and in the hyper sensitive individuals dealing with toxicity of any kind, even small amounts is counter productive.

During my recovery period I had no desire to drink even one glass of wine with a meal.
In fact, becoming alcohol intolerant is one of the tip-offs in a clinical analysis for Morgellons as well as many other chronic diseases.

If you just think about the pH measures in tests like the Kangen water video we did that shows the wide range of pH in different beverages, it is obvious to see that drinking high acid drinks promotes poor health and weaker systems. (You can copy and paste this URL into your browser to watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X2WjeWFD1w)

So if this is still one of those things you are doing and you are not yet fully recovered then I encourage you to do this:
Stop drinking alcohol, all soda and carbonated drinks, coffee, and bottled juices.

Start drinking fresh squeezed juices (mostly veggies) and a liquid mineral supplement and the rest of the time, drink your water.
Water and lime, water and lemon, Willard water, but do not drink alkalized water that is created higher than a 7 pH…just drink water!

I sign off with a normal scratch to the top of my head and wish you all a fabulous day!
Ramona and The Healing Grapevine Team

I woke up this morning pleasantly surprised by a series of thoughts…

For the last few weeks I have been busy with some very normal things and I am grateful today that they are part of my life again;
• My daughter’s birthday celebration (we usually spread the celebration out for at least a week)
• Halloween and trick or treating
• An old friend came into to town and has been visiting
• I have developed a wonderful new friendship with a family in the neighborhood
• I have been exercising regularly on a higher level of exertion and I feel GREAT

My life feels more ‘normal’ than it has in over 6 years.

And some things are decidedly different.
For the last several weeks the ‘weather makers’ have been zig zag aerial spraying about 4 days of the week. It almost seems to me that the heat of the desert is challenging them…it appears as if they have to spray all day long to get the cloud cover to stick. I don’t really know, but it does look this way.

I have been sleeping with my bedroom window open for several nights, letting in the cool desert night air. I’ve been feeling so good that I didn’t really think about how once upon a time I would have never done this for fear of letting the pollution and toxins of the material they are spraying into my house.

At some time late in the night, I sat bolt up in bed coughing. It was from some weird sensation just above my Adam’s Apple, not from the lung. As if something was scraping and lodging itself inside my throat. I coughed so hard, I thought for a moment that I was going to throw up.

I got up, shut the window and made myself a glass of water with 15 drops of Agaricus tincture added. I have been reading a lot about the healing properties of mushrooms and I also know that they are very effective in targeting the release of toxic nano materials.

The scratchy tickle was immediately soothed and I went back to sleep.

This post is a moment of gratitude for me.

Like I said right at first, I can’t believe how ‘normal’ my life has become again.
Everyday, folks come to the website and share briefly the horrors they are experiencing and asking if it will ever end. I just want all of you to know, YES it is possible to live life normal and happy, with or without Morgellons.

May the next recovery story be yours!
Ramona and the Healing Grapevine Team

We have just published two new articles on the Healing Grapevine.

Morgellons Symptoms: Body Bugs Part One and Two

We are grateful to our readership for sharing their personal details on the daily struggles they are enduring from possibly one of the most mind bending set of symptoms associated with Morgellons disease.

We also want to thank Trisha Springstead for sharing a news video from Fox News Television in Florida that interviewed her 2 years ago and tells the story of a couple of women living with body bugs.

Trisha has just informed us that the St. Pete Times contacted her to do another story covering the growing spread of this condition that Trisha prefers to call a hyper-toxic condition.

She is determined to take the scary voodoo out of this disease and has begun explaining the many toxic variables contributing to the suffering for those in this community.

The most difficult challenge is the lack of acknowledgment from the Medical world that there is anything actually ‘there’ causing the skin rashes, lesions, bites, stings and crawly sensations. For many, they are regarded as crazy or hypochondriacs and quickly escorted from the doctors office.

Lucky for us, Trisha is a tenacious soul and is doing everything in her power to network with health care professionals that are both willing and able to document and develop recovery protocols based on non-toxic strategies that will target correcting our immune system by properly restoring our internal bio terrain system.

Yes it is true…
Truth is Stranger than fiction.

The Healing Grapevine

Namoi Wolf presents the recipe being used, right now in America, that brings down a democratic system and transforms it into a fascist state.

She refers to it as a blueprint that is literally chart-able and track-able and has been used throughout history by all the great dictators.

This compelling talk addresses the current issues we are facing such as SB 510 threatening to take another piece of our rights and freedom…the talk is dated from 2007 so what stage are we at now?

“It is human nature to abuse power if power is unchecked.”

Our President can declare a ‘public emergency’, creating a curfew and deploy the National Guard at any time, for any reason, with no other agency or group to keep him in check.

The steps of this blueprint are being executed now…

1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external threat, very often this threat is real.
(false documentation that instigated the Iraqi war)

2. Create a secret prison system outside of the law that legalizes torture.
(not one prior example from a dictatorship that employed this step, did not eventually turn this system on it’s own people…journalist, opposition leaders, outspoken communities.)

…fast forward…

4. Create a Surveillance apparatus to monitor it’s citizens.
(they can now track where you are going, who are you sitting next to on a plane, who are you visiting…) -Washington Post

Please watch this, digest this, and then think again about theSB 510 bill coming up for vote…

it may appear to be arguing the need to protect our food sources, but it is also locking us into a system without checks and balances. The very definition of a democratic government is meant to have more than one agency or party making laws and regulating industry. Supporting the SB510 bill takes another step further away from that truth.

10. Declare Marshall Law. END OF DEMOCRACY, END OF AMERICA.

The blurring of these lines is just the beginning.

PLEASE. WAKE UP AMERICA!!!

Ramona and The Healing Grapevine

Here is an excerpt from one of our newsletters called The Fungus and Mycotoxin Connection to Disease.

A mycotoxin is a highly toxic principle produced by molds or fungi. There is substantial evidence (blood tests, autopsies, and contaminated gas masks) that the former U.S.S.R. have used such lethal agents derived from mycotoxins in Afghanistan, just as many other countries have used these lethal agents throughout the dawn of history.

The human body, once exposed to a mycotoxin, runs a triple risk to its toxic effects. The triple risk factors are the direct toxic effect of the mycotoxin, acquisition of mutated RNAi from the mycotoxin’s parent fungus, and creation of an internal biofilm, which will harbor a toxic soup of disease.

(Biofilms result in bacteria, algae, and fungi growing together as a communal colony with microtubules connecting to each other to exchange nutrients.) …

…However, the most toxic forms of fungi mycotoxins are coming from our food… want to read more?

If this is the kind of research information you find useful for your road to recovery, then opt-in to our community newsletter. Stay informed on the complex diseases and health challenges and be educated on the principles and strategies fundamental to living vital in the 21st Century.

Take a moment today and let that healing ray of Sunshine kiss your cheek.
The Healing Grapevine Team

I have just returned from a week’s visit to my old home area of Wisconsin Dells, WI.

It was the first week of August and even though the weather was milder than it had been in July, it was still incredibly muggy, moldy, and mosquito-y.

The point of this post is based on some research that our team has been following on the potential exposure for Morgellons coming from the world of GMOs aka ‘super bugs’ or agri-bacterium vectors.

Many readers may already know that one hypothesis of the early vectors for my exposure came from the Wis Dells area when a man-made lake flooded and then broke the levy and drained into the Wisconsin river. This left a large swampy area right in the heart of this tourist town and right at the beginning of their money making season.

The city took agressive action and began spraying a full arsenal on the area to prevent the Mosquito population from taking advantage. At one time there were tiny, strange bugs covering the window screens and that seems to be the beginning of what became our nightmare for about the next 8 months.

Across our readership, we have many folks with Morgellons that report living in big Agri areas such as WI with lots of spraying occuring around them. During my visit last week, one day I noticed the chem-trail activity associated with aerial spraying over largely populated areas.

I returned from this trip with a patch on my lower leg that appears to have a rash that itches like crazy. This picture does not really reveal a visible rash but I wanted to document it. You can sort of see nearly the entire lower area, just above the ankle is reddish. I can tell you, this is no ordinary rash and I did not go tromping off in the woods at any time I was there.

It feels exactly the same as the first time and is the same lower leg as my first skin area affected at the onset of my Morgellon adventure almost 2 years ago to date. I don’t really know if this is a re-exposure moment but many folks that share their story begin with something as un-dramatic as a rash, not one with fibers but one that itches like you want to tear your skin off.

Fascinating! There is no doubt for me that environmental vectors are a huge part of the epidemiology of this weird skin disease.

I have one friend who was in this hot zone of WI that declares he will never go back there again, and this has strenghtened his conviction.

Fortunately I know what to do, and if nothing else this has provided the opportunity to use that knowledge and prove the solution all over again.
Mind you, it was in no way my intention to go out there and become exposed again and I can not say for sure that this is once again Morgellons, but I am not taking any chances.

What am I doing right now, you ask?
To start with…

1. High doses of Vitamin C 3-5 grams a day – according to Dr. Staninger, the mad itching is the tissue being robbed of Vitamin C.

2. Far infrared therapy. Last night I slept with the heating pad on my lower leg and this morning I am in the Sauna for an hour…I will do this for at least the next month. (Before I had the sauna, I had gone to Miami and sat in the sun and salt and it was the first time that my original skin rash cleared for a while…point is the sun is a great source of far infrared therapy, just be wise taking it in.)

3. Agaricus- bio tincture, a mushroom that is supposed to literally sponge up any advanced nano materials that are in my system trying to build their fiber networks.

4. Alternating Tea Tree Oil and Thieves Oil from Young Living Oils, topically applying it to the area-
Tea tree oil is for the potential of being fungal or agri-bacterium based.
Thieves Oil for the break down of any plastic fiber networks that may take this opportunity to begin self assembly.

Check out the video on our home page in the right hand column called HGV TV to see the wonders of Thieves essential oil.

We also have our new team of experts that will offer their research and I will keep you posted on it all.

Remember, Release the Toxins, Recover the Light! TM

Ramona and the Healing Grapevine Team

Today was one of the those days in my part of the world, the heavy layer of ‘cloud’ that hung in the sky all day was literally held in place by the perfect parallel lines that make the checkerboard image I now know are the signs of aerial spraying.

My immediate reaction is always to go grab my kids from school and stay locked in side for the rest of the day, but this just isn’t the solution.

Instead I turn to the countermeasures that I now have in my daily routine as a human being and Mom living in a toxic world.

1. We drink Willard water throughout the day

2. Today we all took an extra dose of Dry Opaline caps in the late afternoon

3. I had a headache all day so I took an extra dose of Lecithin, 2400mg (Use egg rather than soya lecithin)

4. As soon as I picked the kids up from school, I misted their face, eyes, and mouth with diluted Willard Water. Das Wasser is also great for this.

After dinner, my family went into the ‘decon’ practice I am more and more religiously employing as a means of detoxing ASAP from the extreme exposure we had today.

1. Bathing in Dr. Staninger’s recommended Detox bath of Willard water dark and Dry Opaline granules

2. Everyone takes Kombucha caps before bed

3. Dab a drop of Inner Solutions on their chest and back lung area

4. Squirt Vermiizyme on the their bellybutton area

5. Place an African Red Tea detox patch on their tailbone area tonight because of the heavy spray activity

6. Give kisses and tuck them in, turning the MPS heating pad on for 90 minutes for each child

Does this sound a bit over the top to you? Last year I would have agreed, today I don’t. Last year I didn’t really ‘believe’ in Chem trails and mass aerial spraying projects (for whatever reason), today I watch them make the checkerboards, and letter A’s in the sky. Some days they seem a little more creative and it looks like they made a fan shape and last month they were spraying at night on the full moon.  Occasionally I see the regular contrail and think, how novel! Of course, it’s twice the distance up in the sky and it gracefully disappears within seconds but certainly stays no longer than 60 or 90 seconds

For your own reading pleasure, here are two articles discussing the facts about aerial spraying of BTK bacteria for gypsy moth control world wide.
http://www.pesticide.org/btk.pdf
http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1027&context=richard_philp

Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM) Spraying – San Francisco and the Bay Area

http://sanfrancisco.about.com/od/greenliving/a/berkeleyaerial.htm

• Aerial spraying will be conducted by low-flying airplanes at 500 to 800 feet
• Aerial spraying will occur each month, for nine months of the year
• There could be three or more years of continuous spraying with the state legislature having authorized ten years
• The product is being used in an “off label manner” – not been approved for aerial application to urban environments
• The active ingredient is a synthetic pheromone – inert ingredients include known carcinogens, liver toxins, mutagens, and substances that are not intended to be inhaled
• Product is delivered in plastic microcapsules with unknown inhaling risks, and anyone exposed to the spraying will be breathing these capsules
• Exposure will be ongoing after application through time-released capsules

Over 600 residents of Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties reported illness after three separate incidents of aerial spraying with the pesticides CheckMate OLR-F and LBAM-F, including one infant with respiratory arrest and now, chronic asthma.  There were also numerous reports of bird deaths and environmental contamination. (http://www.stopthespray.org/press.htm)

The plastic microcapsules mentioned above are most likely a type of modified food starch as identified by Dr. Staninger in her soon to be published paper, “Health Hazards of Modified Food Starch”, and time released mechanisms are created with nanotechnology.  The big issue with this type of application of nanotech is the lethal combination that occurs when it is accompanied by any type of hazardous/toxic material as is listed in the inert ingredients above.

In this case, nano-size is a big problem! Think of it this way; the smaller it is, the greater penetration and circulation it gives the material. As I looked at the ingredients on the brown moth project, I noticed ‘liver toxin’ is one of the ingredients not intended to be inhaled. Last month a ‘liver toxin’ showed up on my ARS patch test, this week it showed up on my youngest daughter.

If it’s not intended to be inhaled then what the **** is doing in an aerial spray? Now I need to go to one of those rant rooms to really express how I feel as it is not appropriate here!

That’s all I have to say about that for now – I have a detox bath calling my name!

This post is happily written by Ramona from the Healing Grape Vine Team

Nutrition and fitness guru Gary Null is currently suing the makers of one his own herbal supplements or more specifically, a company that provided some of its nutrient ingredients. The creators of the product in question had erred in preparing the Vitamin D source for the product, making it 1,000 times more potent than the product’s content label claimed.

Daily News reported:

The “Joy of Juicing” author, whose products include Red Stuff Powder and Gary Null’s Heavenly Hair Cleaner, claims he suffered kidney damage and was left bloodied and in intense pain from two daily servings of the supplement. Null alleges that after taking two daily doses of the product, Ultimate Power Meal, for a month, Null fell ill with “excruciating fatigue along with bodily pain” and bleeding “from within his feet.”

“Null continued to take the Ultimate Power Meal, all the while thinking that it would help him, and relieve his condition; instead, it made him worse,” the suit says.

A visit to his physician revealed extremely elevated levels of Vitamin D in Null’s body, which led Null to investigate the contents of the Ultimate Power Meal. Null’s complaint charges that the defendant in the civil case, Triarco Industries Inc., had erred in preparing the Vitamin D source for the product, making it 1,000 times more potent than the product’s content label claimed. The suit seeks damages of $10 million.

The suit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court accuses Triarco Industries of causing Null’s “near-death experience” by botching the testing and manufacturing of the supplement.

Null, who also owns an eponymous food shop on the upper West Side, contends he was hit last December with “excruciating fatigue” that left him unable to walk and forced him to fly back to New York and cancel lectures, counseling and filming.

“Null would later be told that if he had not flown back to New York and seen his doctor, then he could have died within a short period of time,” the suit says.

“Null then sequestered himself and fasted, only consuming massive amounts of water as he was told there was no medical treatment to lower the amount of Vitamin D in his system.”

The suit accuses Triarco of inadequate safety testing that led to six consumers being hospitalized with severe kidney damage. A company representative did not return calls.

“Null, in the midst of all this, while he was suffering in bed, had dozens of his customers calling him, along with condemning and threatening him,” the suit says. “In fact, they threatened that they would never buy any product of his ever again.”

A lawyer for Null declined to comment, but did say the tainted supplies of the Ultimate Power Meal have been pulled from store shelves.

The suit says Null, 65, is still suffering the effects of too much Vitamin D.

“Even now, Null’s condition is questionable as he continues to occasionally urinate blood,” the suit says. “Unfortunately, there is no medical treatment for this as it is a matter of waiting, watching and observing what develops next.”

LA Times quoted:

“New federal rules make the manufacturers of dietary supplements subject to inspections to ensure “good manufacturing procedures.” Those rules aim to improve quality problems that have long plagued the supplements industry. But for the smallest manufacturers, those regulations are just now coming into force. Otherwise, the Food and Drug Administration’s role in regulating dietary supplements is very limited: Dietary supplements are allowed onto the market without prior approval from the FDA. So, unless the agency has reports that indicate a product may be harmful, it can stay in broad circulation indefinitely.”

“Apparently it is not at all uncommon for the content of dietary supplements to contain doses wildly different than those indicated on their labels–and that’s when nutritional contents are listed on labels, which is not always. (At least one commercial lab regularly issues reports documenting the mislabeled and unlabeled contents of dietary supplements.)”

Of course the press have a field day with a story like this, taking any opportunity to slam the alternative health industry. People suffer and die from side effects of prescribed drugs everyday with little mention by the press. I wrote to Gary Null to let him know about Dr Staninger and this was his reply:
“The media took a non issue and blew it way out of context. I am 100% healthy. Never trust the media“.

Amen.

However, this does point out that it is important to choose quality products. Know the brands you use, their quality control and standards.

Dr Staninger, being an expert in toxicology, doesn’t take any risks when it comes to her own proprietary products. Each batch of iHs products are certified by IEIA to have had Raman Analysis testing for Molecular ID™ purity.

For any product to be endorsed by her, she requires she be allowed to review the analysis of their ingredients to prove purity, and that their labs comply with Good Laboratory Practice Standards (GLPS). Many of these products are now going through Raman certification as well, at her recommendation. This is an expensive process but guarantees the accuracy of the ingredients as listed.

All the products she endorses are 100% pure, 100% non toxic and Nano/GMO free.  For this reason, she endorses products on a product by product basis;  her endorsement of a product by a particular company does not mean that all products manufactured by that company meet her stringent requirements.

An example of this is Grandma’s Old Fashioned Lye Soap; while this product is endorsed by Dr. Staninger, at the moment some of the other products manufactured by this company contain dimethacone, a toxin.  Since Dr. Staninger has alerted them of the issues around this ingredient, they are working to remove it from their product line.

Healing Grapevine Team

My mom spent Mother’s Day in the hospital half way around the world. She collapsed in church and was taken to hospital in an ambulance. She is doing fine. Apparently she has been prescribed too much medication. It makes me think of all the times I fell down in my life as a child and she was there to pick me up, give me a hug, shower me with kisses and make everything right again. Many times as an adult too. Since I can’t be with her today I am sending her flowers to say “Thank you for being my Mum. I love you!!” As I bless her I bless every mother out there and say “Thank You” to you too.
Enjoy your day!
Healing Grapevine Team

Triclosan

Here is the article:

“The Food and Drug Administration said recent research raises “valid concerns” about the possible health effects of triclosan, an antibacterial chemical found in a growing number of liquid soaps, hand sanitizers, dishwashing liquids, shaving gels and even socks, workout clothes and toys. The FDA and the Environmental Protection Agency say they are taking a fresh look at Triclosan, which is so ubiquitous that is found in the urine of 75 percent of the population, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The reassessment is the latest signal that the Obama administration is willing to reevaluate the possible health impacts of chemicals that have been in widespread use.

In a letter to a congressman that was obtained by The Washington Post, the FDA said that recent scientific studies raise questions about whether triclosan disrupts the body’s endocrine system and whether it helps to create bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. An advisory panel to the FDA said in 2005 that there was no evidence the antibacterial soaps work better than regular soap and water. The FDA was responding to inquiries from Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), who has been pushing federal regulators to take stronger action to restrict the use of triclosan and other chemicals that have been shown in laboratory tests to interfere with the delicate endocrine system, which regulates growth and development.

“The proliferation of triclosan in everyday consumer products is so enormous, it is literally in almost every type of product — most soaps, toothpaste, cosmetics, clothes and toys,” Markey said. “It’s in our drinking water, it’s in our rivers and as a result, it’s in our bodies. . . . I don’t think a lot of additional data has to be collected in order to make the simple decisions about children’s toys and soaps that people use. It clearly is something that creates a danger.”

Read the rest of the article

Our skin, like a sponge, absorbs all the chemicals we put on it. We cant trust just any product on the market anymore…even many so called “natural” products that are often made by the same company’s capitalizing on the alternative health market.  Check out our Dr Staninger recommended soaps and our Coral Calcium toothpaste . Coral White® toothpaste, the World’s only natural toothpaste, is formulated with Eco-Safe™ ionic coral minerals from above the sea. Coral White® is perhaps the cleanest and most effective toothpaste available. It contains No Fluoride, No Artificial Flavors or Colors, No Preservatives, and No Sodium Lauryl Sulfate. The 60z tube is a BIG one and will last months. I have been using it for a month now because my teeth lost enamel from eating too many oranges a day. Its an excellent toothpaste.  Add one to your cart for your next order and know that your body is in safe hands.

As for the the Triclosan already in your body Dr Staninger’s simple Introductory Detox Kit will clean it out along with all the other toxins and nano materials. Phew!