Clipper, Pruners, & tendonitis

William Glover & Deborah Lindsay both commented in Sept about which clippers
are best (Felco or Corona), bypass vs anvil, etc. Bypass pruners win hands 
down because they give a cleaner cut w/out crushing plant tissue. 

As for the tendonitis, for those of you in the U.S., & perhaps even more 
importantly, California, the best think I've found in the past 30 or 40 years
for tendonitis of any kind, ligament damage, torn tendons/ligaments/rotator
cuffs, is something you can get w/out a perscription at your local health food
store. I found out about it when I belonged to an Ayurvedic group called 
PERFECT HEALTH (after the book of the same name by Dr. Deepak Chopra). The 
cancer support groups at Stanford recommended drinking "cold-pressed liquid 
aloe" (a commercially produced product). Further investigation revealed that 
"not all brands are created equal", and the important variable is the active
ingredient, called "muccopolysacharide". Out of the brands explored in 1993, 
the brand with the highest level of muccopolysacharide is called ALOE COMPLETE.
The preferred item is called ALOE COMPLETE CONCENTRATE, & comes in a 1 liter 
bottle. It also comes pre-mixed with fruit juice, for those of you who don't 
mind wasting money on someone else's idea of what would taste best. Some of 
us also checked out the liquid aloe drink that Trader Joe's sells here in the 
SF Bay Area, & concluded that it tasted pretty *gross*!  

WHY WOULD IT BE RECOMMENDED FOR CANCER PATIENTS & OTHERS WHO HAVE COMPROMISED
IMMUNE SYSTEMS? Its pretty simple. If you are on (1) chemotherapy, (2) radiatio
(3) have allergies to NSAIDS, or asperin, (4) have negative reactions to other
anti-inflamatories & pharmaceuticals, etc., you are instructed to NOT TAKE ANY
PHARMACEUTICAL ANTI-INFLAMATORIES, AS THEY WILL COMPROMISE THE EFFECT OF YOUR
THERAPY PROGRAM, ETC. On the other hand, very few people are allergic to Aloe --I've heard of one person with such an allergy in the past 20 years, & "trust 
me", I've talked to a LOT of people, both in search of my own healing, & in 
my "calling" as an energy worker/landscape consultant. 

MOST of the commercially available liquid aloe products (for drinking) come in 
one liter bottles. Aloe Complete runs about $20/liter (retail); a bottle lasts
about a month. The other brands tend to run "cheaper", but the level of mucco-
polysacharide is lower, so then you have to ask if you prefer 1 dose/day or
2 doses/day, which makes the "cheaper" brands actually more expensive.  Whew!

Testimony: When I tore my achilles tendon back in 1993 I was told I would be 
on crutchesl all summer since my tear had been mis-diagnosed as a sprain, some
two months before. The cancer support group I belonged to noticed that my 
hand joints were quite puffy from all the spring pruning, & they recommended 
that I start drinking the Aloe Complete junk (yuck... it was very bitter when
taken "straight"). I learned in 2 days that *I* would have to pour it into 
tomato juice or orange juice (heavy pulp) to keep from being turned off. But I
got used to it, and after about 5 or 6 days I was able to give up the major 
drugs. 2 weeks later my spouse noticed that I wasn't using my crutches very often
any more. What a surprise! We were travelling through the desert in June & I 
had to keep it refrigerated, so I got sloppy & stopped taking it, thinking that
maybe the difference was caused by some miraculous "overnight miracle". Ha!
The pain was back in a couple of days -- that is how you can tell that it 
works! No nausea like I got with naprosen, no nasal polyps like you can get 
with motrin/ibuprophen, etc. GREAT STUFF!! I always have a bottle in the frig.,
"just in case." -- or at this point in my life, I have that bottle there 
because I have two tears in my right shoulder rotator cuff & it is totally 
crippling sometimes unless I take the stuff. The good points: You can avoid/
put off surgery by drinking this stuff. The bad points: It you REALLY NEED to
get surgery to repair whatever is causing the pain, it would be better to just
GET IT DONE!.

Enough! If anyone wants more information, who can't find this stuff at your
local "Whole Foods" Market -- or other larger Health Food Market, write to me
at AN ADDRESS THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM THIS HEADER:
		lyndearborn@attbi.com

The mailing address you see on this header is a "spammers holiday" -- I'm 8000
messages behind, thanks to all those $#%!@#$ schmucks out there who betray our
trust & give our addresses away. I only look at the header return address once
a month, more or less.

Happy Raking for the upcoming leaf fall ...

lyn dearborn
<lyndearborn@attbi.com>


**And Jesus said unto them, "And whom do you say that I am?" They 
replied, "You are the eschatological manifestation of the ground of our 
being, the ontological foundation of the context of our very selfhood 
revealed." And Jesus replied, "What?"


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REALITY CHECK: POST-BUSH SPEECHES RAISE CONSCIOUSNESS OF OLD ...

Life's Lessons Part X ...  A nuclear war can ruin your whole day.

			"If you have to hate, hate gently"

	**That upon which you dwell in the mind you become.**

**You CAN'T solve a problem with the SAME mind that created it** -- Einstein 

It is much easier to suggest solutions when you know nothing about the problem.

Gardens are the windows to the soul -- Lyn

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

*"Don't be mad at your government. They haven't done anything."*

"We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, 
I don't know."   --  W. H. Auden

** Are you doing what you are today because its what you WANT to do?  OR,
Are you doing it because it is what you were doing yesterday?

**Your thoughts determine your actions. Your actions determine your habits. 
Your habits determine your character. And your character gives birth to 
your destiny." -- Unknown

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us 
with sense, reason, & intellect has intended us to forgo their use.  
	-- Galileo Galilei

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"We did not weave the web of life.  We |        Lyn Dearborn
are merely a strand in it.  Whatever   | Master Gardener/Naturalist
we do to the web, we do to ourselves"  | Native Basketry Instruction
  --"Walk gently on Mother Earth" --   | Reiki Practitioner & Dowser
-- Aaniin Anishinaabeg -- Mikinaak --  |   dearborn@bengaltech.com
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	Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it & whispers, 
			"Grow, grow." 	-- The Talmud

		**Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy.

	It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

  Most people die with their music still inside of them.--Oliver W. Holmes
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