Q: I am certainly feeling the benefit from the
herbs, however I will take them some time before I will give you the full
report of the healing experience. What I would like to know please, is the
Maestro anti-inflammatory? I was told that I had inflammation on my shoulders
and my arms. As I have been on the Maestro for relatively short time, I was
wondering if the anti-inflamatory properties and purifying the blood is helping
this painful condition to subside. It certainly seems to me that this is the
case. Do these herbs encourage the
healthy bacteria to “grow “in the gut, or is it destroyed in the detox-process.
A: Maestro is most
definitely has anti-inflammatory properties. When the herbs
penetrate the outer layer of any toxic cells, toxins are released which can
make you feel bad. It is vital to manage this stage with
anti-inflammatory products, especially within the bloodstream.
The herbs do work to reduce ‘bad’ bacteria and
encourage healthy bacteria to flourish. This helps the ratio of good-to-bad
bacteria.
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We received this
feedback on Maestro from a Practitioner
Hi Graeme
I had to drop you a
quick note to let you know how much Maestro is changing my eating habits.
Really quite phenomenal changes.
I have always had a
sweet tooth, since a child, and although I have eaten pretty healthily in the
last few years, having to give up wheat, dairy and yeast because of food
intolerances, I have still quite frequently bought sweet treats that I am able
to eat, and quite frequently given in to the odd doughnut for sanity reasons!
Occasionally I would have a nibble at my husband's cake or giant biscuit just
savouring that small mouthful, knowing I wasn't really allowed it but again, not
wishing to deprive myself of the little bit of pleasure it brought.
However, now I find I
cannot stomach - literally, anything that isn't good for me since spending
about 5 months on Maestro. The change has been quite dramatic for me to
be honest and only in the last 2-3 weeks have I really noticed the
difference. I no longer look longingly at a doughnut or any sweet
pastries at all. I have tried in the last few weeks to have a nibble at
giant cookies that my husband enjoys and they just make my stomach churn now -
giant white chocolate cookies that I would have killed for in the past, I can't
bear to put near my lips now. So bizarre. This is the girl who grew
up on milky bars and condensed milk on toast! I recently treated myself to
a treacle sponge and felt sick just eating it and again, this was one of my
previous Saturday night staples.
I no longer need to
snack in between meals and only want to put the best food in my body. I
am now also able to tolerate small amounts of wheat only every now and then
although dairy now has the same reaction as the above so I don't feel as if I
will ever go back to cows milk again - no great loss as I enjoy soya
milk.
Hope you don't mind me
letting you know - it is such a profound change in my eating habits that I felt
compelled to share it with you. Long live Maestro!
Best wishes
Caroline C. , Hants
We
are covering some of the herbs contained in the Aboukhazaal recipes.
This
month is King Solomon’s Seal:
King
Solomon’s Seal, Polygonatum
commutatum:
King Solomon Seal
King
Solomon Seal
is one of the most sought after herbs. It is of such
widespread utility that it can help almost any one with muscular and skeletal
problems. A nutritive tonic, an aphrodisiac, a blood
purifier and an aid to restoring life to damaged organs in the body, it is considered
one of the most powerful anti-oxidants in the herbal kingdom. Used as a demulcent (forms
a soothing film on mucous membrane to relieve the irritation) and
expectorant (brings up mucus from lungs), King Solomon Seal works on all tissue
elements, but most notably the blood, bones, and the reproductive and digestive
systems.
King
Solomon's Seal has been used
for centuries to heal wounds, repair
damaged tissue and knit broken bones; relieve dry coughs and tuberculosis;
treat chronic dysentery, diarrhea and hemorrhoids. Italian
women of the seventeenth century used King Solomon's Seal as a beauty treatment
to improve their complexions and remove age spots and freckles.
King
Solomon's Seal
is commonly used for the reproductive system to promote fertility and as a
result was often included in love potions as an aphrodisiac - no wonder that
King Solomon put his "Seal of Approval' on such a wonderful herb!
Some believe the scars resemble the royal seal of
King Solomon, the tenth century B.C. king of Israel who was famed for his
wisdom, and was knowledgeable about medical herbs. Others hold that the name
comes from the use of the herb as a balm to seal or close up wounds. Yet
another theory describes how the six-petal flower resembles the Star of David,
which in early days was known as ‘Solomon's Seal’.