I'm talking about online censorship and sharing my family's experience with COVID, including the herbal remedies we used and why COVID and censorship are being discussed in one episode.
This is Pioneering Today Podcast episode #333. To listen to my other podcasts you can go here.
Disclaimer: It's important to note that I am not a certified medical practitioner. This post is not intended to diagnose or treat but is for informational purposes only. Please contact your medical care professional before introducing new herbal remedies into your wellness routine.
Online Censorship
In January of 2022, I posted to Instagram and Facebook content that I share every year around this time on how much to plant per person for a year's worth of food.
You can also get the downloadable chart and worksheet to figure out how many fruit and vegetable plants your family will need.
I share this information every single year, but this year I shared about my dad's upbringing during the Great Depression and how, if they didn't grow their own food and preserve it they would have gone hungry. But because of the skills his mom had, they never went hungry, and that's why these skills are so important, even today.
For some reason, Instagram decided to take down not only my post but also my IG Story where I shared the link to the blog post.
Now, I tend to be very careful when it comes to “trigger” words that social media would remove. But never would I have thought that homesteading and growing your own food would trigger my post to be taken down.
This brings me to my next point of why it's important to have access to information outside of social media and even blog posts where you can get teachings.
Covid Treatment Plan
Due to the censorship I've recently experienced, I just figure this is the tip of the iceberg of what's to come. I don't believe we should be censored, especially when it comes to alternative remedies for health and healing (most notably from the current viruses going around).
I did see early on, just after the initial onslaught of the COVID virus in the US that if you mentioned anything related to COVID in YouTube videos that those videos were getting flagged and taken down. They've let up on this since and you can now discuss COVID, but you do have to be very careful.
Even with this podcast, I have concerns about whether it's going to get flagged when I hit publish or share it to social media. But this will never stop me from sharing information that I've learned. We should all be able to hear information and then make decisions on where we stand on our own, never forced due to censorship.
The Divisiveness of COVID
Furthermore, one of the very sad realities of the past two years is that it's caused such division in our relationships to where someone apologized to me the other day when asking if I minded sharing whether or not my family and I have been vaccinated.
We shouldn't need to apologize about such things, we should be able to freely discuss these topics, even with differing views, and still be able to walk away from the conversation as friends.
It's always my goal to create a community where we can communicate, discuss, and either agree (or agree to disagree) in a civilized manner.
Our COVID Experience
Our family has decided not to get vaccinated due to the fact we are very healthy with no underlying health concerns.
We were exposed to a family (who had been vaccinated) and we ended up getting COVID from them. It started with my husband and trickled to the rest of us, save for one, from there.
We didn't quarantine in our own home from one another (for the love of course we didn't go out in public when we were sick). Out of four of us, only three ended up getting it.
For me, my initial symptoms felt like when I first start getting a migraine. I was weak, sensitive to light, and felt nauseous. About three hours later I got a fever, body aches, and chills.
I never did take our temperatures, but we weren't feeling so hot it concerned me. After the first 24 hours, it turned more to cold-like symptoms, but it never set into our chests or respiratory system other than a dry throat and cough.
I was very happy to say that I had all the remedies for our herbal virus protocol on hand so I went immediately into those remedies. I actually have this entire protocol available to the members of the Pioneering Today Academy. If you're not yet a member, I will be opening it up in March 2022 and you can get on the waitlist to join and have access to that masterclass.
Or you can purchase my course on Practical Home Herbalism for Cold and Flu Season.
Herbal Remedies
I need to say that I'm not a trained herbalist, but I have done extensive research before sharing all my information in my courses.
In our family, we turn to herbal remedies when it comes to fighting off viruses in our home as our first line of defense.
- The very first thing we make sure we're doing is supplementing vitamin d. Because of where we live we just can't get enough vitamin d from the sun throughout the winter, so this is our first line of defense from viruses.
- We took a combination of herbs as laid out in my antiviral protocol along with tinctures and elderberry syrup. Made sure to drink plenty of bone broth (another reason why having home canned bone broth is a lifesaver!).
- We had a nebulizer on hand and did some breathing treatments with that.
- Drank plenty of water.
- Got plenty of rest.
Beyond this my recommendation would be to look up the book Herbal Antivirals by Stephen Buhner, then be sure to go download his PDF on plant-based interventions for Coronavirus ASAP because we never know how long that protocol will be available online.
Now I can't say that because we used this protocol it lessened our symptoms. You simply can't compare your symptoms to those around you and know for sure what's working and what's not.
Viruses react differently in everyone's body, so I'm not going to make a sweeping statement that I know our case was lessened because of our herbal protocol.
However, in my personal opinion, based on how I felt from day to day, I do think our remedies helped shorten our symptoms (although I can't know for sure) and helped keep some of the other common symptoms bearable.
My Encouragement
The first day we were hit with COVID we felt so horrible that I wouldn't have had the energy to put together my herbal remedies and protocols, so I was so glad I had that done and written out (including dosing information for different members of our family) which made using the protocol so easy.
So my encouragement is to get your family prepared ahead of time because it can hit and come in without warning. You'll never regret having these herbal remedies and protocols on hand, so if you haven't already, go grab my class Practical Home Herbalism for Cold and Flu Season and get your natural medicine cabinet stocked and ready.
Verse of the Day: The entire book of Esther focuses on “for such a time as this”. I feel very passionate that I was not born in the wrong era, or the wrong location globally, but that God has placed me here to learn and teach about modern homesteading and pioneering ways of old “for such a time as this”.
Ponder the fact that God has placed each and every one of us in this exact time and place “for such a time as this”. What an encouraging thought!
Resources
Below you'll find all the links and resources mentioned in podcast episode #333.
- How much to plant per person for a year's worth of food.
- 17 Self-Sufficiency Tips from the Great Depression Era
- Pioneering Today Academy
- Practical Home Herbalism for Cold and Flu Season
- Butcher Box – get two pounds of FREE ground beef for life in every box with your first order!
Hey Pioneers. Welcome to episode number 333. On today's episode, we are going to be talking about a couple of things. First up is censorship and what happened to me twice now on Instagram, which will make sense and relate to sharing our experience and coming down with COVID and why I want to be talking about both of these things together in one episode. If you are on my email list or you got my weekly newsletter, then you probably read about this when it happened. In January, I posted a post in the feed on Instagram that I have posted every year for approximately the past three years since I wrote the article. And that is how much to plant per person if you are wanting to grow a year's worth of food.
As I said, this is content that it's timely, it's something that we're all garden planting in January. And for those who want to know how much to plant for a year's worth of food, it is an excellent resource. I have the article that has a bunch of information on it. And then you can also download free charts that are from my book, The Family Garden Plan. One is a worksheet. It walks you through how to know how much for your family because based upon your family and what you eat, the amounts are going to be different even if it's the same food. It might be green beans and we're a family of four. That's my family. You may be a family of four and wanting to grow green beans, but based upon how often you actually eat green beans, the amount of green beans that will feed your family for a year versus what will feed my family for a year are different. And when we're doing our calculations, it should be tailored exactly to our family and their needs.
So there's a worksheet that you get for free. It's in the Family Garden Plan, but I also give it away for free on my site. And then once you determine what that is, then I have a chart that you take that information, go and plug it into the chart and it tells you exactly for your family how many of each of the plants, both fruits and vegetables, you need to plant in order to have a year's worth of food of that specific item. As I shared, it's something I have shared on social media, Facebook and Instagram, for a number of years now. Well, in this particular sharing of it, I wrote about my dad and how he grew up during the Great Depression. If they hadn't have grown their own food and put it up, they would have went hungry because they didn't have the money or the funds to purchase outside food. But they never did go hungry because they knew how to grow and preserve their own food and put up food storage.
That is all that I wrote. Nothing in there about hoarding or, I don't know, whatever trigger words Instagram has, which is owned by Facebook and it's all owned by Meta I believe is what they're calling themselves now. Anyways, I have heard of people who have been censored or post removed or blocked. Honestly I thought, well, that was the post that they probably blocked you from. But if you look at what they were sharing in the past, that wasn't the reason. It was just kind of the straw that broke the camel's back, so to speak. Honestly, that's what I thought.
Now, right or wrong, that is what I thought and a lot of people that I have of acquaintances over the years of having been a blogger and having a website for over a decade, those are kind of people that I've come in contact with. And so I've seen some of their stories and I thought, yeah, but I've seen a lot of what you posted. It wasn't just this one post. Okay. I have tried very hard. You'll notice probably on this podcast. If you watch any of my YouTube videos, if you follow me on social media, etc, I try really hard to not go down any political route. Now, not that I am trying to hide anything, but I have found that I have friends, I have family, all of the things that all have different political views.
But we all want to provide the very best for our families and are using the means of modern home setting in order to do that. And so I don't really post anything on the political stuff unless that's like a direct ruling or a direct law or direct something like that that would have a direct effect on being able to homestead. Now, that's different drawing awareness to those type of things. But overall, political stuff, you just don't find it. It's just not something that I'm posting about or sharing about. So I share that because I've been very careful to also not post things about COVID specifically on my page because I know that that is a trigger for the algorithms.
But never in my life would I have thought that growing a year's worth of food for you and your family from your garden would be something that the algorithm or the tech that they would have set up and that they would completely remove, and that is a form of censorship. Right or wrong, that is what it is. What happened is normally at the time of this recording with the size of the people, amount of people that I have following me on Instagram, a typical post in the feed that is not a video that is just pictures will get on the low end 8,000 views. So that's on the low end within 24 hours of posting.
This post had been up for 24 hours and it had one comment on it and it had showed in the insights, so the analytics that you have access to if you have a creator account, business account, it showed that only 58, yes, 58 people of over 50, at that time, it was 56,000 people follow my Instagram account. Only 58 people had seen it. And I'm like, is this just where the insights aren't showing correctly? Because this is weird. I've never had this low ever before. Something is up. And this is normally a very popular post. So I shared the post to my stories, this is 24 hours later, and I said, "Hey, did you see this? Something feels kind weird, like it's not being shown. But I don't know if there's a glitch in the analytics, let me know if you saw this post or not in my feed." And I shared that to my stories.
Within 10 minutes of me sharing that in the story, I was getting massive amount of comments under the post like, "Hey, I didn't see this. I'm so glad that you shared this in your stories because this is info that I really need to have, like super excited." Like didn't see it before, like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Comment, comment, comment, comment, comment. Then within 30 minutes, all of a sudden I go back into my account in order to respond to the comments and questions that people had been leaving under this post, it's completely gone. Just completely deleted. I can't access it following from messages where people had messaged from the post because I can hit that and it'll take me directly to it. It's not showing up under my feed and they deleted the story.
So not only did they delete the post and not show it in the first place. And then when people started to engage with it, they completely deleted it. And they deleted my stories as well. I mean, completely gone, no record. It's not just shadow band, not showing it to people, they completely removed it. That's not a glitch, not a glitch. I was just floored. I'm like, there's nothing in this that has anything to do with any of the normal topics that you would expect. Like if I had posted COVID or something like that that this should be removed from. I was literally, my jaw dropped open. I was stunned. What in the world? So I shared about that because I'm like, "Honestly, I sadly have seen some of these things happen to other people and thought it's not going to happen to me." I think that's probably a pretty normal thing a lot of us think, but it did. It happened to me.
So I posted again and I reused my wording because I really wanted to test it. So I posted the post again, did different wording, didn't mention anything about going hungry or the Great Depression or any of those words that I had used in the previous post, even though there's nothing wrong with any of those words, made sure I was really careful in my wording. That post was one of my most viewed posts ever and was posted 24 hours apart. Going to the same link on my website, all the same things, same photos, just slightly different wording. So there is something, I don't know if it's just the way they have their algorithm and it's a tech, if it's a real person, a combination, I don't know, but there are certain words that are being used and gardening for goodness sakes should not be one of them. They are removing information.
I was surprised, I'm no longer surprised. And then four days later, I did a post on growing your own herbs, herbal medicine. Again, nothing about virus, COVID, pandemic, like none of those things, nothing. Exact same scenario. Only showed it to like 48 people. And then when people did try to comment underneath, post got removed. It hasn't happened since then, but it did happen twice, two different subjects. One was herbal medicine and the other was on growing a year's worth of food in your own vegetable garden in your backyard. How much should you plant per person?
Why do I share that with you? One, because I think it's very important as homesteaders if you're listening to this, you have some bent of self sufficiency in mind and it is happening and it's happening to accounts that have nothing to do with posting taboo or misinformation, regardless if the accounts that are being accused of that are doing that or not. I have not with my account. I have "played by their rules". I know now that if there are certain people and information that I have relied on social media to follow them or to find information, et cetera, on that, that I need to make sure that I have hard copy books or I have my own material that I have downloaded, printed out, that I have went through courses, amassed the knowledge for myself by going through said courses, and that I am not relying on any form of social media to get my info.
Now, am I still using those forms of social media? Yes, I am still using them because I am still able to post some things. I have relationships with many of you who follow me there. I'm able to communicate with you. Same thing with YouTube. Like are these all social media things owned by big companies who, I don't know, don't necessarily have the public's interest at heart or maybe they think they do. But removing these types of things, clearly in my mind if you're removing a gardening post, I don't really think that you have the public's best interest at heart. And that makes me mad because I feel like I, obviously am an adult. I'm assuming you are too. If you are a kid listening to this podcast, dude, high five, but I'm an adult.
I have enough common sense, hallelujah, that I can listen to information and I can make my own judgment call on what I think is right and correct. I do my own research and I am smart enough, And so are you, to do our own research and be able to discern from research and looking at studies what that actually means. We do not need... Sorry, I'm just going to go on a soapbox. We do not need somebody to censor information for us. We are much more intelligent than they want to give us credit for. And so, I am bothered by the fact that my content is being censored and it's literally on how to grow your own food, gardening content. And then it was a herb, like the five best herbs to get started with growing in a backyard garden setting that had nothing to do with any of the trigger words or talking about any of that.
Now, that being said, I know many of you since then went and downloaded those charts, have got the book and are on my email newsletter list because I actually own my email newsletter list. That's something that I own, I can have backup copies of and I can communicate with you even if they try to take things off of airwaves and social media, et cetera. Speaking of podcast, then about two weeks after that happened, maybe even a week, our family came down with COVID. We just were recovering, which is why there was not a podcast episode last week. I actually just did not fill up. I didn't have one that had been prerecorded and I just was not up to getting an episode out and up.
However, we are on the ment. And so I'm going to share some of that because I know people are very, very curious. People asked about our treatment plan and I want to get to that, and it does tie into my story of the censorship and making sure that you have access to information or acquiring this. And I am not like a doomsday person, I don't want to say like while you still can, but just being prudent, being prudent. This is another... You guys are like, wow, let me know how you really feel. This is a conversation that we just had if you are a Pioneering Today Academy Member, and we had one of our live chats. We have a couple a month. Yesterday we had one of our live chats and this was one of the topics that we got going on. And that is the sad inability, because somebody asked me, they said, "Can we ask you if you're vaccinated or not?" And I'm like, "How sad is it that we live in a society right now where we are worried about asking somebody a question like that?"
Now, one, is it my private health information? Yeah, it is. But we are so divided as a society right now that we've lost the ability to be able to have conversations around topics where we may disagree. We should be able to talk about things that we have differing views on and not get angry and not even try to change the other person's mind just to be able to discuss it, and then still walk away and we can still be friends and we can still have our differing points of view. I think it is so sad that we live in a time where we have media and companies and people who if you don't think exactly like them, then they want to remove that completely from the picture. I don't want to live in a society like that. I don't want to live in a place where we can't have differing of opinions and still be adult enough and humane enough and kind enough to be able to have conversations that we do disagree with one another on and still be friends.
It is completely possible. I have family members, I have close friends, et cetera, and we have different views when it comes to vaccination status. And guess what? They're still my family and some of them are still my best friends. That is the way it should be. This division is ridiculous. That being said, because some of you are going to hear what I have to say and it's going to be the opposite for you, but regardless, we should be able to talk about this and that is what I want to create a community of.
So, we came down with COVID. We are not vaccinated. We chose for our family that that was not the best decision based upon prior existing conditions and just other things. I feel like I probably shouldn't even have to explain that, but I'm going to. I'm going to preface it with that. We know that there were people who are vaccinated that still got COVID and we were exposed to them and that is how we got it. We can actually trace that back and we know that.
However, that doesn't mean that they were wrong because they got vaccinated and still got COVID and transferred it to us. It doesn't mean we're right, or vice versa. It's just simply facts. It's just data. Regardless, we still got COVID and so did they. We actually didn't know if we had COVID. We suspected because we knew that the family member that came down with it first had been exposed to people who did test positive for COVID and had been sick, that there had been a transposition. I'm making up words. There had been a period where that had transferred over is what I was trying to say, a timeline.
Came down with it first was fever, chills, and body aches, just like you would experience with flus that we've had in the past. Two days later, I came down with it. One day later, one of my children came down with it. Four people in our household, and there was no... I didn't quarantine in my own home. Like wash your hands, kind of common sense when anybody's sick. We do that anyways. Practice good hygiene. But I still was providing meals. We were still cooking. We live in a family. We're taking care of one another. It is what it is. The other fourth person in our family never did get it, ever, and they were fully exposed all the time. Just data. Again, just data.
For me, it started with a really, really bad headache. In fact, I thought... I don't get migraines very often. I've had a migraine probably three times in my life. Usually I can track it and it has to do with hormones. But I thought maybe I'm coming down with a migraine because it was that level of a headache where I actually was so nauseous and my head hurt so bad. I could wouldn't walk. I walked into the kitchen for my recliner, which is literally like maybe three feet. Actually had to sit down on the floor. Couldn't stand up. And I'm like, I think I'm going to throw up, and it was just from the pain in my head. Was able to go to sleep, go to bed, and I took a nap for two and a half hours. When I woke up, I still had a headache, was nowhere near as bad.
Now, at that point I didn't have a fever yet. I didn't have chills and I thought, did I just, because that's kind of been what... The few times I have had a migraine, that's been exactly what has happened. It's hurt really bad. If I can just go where it's dark and go to sleep and sleep for about two hours, I'll wake up. The worst part will be over. The light sensitivity will be gone, the nauseous will be gone, and then I'm just kind of weak for a day. And then I'm good to go. So I thought maybe I'm just getting a migraine. Maybe that's what happened.
Well, it took about three hours later and then the fever hit in and the chills. That was my symptoms for the first 24 hours. The second day, I had on and off mild fever. I didn't even take my temperature. Thought later, I'm like, "Oh, I could have checked our temperature." But it was just kind of on and off. Really tired, no more headache, hallelujah. Just a little bit achy but not really, really bad body aches. A lot of people have told me like worse body aches ever. We didn't experience that. And then by day three, actually some mild... That was when I felt like I had more cold symptoms, as in, was coughing, not really congestion but more just like a coughing spasm, but not trouble breathing.
And then after that, have just been tired like when you have had a cold. Have just been tired and a very dry cough. Not a sore throat but a very, very dry throat. Like no matter how much water I drink or teas, especially using things like marshmallow, which are very... Marshmallow is great because especially for a dry sore throat or dry cough. If you've ever have a marshmallow flower and you open it up, it's kind of like aloe vera inside, and then you use a marshmallow root or at least that's what I have, but it has the same effect. It's very emulsifying. And so it's great to use in those instances. So even with that and drinking that, still just felt like I could never get enough water, which is interesting.
Now, right now at the time of this recording, it's been two weeks after the fact. Just the past couple of days, I actually have felt normal as far as ability to concentrate. I found that very interesting. I've heard other people talk about it and both two family members of the three of us that had it have experienced that same thing. This is the only way I know how to describe it. So gentlemen if you're listening or you're a lady and you've not been pregnant, bear with me, it's like having pregnancy brain, almost when you're pregnant and you're just super, super tired. And pregnancy brain is a real thing. It's like you just lose your train of thought and you have a hard time focusing at times.
That's only way I really know how to liken it is to how I felt, like I would sit down and physically I was okay. Like I was getting in like 14,000 steps, was walking three, four miles a day still. Not pushing myself, like not running, just walking, which is pretty normal for me. I just went back to my normal activity load but haven't been doing any weight lifting. I still haven't tried to do any weight lifting or any heavy workouts yet, but just movement, and that was all fine. And if I start to feel tired, there was a couple days like I'd start to go for a walk and I'd get like a mile in and I'm like, "No, I'm kind of feeling tired," and I just turn around and walk home. Not a big deal.
But the mental fatigue, that's the only way I know how to say it, was a very, very real thing. Had a hard time focusing mentally on anything that wasn't just like doing a laundry's fine. But I actually have a book project. I have some big projects that I'm working on and I would sit down and I just could not get my brain to focus and actually produce the work. That, hallelujah, has started to abate.
Why do I share all of that with you? Because I think, one, it's just important to hear different people's experiences, but I also had people that wanted to know, well, how did you treat and what was your protocol? So sharing this is one of the things that if any of you... I'm sure you've seen in the news. I don't know how any of us have missed it if you're on any type of social media. Not even that, I think with the regular news although I don't watch much of the regular news to be honest. Joe Rogan is a podcaster, very large podcaster. He has done some episodes with some different doctors and stuff on COVID and different things to do with COVID. There's this huge thing where there's this push to cancel him. You've got different people who are accusing him of doing misinformation on his podcast and it's just this whole big thing.
I've actually listened to the podcast. I found it very interesting. I think it's always important to listen and look at all of the information and then make a decision. I listened to it. I found it very interesting. I'm wondering if the people who are up in arms have actually listened to the episode. Anyways, I'm not making this an episode about that episode. But the reason I'm saying that is because I'm able to share inside my membership, the Pioneering Today Academy, courses kind of behind closed doors, so to speak. There, I can really speak freely and share a lot of the things where unfortunately we're in a society today where we're not really able to do that.
And so I am going to share some of the stuff with you because I think it's important, but I can't go as in depth and as in detail as I do inside of my courses in the membership and inside our Practical Home Herbalism course for cold and flu, I actually have a COVID protocol, which is the protocol that we did follow. We already had on hand. I'm going to share some of that with you. And if you're in Pioneering Today Academy Member, then you have access to that as well, although that is a course that I do sell independently and it's just one of the things that we go over in that. But that is why sadly I think a lot of information, that's going to be the route that we have to go.
I don't know if I should say sadly, but I know a lot of other content creators, I don't know, that seems like a weird word to use phrase, but it is what it is, are having to go that route. They're having to pick different avenues in order to actually share things. I hope that we see a swing back the other way, but I'm going to share some of the protocol that we did and all scientifically based. There's a lot of things these days that say look at science and these are studies. When I chose the protocol that we were doing, that there were studies on it and on the methods that we were using that have been around for a very long time. Now, COVID has not been around for a very long time, but we've had SARS viruses, we've had different viruses.
And so looking at actual herbs and different protocols that have scientific backed studies. Also long history and periods of use before using them. That's very important to me, that's how I practice. I'm not a certified herbalist, by the way, or a medical professional in any way, shape or form, but that is how I do my research before I use things for my family. I research it super, super heavy, and there's a lot of different mechanisms that I need to look at before it's something that I use for myself and my family and before I would share it with any of you.
That being said, the first protocol that we did is having specific antiviral herbs on hand and understanding the dosing. So with a lot of your antiviral herbs that actually have scientific data that they have antiviral properties against influenza, against SARS, against specific viruses is where I'm going with this, they need to be taken at the first sign of you coming down with something before the virus actually fully enters into the cells and begins replicating.
A lot of the herbs and some of the natural remedies, if they're not taken soon enough and at high enough doses, this is something I see repetitively with people who are just getting into using herbs and think that they don't work or don't see a lot of benefit or have used them and don't think that they really work is they're not taking them at the right timing, specifically when we're talking about viruses, cold and flus, and they're not taking high enough doses often enough. They want to treat it like modern medicine where you would take one pill every six hours or every 12 hours or whatever it would be. That's not the way that herbs work.
So, as soon as anybody started to come down with symptoms, and I mean just like thought that they were starting to come down with symptoms, we started the antiviral protocol. Now, we already follow a protocol of making sure... We live far enough north that almost everybody north of a certain hemisphere line does not get enough vitamin D naturally. So we already supplement with vitamin D to make sure our vitamin D levels are up; and good nutrition, good health, et cetera. So that is like number one thing. I feel like it should go without saying, but I said it. So we already were doing that.
And then we were following specific antivirals, and there's a lot of them. So within your antivirals, there's antivirals, there's also immune boosting and some of them go together or support other parts of the body that are affected usually with the virus, especially if it was a suspected SARS virus or COVID-19 virus, but they're synergist herbs. So when you have a formula of them together, they work better than if you're taking them independently. And then there's some herbs that actually shouldn't be taken by themselves, they should only be taken with other herbs. Also mushrooms, there's a lot of mushrooms that have a lot of great data that are really good at not only helping support the body, so like adaptogen type ones are helping the body adapt to stress because when you are that sick, there's definitely a stress level, but also have antiviral properties to them. So a combination of those that we did.
Some of the big ones I would say to look at, and this is where if you are a member of the academy or you own my Practical Home Herbalism for cold and flu course, there's a whole lesson in there. But I will tell you this within this episode is look up information by herbalist Stephen Buhner I believe is how you pronounce his last name. Now, we'll have in the show notes the blog post that accompanies this episode, which will be at melissaknorris.com/333. This is episode 333. So just the number 333. Melissaknorris.com/333. We'll have links to these, but specifically the book Herbal Antivirals by Stephen Buhner or Buhner, it's B-U-H-N-E-R, is a great place to start. And then he has a report that he has done on SARS and COVID. I will link to that. I don't know if it's... I'm hoping at the time that this goes live, that it is still up.
That is one of the things I told everybody when we release the lesson inside is to go and download this because I don't know how long it will stay up. That's one of the dangers. But download it and then you'll have the information. And so he goes into depth. And so you can access that and go through it. I took the highlights for members and went over that as well as everywhere that I was able to purchase and order the different formulas because it can even that. With the censorship and just all the stuff, it can be even really hard to find places because certain words are now excluded from search engines or they don't want to show results, etc. It can be even hard to find some of the formulations and the herbs.
But we had specific tinctures that were formulations that we were taking along with elderberry syrup, much more frequently. So every hour, about waking hour, we were taking elderberry syrup along with these other herbs that we were using in the antiviral formulations. And then lots of bone broth. Thankfully I had started making bone broth a couple of days before we got sick. So I had two batches of bone broth on hand. No appetite, by the way. I think we went almost like two or three days with like barely eating anything, just was not hungry. But would sip on a lot of bone broth, which was really great. I almost felt like I craved it. I just wanted to sip on some hot bone broth. That was another thing that we implemented along with water.
And then had a nebulizer on hand and specific essential oils, L-glutathione, which is all protocol that you can find in that report if it's still up that we will link to on Stephen Buhner and some different things that we did for breathing treatments with the nebulizer. This is one of the things that did we have lesser symptoms based upon talking to people who live in our area who came down with illnesses very close to the same time as us? So assuming, based upon different test results, that we had the same thing, they had certain symptoms that were much more severe than ours, but they didn't have the herbal protocol.
But again, that's not like a true clinical study obviously because really the only way to do that was you can't replicate us coming down with the same virus and treating once with all of the protocol and then going through it again without any of the protocol. I mean, that would be a true side by side study to know did it make a difference or not. You can't do that because that's not the way the body works. So I can't say that because we used this protocol, that it lessen severity of symptoms, not in a clinical sense. I firmly believe that it did. I have to say that with the cough spasming that we experienced, that the nebulizer treatment, that felt like it really, really helped, especially with that dry cough spasming.
And so I was very, very grateful that we had those items on hand and all of the things that we put in there. Of course, I feel like this goes without saying, but you have to do your own research. I would point you in the direction that we went to and that we used for exact step by step and that type of stuff where I go more into detail. If you're a member of the academy, we will be opening again for new members in March. So that's coming up soon. Or if you own my herbal course, there's a newer lesson in there. I released it I think it was the end of December where I wanted to make sure that we had all of those items on hand and to share that info so other people could get prepared and know what to have on hand and what to do because you know this to be true.
If you wait until you're actually sick and you don't have the stuff on hand, you're not going to be able to go out and get it, and you're going to be too... The first day we were so sick, like it was all I could do to just... I already had outlined and printed out this is the stuff and this is the amounts and the times that we're going to take this. I already knew if it was items that had any contraindications for our specific family or not, so who could take what based upon health conditions, safety, duration, dosing. All of that I had already done and that's inside the herbal course. I know I keep saying that, but that's my main focus and that work's already been done.
But if that work had not been done and then we came down with it and I was trying to figure all of that out while being sick, it just wouldn't have happened and we wouldn't even been able to get some of the supplies that quickly, which you know I have the episode, we'll link to that in the show notes and the blog post, where I go over like what if you couldn't get your medicine. We're already taking steps this year to make sure that we are growing more of our own medicine, or at least as many of the plants as we'll grow in our climate as possible just so that we are prepared for whenever we may need it.
I share that with you just because that's kind of what's been going on in our world, what I've been seeing. A lot of you were curious, because I had mentioned a couple of places like in some Instagram stories and some comments and stuff that we did have COVID. And so a lot of you were actually asking what it was like, what happened, how our experience was with it and what we were doing treatment wise. And so I just kind of wanted to spell it all out for you and let you know what I was witnessing as a share of information and really what I was seeing happen within that landscape of what was being polled or not polled or what can we freely share without some type of repercussion and what that looks like and what our options are.
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But ground beef is one of our most used because I can turn it into so many different things when it comes to cooking. So, go ahead and take advantage of that, butcherbox.com/pioneeringtoday. I want to thank you so much for joining me today. I don't have... Well, I kind of have a specific verse in mind, but it's one I actually have been, I just keep coming back to. I didn't share any of the things. Sometimes it's very interesting when you receive feedback from people because we have a lot of people listen to the Pioneering Today podcast and I am extremely grateful for all of you who listen and who share the episodes and the podcast with other people and their website and all of those things. And then when you share your feedback with me, I really am grateful for that.
But every now and then you'll get a comment and not often, but every now and then I'll get a comment or feedback about fear mongering. Because you talk about being prepared, one, I don't think that that is fear mongering. That's just simply been the way I was raised and we have always lived. Now, maybe it's because I was raised by my dad, was a small child during the Great Depression, but he went through a time period where if you weren't prepared, he would've went hungry. That shapes a person. And so I probably closer to that than most in my generations because my dad is 20 years older than my mom. And so most of the people that I grew up with or who are my age, their dad wasn't the age of my dad. So I almost was like being raised by a prior generation.
And so I have just always lived my life from that lens that was passed down from him. So I don't look at being prepared as fear mongering. I look at it as like peace of mind, like I have so much more peace and it has served us so well. And so, I don't do it from a place of anxiety or stress or a place of fear. And so whenever I get those comments, I'm always like, "Hmm, I find it interesting that that's the perspective that you got from the sharing of this information." And in a way, I'm sorry that that's the perspective you got, not because I feel like I shared or did anything wrong, just that I am so sorry that that's the way that you view life and that you view this information because that's not the intent or the reason that I'm sharing it.
But I also believe in wanting to know what's really going on. I don't want it sugar coated or hid from me, I just want to know the truth. That being said, I share all that with you because I don't know what's going to happen in the future. I think that's kind of the point. None of us know. I don't want to live my life in fear or try to escape society as a whole, like go live off grid in a bunker. That's never been my message and that's not my intent. I think that we need community more and more actually, small homestead communities but even the homestead community at large because that is facilitating these smaller homestead communities within our geographical range. Even online communities that we're forming, like if you're a PTA member, we have our amazing community even though we don't all live in proximity to one another.
I feel that talking about this is only going to help that and we need more and more of that. And so I hope that nothing I share creates anxiety or stress. I hope that the future, that we move forward in a way with enough voices rose that we don't have to worry about censorship or any of those things. But I feel like I'm pragmatic enough that that might not be the case. And so in case it's not, I do want to be prepared, which is why I'm sharing all of this with you because having experienced all of that, I am continually looking at are there places that I want to get information from that I don't have a resource on hand? So like is there somebody I felt that they have a book out that I should purchase their book because I might not be able to access the info on their website for whatever reason.
Again, this is not fear like, oh, go purchase every book under the sun. We have to work within a budget and space and all those things. But it is making me look at my resources and being like, "Ooh, am I relaying a little bit too much on digital, and is it even printing things out?" Making sure they're printed out beforehand. For example, like when I did get sick, the last thing in the world I wanted to do was go sit at the computer and find a file and print it out. I had it printed out and I had it sitting with our nebulizer and the supplies that we used for the nebulizer all ready to go in one spot. So even things like that, are there things that I just need to have these resources better organized and more at my fingertips and not relying on so much of the digital aspect, I guess, is kind of where I'm going with that.
So anyways, thank you for what ended up being actually a much longer podcast episode than I had intended. We will be back. I've got some great, exciting, different interviews and topics to talk with you guys that I can't wait for upcoming episodes, but wanted to let you know why we missed a week and that we are all fine, and just share what was really going on. And so the verse of the week that I am very long-winded at getting to has been from the book of Esther and the whole story of Esther. If you've not read that, go through and read that story. And it is, for such a time as this.
I feel like an old soul and I'm sure you do too. That's one thing that many of us who are into home setting and this, and Laura Ingalls Wilder was like, I was born a century too late. Like you feel that because you resonate so deeply with growing your own food and sourdough and sewing and livestock and all the things that we kind of modern society associates with older generations, but we were not born too late. We were not born a century too late because God knew exactly what was going to be happening right now. He knows what's happening in the future. We don't. And he put us exactly in the time that we needed to be in, you and I. And so you were born; I was born, you were born for such a time as this. So, I'm going to leave you with that thought my friend. Blessings and Mason jars for now.
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Thank you, Melissa. The more people that are brave enough to talk about this publicly the better.
Thank you for the post. I am a natural herbalist and have been for years. I use “recipes” passed down from my paternal grandmother. I also take supplements for things that I haven’t been able to see results for with herbal medicine. Herbal remedies can be traced backed thousands of years and for the most part, are very effective. The censorship comes in when folks start recommending livestock parasitic medications. The one that has received the most promotion is excellent for removing lice from a kid’s hair but not good for oral ingestion. I would love to see more people use natural medication. If you are out in the woods and get a bad cut, find a plantain plant, pull off some big leaves, and hold to the site, blood clots within seconds. This is good to know. I am glad that the CV didn’t hit your family hard. It helps that y’all are young and healthy overall. When I had it I just wanted to go lay down in the street and let a truck run over me BUT that would have required getting out of bed. I love your newsletters and blog. Thank you for sharing.
Just one comment – your family member that didn’t show symptoms of Covid still may have antibodies. I had no symptoms (never missed exercise class, church, etc.) , no one in my house was ill, but I donate blood every 8 weeks, and (you guessed it!) I was notified I have the antibodies. I thought it was a false positive, but it continued to show up every eight weeks until Red Cross stopped reporting these results. LOVE your site, posts, etc – even though I still really do not like listening to audio (blog) posts. God Bless, Dreama
That is interesting and if we need to test that person I’ll be very curious to see if they do!
Thanks so much for this Melissa. Its so nice to have an actual action plan to support the body during a viral illness. It’s inspiring to see your perseverance and commitment to helping others have this natural way of health in the face of harassment and censorship. John 15:18, those persecuting us are only given us the grace of being more like Jesus. You are helping my family and I life the lifestyle we choose to when we were not brought up in it and trustful information is hard to find. Thanks for being someone we can trust.
Thank you so much for revealing this issue! So many don’t think this exists….
And thank you for all your wonderful common sense and testimony….
Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and experiences! You are a light in this increasingly dark world, and I feel so strongly that you are fulfilling God’s purpose for you in this life by providing us with all this wonderful information. I can’t say thank you enough! God bless you and your wonderful family.
Thank you Melissa for taking the risk and being honest. We basically had the same thing happen to my family. It slowly went through my kids and grandkids and lastly me. I had a mild headache the first day, then body aches for two days along with fatigue. The fatigue lasted a few days more and then I was back to normal. Basically little more than a cold/mild flu. Now we have natural immunity, which many doctors believe may last a very long time. Congrats on your immunity and writing an update on how your family did. We also used the nebulizer, took extra Vit C and D and other natural remed.
Thumbs up Girl!
It is sad that folks find it hard to have conversations and to respect each other’s reference points and frames of reference. All too quickly we forget the uniqueness we all have.
It is those open discussions we learn and broaden our horizons and those who participate.
Keep the spirit. You have more support than you realize.
Hopefully, those fighting for greed through ill-got power will one day come to realize the greater potential on the other side of the fence.
Job well done.
Brian
Thank you for the scriptural reminder. Very encouraging.
Glad you guys are feeling better! My husband and I are in the same boat as far as getting the Jab. I was working for a large Hospital organization when the virus first hit and testing was really ramped up. I observe that Physicians rendered extreme amount of pressure to conform to certain protocols. We had one physician until one of our patients that 75% of the positive test were false positive. That left me really really leery of the “assumed infected” numbers. In the summer of 2020 my brother-in-law passed away from Lewy Body Disease a chronic illness. The new hospital physician told his wife he was going to label it as dying from the virus instead of what he really had. We’re all pretty shocked. Then I was talking to another of our patients who said they were encouraged to get a test because Clinic told her” it’s good for our numbers”. As I sat back and watch some of this rollout I just really shook my head. I did get my pneumonia vaccine based on what my doctor told me so I’m not anti vaccinations. I think it is really good to have all these kinds of things on hand. My husband went out of town for several days and I came down with the worst sore throat of my life. Went to my doctor a couple days later because I thought I had strep. No strep, did the other test no C. Then she mentioned oh you have a double ear infection! Started on antibiotics for that since I didn’t want to mess around. The good thing was I have awesome cough lozenges, Elderberry syrup, homeopathic remedies Etc. I definitely would not have wanted to be running around town buying something while I was sick. And we always take lots of vitamin D3! Thanks for all your info!
Where is the unsubscribe button? So, so tired of all of this. So discouraged that so many in the Christian community are eager to lap up every bit of antivax misinformation and take on an anti-science point of view. I’m done.
Are you talking about following the actual science or the Political Science of the Government, Fauci, the CDC, the NIH, or the actual scientists, virologists, immunologists, etc. who disagree with the Lockdowns and the Mask submission and FEAR Mongering going on that makes us more agreeable to giving up our Constitutional Rights and passing Trillion dollar bills in the name of the virus, while not actually being used for the virus? That science. I have a science background and that is not science. Please find that unsubscribe button. I am sure you are filled with disinformation most of us wouldn’t want to hear. Thank you.
I follow them all and collect information. Science is Science. Masks do prevent the spread and when the scientists were still learning about the new virus lockdowns were needed. The free PDF that Melissa refers to is a wealth of great information, Science-based info. I wish that everyone would do their part so that this virus goes away and I am tired of being locked down on my property where I can control what happens. I have an elderly father that I care for & a hubby with leukemia. The anti’s talk about “constitutional rights” the rest of us have those same rights and that includes the right to not be made ill by others when you go to the grocery store. I have yet to hear a Scientist state that masks and lockdowns did not stop the spread. Please don’t bully others because they opt to wear a mask, wash their hands, and pay attention to the Science where ever it comes from. I have a strong medical background, Science based.
“Anti’s”??! How ridiculous! Do you call anyone who doesnt get the flu shot and “anti”? Stop this nonsense! And you have the right to hide in your house forever! You dont have the right to stop people from free movement and assembly! You can also catch and spread it with or without any jab! The study from John Hopkins University that was just released shows that lockdowns do NOTHING good and actually caused more harm and that only N95 masks do anything at all! Still doesnt stop anything 100%. The meta analysis study is called ” a literature review and meta analysis of the effects of lockdowns on covid 19 mortality”. Keep your fear to yourself and educated yourself! Turn off the TV and look up
I’m sorry, but you have entirely misunderstood or refused to listen to the folks not getting the vaccine. The majority of us are NOT antivax–we are just refusing to get this particular injection (it is NOT a vaccine–a vaccine protects one from getting a disease, which the “jab” does not). Start doing your own research to find out why it is perfectly reasonable for people who usually listen to their doctors and usually get vaccinated, are suddenly “rebellious.” We simply want the research done on the consequences of getting this injection–which no one has done. Go to the VAERS site to see how many people have died within a week of the jab; how many athletes have had to quit their competition from sudden onset of illnesses. Enough said. Do your research before you complain. I thought Melissa’s blog was right on target. She was punished for having an opinion and now you also want to punish her for just stating facts about what happened to her for stating it.
Well said. I’ve finally told some members of my family that this is not a subject we’re discussing because of the absolute insanity of their listening only to whatever the main media says and demanding that we ‘comply’. My husband spent his career managing a hospital laboratory and gets updates daily from the CDC and other regulatory organizations. He has seen that the information just doesn’t line up with the science and the numbers going on.
The vaccine keeps one alive especially the elderly and those with comorbidities. It also prevents the SPREAD to the same groups. As a “community” we are supposed to take care of each other and that includes vaccinations. As I have come to learn, this is no longer the mindset, it is every person for themselves and this deeply saddens me. The folks that have been dying for the past 6+ months are those who are not vaccinated. I am retired from the medical field and in the early days of this virulent, relentless virus I sat in the ICU and held a tablet up to the medical coma on a vent patient so that their loved ones could say goodbye. I held their hand until they passed. Due to my comorbidities, I was in a full respirator contraption and I did this at 2 local hospitals. Our hospitals are once again at capacity and there is one big change. This act of compassion is no longer being done because the patient made a life or death decision by not getting vaccinated.
That must have been extremely hard Michelle. But I am seeing (and how we got it) the spread of the virus from people who are fully vaccinated, and they’re getting it as well, it’s my thought because just like influenza (which we’ve never been able to get rid of) it mutates so fast with new variants that we can’t keep up with the mutations. I hope we see new focus on ways to lesson the duration and severity with different options rather than trying to rely on one thing, namely the vaccine, that based on personal experience, hasn’t stopped the spread or stopped people I personally know from getting it.
My area is in the same shape. It’s terrible here right now. I’ve lost 6 friends and family members from this virus. I almost died from it when it first started spreading. I still suffer from side-effects. It’ll be 2 yrs in April, so this is not something to just brush off. I’ll never forget the fear in my child’s eyes and him shaking me to make sure I was alivebecause he thought I was dead.
I’m tired of the conspiracy info being put out about deaths being labeled wrong to increase Covid numbers, all the supposed deaths caused by the vaccine, doctors recommending tests just to help their numbers. Seems weird that all the nurses and drs I’ve had contact with have all stated the virus is serious and the numbers are probably higher than people realize. All the conspiracy comments are all the same no matter who is saying it.
Please see the site c19vaxreactions.com. Many testimonials from people injured by the vax and also Drs experiences with their patients.
The vaccine keeps you from dying if you get CoVid19 or the Delta variant. Omicron has not been proven to kill but we do have the other two viruses in circulation. My county has almost 2000 people a week dying from CoVid. ALL refused vaccination. Read the PDF that is referred to in the blog post and the breakdown CoVid/Delta can cause to the body. It paints a horrible picture. Side effects of the vaccine, you might feel bad for a day or two.
my niece nearly died from the 1st shot of moderna. she cannot take the 2nd or any flu shots ever. now highly allergic to poly sorbitol and polyethylene glycol and her dr. gave her a 65 pg list of things it is in,that she has to stay away from. her friends sister had the same reaction, but took the 2nd shoot anyway and died. the monoclonal antibodies have been discontinued.
Any other illness/disease/virus infection gets early treatment, especially with breathing problems, except Covid 19.
Why are the powers that be demanding early and effective treatment to be withheld in c19 cases?? Treatments that can prevent it from getting worse, from being hospitalized and even death? Huge red flags right that every person should be paying attention to, and really scary when people choose to ignore it.
That makes zero sense except for one reason – to try and force people into taking ineffective shots.
Now the powers that be can no longer hide that the vax and boosters are not effective, as the number of “fully vaccinated” are hospitalized and found to be just as contagious as everyone else.
It’s not anti-vax, it’s living with eyes wide open and seeing the truth that is happening.
Monoclonal antibody therapy.
Dianne, did you even read the post or listen to the podcast? Please cite exactly what is misinformation in my podcast/blog post and never once did I say not to get vaccinated. Clearly, you missed the point where I said let’s come together and LISTEN to one another, treat each other as humans instead of slapping a label on something, instead of being divided. As for anti-vax, nowhere did I say not to get the vaccine, and my family and I are vaccinated by other vaccines that have long term studies of efficacy and safety (this one does not, it can’t because it hasn’t been out long enough and they haven’t released all the studies to the public yet). I’m deeply saddened that after all I wrote and shared, that was what you took away and choose to respond to, but notice I did not censor you or remove/block you.
I’m with you. There should be an unsubscribe link in the email. I have enjoyed the shared info but I did not sign-up for the same old denier bs*** that is still killing people in droves. I’m out.
There’s an unsubscribe link at the bottom of EVERY email I send, it’s even in blue so you know it’s a link, maybe reread it as I assure you it’s there.
Dont ever be afraid to speak the truth fellow gardener. We all need to push back against this tyrannical government /pharmaceutical /socialist agenda. Evil forces are at work here and God is on our side!
While listening to your #333 podcast, my phone would turn off and screen went blank at LEAST 25 times. I would have to reopen my phone hit the stop button on the podcast screen and then the play button each time. Censorship, maybe, ice storm results, maybe. But it hasn’t happened while I’m typing this and I am going to keep this site on a bit longer to see what happens!
After about 10 min. it did not happen again.🤷♀️
That is strange!
That happened to me as well when I was watching the podcast about cooking on a wood stove. It never happened in the past.
Thank you for the truth in your post. I agree wholeheartedly. I have an autoimmune disease and am immunocompromised due to meds I’m on. I was at my doctor appointment a few months ago, when my doctor asked me, “This isn’t a personal or a political question, but a medical question. Have you been vaccinated?” I thought it was so so sad he felt he needed to preface the question with that statement. I feel we are allowing the enemy to use this virus as a way to divide us. Let’s not look down on others because they have a differing opinion, but let’s encourage and love one another.
Thank you so much for sharing all of this. I have been taking your herbal course and have found it so helpful. You made it really easy to DO THIS! which I had put off because I felt so late coming to the “herbal” community. (Always saying I knew just enough to be dangerous) I bought the Herbal Antivirals book that you used for some of your information and I was just amazed at the information there. Thanks for saying what you did about the censorship. It is real….and by the way, WHOSE community standards are being “violated?!”
My husband and I (we are 70 and 72) had the you-know-what in September. The thing I would share for you and for your listeners/readers is that my husband got the brain fog so bad that he stopped taking anything, would not eat and drank very little. He was zombie-like. We live out in the boonies and he passed out twice. The last time, I was holding on to him and he crashed down anyway. It was frightening and I called an ambulance because he wasn’t really with-it. Not to make this long….the doctor (a God-send!) he had in the hospital for his 5 day stay told him that his good lifestyle had saved him from much worse. We are very careful about diet and exercise. We had been doing the herbal supplements leading up to the illness. So….just take that for what it is worth. I fared much better because I ate and drank and continued my supplements. I’m not sure how you help a person with the ____ brain fog. I told my husband that next time, I’M IN CHARGE! Ha! He (mostly) agrees. Anyway, thanks again for what you shared.
I will unsubscribe from anything you send going forward snd block you. It is because of people like you and your family that we are still in this pandemic and the costs involved for your husband to be in the hospital is unnecessary. And you are still spreading this information?!
While I agree that you have a right to unsubscribe or block any and all content from Melissa Norris, you will certainly be missing out on a lot other great information from her. It’s OK to disagree on this particular issue. (I have a lot of people that disagree with my stance on this) but in the end, I’ve made a decision that is right for me and my family. I’ve been hospitalized with Covid pneumonia. Husband was over his in about 3 days, I was in hospital for 3 weeks. Hits everybody differently. We had quarantined in our home for months, but was exposed when a contractor (who had been vaccinated) came to our home and gave us the disease. He thought he couldn’t pass it along and we thought we were safe because he’d had the jab. So its not only the unvaxxed that are spreading this disease. At this point, almost a year later, we still have antibodies. We know this because we have this checked every few months. Thanks to Melissa, I’ve learned a lot of other skills so that my cupboards are prepped, I’m growing some of my own vegetables and chicken and fresh eggs are on the horizon for us. I’m glad there’s someone like Melissa who is sharing her “old fashioned” homesteading skills with us so we can be prepared for what life may throw at us.
How on earth would someone email you from a blog comment? No human should be told they don’t deserve costs involved, should we say that to people who get influenza, heart attack, or cancer from smoking? There was no misinformation shared in this post, she shared what happened to her and didn’t say it was for anyone else. As for my post, I didn’t share anything that was misinformation either, if you think something is misinformation (rather than against your opinion) please do cite sources and specifics. As for her husband, there is no way to say if he had the vaccine his experience wouldn’t be the same because we all have different reactions to things AND many people, regardless if you wish to believe it, have had the vaccine and are getting sick and passing it on to others. The reason we’re still in this pandemic is a false belief that we can control it via means that have proved they’re not working, there is letting the natural course of a virus (which is the only option, whether or not we like it) to evolve and have herd immunity as well as learn protocols that will help shorten the duration and lessen the symptoms BEYOND one thing that is not proving to stop the spread, a vaccine that sadly isn’t doing what they hoped.
If you feel the need to unsubscribe rather than have an open conversation that’s your choice, because most of the folks here believe in choice and not only for themselves when it suits them, but as a way of life.
Thank you!!!!!!!!! This was grate!!!!
Hi Melissa,
I have been getting your emails for a while and to be honest I skimm through it and don’t also listen to the podcast. I am off work till next week because my husband passed away on the 20th with covid pneumonia. The Lords plans are not ours at only 54 I am a widow. A lot of what you are saying resonated with me. First my dad was much older too like yours. I always felt a little out of my generation because of that issue. Thank you for the info. I will be using it and passing along your newsletters to others as well. I always say we should be able to agree to disagree on things without being hateful. Thanks for all you do.
I’m so sorry for your loss!
Thank you for addressing this.I agree with doing other protocols. We should be able to talk about our experiences and how it helped or didn’t help. The censorship going on makes me sick. People wanting to help and share experiences, that is what we are about. Just as daily in our lives we all make decisions every day about what we want to believe or not believe. Thank you for sharing your point of view and I agree with you.
I was just curious what you used in your nebulizer? Was it some kind of tincture or more of a prescription? if it’s a prescription I don’t need the details, thanks
Hi Nancy,
It wasn’t a tincture, it was a drop (per 5ml’s of normal saline solution) of peppermint and eucalyptus essential oil, 1 capsule of L-glutathione dissolved in the saline, and I took an eye dropper with bay laurel essential oil, filled it, dispelled it back into the essential oil bottle, then filled the empty eye dropper that only had residue with the saline solution and emptied back into the nebulizer cup (bay laurel is too strong to put a drop-in), this is per protocol by herbalist Stephen Buhner. I also used a dilution of 0.01% hydrogen peroxide (yes, when diluted properly to those reading this layer, it is safe and effective with many studies to back this and it was recommended to us by a medical doctor). For hydrogen peroxide, this is an excellent article with actual studies cited and linked to proper dilution rates. https://sambentleygraphics.weebly.com/blog/nebulized-peroxide-a-simple-remedy-for-covid-19
Keep up the wonderful information. Those of us who want to do as much as we can to take care of our own health truly value it.
Melissa, many many thanks for being forthright and speaking the truth about your experience with c*vid. There is so much lying and misinformation from the media and government, we need an army of truth tellers to fight it and help people keep from making huge irreversible mistakes with their bodies. By the way, divisiveness is spelled with an i. Please don”t be offended at my pointing that out. I do proofreading part time and I can’t help myself when reading articles. 🙂
God bless you for your courage, Melissa! Yes, we ALL must be speaking the truth in love. You did a great job. I’ll take God’s natural provisions over Big Pharma’s “provisions” every day of the week.
Right? I feel that the enemy is making his last bombardment because he knows time is short. Hallelujah, Lord come quickly. I would love to tell you my story and experiences as a medical professional but I will not do that here. May God continue blessing you! You are awesome!
Thank you for being bold! My family just sailed through it with flying colors. Yes the first couple of days were rough! I was glad I was already prepared. We used herbal, vitamin and homeopathic remedies and a prescribed breathing treatment when needed. Some got it worse with more symptoms and some hit hard at the onset then really nothing. Anyway very good to be prepared!
This was the first of your blogs I’ve listened to (I’m a newbie!), and it resonated so deeply and in so many directions. I will be listening to more! Thank you!!
I’ve witnessed unbelievable censorship recently including once highly regarded doctors that I’ve been following since the 90’s (nothing to do with vaccines or anything controversial until this injection). It’s all so unbelievable. We are losing our ability to think critically, and certainly not supporting it in our children and grandchildren. I’m still hopeful. Keep up the good work.
Thank you Melissa! I’ve shared your protocol with my family. When we had “it”, we had no information on what to do. I did have a few things on hand and I believe my husband’s symptoms would have been muvh worse had we not had a plan in place. We know more now thanks to folks like you sharing home remedies. We have restocked inventories…just in case.
PS, I love the Verse of the Day, and will have to refresh myself on Esther.
Best Wishes
Thanks for the info, I always like to hear other’s opinions. It is how we learn. It’s a shame that we forget that.
Also thanks for the transcript, I am a reader more than a listener. I wish all podcasts did that. I can usually read it in much less time it takes me to listen. I like to listen sometimes, but mostly I read the transcript. Keep up the good work!!
Thank you so much for your stand. (And a ‘like’ button would be cool for us to agree with each other and build each other up that way. So many good responses here.)
I’ve finally told some members of my family that this is not a subject we’re discussing because of the absolute insanity of their listening only to whatever the main media says and demanding that we ‘comply’. Our relationships are more important than who believes what.
My husband spent his career managing a hospital laboratory and gets updates daily from the CDC and other regulatory agencies. He has seen that the information just doesn’t line up with the science and the numbers going on. We have no intention of getting the shot, nor any of the ‘necessary’ follow-up boosters. Not anti all vaccines, but only after they have been tested and have been used long enough to discover long-term effects.
Agreed, reading and listening to others perspectives and stories is so important, sadly I don’t know how to code to add like buttons to comments
If you’re interested in breaking through the politics and lies of this crisis to get to the truth, I would like to suggest tuning in tomorrow (Saturday Feb 5) to the free world premier online screening of Terrain The Film Part 1. Having already watched it, I promise you will be amazed. Part 2 airs on Sat Feb 12. You can watch the trailer here… https://terrainthefilm.com/
I’m sorry you were targeted on IG. I pray you will be restored soon. I suspect they don’t like you helping people to be self sufficient, which is one of your missions. The socialist agenda is to take that option away. They want us to be helpless so that we must rely on the government. Thank you for all you do. I pray that God will continue to bless your efforts and keep you up and running. I, for one, have been blessed by your mission and the information and inspiration you have shared is valuable to me. Thank you, and may God continue to bless.
Thank you for being willing to share this information. I don’t often comment, but I so enjoy your posts and your family gardening plan book. We are just starting our homesteading journey, but I learn a lot from reading your blog posts and watching your videos. Be encouraged today that God is with us. 🙂
Not an old soul, Melissa, but a loving and brave one!! Thank you for posting this – people do have to speak up, it’s their right to do so and our’s to hear. I hope you and your family are doing well (again, your right to make the best decisions for your health regardless of what any one else feels – not their business!!) Stay safe and happy, God Bless!!!
Excellent podcast!
We also got the Rona. I see a Naturopathic doctor who suggested immune-booster supplements that I found helpful. Also, my followup appointment suggested where my body took a hit & she suggested supplements/herbs to help my body improve.
I definitely believe herbs are extremely helpful.
Another thing that really helps this virus – and many other illnesses-
Old fashioned Vicks Vaporub-rub! (There are also diy recipes online, more about that below).
Slather it on the chest and neck, wrap a towel or wear a turtleneck shirt and let the vapors break up congestion.
I have a friend who swears by also applying it to the soles of the feet and then wearing socks, although I haven’t tried that.
I told a friend of mine who was suffering from the Covid lung congestion (who is fully vaccinated but got it anyway) to slather herself in vapo-rub. After she recovered, she said that was the very best thing that gave the most relief.
There are several DIY vaporub recipes online that are easy to make. I suggest using a recipe that uses the menthol crystals, which are available on Amazon. Menthol is the main congestion-busing ingredient, along with the other essential oils like camphor. Just be careful with the menthol crystals as they are very powerful. These are a by-product of making menthol essential oils and are pure. The crystals are more effective than the oil in this application.
It’s so good to get podcasts from you again. I’ve missed them. And your scripture was perfect. We were created for such a time as this.
Thank you for speaking up. We need more people with a voice to encourage others to engage in conversations. That were not each other’s enemies. We simply have a different opinion.
I forgot to add, you have a new listener and subscriber!
Someone who isn’t afraid to speak the truth earns my respect.
Thank you.
Thank you Melissa! I have been reading scientific research every day since the plandemic started. I receive daily email newsletters from organizations that have been censored. I also bought Robert Kennedy Jr.’s book, which reads like a college textbook with references following each chapter. People are not going to get scientific research from media that are owned by drug companies directly or by commercial sponsorship. Programs do not want to lose sponsors. It is difficult to find a program that doesn’t have drug commercials. I remember when cigarette commercials were allowed & influenced people to smoke. There is a reason none of the current Covid vaccines are not approved, since they have no liability for disabilities or deaths. Comirnaty is the only Covid Vaccine approved, but it is not available yet. Once it is available, pfizer will be accountable. It is crazy that censorship is so prevalent. The drug cartel is running this country & the world right now. I am horrified with the human experiments the drug companies have been conducting right under our noses, bribing people in power to follow. There is currently charges being brought against the people responsible before the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity, violations of the Nuremberg Code, & war crimes.
Thank you!! I love and appreciate all your content. I especially appreciate you taking a brave stand in this case, with what shouldn’t be controversial information. It hasn’t hit our immediate family yet (although my mom, brothers, and grandparents all had it early on and pulled through with flying colors). I’m always so curious to know what others are doing when it hits their house, but I understand why a lot of people aren’t sharing this info, with the risk of being censored and de-platformed. So, thank you! I see the stand you’re taking and I’m behind you and appreciating you!
BLESS YOU MY SISTER IN CHRIST. THANK YOU DEARLY FOR THIS
JAN
Really enjoyed my first podcast. My family & I had the C flu with 4 members out of 6 getting it. 1 was jabbed, but the rest of us are not as a well researched decision. We have a vege garden growing 25% of our fresh food. I prepared in advance for the C flu and this helped 100%, I agree with you. I agree regarding herbal options need more preparation. Esther is my FAVOURITE after Proverbs. Thank you 😊
It’s so upsetting and worrisome how censorship has become the norm. All I can think is “they” (whoever they are) wants us to be a dumb society that has to rely on “them”. That will not be happening in my home or my families homes. Thank you for all you share!
I was so sad to read those negative comments. Like you said, we should be able to voice our opinions, feelings and beliefs, in reasonable way, and that is what I believe you did with this episode. You shared information you had researched and how it worked for you and your family.
We need more of this!! I have my own opinions on why all this censorship all of a sudden but will keep them to myself as this is not a political forum. But we DO need to be prepared to take care of ourselves, whether for food or herbal medications. I miss having our own beef and a bigger garden, it was so nice not to have to run to the store all the time, I could put that time to other, better uses. What’s wrong with wanting to live sustainably? Maybe some people like going into town and having the ease just having things all ready to go at the store. That is for them, they are not the devil for preferring to live that way, nor are we the devil for preferring to live differently.
I talked to a cousin of mine awhile back, she’s 87. We’d not seen each other in years and we were talking about meeting up. We had everything planned, then she calls back and asks if we had been vaccinated. I told her we had not. We are not against VACCINATIONS….and as someone above mentioned, vaccinations are different than what this covid jab is.
My cousin was sad that we hadn’t gotten the shot, begged off the visit and apologized ( her and her husband did get theirs ). Next day she calls again and says that we need to stop watching FOX News, believe what we are being told and to get the shot. I’ve not talked to her since, even tho she says she was going to call me back in a couple weeks. HOW SAD. We can’t even talk on the phone?
God Bless you for what you’re doing!!!
PS I didn’t see any links but am not sure if I looked in the right place.
Hi Dianne,
Thank you for sharing and I’m saddened to hear you were unable to connect with your cousin. Which links were you looking for specifically?
Thank you for this podcast, Melissa. I am a family nurse practitioner who has been startled by what has transpired over the past few years, as a result of this virus. I knew that corruption existed in the healthcare industry, but did not realize how significant and pervasive the corruption was and did not understand its vast reach.
Most healthy people do heal with supportive care at home. I am so glad that you and your family are doing well.
There is effective outpatient treatment being offered for those who need more aggressive care, but it can be challenging to find (FLCCC, AFLDs, and Remote Health Solutions, are a few that I feel comfortable referring people to.).
Thank you for speaking with honesty and gentleness regarding this matter.
May God bless you and your family.
Thank you Melissa for sharing your story. I really appreciate all the helpful info you give to your readers/listeners. Today you have shared your experience in a way that I don’t think should ruffle anyone’s feathers, but nevertheless it did. I am 72 and have not had the shot for many reasons! I hope and pray that more people will open their hearts and minds to the real truth, what the real safety data is saying, and that there may be other agendas at play here.
Yikes Melissa! But I’m not surprised. Those who have the money make the rules. I confronted powerful rich entities when I was involved in the environmental movement years ago. They literally tried to kill me and other peaceful protestors (they of course hired people to do their dirty work). Everyone should be wary of anyone with money telling you they have your best interests in mind. Guess what? They don’t. They want to extract your labor, your money, whatever they can from you, then throw you away. Wake up people! We the people have power just by our sheer numbers.
Melissa, I never comment but felt compelled to say thank you for your bravery and for speaking up about such a difficult topic. Don’t be discouraged by the negative comments above. You are the first homesteader I have heard speak so candidly and I appreciate knowing we aren’t alone.
For a non-biased collection of research and clinical studies, check out FLCCC website. There are many alternative protocols for covid that also work for any virus (Zinc, VItD3, Quercitin, Melatonin) and Ivermectin. The bottom line is treating inflammation. Our bodies are designed to fight off these invaders – we just need to make sure we give our bodies the proper nutrition to do its job. That’s why Melissa’s information is so valuable. Eating right, growing organic food and keeping out processed foods. I am grateful for all the information and time spent putting it together for us.
Thank you so much for sharing your heart, and the things you have seen and heard. Never be afraid to speak the truth in love, sister! We love you,
YES!!!!!! Thank you for standing up and calling it like it is! Censorship, herbal medicine, making up our own minds, being prepared; all of it! Thank you for this extremely refreshing episode!
“We didn’t quarantine in our own home, this just isn’t practical for our lifestyle.”
This was an awful, cruel thing to do. Even if you’re superhealthy, you may have met with people, young and old, who are not, risking their health.
You misread that, I said we didn’t quarantine from each other in our home, any time we’re sick, regardless of the virus, we stay home, that’s common sense. But I didnt send my husband to the camper when he got sick, I took care of him and vice versa.
Our story was the exact same as yours. Just this January. Starting with my husband as well on through me and the children but one (and the one that already had it last August).
I also believe everyone should have access to information to make their own well-informed decisions and that they should be respected, either way.
In December I took the month off of news and media because I just couldn’t take the pressure build-up in the media anymore. It was a terrific break!
Thanks for your courage to put this out!!!
Thank you Melissa.
I thoroughly enjoyed listening to you. Yes, I’m one of those that think they were born in the wrong century. I have both of your books and love reading them.
Hi Melissa,
Im from down under in Australia and I listened with bated breath until I heard you say you had chosen not to get the jab! So relieved. What times we live in. But the exciting possibilities, the new communities and educational models and parallel societies we are creating. Here in Australia its mostly ‘no jab no job’ so we are making our own way of life which quite frankly is more beautiful and precious and healthful. We are creating food hubs and growing your own food support groups, alternative health clinics, homeschooling and teacher support groups, business and trades directories that service unvaccinated, swap meets, social gatherings etc.
Medical practitioners, nurses, teachers, police, firefighters, aged and disability care workers, people from all walks of life coming together in unity and love fighting for our children and fighting for freedom which includes freedom for those who are opposed to us and angry that we are ‘selfishly spreading the v1rus’. I cant blame them…they are so deeply afraid, fear rules them. One girl I had a discussion with after having her second dose begged me ‘please dont burst my bubble’. I felt such compassion for her.
Here you are not considered vaccinated unless you are up to date with 1st, 2nd, and all boosters that are current. Its utterly crazy.
I too have experienced a distance from loved ones and have been shut down from discussions. We each have our own path to follow. But its wonderful to see brave souls like yourself making a stand in the face of censorship and opposition. God gave us all we need in his creation, so thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. xxx
Thank you so much! Truth speaker! People are followers and sheep are afraid to look at the non biased science! All other science that doesn’t go with the narrative is being censored! Its pure evil! Look at the recent meta analysis just released called “a literature review and meta analysis of the effects of lockdowns on covid-19 mortality”. Its not being talked about in the news and it speaks to the atrocity of the lockdowns and mask lies!
I’m late to listen, so glad it is still up!! I’ve got to say you are so spot on in everything you say. More information sharing should not be a bad thing. My goodness, how else do we learn everything?! I’m sharing everything I can to everyone I can from those in our family who have been sick. WE have not had COVID that we know of. We may have and just not been very sick. That is a #1 hard thing to realize. But I do not get many who want to share. Some who even get sick and don’t want us to know for what ever reason. We stay as healthy as we can, use supplements, try to eat well and get plenty of fresh air and sunshine. Gathering info as much as we can. Thank you soooo much for sharing. Keep going. We will keep listening to you!
Thanks Melissa, it is important for us to all keep speaking and sharing in love. I have just had 2 days of feeling much like a truck hit me, body aches, headache and a slight fever….much like your symptoms. I have treated it with the same, VitC, D3, Zinc, Quercitin, and Willow Bark for the pain…after 36hrs I am feeling much better, and up and about today.
thanks again for your sharing, you are a blessing in the world of darkness. hugss…Shell
Thank you for putting it out there to people do not rely on their smartphones all the time now don’t get me wrong I love mine I use it constantly but I also have certain things I don’t want to lose in Is some sort of Paper form and this is not fear mongering this is knowing that’s more reliable than most
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
I appreciate all of your honest comments. You have been my inspiration for the last 2 years on so many levels. I am so glad your family has recovered. You are ready, “for such a time as this.”
Keep on!
Thank you Melissa for speaking boldly.
My wife and I decided to take the VAXX. for our reasons-
We fully support our adult son and his decision not to take the experimental
treatment. We also support my adult Brother & his family in not taking
the experimental treatment for their own very good reasons. All of us have shared information on treatments “clinical” and herbal because of our love
and respect we have for each other. World wide government MANDATES
have been total failures & in fact crimes against humanity- whether out
of ignorance or design. Thank You for your encouraging Biblical thoughts
from the book of Esther about our God putting us exactly where we need to be in “our time”!
Thank you for quality content in your internet activities and your books
of which I have purchased two.
Let us all continue to speak and act for individual liberty so that we all can
fulfill God’s plan for each of us.
Melissa,
some strange things are happening. They have tried to destroy the world economy and hidden many life saving health protocols while hurting and killing many people with vaccine injury which now they try to blame the virus to make it more scary than it really is. I am reading a new best selling book by Robert Kennedy. This book unveils the glimpse of the kingdom of darkness at work. Now it seems they are going to cause mass starvation by sensoring food producing information as we are facing soaring gas prices and empty grocery shelves. I think I need to buy some gardening books and herbal, essential oil, and natural remedies books. I have one of your book on kindle. Could you write a blog to tell us a list of time tested books/downloadable contents we should be owning? Jesus is coming soon and I think what we are experiencing globally are sounds of the hooves of four horsemen.
Melissa, I am also a gardener and herbalist. You may think you were censored for mentioning Covid remedies, but you were also probably also censored for mentioning food preservation. Believe it or not, Facebook is censoring and monitoring gardeners, canners, and all food preservationists as “extremists.” Why would something so natural and generational now be considered extremist? Well, as like Covid, it’s part of the Great Reset. If you are independent, you are a problem. Just look at some of the anti-vax comments posted here. Next you will be seriously targeted for your food preservation efforts because it’s “individualistic.” Trust me, it’s coming. The Lord be with us all!!
https://www.citizensjournal.us/facebook-labels-canning-and-gardening-groups-as-too-prepared/
Loved this post, downloaded the transcript and look forward to practicing this wisdom.
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