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"Organic-rich soil of the Canadian Great Plains can be cultivated for more than fifty years before losing half its soil carbon, whereas amazon rainforest soils can lose all agricultural potential in under five years. A twenty-four-year fertilization experiment in northwestern China found that soil fertility declined under chemical fertilizers unless coupled to addition of straw and manure. Nowhere is the debate over the appropriate application of technology more polarized than in the field of biotechnology." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"You can further reduce the risk of cancers to a cumulative 70 percent reduction by adding things like zinc, garlic, ginger, and herbs like gravida from the amazon rainforest. To further improve your picture, avoid the consumption of foods that promote cancer such as packaged, processed meats, which contain cancer-causing sodium nitrate. In all, people can reduce the risk of breast cancer by 90 percent to 95 percent. These strategies are very effective. They're extremely low-cost and yet they are completely ignored by the conventional cancer industry." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Even if all this destruction stopped tomorrow, the Hadley Centre's model suggests that the amazon rainforest would still be doomed unless global warming levels off at two degrees. If the world crosses this crucial tipping point, the model simulates a tidal wave of destruction, beginning in north-eastern Amazonia and advancing steadily south and westwards across the continent. Modelled rainfall declines almost to zero in some areas by 2100. Temperatures soar to Saharan highs, reaching on average 38°C." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"Miller The Healing Properties of Cat's Claw Also known as una de gafo, cafs claw is a healing herb that is indigenous to the amazon rainforest and other tropical areas of Latin America. It is a large, woody vine and with thorns that resemble a cafs claws, hence its name. According to Leslie Taylor, ND, a leading expert in herbal medicine and author of The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs, cat's claw has been used for at least 2,000 years by traditional native healers throughout Central and South America, especially in Peru." - Shari Lieberman, Alan Xenakis, Mineral Miracle: Stopping Cartilage Loss & Inflammation Naturally (Get the book.)

"Traditional Chinese medicine encompasses remarkable wisdom, as does Ayurvedic medicine from India and medicine practiced by indigenous tribes in Australia, Tibet, the amazon rainforest and many other places throughout the world. So, you have at your disposal the choice of healing modalities from all these cultures, from all around the world. You are not limited to conventional Western medicine promoting drugs and surgery. That's merely the choices companies and doctors in the U.S. want you to think you have. You actually have far more choices than that. So, open up to the universe of choice." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"Burning trees and grass, as is done in the Brazilian amazon rainforest to make room for cattle and farming, is causing a brown haze across large regions of the world. When there is not enough sunshine, temperatures drop—a condition favored by influenza virus. Airborne pollution irritates the lungs, making city dwellers more vulnerable to asthma and respiratory infections. It can also cause genetic defects that increase our vulnerability to disease." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.)

"I believe the exploration of the amazon rainforest and the discoveries it yields will be recorded in history as one of the most dramatic stories of our century. I am confident of this because of two simple facts. The first is that degenerative disease is the leading cause of death in the modern world. The second is that the amazon rainforest is the richest source of nutrients and life energy on our planet. -? Even with growing volumes of data proving Heart disease, stroke, the life-saving value of the living rainforest, its very cancer, and the many existence continues to be threatened." - APC Books, Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves: The Power of change Within to Change the World (Get the book.)

"But the amazon rainforest is different: fires there are not a natural occurrence, and the forest is not adapted to cope with them. Nature doesn't start fires in the Amazon - even lightning strikes tend not to spark flames, because thunderstorms are accompanied by heavy downpours. Instead, human interference - especially with an area the size of France already deforested for soya cultivation and cattle ranching -is the spark which sets the forest alight. Fires tend to scrub out the understorey of the forest, and even to kill some of the larger trees." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"One river: Explorations and discoveries in the amazon rainforest. New York: Simon & Schuster. Davis, E. Wade, and lames A. Yost. 1983a. The ethnobotany of the Waorani of eastern Ecuador. Botanical Museum Leaflets 29 (3): 159-217. -. 1983b. The ethnomedicine of the Waorani of Amazonian Ecuador. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 9:273-97. de Cuveland, Helga. 1989. Der Gottorfer Codex. Worms: Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft. DeKorne, Jim. 1994. Psychedelic shamanism. Port Townsend, Wash.: Loompanics Unlimited. -. [1995]. Psychedelischer neo-Schamanismus." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.)

"With over 200,000 species of plants, the amazon rainforest is the densest concentration of life energy on our planet. I have Nicole Maxwell to thank for being a source of inspiration and encouraging me to pursue the healing potential of rainforest plants. Born to a privileged San Francisco family in the early 1900s, Nicole grew up with an independent pioneering spirit. She married and spent time traveling in Europe. But eventually, she left that life and went to South America to become a gun-toating, cigarette-smoking reporter in Bolivia." - APC Books, Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves: The Power of change Within to Change the World (Get the book.)

"And though we often hear about the loss of amazon rainforest to ranchers raising cattle for fast-food franchises, soybean farming has wrought even greater devastation, causing the deforestation of an area larger than the state of New Jersey in less than a year.6 Yet the soybean is promoted as the salvation to world hunger and a "green," environmentally sound alternative to meat production. The soy industry even claims that its modern processed soyfoods are the natural heritage of people of Asia." - Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN, The Whole Soy Story: The dark side of America's favorite health food (Get the book.)

"The second is that the amazon rainforest is the richest source of nutrients and life energy on our planet. -? Even with growing volumes of data proving Heart disease, stroke, the life-saving value of the living rainforest, its very cancer, and the many existence continues to be threatened. Our planet's degenerative iseases greatest treasure house is being chain sawed and common to Americans ?. . ? , . ,, , ? , . are not seen among poisoned. The biggest offenders are farming, lumrainforest people. bering interests, cattle ranching, mineral explo- -s- ration, and oil drilling." - APC Books, Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves: The Power of change Within to Change the World (Get the book.)

"Quick Guides to Medicinal Plants of the Amazon art Two provides information on seventy-three widely used medic-|y inal plants of the amazon rainforest. This material is presented in easily accessible table format for quick reference. Chapter 5 is a guide to the main properties and actions of common rainforest plants. Chapter 6 lists various diseases and disorders, and which medicinal plants are used in herbal therapy. Chapter 7 summarizes the specifics on each rainforest botanical." - Leslie Taylor, ND, The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs: A Guide to Understanding and Using Herbal Medicinals (Get the book.)

"As I describe at length in Tales from the Time Loop, in 2003 I was invited to speak at a gathering in the amazon rainforest in Brazil and this included the opportunity for participants to experience the psychoactive effects of a plant called ayahuasca. This has been used for at least hundreds of years by South American shamans to take people into other states of consciousness that the five senses cannot access. It contains many powerful hallucinogenic properties including Dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, a naturally occurring component of the metabolism of mammals and plants." - David Icke, Icke David, Infinite Love Is the Only Truth: Everything Else Is Illusion (Get the book.)

"For hundreds of years, caf s claw been used as a medicinal by the indigenous peoples of the amazon rainforest. Among its many properties, cat's claw has been found to be a powerful anti-inflammatory. Both studies and anecdotal evidence suggest that it is useful in the treatment of arthritis of all kinds, bursitis, allergies, and a host of other inflammatory disorders. Moreover, it has analgesic properties, and thus helps to relieve the pain of inflammation. The Science Behind It Cat's claw has been studied for many years." - Carol Simontacchi, Natural Alternatives to Vioxx, Celebrex and other Anti-Inflammatory Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"PILOCARPUS TREE In the amazon rainforest yields Pilocarpine, a medicine for glaucoma. •PIMPERNEL Root (Pimpinella alba major, Anagallis arvensis) Primula family; also called Great Burnet, Saxifrage, and Self Heal. A perennial growing on the edges of woods and walls, 3-feettall having serrated leaves and white flower umbels." - Joseph E. Mario, Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health (Get the book.) "Amazon rainforest herb Amor Seco Fraction-3 forrespiratory smooth muscle action, bronchial dilator, reverses asthma; formuscle pain, car and sports injuries; counters hepatitis C, rebuilds damaged liver, reverses livercirrhosis. Companion plant for cornrepellingStrigaplantpest. •DEVIL'S BIT (Scabiosa Succisa Pratensis) Grows 2-feettall in dry meadows, with elongated sculpted leaves and purple flowers. Reduces temperature, and excretes toxins through the skin, a perspirant (2 fl. oz." - Joseph E. Mario, Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health (Get the book.)

"The simple fact is that people are destroying the amazon rainforest and the rest of the rainforests of the world because "they can't see the forest for the trees." Logging for Tropical Hardwoods Logging tropical hardwoods like teak, mahogany, rosewood, and other timber for furniture, building materials, charcoal, and other wood products is big business and big profits. Several species of tropical hardwoods are imported by developed counties, including the United States, just to build coffins that are then buried or burned." - Leslie Taylor, ND, The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs: A Guide to Understanding and Using Herbal Medicinals (Get the book.) "Amazon rainforest contains about 900 tons of living plants, including more than 750 types of trees and 1,500 other plants. The Andean mountain range and the Amazon jungle are home to more than half of the world's species of flora and fauna; in fact, one in five of all the birds in the world live in the rainforests of the Amazon. To date, some 438,000 species Children of the Peruvian Amazon paddling to school. Over two-thirds of all the fresh water found on Earth is in the Amazon Basin's rivers, streams, and tributaries." - Leslie Taylor, ND, The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs: A Guide to Understanding and Using Herbal Medicinals (Get the book.) "A wine made from the fruit is used for dysentery in other parts of the amazon rainforest. The fruit juice and a bark tea are very common diarrhea remedies throughout the Amazon today, used by curanderos and local people alike. In Peruvian herbal medicine today, cashew leaf tea (called casho) is employed as a common diarrhea remedy; a bark tea is used as an antiseptic vaginal douche; and the seeds are used for skin infections. In Brazilian herbal medicine, the fruit is taken for syphilis and as a diuretic, stimulant, and aphrodisiac." - Leslie Taylor, ND, The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs: A Guide to Understanding and Using Herbal Medicinals (Get the book.)

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