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Thank you, lj, for reinvigorating the Natural Health thread. You’re our catnip!

Catnip that likes cats. Maybe I should change my screen name. I like Catnip as a name!

On my To Do list is to post herbs good for:

Lymph cleansing

Blood circulation and cleansing

Cancer prevention/treatment

Home made all kinds of stuff like mouthwash, deoderant, salves, skin oil, facial pore cleanser, and whatever else I know or make. I may have posted some of these, I’ll have to look.

I mentioned on the Q thread that I'm up in Canada (Hi, LovelyLinda!). My goal is to somehow bring my 88-year-old mother back to Arizona, despite, you know, the thing. Since my Dad died in June, my mother has been without visitors, and with her stroke it's very dicey for her to communicate on the phone. I have applied for her immigration, but that takes nearly a year, so I'm going to bring her back under some "essential" category. The one that seems to fit best is "medical treatment". I plan to set her up with some hyperbaric oxygen treatments in Tucson.

I have 9 more days in a hotel room before I get to see her. The Canadian 14-day mandatory self-isolation programs comes with fines up to $750K and/or up to 6 months in prison.

Before we leave, I'm going to get her going on an essential oils regimen called the Emotional Reset. This collection of oil blends was assembled by Jack Canfield (the world's #1 success coach) and Kathryn Trestain (a former White House correspondent who was debilitated by PTSD after her WWII war hero father was killed by the VA medical system and her mother died during the subsequent court proceedings). Kathryn attributes her recovery from PTSD to essential oils.

The last time I was here I tried the oils on my mother once. She was coming out of her grief over my father's death, but was still highly limited in her communication ability. She seemed to understand things, but she could only grunt (or occasionally scream) in response. The stroke undoubtedly had a role in this, but she seemed to have other problems. Mainly, I think, she was deeply unhappy to be living with physical and mental diabilities in a large, institutional-style care home after having the run of 36 acres on the beautiful banks of the Peace River in northern British Columbia for 35 years. On one of the few evenings before I had to get back home, I applied the oil blends, one after another.

By the time I had completed the EO sequence, she was laughing at my jokes, speaking in complete sentences, and happily reminiscing about her 65 years of marriage with my father. It was a remarkable transformation. You can never tell in these situations whether it was the oils or something else, but I'm willing to bet it was the oils. I plan to repeat the process for several days in a row before we head back across the border, and continue it for a while afterwards.

Back in Arizona we have a much nicer place waiting for her. Instead of a multi-story apartment-style building with 100+ residents, it's a former family home, refitted to be a care home for 10 seniors. Instead of institutional green walls, it has murals, and goats and chickens in the back, and garden boxes in the front, and a large atrium with colorful birds. I'm hoping she'll actually be happy there.