The first Western disease I was familiar with as a child was arthritis. My dear paternal grandmother, Bertha Cooper, suffered from this pathology for many years. She had very bad wrists and joints. I remember her asking me if she would go to the corner liquor store at the corner of 101st and Avalon Boulevard in Watts, California, and she would buy her some Ben Gay, a white pharmaceutical anti-inflammatory cream. She would rub Ben Gay on her wrists, joints and tendons too.

As a child, I did not understand the disease. I didn’t know how my grandmother developed arthritis. All she knew is that she had it (and she claimed it too).

However, when the Universe bestowed upon me its Akashic Records of health knowledge in the late 1990’s, I finally understood why Grandma Sis (Bertha) developed and suffered from arthritis. You see, my grandmother was originally from the South, Mississippi to be exact. The ideal dinner was “soul food.” My grandmother was an excellent cook and I never tasted any food in my deaf, dumb and blind days and years that tasted better than my paternal grandmother’s food/cooking.

However, even though this so-called soul food tasted good, I now understand that taste is not the yardstick or measuring stick for what is healthy or nutritional. It was Grandma’s good-tasting soul food that got rid of her arthritis and tendinitis. Yep, all that cornbread, kale and mustard greens, salt pork, candied yams, fried chicken, liver, catfish, pork chops, Cornish hen, neck bones, ham, white rice, etc. she eventually killed her (and the rest of my family members). Not to mention eating all that white bread, fancy Webber’s and Wonder, flap jacks, syrup and biscuits, bacon, sausage, jelly cake, jelly sandwiches, crackers, Vienna sausage, corned beef, Spam, cheese pig’s head, liver pâté, etc. And what about all that hot chocolate, coffee (mixed with white sugar and dairy cream), buttermilk, pet milk, Kool-Aid, and sodas you drank?

He did not smoke cigarettes like his five children, but he rolled his own cigarettes out of Prince Albert brand tobacco and Zig Zag paper. My childhood friends thought my grandmother smoked marijuana. It was a bit embarrassing until they found out what she was actually smoking.

I mentioned all of the above so that everyone knows that my grandmother’s arthritis was caused by what she ate and drank on a daily basis out of ignorance, tradition, and habit.

All that meat turned into uric acid in my grandmother’s joints and ligaments. The starches broke down into carbonic acid and also found their way into your joints. And so did lactic acid from the breakdown of the dairy products you ate.

Smoking also created an overly acidic condition in my grandmother. She also had attacks of gout, which is nothing more than arthritis in the ankle area.

You see, arthritis is a condition of inflammation of the joints. That’s it. The Latin word “Arth” means “joints” and the English suffix “it is” means “inflammation”. What is inflammation? A burning! What causes this burning or swelling? ACID!!! Plain and simple!

Grandma Sis was lucky and eventually died of degeneration (what doctors call a natural death). However, her children (and daughters-in-law, nephews, nieces, and grandchildren) were not so lucky and died of insidious cancer, including my father from lung cancer in 1994 and my mother from pancreatic cancer in 1999.

My family couldn’t, didn’t want to, and to this day still doesn’t believe that what goes into their mouths causes their pathologies and eventually kills them. It was easy to write me off when he was a Muslim and a member of the Nation of Islam in the early 1990s, simply saying “that kid is mad at white people and the world!” But today as a naturist, what is his excuse? Nothing but ignorance and traditional paralysis! Soul food is a tradition, Djehuty! Yes, a tradition leading to an early grave!

One of the biggest contributors to arthritis is kale and mustard greens. Sorry black people, black people and soul food lovers! But this is true! Vegetables are laced with “oxalic” acid and this oxalic acid is largely produced when vegetables are cooked. This is true! And for rat faeces chocolate lovers, your prized chocolate also contains oxalic acid.

Now, I don’t want you to think that soul food is the cause of arthritis, because many white, Mexican/Latino, and Asian people also suffer from arthritis. Just like food for the soul, the standard American diet will also cause arthritis. Arthritis is an American disease!

If you understand arthritis, you must understand tendinitis and gout. They are problems of accumulation of acidic liquids in the joints that cause inflammation (pain).

Most arthritis (and tendinitis and gout) sufferers today battle the symptoms of these inflammatory conditions with pharmaceutical-grade medications. Although God instructed Bible believers to cure themselves with herbs (Revelation 22:2, Ezekiel 47:12, and Psalm 104:14), in their strange obedience to God, they take the enemy’s pharmaceutical drugs that prolong arthritis. Why and how? Because pharmaceutical grade drugs, although made from alkaloids, eventually break down to ACID (especially ascetic acid, which consumes the red blood cells) in the body, and the acid causes inflammation, so how smart is it to take something to attack the symptom that eventually lengthens and worsens the initial condition?

Mother Nature has provided healing for arthritis and other inflammatory diseases. To be cured of arthritis, all you need to consume are certain herbs. Herbs that are anti-inflammatory in nature are the best for curing arthritis. These herbs include meadowsweet, peppermint, wintergreen, birch, black and white willow bark, and balsam of Gilead.

However, certain other herbs work synergistically with the above herbs. Personally, no arthritis cure can be accomplished efficiently without the following herbs: Devil’s Claw, Boswellia (Frankincense), Uva Ursi, Mullein Leaves, Saffron, Cayenne Pepper, Feverfew, and Guaiac Wood.

Devil’s Claw, Boswellia, Uva Ursi and Mullein are the most important herbs for arthritis. They greatly counteract mucus, which is the byproduct of acid, which causes inflammation.

Organic sulfur, commonly called MSM Sulfur, is also excellent for curing arthritis. So is Noni juice!

You can also make your own healing salve by starting with a butter or oil base such as shea or cocoa butter, coconut, olive or almond oil (or any other good oil) and add a few drops (10-15 drops) of the following essential oils: peppermint, clove, wintergreen, eucalyptus, birch, and/or spearmint.

You can rub this ointment directly on your joints or other problem areas. It is very soothing and healing.

And of course as an herbalist I have formulated my own Joint Formula which consists of all the herbs listed above, it’s a powerful little formula that works wonders for me when my wrists start to ache from writing too much (writing all those pleadings legal). ).

I can’t forget about magnetic therapy for arthritis too. Magnets alkalize an injured or problem area and also improve circulation to the problem area so that healing can begin.

My good friend and brother, Mark Lomax, a musician, was cured of severe attacks of gout, another acid affliction. It’s been a few years since he had a taste. What did he do? First, he detoxified his body with our Full Body Detox. He then went on a daily regimen of our Electric Greens Cell Food (pure alkalinity), Joint Formula, and Black Cherry Juice Concentrate. You wouldn’t recognize this brother if you met him 3 years ago. He also lost over 70 pounds on these herbs. This man is a walking example of healing!

I should also mention the importance of pineapple enzymes called bromelain in curing arthritis and other acid conditions. Bromelain or pineapple enzymes are anti-inflammatory in nature and effect and thus provide healing for arthritis. They taste like candy and are chewy and you can chew as much as you like, although 3-6 tablets after dinner should do the job. You can find bromelain in most good health food stores.

Soaking inflamed body parts in hot water and essential oils of peppermint and eucalyptus is also beneficial for arthritis.

But the most important thing in the fight against arthritis is the modified diet. Eliminate or reduce meat and dairy products. These are two of the biggest culprits in causing arthritis. A vegetable cocktail consisting of celery, parsley, apple and/or carrot (for sweetness and base) 3 or 4 times a week will go a long way in removing acid build-up in your joints. By all means, avoid all acidic beverages (beer, soda, milk, orange juice, wine, coffee, etc.).

Man, life is so wonderful when you know how to cure and prevent diseases. Understanding diseases is just as important. Sometimes I am full of pain and sadness for my knowledge and knowing that people suffer from lack of knowledge (and also from madness). See Ecclesiastes 1:18 and Hosea 4:6

However, the children of the future, including my son, Asim, and my daughter, Layla, and other descendants of Conscious Minds: Nadya, Najee, Elijah, Asar, Sunshine, and the most recent edition of Melia and Obea, and the others ( here on the west coast in Los Angeles) will benefit from this insight into proper diet as well as my suffering and pain as well as their parents. I am also quite sure that many children across the country will also benefit from reading and applying this health information and knowledge that is freely distributed by their parents.

As much as I loved soul food and my relative’s cooking back in my dead (black) days, you couldn’t put a gun to my head and force me to eat a piece of chicken or pork today, and I mean that! ! I love myself too much to damage my temple of God. My children are beautiful (and very cunning and precocious) because of what their parents ate before and while they were conceived. You can do it too!

Make the change people! Taste is not the criterion of what is healthy. The nutritional content is!

Peace and love, readers!

Products that can start the healing process: MUCUS BUSTER, MSM SULFUR, ACID BUSTER.