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8 Reasons to Consume Amazon Herb Products
A Presentation by Christian Drapeau
Christian Drapeau is a neurophysiologist
with over 13 years research experience in
the fields of natural foods and nutrition.
He is the former Chief Scientist at Cell
Tech where he directed research on
Aphanizomenon flos-aquae, and is currently
Chief Scientist for Desert Lake
Technologies, Oregon. Mr. Drapeau received a
BSc. in Neurophysiology from McGill
University, Montreal, and a MSc. from the
Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill
University, Montreal.
When I began working on the idea of
describing 8 reasons to consume Amazon Herb
Products, I first had in mind the various
effects on health, as demonstrated by
science. But the more I was thinking about,
the more it became obvious to me that the
reasons why one should consume Amazon Herb
Products goes far beyond the information
provided on the herbs by science. It goes
into all aspects of Amazon Herbs Company,
the herbs themselves, and the benefits to
the rainforest and its indigenous people. So
here are in my opinion, the 8 reasons why
everyone should consume Amazon Herb
Products.
1. They are wild herbs from virgin soils
2. They are ancestral formulas
3. They are prepared in a unique manner
4. The rainforest provides many billion $
drugs
5. Amazon Herb products work
6. Amazon herbs provide scientifically
demonstrated benefits
7. Amazon Herb products address all basic
health issues
8. Numerous and unequaled benefits go to the
rainforest and indigenous people
Let’s take these various points one by one.
What does it mean that the herbs are growing
in virgin soils, and why is this important?
Here is a slide built from data obtained
from the FAO, the Food and Agriculture
Organization, an international organization
created in 1945 that is part of the United
Nations and whose purpose is to defeat
hunger and malnutrition in the world. This
graph tells us that if we grow a crop every
year on a piece of land and we do not add
any type of artificial fertilizers, after
ten years the soil becomes barren. This is
essentially due to the demineralization of
the soil; without minerals crops cannot
grow.
Now, if one grows a crop for 2 years
followed by 8 years of fallow land, and then
repeats this cycle of 2 years of farming
followed by 8 years of fallow land, the soil
still remains somewhat fertile after 60
years. The demineralization is slowly
mitigated by the years of natural
replenishment. However, if one grows a crop
for 2 years and then keeps the land fallow
for 18 years under trees, the soil remains
optimally productive forever. And this is
due to the natural remineralization of the
soil brought by the annual decay of leaves
and other organic matter.
And the reason why I am bringing this up is
because this is the situation that prevails
in the Amazonian jungle. Indigenous people
harvest the herbs in the wilderness, not in
specific cultivated pieces of land. Every
year they gather the herbs in new places and
the herbs that are collected contain the
optimal amount of minerals provided by an
undisturbed soil.
As stated by science Nobel Price Linus
Pauling, "We can trace every sickness, every
disease and every ailment to a mineral
deficiency." The herbs form the rainforest
provide the ideal natural source of minerals
for the body.
Wilderness also means exceptional
biodiversity. It has been know for ages that
the best way to maintain the quality and
productivity of a land is to rotate crops.
But the ideal situation is not to actually
rotate crops, it is to have a huge diversity
of plants growing on a given land; the
problem is that this is not productive from
our western point of view; if we want corn
we plant corn, not corn and 100 other
plants. The jungle provides an unequaled
biodiversity that offers the greatest
opportunity for maintaining the soil strong
and rich, in a long-term sustainable manner.
So herbs from the rainforest will always be
optimally filled with minerals.
The difference with our common agricultural
methods is striking to say the least.
The wilderness of the Amazonian jungle
offers another unique advantage. The best
way to accelerate the biodegradation of
organic matter to turn them into compost and
literally organic fertilizers, is to flood
them with water which accelerate the
bacterial degradation. If we could afford
it, flood irrigation of a wild land would be
the best way to prepare a land for highest
productivity. This is exactly what we have
in the Amazonian jungle on a grand scale.
Millions of acres are flooded every year,
turning the Amazonian forest into the
largest organic farmland of the world!
Most people believe that the difference
between organic and non-organic produce is
that organic produce contains more nutrients
than non-organic ones. But this is not
accurate. Many studies have been conducted
to put this in evidence but so far no real
nutritional differences were found between
organic and non-organic food. Yet, the
difference is undeniable. Simply eating a
non-organic and an organic carrot, and there
you feel the difference. So what is this
difference? How can we see it? And what does
it mean?
There is one difference that has been found
between organic and non-organic foods, and
it is the redox potential. I will not go
into details here because it can become
complex, but in general the redox potential
is the ability to give electron, so it is in
a way the ability of a food to act as an
antioxidant in the body. The more negative
the redox potential of a vegetable the
better it is. Non-organic produce often has
a positive redox potential, meaning that the
body must spend antioxidants to neutralize
such food. Organic produce on the other hand
has a negative redox potential that can go
as high as –300. But the real kick here is
that wild foods, like the rainforest herbs
and tubers, like suma and maca, as well as
blue-green algae from Klamath Lake, can
score as high as – 600. Wild foods are real
antioxidant nutrition that promote optimal
health.
There is a last characteristic of wild foods
from the virgin soils of the rainforest that
has been put in evidence by the work of Dr.
Emoto. Emoto is a Japanese scientist who
developed a technique by which a simple drop
of water is put on microscope slide and
allowed to freeze into a water crystal, and
then the idea is simply to look at the shape
of the crystal. What Emoto has put in
evidence is that water absorbs the vibration
of the environment, what it has been exposed
to, and this is reflected in the shape of
the crystal… and this requires no
explanation. It is a phenomenon that must
bee seen. Here on the left is a crystal from
water taken at the source of a natural
spring. On the top right is the same river
as it passes through a city, and on the
bottom right is the same water after
exposure to the city.
Here on the left is a crystal from water
taken at the source of another natural
spring; on the top right is the same river
as it passes through a city, and on the
bottom right is the same water as it reaches
the ocean and is slowly getting regenerated.
Emoto further put in evidence the fact that
many things can affect the harmony present
in water; our thoughts, words, drawing… and
we have to keep in mind that the human body
is 78% water. Here is water that comes from
a bottle on which it was written, “You make
me sick. I will kill you.” Here is the same
water from a bottle on which it was written,
“Thank you.”
Why is this relevant to our discussion? The
rainforest is bathed by billions of gallons
of water that flows on virgin lands in an
area with virtually no population. There is
no pollution in the Amazonian rainforest. So
the herbs that you are consuming have been
growing in virgin soils irrigated by water
that carries the message of harmony. I think
that when we ask whether we want food grown
with this water or this water (as the slides
are switched; slide 13), the answer is
rather obvious.
What does it mean when we say that these
Amazon Herb formulas are ancestral formulas?
Here is the picture of a tree that is
allegedly 1700 years old. When this tree
began growing, the herbs and formulas that
we have with the Amazon Herb Products were
already being used by indigenous people.
We often look at science as being this
collective machine that tells us what is
real from what is not; what is really
working for your health. If science confirms
something then it must be true. Yet, when we
study the history of science we realize that
it is a long series of errors, as we search
for a greater understanding. There is
nothing wrong with this, but it is
interesting to reflect on the purpose of
science, at least in medicine. Why do we do
study to investigate whether an herb is good
for health?
The answer is simple, because we cannot
afford doing real-time experimentation in
the field on thousands of people and for
centuries. So we select a “representative”
group of people and we perform the study on
them. Then, with the data we perform
statistics and extrapolate what we found on
a few people to an entire population. This
way we can get relatively fast results and
make this whole process fit the contemporary
economic model of medicine. But this is done
simply to replace the more accurate and
powerful approach of long-term testing.
Having ancestral formulas means that they
have passed the test of time, they have been
used for centuries, and often knowledge has
been developed on the blending of certain
herbs for synergistic effect. Nothing can
replace the proof of time and that’s what we
have the Amazon Herb Products.
Amazon Herb Products are made using the
spagyric method of extraction, which is
seldom used in the industry, thought it is
the best method of extraction.
In brief, a plant is composed of a majority
of cellulose and a small amount of pigments,
vitamins, mineral and other compounds
collectively referred to as phytochemicals.
Most of the time, these phytochemicals
amount for less than 10% of the weight of
any plants. So when we consume a dried plant
or a dried herb without any extraction, we
consume mostly wood!
The spagyric extraction process is a process
whereby the cellulose in an herb is removed,
leaving only the phytochemicals and
minerals.
The actual process is relatively simple. The
herb to be extracted is first placed in
water, the most universal solvent.
Everything that is water-soluble is
extracted and ends up in the water. Then the
herb is placed in alcohol, the second most
universal solvent, and most of the remaining
phytochemicals end up in the alcohol. At
this point the herb has lost virtually all
its phytochemicals, which are the water and
alcohol, and all that remains is essentially
cellulose or wood in which minerals are
trapped. So the herb is combusted at high
temperature to deliver an alkaline ash that
is filled with minerals. The final spagyric
extract is a blend of the water and alcohol
extracts, and the mineral ash.
The dietary supplements industry as a whole
has made great progress in the past few
years regarding the quality of processing
and manufacturing practices. So here Amazon
Herb Company is not unique, but the entire
program of harvesting, processing and
testing is up to par with the industry
guidelines, even though we are here talking
about a situation of wild harvest in
conditions that are often not easy to
control.
Herbs are harvested and then brought to the
village where they are sun-dried. This is
done to prevent the growth of bacteria or
molds, which would otherwise be a problem in
the moist rainforest. Herbs are then taken
by boat to Pucallpa where is located the
warehouse. There, the herbs are sorted and
cleaned by hand and an ethno-botanist
confirms the identity of the herbs before
they are shipped to Lima, where a phyto-sanitary
certificate is obtained before shipping the
herbs to the United States. Upon arrival to
the United States, herbs are inspected by
the USDA and FDA before reaching their
destination at the Amazon Herb Co.
headquarters. At Amazon’s headquarter the
identity of the herbs are also verified
using organoleptic properties and Fourier
Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). The
final testing is also done to ensure that
the herbs are free of pathogens and heavy
metal contamination. When the identity and
purity of the herbs have been clearly
established, the herbs are processed through
spagyric extraction. Herbs are also
encapsulated, but before encapsulation they
are sprayed with spagyric extracts to
strengthen the powder. AT this point, the
products are ready to be shipped to your
home.
Another reason to consume Amazon Herb
products is because the Amazon rainforest is
the pharmacy of the world. What makes an
herb successful on the medical market is not
its scientific efficacy but rather its
marketability and whether a patent can be
obtained. There are many herbs with
demonstrated exceptional efficacy in the
treatment of various health problems, but
because they do not fit in the medical
model, they never receive proper attention
and media coverage. As a testament to the
wealth of the rainforest, here are 4 herbs
that are the source of drugs that sold for
more than $1 billion last year.
A compound called etoposide has been
extracted from Mayapple. Etoposide is
currently used for the treatment of
testicular cancer.
Periwinkle is the source of vincristine and
vinblastine, two compounds used in the
treatment of leukemia and lymphomas.
Wild yam is an exceptional of plant steroid
used to develop contraceptives and hormonal
treatment.
Pacific yew is the source of the well known
drug taxol, used for uterine cancer.
As said by James Duke, well known botanist
affiliated with the USDA, “If I can find
four billion-dollar drug plants in my humble
and domesticated backyard, how many are lost
as we cut and burn that irreplaceable
Amazonian forest?”
One of the main reasons to consume Amazon
Herb products is the simple fact that they
work. They have been developed according to
ancestral knowledge gained over centuries
and have been tested by doctors.
Many of the herbs used in the Amazon Herb
products have been studied by science and
continue to be actively studied, and their
health benefits have been confirmed.
Take for example chanca piedra, which means
in Spanish “stone breaker.” Chanca piedra is
used in the jungle to eliminate kidney
stones. The interesting thing is that many
studies conducted over the past few years
have confirmed the fact that chanca piedra
prevents the formation of large CaOx
crystals and breaks down large aggregates in
many smaller ones that can easily be
eliminated. Not only has science confirmed
its effect, but isn’t rather interesting
that indigenous people who have no access to
labs and sophisticated equipment called
“stone breaker” a plant that literally
breaks stones?
Iporuru has been used for ages to alleviate
the symptoms of rheumatism and arthritis,
and to sooth inflammation. Recently, a study
showed that an extract of iporuru was
effective at reducing inflammation in a
mouse model.
Likewise, tayuya has been used to alleviate
joint pain and inflammation. Recently, an
extract of tayuya has been shown to reduce
inflammation in four different animal models
by 46%, 61%, 79% and 87%.
Mulungu, a beautiful red flower, has been
used in the jungle for post-traumatic stress
syndrome. Several studies have shown the
anxiolytic properties of mulungu, to the
point of being as effective as drugs like
diazepam, without the side effects of
drowsiness. Mulungu was also shown to reduce
pain.
Pata de vaca is known in the jungle as
vegetable insulin. In 2004, 5 studies have
been published confirming that pata de vaca
helps the body produce insulin. Pata de vaca
was effective in two animal models of
diabetes.
When considering the whole product line,
another reason to consume Amazon Herb
Products is that they address all the basic
health issues.
Digestive health is effectively addressed by
Digestazon, Digestazon Plus, and Fiberzon
(including Fiberzon Plus!).
Recovazon and Warrior promotes healthy blood
and lymphatic circulation.
Envirozon and the Shipibo Treasure Tea
promote effective yet gentle detoxification.
When the main issues have been addressed,
the body needs to regenerate. Aquazon will
support the regenerative abilities of the
body.
Sumacazon and Lunazon will help maintain
hormonal balance.
Arcozon, Uña de gato and Aquazon will help
maintain immune strength and balance.
Finally, one of the most important reasons
to consume Amazon Herb products is the
far-reaching benefit that it brings to the
rainforest and its inhabitants.
The rainforest is a unique and unequaled
resource that must be protected:
• 30% of known plant and animal species in
the Amazon
• 23,000 species in 6 acres of Amazonian
Rainforest
• 300 species of trees in 2.5 acres of
Amazonian Rainforest (in CA forest - only 10
species in 2.5 acres)
• 25% (> 7,000) of drugs contain rainforest
ingredients
• < 2% of tropical species analyzed for
possible pharmaceutical use
The Amazon Rainforest is truly the pharmacy
of the world, and it is paramount to protect
it and ensure its survival.
Yet, in spite of its vital role in the
equilibrium of our planet, large parcels of
forest are cut everyday for lumber and
agricultural interests.
• Approximately 50 acres of Rainforest are
lost to deforestation per minute
• That amounts to roughly 75,000 acres per
day and 26,000,000 acres per year
• If nothing is changed, at the current rate
of deforestation the Amazonian Rainforest
may be gone in 20 years
• Of the millions of indigenous inhabitants,
only a few hundred thousands remain; the
Amazonian Rainforest and its people are in
peril.
Of all the great reasons to consume Amazon
Herb Products, this is really what sets
Amazon Herb Company apart. Consuming Amazon
Herb Products automatically gives you the
opportunity to protect the rainforest and
its inhabitants. About $150 per acre per
year is earned through lumber and
agricultural activities; using the same land
for the sustainable harvesting of herbs can
yield up to $2,000 per acre. Harvesting
herbs is transforming the economic reality
of indigenous people.
But this is only part of the problem. In
order to develop, maintain and protect this
economic activity, the indigenous people
must legally own the land they harvest herbs
from. Ownership of land is a strange concept
for the indigenous people, but the reality
of today’s world requires that they exercise
their rights in this regard. Oftentimes the
indigenous people are not willingly offering
their land for lumber activities; lumber
companies simply come and cut trees.
Tribes can claim ownership of lands on which
they have had ancestral presence. Once
titles to the land have been obtained, they
can legally prevent lumber activities. This
legal work requires legal counsel, fees and
guidance to the tribes. Amazon Herb Company
has undertaken to educate the tribe in this
regard and provide them with the legal and
financial assistance to secure their rights
on their land. Recently, one tribe has had
the opportunity to exercise its rights
against a lumber company that had begun
cutting trees on the tribe’s land. In an
unprecedented legal case, the tribe won and
obliged the company to cease its activity.
Amazon Herb Company is contributing to the
preservation of the rainforest and its
inhabitants by making the forest worth more
money standing than cut, and by establishing
the rights of the indigenous people over
their land.
Amazon Herb Company is also helping the
tribes manage various health issues.
Interestingly, virtually no degenerative
diseases are seen in the inhabitants of the
jungle. However, due to the inherent nature
of the rainforest and the pollution of the
water brought by lumber activities,
intestinal problems linked to parasites and
other pathogens are common.
For this reason, Amazon Herb Company is
working on a program to provide the tribes
with manual water purification system for
pure drinking water. In certain tribes,
solar power systems have been installed to
provide the tribes with renewable and
sustainable sources of energy. This has
allowed the development of broadcasting
stations from which health, cultural, and
community information can be shared with
distant tribes.
Aside from being unique, the work done in
the jungle by Amazon Herb Company and John
Easterling is impressive and testifies to
the unmitigated commitment and spirit of his
contribution to the rainforest and the
indigenous people.
And you can obtain all these benefits and
participate in this invaluable contribution
to the world simply by consuming Amazon Herb
Products.
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