For the Word of God, dwelling physically in the world, did not have the softness of the liquid of sin in the Word’s body, because as fire bakes bread and makes it dry and without any moisture in it, so also the same Only Begotten of God was conceived from the fire of the Holy Spirit and was born from the purest of virgins … ~ Hildegard von Bingen’s Mystical Visions: Translated from “Scivias”
Happy Healthy Hildegard
I discovered the happy and healthy Hildegard in the form of Dr. Wighard Strehlow’s healing work at the Hildegard Center in Allen Bach, Germany during the filming for The Unruly Mystic: Saint Hildegard. Traditional German Herbal Medicine is a practice and research area championed by modern physicians, pharmacists, and health and wellness practitioners. The practice incorporates various disciplines and practices of natural medicine that have developed over time. These practices include the time‐tested techniques have evolved from klosterheilkunde, folk medicine, and monastic medicine, incorporating herbal medicine, Hildegard of Bingen medicine, homeopathy, and naturopathy.
As a filmmaker, I don’t pretend to be offering any medical advice and will leave that tasks to the real professionals out there, I can speak from personal experience that Galangal is a quick homeopathic remedy for a headache having used the product and shared it with family and friends. Somehow the flush of red to the face from digesting the spice of Galangal is enough to stimulate the capillaries to increase blood flow in all the right areas. But that is just my observation.
Traditional German Herbal Medicine is the culmination of modern knowledge, scientific methodology, technology, and substantial historical precedent. It has been established over generations resulting in 5 Modern Tenets of Traditional German Medicine.
Hildegard, Heart and Galangal
According to Dr. DeBakey 70% of all heart attack patients die in the first few hours after a massive myocardiac infarction. Unfortunately nobody knows that galangal can help immediately and often prevent death. Shortly before Dr. Michael DeBakey’s 100th birthday he wanted to hold a symposium in Houston with his fellow doctors to introduce them to Hildegard medicine. He himself had experienced the healing of a chest wound, which had been infected for almost 2 years with hospital bacteria. By applying a yarrow compress several times a day, as Hildegard describes, and in addition drinking yarrow tea daily the wound finally healed and closed over. Through a spelt diet he was also cured of a life-threatening diarrhea. In addition he had found that galangal made his heart strong.
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Over 20,000 people, who have been helped by Galangal in difficult situations, confirm that galangal is the best remedy to protect from heart attacks, strokes and sudden hearing loss. Galangal should dissolve on the tongue, this is called the “tongue-heart reflex.” In this way it prevents a heart pain from developing into a heart attack. Due to its spasmolytic properties it opens clogged coronary arteries, so that pain and life-threatening danger disappear. Other medication is no longer necessary.
The galangal root contains essential oil and resin that cause the hot-bitter taste. Besides oil 6 other sharp ingredients have been isolated and identified. Galangal is also rich in bioflavonoids, which are only found in genuine galangal with its characteristic sharp biting taste.
The Spelt nutritional therapy – based on a healthy and happy life
Numerous studies prove overwhelming and from around the world that both wheat and also spelt very well have many pharmacological effects and clinical efficiencies due to its ingredients, with which one can observe great healing past and present. Already the second Dinkel colloquium at the Agricultural University of Hohenheim in 1991 was reported that spelt due to its content of thiocyanate has immune-stimulating, anti-inflammatory, antibiotic and anticarcinogenic properties.
Based on these facts the Dinkel has become a basic diet for the treatment of auto-aggressive diseases:
- Gastrointestinal diseases
- skin diseases
- Metabolic Diseases
- Rheumatic diseases
- Cardiovascular diseases
- neuropathy
- Cancers and
- Drug damage to detox.
The International Hildegard von Bingen Foundation just participates in the publication of a doctoral thesis by Dr. Marina Franziska Bisping on the subject of spelt and wheat, two traditional medicinal plants. Therein the numerous secondary components of both grain types are described by their pharmacological characteristics:
1. phytoestrogens from the group of lignans with antioxidant, immunomodulatory, cholsterinspiegelsenkenden and anti-cancer properties which one can reduce the risk of cancer of the lung, liver, prostate and uterus.
2. phytosterols to reduce LDL cholesterol and the reduction of cardiovascular diseases.