Virgo and Lyudmila Mihkelsoo
STEP-BY-STEP SELF-HEALING GUIDE A Homesteader's Guide for Maintaining and Restoring Your Health with the Help of Your Own Actions and Natural Remedies BUCKWHEAT, BERRIES, HONEY, BEE BREAD Implementing the Hippocratic Oath: “I detect the disease, find malfunctions in the body, eliminate them, and in 80% of cases the body’s health is restored” An expanded, revised and translated version of the book "Toome oma tervise tagasi" (Restore Your Health) by Virgo and Lyudmila Mihkelsoo, published in Tallinn, Estonia, 2008-2016.
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In brief: This book can help you better understand your body, especially its mechanisms of self-restoration and self-healing, which are the foundation of human life. The human organism is capable of synthesizing a huge variety of substances that cannot now or ever in the future be acquired even in the most state-of-the-art pharmacy in the world. The human organism is so perfect that it can always restore good health irrespective of age – there are no incurable diseases. This book examines in detail the imbalances, disturbances, disruptions and impediments to the vital and regulating functions of the body’s different organs and systems. The materials presented in the book allow you independently to analyze the state of your health. Using the consolidated table presented in the book, anyone with a health problem can always identify the possible functional disturbances that have developed to the extent where they prevent the normal functioning of the whole body, or that are the cause of the development of conditions or the onset of diseases, or that may have caused the ineffectiveness of treatments applied previously. Functional disturbances to the whole organism are most often the result of substance deficiencies, dehydration, disturbances to gut microflora, hyperacidity, parasitic infection, disruptions to the proper rhythms of work and rest, sleep disorders, compromised immune system, insufficient energy in the brain, etc. Disturbances that have appeared in the body can be corrected through physical exercises, adjustments to thought processes, diet therapy, and the use of remedies made with bee products and medicinal plants. If they have the will and determination, sufferers will have the opportunity to begin getting better by themselves, using the results of research and advice of scientists and practicing healers and doctors, and the experience of folk medicine. The personal experience of the authors and analysis of letters from readers who have used the advice in the book, the first edition of which appeared in 2008, have shown that if sufferers themselves, with their own actions and efforts, provide their body with the help it needs, eliminate functional disturbances, mobilize the strengths of their subconscious, and launch processes of restoration and self-healing, then in 80% of cases without any surgical intervention or medical prescriptions they will recover even from serious diseases. This book is designed to supplement, and not to replace, the treatments and advice of doctors or other qualified medical specialists. If you know or suspect that you have a problem with your health, you should consult a doctor. This book is not a medical textbook. You should always consult a doctor or a specialist before following any of the treatments recommended. None of the recommendations or advice in the book should replace treatments prescribed by a doctor. Decisions taken in light of the information in the book and/or remedies made according to the recipes in the book are at the reader’s discretion. The authors and publisher specifically disclaim any liability for losses or risks, personal or otherwise, that any person incurs directly or indirectly as a result of employing or adopting any of the recommendations, advice, or recipes contained in this book. STEP-BY-STEP SELF-HEALING GUIDE © 2018 RemedyWay Published in Tallinn • Estonia • 2018 Authors: Virgo and Lyudmila Mikhelsoo Translator: Philip Parker Editor: Nelly Vahtramaa Proofreader: Giia Weigel Design and layout: Yuliana Sokolova Photos: Mihkelsoo’s personal archive Printing: Tallinna Raamatutrükikoda ISBN 978-9949-7254-0-3 First edition • 2018 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by an information storage and retrieval system - except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review to be printed in a magazine or newspaper - without permission in writing from the publisher.
Our deep and heartfelt gratitude goes to Per Nelson Ørnstrand who initiated the creation of the English version of this book and was irreplaceable in assisting us with its publishing.
"We all have books at home. There are the buy-read-forget books, there are the ones we keep, but never read again, the ones we like to return to time and time again, and then there are the ones we keep on our bedside table, because this is where they belong – right with us for every time we need the wisdom they contain. This book, or rather, the Estonian version of this book, has been one of the keepers for me. There is something comforting in knowing that such an abundance of health-related knowledge is always at my arm’s length, every time a question arises. Sadly, in our time there seems to be a tendency towards finding quick pharmaceutical solutions to every health problem we have. And, in many cases, the drugs or invasive actions are indeed the answer. We cannot glue broken bones by eating more garlic or restore seriously damaged organs by giving up milk. But there is something we can do to prevent the extreme measures from becoming a necessity – we can take care of ourselves the same way every complex organism and mechanism needs to be taken care of to function properly. In that regard, we are no different from our cars – while every vehicle deteriorates with time, much like a human body, it can be kept in the best shape possible by taking certain steps. With cars we achieve it by choosing the best gasoline and oil, checking for any changes in performance, and not overexerting the engine. It makes sense to us with cars, but we seem to have developed a certain blindness as far as our own “vehicles” are concerned. Rather than putting our trust in common sense and popular wisdom, that has been the primary measure of disease prevention through millennia, and taking responsibility for ourselves, we look at our bodies like something that has nothing to do with us and needs to be taken to a “shop” every time something breaks or fails. We forget that, similarly to our vehicles, to keep our bodies functioning, we need to supply them with good quality fuel, we have to pay attention the messages it’s sending, and keep a healthy balance between activities and rest. Now, as you may have guessed – the paradigm I am speaking from was not intrinsically mine. I went through the learning curve much like anybody else. Driven by the desire for success combined with insatiable curiosity, I learned and climbed the professional ladder, forgetting about everything that did not seem of immediate importance at that time. And, even though I suffered the effects of neglect, it wasn’t my own health that triggered the initial interest in natural remedies, it was my Mom’s. Not that nature and its bounty were strangers to my Mother whose childhood passed in wartime Estonia and the difficult years that followed. She was on very friendly terms with herbs, plants and all sorts of homey concoctions, and even though she worked as a nurse in a nearby hospital, my cold cures consisted mainly of her own remedies, including vodka socks and mustard plasters. I don’t ever remember taking tablets or being in a hospital, but I do remember many a cup of hot milk with honey and turpentine vapor-baths my Mum swore by. But then came a time when the enemy my Mother had to battle with was not ready to be subdued with milk and honey. Cancer. The illness most of us have had encounters with, either directly or indirectly, and – I don’t think I am exaggerating with this generalization – all of us dread. Suffice it to say, this is an enemy that cannot be taken lightly and who has the power to shake the ones among us not suffering from it into clarity – if we don’t like the idea of battling this monster, we must do all we can to prevent it from ever overtaking us. My Mother’s leukaemia was the wake-up call for me. Concern for her health lead me to researching the subject with passion, and coming away with wealth of knowledge, most of which, as was to be expected, was aimed at prevention, not cure. While I gleaned a lot of wisdom for myself, the help we needed for my Mother was not easy to find. But, as time has shown to most of us – once you formulate the question, the answer will present itself. For me it came in a form of a request to translate cancer-related materials for RemedyWay. I found the subject incredibly relevant to my Mother and her disease, and, by a different token,
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to myself. While Mum was left with the necessity to fight the battle, I had a chance to take steps to bypass it altogether. And this is where our journey started, a journey of self-discovery. My darling Mother gained years that her oncologist called “an unexpected and unbelievable gift”, and I gained the conviction that any malady is better prevented than fought. It is one thing to read about this statement somewhere on a flier promoting disease-prevention, and completely another to know it, based on your own experiences. Of course, typically to any learner, I have stepped on a few rakes (exhausting my reserves being number one for me), but following the advice found in this book, and suggestions and pointers so freely given by the author, Virgo Mihkelsoo, I am now, at 48, in better health than I have ever been before. While I don’t see any reason to climb on my soapbox and claim eternal health, I do see a reason to underline the fact that to operate any machine, be it metal or human, we need to KNOW them – what they need, what they want, and what they do. The book you’re holding in your hand is a detailed maintenance and care manual for your body. It teaches you how to feed it, how to care for it, how to learn to hear the distress signals, and how to keep it at a healthy balance. It does not give you a shortcut we are in a habit of expecting in our era of “I need an answer and I need it now!”. Instead, it gives you knowledge and wisdom necessary for understanding this amazing apparatus, and – if you are anything like me – endows you with a radical sense of awe: This miracle of microcosm with all its secrets and mysteries is our HOME. Let’s keep it safe and sound". Giia Weigel, the proofreader of this book, is a medical translator with an educational background from Tartu Medical School in Estonia, who has worked with pharmaceutical products and devices since the last millennium. She is currently living in Surfside, FL, USA, working as a freelancer, with primary focus on projects generated by the European Medicines Agency and IQVIA. She donates her free time to Translators without Borders.
"I knew little about Virgo and Lyudmila’s work when I began translating this book, so the process has been a fascinating and enlightening experience. As well as describing their own healing practices and providing a wealth of recipes for herbal remedies and dietary supplements, this book also offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of alternative health methods and treatments, many of which will no doubt be new to readers, as they were to me. The Mikhelsoos’ dedication to exploring the alternatives to mainstream medicine has unearthed techniques and treatments from all over the world, and among them there are many, from Russia especially, that have received little or no previous coverage in English. All this is presented in a lively and idiosyncratic manner that I hope my translation has managed to capture properly". Philip Parker, who translated this book from the Russian, is a freelance translator and writer, originally from UK, presently living in Tallinn, Estonia. He has translated numerous works of fiction and non-fiction from Russian and French.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS VIRGO MIHKELSOO was born in 1941 in Estonia to a peasant family on the Viira farmstead. In 1966 he graduated from the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University) with a degree in electrophysics. He worked at the Estonian Academy of Sciences, starting as a junior scientific worker and attaining the position of scientific secretary and chief constructor of laser technology. In 1989, he began to work at Tartu University as head of the laboratory of laser biology and medicine, where he worked with doctors to introduce laser irradiation for treatment purposes. LYUDMILA MIHKELSOO was born in 1939 in Uzbekistan. She graduated from Tartu University with a degree in philology. She studied on a post-graduate course in phytotherapy at the Mechnikov St. Petersburg Medical Academy, and in 2011 she graduated from the St. Petersburg National Institute of Health with a degree in traditional systems of medicine. Lyudmila’s grandmother was an experienced healer who made remedies from medicinal plants and other natural sources. Since 1993, Lyudmila and Virgo have been working together on the farm of Viira. They keep bees and grow buckwheat and medicinal herbs. The spouses develop and produce honey mixtures based on honey, medicinal plants, wild berries, buckwheat and other natural products for therapeutic purposes and self-healing. PS. In 1985, Lyudmila fell ill with agranulocytosis (her bone marrow stopped producing white blood cells). By using bee products, red caviar, walnuts with honey, special vegetable and fruit salads (carrot, beetroot, apples, etc.), as well as special exercises, she managed with the help of the Tartu University Clinic to restore normal hematogenesis and fully recover.
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