Interview

"How Your Animal Companions
Can Benefit From Rainforest Herbs"

Transcribed from February 20, 2001 live conference call, edited for clarity.

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Amazon John Easterling(John): Yes, you can use the herbs with your pets. Dogs, cats, birds, horses respond very well and normally very quickly to the botanicals. I first became aware of a study done at the University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru, where Dr. Ruíz was using Uña de Gato to treat cats and dogs for a wide variety of stubborn problems. He noticed that the animals receiving Uña de Gato were not only healthier but also tended to live an average of three years longer than the untreated animals.

Dr. Ruíz was using the Uña de Gato to treat a broad spectrum of disorders including allergic reactions, hair loss, itching, lethargy, inflammation, dull coats, muscle problems, prostate issues, hemorrhoids, tumors, arthritis, even the Parvo virus. His extraordinary results really prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the botanicals really work with animals.

To determine dosage for pets, use Clark's Rule. Divide the pet's weight in pounds by 150 to give the approximate fraction of the adult dose. You can empty the capsules or put the liquid right into their food. You can also rub the liquid extracts right on their bellies or on the inside of their legs, where it absorbs right in. Of course, the pet will often lick the herbs off, so you get the desired effect that way too.

I've got several stories with my dog, Sherlock. His favorite place is the beach. He's part Lab and part setter so he's 100% beach animal. He just dives into the waves and surfs and swims off like he's going to France. Then he swims back in and looking over his shoulder catches the best wave. One day he got into a Portugese Man of War, which is like a big jellyfish, which releases an extremely toxic substance with their tentacles. Sherlock was going tooth to tentacle with this jellyfish. I noticed he looked a little dazed and stunned. Then he just rolled over, his muscles just froze up, his legs got stiff, and he fell over on his side.

When I got to him, his eyes were bulging out; he was having difficulty breathing and was going into convulsions. Of course, I was very frightened. I grabbed him and ran to the truck with him. All I had in the truck was Recovazon™ so I just blasted some in his mouth and rubbed it on his belly and legs. In just a minute or two he started breathing a little better but he still looked dazed.

When I got him home, I hit him pretty heavy with Illumination, Uña de Gato and Envirozon™. And an hour later you couldn't tell the difference. He was completely back to normal! That potentially lethal situation for Sherlock was truly remarkable.

Luke: So the Recovazon™ helped Sherlock's body deal with the toxins he was confronting then?

John: Yes, and then the Illumination, Uña de Gato and Envirozon™ downloaded that toxicity, got the immune system kick started again, and helped the digestive and metabolic systems moving the toxins out of the cells. The great thing with animals is that they respond so quickly.

Luke: And there's no placebo. It's not like they are wanting the herbs to work. Donna, over in Scottsdale, you had an experience with Jesse James and tick fever, right?

Donna: We'd taken him on a trip to Idaho and Montana. On the road he got really sick. We took him to a vet in a small town, who said it was probably worms. So he wormed him. But over the next couple weeks, he kept getting worse and worse. Finally when he couldn't jump into my car, I took him to my homeopathic vet, who did some blood work and found out it was tick fever. The vet said the only thing that worked was antibiotics. Reluctantly, I did a round of antibiotics. The dog was good for a week or two and then he started to go back down again. So I took him to still another vet, who said that six months of antibiotics would probably handle it. I said, "There's no way I'm gonna give my dog antibiotics for six months!"

So I called John because I knew he'd had Rocky Mountain spotted fever years ago. He told me to use Recovazon™, Envirozon™, and Uña de Gato -- a tablespoon every day. He recommended I get a blood test before, do the herbs for ten days, and then get another blood test after that. The blood test showed positive for Tick Fever. I did the herbs for ten days and did a second blood test. The vet said, "I don't believe this! I've never seen a dog cured of Tick Fever!"

I gave him information on the herbs, but being a conventional vet, he never did anything with them. It's now five year's later and Jesse James is still fabulous.

Luke: I'm looking at his picture here in Issue 7 of Rainforest News and he's a handsome dog!

Pamela: Two years ago my vet told me that my 17-year old Dog, Twerps's kidneys were seriously affected and that he really didn't expect her to live very long. Since the herbs had helped me tremendously, I decided to put her on the herbs. I started her out on Illumination™, Sumacazon™, Shipibo Tea™, and Recovazon™. In about a month, her breathing had improved beyond belief.

I had been taking her to the vet often since there were so many things wrong with her but this time it was over a year before I took her back. When the vet saw her, he couldn't believe it. He looked her over and just shook his head. She runs around, climbs stairs, attacks the cat, goes into the woods and in the car with me. Today I give her all the herbs, about a dropper full of each in her food. She eats them like she loves them. Of course, my cat eats the herbs too and is really thriving.

Luke: Jan, you've got some very special pet stories for us tonight. First, tell us about your macaw, Nellie, and then about the Bengal tigers, Mork and Mindy.

Jan: Nellie, our blue and gold macaw is 32 inches long and, thanks to herbs, a sparkling iridescent blue. She wasn't like that when I first saw her in a pet store. She was four years old and pretty bedraggled. She had never had a bath. Her feathers were all broken or missing. She had bald patches under her arms and she was really pathetic. I actually bought her because I felt so sorry for her. I didn't choose Nellie; she chose me. She kept getting on my arm and we couldn't get her off.

So we brought her home and took care of her. But good food just wasn't enough. Then I shared my tea with her one day and she was hooked. Nellie now has to have her Shipibo Tea™ every day and she also gets most of the other herbs. The transformation was unbelievable. Her reputation has spread. I've had people with exotic birds that have had feather-picking problems and behavior problems call me. They've ordered the herbs and had good success also.

We do give Nellie a little Kavazon™ right before we clip her toenails because it really makes the job go easier. She just mellows right out. It's wonderful to see her spread her wings, which are now completely filled out and beautiful.

Luke: How do you feed Nellie the herbs?

Jan: Oh, Nellie loves the herbs! She yells, "Kava!" One day I caught her with my Kavazon™ bottle trying to get the top off. She loves the herbs. She drinks them strong. I think she would drink them all day if I let her.

Luke: I'd like to go on to the story of Mork and Mindy. This is a particularly touching story. Could you go into the background of Mork and Mindy?

Jan: Two Rainforest friends, Adriana and Lance, happened upon a wildlife preserve and a rehab center in Montana. They were very upset because two Bengal tigers there were going to put to sleep because they couldn't walk and were in a lot of pain. My friends asked me to go up there.

It was unbelievable. These people had a mountain lion walking around in the living room. There were lions and tigers and bears. They also had these two absolutely gorgeous Bengal tigers. The male was 115 lbs. and the female was considerably lighter, probably about 75 lbs. the first time I saw them. They were like kittens. We were petting them. Although we kept in mind they were wild animals.

The tigers' hips were thin because they had a metabolic bone disease. They had been rescued five 12-pound rag doll tiger cubs from a breeder in the Midwest who had not fed them. Three of them had died but Mork and Mindy survived. The rehab people had done everything they could think of. They had even ground up bones and put them with marrow and blood, but they just weren't having any success.

So here we were standing there watching these gorgeous Bengal tigers. The male keep sitting in a pool of water, obviously in agony. The female was very weak. Some days she wouldn't even get up. She would urinate on herself. You know, cats just don't do that.

Anyway, I started them on the herbs. I got help from John. People in my down line donated bottles of herbs. The rehab owner told me that in four days she could see a difference! It's been eight months now. Just yesterday she told me that Mork weighs 250 pounds. Mork's hips are two inches bigger on either side than before. The rehab owner said, "Now you'd never know there had been a problem with Mork." Basically, the herbs saved their lives because she would have had to put them down when they got so heavy because they could not carry their own weight.

Luke: They were given Illumination™, Sumacazon™, and Recovazon™, is that correct?

Jan: I started them on those and then John said to put them on the Warrior, Sumacazon™ and Recovazon™ and that's what they've been on ever since. Actually Mork had gotten to where he really liked the Illumination™. You can't really force feed a Bengal tiger. The first time he shook his head but after that they didn't have problems with them taking the herbs at all.

Then we got into the dried herbs and the rehab owner had to make balls of blood with the herbs to get the herbs down them that way. It's really exciting to see these animals. These are true-life Bengal tigers. I never thought I'd be petting and playing with tigers. The day I saw them run across the compound, I almost cried, it was so rewarding to see them running, playing and jumping on each other.

Sharon: I'm Sharon from New Jersey. I have recently become a believer in the Amazon herbs. I do animal rescue work. I have 18 animals at my home. My 17-year old cat became ill so I did a search on the Internet for Rainforest herbs and came up with Jan's number. I've been talking to her many times over the past three days and have grown to love her.

I started my cat, who had fluid build up around her lungs and a bacterial infection, on the Illumination™, Sumacazon™ and Shipibo Tea. The vet couldn't believe the results with this cat. He said he really thought the test results would show she had cancer. But she doesn't. Her lungs are 60% improved. All of us in my house including my animals take the herbs now. When I made my first Shipibo Tea™, I had seven dogs that literally crowded around me. So I filled the bowl and they all drank it.

Luke: Animals often know instinctively what is good for them. Their thinking doesn't get in the way of their body's wisdom.

Cassandra: This is Cassandra Drapeau from Oregon. We have 15 animals here in the house. One cat in particular was always extremely obese. I tried all kinds of premium diet food and just couldn't get her to lose the weight.

I thought maybe I will just try this Metabazon™ on her. I put some on her food. That was in the evening. The next morning I woke up with the sound of something running around downstairs and bouncing off the couch and playing with the cat toys. I came down and it was the fat cat! She was rolling around and playing just being wild. Normally she doesn't do much at all. That was about a month ago and she's probably lost about 8 pounds and is doing incredibly well. Her coat is better. She's been on just the Metabazon™.

My other story involves my filly who was kicked in the knee and had a badly swollen front knee joint. I used the Recovazon™ topically for two days straight four times a day and by the end of that second day the swelling on her knee was completely gone.

Jan: John, for Sharon's cat, do you think it should take Warrior too for the fluid on the lungs? It's taking Recovazon™, Illumination™, and Sumacazon™, but would you suggest anything else?

John: I would suggest some Warrior™ and some Gato to go along with the other herbs. And, Luke, I appreciate the point you brought up about the animal instinctively knowing the herbs are good for them, because of course before man began to domesticate them animals were out there eating the wild herbs growing in virgin soil. Since man has domesticated animals, he's turned them on to the same food that he himself has gotten accustomed to -- devoid of the vital nutrients and the life force of wild foods. Once animals taste the nutrient density and feel the life force energy from the Rainforest herbs, they respond almost instantly.

For example, Sherlock, when I pull out the herbs to do a couple shooters myself, he'll just come and roll over inviting me to squirt some on his belly. He often plays in the woods and comes back with different insect bites. He knows that the Recovazon™ gets rid of the itching and inflammation right away, so he'll come right over next to me and roll over as if to say, "Hey, where's mine?"

We have a wonderful opportunity to share these botanicals with our animals. I know many of you out there, like myself, are really bonded with your animals. The fact that animals respond so well gives people the confidence they need to start using the herbs themselves as well.