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Sometimes we may need a reset. Enforced when life makes us STOP. I am writing this in the hope that you take charge, so if this happens to you, you will not be in the mess most are. As I was for months after the first attack. You may need to keep this in mind for someone you know – my next feature covers High Blood Pressure, then Heart Health, Strokes and Dementia. . . Living well precedes how we age . .
In the middle of May 2025, I was hit by, yet again, by a shedding incident. My body reacted – it is too sensitive – I would not wish this on anyone. The experimental gene modification that all chose to comply with has redefined what I can and cannot do – and was behind that stair incident of Jan 2022. stopped me from working mostly. Shedding is outside the scope here – I am walking you through what a senior natural health detective/problem solver did, should this happen to you. I was not expecting round two, but I had all I needed should it happen.
I looked this way on awakening . . Initially. Unsuspecting, I had massive eye swelling. It worsened as the day progressed


Feeling ‘myself ‘off’, having no idea what was going on. The day prior, on my usual walk, it felt as though something was in my eye. I had so much local irritation, that I poured some of my water into my hands to wash it out. Thought maybe I got something in it from the gardening? A bit itchy, not right.
As I had had shingles in the other eye three and a half years ago, I was on high alert. Then I could not get anyone to diagnose me last time (in the midst of the mask and jab fever), and I knew I needed the medication instantly. But did not want to take it as I felt that it really messed with me for months afterwards. Some of us are a bit sensitive to chemicals.
I wanted to stay home, but it was Duncan’s special outing 2 hours drive away, and me not wanting to get in the way of the day’s plans, readied for a trip to Cairns, staying overnight. I took everything that I could think of to assist me look after myself – as the patient and the practitioner, not feeling at all up to the job. Feeling wrong, itchy sore eye lids, I wobbled into the car and we set sail. Brain not working, doubtful of everything, I, along with the car to Cairns, went ‘downhill’ from there. Having a fair idea of what it was, I brought with us half a pharmacy – and used it all. I tried all I could without the 800 mg strength Acycylovir, but I knew it had to be taken within five days to be effective. Last time it was over a week. Shingles in the eye/head is not good.
SHINGLES – anywhere -in my case I got it again in my eye
BELOW- A week later. I do know my job. RIGHT the second morning impressive look – all that red!! Itchy as – no pain.

What are those spots/patches you can see? See more here. And why. I have NO IDEA how I would have coped without them and all else. Instead of the usual few a day that I had using for over a year, (more on this later) I piled them on, along with my other helpers to get this gone. All dimensions of intervention concurrently. I always ask three questions . . when anything that ‘goes wrong’.
1 – Why Me?
2 – Why There?
3 – Why now?
Why me?
Why not me? At least I can show the way out.
Why there?
No idea – is internal and in the head, the brain goes to mush.
Why now?
I had treated a friend over a few hours, and as usual, the shedding/whatever it is, got to me.
Three things to consider:
1 – What set it up? (Why me/why there/why now? That last one was easy – I had been treating someone who seems to be a super shedder to me – has been since she took that injection all were told that they had to. (Almost every single time I touch her . . .and that is with all the herbs etc as buffers) For those who have not had this experience – be grateful – this has completely annihilated my life (as a Qi and body worker for those who suffer). I have become the patient).
2 – How to get out of the acute stage so life became easy again? It takes you out.
3 – What to do to renovate myself, so I am not stuck in that again.
And how to not be party to the ineptitude and assumptions, expectations and horror that the biomedicals would hand out.
2 – What I Did About My Painful Shingles interlude
This is not written for those who follow medical advice blindly
I took charge. You likely, to be here know this would be my way. You may have been seeing me for your own trouble in the past. You know that I do not accept limitations. I have always been an outlier, a maverick and a contrarian. This may not be you, but I suspect that you can see my point. The recent “do as we tell you to” has left us all with doubt as to what a medical profession is there for. You could be forgiven for thinking that ‘First Do No Harm’ has gone the way of common sense.
1 – Know what it is so YOU get onto this immediately, Harder if it is literally in your head. My first attack of shingles – (August 2021) left me months in recovery. Then, drs including the Bne hospital A and E took x 5 visits and still did not diagnose. I did. They also were reticent to prescribe. I knew what to take, and ha to wait for them to catch up. It as my vision at stake. Also self employed – how can we??
Hopeful I could avoid the Acyclovir (800 strength x 5 daily) as I felt it really knocked me about last time, I attempted to throw all naturally that I had at myself first. I gave in after 36 hours. I had a stash of this put aside in case it revisited. Whilst still doing all I had been, I needed to add in that pharma anti viral as well, as I was going downhill rapidly, regardless of all else that I was doing. It is my vision at stake. On the label, says to take this at 800 mg strength every 4 hours for 7, preferably 10 days. As I did not want to be on it at all, once I felt that I had it on hand, I stopped this at a week, though kept up doing all I had as well, for another week, and gradually tailed off.
1 – AV/AT – herbal anti viral /sort yourselves out – ask me how to access

1 – AV/AT – Main ingredient andrographis. This product was designed for the first SARS in 1997.I started on three AV/AT, every hour. I have a stash of what may one day be needed for all eventualities, although not the complete range of Chinese herbals I had in my clinic days. If you talk to me I can organise these to come to you.
I have what I have used for decades in clinic to help knock off viruses/mount my own attack herbal product. AV/AT is a herbal preparation designed after the SARS -1 incident in 1997. In clinic, I sent all patients home with this to put somewhere, in case they felt ‘off’. Instead of waiting to get/go down with whatever it was, taking AV/AT immediately staves it off. Take three, have a hot Epsom salts bath and go to bed, If not able to, take 3 every hour and get home to attend to self business there as first priority. It is easier/less expensive to NOT fall over. Often a few doses (always 3 at a time) it will be.
IN CLINIC – I GOT ALL TO BUY THIS TO HAVE IN THE CUPBOARD – IN CASE . .
as it knocks anything ( esp the dreaded lurgies) down.
CASE – glandular fever / Epstein-Barr / mononucleosis/’mono’
Plants are our friends. AV/AT stopped a rampant glandular fever in my then 13 year old son – 17 years ago. He was a mess, with lumps on his swollen lymph glands, and as sick as you can get. Zinc, Vit C and 3 of these caps every hour. And confined to bed. Not that he was up to living out of it at the time, anyway. One and a half bottles, and four days later from his rapid decline, he was better than he had been for months. As anew teenager, he had been living his version of his ‘best life’, ignoring all common sense and what mum said. This explains why him, and why then. The lead-in to him being so sick is simple – and what happens at the point of rapid growth, when anyone chooses to eat rubbish, and stay up half the night playing games on gadgets, burning the candle at both ends, (and in the middle as well) body says NO. After his mum’s dictates in action, he was up at 7am, bouncing off the walls 3 days later. . I took him off to get a blood test, as I knew no one would believe it. Massive titre of Epstein – Barr. Were the medical staff interested in how to help all the other teenagers/whoever, who often took decades to recover from chronic fatigue? No. No relapses. A few years later, a school friend related to him his years of illness, not able to’s. He realised that from not having a natural health helper, and products, at home, as he had, his friend was in a mess STILL. My son was then aware that mum as not so silly as he thought. These are 3 every hour. Diligent, vested interest, I have been get up at night and take more, plus C, plus he had Vit C and zinc, and only one acupuncture session – rest did the rest.
2) – Powdered Vit C – we can’t make it within us and need to take it constantly

It is easier to take than myriad tablets) or liquid liposomal (you use less) – preferably with the bioflavonoids in it. I took at least 50 grams a day – no bowel intolerance. At the tail end of this incident I was still taking in excess of 20 grams daily. Why? Vit C coats viruses and assist the liver to clear itself and heal.
See more here
Also the medical ignorance of what works best – knows no bounds – see the 60 Minutes Swine flu debacle here
3) – Castor oil
Organic, ideally in a darkened bottle. Invaluable to undo any inflammation, pain, to draw out splinters or toxins, belly or joint discomfort, undo scars and adhesions.. See more here. I had such an itchyete even so, the smearing of this on a finger onto the eye that was shut anyway, calmed it down, so it felt fine. Only needed to do this for a few days.
4) – Drion pads (panty liners)

Yes I know it sounds weird.
These are multi use. The negative ion strips are a healing tool. If you are not bleeding or dripping (incontinence, the panty liners are the invaluable for anything tool. Not only as expected.
Her after my facial injuries, I had at least 9 panty liners for the strips on nightly – and would get up exhausted and chop them up if found myself in bed without – is that important. They last 8 hours.
In your shoes, stuck down, they last for 8 hours. Back problems? Especially if that surgery did not work – and fix all sorts of circulation issues and have once rescued a diabetic year long bone foot infection. He did not get it chopped off – as the strips on top and bottom were the magic cure – all the work I did on him, with acupuncture, the extra and all day Vit C, and better nutrition – and a year of antibiotics, including IV – the pads saved his foot. Get the pads here .
5)- Ionic foot spa

Toxic stuff can be eliminated
I have been using these initially in Chinese massage places in shopping centres, with reflexology for nearly 20 years. Twice weekly when I was in clinic, as my own health help. Since we have our own now (they are cheap to find online), at least x 2 weekly still, but sometimes nightly. It is shocking what keeps coming out. Start with some salt in the clean warm tap water- turn it on – and !!!! This comes out in stages. I suspect that we all test it by running with nothing in it – but the salt. No or little change in colour.
Often there are floaty black bits !! and sometimes, a soapy look to around the gadget that is turned on to the electrical current. Feet usually feel lighter,. happier and often so do I.
Once I was able to be upright, this was a daily occurrence also.
6) – Perineal steaming kit
Make it yourself – see my info here too simple once set up – Third World delicious way to undo most things that happen ‘downstairs’ and a calming, helper for all gut issues. See more here
7) – Glutathione accelerator

Get your mitochondria back on track as we all have too much on a cellular level to cope with modern life. See more now. The dosage is 6 in the morning with food –
I have been doing 3 doses of 6 daily.
Why? It is anti inflammatory. Thus no pain
We age slower, if we can make this easily. We are full of toxins – and why so many magically improve when you are on this.
We must absorb magnesium, selenium and sulphate to make this within ourselves.
I have given this to those having an allergic reaction – me with sandflies on NZ and my daughter in law – accidentally eating gluten, when she was so damaged by it – these fixed the problem – for both of us – instantly.
8) – Photo therapy patches

Best to have a small chat with me. about these . I used a large number, and they made huge instant difference. FIRST AID at least
HERPES VIRUS/SHINGLES SPECIFIC
9) – St John’s Wort 3000 mg strength
I have been taking at least 7 x two each time daily. 15 lots to begin with. Hypericum (St John’s Wort) coats the virus, stops it multiplying. The hypericum oil is perfect for external lesions – but mine all was internal – in my head. . .
10) – L – Lycine
AI do at least 2 often 3x what the bottle says. .
This is a minor yet important part of the process – and prior to the sky drop /crop dusting to apparently dim the sun, we were not dealing with all the contaminants that are wrecking our lives. You a not imagining it – you are not as you were. Dimming us and our intelligence also. .
11) – Water
I drank so much clean water to flush all that was not needed away – that is an entirely new subject. The municipal tap water has at least halides to mess with your body and its ability to live well. Using tank water from roof collection would now be a huge form of toxic load.
12 – REST/SLEEP
I had to wean off three naps a day – it really took the stuffing out of me. Slept the week away . .
3 – PREVENTATIVE MEASURES – WE ALL COULD /SHOULD BE DOING
Start with – taking charge yourself

In these times, we need to NOT be stuck. Know what is not normal, regardless of being out off by those who you consult. We all know our body, and when it does something different, we may be out off by being ‘anxious’ – we may be as we know it is not right and want to not have it. ANSWER – believe in yourself. You are YOUR own expert. Who knows better than you? Have a tool kit assembled. At least for running repairs. It may be a full homeopathic one (I do not have YET), it could be the standard First Aid one: handy in case of physical injury, it could be a whole bunch of plants growing and you knowing their usage (as all would have had in times past as they were left to their own devices a ‘medical’ system as the one currently was not around.
1 – Be well – look to my Life Recipe – Breathing, Hydration, Safety, Being outside, Touch, Raison d’etre, Nourishment – soul, heart and body
2 – Become your own advocate and know how health happens – as above – also see here.
3 – Have a rescue kit
a) – Always – the key player. AV/AT – ask me how to access.
WHAT TO DO: Ignore fear based panics
Fulfill all stages of my Life RECIPE
FOOD IN IS NUMBER 9 OF 9:
A LIFE LIVED WELL IS THE AIM.
“For eons, humans had maintained their health without the interference of synthetic chemicals. Did you know that it takes around 7 days to produce antibodies after an infection or injected ‘chemical interference’? Left to her own devices, Nature kicks in immediately after a foreign organism is detected, ramping up the highly efficient mechanisms of Innate Immunity at the point of entry, usually the nasal membranes. By contrast, the synthetic chemicals injected into the arm completely bypass the nasal membranes, missing Nature’s most powerful opportunity to fend off the invader. For those injected, a week goes by before the antibodies are produced, a perfect window for viral invasion of the chemically-stressed immune system. Might explain a few things and food for thought? Thank you Christine Houghton (my 1977-78 Western medicine lecturer).

Why? We are under attack by chemicals and electrical vibrations that we are not designed to live well with
LIVING WELL INVOLVES DAILY:
Topical magnesium – at least 10 times using – store it in the loo and whenever you are there – spray many (I do 9) sprays on palm, rub with other one – to warm it up – then pop on exposed bum/thighs and legs. . EVERY LOO VISIT. You will be amazed – see more here
Topical iodine – see more here – as we are depleted – not eating the 100x more daily the traditional Korean and Japanese do – and concurrently are being poisoned by the halides – esp the fluoride and chloride in the tap water, and the bromides that seem ubiquitous everywhere – this back ground ‘noise’ is at the base of why the cysts (including PCOS and endo) all reproductive issues, hormonal upsets,, tumours, and metabolism=c issues – plus fluid where it is not needed, and any emotional states. .
Vit D3 – the sun – where is it? ? When your shadow is greater than your body at noon – the UV B rays are missing 0 and would be lovely being in the sun – but not making what is needed to live well. The mouse dose of 1,000 iu allowed in NZ and Australia is insufficient and there is not enough in food sources to count. Where to get – online
FOOD – see more here – Protein and fat – eating as we are designed to – not as our heads dictate following all sorts of fads .
WATER – see more here – at least 3 litres daily – and body temperature – your body is missing this most. To flush away body wastes, to create digestive juices and to lubricate and moisten all levels of your being. If you are thirsty, you have left this too late ..

