Dear 57826,

I may be very wrong, but I've never heard of
yams being used as a method of birth control.
I HOPE it's true! If so, then hundreds of
millions of women around the world can begin
eating yams on a daily basis, and discard
their Patches, Pills, IUDs, and other dangerous methods of preventing conception. I'm sure another regular here on CZ will
enlighten us both about the use of yams
as a birth control protocol.

However, yams ARE an important ingredient in
natural progesterone cremes for women. When
organically grown, wild yam extract is
combined with quality oils, natural emulsifiers, and natural preservatives , the
creme -- rubbed into the perinium and breast
tissue in small amounts -- can harmonize
and balance the female hormones, and eliminate
many of the awful problems associated with
menstruation and menopause.

I recommend Women's Balance Creme by Kokoro
to my female friends, mainly because I've been
using their Men's Creme for more than a decade. Every morning, right after showering,
I rub a very small dab of the Men's Creme on
my perinium. The creme contains saw palmetto
oil, pumpkin seed oil, pygeum bark extract,
stinging nettle extract, and zinc stearate.
I tell my body to take in the creme and use
it to nurture, heal, harmonize, and balance
all my male plumbing. I suggest that women
do the same thing. Let your body know what
your INTENTION is. Children and spouses may
not listen, but bodies DO!

Kokoro's website is: http://www.kokorohealth.com

Yams are also good for removing heavy metals
from your body. Yams contain nutrients called
phytochelatins that bind to heavy metals like
mercury, cadmium, and lead. You can detoxify
your body tissues by eating yams regularly.
Buy organic yams. Why? Because yams, like
carrots and garlic, grow underground. Veggies
that grow beneath the soil are much more
likely to be contaminated with pesticides
and herbicides.

Yams and sweet potatoes are also very good
for removing any foreign object that is
accidentally swallowed by a small child: things like thumb tacks, needles, safety pins,
coins, and the like. In such a case, immediately give the child a healthy portion
of cooked sweet potato or yam. It will coat
the foreign object and safely expel it from
the body in a BM. NOTE WELL: a ripe, mashed
banana works just as well, and doesn't
need cooking.

Yes, 57826, I hope you stop using The Patch
IMMEDIATELY. Go to the Breaking News forum,
and read Ana's post about the very real dangers of the patch. It will chill you --
and well it should.

But you don't want to go back on The Pill.
Women who use The Pill, beginning as teenagers, are in very real danger of contracting cancer in their late 30s or early
40s. There is nothing good you can say about
The Pill. My younger sister used The Pill
regularly from age 18 to 43, when she came
down with breast cancer. The doctors used
surgery, chemo, radiation, and drugs on
Susan. And three years later, she was dead.
Her three best friends -- girls who used to
play in the sandbox behind our rural home
in northern New Jersey when they were very
young -- also used The Pill when they were
teenagers. All of them contracted cancer
and died of it. It's not a coincidence in
my mind.

So what do you do to prevent conception?
Here's some advice from Andreas Moritz , who
has a very popular forum on CZ. I'm quoting
from his brilliant book, Timeless Secrets of
Health & Rejuvenation, pp. 445 & 446:

"I personally recommend mental birth control,
the most ancient method of conception choice,
as the preferable method for avoiding an
unwanted pregnancy. It is very effective,
cost-free, and without any side effects. The
method can be learned within a few minutes from the little book, Mental Birth Control,
by Terry League and Milder Jackson."

"Other methods include "Fertility Testers,"
which can determine during which days of the month a woman is fertile. All that is required
is a small drop of her saliva. "Persona" is
another new method of contraception. Through
simple urine testing, a small, computerized
device informs a woman of the days when she
is at risk of becoming pregnant. "Persona"
is 93 to 95 percent reliable, when used according to directions, which makes it as
reliable as the condom. In any event, the
condom is an option, too."

You asked, 57826, how to flush out the
toxins that have accumulated in your body
since you began using The Pill and The Patch.
I suggest you do a series of colon, liver,
and kidney cleanses for at least the next year or so. Clean out your intestinal tract.
Make it a point to eat foods like cilantro,
yams, and mung bean sprouts that are proven
chelators of heavy metals. Take a tablespoon
of a good, green superfood every day. The
chlorella in the superfood will help excrete
the heavy metals that have been loosened
by the living food that you ate. Drink lots
of pure water. Distilled water, all by itself,
will flush any number of toxins and debris
out of your system. Consider becoming a
vegetarian who eats mostly living food. If
you do some or all of that, 57826, I don't
think you'll have to worry about cancer in
your middle years.

Trust your intuition about what to do. Your
deep Inner voice will never lie to you; will
never betray you.

I will keep you in my prayers.

Blessings,

Owen

http://www.wildchildmagazine.com/display.php?id=154&lang=en

there are a great many others out there as well.
Janaki had posted a link to a great site a while back , but
I cannot seem to find it 8(

Hope this is of help
Love,
Ami Joi Benton

I came across this some time ago, hope you find it interesting.

Wild Yam - A Herbal Contraceptive

http://www.sisterzeus.com/wildyam.htm