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 The Healing Journal Magazine

The Healing Journal

PO Box 371

5525 West Boulevard

Vancouver, BC

V6M 3W6

 

604-603-3840

 






  

 

Feb - Mar 2008

 

 

 

Saving the World with Biodynamic Farming

by PETER PROCTOR


Fever Treatment of Old

by KITTY BROEDER

2008 and the Year of the Rat

by MARLYNA LOS




Regular Columns:

Horoscopes for February & March

by Laura


Angel Guidance

with Judy LeBeau


Croft's Healthy Living Column
Gullible's Travels

by Croft Woodruff


Inspirations - Magic Doorways
Mystic Love

by Devrah Laval


Marketing for Healing Professionals
Attract More Clients By Using Testimonials

by Juliet Austin, MA, Marketing Coach




Advertorials:

One Drop of Blood

 

 

Fever Treatment of Old

by KITTY BROEDER

 

We have all heard of folk remedies, possibly ones our grandmothers swore by, that consisted of such things as mustard plasters, unusual homebrews consisting of onion juice with brown sugar or other such tasty treats.

I remember the woolen socks moistened with cold water that were worn to bed to draw down a fever or cold.

One cure I recently heard of while on my travels in Europe, eminated from Normandy at the sea-side town of St.Valerie-sur Somme, where a Benedictine saint was well known for his help with those suffering from fevers. His Latin name was Walaricus and he died in 622 AD as St.Valerie. The Benedictine Order that he was part of, also built a monastic farm with a chapel inland near the present southern Dutch city of Nijmwegen (Holland).Today there is merely a remnant left of this building.

People came from far and wide to find relief and healing for serious fever for themselves as well as loved ones. One would tear a piece of clothing which had been worn by the sick person on the previous night and attach it early the next morning to an oak surrounding the St.Walrick’s / St. Valerie Chapel. Legend has it that the fever would disappear as quickly as snow in the sun.

  

 

 

 

 

Word of the success of these healings spread and even to this day this practice continues, as seen in the picture below.

There are stories about the fever tree of the St.Walrick’s legend which go back to Charlemagne (742 - 814 AD) who was visiting the Nijmwegen area and got quite a fever. An old woman at the Valkhof court told him about the fever tree, a piece of silk was tied onto the tree and he was healed. So, as you can see, the legend and the oak may even have shaped some historical events.

Another, even older story/legend from around 700 AD was about Heribertha, a daughter of the leader of a heaten tribe and often suffered from fever attacks. From the day she hung a piece of linen from her clothing to the tree near her house she was permanently healed of the fever. As thanks, her father built the chapel.

Whatever was there first, the fever tree or the chapel, no one knows exactly. The oldest nearby oak pressed into healing service today is approximately 100 years old and is surrounded by other younger ones ...to last us a long time.

Kitty Broeder is a healer and traveler and is a practitioner of EFT (tapping on meridian points for overcoming emotional hurdles), Bowen Therapy, Neuro Structural Integration, Ortho-Bionomy and reflexology. She can be reached at 604-946-8892 and kbroeder@dccnet.com