NATURE’S NATURAL HEALER KNOWN FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS.

PACIFIC YEW TREE (TAXUS BREVIFOLIA)
By Gloria Dodd DVM

The Yew tree story: A 5300 year old mummified remains of the “Ice Man” found recently in the Alps revealed that he carried yew wood handled copper axe, along with a 6 foot yew bow and arrows. Because the red wood of the Yew is impervious to parasites and rot, it has been used by many early cultures for making domestic tools, flooring, buckets, tables, beds, wheels, etc. A spear point found in England is thought to be more than 50,000 years old, while another spear point of a similar age was found in Germany, wedged in the sternum of a fossilized wooly mammoth.

But there has also been medicinal uses of the bark, and needles of this very ancient, very slow growing bush. In early Germany, Yew was mixed with butter and used to treat Tuberculosis. The tea was made to treat eplipesy, In some parts of India the salve made from crushed bark and needles added to butter to treat skin cancer.

The early Pacific Coast Indians revered the Yew, both for spiritual and medicinal properties. Native Americans did not love the poor Yew to death as did early American researchers in the 1950’s, who chopped down thousands of these specimens to analyze their medicinal properties. Rather, the native Indians collect only the renewable branches and needles for making canoe paddles, bows, digging sticks and medicines. Fortunately due to the growing Environmental Movement in this country, only the last 6-8 inches of the growth of the Yew is allowed to be collected. These are renewable growth.

Yew tree populations are found primarily in Europe, Egypt, Greece, India, China, Japan, Canada and the United states. There are many, many species of Yew but only the Montana and Pacific Yew are non toxic.

There are numerous multiple compounds of the Yew being isolated today in their natural molecular structure which is compatible with our physiology. This is why some researchers feel that natural substances do not create the often dramatic and devastating side effects seen with many plant-derived pharmaceutical drugs. Because of the number and complexity of these naturally occurring compounds (taxanes), It has been found impossible for the drug company researchers to duplicate them for drug formulation and synthesis. (Thank the Lord for that!).

Some of the healing qualities of Taxus brevifolia

(Pacific Yew): the multitude of factors found in this plant exhibit significant anti-cancer, anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, anti-viral and anti-inflammatory activities.

There are numerous research studies and testimonials of its curative powers.

People are reporting they use the tea, tincture and salve made from the Pacific Yew, not just for their cancer concerns or prevention, but for a myriad of common illnesses too: including colds, flu, aches, pains, fungal and viral infections, bursitis, sciatica and more. No wonder the Native Americans call it the “Chief of the Forest”.

Use In Animal medicine: Today, it is being used in horses with viral infections, cancer, inflammation and lung problems. Treatment is by mixing 1-3 cups of loose dry tea in their daily grain rations.

In dogs, with similar problems, are treated by adding Yew tincture to their food or water----5 drops tincture for every 10 lbs. of body wt, once daily. One must not use the Yew treatment in pregnancy as it has stimulation menstrual flow properties.

I have no quarrel with the Yew properties made into a healing salve for lesions, psoriasis, fungal infections and even Herpes infections in animals.

My concerns deal with using it orally, such as a tincture, or dry tea. The taste is terribly bitter. I have circumvented this problem by making the Yew’s medicinal properties into a homeopathic formulation. It is well tolerated by animals and my own research show excellent normalizing energy value readings in my patients with cancer,(dog and cat), Candida fungus in dog, cats, horses and other organ pathologies such as Congestive Heart and Lung pathology, Herpes Viral infection causing Rodent Ulcers in cats. My own Candida Fungus and Squamous Cell cancer energy values normalize with the Pacific Yew Homeopathic remedy and I am now including this in my totally Holistic therapy and in my In Depth Consultation Treatments of my animal patients.