A testimony of VIRGIE MONTEBON
CURED ON AN AILMENT OF ARTHRITIS OF THE SPINE BY COMPRESS OR POULTICE & DECOCTION
Sambong (Blumea balsamifera) plant applied as warm compress or poultice as well as a decoction herbal tea beverage and for foot bathing cured an ailment of athritis of the spine
In 2017, a Silsilah staff, Virgie Montebon, appeared at the Silsilah office of the president after a month’s leave. She could hardly walk with an appearance of a weak body constituency. She looked underweight with bony cheeks.
The president immediately called for assistance from the Center of Holistic Care for home care treatment inside Harmony village.
Virgie complained of excruciating back pain and could hardly sleep.
She was immediately given acupuncture treatment with chlorophyll juice and sambong tea.
She had a relief of pain after the treatment and was able to sleep soundly, upon waking up she felt better and decided to be brought home assisted by her daughter Venus.
She was advised to do the following home care treatment which her daughter devotedly applied on a daily home care-giving therapy:
- Hot compress of sambong leaf at her back with coconut oil
- Foot bathing with sambong leaf
- Fresh decoction of sambong leaf as regular tea drink
- Herbal fuming of aromatic herbs with sambong leaf
- Plant-based diet from native veggies with buko juice every day.
- Mega-dose in-take of herbal capsule supplement of sambong, serpentina, turmeric and red roselle.
Her medical examination showed that she was having arthritis of the spine. Her daughter, Venus, untiringly did the hot compress of sambong leaf not only at the affected area but at the entire spinal column area until the pain was gone in a week and she could walk properly.
After a week of home care treatment, she went back to work and maintained her good body constituency with turmeric tea drink and healthy life-style.