“silent doctors don’t make sport!” thus I am obligated to share an experience with you.

On Sunday we arrived at St John’s Parish Church at 5:45 to commence the family’s morning walk. it was performed at an extremely blistering pace – down Pot House Hill, up Bath and Colleton Hill, and back to base.  

Unexpectedly, I was then invited to visit the burial site of the late Prime Minister David Thompson.

As I whispered a few words, my mind was again infused with these: “I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move. nothing will be impossible for you.” (Matthew 17:20). As I was penning this article, light consciously “hovered” over me as wisdom began to unfold.

 let “silent doctor” mustard make your day as the light of the Creator blesses you. the yellow flowers which bloom on Brassica juncea display its healing capacity. it belongs to the Bassicaceae family. Mustard green is forgotten or faces extinction in Barbados, but we can save it.

I dedicate myself to encouraging people to share its seeds, to keep the species alive. In fact, last Saturday my neighbour refunded me with some seeds. I intend to have them blooming in my garden for Agrofest 2011.

Mustard leaves are very pungent and are excellent sources of Vitamin A, B1, B2 and B6, C and E, beta-carotene, folic acid, magnesium, copper, fibre, potassium, protein, calcium, iron and niacin. some people use it to treat asthma, sore throat, heart disease, menopausal symptoms, toothache, itching, external parasites, pyorrhea, epilepsy, colic, bladder inflammation and haemorrhage. Cancer prevention may also be considered.

Additionally, mustard seeds contain Omega 3 fatty acids, iron, manganese, zinc, protein, calcium, dietary fiber, magnesium, niacin, mono-unsaturated fats, phosphorous and zinc. In some cultures mustard seeds are used to treat paralysis, abscesses, bronchitis, colds, anorexia, snake bites, splenic disorders, rheumatism, ulcers, stomach disorders, symptoms associated with menopause including distorted sleep patterns, asthma, cancer, migraine attacks, high blood pressure, atherosclerosis and heart disease.

You can also do research on mustard plasters, which are still being used to successfully treat asthma, rheumatism, stiff neck, arthritis, chest congestion, aching backs and sore muscles. Mustard oil is used to treat damaged hair, dental infections and pneumonia. Mustard oil is more useful than its economical price and appearance suggest. I can assure you it has boosted my health.

As you eat the leaves, rub with the oil, use the seeds and powder, you can repeat: “I love and approve of myself, my health and healing.”

In conclusion, faith combined with a mustard seed is divine. Happy mustard planting!

Accepted wisdom that there is no physiologically important transport of thyroid hormones during development and that hormones would not be necessary to regulate fetal growth of the nervous system is likely to have contributed to a common lack of understanding and acceptance of the results of many epidemiological and clinical studies. A credible reason could not be proposed for the association between early maternal hypothyroxinemia result of the reduction of infant neurological development. It is difficult to solve the very serious and often permanent, injuries, neurological cretins (with normal thyroid function when iodine supply is complete), with the successful prevention of severe nervous system injuries early postnatal management of infants congenital hypothyroidism, counting children without the thyroid gland.

The lack of defensive actions maternal triiodothyronine (T3) compared to thyroxine (T4), shown in iodine-deficient regions deep, show many problems unresolved. Original held frequently purchased over the past 15 years in experimental animals and man, now evidently point to a function of the location of the mother of thyroid hormone in the mature nervous system for life fetal and suggest reasonable detail the above issues. Regardless of these new results and even with the increased recognition of a significant role in maternal T4 in the impediment of a serious nervous system damage in cases of congenital hypothyroidism, is still said that if thyroid hormone is needed throughout the 1st quarter is less certain, otherwise must be supplied by the mother, because nothing is released by the product until the second trimester.

Since this problem is fundamental to understanding the possible significance of thyroxine in the first quarter free (FT4) in fetal maturation of the nervous system, we must pay attention to the data currently available for experimental animals and humans. both T4 and T3 are available to the fetus early with very low amounts found in amounts that circulate in the mother are significantly low. As soon as this happens, changes in prenatal and postnatal development may be revealed. Nuclear receptors for thyroid hormones (TR) are also in the early stages of fetal development of the nervous system to some extent occupied by T3, in some animal models, with increasing levels at all times extremely vigorous birth of neurons in the cortex.

Several genes in the nervous system responds to thyroid hormone deficiency has been recognized frequently in the post-natal period, through a time of expansion of the nervous system corresponding to the last period of pregnancy and early postnatal period humans.