Miracle Copaiba Oil from Amazonian Shamans, found me in Aadiania!

One day I felt urge to walk a small side street in Abadiania to explore. It was almost magnetic pull that took me all the way down to the end of the hill. On my way back I noticed a small entrance to the house and garden full of crystals and holy relics. There were two persons there and the man saw me and invited me to join them. I recognized the man as a volunteer at the Casa that had his miraculous healing. He couldn't walk at all, and with sincere service and change of the personality, he gain his healing.I saw the little video about him on the You tube some time ago.
His name is Joseph. He is a Amazonian shaman and very pious person. I was immediately attracted by his crystals that were natural, uncut, unpolished. And I got one cluster to take home.
There was a lady there that often come to visit him, and hear his stories and I heard later that she was the disciple of Marcel Vogel. The person that invented the famous Vogel cut for crystal wands and knew crystals inside out. The lady told me she is from Italy and just spent her holiday in Croatia.
Then she told me she comes to Joseph to buy the best quality, made directly from Amazonian shamans healing Copaibha oil. Then I knew why I've been brought there and I said I want to buy it also. No many people know about this oil, so I would like to share some informations about it.
I will be using it for my clients for massage and in my skin and oral care.It is very strong, and undiluted that you need just a drop or two of it! The oil is specially blessed by Joseph and is extra powerful. The people who can feel the energy, can feel the vibrations when holding it.

What is the Spiritual Influence? If we are holding onto emotional wounds that no longer serve us, then we are projecting a victim consciousness into the future. This creates inner conflict for the soul and takes us away from our true purpose and our connection to the divine Copaiba allows us to see our emotional wounds and offers assistance with emotional clearing while providing spiritual protection. For those who combat stress at work or home, copaiba offers security and grounding. It assists us with staying in the moment rather than projecting backwards or forward. What Chakra is Affected? The solar plexus chakra. COPAIBA
HERBAL PROPERTIES AND ACTIONS
Main Actions	Other Actions	Standard Dosage
relieves pain	increases urination	Resin
reduces inflammation	expels worms	Internal: 5-15 drops 2-3
kills germs	reduces acid	times daily
kills bacteria	supresses coughs	External: apply diluted resin
kills fungi	expels phlegm	on affected areas
inhibits tumor growth
dries secretions
heals wounds
protects gastric tract
mildly laxative
sooths and softens
disinfects

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TIVITIES AND CLINICAL RESEARCH

Copaiba trees are considerably branched and grow from 15-30 m high. They produce many small, white flowers on long panicles and small fruit pods with 2-4 seeds inside. There are 35 species of Copaifera, found mainly in tropical South America (particularly in Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Guyana, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela). Several different species are used as traditional medicines interchangeably: C. langsdorffii is found mostly in the cerrados of central Brazil, C. reticulata is indigenous to the Amazon region, and C. officinalis occurs widely throughout South America, including the Amazon. All three varieties are used interchangeably.

The part of the tree that is often employed medicinally is the oleoresin that accumulates in cavities within the tree trunk. It is harvested by tapping or drilling holes into the wood of the trunk and collecting the resin that drips out, much in the same manner as harvesting maple syrup. A single copaiba tree can provide about 40 liters of oleoresin annually, making it a sustainable rainforest resource that can be harvested without destroying the tree or the forest in which it grows. When tapped, the initial oily resin is clear, thin, and colorless; it thickens and darkens upon contact with air. Commercially sold resins are a thick, clear liquid, with a color that varies from pale yellow to golden light brown. The variety gathered in Venezuela is said to be thicker and darker in color. Although it is often referred to a balsam or oil, it is actually a oleoresin.

TRIBAL AND HERBAL MEDICINE USES

On the Rio Solimoes in northwest Amazonia, copaiba resin is used topically by indigenous tribes as a wound healer, to stop bleeding, for skin sores and psoriasis, and to treat gonorrhea. Healers and curanderos in the Amazon today use copaiba resin for all types of pain, for skin disorders and insect bites, and to cool inflammation.

In Brazilian herbal medicine systems the resin is used as a strong antiseptic and expectorant for the respiratory tract (including bronchitis and sinusitis), as an anti-inflammatory and antiseptic for the urinary tract (for cystitis, bladder, and kidney infections), as a topical anti-inflammatory agent for all types of skin problems. Copaiba resin is sold in gel capsules in stores and pharmacies in Brazil and recommended for all types of internal inflammation, stomach ulcers and cancer. One of its more popular home-remedy uses in Brazil is as an antiseptic gargle for sore throats and tonsillitis (15 drops of resin in warm water). In Peruvian traditional medicine, three or four drops of the resin are mixed with a spoonful of honey and taken as a natural sore throat remedy. It is also employed in Peruvian herbal medicine systems to reduce inflammation and increase urination, and in the treatment of incontinence, urinary problems, stomach ulcers, syphilis, tetanus, bronchitis, catarrh, herpes, pleurisy, tuberculosis, hemorrhages, and leishmaniasis (applied as a plaster).

Copaiba resin was first recorded in European medicine in 1625 (brought back from the New World by the Jesuits and called Jesuit's balsam) and has been used there since in the treatment of chronic cystitis, bronchitis, chronic diarrhea, and as a topical preparation for hemorrhoids. In the United States, it was an official drug in the U. S. Pharmacopeia from 1820 to 1910. Noted ethnobotanist and author Mark Plotkin reports that copaiba oil has been used in the United States as a disinfectant, diuretic, laxative, and stimulant-in addition to being used in cosmetics and soaps. The Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients cites that copaiba has diuretic, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, expectorant, disinfectant, and stimulant activities.

Much of the clinical research performed to date has verified the traditional uses of copaiba. In 2002, researchers in Brazil confirmed that it was highly effective as a topical wound healer in animal studies. Long used internally and externally for inflammation of all sorts, clinical research validates the resin's anti-inflammatory effects against various laboratory-induced inflammation in other animal studies. The anti-inflammatory effects have been related to the sesquiterpene chemicals in copaiba oil which scientists have noted can vary significantly-not only between different copaiba tree species, but also within a given species and, even among individual trees. Sesquiterpene content can range anywhere from 30-90%. This may account for the results obtained by other Brazilian researchers who tested eight different commercial samples of copaiba oil and only three of the eight samples demonstrated significant anti-inflammatory effects. Of these sesquiterpenes, caryophyllene is the most well studied, demonstrating pain-relieving properties, antifungal properties against nail fungus, as well as anti-inflammatory and gastroprotective properties in other animal studies.

The gastroprotective effects of caryophyllene documented in 1996 also help justify another traditional use of copaiba oil - as a natural remedy for stomach ulcers. In this animal study, not only did caryophyllene evidence significant anti-inflammatory effects without any damage to the stomach lining (most other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents cause stomach problems) - it actually significantly inhibited stomach injury induced by various chemicals. Two years later, another Brazilian research group reported that giving natural copaiba resin to rats provided a dose-dependent, significant protection against chemical- and stress-induced gastric damage and evidenced an anti-ulcerous effect.

Copaiba's traditional uses as an antiseptic for sore throat, upper respiratory and urinary tract infections can be explained partly by the resin's antibacterial properties documented in the 1960s and 1970s. Researchers again confirmed (in 2000 and 2002) that the resin as a whole (and, particularly, two of its diterpenes-copalic acid and kaurenic acid) demonstrated significant in vitro antimicrobial activity against gram-positive bacteria. One of copaiba's other chemicals, kaurenoic acid, has also demonstrated selective antibacterial activity against Gram-positive bacteria in other recent studies.

Another recent area of research on copaiba resin has focused on its anticancerous and antitumor properties. Researchers in Tokyo isolated six chemicals (clerodane diterpenes) in the oleoresin of copaiba in 1994 and tested them against carcinomas in mice to determine their antitumor activity. One particular compound, called kolavenol, was twice as effective at increasing the lifespan in mice with carcinomas (by 98%) as the standard chemotherapy drug, 5-Fluorouacil (5-FU). The natural resin also increased lifespan by 82% - which was still higher than 5-FU (which increased lifespan by 46%). Interestingly, the in vivo tests provided better anti-tumor effects than in previous test-tube studies. The Spanish team of researchers that documented copaiba's antimicrobial effects in 2002 also tested for in vitro antitumor effects. These scientists reported that another phytochemical in the resin, methlyl copalate, had in vitro activity against human lung carcinoma, human colon carcinoma, human melanoma, and mouse lymphoid neoplasm cell lines. Brazilian researchers reported in 2002 that one of copaiba's active chemicals, kaurenoic acid, also inhibited the growth of human leukemic cells by 95%, and human breast and colon cancer cells by 45% in vitro. Kaurenoic acid can comprise as much as 1.4% of the natural copaiba oleoresin.