Barbara O'Neill

SUSTAIN ME: The 9 Foundational Pillars, and her home remedy kit

Recorded from her own books (Self Heal by Design; Sustain Me, 2024) and her recorded lectures; 16 sources consulted, including interviews and the regulatory record. Her stated framework is SUSTAIN ME, nine pillars she names herself; the eight laws of health attributed to her retreat teaching are the older Adventist NEWSTART set, recorded as attributed rather than stated. She states no total number of remedies; her home remedy kit (charcoal, castor oil, cayenne) and all seven remedy classes from her Home Remedies lecture are listed here. Items not in the graded library yet are her stated recommendations awaiting this library's grading; several of her best-known claims, including cayenne for a heart attack, castor oil for cysts and tumours, and sodium bicarbonate for cancer, have no human trials behind them, and each grade will say so plainly when it lands. In September 2019 the NSW Health Care Complaints Commission permanently prohibited her from providing health services in Australia.

Stack score

84/100

Evidence

Safety

Not scored

Est. cost

~$7/mo

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The stack, item by item

Cayenne Pepper
Dose reported: 1/4 tsp in water before each meal to start; for arterial build-up, 2 capsules 3x/day; compress of about 1/2 tsp on the feet overnight for cold or numb feet
“if I had build up in my arteries I would not have a bypass what I would do is I would start taking two capsules of cayenne pepper three times a day”
Source, 2024-02-25
Not in the graded library yet
Celtic Sea Salt
Dose reported: A crystal about the size of a sesame seed on the tongue before every glass of water; about 8 glasses of water a day
“It's the quickest way to hydrate a body.”
Source, 2024-02-25
Not in the graded library yet
Activated Charcoal
Dose reported: Poultice: 2 tsp psyllium mixed with 4 tsp charcoal and water to a gel, refrigerated and applied bandaged; tablets carried for poisoning and traveler's diarrhea (internal dose not stated)
“Place two teaspoons of psyllium and four teaspoons of charcoal in a bowl and mix well”
Source, 2024-02-25
Not in the graded library yet
Castor Oil
Dose reported: Compress applied daily, the same compress reused for up to about a month; her own use for a shin injury was 24/7 for a month
“Castor oil penetrates deeper than any other oil and wherever it penetrates it can break up lumps, bumps, adhesions.”
Source, 2024-02-25
Not in the graded library yet
Flu Bomb
Dose reported: Garlic, ginger (about 1/4 tsp grated), lemon juice of one lemon, 1 tsp honey, 1 drop eucalyptus oil, cayenne as tolerated, in about 1/2 cup hot water; 3x/day for 3 days at the first sign of a cold or flu
“It's garlic, so it's six things. Garlic, ginger, so those two go together, and then lemon and honey, and eucalyptus oil, but remember only one drop of that.”
Source, 2024-02-25
Not in the graded library yet
Garlic
Dose reported: 3 raw cloves a day for adults (half dose for a child), stated as taking the place of an antibiotic
“To have it as potent as an antibiotic or to play a role as an antibiotic you must have three raw cloves a day.”
Source, 2024-02-25
Not in the graded library yet
Onion
Dose reported: Steamed onion poultice for earache and boils; raw onion on the soles of the feet overnight for cough; onion and honey cough syrup (child doses from 1/4 tsp by age)
Source, 2024-02-25
Not in the graded library yet
Ginger Extract
Dose reported: Tea of about 1 tsp grated ginger stood 10 minutes, for nausea; grated ginger poultice on inflamed joints for about 4 hours
“the ginger pulls the inflammation out of the joint to the skin”
Source, 2024-02-25
B-
Potato
Dose reported: Grated raw potato poultice for tissue inflammation, sore eyes, splinters, and sprains; changed about every 2 hours through the day in her wound case
Source, 2024-02-25
Not in the graded library yet
Comfrey
Dose reported: Poultice or cream, external use as taught in her lectures (bones, sprains, bruises); no internal dose appears in her canonical material located
Source, 2018-06-01
Not in the graded library yet
Slippery Elm
Dose reported: Powdered bark in hot water before every meal and before bed for ulcers and gut complaints; a measured dose is not stated in her material located
Source, 2024-02-25
Not in the graded library yet
Aloe Vera
Dose reported: Gel scraped and mashed, taken with a little apple juice for sore throat, ulcers, and bowel complaints; amount per serving not stated
Source, 2024-02-25
Not in the graded library yet
Turmeric
Dose reported: 6,000 mg/day in her own rotator-cuff case, alongside comfrey poultices, over about 3 months; no general dose stated
“two herbs that I very much love, two very powerful herbs”
Source, 2018-06-01
Not in the graded library yet
Sodium Bicarbonate
Dose reported: Body wraps and a 'cancer conquering diet' for cancer, as cited in the 2019 NSW prohibition order; quantities not stated
Source, 2019-09-24
Not in the graded library yet

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