the ancient Chinese herbal secret

David: We’re so lucky to have Ron Teeguarden with us, and we’re so fortunate

to be able to get this information. We’re talking here about schizandra and gynostemma, two of the greatest herbs in the Taoist tonic herbal system.

I want to ask Ron about one more herb, and then we’ll let him go. We’ve got a conference going on downstairs, lots of folks down there. The last herb I want to talk about is one that your wife is really into. It’s pearl. I just want to give the folks at home a little bit of background about what pearl is. It is actually the same pearl as you’d make a necklace out of. In the old days, you’d have to find an oyster that had a pearl in it, and extracting the pearl would kill the oyster. Now there is a way of actually keeping the oysters alive so you’re not killing the oysters when you extract the pearl out. You can actually get what you really need for pearl powder, which are small pearls not big ones. Isn’t that right?

Ron: Yeah, the smaller the pearl, the better, the more valuable. A big pearl is just full of stuff. It’s not the inside of the pearl that matters. It’s the nacre, the outside of a pearl that is important. So a small pearl has much more surface volume of nacre compared to its internal volume. Smaller is better. Pearl powder is an amazing product. It has a long history, back from the most ancient times. It’s famous with Cleopatra, for example.

David: Yeah, it goes back to Egypt, Asia, China.

Ron: Right. It reflects in a person’s skin.

David: A beauty product.

Ron: Right. If you grind pearls into a fine powder—it has to be ground fine enough to be able to be absorbed. It is a hard substance. The actual fact is that the coating of the pearl seems rock hard, but in fact it’s extremely flexible. It’s a material that could be used for space travel or something. At its finest level it’s very bendy and flexible. It’s a matrix that holds things together, it doesn’t pull apart.

That quality goes to your skin, so your skin doesn’t fall apart as you get older. Pearl is protective. It enhances the regeneration of skin. It has chemicals in it. The main ingredient is exactly the same as hemoglobin and chlorophyll, except it has a different mineral. I’m forgetting right this second what that mineral is, but it’s the same. So it converts and is very easily absorbed in a human being. It actually becomes human material.

David: Very easily. That’s the thing about it. It’s like a bioidentical.

Ron: Yeah. Right, it’s a bioidentical. And then it goes in and actually makes the dermis of our skin very, very resilient so it doesn’t age. And when this material combines with the lipid layers of our skin, it forms a protection around the body from the sun, from the environment.

We’re in the middle of a real heat wave right here, right now. And we’re becoming a pretty dry region in the world, you know, desertification is happening.

David: It’s happening in Los Angeles.

Ron: Right, and that means we’re exposed to more UV, dry winds that blow through your skin, and this kind of thing. So, herbs like pearl and schizandra, which actually combine with the lipid levels of our skin and actually protect our skin from the wind, these are very important things to prevent aging.

You know, you go to a tropical place and everyone has soft skin that’s very pliable. They age slower in their skin. But here in the United States, in the western half for sure, drying is one of the worst things that can happen to the skin. It just ages skin and makes it go downhill fast. Pearl protects at that level, plus it produces the new. It stimulates SOD in the skin.

Pearl has to be ground very, very small. It has to be almost micron size to be absorbable, and that’s called levigated pearl. They grind it in water. I was actually showing you this yesterday. This is not a preplanned prop, but the last Empress of China consumed pearl.....

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