(editor's note: Jessie "Mother" Willis is a 92 year old woman in Michigan who continues to heal colds and body aches of others with a recipe passed down from her grandfather.
In time, the science of light and sound will advance so that we can update our medical centers, similar to those used on our Healing Ships.
Awakening within us all is the ability to completely heal ourselves.
As our bodies evolve from carbon-based to a crystalline-based structure, we must all learn how to properly nourish and treat our physical body.
Through this "Natural Remedies" segment I hope to introduce you to methods of healing you may not have tried, as well as building your knowledge base so you can help others.
~Be well, all my Love, Boo)
Mich. woman concocts 'Mother' of alternative medicines
Mother Willis was born eight years before the accidental discovery of penicillin.
And that is why this 92-year-old great-great-grandmother -- whose first name is Jessie, though no one calls her that -- stands in front of a stove, stirring a secret potion in an old metal pot.
The recipe has been passed down for at least three generations, originating on a cotton plantation in Georgia and ending up in this small kitchen in a tidy two-story home on the west side of Detroit.
Mother Willis learned to make the secret potion when she was about 5. She roamed the woods, looking for plants and roots and flowers -- the ones with healing powers.
"That's the only thing that kept us alive," she said. "You didn't have anything for a cold."
Over the years, Mother Willis has modified the recipe, which now includes 14 ingredients. She has shared the recipe with only Jones, a grandson she raised.
"Most of it is made from some kind of plant," she said. "Back then, we used it for colds, but I've added some stuff to it for pain."
Mother Willis is no fan of modern-day, generic medicines. She was taking medicine for high cholesterol but felt it made her "mind all funny." So she quit.
"When you read the side effects, well, I say, 'I might as well die from high cholesterol than have this medicine kill me,' " she said.
