Siberian Cedar

You’ll find in Taiga majestic trees reaching forty meters in height: spruce, fir, larch, pine and a tree with unique qualities – the cedar, which scientists sometimes call **cedar pine**. I’ll say right off that, in my opinion, they really shouldn’t call it that at all. But what can you do? Let science focus on the pine they mistakenly call a cedar – I’m going to talk about the incomparable Siberian cedar.

## **Why is Siberian cedar incomparable?**

### **Cedar nuts**

**Why is it incomparable?** Because the cedar gives unique fruits – **cedar nuts** – and deserves its own, separate name.

The **quality of the fruit of the Siberian cedar**, these cedar nuts, greatly surpasses that of the nuts of cedars in other climate zones on the planet. Way back in 1792, the academic Pallas wrote about this in a letter to the Russian Empress Catherine the Great.

### **Cedar wood**

  **Cedar wood** possesses special **phytoncidal properties** even once it’s been cut, so a moth will never take up residence in a closet made of cedar.

  And the **Old Testament’s King Solomon**, who also seems to have known of cedar’s mysterious properties, built a temple out of it, having given away several entire cities of his kingdom in exchange for certain specially chosen cedars.

  But the priests were unable to perform services in the temple because a cloud formed inside it. (3rd Kings, 8:11.)

### **Cedar is a representative of the Pre-Ice Age plant world**

  After having pored over a multitude of sources that talk about the Siberian cedar, I’m inclined to suggest (and not without basis) that the **cedar is a representative of the Pre-Ice Age plant world**, and that it may be an envoy to us from a different, **more developed civilization (in the biological sense.)**

###   **How was it able to survive the planetary catastrophe and come to life anew in our world?**

  Cedar seeds can survive frost and are able to hold out for an extended period of time, so that they can come up during more favorable climatic conditions and adapt to a new environment. This adaptation continues up to the present day.

  **What is so unique about the fruit of the cedar?**

Why is it that today we can state with certainty that they are the most ecologically pure and healing food product of our time? The cedar nut kernel contains the entire necessary complex of vitamins. Scientists from the university in Tomsk who have studied the properties of cedar oil added it to the diet of people who had served as responders to the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and who were suffering from radiation poisoning. The results of the experiment showed that the test subjects’ immunity began to increase.

### **Cedar oil**

  There are no contraindications for the use of **cedar oil** – even pregnant women and nursing mothers can use it. There’s one other mysterious fact about the cedar nut kernel. During periods when cedars do not bear fruit, the females of certain fur-bearing animals don’t allow males to come near them and don’t conceive. It’s still unclear how the cedars let the animals know that they won’t bear fruit in a given year. After all, the animals mate in the spring, but cedar fruits ripen only in very late fall, and it’s very difficult to tell, just by looking at a cedar tree, that it’s not going to bear fruit.

### **Why taiga-dwelling animals love cedar nuts?**

There are a great many other plants in the taiga for the entire taiga animal world to feed on. Similar taiga-dwelling animals in Russia’s central zone get along entirely without cedar nuts. So why do females who have fed on cedar nuts consider it impossible to conceive and bear young without this food?

  It’s been noted that **the fur of taiga-dwelling animals**, particularly those from regions where cedars grow, is of much higher quality than the fur of all other animals. No matter how scientists and specialists fine tune the diet of the animals they’re raising on fur farms, they can’t manage to achieve fur of anywhere near the same quality. The fur of the Siberian sable from the regions where cedars grow has always been the highest quality fur in the world.

  It’s well known that the condition of fur-bearing animals’ fur reflects the condition of their organism as a whole. So, if their condition improves when they consume cedar nut kernels, then the same should be true for humans, especially pregnant women. Our women might not be getting enough high-quality food products to enable them to bear healthy fetuses, and this situation can’t help but degrade society.

### How Siberian cedar disproves scientists’ opinion that agriculture is the great achievement of humans?

  The fruit of the Siberian cedar disproves scientists’ opinion that agriculture is the great achievement of humans, evidence of their development. I think that agriculture came into being because human civilization lost its knowledge of nature and because people’s way of life changed. As a result, man began sweating in the fields to get his daily bread. You can draw your own conclusions. Let’s imagine that there are two fruit-bearing cedar trees growing on a parcel of land where a family of three people lives. You can be absolutely certain that the family that owns that parcel of land where the two cedars grow will never go hungry, even in the years with the worst harvests. And it isn’t just that they won’t go hungry, won’t live from hand to mouth – they will feed on the best, most refined food there is.

  One cedar alone is capable of producing – in one year – up to a ton of cedar nuts that can be used as food, once they’re shelled. But that’s not all, not by any means. You can extract cedar milk from the kernel of the cedar nut, which is not only suitable for human consumption, but which you can also successfully use to feed infants. You can get world-class cedar oil from the kernels, which you can add to salads and other dishes and also use medicinally.

  After you express the oil from the cedar nut kernels, you’re left with an **oil-cake**, which you can use to make excellent baked goods – bread, cookies, pastries, or crepes.

  The cedar also gives us a sap that’s recognized by official and folk medicine alike as a medicinal and prophylactic substance.

  The Siberian cedar doesn’t require any care at all by humans – you don’t need to fertilize or till around it. You don’t even need to plant it. Its seeds are planted in the earth by a little bird called the Eurasian nutcracker.

  It starts to become clear why it is that our ancient ancestors knew nothing about agriculture. It’s just because they knew much, much more.

  Maybe someone will say, well, the cedar bears fruit only once in two years, and if the barren year comes along in the same year as a bad harvest, then how can the cedar remedy the situation? I’ll tell you. It’s true that cedars bear fruit once every two years, sometimes even less frequently, but its unique nuts can last from nine to eleven years if you don’t remove them from the cone.

### Cedar has a hard time taking root near cities

  Of course, nothing is quite this simple today in our real life. The cedar has a hard time taking root near cities. It can’t tolerate ecologically polluted zones. But there are also encouraging outcomes. Many sources indicate that the cedar responds to human emotions, that it can take in energy from humans and, having increased it, give it back. I had the chance to convince myself of this personally.

## Ancient technique of making Cedar oil

   Now, especially since the “Ringing Cedars of Russia” series of books started coming out, there are many companies that put out cedar products, including cedar oil.

   I also asked my daughter and her husband to set up cedar oil production. I told them about the ancient technique I’d learned from Anastasia.

   Polina’s husband Sergei made every possible effort to work in accord with both ancient techniques and today’s requirements for producing food products. We arranged for the production to take place at a medications factory under the control of experienced specialists. The expression was carried out using the cold pressing method, which is supposed to preserve the greatest amount of the oil’s beneficial substances, and using wooden blocks. It was necessary to do this, because the cedar nut kernel and oil contain the entire periodic table, and certain elements can oxidize if they come in contact with metal. In addition, only glass containers were used during bottling. The oil we ended up with may also have been of better quality than if we’d produced it using other methods, such as hot pressing. However, it differed from the cedar oil I’d tried in the taiga. I got the impression that it contained less life force than the taiga cedar oil.

   I won’t go into detail about our extensive attempts to find the **reason for the differences**. I’ll start by saying that we saw a change in quality as soon as we moved the whole production process – from nut storage up to the pressing of the oil and its packaging – to a village out in the taiga a hundred and twenty kilometers outside the city.

   It turned out that you just can’t produce a high quality oil in an urban setting, even at a medications factory. At every stage of production, the kernel and oil come into contact with the air, and big city air is very different from air in the taiga, which is full of phytoncides.

   As a result of moving production, the products of this small company, which was perhaps not very technically well-equipped according to today’s standards, were of higher quality than those produced by all other companies, not only in our country, I think, but in the world. I’m happy to have played even a small role in the appearance of this unique product – cedar oil. I think that this taiga company is really the only one that produces actual cedar oil, because the others produce the oil of the “cedar pine.”

   A great many products in the world are marketed as “**ecologically pure**.” But I immediately ask myself where these products are from? Where were they grown? Can you really call any product ecologically pure at all if its raw materials are grown and produced in an area surrounded by highways or big and small cities? I don’t think any product produced in areas like that can be ecologically pure, even if no toxic chemicals, pesticides or fertilizers are used to grow it.

   The cedar grows deep in the Siberian taiga, hundreds and thousands of kilometers from large cities. There are no highways there, and you can only ship this unique product out by river. Of course, our civilization’s filth can also end up there, but everything in the world is relative, and compared to giant cities, the air and water in the taiga really are immeasurably cleaner, and no one is pouring any poisons into the ground.

   And so, I think that there is no more pure, beneficial or healing product in the world than the cedar nut kernel and the products made from it.