Siberian cedar
Cedar belongs to the most beautiful and majestic trees of Siberia. Its history is closely connected to the material and spiritual culture of the nations living behind the Urals.
For instance, in the tales of the Evenks the Siberian cedar is a source of strength, beauty and generosity. In legends of the Nanaji people living along the Amur River only good spirits move into cedars since they are “the most generous trees”. The Ural Cossacks called cedar pines (Pinus sibirica) “Siberian giants” and for the indigenous Christians cedar was a holy tree. For the inhabitants of Upper Shorija cedars represent “tree-cow” and “tree-mother”, because of its great nutritious capability. For many people cedar is still a Cesar of taiga, a tree of miracles, a giant or patriarch of northern forests. Undoubtedly, Siberian cedar is a pride and wealth of Russia.
Cedar is provider and also healer. Since the old age the inhabitants of the Ural, Siberia and the European North have known about cedar’s curative qualities and used it for healing of many diseases.
From conifer branchlets they prepared vitamin drinks and cedar resin (called in popular Russian “zhivica”) was used for healing of wounds and ulcers. From cedar nuts precious plant oil has been produced since the old age that also has a range of healing effects besides its nutritious qualities. “The milk of fasting” prepared of cedar nuts was used for healing of lung tuberculosis, kidney diseases and mental disturbances. In comparison with travellers and the inhabitants of western parts of Russian people living in Siberia never suffered from scurvy.
The greatest interest in cedar appeared by the end of the 20th century – in the period very demanding for man, in the times full of tensions, ecological problems and in the period of fighting diseases.
There are about 600 kinds of conifer trees on Earth. The largest and most important is represented by the pine family embracing pines, spruces, firs, larches and tsugas. Siberian cedar belongs to the family called by botanists “Siberian Pine”. The evergreen tree grows up to 35-40 metres and some trees can reach up to 2.5 metres in girth. Cedar’s stem is upright and even. Unlike angiospermous trees, cedar nuts are seeds, not fruits. The nuts are ripe only 26 moths after subtle buds appear at the tips of branchlets. The cedars in Siberian taiga provide abundance of seeds when trees are 160-250 years old.
Already several millennia ago ancient nations (mostly the Egyptians, Phoenicians, Arabs) highly valued qualities of cedar wood, which they called “an eternal tree”. Cedar is mentioned in the Bible many times and the royal tree is described as a symbol of Christian faithfulness. In the time of Old Testament Lebanese cedars were considered sources of wealth, they were used for ship constructions and for the construction of the Salomon’s Temple in Jerusalem. The walls of the Temple were faced with cedar boards so that “all was covered by cedar, no stone was visible”. Also a sacrificing altar was built up from cedar and faced by gold.
Druids – pagan priests of ancient Kelts – had a very good knowledge of trees and their connection with man and the Universe. They compared fates of people immediately with lives and qualities of certain trees. In their healing they used knowledge of bio-energetic qualities of trees. No doubts that trees are unique reservoirs of energy. Photosynthesis results in carbohydrates rich of energy and during the process oxygen is released. But the photosynthesis is not possible without the energy of Sun. Plants are catching cosmic energy, change it and thus save life on Earth.
Healing effects of trees represent a range of energy changes. Among many tree-healers cedar is the most important. The Bible refers to it in the Old Testament – in the Third Book of Moses (Leviticus 4, 1-7) God teaches priests how to cure people. From all the plants only cedar is mentioned several times as a healing and purgative tree, even in case of leprosy.
What kind of energy cedar possesses? Where it comes from and what the energy serves for? Cedar is a tree living up to 550 years and some trees growing together in one place can even live up to 800 years. For the time of its life cedar via millions of its needles catches energy beams of the cosmic space generated by people. People in love radiate energy of light into the space. It is the energy of creation capable of creating a new world and moving in a speed no technical device can achieve. This energy can reach other planets and return back in a twinkle of an eye. Sun also reflects rays of light produced by people but only in a certain spectrum. Only the energy that was blessed by God’s power returns to Earth. Day and night cedar like a capacitor of cosmic energy catches the rays of light produced by people and in case of a low level of cosmic energy or the energy of all living creatures on Earth it refills the necessary accumulated energy. Popular healers say and modern medicine confirms that this energy is able to cure soul and body of man.
In ancient times popular healing was the only possibility of curing people. Nowadays more and more people turn to it, among them those refusing chemotherapy and treatment via synthetic medicines. Today we know that plant substances can recover human organism and its functional integrity.
The plant substances influence cells mostly harmonizing all the processes in an organism both on physiological and cellular level.
Siberian cedars show the most of the healing power. Experts assume that the healing qualities of cedars increase in northern zone of vegetation. Living in extreme conditions, powerful and perfect Siberian cedar has been producing and preserving a great amount of biogenetic stimulators that fortify immunity system and eliminate sources of various diseases. A spectral analysis proved that cedar wood produces an immense range of biological active substances of both “micro” and “macro” elements.
