Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Considerations
Q According to traditional chinese medicine, avoiding raw foods, cold drinks, and fatty foods helps to prevent water retention.
Q Food allergy testing is recommended. (See allergies in Part Two.)
Q See also under pregnancy-related problems in Part Two. EMPHYSEMA
Emphysema is a degenerative lung disease that usually develops after many years of exposure to cigarette smoke or other toxins that pollute the air. It is one of a group of lung diseases referred to as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This is an agency that has attempted again and again to discredit chinese medicine, nutritional supplements, herbal medicine and anything that would compete with prescription drugs. It has sought to outlaw these natural substances and herbs that have been proven healers for literally 2,000 years in the history of medicine. This is the FDA that has put drug profits first, and public safety last, time and time again.
This is the agency that rigs its own safety panels. "Oh, is there a dangerous drug out there? Let's have a panel and a hearing. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 One that everybody should know about, and it really comes out of a long tradition, thousands of years in chinese medicine. It is known to kill SARS. Reishi mushroom is one of the great immune system supporting substances ever. Generally, if you're out in the forest and you find a wild reishi mushroom, you want to do a tea of it. You bring it home and dry it and make a tea out of it, and that's how you do it. That's really, really rare. What I recommend is going to a health food store and finding reishi mushroom extracts. They're perfectly prepared, highly digestible and work incredibly well. |
| Mike: These ancient healers have so much wisdom, I'm blown away when I go back and study the history of chinese medicine. They had things figured out 2,000 years ago that we still can't grasp today in the Western world.
Wolfe: I'm right with you on that one, Mike. It's so incredible where these guys were thousands of years ago.
Mike: It's truly amazing. Let's give listeners all the web addresses one more time, starting with your company, David.
Wolfe: Okay, I have two big web sites that I work with. One is thebestdayever.com. |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
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 Referred to as ci wu jia in chinese medicine, it was used to prevent respiratory tract infections, colds (page 129) and flu (page 269). It was also believed to provide energy and vitality. In Russia, eleuthero was originally used by people in the Siberian Taiga region to increase performance and quality of life and to decrease infections (page 265).
In more modern times, eleuthero has been used to increase stamina and endurance in Soviet Olympic athletes. Russian explorers, divers, sailors, and miners also used eleuthero to prevent stress-related illness. |
| Historical or traditional use (may or may not be supported by scientific studies)
Traditional chinese medicine has recommended ginger for over 2,500 years. It is used for abdominal bloating, coughing (page 139), vomiting, diarrhea (page 163), and rheumatism. Ginger is commonly used in the Ayurvedic and Tibb systems of medicine for the treatment of inflammatory joint diseases, such as arthritis and rheumatism.
Active constituents
The dried rhizome of ginger contains approximately 1-4% volatile oils. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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 Traditional chinese medicine, Indian (Ayurvedic) medicine, and the Eclectic tradition of Western herbalism have classified disease in ways that are very different from Western conventional medicine, based on seeing patients as individuals, each with a unique manifestation of a disease state. Many of the drugs of the modern pharmaceutical compendiums were derived from medicines used by these ancestors. |
Susun S. Weed
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 The Essentials of chinese medicine suggests pounding calcium-rich dandelion roots and leaves into a juice and drinking it diluted with wine to counter breast cancer. This is said to be especially effective against in situ cancers.
• Traditional chinese medicine has many formulas for helping women with breast cancer.5 Ideally, a formula is created for you individually. Some of the many nourishing herbs that might be included are astragalus, dandelion, ginseng, ginger, licorice, orange peel, self-heal, seaweed (especially fucus), and violet. |
Mark Hyman, M.D.
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 Although I'd been interested in chinese medicine as a career, and became a yoga teacher while an undergraduate, I eventually decided to enter traditional medical school and enrolled at the University of Ottawa, where I also did my internship. However, I never lost my interest in alternative medicine.
After a residency in Santa Rosa, California, where I learned how to be a family doctor in a community practice serving indigents, immigrants, and the disenfranchised, I settled in Orofino, Idaho, in order to start a rural family practice. |
Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA
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| Ginseng is used to remedy all sorts of ailments in chinese medicine. Try 150 mg of standardized extract three times a day to relieve anxiety. See an acupuncturist if you would like some help with herbal prescriptions for anxiety or other problems. Ashwagandha is an Ayurvedic herbal medicine; try 500 mg three times a day.
Calcium and Magnesium
Sometimes insomnia or anxiety can be caused by "universal" muscle tension, where it feels as if every muscle in your body is tense. People with this type of tension tend to get muscle cramps at night. |
Gary Null, Ph.D.
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 Herbs
Traditional chinese medicine holds that the terrain is more important than the germ attacking it. A healthy person easily resists foreign invaders, while a weak one is susceptible to most everything. Based on this philosophy, certain plants have been used for thousands of years as a fundamental part of chinese medicine to strengthen the immune system. Now, mainstream Western medicine is getting interested in herbs, and opening its eyes to what Oriental, Native American, and other types of herbs can offer. |
Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA
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| Red yeast rice has been used safely to strengthen circulation and help digestion in chinese medicine for hundreds of years. In two studies presented at the American Heart Association's conference in 1999, red yeast rice—sold under the brand name Cholestin—was found to lower blood cholesterol levels. In another study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, red yeast rice was found to lower total cholesterol, LDL, and triglycerides (another type of blood fat that has been linked with heart disease). |
Dianne Onstad
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 Health Benefits
Easily digested, taro has been recommended for use in baby foods and is used medicinally to prepare external plasters for the treatment of cysts, tumors, and boils as it has the ability to dissolve masses. In chinese medicine, taro is used to strengthen the stomach and spleen-pancreas and for loss of appetite and fatigue owing to weak digestion.
Tomato
(Lycopersicon esculentum)
It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato. |
David Hoffman, FNIMH, AHG
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 It includes highly developed, complex systems such as ayurveda and traditional chinese medicine as well as collections of simple, local home remedies.
Traditional medicine fits perfectly into the WHO's wonderfully holistic definition of health as a state of complete physical, emotional, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. From this perspective, one can begin to appreciate the potential for open dialogue and integration between current scientific approaches to health and the older traditional techniques. |
Dianne Onstad
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| Accotding to chinese medicine, squash helps to reduce inflammation, while consumption of the taw seeds expels roundworms and tapeworms.
Squash, Summer / Nutritional Value Per 100 g Edible Portion
Chayote Raw
Chayote Cooked
Crookneck Raw
Crookneck Cooked
Pattypan Raw
Pattypan Cooked
Spaghetti Raw
Spaghetti Cooked
Zucchini Raw
Zucchini Cooked
Calories
24
24
19
20
18
16
33
29
14
16
Protein
0.90 g
0.62 g
0.94 g
0.91 g
1.20 g
1.03 g
0.64 g
0.66 g
1.16 g
0.64 g
Fat
030 g
0.48 g
0.24 g
0.31 g
0.20 g
0.17 g
0.57 g
026 g
0.14 g
0.05 g
Fiber
0.70 g
0. |
| Persimmons soothe sore throats and irritated intestinal tracts, are noted for their mild laxative qualities, and contain enzymes that break down damaged cells and foreign microbes. chinese medicine advises that combining pefsimmon and crab at the same meal can produce extteme diatrhea.
VARIETIES
Fuyus are the yellow-orange, tomato-shaped variety of persimmon most commonly grown and enjoyed in Israel and Japan. Hard and crisp like an apple, they can be eaten out of hand or peeled and cut in slices across the fruit to reveal the beautiful flower formation in the center. |
| Valued as a restorative and warming food in both Ayurvedic and chinese medicine, nuts help build body mass and strength. The trick is how to determine the dose, and that will depend upon your ability to digest oil. Nuts are best used sparingly, if at all, by people with a compromised liver or digestive system, an overweight problem, or a sluggish condition (such as Candida, yeast, or viral problems, edema, tumors, or cysts). Such people would do best to favor the less fatty nuts. |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
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 Traditional chinese medicine views the desire for sugar, or the sweet flavor, as a craving for the mother (yin) energy, a craving that represents a need for comfort or security. A desire for spicy or salty flavored foods might represent looking for the father (yang) energy or power and direction. In Western cultures, we have turned sugar into a reward system (a tangible symbol of material nurturing) to the degree that many of us have been conditioned to need some sweet treat to feel complete or satisfied. |
Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D.
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 Basal studies on combination of chinese medicine in cancer chemotherapy: protective effects on the toxic side effects of CDDP and antitumor effects with CDDP on murine bladder tumor (MBT-2)]. Nippon Gan Chiryo Gakkai Shi.l989;24:1305-12.
4. Satomi N, et al. Japanese modified traditional Chinese medicines as preventive drugs of the side effects induced by tumor necrosis factor and lipopolysaccharide. Mol Biother.l989;l:155-62.
5. Yamada H. [Chemical characterization and biological activity of the immunologically active substances in Juzen-taiho-to (Japanese kampo prescription)]. |
Mark Blumenthal
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Overview
Eleuthero root has been used in Traditional chinese medicine for thousands of years, and has been known as "Siberian ginseng." Eleuthero is an "adaptogen," a mild substance that produces a normalizing effect on the body. It was first marketed in the U.S. in the late 1970s, and has since become one of the top-selling herbal dietary supplements. |
| It has been used in Traditional chinese medicine (TCM) for over 2,000 years and is listed in the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing, China's oldest pharmacopoeia, as well as in the pharmacopeia of Li Shih-Zhen of the Ming dynasty (Halstead and Hood, 1984). However, it was modern Russian researchers who popularized this herb in the West (Foster and Chongxi, 1992; Kenner and Requena, 1996). From the 1940s through the 1960s, Soviet scientists conducted extensive clinical research on eleuthero in their search for a more abundant and economical alternative to Asian ginseng (Panax ginseng). |
| In: The Web That Has No Weaver: Understanding chinese medicine. Chicago, II: Congdon & Weed, Inc.; 1983;50-76.
Kenner D, Requena Y. Botanical Medicine: A European Professional Perspective. Brookline, MA: Paradigm Publications; 1996; 132-3.
Kirilov O. The effect of fluid extract of Eleutherococcus root on the pituitary-adrenocortical system, [in Russian]. Sib OtdAcad Nauk S.S.S.R. 1964;23:3-5.
Kolomisvsky L. Control over adaptive reactions of cardiologic patients using small doses of Eleutherococcus extract. |
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Description
For thousands of years in Traditional chinese medicine, ephedra (ma huang in Chinese) has been a primary ingredient in formulas used to treat bronchial asthma, cold, flu, wheezing, fever, and chills. In the 1980s and 1990s ephedra became controversial because of its possible adverse effects and its growing popularity as a major ingredient in herbal dietary supplements in the U.S. The FDA has attempted to amend regulations since that time in an effort to reduce potential risk and misuse of this herb. |
| The medicinal use of ginkgo leaf is first mentioned in chinese medicine in the Ming dynasty in 1436 (Foster, 1996). A standardized extract of ginkgo leaf is one of the most clinically tested and frequently prescribed phytomedicines in Europe, and has been one of the 10 best-selling herbal dietary supplements in the U.S. for about six years (Blumenthal et ai, 1998, 2001). |
| Traditional chinese medicine (TCM) Actions
Dispel wind (exogenous pathogenic factor with symptoms such as upper respiratory catarrh with headache and urticaria) and remove heat (symptoms such as fever, flushed face, thirst); relieve cough and resolve phlegm (secretions of the respiratory system) (PPRC, 2000). |
David Hoffman, FNIMH, AHG
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| My minimal grasp of the profundities of traditional chinese medicine tells me that Panax is the strongest yang tonic, while A. sinensis is the most yielding yin tonic. This leads to entirely different therapeutic implications.
It is also extremely challenging to build bridges between traditional phytotherapy and the abundance of scientific data flowing from the field of immunological research. It is too easy to discard the insights of traditional approaches in favor of research published in peer-reviewed journals. |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
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| In chinese medicine, this transition time between the seasons is about ten days before and after each equinox or solstice. For spring, this period runs from about March 10 through April 1; for autumn, it is from about September 11 through October 2. In cooler climates, where spring weather begins later and autumn weather earlier, the fasting could be scheduled appropriately as it is easier to do when it is warm as the body tends to cool down during fasting. |
David Hoffman, FNIMH, AHG
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| Among other AChE inhibitors under development is the alkaloid huperzine A, from Huperzia serrata, a club moss used in traditional chinese medicine.
Fig. 9.1. Huperzine A
The club moss Huperzia serrata is the Chinese folk medicine qing ceng ta. This herb is found chiefly in southern China, where it grows in moist places in hilly regions. A decoction of the dried whole plant has been used to treat trauma, fractures, scalds, hematuria, and infections of the skin and subcutaneous tissues. The herb is a component of a tea administered to elderly patients in China. |
Walter Last
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 In any event, chinese medicine says the ear is the place where all the channels meet. The ear is relatively safe and easy to use for self-treatment. The following description of using needles for ear treatment is provided only to show how it is done in some other countries or by acupuncturists. For legal reasons, I do not formally recommend using needles on the ear. Instead, you can use commercially available electro-acupuncture instruments or laser lights to treat points, or you can use press-point therapy as described below. Exercise care and caution. |
| Generally, overacidity, pain, and inflammation along the course of a meridian or in its target organ require sedation, while coldness and
According to chinese medicine, some interesting characteristics are associated with the meridians of the kidneys and liver. Weak kidneys are associated with a lack of will and sexual impulse, and with negativity, unease, timidity, and impatience. In the case of overactive kidneys, the energy level is abnormally high and you cannot stop working. It is similar with the liver. |
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