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Mike: You have a blood sugar balance formula, and the ingredients are three or four medicinal chinese herbs, right? St. Clair: Yes, this is actually probably the simplest formula in the entire line. Most of our formulas have anywhere from about 12 all the way up to about 40 different ingredients. Chinese herbal medicine, as you probably know, relies a lot on the synergy of herbs and different energies that the herbs produce. So the Blood Sugar Balance is unique in that it only has five ingredients.

Handbook of Medicinal Plants Amarjit S. Basra See book keywords and concepts

Initial study on naturally occurring products from traditional chinese herbs and vegetables for chemoprevention, Journal of Cell Biochemistry, Suppl. 27: 106-112; Thatte, U., Bagadey, S., and Dahanukar, S., 2000, Modulation of programmed cell death by medicinal plants, Cell and Molecular Biology, 46( 1): 199-214. 113. Hirsch, K., Danilenko, M., Giat, J., Miron, T., Rabinkov, A., Wilchek, M., Mirelman, D., Levy, J., and Sharoni, Y, 2000, Effect of purified allicin, the major ingredient of freshly crushed garlic, on cancer cell proliferation, Nutrition and Cancer, 38(2): 245-254. 114. Riggs, D.

Interview with David Wolfe on raw foods, the bird flu and herbal healing Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Wolfe: That's one of the great chinese herbs. It's a root, and it is considered one of the top six or seven herbs in the whole Chinese medicinal system, and that's another one that's an immune system modulator. If you need your immune system to go up, it will go up. If you need your immune system to calm down, it will go down. By the way, people will say, "Why do you need your immune system to calm down?" The reason could be allergies and the autoimmune conditions, and those are two situations where you want to tone the immune system down a little bit.

Systems of medicine explained: Conventional, alternative, integrative, complementary and more Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Western medicine, in response, dismisses everything under Chinese medicine, ignoring the long history of safe and effective use of chinese herbs, acupuncture, and other philosophies espoused by Traditional Chinese Medicine. Chinese medicine is not limited to China, by the way. It is practiced throughout Asia, including Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, and many other countries. The way it is practiced in the United States is not true Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine education has become Westernized in the United States.

Interview with David Wolfe on raw foods, the bird flu and herbal healing Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Mike: He's got that one product that has something like 72 different chinese herbs in one, doesn't it? Wolfe: Yes. Mike: Yes, I tasted that. Wow. Wolfe: Because we're talking about Dragon Herbs, I want to mention a specific reishi product he has that I feel is absolutely one of the strongest things I've ever tried. The product's name is Protector 2000 at dragonherbs.com". In there, you find that reishi mushroom spores have been eaten up with enzymes and made digestible to you. I caught Ron at a trade show the other day, and this is what he told me.

The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions 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. See book keywords and concepts

Dan shen (Salvia miltiorrhiza), a traditional Chinese herb, used either alone or combined with other chinese herbs for 30 days was reported to improve vision in people with glaucoma.13 However, the herb was administered by muscular injection, a preparation that is not readily available in North America or Great Britain. It is not known whether oral use of the herb would have the same effect. Are there any side effects or interactions? Refer to the individual herb for information about any side effects or interactions.

Interview with David Wolfe on raw foods, the bird flu and herbal healing Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Mike: It's worth mentioning, too, that in the world of chinese herbs that people may not know, the Tamiflu anti-viral drug is, of course, sourced from the star anise Chinese herb. Wolfe: That's amazing. Mike: Did you know that when they manufactured that, there's a stage at which it is highly explosive? Wolfe: No, I didn't know that. I'm not surprised. Mike: I was reading this in Fortune magazine. I kid you not. At some point this stuff is like plastic explosives. It can go up in flames if they don't handle it very carefully, so that's a lesson when you try to extract chemicals from nature.

The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions 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. See book keywords and concepts

Textbooks on chinese herbs recommend taking 9-15 grams of the crude herb per day in decoction form.9 A decoction is made by boiling the root in water for a few minutes and then brewing the tea. Alternatively, 3-5 ml of tincture three times per day, are sometimes recommended. BACOPA Common names: Brahmi, water hyssop Botanical name: Bacopa monniera Parts used and where grown Bacopa is native to India, where it grows in marshy areas. In the West, bacopa is a familiar water plant used in aquariums.

One of these chinese herbs, Tripterygium wilfordii, is thought to benefit those with SLE or DLE by both suppressing immune function (page 255) and acting as an anti-inflammatory agent. When people with DLE took 30 to 45 grams of tripterygium per day for two weeks in a preliminary trial, most experienced some degree of improvement, including reduction or disappearance of skin rashes.57 Skin rashes in eight people completely cleared up, while in ten people over 50% of the rash improved. A preliminary trial gave the same dose of tripterygium to people with SLE.

Systems of medicine explained: Conventional, alternative, integrative, complementary and more Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The treatments in Chinese medicine include acupuncture, chinese herbs, and Tui-Na, which resembles massage therapy combined with therapeutic touch. Chinese medicine has the longest history, and the most practical application, of any system of medicine in the world, outdating Western medicine by about 3800 years. In China, doctors were practicing relatively advanced medicine before the birth of Christ.

The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions 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. See book keywords and concepts

Textbooks on chinese herbs recommend taking 9-15 grams of the crude herb per day in decoction form. A decoction is made by boiling the root in water for a few minutes and then brewing the tea. Another Chinese herb, Chinese scullcap (page 658), might be useful for liver infections. However, the research on this is generally of low quality.63 Are there any side effects or interactions? Refer to the individual herb for information about any side effects or interactions. HIGH CHOLESTEROL See also: Atherosclerosis (page 38) What do I need to know?

Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health Joseph E. Mario See book keywords and concepts

CC Pollen" s BEE-Pain Free with 36 chinese herbs, 18 Amino acids, four analgesic herbs, and Enzyme-fi lied Pollen. PRN Lab's Pain Free gel with Aloe Vera and Capsaicin. Nature's Sunshine's Capsaicin (.05%) with extracts of Aloe Vera, Yucca, Horsetail, Chamomile, Elderfiowers,andComfreyAllantoin. Dr. David Young's Living Essential Oil formula Pain-Away with Helicrysum and Birch (methysalicylate works like topical anesthesia). Epibatidine in the venom of a tiny frog in Ecuador is 200 times better a painkil ler than morphine.

Interview with David Wolfe on raw foods, the bird flu and herbal healing Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Wolfe: That's one of the great chinese herbs. It's a root, and it is considered one of the top six or seven herbs in the whole Chinese medicinal system, and that's another one that's an immune system modulator. If you need your immune system to go up, it will go up. If you need your immune system to calm down, it will go down. By the way, people will say, "Why do you need your immune system to calm down?" The reason could be allergies and the autoimmune conditions, and those are two situations where you want to tone the immune system down a little bit.

The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions 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. See book keywords and concepts

Animal studies have found that red peony root, alone or in combination with other chinese herbs, could help prevent liver damage due to various chemical toxins.14 A crude extract of red peony root was shown in a small, preliminary trial to reduce liver fibrosis in some patients with chronic viral hepatitis (page 220).15 Other case studies published in Chinese have found red peony root helpful for people with viral hepatitis.

Interview with David Wolfe on raw foods, the bird flu and herbal healing Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Mike: He's got that one product that has something like 72 different chinese herbs in one, doesn't it? Wolfe: Yes. Mike: Yes, I tasted that. Wow. Wolfe: Because we're talking about Dragon Herbs, I want to mention a specific reishi product he has that I feel is absolutely one of the strongest things I've ever tried. The product's name is Protector 2000 at dragonherbs.com". In there, you find that reishi mushroom spores have been eaten up with enzymes and made digestible to you. I caught Ron at a trade show the other day, and this is what he told me.

The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions 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. See book keywords and concepts

Crude red peony root extracts and combinations of these extracts with other chinese herbs inhibit platelet aggregation, thrombosis, and excessive clotting in the test tube and in animals.17'18 A rabbit study found that peony was effective at lowering cholesterol (page 223) levels in the aorta.19 A preliminary human study confirmed that peony could inhibit platelet clumping.20 This suggests that peony might be helpful for prevention of atherosclerosis (page 38). However, clinical studies are needed to confirm this effect.

Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer Michael Lerner See book keywords and concepts

One interesting but, some specialists report, somewhat dated book on the traditional system of cancer treatment with traditional chinese herbs is Treating Cancer with chinese herbs, by Hong-Yen Hsu. Hsu headed the Taiwan Pharmaceutical Association for 34 years and served as the chief of the Food and Drug Control Bureau of the National Health Administration in Taiwan, as well as chairing the department of botany at a Taiwan university before founding the Oriental Healing Arts Institute in Los Angeles. In classic Chinese medicine, Hsu says, there is no specific concept of cancer.

Optimal Wellness Ralph Golan, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Enhance (gano-derma, isatis extract, and twenty-eight other chinese herbs) along with Clear Heat (isatis extract and eight other chinese herbs): protocol ayailable to your health practitioner from Health Concerns. Immune Enhancing Astra 8 (astragalus, codonopis, ligustrum, licorice, ganoderma, atractylodes, eleuthero ginseng, schizandra): two to three capsules twice a day between meals (Health Concerns). Power mushrooms (ganoderma, shiitake, tre-mella or silver tree mushroom, poria, polyporus): three tablets once or twice a day between meals (Health Concerns); can use with Astra 8.

Herbs of Life: Health & Healing Using Western & Chinese Techniques Lesley Tierra See book keywords and concepts

Although most of the chinese herbs included here are tonics of either the blood, fluids, energy, warmth or tonics for specific organs, other chinese herbs are included which are useful to know for their specific and valuable applications. Under Dose, the grams for tea decoctions are given as this is the traditional Chinese way of preparing herbs. The herbs may be powdered for capsules or tinctured if desired, in which case the standard dose of 2 "00" capsules or 10-30 drops tincture three times daily is given.

The Constituents of Medicinal Plants: An Introduction to the Chemistry and Therapeutics of Herbal Medicine Andrew Pengelly See book keywords and concepts

Clinical Applications of Ayurvedic and chinese herbs, Phytotherapy Press, Warwick. Beekman, A. C, Wierenga, P. K., Woerdenbag, H. J., van Uden, W, Pras, N., Konings, A. W. T., El-Feraly, F. S., Galal, A. M. and Wikstrom, H. V. 1998, 'Artemisinin-derived sesquiterpene lactones as potential antitumour compounds: cytotoxic action against bone marrow and tumour cells', Planta Medica 64: 615-619. Boatto, G., Pintore, G., Palomba, M., De Simone, F., Ramunda, E. and Jodice, C.

Heinerman's Encyclopedia of Healing Herbs and Spices John Heinerman See book keywords and concepts

Our session dealt with "Chinese Herbs and Natural Products," and I gave a special lecture on the "Integration of chinese herbs with American Herbal Products: Several Case Studies,'" which received widespread media coverage in the local Taipei newspapers. Following this, he and I were special guests of the Mayor of this capi-tol city. Along with several other foreign guests, I was driven to a farm on the outskirts of Taipei and shown mushroom cultivation in progress.

Ultraprevention : The 6-Week Plan That Will Make You Healthy for Life Mark Hyman, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Reports of chinese herbs actually containing prescription medications, including stimulants, steroids, or sedatives, are not uncommon. But problems with supplements and vitamins are not limited to foreign countries. In fact, even in the United States, independent testing has repeatedly shown that many vitamins and supplements do not contain the doses, or even the ingredients, listed on the labels. It's hard for consumers to know that they're actually getting exactly what—and only what—they paid for.

Herbs of Life: Health & Healing Using Western & Chinese Techniques Lesley Tierra See book keywords and concepts

Although most of the chinese herbs included here are tonics of either the blood, fluids, energy, warmth or tonics for specific organs, other chinese herbs are included which are useful to know for their specific and valuable applications. Under Dose, the grams for tea decoctions are given as this is the traditional Chinese way of preparing herbs. The herbs may be powdered for capsules or tinctured if desired, in which case the standard dose of 2 "00" capsules or 10-30 drops tincture three times daily is given.

Secrets of the Chinese Herbalists Richard Lucas See book keywords and concepts

The chinese herbs and herb products cited in this chapter as being helpful in conditions of impotence and sexual debility do not stimulate the organs into unnatural activity, but work by providing the nutrients needed to restore normal, healthy functioning. 9 BUILDING FEMALE HEALTH WITH CHINESE HERBS There are a number of different ailments—for example, vaginal irritation and discharge, menstrual difficulties, vomiting during pregnancy, and so on—that can affect the human female.

Herbs of Life: Health & Healing Using Western & Chinese Techniques Lesley Tierra See book keywords and concepts

Since more and more Western herbalists are beginning to understand this, chinese herbs are becoming increasingly easy to find in herbal stores throughout the United States, and even in other Western countries. Many are even being grown here, and some day soon we should have readily available organically grown chinese herbs. Tonic herbs need to be taken over a long period of time to help strengthen from any deficiencies. For this they are usually taken as a tea, or even better, in soup form. Typically the Chinese prepare a tonic herb soup once a week for maintenance and preventative measures.

Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy Dr. Michael Heinrich, Joanne Barnes, Simon Gibbons and Elizabeth M. Williamson See book keywords and concepts

In a similar case, evidence of interaction between herbs was provided by a clinically successful formulation of chinese herbs used to treat eczema. However, when investigated phytochemically and pharmacologically, the activity was lost during the fractionation procedure and was only present within the mixture. The possibility of polyvalent action should therefore be taken into account, and, if activity appears to be lost during purification, interactions should be suspected and a search for synergy could be instigated.

Alternative Cures: The Most Effective Natural Home Remedies for 160 Health Problems Bill Gottlieb See book keywords and concepts

TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE: Herbs That Heighten Desire A number of chinese herbs are thought to help stimulate sexual desire, says Christopher Hobbs, an herbalist and expert in Traditional Chinese Medicine in Santa Cruz, California. He recommends taking a supplement of one or more of the following chinese herbs and herbal formulas: Asian (panax) ginseng, ligustrum, denodrobium, or the Chinese formula called 8-Flavor Tea Pills. Follow the dosage recommendations on the product label.

Medicinal Mushrooms: An Exploration of Tradition, Healing, & Culture (Herbs and Health Series) Christopher Hobbs See book keywords and concepts

The chief value of this work is a confirmation of the Latin names of some important traditional chinese herbs which were included in the Pen Ts'ao, along with a historical bibliography listing early articles (from the late 19th century and early 20th century) concerning identification and trade of chinese herbs. These two works mention a number of fungi from the Pen Ts'ao, including the species mentioned in Table 3. Medicinal Fungi of the Pen Ts' 'ao Reid's Name Current Name Chinese Name Notes and Uses Agaricus ostreatus Jacq. (W.) Armillaria mellea Vahl.

The ABC Clinical Guide to Herbs Mark Blumenthal See book keywords and concepts

Herbal Emissaries: Bringing chinese herbs to the West. Rochester, VT: Healing Arts Press; 1992;102-12. General Sale List (GSL). Statutory Instrument 1994 No. 2410 - The Medicines (Products Other Than Veterinary Drugs). Amendment Ordet 1994. London, U.K.: Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO). 1994. Goode R, Chatha D, Baker J, et al. The Effects of Ginseng on Physical Performance in Human Subjects. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Dept. of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine and School of Physical and Health Education; 1993. GSL. See: General Sale List. Health Canada.

The Pharmacology of chinese herbs, 2nd edition. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press LLC; 1999:291-300. Huber G. Preliminary results from clinical trials on ephedra dietary supplements (unpublished). Personal communication to M Blumenthal, Dec 18, 2001. Hutchins GM. Dietary supplements containing ephedra alkaloids [letter]. N Engl J Med200l Apr 5;344(14):1095-6;discussion 1096-7. Indian Pharmacopoeia (IP, 1996), Vol. I (A-O). Delhi, India: Controller of Publications Government of India Ministry of Health & Family Welfare; 1996:282-5. International Olympic Committee (IOC).

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