Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Sea cucumber has been used in chinese medicine for thousands of years for dealing with joint problems and connective tissues -- it actually is a whole body tonic. It strengthens users in many ways. It is actually 20 percent chondroitin sulfate. However, the chondroitins that are in there are different. The sugars that sit on them sit in different places, so it is a safer alternative.
Then we put the MSM in there because the MSM is a source of sulfur, which is needed in building those glycosaminoglycans, the connective tissues. MSM is also known to be a painkiller. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Goji berries, by the way, are considered the "longevity berry" in chinese medicine.
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I have great news just in time for the Christmas season: We've just received another 1,000 kilograms of soap nuts (as in, literally just this morning). This is the 100% natural laundry detergent that grows on trees. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 A hospital clinic-based survey on traditional chinese medicine usage among chronic hepatitis B patients. Comp TherMed; 13:175-182. 2005.
Xuan W, Dong M & Dong M: Effects of compound injection of Pyrola rotundifolia L and Astragalus membranaceus Bge on experimental guinea pigs' gentamicin ototoxicity. Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol; 104:374-380. 1995
Yang Y-z, Jin P-y, Guo Q et al. Treatment of experimental coxsackie B-3 viral myocarditis with Astragalus membranaceus in mice. Chinese Med J; 103:14-18. 1990
Yarnell, E. and Abascal, K: Herbs for relieving chronic renal failure. |
Pam Montgomery
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 Others use clear quartz crystals to extract the squatter while others may perform a particular ritual. In chinese medicine there are seven acupuncture points on the front of the body and seven on the back of the body that are the release points for a disembodied soul who has attached to a person's central nervous system. When these points are opened they become a gateway through which the squatter can leave. In Plant Spirit Healing these points are stimulated with the help of Mugwort. |
Dawson Church
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 In addition, doctors Dozor and Barnett have a compendious knowledge of Ayurveda, chinese medicine, herbalism, and other alternative medical specialties.
The treatment protocol is coordinated by a computer system that tracks patient files and updates them in real time. During a consultation with the naturopath, for instance, he enters his notes on a screen that is immediately available to all the other practitioners. He might also walk ten steps down the hall to consult with the psychologist or with the family physician. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Incredibly high-quality chinese medicine herbs. Check out their eucommia bark tincture.
Mushroom Science (www.MushroomScience.com)
Wow. Outstanding, high-potency medicinal mushrooms. I love their Reishi and Cordyceps products.
Better Than Roasted (www.BetterThanRoasted.com)
The best nuts you've ever tasted. Check out their "Oasis Trail Mix." It will absolutely blow your mind. It's like you died and went to Heaven and they were serving raw foods trail mixes in heaven...
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Unbelievably great-tasting "Bliss Mix" product is now available. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In fact, an experienced chinese medicine doctor can tell more from your tongue and pulse than a Western doctor can tell from $10,000 worth of blood tests and an MRI. (No kidding. |
Ron Garner
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 In a healthy state, life force circulates freely throughout the body. chinese medicine places a great focus on opening up energy pathways, or meridians, so the body is better able to return to health. In an unhealthy body, our natural energy can be lowered by stress, a buildup of toxins, and illness. When energy is flowing freely throughout, the body is able to regenerate and detoxify itself, and is better able to cope with the stresses and strains of life. Health is directly dependent on energy flow.
ENERGY IS ALL ABOUT ELECTRICITY
The human body runs on electrical energy. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 The key to understanding chinese medicine is to understand the idea of balance. The goal in using any of the tools of chinese medicine, including herbs, is to supply the body with what it requires to regulate the flow of chi, or vital energy, and to promote a state of equilibrium, or balance, and harmony. Once balance is attained, the person regains health.
For centuries, the Chinese have taught how to achieve balance in life using the concept of yin and yang, which are present in human beings and in all of nature. Yang is characterized as heat and light; yin as shadow and cold. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Drug companies see China's one billion people as nothing more than revenue-generating patients, and convincing all those people to take more medicines will require a well-planned, well-funded economic and philosophical assault on chinese medicine. Essentially, Big Pharma must find a way to disconnect the Chinese from their heritage, turning them all into depressed, diseased "white" consumers whose medical mythology worships the falsehoods of western reductionism. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Plus, attendees will learn about censored nutritional secrets, growing medicinal herbs at home, chinese medicine tonics, fasting on sunlight, wild food remedies, and numerous other experimental and cutting-edge health topics. Full details are available at The Best Weekend Ever website (click here).
The lineup also includes progressive (even "radical") explorations of topics like alchemical transformation, Ormus accumulators, resonant energy and bio-energy, the healing power of negative ions, water vortex technology and much more. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 For example, the FDA outlawed the selling of ephedra, a common herb in chinese medicine, yet the same active chemical is openly allowed to be purchased in over-the-counter cold medicines sold at virtually every corner pharmacy in America. Apparently, the FDA believes the herb is dangerous, but somehow the refined, highly-concentrated drug is far safer -- which is like saying crack is safer than coca leaf tea. The real reason for this double standard is that over-the-counter medicines are profitable for Big Pharma, and that's exactly why this drug remains on the market. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Empowered Foods also offers Goji Jelly Cups made with wildcrafted camu camu berries (the highest natural source of vitamin C in the world) and raw Tibetan goji berries (extremely rich in antioxidants, used for 5,000 years in chinese medicine).
Personally, I found the chocolate cups to be just as delicious as the bars, but I liked the bars better because they were easier to unwrap and eat. The cups take a bit of work, and if you refrigerate the Goji Jelly Cups and then bite down on one, the goji jelly smooshes out the side (yes, "smooshes" is a technical term used by nutritionists). |
Marshall Editions
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 Those listed below are available from chinese medicine clinics and Chinese pharmacies.
• Chuan Xing Lian Pian: This herb is proven to have some effect on anti-infectious diseases, but its function is mild and therefore not ideal for treating a severe infection. • Niu Huang Shang Qin Wan: This patent herbal pill is also useful in treating glue ear as it helps to clear infection.
Acupuncture: Treatment may reduce the pressure from fluid behind the eardrum. It may also reduce the pain, assist healing, and prevent deafness. |
| TRADITIONAL chinese medicine y Herbs: These are available from Chinese herbalists. m^m^m • Herbal decoction: Combine 12 g of Di Huang (Chinese foxglove),
þ12 g of Bai Shao (white peony root), 10 g of Ye Ju Hua (wild chrysanthemum flower), 12 g of Gou Ji Zi (wolfberry), and 12 g of Gou ¦ Teng (stem and thorns of gambir vine) with 3 cups of water in a ceramic or glass pot. Bring the mixture to a boil and simmer for 30 minutes. Strain the liquid and drink 1 cup three times a day for three to five days. This formula nourishes the liver and kidneys, helping to promote energy flow in the eyes. |
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| Schisandra should not be used by people with epilepsy, severe hypertension, intercranial pressure or "high acidity," in the terminology of chinese medicine (Weiner & Weiner, 1994). precautions and adverse reactions
General: No health hazards are known in conjunction with the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages. Rare side effects may include appetite suppression, stomach upset, and hives.
Interactions: No human interaction data available. dosage
Mode of Administration: Whole and powdered drug and their preparations for internal use. |
| Inhibitory Action of Shosaikoto and Daisaikoto (Traditional chinese medicine) on Collagen-Induced Platelet Aggregation and Prostaglandin Biosynthesis. Planta Med. 1986;52; 345-349.
BGA, Arzneimittelrisiken: Anthranoide. In: DAZ 132(21):1164. 1992.
Foust B, In: Foust MC. Rhubarb: The Wondrous Drug. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 1992.
Heisig W, Wichtl M. The Identification of Anthraquinone and Flavonoid Drugs with Two Dimensional Thin-Layer-Chromatrography Using the TLC-Reaction-Box-Process. Planta Med. 1989; 55:614-615.
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Dr Ron Roberts
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 I became interested in alternative medicine, and trained in various disciplines—naturopathy, chiropractic, acupuncture, chinese medicine, homeopathy, herbal medicine, massage and German high-tech bio-energetic medicine. My health has improved so much that I completed a full marathon when I was forty-five, when previously I could not run 500 metres without wheezing, coughing or setting off a severe attack. 1 have had no need to take any prescribed drugs for many years.'
This holistic view of health and asthma is central to this book: asthma has many causes, and many treatments may bring relief. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 CHOLESTIN
Cholestin has been used in chinese medicine for centuries for the treatment of heart problems. It is derived from yeast found on red rice and is marketed under the name "red rice yeast extract." This extract has eight statin compounds that are HMG coenzymeA reductase inhibitors and, just like statins, have been shown to reduce cholesterol. However, since the active ingredients of this supplement are chemically identical to those of the statins, they also have the same side effects. |
| CHOLESTIN
Cholestin is an ancient remedy that has been used in chinese medicine for centuries for the treatment of heart problems. Derived from yeast on red rice, it is called red rice yeast extract. It has eight statin compounds that are HMG coenzymeA reductase inhibitors, just like statins, that have been shown to reduce cholesterol. Because they are chemically identical to statins, they therefore have the same risks as the statins.
FISH OIL
Studies of fish oils and fish-oil extracts in the form of pills and formulas for the prevention of heart disease have not been uniformly promising. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Western medicine is also invading the continents around the world, bringing its expensive, heartless and corporate-controlled system of medicine to nations who were actually far healthier, happier and more financially solvent before America showed up with all its patented chemicals. chinese medicine, for example, is routinely discredited in China by arrogant Chinese doctors who went to med school in America then returned home to betray their own fellow citizens. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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| Rather than focusing on symptoms, chinese medicine uses acupressure, acupuncture, moxibustion, shiatsu, reflexology and t'ai-chi to stimulate the chi energy flow and build up whichever of the two forces is deficient.
According to this philosophy, whether we are resting or on the move, asleep or awake, hot or cold, the body is constantly in the process of energy balancing. When we get a fever, yin and yang disharmony can cause asthma, bronchitis, sinusitis, hay fever and other illnesses. |
Roberta Bivins
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 Perhaps even worse, at least for perceptions of chinese medicine, they were told that Britain's generous attempt to negotiate had been blocked by a Chinese doctor.
China during this period gallingly persisted in regarding itself as self-sufTicient, and culturally superior. Consequently, it did not seek to ally itself with or learn from European nations, and regarded its many foreign visitors and inhabitants as mere pilgrims to the shrine of a higher culture. |
| But DuHalde ended his discussion of chinese medicine with a telling comment:
We may no doubt be surprized to find the Chinese (who are so little versed in the science of anatomy, which is the most important part of physic for discovering the causes of diseases) reasoning as if they understood it. They supply what is wanting in this part by experience ... And when all is done, no more sick persons die under their hands than do under those of the most able physicians in Europe. |
| His frustration with the theoretical intransigence of moxabustion foreshadows European responses to chinese medicine in the next century (and within much of the medical profession, even today).
Kaempfer, like Ten Rhyne, saw moxabustion as a technique worth further investigation by Europeans. Also like his predecessor, Kaempfer understood that moxabustion incorporated not just the physical practice, but the knowledge and theories that guided it:4? |
| Were European responses to chinese medicine, for example—whether positive or negative, assimilative or purgative—responses to its foreignness or simply to its difference from established medical beliefs and models?
Sensational Science: Mesmerism and Medicine, 1775-1900
In 1775, Anton Mesmer (1734?815), a trained Viennese physician, proclaimed a new basis for medicine. Mesmer was certainly a showman; but he was also a scientist, and by the standards of the day, a fairly proficient one. |
| It also illustrates the increased visibility of chinese medicine on the western high street, and the durability of orientalism as a marketing tool for Asian cultural products. practitioners too are concerned about the effects of competition, widely variable levels of training, and consequent damage to their own and their therapy's reputation. |
| Sir John Floyer's largely positive assessment of chinese medicine (discussed in Chapter i) at the beginning of the eighteenth century already suggested the trend of European attitudes towards non-European thought. In explaining his efforts to reconcile Chinese and European models of the pulse, he commented, 'the Asiatic have a gay luxurious imagination, but the Europeans excel in reasoning and judgment, and clearness of expression.'3 Without explicitly ranking those two virtues, Floyer nonetheless made it clear that reason trumped imagination, at least in the sphere of medicine. By
1735. |
Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D.
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 Resveratrol has been identified as the principal active ingredient in Ko-jo-kon, a traditional Asian remedy prepared from the ground-up roots of Japanese knotweed {Polygonum cuspidatum, also known as false bamboo), which has been used for thousands of years in Asia to treat cardiac, liver, and blood vessel ailments; the resveratrol currently sold in the West in the form of supplements is often an extract of this root preparation. chinese medicine also uses the roots of certain varieties of Veratrum to treat high blood pressure. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 But when one herb which has been safely used for 5,000 years in chinese medicine happens to harm 20 people who overdosed in a mad weight loss frenzy, the FDA bans it "to protect everyone!"
The FDA's position now comes down to simply this: Everyone needs to be protected from herbs and nutritional supplements, but no one needs to be protected from prescription drugs.
And this now completes the full reversal of the FDA. The agency now has both feet squarely in Bizarro world.
In doing this, I wonder if the FDA realizes it has made itself irrelevant. |
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