Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They use the natural herb stevia. And somehow they manage to make even egg protein (which is usually rather boring) taste good. I know because I slammed three sample cups of this egg protein for breakfast one morning at the trade show (I couldn't find any healthy food at the hotels, so I headed straight for Jay's booth for some quality protein to get my day started).
Jay Robb is best known for whey protein and egg white protein, both of which come in an assortment of flavors such as strawberry, chocolate and vanilla. |
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 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.
Oh, by the way, it's also the same over-the-counter medication used to manufacture methamphetamines ("meth"). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 John's Wort, be aware that this herb can potentiate many synthetic chemicals (prescription drugs), making them even more dangerous than they are normally. You should check with your naturopathic physician before taking prescription drugs with St. John's Wort. The good news is that if you take St. John's Wort, you can probably eliminate antidepressant drugs entirely. |
Christopher Hobbs
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 Various Tremella species are available in Chinese food stores and herb shops. They are common in the wild, and may be included in some Chinese prepared products.
Wolfiporia Cocos (Schw.) Wolf
(por=pores; cocos=coconut)
Tuckahoe, Hoelen, Fulinc
Synonyms
Pachyma hoelen Rumph. Other Common Names
W. cocos is also known as "hoelen" in Chinese (Narui et al, 1980). "Fuling" is the Chinese name for the sclerotium of this fungus, and other parts of it have names as well. |
Jean Carper
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 I bought an herb book, looked it up, bought some, and started to take it. My fever broke after one week on it—two pills a day, each 400 milligrams, for a total of 800 milligrams."
She was elated. Her bad sore throat started to disappear also. She skipped echinacea for a few days and the fever returned. "So I went back on it and the fever went away she says. "As soon as I started taking it, I began to feel good again."
With the high fever and sore throat mostly gone, she could function again. "At last, I could go on living." But she was still in some pain. |
| He usually advises alternating taking the herb for two weeks, then stopping for two weeks, and so on for as long as necessary.
*A pseudonym has been used to protect privacy, but the medical details are accurate.
How Much Do You Need?
Since echinacea comes in different forms, from the flower or root and as liquid or powder, recommended dosages vary. Thus check the product's label for proper doses. In general, however, to fight a cold, flu, or other infections, adults generally need 900 milligrams a day of solid dry powdered standardized extract, say experts. |
| Increasing evidence suggests the herb can also relieve some types of severe depression (not manic depression), but the research is not as extensive or firm in such cases.
¦ Take St. John's wort for at least six weeks before deciding whether it works. Quitting any earlier is too soon, since, as with other antidepressants, it will take a while for St. John's wort to produce benefits.
¦ If your depression worsens or you have suicidal impulses, or you notice severe side effects while taking St. John's wort, stop taking it and see your doctor immediately. |
| Natures Mighty Aspirin
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Why continue to suffer with migraines when a common herb can make them disappear? s any sufferer of migraine knows, aspirin is a wimp xjLagainst this ferocious headache. But nature has another secret potion that stops such headaches. Its users call it a "miracle aspirin"—a 10-cent pill with the awesome power to shut out those indescribably painful and incapacitating thunderstorms of the brain that afflict 23 million Americans. The cure is in the leaves of a plant called feverfew. |
Christopher Hobbs
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| The Japanese government has officially listed reishi as an adjunct herb for cancer (Willard, 1990). Preliminary clinical reports and practitioner experience seems to indicate that its immunostimulating polysaccharides may make it useful for people who are HIV positive, as well as for those who have Epstein Barr Virus (EBV), an infectious virus that causes mononucleosis (Dharmananda, 1988). Because of a high adenosine content (e.g. 150 mg%), reishi was not advised for use by hemophiliacs, but a pilot study in five HIV-positive hemophiliacs given reishi extract (adenosine intake, 1. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 This doesn't mean that herb teas are bad; it simply means that they are not hydrating. They are for nutritional and herbal effects, not for hydrating. This is an important clarifying point. For example, live juices are very good because they have many minerals and they are hydrating. But they are not necessarily as hydrating as mature distilled water.
In contrast to chemical acids, there are natural acids - lemons, limes, apple cider vinegar, and grapefruit - that are very high in natural electron-donating hydrogen. They acidify the cell cytoplasm inside the cell around the nucleus. |
Christopher Hobbs
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| Procurement
The bulk fruiting bodies are still in European herb trade. I have seen large fruiting bodies on Douglas fir in the Pacific Northwest, south to the San Francisco bay area in California, though it probably grows further south. It is common in other parts of North America, Europe, and Asia.
Fomitopsis Pinicola (Swartz:Fr.) Karst.
(fomit=tinder; pin=pine, col=inhabitant)
Red-Belted Polypore
Synonyms
Boletus pinocola Swartz, Polyporus pinicola Swartz:Fr., Fomes ungulatus Schaeff. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 Solgar Vitamin and herb 500 Willow Tree Road Leonia.NJ 07605
General Nutrition Centers 300 Sixth Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15222 Local phone numbers
400 lU/tab 800 IU/tab 1,000 IU/tab
1,000 IU/cap 400 IU/cap
700 IU/tab
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The combination D/A products are derived from fish liver oil (usually cod-liver oil), and the typical ratio is 10:1, meaning 10 times more vitamin A than vitamin D. The new RDI/DRI for vitamin A is 2,310 IU for women, 3,000 IU for men, and about half that for children. |
Christopher Hobbs
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| Other common Chinese names include "plant of immortality," shi rh ("mushroom which grows on stone"), "ten-thousand year mushroom," and "herb of spiritual potency" (Liu and Bau, 1980; Bretschneider, 1895). Because of the difficulty in obtaining it, reishi was often referred to as the "phantom mushroom" in Japan (Matsumoto, 1979). It is also called varnished conk (Arora, 1986).
Description and Habitat
The Latin lucidum, meaning "shiny" or "brilliant," refers to the appearance of the fungus' fruiting body, which has a modeled, varnished look. G. |
| Procurement
Artist's conk is available in commercial products and in bulk through Chinese herb dealers. I have seen it as the major ingredient in "Ling Zhi" extracts made in Taiwan. It is also an extremely common fungus, growing on a variety of hosts throughout the world.
Ganoderma Lucidum (w. curt.: fr.) karst.
(gan=shiny; derm=skin; lucidum=shining)
Ling-Zhi, Reishi
Synonyms
Boletus lucidus Fr., Polyporus lucidus, Ganoderma sessile, Polyporus polychromus, Ganoderma polychromum (Gilbertson and Ryvarden, 1986).
Other Common Names
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Kathi Keville
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 Another herb that reduces pain by lowering prostaglandin levels is ginger, which has long been used in India to treat inflammation and pain. When Indian researchers investigated their culture's ancient claims for ginger, they discovered that it did indeed relieve pain. In a 1992 study in which ginger was given to people who suffered from muscle pain, all of the participants showed at least some improvement. In the same study, the ginger treatment provided substantial relief for over 75 percent of those who had painful rheumatoid arthritis or osteoarthritis. |
| According to the results of a 1984 study, when bupleurum is taken in conjunction with the prescription drugs, compounds in the herb even repair the damage already done by the drugs.
Some of the side effects that can come with taking cortisone are depression, thymus atrophy, high cholesterol and decreased levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin and the pituitary hormone ACTH. Studies have shown that licorice prevents all of these and also stops the liver from breaking down and deactivating your body's natural cortisone too quickly Licorice also appears to enhance the action of bupleurum. |
| Echinacea is an excellent herb to use for most inflammatory disorders for another reason: Many of them, including rheumatoid arthritis, are linked with immune system problems.
Guggul, a resin from a relative of the myrrh tree, has long been used by practitioners of Ayurvedic medicine to fight pain resulting from inflammation. The results of one study showed that people experienced significant relief from their arthritic pain after three months of using a traditional Indian combination of guggul, turmeric, withania and the mineral zinc. |
| Other plants or plant compounds that have been compared to the antiinflammatory drug phenylbutazone— but without the drug's long-term adverse effects—are Chinese skullcap, devil's claw and the compound lapachol from the South American herb pau d'arco. The Department of Antibiotics at the Federal University of Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil, has used this compound to develop an anti-inflammatory for use on the skin.
Research on Chinese skullcap conducted in China and Russia has validated theories about its sedative action
X 7 rm. and ability to stabilize nerve-related heart problems. |
Christopher Hobbs
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| In the New English Dispensatory (1733), it is mentioned as a purging herb to be taken with aromatics (such as ginger), but the author reports it is rarely used and recommends that it be allowed to fall into disuse. Linnaeus, in his Materia Medica (1749), says that it is warming, mildly laxative, carminative, and anthelmintic. In the second edition of the U.S. Dispensatory (1834), the authors state that agaric "is scarcely employed, though we have met with it in the shops. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 Huperzine A Maybe This ancient Chinese herb was used for memory loss even before we knew that it increases acetylcholine levels by blocking a chemical that devours this precious neurotransmitter. If you have mild cognitive impairment, we recommend 200 micrograms twice daily and suggest that your doctor help titrate the treatment if other pharmaceuticals with similar effects are being used.
Vinpocetine No There's not enough evidence that this supplement from a periwinkle plant helps, and it can reduce your blood pressure too much, so we would rather wait for more clinical trials. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 Besides its varied culinary uses, the herb mint is used in gums, candies, toothpaste, pest repellents, medicines, and cosmetics.
A Serving of Food Lore...
Mint is thought to have originated in the Mediterranean Basin, where it was valued as a foundation in perfumes, food flavorings, and medicinal products. The Romans brought mint throughout Europe. In the 1790s, mint was being grown in Massachusetts, and by 1812 peppermint was cultivated commercially for oil in Ashfield, Massachusetts.
Where Is Mint Grown?
Mint is mainly grown in China, India, the Mediterranean, the Philippines, and Egypt. |
Mark Lynas
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 The period is named the 'Younger Dryas', after an arctic-alpine flowering herb, Dryas octopetala, whose pollen is ubiquitous in peaty sediment layers dating from the time. In Norway temperatures were 7-9°C lower than today, and even southern Europe suffered a reversal to near-glacial conditions. On the other side of the Atlantic, cooling also occurred, and there is evidence of rapid climate change from as far afield as South America and New Zealand. |
Frantisek Stary
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 Coltsfoot is a small perennial herb that spreads rapidly by means of the rhizomes with long runners. It grows abundantly in bare and waste ground, by roadsides, in ditches, rubbish dumps and in fields from lowland to mountain elevations. Early in spring scaly stems terminated by solitary golden-yellow flowerheads (1) grow from the flower buds. The round, veined leaves, which form a ground rosette (2), appear after flowering. They are long-stalked and up to thirty centimetres across. When they first appear the leaves are white-felted on both sides, later becoming smooth on the upper surface. |
| Small Nettle (2) is a much smaller annual herb reaching a height of only forty centimetres, in other words half the size of Stinging Nettle. Its sting, however, is sharper. The stems are soft, the leaves measuring two by three centimetres. The whole plant is covered only with stinging hairs. The flowers are unisexual, the plants self-pollinating, with more flowers in the female clusters than in the male clusters. Both flowers and achenes are coloured pale green.
Common Bilberry, Whortleberry, Blueberry
Vaccinium myrtillus l. Ericaceae
The genus Vaccinium comprises a great many species ? |
| White Horehound (1) is a perennial herb which reaches a height of half a metre being coloured whitish and woolly at first, becoming downy later. The stem is four-angled, hollow and branched. The leaves are opposite, growing at right angles to those above and below, and wrinkled. It grows in sunny, nutrient-rich locations, often waste places; it requires a great deal of warmth and light as well as nitrogen-rich soil and flowers from June until September. The dense whorls of as many as eight flowers grow from the leaf joints in the upper third of the stem. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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| Patients need to be cautious taking dopamine and should discuss a 400-milligram dose of this herb with their doctors.
Let's make one thing clear: We are not recommending testosterone therapy for men with normal testosterone levels as some kind of antiaging miracle treatment. Testosterone therapy should be used only for men diagnosed with enough of a deficiency to cause some of the problems we've already outlined. Unfortunately, blood tests are not always accurate enough—remember, the sauce on the spaghetti is difficult to measure. |
Jean Carper
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| But the herb's muscle-relaxing powers are only part of the story in alleviating headaches, says German investigator Dr. Gobel. He speculates that peppermint oil interferes in headache pain transmission several other ways. It produces a long-lasting cooling sensation on the skin that may stimulate the skin's cold receptors, influencing pain transmission in the spinal cord. Peppermint also increases capillary blood flow, decreasing pain sensitivity in the skin.
HOW TO USE PEPPERMINT OIL FOR TENSION HEADACHES
Here's advice from German researcher Dr. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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| Another herb, black cohosh, reduces hot flashes in 35 percent of cases-the same as a placebo. Because no harm is caused, and 35 percent is nothing to sneeze at, lots of women are plenty happy to keep using it. You might think that placebos are useless sugar pills for hot flashes or insomnia, but 35 percent of users get relief from them, which is an example of the power of positive thinking and your mind's control of your body. If you suffer from these symptoms, it may be worth it to see if exercise, paced respiration, black cohosh, or evening primrose oil work for you. |
Jean Carper
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| In one well-conducted (double-blind) study of 116 individuals with alcohol-induced liver damage, German researchers tested milk thistle in doses of 420 milligrams a day. The herb had a profound curative action within two weeks, as measured by favorable changes in enzymes, the markers of toxic liver cell damage. Indeed, investigators noticed improvement within seven days. Thus milk thistle helped restore normal liver function and curtail the course of the disease, researchers concluded. |
Bryan Hanson, PhD
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 One exception is the North American herb Echinacea (purple coneflower), which stimulates the immune system and helps fight off or reduce the severity of an infection. Echinacea's actions appear to be due to several classes of chemicals and, although it is one of the most heavily researched herbs, a complete picture of exactly which molecules are responsible for its beneficial effects has yet to emerge. However, several polysaccharides appear to be important, in part, in the activation of the immune system. |
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