| The first major study on chaste tree was published in 1954,12 proving the herb's effectiveness for patients with cystic hyperplasia (excessive proliferation of the endometrium). Although this condition is not technically DUB, it is impressive that chaste tree was able to bring about enough of a progesterone effect to reduce the hyperplasia. In a separate study, 126 women with menstrual disorders took 15 drops of a chaste tree liquid extract three times daily over several menstrual cycles. |
James A. Duke, Ph.D.
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 No wonder it has a longstanding reputation as the herb of remembrance.
CHAPTER 10
Youthful
Energy
Dr. Duke's Anti-Aging Elixirs
• Amazing Energizer Tea Stimulating Sipper
GOT THAT TIRED, RUN-DOWN feeling? It could be a symptom of some underlying health problem, such as Addison's disease, adrenal gland dysfunction, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, hypoglycemia, hypothyroidism, multiple chemical sensitivities, myasthenia gravis, sleep deprivation, or stress.
Then again, it could be nothing more than that tired, run-down feeling—what I call TRF. |
Jack Challem
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 John's wort has better results than Prozac (fluoxetine) and Zoloft (sertraline) and is equal to Tofranil (imipramine) in treating mild to moderate depression. The herb was also more effective than Paxil (paraxetine) in treating severe depression and better than Tofranil in reducing anxiety. Furthermore, St. John's wort causes few side effects compared with drugs. Drug side effects include reduced interest in sex and erectile dysfunction in men—which, ironically, are reasons to feel depressed! Occasionally, taking these drugs will lead to an increase in suicidal thoughts and behavior.
St. |
Hyla Cass
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 Other Antioxidants
A broad spectrum of antioxidants—vitamins C, E, mixed carotenes (found in colorful vegetables and fruit), proanthocyanidins (found in grape seed extract), curcumin (from the herb turmeric), and catechins (found in tea, particularly the green variety)—is useful to round out any diabetic's supplement program. The various antioxidants work together, like instruments in an orchestra; taking one or two isn't enough. For best results, take a combination of antioxidants. |
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. |
David Steinman
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 It is a land Tom Newmark fell in love with, Brian Hall fell in love with, I fell in love with, and herb Lewis and Peter Schulick. Everybody who loves the Earth ought to visit this Eden.
Indeed, according to the World Bank, the benefits to the nation have been enormous.2 Costa Rica, having set aside at least one-quarter of all its land for preservation, is now one of the most stable and robust democracies in Latin America, with a longstanding commitment to economic growth and social development. |
| To Tom Newmark and Paul Schulick, the real goal for consumers ought to be to derive the benefits of the COX-2 drugs without their drawbacks," herb Lewis told me.
The real inflammation cure, one found to be both safe and effective, said Lewis and Hall, is in nature.
Our reporters at Healthy Living discovered New Chapter in 2003, and we began reporting on the company. The company's calling card was a rain forest formula called Zyflamend, available at health food stores. |
| Ginger and turmeric mingled with wild gotu kola, a valuable circulatory-health herb growing amid smooth pebbles and small boulders. Everywhere along fallen logs and branches was mycelium, provider of powerful immune-modulating beta-glucan sugars that protect against diseases like cancer and even prolong the survival of cancer patients (and were widely used as cancer drugs in Japan, whose average lifespan is years longer than that in the United States). |
| If you know a child who has survived leukemia, you might want to consider it likely that periwinkle, a rain forest herb, played a role. Rauwolfia is a natural plant medicine from India and was the first high blood pressure drug; it is widely known today as the medication Reser-pine. The natural female hormone drug progesterone that offers women the chance for hormone balance is derived from diosgenin, a steroidal chemical found in wild yam, a dietary staple of New Guinea's rain forest natives. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Eastern medicine" looks at the whole patient, the whole body, the whole experience, and never believes that just treating one organ or using one chemical, drug, or herb is the answer to any health condition.
"Traditional Chinese medicine," sometimes shortened to TCM, involves the treatment of patients using the fundamental approaches of healing developed over the last 4000 years in China. The treatments in Chinese medicine include acupuncture, Chinese herbs, and Tui-Na, which resembles massage therapy combined with therapeutic touch. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In fact, the best-known antiviral prescription drug – TamiFlu – is derived from an active ingredient in a traditional Chinese herb called "star anise." But the drug is only an isolated extract. The herbs work far better than the drugs because they offer a multitude of complementary phytonutrients, not isolated chemical extracts. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It was a perfectly safe Chinese herb that's now illegal to import, sell or prescribe to patients in the United States. It was used safely and effectively in Chinese Medicine for literally thousands of years, with no toxicity problems whatsoever. But when some American companies got their hands on it, they isolated the herb (which Chinese doctors never do), amplified its active chemicals, and sold them to consumers who started taking them by the handful. Not surprisingly, a couple of weak-hearted overweight people suffered heart attacks and died. |
| From that isolated abuse of the herb, the FDA banned all ephedra. But here's the smoking gun: It kept Sudafed legal even though Sudafed contains the same chemical constituents as ephedra! That's where the name of the drug comes from: "pseudo" and "ephedra." Put them together and you get "Sudafed."
So why was the herb (ephedra) banned while the drug (Sudafed) was kept on the market? You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure it out: Because Sudafed was making lots of money for its manufacturer, a drug company. |
David Steinman
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| He discovered that holy basil (Ocimum sanctum) contains ursolic acid, a known inhibitor of COX-2; turmeric root, traditionally used in Indian foods, has been shown to inhibit COX-2, according to studies at University of California at San Diego and Seoul National University11'12; oregano, the herb that gives pasta sauces their aromatic odor, was a source of as many as thirty-one anti-inflammatory compounds; and rosemary has been known since 1992 by researchers from Libya, Sweden, France, and the United States to have COX-2 inhibiting properties as well. |
| I heard some voices and turned around to see herb Lewis, tanned, fit, and blond shaggy-hair, the man who was legendary in the $20 billion natural products industry. Next to him was Brian Hall, former U.S. Army reservist whose face looked like the kind of guy who might have chewed gum and played baseball or perhaps slap shot puck. I also knew him to be one of the very best national sales managers in the natural products industry, obviously a Cleveland Indians fan; the crooked ball cap set on the side of his buzz cut was quintes-sentially American. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I can't wait to see what headlines will come next:
"Prescription Drugs That Killed Patients Found Innocent Since Patients Did Not Come Back to Life After the Drugs Were Removed"
Or:
"Radiation From Mammograms Found Harmless Because Death Rates Continued to Climb Even After Mammography was Halted"
Or my favorite: "Ephedra herb Banned After Ten Deaths; Drugs Are Safer Because They Only Kill 100,000 Americans a Year"
I'm beginning to wonder if all the journalists have been injected with mercury. |
Pam Montgomery
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 The journey begins at sunrise with a smudging of mugwort herb and cedar needles to clear away any energy that will not serve the journeyer. A red clay stone is made into a watery paste by rubbing it with a little water against another rock. The journeyer's face is outlined with the red paste while the wrists and ankles are encircled. This helps the spirits to recognize a visioning person. The container of sacred intention for the vision journey is held by a guide who plays the drum at intervals throughout the day. |
Hyla Cass
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| Use a milk thistle extract (which is made from the plant's seed) that contains 80% silymarin, the herb's active ingredient.
Lots of water. Drink eight to ten glasses of water daily.
Vitamin K, a nutrient essential for blood clotting, is depleted by most chemo drugs. Talk with your oncologist about supplementing 500-1,000 meg per day to help prevent bruising and bleeding.
Omega-3 fatty acids (1,000-3,000 mg of combined EPA and DHA per day) may help chemo be more effective, while helping to prevent extreme loss of muscle mass known as cachexia.
Medicinal mushrooms. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If an herb is implicated in the death of a single person, the FDA can rule it to be "unsafe at any dose" and outlaw it entirely. A pharmaceutical with 100,000 times that fatality rate, however, can be justified by the FDA as being "worth the risk." Isn't it interesting that this double standard just happens to coincide with the profit interests of drug companies who now control the FDA?
On news of the FDA's vote, stock prices of GlaxoSmithKline LLC made the highest jump in two years. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There is no such thing as a pharmaceutical that interferes with an herb.
Scientific progress is measured by the degree to which man dominates nature.
Free speech should only be protected for drug companies, not nutritional supplement companies.
The 300+ synthetic chemicals now found in the blood of nearly everyone are completely harmless and have no negative health effects.
The FDA is incapable of making mistakes, and therefore, drug companies should be granted full immunity against consumer lawsuits surrounding the injuries and deaths caused by FDA-approved pharmaceuticals. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I recall talking to an author of a very popular health book who told me she didn't include a section on stevia because she thought the FDA might confiscate the book if she mentioned the herb!
Incredible. What has America come to if people won't stand up against a corrupt, tyrannical government? The answer is simple: An enslaved nation that will devolve into a tyrannical dictatorship. The FDA already operates a medical dictatorship, complete with censorship, oppression of information and intimidation campaigns against those who attempt to speak out against the agency. (Just ask Dr. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Add aspartame to the FDA's Hall of Shame, right alongside Vioxx, Rezulin and the ordered destruction of recipe books that dared to mention the stevia herb as an ingredient. It's just one more way in which the FDA continues to betray the American people and subject them to life-threatening ingredients that any honest Food and Drug Administration would have banned long ago. |
Nicola Reavley
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 Lemon balm (Melissa officinalis)
This essential oil-rich herb has a long history of use as a remedy for nervousness and depression. It has carminative, nervine, anti-spasmodic, anti-depressive, diaphoretic and anti-microbial effects.
Uses
It is used to treat anxiety, depression, insomnia, flatulence, allergies, migraine and viral infections such as herpes.
Linden (Tilia europea)
Also known as lime blossom, linden has a long reputation as a nervous tonic. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Do not foolishly believe that you can destroy your health with pharmaceuticals, toxic body lotions, processed foods and avoiding exercise, then magically show up in the office of a naturopath one day and request that they "cure you" with a single treatment or a magical herb. It doesn't work that way. Curing cancer requires massive cleansing of the liver, colon and kidneys. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The mercury content of fish can be largely nullified by taking chlorella (a superfood supplement) or eating cilantro (a common culinary herb) during the meal that fish is consumed.
Mercury is found in fish because industrialized nations continue to pollute the environment with mercury from dental fillings ("silver" fillings) and coal-fired power plants. Mercury fillings introduce over 300 metric tons of mercury into the environment each year.
In the U.S. |
Pam Montgomery
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| One day while at the herb school I was daydreaming with her and preparing to make a flower essence. In the daydream she told me that she could bring back all the parts I had hidden from others and that I could easily be natural and comfortable expressing myself, just being who I am. I imagined the golden maroon crown and I placed it over the flower I had put in a bowl to make the flower essence. I knew there was a connection between Yerba Mansa and the third chakra but I didn't understand what this meant for me. It was a hot day so I went and rested in the shade. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If they can regulate natural medicine out of existence, even just one herb or vitamin at a time, they can eventually win their war without firing a single shot and attracting too much public attention. (Hence the actions against ephedra, kava kava, etc.).
To my knowledge, the FDA has not raided any vitamin shops in recent years, but they've sure cranked up the threatening legal tactics. The legal assault on Lane Labs is a perfect example of the new tactics the FDA seems to now prefer: Put companies out of business legally and financially rather than at gunpoint. |
Pam Montgomery
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| As a wound herb St. John's wort is excellent both for physical wounds and ones in the energetic body. A strong signature of St. John's wort is perforations on the leaves and the bloodlike color exuded from the plant. This indicates it would be useful for perforations of the skin from which blood flows and for holes in our energy body from where life force drains. The flowers make beautiful rich red oil when soaked in olive or almond oil and can be used to transfer the wound-healing gifts of this powerful plant. (See color plate 12. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In its natural form, silica is found in the horsetail herb. Silica is also available as a concentrated liquid supplement from Eidon Ionic Minerals (www.eidon.com)
Zinc: The mineral zinc is an important component of healthy skin, especially for acne sufferers. In fact, acne itself may be a symptom of zinc deficiency. Zinc acts by controlling the production of oil in the skin, and may also help control some of the hormones that create acne. Zinc is also required for proper immune system function, as well as for the maintenance of vision, taste, and smell. |
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