David Steinman
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 Today, he sees more than one thousand patients a year in his Manhattan practice and makes herbal and dietary regimens a mainstay of patient care.
If Katz's results show a benefit, New Chapter is sitting on one of the biggest blockbuster medicines—synthetic or natural?today, one that not only eases the pain of arthritis but could prevent prostate cancer in millions of men throughout the world. In addition, new, unpublished research from Dr. Robert Newman at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Texas shows that these same rain forest herbs are also adept at inhibiting women's breast cancer cells. |
Daniel B. Mowrey, Ph.D.
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 In one carefully controlled study, Russian researchers were able to isolate and document the tonus effects of several herbal extracts on uterine tissue (from animals). Of those yielding positive results, Chamomile had the greatest activity (21). Also well-documented are the mild sedative and anti-inflammatory properties of Chamomile (22-24). In one study, for example, mice were given amounts of Chamomile infusions comparable to normal human consumption. The sedative effect was seen in the rapid depression of several behavioral indices of activity (25). |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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 Maybe it's a new wonder drug, a new form of physical therapy or diet, or a new supplement or herbal medicine. Pick whatever feels best to you. The doctor tells you more about the drug and then says, "Follow this new regimen and you'll feel a lot better soon'.'
You leave the doctor's office feeling hopeful and energized. You jump right on the new therapy. Imagine yourself now taking the new medicine or supplement or going to physical therapy. Imagine that a little time goes by and you notice, "Hey, I am getting better. The doctor really knows what he's talking about. |
| Examples include mind-body medicine, homeopathic medicine, naturopathic medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, herbal remedies, nutritional supplements, chiropractic and osteopathic manipulation, and biofield therapies. These interventions are considered to be complementary medicine when they are used together with conventional medicine (as when meditation is used to reduce a patient's pain following surgery). |
Andreas Moritz
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 Recommended liquids include filtered water, certain herbal teas, coffee, or oil. (For a detailed description of each enema type, see my book Timeless Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation.)
3. The Kidney Cleanse
If the presence of gallstones in the liver, or any other situation, has led to the development of sand, grease, or stones in the kidneys or urinary bladder, you may also need to cleanse your kidneys. The kidneys are extremely delicate, blood-filtering organs that congest easily because of dehydration, poor diet, weak digestion, stress, and an irregular lifestyle. |
| Liquids include vegetable soups, fruit juices, vegetable juices, herbal teas, and water. Leaving the dining table while still a little hungry maintains a healthy desire for good, nutritious foods. Overeating, by contrast, leads to intestinal congestion, the proliferation of destructive bacteria and yeast, and cravings for "energizing" (which really means energy-depleting) foods and beverages, such as sugar, sweets, white flour products, potato chips, chocolate, coffee, tea, and soft drinks. All these foods and beverages lead to gallstone formation.
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| Drink 2 cups of this "herbal tea" per day on an empty stomach, if possible.
Taken on its own, tea made from the bark of the red lapacho tree, also known as Pau d'Arco, Ipe Roxa, and Taheebo, has powerful effects on the liver and the immune system. The Native American herb called chaparral, although it tastes very bitter, is also an excellent liver and blood purifier.
19. Apply Daily Oil Therapy
011 therapy is a simple, yet astoundingly effective, method of cleansing the blood. |
Richard Lucas
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 Dragon Balm is composed entirely of Chinese herbal ingredients, containing no animal byproducts or synthetic chemicals. It is used as an analgesic ointment to relieve headaches, and to ease muscular aches and pains due to overactivity, strains, colds, fatigue, or rheumatism. It may also be used as an inhalant for nasal congestion.
Reported Use
"I tripped over the telephone cord and the phone fell off the end table and landed on top of my foot. X-rays showed that no bones were broken, but I suffered hours of throbbing pain as I refused to take painkillers. |
David Steinman
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| In 2004, Columbia-Presbyterian's human research committee approved clinical trials to determine whether the herbal product derived from the rain forest tame PIN cells and reverse the precancerous condition so often found among men.
The ongoing study began in 2005 and is tracking some one hundred men given Zyflamend for three years, assessing disease status every six months via biopsy. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 A review of enzymes, vitamins, minerals, oral or enteral formulas, herbal, botanical, and other complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) products. '''Routine surveillance may be done informally by other team members, but the annual assessment and q3 monthly visits in the first 2 years of life and q3 monthly visits for patients at nutritional risk should be done by the center dietitian.
Insurance reference weights for medium/large frames overestimates the severity of underweight [118]. Consequently, use of %IBW leads to misclassification of nutritional status [118, 119]. |
| The use of herbal products (commonly viewed as a component of nutrition therapy) in disease prevention and treatment is gaining in popularity. Despite the tremendous recent growth in popularity, carefully controlled studies are few. For these reasons, no discussion of this topic has been included here. However, with the development of guidelines for clinical investigation, this is an area that will expand in the future. |
| Several herbal supplements, such as those containing ginkgo biloba and bilberry, have been promoted to benefit the health of the retina. However, there are no scientific studies that support their benefit except one very small (20 persons) study of ginkgo biloba in patients with AMD, in which improvement in visual acuity was indicated in a preliminary report (recently reviewed [233]).
IV. DIABETIC RETINOPATHY
A. Overview
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a disease among people with diabetes that is considered to be the result of damage to the microvasculature of the retina. |
Roberta Bivins
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 Nor are Chinatowns or other ethnic communities the only destination for these medical adventurers: Chinese pharmacies offering both herbal and acupuncture treatments are now an everyday feature of British high streets and American strip malls (see Figure 22). Even hikers in the Austrian Tyrol can pick and choose between Ayurvedic therapies. Up to the mid-1990s, many European countries and American states restricted the practice of acupuncture to medical doctors, but these laws were difficult to enforce and are now undergoing reform. |
David Steinman
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| Rain Forest herbal Medicine
New Chapter www.new-chapter.com
Holistic Medicine Practices
Center for Holistic Urology www.holisticurology.com
The Continuum Center for Health & Healing http://www.healthandhealingny.org/highlights.asp
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Be Kind to Animals
Sources of Natural Beef and Other Meats
Coleman Purely Natural www.colemannatural.com
Dakota Beef LLC www.dakotabeef.com
Laura's Lean Beef Company www.laurasleanbeef.com
Adopt a Wildlife System
World Land Trust www.worldlandtrust.org.
World Wildlife Fund www.wwf.org
Natural Pet Food
Pet Promise www.petpromise. |
Roberta Bivins
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| For example, acupuncture is applied for lower back pain, homeop-athists treat asthma and allergies, hypnotism is popular with those fighting addiction to nicotine, and herbal medicines address depression. Like these conditions, gout was an important disease in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, for both commercial and intellectual reasons. It also clearly demonstrates the relationship between medical failure, disease intractability, and the transmission of medical knowledge across cultural boundaries. |
David Steinman
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| And I was chasing some supposedly miracle herbal formula. Lewis was talking about his latest soul-to-soul sales experience.
"You know, recently, a very high-level executive from a large natural supermarket chain took me into one of their markets," Lewis said. "He showed me all of this wonderful organic food and even the growing number of natural cosmetics that are being made with organic herbs and without chemical additives, and their natural and organic meats and seafood and produce. He turned to me and said, 'Then, when I get to the vitamin section, all of this completely disappears. |
| One of the first test tube studies on the product, titled "Zyflamend, an herbal COX-2 Inhibitor with In Vitro Anti-Prostate Cancer Activity," was presented at the December 13, 2002, meeting of the Society of Urologic Oncology at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. (This meeting was cosponsored by the National Cancer Institute.) The formula suppressed the growth of prostate cancer cells and caused many more to commit apoptosis, or cellular suicide. |
Pam Montgomery
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 Mugwort is by far my most favorite herbal beer. There is debate about whether her common name is associated with her being a main ingredient in alcoholic brews, and it is quite likely given the great taste and pleasant shift that occurs when we partake of her as a drink. I also have her hanging in my house, my car, next to my bed, and in a pouch I wear around my neck, as ways to always be reminded of her protective presence, helping me to keep my energy flowing. |
| Then I had an opportunity to spend time with some herbal friends. I mentioned to them what had been happening and told them about the pain in my neck. One of these women is Rosita Arvigo, who is well versed in this type of healing, and after checking my pulse, she confirmed that I had envidia or bad vibes directed at me. She proceeded to pick certain herbs, place them on my wrist and pray. She also brushed me with herbs especially in my neck area. After this I felt total relief and the conference I was organizing began to run more smoothly. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 A wide range of alternative treatments, including diet, nutritional products, herbal supplements, and other interventions, are providing therapeutic options. CAM approaches are so entrenched that, in 2006, The New York Times reported that 48 percent of adults in America used at least one alternative or complementary therapy during 2004. Billions of dollars are spent each year out of pocket since medical insurance often does not cover these nonconventional approaches. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 In 1997 an estimated four out of every ten adults included some form of alternative therapy, such as herbal medicine, massage, and vitamins, in their med-
5 ical or health care. Other startling revelations have shown that consumers make more visits to alternative medicine practitioners like chiropractors, naturopaths, and massage therapists, than they do to their primary-care physicians.
What is driving even our most conservative patients to look at other forms of therapies? |
Pam Montgomery
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| Plants that you need for your physical, emotional, and spiritual healing gravitate to you. An herbal friend of mine had a poke plant come up on her property in Vermont. Poke is not commonly seen growing in Vermont, but here it was in her yard! She wasn't sure why it had appeared until a year later her husband needed to boost his immune system, and two years later she needed lymphatic draining in her breast. Poke root is a good example of a plant that rarely grew (in the northeast) near people and now is beginning to come closer. |
Richard Lucas
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| Select herbal inhalants are soothing and healing to the air passages. They are very helpful for coping with nasal congestion, head colds, croup, nasal drip, and similar conditions.
5. Chinese herb gargles and mouth washes are important accessory treatments because they remove germs from your mouth and throat and help speed your recovery. They are ideal for oral hygiene since they build mouth and gum health and increase resistance of the mucous membranes to infection. |
| The loss of appetite which sometimes accompanies these conditions is said to also be remedied by use of this herbal tea.
PIEN-HSU
English Name: Knotgrass
Botanical Name: Polygonum aviculare
Pien-hsu (knotgrass) is a low-growing herb which has been used in China as a remedy for lung ailments since the second millenium B.C. The Chinese often call the plant Fen-chieh-ts'ao because of the white powder that covers the stem. |
| Ginko Combination
Ginko seeds, called Pai-kuo, are contained in a traditional Chinese herbal formula known as Mahuang and Ginko Combination.
The plant, Mahuang, has been highly esteemed among the Chinese since ancient times as a remedy for respiratory disorders. These claims were vindicated when modern scientists examined the plant and found that it contained a substance called ephedrine which proved helpful for certain pulmonary complaints.
In addition to the two principal herbs of Mahuang and Ginko seeds, the formula is augmented with eight assistant herbs. |
| Note: In some instances when a person first begins taking either of the herbal combinations, a mild digestive disturbance occurs, which generally ceases in just a few days. However, if it persists, the formula should be discontinued.
ZHENG GU SHUT
This tincture is based on a private Chinese folk remedy. Its quality and strict manufacturing processes have earned it a Gold Award and Silver Award given by the Guangxi Regional People's Government and The State Council.
Zheng Gu Shui is used externally as an analgesic liniment. |
| LIST OF MAIL ORDER HERB DEALERS
The list of herb dealers below is given solely for the convenience of the reader for purchasing the herbs and herbal products described in this book. You may write for their catalogs or price lists.
Kwan Yin Chinese Herb Co., Inc.
P.O. Box 18617 Spokane, WA 99208
Nature's Herb Co. 281 Ellis St.
San Francisco, CA 94102 (catalog 500)
Haussmann's Pharmacy 534-536 W. Girard Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19123
Golden Gate Herbs, Inc. P.O. Box 810 Occidental, CA 95465
Indiana Botanic Gardens, Inc. P.O. Box 5 Hammond, IN 46325
In Canada
Nu-Life Nutrition, Ltd. |
David Steinman
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| She created a very environmentally conscious and natural line of dermaceuticals that combines science and technology with freedom from petrochemicals in favor of food-based, herbal, and other natural ingredients. www.mychelleusa.com
Appliances and Electronics
Bosch ?
Not only does Bosch produce among the most energy efficient appliances for homes, many of us also know the Bosch name from the automotive industry.
Bosch is a leader in automotive hybrid technology. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Complementary medicine offers a host of other remedies, including dietary and environmental changes; herbal, vitamin, and mineral supplements; homeopathy; acupuncture; and biofeedback.
Dr. Mary Olsen, a chiropractor, suggests general guidelines for treating migraines brought on by different factors. Diet is a good place to start. "Since migraines don't necessarily follow immediately after ingesting a food, it may be difficult to make a connection between a particular food and the resultant headache. We often have patients keep a food diary to record what is eaten and their physical reactions. |
Dan Buettner
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 In America we focus on battling diseases once they occur," says Greg, 46, who completed residencies in both internal medicine and pediatrics at the University of Minnesota, holds a divinity degree from Harvard, and is one of the world's leading experts on Kampo, Japan's traditional herbal medicine. "However, in traditional Asian thought, the highest, most honored form of medicine was prevention, and the lowest was treatment. Today in Japan, the focus is on avoiding disease in the first place. There are massive national and local efforts underway to prevent diabetes and heart disease. |
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