| In clinical or medical aromatherapy, essential oils are prescribed along with herbal preparations to treat disease. This is especially popular with doctors in France. Holistic aromatherapy combines oils and massage to treat a range of health problems of the mind, body and spirit.
The holistic approach also takes into account nutrition, subtle energy imbalances, counselling and skin care. Aesthetic aromatherapy is the use of oils by beauty therapists to treat skin problems and aid relaxation and weight control. |
Daniel B. Mowrey, Ph.D.
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 An aromatic in every blend would make herbal preparations much more acceptable to the body, more digestible, and would increase assimilation and utilization by the body's major systems. In addition, the volatile oils of Peppermint are said to be directly stimulating to the entire body. A mechanism to explain this effect is not known, but the subjective feeling of energy and vitality imparted by the herb is well-known. See Also digestion; mental alertness/senility
GINGER ROOT produces a generalized stimulant effect which diffuses slowly from the G.I. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 There are complementary remedies, in particular homeopathic and herbal remedies, prepared in appropriate doses for asthmatic babies.
Where a particular treatment or technique in Part Two is unsuitable for children to try this is indicated at the beginning of the section describing it.
PART TWO
CONTROLLING ASTHMA IN ALTERNATIVE WAYS
ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES
Our society tends to rely on 'pressing a button' to satisfy all our wants. |
Daniel B. Mowrey, Ph.D.
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| SAW PALMETTO BERRY has had an important place in homeopathic herbal medicine in the United States for about 200 years. It functions as a nutritive tonic, increasing the size and secreting ability of the mammary glands, decreasing ovarian and uterine irritability, relieving dysmenorrhea resulting from lack of tonus, and ameliorating ovarian dysfunction. It is used to treat virtually all diseases of the reproductive system. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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| There are large numbers of herbal teas available on supermarket shelves, but you can also make your own. Brewing or infusion times vary, but generally for tender plants such as basil, sage, mint, being steeped in boiling water for five minutes is sufficient, whereas tough herbs like coltsfoot or horehound need 10 minutes. A tea can be drunk or gargled, depending on the herb or symptom you are treating. |
Daniel B. Mowrey, Ph.D.
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| If used in conjunction with a diuretic, care should be exercised to avoid serum potassium depletion as may occur when using diuretics.
An herbal supplement to a weight reducing program should supply necessary nutrients, including vitamins, minerals and salts to sustain and nurture vital body systems, including the nerves, glands, skin, blood and organs. In addition, one should expect some help from the product in actually losing pounds. These two purposes are fulfilled by this blend full of Seeds and Seaweed, Berries and Burs. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 Instead, consider the herbal teas and other teas made from natural plant sources.
STRINGBEAN POD
According to Paavo Airola in How to Get Well, stringbean pod tea is an excellent natural substitute for insulin and therefore extremely beneficial in diabetes. The skins of the pods of green beans are very rich in silica and certain hormone substances closely related to insulin. One cup of stringbean skin tea is equal to at least one unit of insulin.168 At the Tree of Life we juice the whole stringbean in the juice aspect of the program. |
David Wolfe
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 After about 6 months on raw foods, once the eating disciplines are in place, it is a great idea to do a raw herbal cleanse such as EJUVA (please contact Nature's First Law at 888-RAW-FOOD for more information on how to acquire
Poppy seeds are nature's primary plant source of zinc. Zinc is a critical mineral for detoxification, transition and maintenance. and conduct this cleanse). A cleanse will help strip out impacted mucus in the digestive tract, thus increasing digestive strength,
In my experience, I have found that drinking freshly-made green vegetable juice increases digestive strength. |
Ben-Erik van Wyk
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 Juniper berries are used to flavour gin (from genever or jenever, the Dutch word for juniper) and related aromatic brandies (brinjevac, genievre, p'equet and schiedam), as well as wines, herbal liqueurs and Scandinavian beers. The berries contain about 25% sugars that are fermented and distilled to produce various types of schnapps (such as Steinhdger). Nutritional value Used as a spice in small quantities only.
Notes Infusions of juniper berries and juniper oil (distilled from the berries) are traditionally used as diuretic and antiseptic medicines. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Personally, I think this product is a joke because it's trying to exploit the word "herbal" to imply that the shampoo is healthy, even though it is primarily made with the same ingredients as other popular shampoos. The first three ingredients, for example, are: water, sodium laureth, and sodium lauryl sulfate. Big deal, huh? You can find the same three ingredients in 99-cent shampoo at Wal-Mart. |
Ben-Erik van Wyk
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| It has a long history as a herbal tea, taken to alleviate stress and indigestion, and as a gargle for sore throat. Chamomile tea was a popular tonic in the Victorian era. Pares used Dried flower heads or the essential oil. Cultivation & harvesting Roman chamomile is commercially cultivated in Europe, the USA and Argentina. The flower heads are harvested and dried, or used as a raw material for the extraction of the essential oil by steam distillation. |
| Leaves, leaf extracts or the oil are used in a wide range of beverages, including herbal teas, ice teas and liqueurs. Buchu brandy, for example, is a popular traditional drink in South Africa. The oil is also widely used in the food industry to improve the taste of beverages, sweets and confectionery. The characteristic blackcurrant flavour is partly due to sulphur-containing minor compounds in the essential oil, while the mint-like character is ascribed to diosphenol (so-called buchu camphor) and other volatile oil components. |
Victoria Boutenko, M.A.
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 So, with more greens added [lettuce and parsley] and a bit of Vital K and Floradix herbal combinations, Z's blood was tested at a high 12.9%! Z's doctor said, "Wow! What have you been feeding him, nails?"
Twelfth month. Z began to eat 'green-based' smoothies. Z likes to try feeding himself, and then offers it to us on his spoon. Z still wants milk, and nearly weaned himself. But, started again when I was gone for a few days.
Fifteenth and sixteenth months. Z's blood count remains high. Per my request, it was last tested April 2005 at a level of 11.9. |
Mike Adams
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 Robyn Landis, herbal Defense
The vast majority of adult human beings are technically allergic to cows' milk. This is no surprise given that cows' milk was never intended to be consumed by adults of any species - and certainly not adults of an entirely different species.
It is not this allergy itself that interests us in this section, however: it is the result of that allergy. What happens in the human body when it is exposed, day after day, to a dietary allergen?
The answer is that the body tries to shield itself from the dietary allergen. |
| Eat To Beat Cancer
To understand the mechanism by which these trans fats may be promoting cancer, read this passage from herbal Defense:
The rise in cancers and other illnesses has been attributed in part to Americans' increased use of these highly processed, "deformed" fats. This is logical, since the fat we eat is what our cells become. Since fats are used as materials to build cell membranes, it makes sense that misshapen, twisted fatty-acid molecules will create messed-up cells. "Good" fats with the correct structure fit into the membranes properly. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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 Adding herbs and spices into your diet in cooked foods, fresh salads, or drinking herbal teas is a really easy and enjoyable way to upgrade the quality of your diet. It is particularly smart to add in those that are known to aid any symptoms or dz's-eases you may be experiencing. Following is just a partial list of the wide variety of herbs and spices available. |
| Italian herbal blend Bragg's Liquid Aminos
1-2 tbsp. olive oil
1A cup grated parmesan cheese (optional) 1/4 cup pine nuts (optional)
Cover bottom of large skillet with olive oil. Briefly saute onions, garlic and spices on medium heat. Add tomatoes and zucchini. Squirt with Bragg's to taste and cover. Simmer on low heat until zucchini is soft. Serve in large shallow bowls spread over cooked pasta. Top with grated parmesan cheese and pine nuts (optional).
• Spelt pasta has a kind of nutty flavor and is a great alternative for many of those with sensitivities to wheat. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Now it doesn't mean all of this excuses Ayurvedic herbal manufacturers from having heavy metals in their products. There is no excuse for those companies selling products that contain heavy metals, and this once again speaks to greed. Because greed is present across all industries, not just pharmaceuticals or modern medicine, but also in the health supplement industry. Some of these overseas companies say to themselves, gee, it's cheaper if we don't test for heavy metals. Or it's cheaper if we source low-quality ingredients. |
| But no, it's going to focus on headlines that tout the dangers of a few dozen Ayurvedic herbal medicine products found on some niche product shelf imported from Pakistan. That's how the FDA is trying to convince the American public that it's doing its job. Meanwhile it ignores the high-priority dangers in our foods and medicines that are killing people right now.
Actually, it's worse than that: the FDA intimidated and threatened its own drug safety scientist, Dr. |
| Most supplement companies in the United States have stringent quality control standards, but what these herbal critics are trying to do is paint the whole industry with one brush and say that just because a few imported products were found on the shelves with toxic metals, therefore the FDA should have new oversight over the entire nutritional supplement industry. |
| You can bet that in the ongoing campaign to discredit herbs and gain new regulatory power over them, the FDA is going to cite this study about finding heavy metals in a few imported Ayurvedic herbal products. But the agency will never tell you what I'm about to say, which is that virtually all prescription drugs contain dangerous chemical compounds they are similarly dangerous to human health. Many of the chemical compounds in prescription drugs are far more toxic than heavy metals, and yet they are allowed to be prescribed to tens of millions of Americans. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 Sea Buckthorn & Cucumber with Ester-C Moisturizing Cream, for Combination Dry Skin ($16.28for 4 ounces) appears to be a good moisturizer for normal to dry skin, though the way Hampton lists some of the ingredients leaves you to wonder exactly what he's using. The good news is this product does not contain irritants. Instead, it uses beneficial, nonvolatile plant oils that have antioxidant activity, and plant extracts with proven soothing properties.
© Sea Buckthorn & Cucumber with Ester-C Moisturizing Mask, for Combination Dry Skin ($8. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Again, none of this excuses herbal product manufacturers from stringent quality control standards, it's just that we should put health risks in their proper perspective. The entire food supply -- made right here in the USA -- is laced with toxic ingredients. I say we abolish the FDA, form a brand new agency, put Dr. David Graham in charge of ethics, and outlaw all dangerous food ingredients in twelve months or less. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They would be better off with simple over-the-counter painkillers or, better yet, natural health treatments like nutrition, herbal remedies and supplements that work far better than prescription drugs for stopping arthritis pain (and without all the negative side effects). Astaxanthin supplements, for one, greatly ease arthritis pain. So do whole food concentrates made from cherries, blackberries and other fruits. There are dozens of other natural health strategies that ease pain as well. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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| There are many different ways to cleanse the body, including herbal formulas, mono-diets, juice fasting, the Master cleanse (water and lemon juice fast), and colon irrigation. Often these different modalities are combined and are either geared to a general cleansing of the system, or to target specific organs or systems of the body such as the colon, liver/gallbladder, or urinary tract. There are also cleansing protocols designed to address specific conditions such as yeast overgrowth (candida) or parasitic infestations. |
Ben-Erik van Wyk
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| Green (unfermented) tea has become popular in recent years because it contains higher levels of phenolic compounds and therefore has superior antioxidant properties. Some herbal teas, including hibiscus, rooibos and honeybush, are naturally devoid of stimulants. Tea and mate, in common with coffee, guarana, cola and cacao, contain substantial quantities of caffeine (an alkaloid with stimulant properties). Caffeine is also the stimulant found in high-energy drinks that have become popular in the rave culture. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That's the standard action the FDA demands of herbal companies. Why not apply the same standard to Big Pharma as well?
Of course, you already know the answer to that: the Fraud and Drug Administration is determined to pad the profits of drug companies while bankrupting anything related to complementary and alternative medicine. It's the same old tactic used by the AMA for decades to try to shut down chiropractic care. |
David Wolfe
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| It synergistically makes all other herbs work better when it is added to herbal formulas.
SATURATION POINT
"Information is the commodity of kings." —Anthony Robbins
We live in an era where all knowledge is available to all those who seek it out.
There is an abundance of useful information out there in the world. We are at the source. We can choose. We may tune into any frequency we like. We can learn anything we desire.
Learning is never what one expects. Every step of learning is a new task. Learning is an unending quest. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Over the last few months, the FDA and state legal authorities have been going after a company selling various supplements and herbal formulas that promised to enhance breast size. According to the news reports, these products were unproven and entirely worthless in enhancing breast size, and the company was ordered to not only stop selling the products, but to also repay customers who had purchased them.
I applaud this kind of action if indeed these products were ineffective at doing what they promised to do. |
Ben-Erik van Wyk
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| Nettles have been used to make herbal teas and even beer. Nutritional value Nettles are similar to or surpass spinach in their nutritional value and have an energy yield of 40 kcal per 100 g. They are very high in protein (7%) and minerals (more than 2%, especially potassium, magnesium, calcium, copper, phosphorus and iron). The leaves have significant quantities of vitamins A and C (respectively 742 mg and 333 mg per 100 g). Notes Nettle roots are rich in phytosterols and are an important traditional medicine, used to treat arthritis. |
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