Earl Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
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 Valerian
Known as "herbal Valium," this herb is used to treat insomnia, stress, and tension headaches. (Despite its name, it is completely unrelated to the synthetic drug Valium.) Numerous studies have confirmed that valerian is an effective aid to sleep. It is also excellent for muscle spasms, which are often caused by stress. This herb is safe and not habit-forming, but it doesn't work for everybody. In rare cases, it can have the opposite effect and be too stimulating. Valerian is available in extracts, capsules, and tablets. |
Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D.
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 For example, acupuncture is now commonly used as an adjunctive therapy in Western medicine, and many substances from the Asian herbal pharmacopeia are also now commonly employed by Westerners. As Western medicine has progressed, it has increasingly embraced the philosophy that the mind can control the body—a philosophy that largely originated in the East. As Western medicine grows ever more sophisticated, I expect it to merge even more fully with Eastern medicine.
As Eve said, much about the brain remains a mystery. Things that are mysterious today will be clear tomorrow. |
Frantisek Stary
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 Because it is generally taken as one of a number of ingredients in herbal tea, the effects of the drug are not always conclusive. The clotting effect is ascribed to diosmin, but this has not been clinically verified. Nevertheless favourable results have been obtained in the long-term treatment of uterine bleeding caused by uterine muscular disorders or bleeding caused by myomes during the preoperational period and is also recommended for the treatment of gravel in the urinary passages. |
Prevention Magazine
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 Plus, many people enjoy the taste of freshly brewed herbal teas. "The
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The Healjng Herjs
There are literally thousands of herbs that are used for healing around the world. Most herbs can be taken in capsule, tablet, or liquid forms, as well as in teas. Here are some of the most popular healing herbs and instructions for using them. Of course, if you are pregnant or have serious health problems, be sure to talk to your doctor before using medicinal herbs.
Herb Benefits
Anise Eases hot flashes and other menopausal problems. Helps relieve gas. |
Isadore Rosenfeld, M.D.
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 If that worries you and you can't decide which is worse, Alzheimer's or offensive body odors, you can buy aluminum-free deodorants at the herbal counters in most cosmetic departments or at health food stores.) Natural aluminum cookware is yet another source of aluminum, since it is shed easily when you prepare or store acidic or salty foods in it, including tomatoes, oil, beans, flour, and grains.
Almost all the sources I have listed above really expose you to trivial amounts of aluminum. |
| My wife insists, however, that I continue to use aluminum-containing roll-on deodorants because she doesn't think the aluminum-free herbal products are as effective—at least not for me!
The evidence implicating aluminum in Alzheimer's disease is not overwhelming, but neither is the possibility far-fetched. Although I am much more excited by the promise of some of the new drugs now being developed to prevent or reverse this disease, until these are available, avoiding large amounts of aluminum, where practical, certainly can't hurt. |
Robert S. McCaleb, Evelyn Leigh, and Krista Morien
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 The Importance of Quality, Testing, and Good Manufacturing Practices
When we choose something for health purposes, whether it is a drug, a vitamin, or an herbal product, we want three things: safety, effectiveness, and quality. These are like a three-legged stool that supports the value and validity of any product. Quality is the key to ensuring safety and effectiveness, and it is quality that will separate the successful companies from the failures in this competitive market. |
Isadore Rosenfeld, M.D.
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| Some of my patients have responded to various herbal remedies such as meadowsweet, feverfew, ginseng, black horehound, asarum, mahuang, and peony. However, I cannot vouch for their efficacy, or even for their safety, for that matter. Mahuang, for example, is widely used as an aid to weight loss. Thirty-seven people recently required hospitalization in Texas and two may have died because of the ephed-rine in this commercially available herb. Ephedrine is a potent drug (considered a narcotic in some states) that speeds the heart and raises blood pressure. |
| Books on herbal remedies claim that this bee by-product is a tonic with antiaging properties, great for the memory, and especially good if you're the nervous type. Frankly, I am not aware of any scientifically documented benefit from royal jelly. As far as I'm concerned, it's simply an expensive way to get some extra B vitamins and amino acids. Its popularity probably stems from its dramatic effect on the bees themselves. This milky-white material is secreted by glands in the throats of worker bees and fed to all bee larvae (the immature, wingless feeding stage of the insect). |
David Brownstein
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 The Scientific Validation of herbal Medicine. Keats, 1986
Chapter 11
Human Growth Hormone
BENEFITS OF HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE
The beneficial effects of using physiologic doses of human growth hormone include improving and perhaps reversing many of the following signs of aging: thinning hair, wrinkled skin, loss of muscle tone, low resistance to stress, depression, low resistance to infection, poor healing of wounds, and varicose veins. Human growth hormone has also been shown to improve the following conditions: cardiac disease, fatigue, osteoporosis, and perhaps cancer. |
Robert S. McCaleb, Evelyn Leigh, and Krista Morien
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| Identity: The first question to be answered before starting to make an herbal product is "Do we have the right herbs?" Identity can be verified in whole herbs by botanical features (leaf shape, types of flowers, fruits, etc.), by microscopic inspection, and by chemical profiling or "fingerprinting." However, the more processed the product, the fewer ways there are to test it. For example, a powdered herb can be tested microscopically or chemically, but an extract can only be examined chemically. Purity: Even if it is the right plant, is it all the right plant? |
Frantisek Stary
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| It should be taken in small drafts, the dosage being three to five cups daily. A herbal tea mixture of equal parts of lime, elderberry and chamomile flowers is very effective in inducing perspiration.
Limes (1) are large trees with a rather short trunk and large spherical crown. Solitary limes are an important feature of the landscape in the temperate regions of Eurasia. They are also widely cultivated. The leaves are asymmetrically veined, sharply serrate, dark green above and greyish green below, with rust-coloured hairs in the axils of the veins. The flowering period is from June till July. |
G. Edward Griffin
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 Loma Linda, California, another Laetrile advocate, lost his medical license for using the "unproven" herbal called ADS (Aqua Del Sol) as an enhancement to the immune system. Dr. Douglas Brodie from Reno, Nevada, another Laetrile specialist, served time in prison, allegedly for "income-tax evasion." And then there is Dr. Philip Binzel, M.D., from Washington Court House, Ohio, who was featured in a previous chapter. |
Frantisek Stary
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| People often ask if this ancient tradition of herbal medicine is outdated. The reply is an unequivocal 'No'. Man has always been highly dependent on
Paracelsus' coat-of-arms consisted of a silver renaissance escutcheon, or shield, with the Hohenheim coat-of-arms in the centre encircled by eight black crosses. The crest, mantlings, and Hohenheim coat-of-arms are coloured gold, blue and silver. nature. In the early period of his existence he did not understand much of what went on around him. |
Bill Gottlieb
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 Herbal teas made from lemon grass, peppermint, ginger, and red clover can also be very energizing," Dr. Haas says. week or two to reduce or eliminate all the sources of caffeine in your life: coffee, tea, cola, medications, and chocolate.
"If you're having 5 cups of coffee a day, for example, cut back to 4% on the first day, to 4 on the second day, to 3Vi on the third day, and so on. Or substitute tea for coffee the first week, then slowly cut back on the tea the second week. |
Frantisek Stary
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| The drug is also recommended as an ingredient in herbal tea mixtures that 'purify the blood'. These are taken as a preventive therapy mainly in spring to correct the unsuitable composition of body fluids that might otherwise lead to illness and the accumulation of the causes of arteriosclerosis. Besides Chicory root, these tea mixtures contain the stems and leaves of nettle, birch leaves, and the flowers of elder. The abovementioned related vegetable plants, mainly because of their vitamin content and pleasant bitter substances, are, moreover, important ingredients in a proper diet. |
Robert S. McCaleb, Evelyn Leigh, and Krista Morien
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| Elm, yohimbe, and pygeum barks are three examples of herbal raw materials taken from trees that are many years old, perhaps 20 to 30 years or more. Barks can be harvested sustainably, but the temptation to remove all the bark from the tree, killing it, is hard for harvesters to resist when the bark is valuable. For plants that realistically cannot be grown, we must learn to harvest them sustainably from the wild, without substantially reducing their numbers. Otherwise, we will need to find substitutes as the plants become scarce and expensive. |
Dr. Gary Null
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 She is the author of several successful books, including Healthy Healing, Cooking for Healthy Healing, How to be Your Own herbal Pharmacist, and Party Lights, as well as a Library Series of specialty booklets on nutritional healing. Dr. Rector-Page speaks nationwide regarding Lifestyle therapy on radio and TV talk shows and at conventions.
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| Mowrey, The Scientific Validation of herbal Medicine (New Canaan, Conn.: Keats Publishing, 1986): 33.
, URINARY
* TRACT INFECTIONS and INFLAMMATIONS
Urinary tract infections (also known as cystitis and bladder infections) are quite common, accounting for approximately 6 million office visits per year in the United States. E. coli and other bacteria that inhabit the large intestine are most often responsible, due to the closeness of the urethra and vagina to the rectum. (See also chapter 20, Parasites.)
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| One of the most common formulas for correcting psychic and physical trauma is called Yunnan baiyao, meaning the white medicine from Yunnan province. This herbal combination helps the body redirect the blood flow from traumatized areas where the blood becomes stuck. It creates new channels. Once this flow is established, we can work on healing deeper layers of trauma."
ACUPUNCTURE. "Chinese medicine has a five-element system that includes fire, water, metal, earth, and wood. When the nutritive level is affected, the fire element is disturbed. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 Take specific alkalinizing foods and herbs that have been proven clinically to alkalinize the body, which are: juice of fresh lemon at least two times per day, chaparral tea or herbal extract, apricots, and vitamin K foods. The outer leaf of cabbage is high in vitamin K. Wheat-grass juice is an excellent alkalinizer.
9. Use vegetarian digestive enzymes to improve poor digestion of complex carbohydrates. The most concentrated sources of these are high in amylase and extracted from vegetarian sources.
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| John's Wort inhibits serotonin breakdown and enhances serotonin receptor-site activity. The herbal action of St. John's Wort enhances serotonin levels by artificially keeping the inter-neuronal levels high like Prozac does, but without the side effects of Prozac. Neither substance speaks direcdy to the core of the problem, although either may ameliorate it.
My approach to depression is holistic in that I look at all the contributing factors. A red flag goes up if the person has a parental history of drug or alcohol usage or any mental or emotional disorder, especially depression. |
| Each spice has its own unique herbal energy and taste that balances and harmonizes one's constitutional psychophysiology. This balancing and healing effect adds another dimension to the assimilation process. How spices affect specific constitutional psychophysiological types is discussed later in the book and the recipe section, where we have designed recipes that include this new approach to preparing food. It also turns out that when we prepare and eat just a few varieties of food in our meal, it is easier to assimilate and digest. As Jesus says in The Essene Gospel of Peace, Book One (p. |
| Siberian ginseng comes from an entirely different herbal family and originates in Russia and China. It comes from a bush, unlike Ginsengpanax, which is a root. Most of the research on it has been done by the Russians.
Siberian ginseng is referred to as an adaptogen because it produces a generalized rebalancing and healing effect on the body from all types of physiological, emotional, and environmental stressors, including radiation. |
Frantisek Stary
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| Round-leaved Sundew was used for medicinal purposes even in ancient times, when it was added to herbal liqueurs. The drug contains napthoquinone derivatives, mainly plumbagin, and ancillary substances. It is used for its specific antispasmodic effect in spasmodic, convulsive coughs and its beneficial effect in incipient arteriosclerosis and circulatory problems. In the case of arteriosclerosis it is necessary to consider long-term treatment. Because of the drug's limited availability it is no longer used in the form of an infusion so often. |
Paul Pitchford
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 Improving the kidney yin function is always beneficial in cases of liver yin deficiency; aloe vera gel is among the best kidney yin herbal tonics for building liver yin (see "Kidney Yin Deficiency," page 317).
When liver blood (an aspect of the yin that needs to be addressed separately) is deficient, it can be built up with general blood tonics such as spirulina and other chlorophyll-rich foods, dark grapes, blackberries, huckleberries, raspberries, and blackstrap molasses; in severe cases, gelatin* or organic animal liver* is useful. |
Bill Gottlieb
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| If you want to solve the problem and get permanent relief, however, alternative practitioners say that you should try herbal and dietary supplements. They may actually eliminate excess belching by helping your digestive tract do what it's designed to do.
GINGER: Nearly Instant Relief
The herb ginger stimulates digestion and is good for both relieving and preventing belching, says Mark Stengler, N.D., a naturopathic physician in San Diego.
He recommends taking one or two 550-milhgram capsules of powdered ginger or 30 drops of tincture right before each meal. |
Gary Null, Ph.D.
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 Vitamins, Nutrients & herbal Supplements
Suggested Dosages
Dosaged Based on Peer-Review Journal Articles*
B Complex
50 mg
10-200 mg
B6
25-75 mg
50-200 mg
Folic Acid
400 meg
2.5-35 mg
100 meg
1,000 mcg-3 mg
Choline
500 mg
500 mg-16,000 mg
Vitamin E
400-800 IU
30-4,800 mg
L-Methionine
500 mg
2,000-10,000 mg
Vitamin C
2,000-15,000 mg
30-17,000 mg
Silybum Marianum
50 mg
140-600 mg
Garlic
500 mg 4xday
3,000-10,000 mg
Evening Primrose Oil
500 mg 2xday
3,000-6,000 mg
Fish oil lipids
1,000 mg
2,600-24,000 mg
Ginkgo Biloba
60-120 mg
50-600 mg
Lecithin
5 gm
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| N-Acetyl Cysteine
500-1,000 mg
300 mg-42,000 mg
DHEA
5-25 mg
30-500 mg
DMAE
100 mg
Phosphatidyl serine
200 mg 3xday
50-800 mg
Acetyle L-Carnitine
500 mg 2xday
1,000-3,000 mg
Vitamins, Nutrients Dosaged Based on Peer-
& herbal Supplements Suggested Dosages Review Journal Articles*
Co-enzyme Q-10 Calcium/Magnesium
Niacin
Glutathione
Curcumine
Alpha Lipoic Acid
Melatonin
Pregnenolone
100-300 mg 800-1,400 mg
100-500 mg 500-1,000 mg 250 mg 200 mg 3 mg 10 mg
30-390 mg 1,000-1,400 mg (Ca+ +) 500-1,000 mg 2,500-5,000 mg 500 mg 100-600 mg 0. |
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