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| But don't clear out your herbal medicine chest just yet.
What went largely unreported was that study participants received only 900 milligrams (mg) of echinacea daily—less than one-third of the dose recommended by the World Health Organization for combating upper-respiratory infections. That's akin to expecting one-third of a dose of aspirin to relieve a headache.
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 Long Dan Xie Can Wan pills: Available from a Chinese herbalist, these pills treat chronic eczema. herbal medicine can be used for several weeks to several months.
• Herbal paste: Mix together the following herb powders: 10 g of Huang Bai (phellodendron), 8 g of Da Huang (rhubarb root and rhizome), 10 g of Huang Lian (coptis rhizome), 10 g of Huang Qin (baical skullcap root), and 15 g of Di Yu (burnet-bloodwort root). Add olive oil to make a paste. Apply this herbal paste on the affected skin once a day for seven days as one course of treatment. |
| Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine can be combined to treat acne. You can expect some improvement after as few as two sessions: The acne will start fading and fewer new breakouts will occur.
Acupressure: To improve local circulation, self-massage the Yang Bai point, located on the forehead, directly above the pupil, 1 inch above the eyebrow. The Yang Bai point is especially useful for treating acne on the forehead. If there is more acne on the cheeks, press the Quan Liao point, located about 3 inches from the nostril, in the depression directly below the cheekbone. |
| Much of modern-day pharmacology owes a debt to herbal medicine as many of the drugs available to Western physicians are derived from plants that have a long history of use as herbal remedies. Opinions on acceptable doses of herbs to ingest, and the appropriate quantity of plant material to use to make an infusion or decoction, vary. Dosage depends on a patient's specific symptom and its severity, personal taste, and/or the form of the plant available (for example, fresh versus dried plant material). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Some actually contain the very same chemicals banned by the FDA in herbal medicine.
For example, the FDA outlawed the selling of ephedra, a common herb in Chinese Medicine, yet the same active chemical is openly allowed to be purchased in over-the-counter cold medicines sold at virtually every corner pharmacy in America. 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. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 And black pepper is considered a carminative—an herbal medicine or digestive tonic that can help dispel gas from the intestine. A carminative's main job is to soothe the gut wall and aid digestion.
A famous Philippine folk remedy is to take an equal amount of anise and black pepper and combine it in a cup of warmed brandy. You're supposed to sip the mixture while still warm and retain it in your mouth before swallowing. It's believed to help bring down fever.
In ancient times, black pepper was used as currency and offered as a gift to the gods. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Brigitte offers some outstanding books, including The Desktop Guide to herbal medicine, which you can find on her website. See more of her books here: http://www.brigittemars.com/framefiles/books.htm
Although Dr. Gabriel Cousens isn't personally at the event this weekend, his Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center is represented here (www.TreeofLife.nu). If you're looking for a miraculous transformation with a raw foods lifestyle, check out his retreat located in Southern Arizona. Thousands of people have gone there and experienced amazing healings from diseases like diabetes and cancer. |
Bill Sardi
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 Licorice
Licorice is an herbal medicine that has multiple applications against cancer. [Nutrition & Cancer 39: 1-11, 2001] It inhibits the growth of H. pylori, the bacterium that causes gastric ulcers and tumors. [Life Sciences 71: 1449-63, 2002] Licorice inhibits the growth of viruses, and therefore may be beneficial for individuals with herpes or papilloma viruses that can sometimes trigger tumors. Some researchers now think licorice kills viruses rather than just keeping them dormant. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| According to The Yoga of Herbs: An Ayurvedic Guide to herbal medicine, coauthored by Dr. David Frawley and the highly respected Indian doctor and herbal authority Dr. Vasant Lad, "Turmeric gives the energy of the Divine Mother and grants prosperity. It is effective for cleansing the charkas and purifying the channels of the subtle body."
When modern Western science and traditional forms of healing like Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine both agree on the healthful properties of the same compound, it's time to go to the store. |
| In Peruvian herbal medicine systems today the plant is employed for diarrhea, gastroenteritis, gastric disorders, and menstrual pain. Indians throughout the Amazon make a leaf decoction —a tea made by boiling the leaves —and use it for mouth sores and bleeding gums. A decoction is also recommended as a gargle for sore throats, laryngitis, and swelling of the mouth, and is used externally for skin irritations and discharges. A Chinese study published in 2004 noted that the guava leaves contained "remarkably high phenolic content. |
Simon Mills and Kerry Bone
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 ESCOP, Exeter, England 1996-1998
Part
Practical Clinical Guides
Introduction 115
6 Dosage and dosage forms in herbal medicine 116
7 A systematic approach to herbal prescribing 126
8 Herbal approaches to pathological states 132
9 Herbal approaches to system dysfunctions 161
Introduction
In Part Two the strategic options in clinical phytotherapy are reviewed. Practical issues of dosage and prescribing are followed by individual chapters on the phytotherapeutic approach to pathological states and to system dysfunctions. |
| The successful blending of tradition with science is leading to a new robust system of Western herbal medicine, a system best encompassed by the term 'phytotherapy'. As such, phytotherapy defines a new medical paradigm that combines the wisdom of an ancient tradition with the cutting edge of current research. However, scientific rigour must not be compromised. If science is an integral part of phytotherapy, then it should be good science. |
Thomas Bartram
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Preparations. Tincture: Dose: 2-5 drops, thrice daily. Practitioner only. Alternative dosage sometimes used in fevers: 5 drops in 100ml water: 1 teaspoon hourly - until temperature falls or improvement is noted.
Standardised product: Aconitysat (Buerger): 5-10 drops or more.
Liniment. 1.3 parts tincture to 100 parts Witch Hazel.
Note. Widely used in its homoeopathic preparation. Pharmacy only sale.
ACOUSTIC NEUROMA. A tumour or new growth arising from the nerve of hearing - eighth auditory nerve. In middle-aged and elderly. |
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| What follows is a contribution to a debate among those interested in herbal medicine. It will lay out as effectively as possible a realistic strategy in line with scientific evidence but based also on experience in practice and on the legacy of much longer traditions. It will inevitably be contentious in parts: some cherished beliefs will be challenged but if this stimulates productive debate then nothing should be lost. |
| These are divided into two groups: general disease conditions that lead to the most common pathological states afflicting humanity and the more particular functional disturbances of the body's organ systems to which herbal medicine has so often been applied. Functional disturbances can have many causes; pathological processes are the most serious but probably not the most common. |
James Green
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 You have handcrafted an herbal medicine; your initiation is complete—welcome to the swiftly growing community of independent lay-herbalists.To conclude this exercise, I would like to also applaud the co-creator of your handcrafted tincture by summarizing for you the personal and ecological health-promoting gifts of the wild Dandelion.
An Earth-enriching co-habitant of almost every community, Dandelion promotes healthy local turf everywhere it grows, unless it is foolishly poisoned to death. |
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| TIP: COMBINE TREATMENTS
For more severe and complicated cases of psoriasis, a combination of treatments that includes Chinese herbal medicine, acupuncture, and dietary therapy is recommended. Getting enough sleep is also important. 136
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Diet: Cut alcohol out of your diet as it worsens the condition by impairing ^ function of the liver and gut tissues, increasing the amount of toxins that co are absorbed by the body. Also eliminate gluten, found in wheat, barley, ^ and rye; psoriasis patients have been clinically proven to benefit from abstaining from gluten products. |
James Green
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| Before we get into a discussion of plant constituents and their main solvents, I would like to circumvent those details and give you an overview of what I consider the most efficient extraction technique for making superlative herbal medicine.
The Sensual Approach to Successful Tincturing and Other Methods of Herbal Extraction
1. The most important step. |
Donald R. Yance, j r.,C.N., M.H., A.H.G., with Arlene Valentine
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 Corydalis is used extensively by practitioners of Chinese herbal medicine for pain, especially abdominal pain. Corydalis is one of the primary ingredients in both the Eli Jones compound, called Scrophularia, and a Chinese herbal formula I often prescribe called SPES. Along with butterbur, corydalis is one of the best nontoxic analgesics for people suffering from the pain caused by cancer.
Thuja [Thuja occidentalis)
Thuja is an herb that I use in many of my herbal tonics. It has a wide range of uses in addition to cancer. |
| By the time it has been isolated and synthesized in a lab (as these agents are), it can no longer be considered herbal medicine, as I practice it. I list Camptotheca here only because it is the herbal version of some of today's most commonly used cancer drugs. It's important for us to be aware of this trend toward the use of herbs for their traditional healing properties, although conventional medicine still insists on tracking down the toxic constituents rather than realizing the healing benefits of the whole plant. |
| Lotus Seed [Nelumbinis nuciferae)
Lotus seed is traditionally used in Chinese herbal medicine as a spleen tonic. It is excellent at stopping diarrhea, both chronic and acute. It strengthens the spleen and lymph systems and improves the appetite. I sometimes combine it with red root and codonopsis for a weak spleen.87
Mayapple [Podophyllum)
Traditionally, mayapple was used by Native Americans for treating cancer. It contains a group of resinous components, referred to as podophyllotoxins, that possess antitumor activity. |
| Two years later, I was ready to return to the field of herbal medicine and nutrition with a whole new light and dedication. Today, I have a successful clinic, a loving and supportive wife, a child, and a vision to create a healing retreat center. My busy life with its added responsibilities has made it more challenging to continue to be a poustinik, but my vision has come from listening to my inner self. I still ask myself these questions daily: Wiere do I come from? Where am I going? Am I trusting in God? Am I allowing my spirit to emerge and become who I am? |
| Thus I can say with complete confidence based on my own observations that natural therapies, particularly herbal medicine, can not only greatly improve the effectiveness of conventional therapies while reducing the side effects but can affect the "spirit" of the disease, the underlying causes. |
| THE ROLE OF HERBS
I believe that herbal medicine, which has its roots in the ancient healing traditions, including TCM and Ayurveda, has much more to offer the sick than the trendy new medical techniques and practices being heralded in the media today. As an art and a science, it has remained a reliable healing modality for thousands of years because it supports the life force in a unique manner that is still, in some ways, a mystery. Herbs are effective because plants, like all living organisms, are imbued with the same vital, intelligent life force that animates the human body. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 It taught a system of medicine that included nutritional therapy, natural dietetics, herbal medicine, homeopathy, manipulation, exercise therapy, hydrotherapy, electrotherapy, and stress reduction techniques.
Naturopathic medicine grew and flourished from the early 1900s until the mid-1950s. At that point in history, the conventional medical profession began to influence the health-care system in several ways. It abandoned some of its barbaric bloodletting therapies and toxic mercury dosing and replaced them with more effective and less toxic treatments. |
| In traditional herbal medicine, uterine tone determines the ease of menstrual flow. If the uterus is hypertonic, then it may be difficult to initiate menses in a timely manner. If the uterus is hypotonic, there may be heavy bleeding. In either case, improving uterine tone will tend to normalize and regulate menstrual bleeding. Two categories of herbs are said to have the most effect on uterine tone and therefore bleeding.
Tonics That Regulate Uterine Tone. |
Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon
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 In Latin American countries, herbal medicine is deeply rooted, practiced extensively by indigenous groups, and frequently used by a broad cross-section of the larger society. Often it is an economically inevitable alternative to expensive Western medicine.
Traditional knowledge is transmitted from one generation to the next by traditional healers, shamans or curanderos, and has survived the rigors of the Spanish conquest, the Inquisition, and extensive mestizaje or racial intermixing. |
Thomas Bartram
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| The One-Year Course for those interested in the basics of herbal medicine - health food shop managers, herb growers, housewives, laymen, etc.
4. A Specially Structured Course for General Practitioners of orthodox medicine and Osteopaths who have already received training in medical science and with substantial experience in the treatment of patients.
Faculty of Materia Medica. Study and observation of medicinal plants in the School's Herb Garden, including cultivation and preparation. Identification and authentication of fresh, dried and powdered material. Herbarium. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| Traditional herbal medicine includes the use of many plants for systemic immune support. No plants (except green tea) have been studied by themselves in relationship to the human papillomavirus and cervical dysplasia that I am aware of, although many plants are known both to act as immune modulators and to be antiviral in their activity.
This concept of immune support is an important part of preventive medicine as well as in reversing and preventing the progression of cervical dysplasia. Since up to 80 percent of the
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David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 Besides being used as an herb in flavorful dishes, rosemary is also used in cosmetics, disinfectants, shampoos, herbal medicine, and as a potpourri. The oil of rosemary is formed either from distilled flowering tops or from the stems and leaves. About 100 pounds of flowering tops yields about eight ounces of oil.
Rosemary (Rosmariunus officinalis)
ROSEMARY'S NO BABY
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Rosemary is native to the Mediterranean area. Many cultures view rosemary as a symbol of love and fidelity. Brides have often worn a wreath of rosemary during their wedding ceremony. |
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