James Green
See book keywords and concepts |  Why pay others to frolic in the luscious gardens of Earth, picking flowers and enjoying themselves making herbal products? You can do all that frolicking, immersing yourself in wondrous herbal beauty, and uplifting your mind and spirit. Making your own herbal medicine both enhances your happiness and boosts your immune system. And the herbal preparations you make can be every bit as excellent as those you bring home from the store. Actually they will be better, profoundly better; this I can also promise you. |
Robyn Landis
See book keywords and concepts |  The German pharmacists thought it silly that we live in a country where you have to go into one kind of store to get an herbal product, and another kind of store to get a pharmaceutical product; and that herbal products couldn't say on the label what they were for or how to use them.4
The sophistication of herbal medicine has been heightened by advances in global communication and transportation. This connects us to peoples from all over the world who have used herbal medicine with varying degrees of sophistication and in ways that are indigenous to their cultures. |
Marion Nestle
See book keywords and concepts |  Safety
Supplements are safe within a broad range of intake; safety problems are rare. herbal products have been used for thousands of years. Supplements cause less harm than many prescription drugs.
Science-based approach
Need
Food is sufficient to meet nutrient needs.
Foods provide nutrients and other valuable substances not present in supplements.
People who take supplements are better educated and wealthier; they are healthier whether or not they take supplements.
Efficacy
Research demonstrates health benefits of diets and foods, not of single nutrients. | | The safety of many herbal products is untested and, therefore, unknown. Herbal supplements vary in composition, potency, and quality.
As this chapter illustrates, the FDA's attempts to impose science-based regulatory standards on an industry with wide appeal to a public that subscribes to belief-based views of dietary supplements caused the agency no end of woe—astonishing amounts of work followed by increasing isolation from the public, from the courts, and eventually from Congress, which voted for personal beliefs over science when it passed DSHEA. | | The senator viewed as "frightening" FDA's 1993 supplement-labeling proposals; he said they meant that "purchase of high potency vitamins and minerals should be limited, access to herbal products should be restricted, and amino acids should be available only by prescription." The senator surely knew better—the proposals suggested doing so only when the products were labeled with unauthorized health claims—but he said, "If we let the FDA get away with this, next time it will be even easier for the agency to overregulate another industry. . . . | | Nearly all published studies on the health effects of herbal supplements recommend further research, but makers of herbal products have little incentive to test their products. Research is expensive, time-consuming, and not always conclusive; unless the product can be patented, which traditional herbs cannot, the companies are likely to have difficulty recovering the costs of clinical trials. In the absence of a solid body of research, however, it is not possible to apply the usual scientific criteria to decide whether a supplement really does improve health. |
Sheldon Saul Hendler
See book keywords and concepts |  Retroviruses include the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and the authors suggested that these herbal products could be useful in the treatment of AIDS.
St. John's wort has been used as a folk remedy for hundreds of years as a treatment for infectious diseases including colds, syphilis, tuberculosis, dysentery, whooping cough and worms. Aqueous extracts have been shown to inhibit the growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (the bacterium which is the most common cause of tuberculosis), as well as the bacteria staphylococci, shigella and Escherichia coli. | | Herbal Analgesic Ointments and Oils
(Painkillers)
Four herbal products are commonly used in many ointments and liniments that appear to have analgesic (pain-killing) properties for some soft tissue problems, such as tendinitis, fibrositis, bursitis and neuralgia. Cajuput oil is derived from the leaves and twigs of Melaleuca cajuputi and Melaleuca leucadendron. Camphor comes from the wood of Cinnamomum camphora, and menthol comes from the Mentha species. Clove oil is derived from the dried flower-buds of Syzy-gium aromaticum. | | Most health food stores now carry a multitude of herbal products, and herbal remedies are increasingly being used by alternate health practitioners, including acupuncturists, naturopaths and chiropractors. Colleges teaching herbal medicine are more prominent and magazines discussing herbs, as well as advertising them, are being seen more frequently on the newsstands. In fact, there have been some very positive articles on herbs in conservative newspapers and medical journals. And it is no longer just a handful of familiar herbs that is being discussed. |
James A. Duke, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  What few people know is that AHAs are often herbal products called fruit acids. As the name suggests, AHAs occur in many fruits, notably pineapple, tamarind, gardenia, apples and grapes. They also occur in sour milk. Cleopatra reportedly bathed in sour milk because it brought out the luster in her skin. I can't imagine taking a sour milk bath, but I love pineapple and eat a lot of it, and I could see rubbing the inner peel on damaged skin.
V Purslane (Portulaca oleracea). Like carrots, purslane is generously endowed with carotenoids. | | You can buy both the herb itself and herbal tinctures in many stores that carry herbal products. V\V Chinese angelica (Angelica sinensis). One of the most respected herbs in Chinese traditional medicine, Chinese angelica, or dang-quai, is used primarily as a women's tonic to treat PMS and menstrual cramps. Many women take two capsules twice a day to prevent PMS. (You should not use Chinese angelica if you are pregnant.) VVV Evening primrose (Oenothera biennis). For centuries, American Indian woman have been chewing the seeds of the evening primrose for premenstrual and menstrual complaints. | | If you have hay fever, you should use camomile oil and herbal products cautiously, however. Camomile is a member of the ragweed family, and in some people, it might trigger allergic reactions. (Documented cases are extremely rare.) The first time you use camomile, watch your reaction. If it seems to help, go ahead and use it. But if it seems to make the itching worse, simply discontinue use. (For other herbs that can help relieve the itch associated with skin allergies, see Hives on page 261.)
V Feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium). |
Schuyler W. Lininger, Jr. DC
See book keywords and concepts |  The root of another Asian species of kudzu, Pueraria thomsonii, is also used for herbal products.
In What Conditions Might
Kudzu Be Supportive?
Ranking
Health Concerns
Other
Alcohol withdrawal support (p. 6) Angina (p. 1 3)
Historical orTraditional Use
Kudzu root has been known for centuries in traditional Chinese medicine as ge-gen. The first written mention of the plant as a medicine is in the ancient herbal text of Shen Nong (circa A.D. 100). |
Ralph W. Moss PhD
See book keywords and concepts |  In 1994, the FDA conducted its own survey and estimated that eight percent of Americans were now using herbal products. One year later, and the Gallup Poll showed that the number had leaped to 17 percent. By 1997, according to a Website called MarketFacts, it appeared that an astonishing 40 percent of the American public were using herbs regularly (www.marketfacts.com).
Because of this growing popularity, herbs are starting to wield clout in the medical marketplace. Annual sales, which were $1.0 billion in 1991, had jumped to $3.24 billion by 1997 (109). |
Lesley Tierra
See book keywords and concepts |  Herbal Resource Guide
The following is a list of resources for purchasing herbs and herbal products.
Western Herb Suppliers
Attar Herbs and Spices, Playground Rd., New Ipswich, NH 03071. They specialize in essential oils.
East-West Herb Products, Box 1210, New York, NY 10025, 1-800-542-6544. Retad mad orders of various Chinese, Ayurvedic and Western herbs and distributor of Planetary Formulas.
Frontier Co-op Herbs, Box 299 Norway, IA 52318.
Herbal Home Products, Bob Brucea, 3405 Angel Lane, Placerville, CA 95672.
Herbalist and Alchemist Inc., David Winston, P.O. |
Barrie R Cassileth, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Read the comprehensive summary article about herbal products in the November 1995 issue of Consumer Reports.
? Beware of some pop publications about herbal remedies. Many contain misinformation and incorrect data.
? Contact the American Botanical Council in Austin, Texas (512 331-8868). They publish booklets about herbs as well as HerbalGram magazine.
? Check with the Herb Research Foundation in Boulder, Colorado (303 449-2265). | | Pharmacognosy seeks to standardize herbal products so that they consistently include the same amounts of active ingredients and are free of any harmful components that the plant may contain.
Each herb may hold many active chemical ingredients, and a single herb may harbor some helpful and some dangerous chemicals at the same time. Further, a particular chemical may be therapeutic in one amount and deadly in a slightly larger amount. This is the case with the foxglove plant from which digitalis is derived. Digitalis is an important drug used to treat heart failure. | | Witch hazel Applied to the skin to treat hemorrhoids, itching, and minor pain, the bottled witch hazel commonly found on drug store shelves helps bruises and
Warning: herbal products with Serious Toxic Effects
1. Products with ingredients that can produce serious harmful consequences:
?Chaparral tea, from leaves and twigs of a desert shrub called the creosote bush, is promoted as an antioxidant, a pain reliever, and other uses. It has caused liver failure requiring liver transplantation.
?Preparations such as some Indian herbal tonics that cause lead poisoning.
? | | Where to Get It
Medicinal herbal products are available in capsule and liquid form in health-food stores and many shops and markets. Dried herbs individually and in combinations are sold in ethnic markets, but their potential for contamination and toxicity is high.
Because herbs, like other drugs, can be dangerous both by themselves or in certain combinations, caution is important. Consider these guidelines:
? Check with an expert in botanical medicine.
? | | One of the seventeen panels it developed was responsible for over-the-counter (OTC) drugs, a category that includes most dietary supplements and herbal products.
Because it was impossible to study and evaluate the hundreds of thousands of existing OTC drugs in short order, the FDA attempted to regulate them immediately by permitting their sale only if the label did not claim to prevent or treat disease. Eventually, some drugs were studied and reclassified when found to be unsafe or when their effectiveness was documented or disproved. | | Ma huang, or ephedra, is an herbal form of the central nervous system stimulant commonly known as speed, sold with names like Herbal Ecstasy, Cloud 9, and Ultimate XPhoria.
4. herbal products that are fake or highly contaminated :
?In 1996, the Chinese government found widespread adulteration, contamination, illegal ingredients, and fake products in many of its herbal remedies. Illness and deaths resulted in China.The government closed most medicinal herb markets throughout China until new production guidelines could be established and enforced.
5. |
Gale Maleskey
See book keywords and concepts |  The potency and quality of herbal products vary greatly. You can't always be sure you're getting the real thing. "Many of the products are overpriced and ineffective. Also, there's a great deal of promotion about health benefits by these companies that is pure baloney," says Andrew Weil, M.D., clinical professor of internal medicine and director of the program in integrative medicine of the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson, and author of Eight Weeks to Optimum Health. | | Putting Teeth into Immunity
In the burgeoning marketplace of herbal products and nutritional supplements, cat's claw has gained a reputation as a cure-all for conditions such as lupus, arthritis, bursitis, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and chemical and environmental allergies.
Although there are many theories about how it fights these conditions, the one most often cited is stimulation of the immune system, says Tirun
Gopal, M.D., an obstetrician and gynecologist who practices holistic and Ayurvedic medicine in Allentown, Pennsylvania. | | Without federal regulation of herbal products, you have to rely on the manufacturer for quality control.
D.O., an assistant clinical professor of family medicine who teaches alternative medicine at the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine in East Lansing. People hear about herbal alternatives, and naturally they ask their doctors whether these herbs are effective.
People want medicines that are less invasive, easier on their systems, and readily available. They're learning that herbs offer another way of healing, a way to help the body help itself, says Dr. Page-Echols. | | Check expiration dates. herbal products age rapidly with light and heat, Buy the freshest supplements you can find, says Steven Dentali, Ph.D., a natural products chemist at Dental! Associates, in Troutdale Oregon, and a member of the advisory board of the American Botanical Council.
Keep it cool. Herbs generally stay potent longer if they're kept cool, says Dr. Dentali. Store them in the refrigerator.
Buy from the big gays. Large companies like Nature's Way, the Eclectic Institute, and Enzymatic Therapy have established reputations for quality control, says Dr. Weil. |
J. Robert Hatherill
See book keywords and concepts |  Teas and capsules are a form of herbal remedies, and many herbal products and teas are toxic! Do not take any product that contains comfrey, which is toxic to the liver and has been banned in Canada, but regrettably, not in the United States.
Twenty-Three Ways Off the Pesticide Treadmill
1. Use beneficial insects in your yard and garden, or insects that prey on pest insects, such as lacewings, ladybug beetles, predatory mites, parasitic wasps, and spiders.
2. |
Michael Janson, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  There are some exceptions, for example, echinacea and silymarin, which are helpful for immune enhancement and liver protection if you take them periodically while you are healthy. Many herbal products are also helpful in minor acute illnesses or as first aid treatments.
Try Supplements First
It is clear that many conditions that are treated with drugs should be treated first with a proper total health program and dietary supplements. If the situation is an emergency, then I am all in favor of immediate and appropriate medical or surgical treatments. |
Larry Trivieri, Jr.
See book keywords and concepts |  Without these recognized benefits, consumers will be exposed to media stories that overemphasize the risks and underplay the benefits of these natural remedies.
—Mark Blumenthal, Executive Director, American Botanical Council
"The use of herbal products requires that people learn about their benefits and their potential risks," says Mark Blumenthal. "People must realize that herbs can have some risks if they are not used properly and responsibly. But one of the major problems in the U.S. |
Lesley Tierra
See book keywords and concepts | | Planetary herbal products, P.O. Box 7145, Santa Cruz, CA 95061, 408-479-7074. Retail mad orders of various Chinese, Ayurvedic and Western herbs and distributor of Planetary Formulas.
Reevis Mountain School, HC02 Box 1534, Roosevelt, AZ 85545
Trinity Herb Company, P.O. Box 199, Bodega, CA 94922.
Chinese Herb Suppliers
Great China Herb Company, 857 Washington St., San Francisco, CA 94108, 1-415-982-2195
May Way Trading Corporation, 622 Broadway, San Francisco, CA 94133.
Tai Sang Trading Chinese Herb Company, 1018
Stockton, San Franscisco, CA 94108. |
James A. Duke, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | All of these popular beverages, as well as chocolate candy, are derived from plants and count as herbal products. And all contain caffeine as well as other compounds that may help fend off asthma.
Joe Graedon, the pharmacist and syndicated newspaper columnist, once wrote in his column that in a pinch, if caught without their medication, people with asthma could drink a few cups of coffee, which is a potent bronchodilator. Some months later he received a thank-you note from a newlywed woman with asthma who forgot her medication on her Hawaiian honeymoon. |
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