Dr. Michael Heinrich, Joanne Barnes, Simon Gibbons and Elizabeth M. Williamson
See book keywords and concepts |  They also have much in common with traditional medical herbalism as it was, and still is, practised in Europe and America. Whether or not pharmacists, doctors and other healthcare professionals accept the validity of these older medical systems, it is necessary for them to know about their basic principles for two main reasons. First, to be in a position to advise patients who may wish to consult an alternative practitioner and, second, because traditional use is a common starting point in the ongoing search for new drugs. |
James S. Gordon, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  I started with herbalism, which is generally believed to be the oldest form of medicine on the planet. Some animals, I read, were known to use herbs, and traces of medicinal plants had been recovered from some of the earliest archaeological digs. herbalism had also, it turned out, been a powerful force in American medicine until the late nineteenth century, when the effectiveness of some pharmaceuticals, and the opposition of organized medicine, had cast a shadow on it. |
Sharol Tilgner, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Note: For an excellent review of Lobelia toxicity see Medical herbalism 1998;10(1):1-16. See "Journal Suggestions" for information on ordering Medical herbalism.
Lomatium -
Lomatium dissectum in the Umbelliferae or Parsley family.
Part used: Root.
Taste/smell: Resinous, aromatic.
Dosage: Infusion: 1-2 teaspoons of cut and crushed root, infused for 25 minutes; or a 1:1.5 fresh strength liquid extract: 10-30 drops 1-4 times per day.
Use: (a) Antifungal, (b) Antibacterial, (c) Antiviral, (d) Immunomodulator. | | I hope it also serves to preserve the traditional knowledge presented in this new era when the foundations of traditional herbalism are being eroded by the dominant paradigm in medicine.
Paul Bergner Editor, Medical herbalism August 3,1999
Herbal Medicine
From the Heart of the Earth
Properties & Actions of Herbs
The following is a peek at a few of the numerous plant properties and actions found in nature's pharmacy. Most categories have examples included.
Abortifacient: Causes expulsion of the fetus. |
Mark Blumenthal
See book keywords and concepts |  Medical herbalism 1994 Spring;6(l).
Blumenthal M, Busse WR, Goldberg A, Gruenwald J, Hall T, Riggins CW, Rister RS (eds.). Klein S, Rister RS (trans.). The Complete German Commission E Monographs—Therapeutic Guide to Herbal Medicines. Austin, TX: American Botanical Council; Boston: Integrative Medicine Communication; 1998; 161-2.
BP. See: British Pharmacopoeia.
Bradley P (ed.). British Herbal Compendium, Vol. 1. Dorset, uk: British Herbal
Medicine Association; 1992;l45-8. Braun R, Surmann R, Wendt R, Wichtl M, Ziegenmeyer J. Standardzulassungen fur
Fertigarzneimittel: Text und Kommentar. |
Walter Last
See book keywords and concepts |  This is because homeopathy cannot be understood as a substance-based method, such as pharmaceutical medicine or herbalism, in which healing effects appear to be due to chemical actions and reactions. A simple calculation shows that in the higher potencies not a single molecule of the original substance is present. But these high potencies are often more effective than low potencies. Therefore, homeopathy can only be understood as a system that works irh pnr-rov rpmpnips
The explanation is that every natural substance has an etheric or subtle energy field around its molecular structure. | | Flower Remedies: Flower remedies represent a combination of herbalism and homeopathy. Their main therapeutic effects are on the emotional level. Best known are the Bach flower remedies originated in the 1930s by Dr. Edward Bach, an English physician. In recent times, Australian wildflower remedies and Californian flower essences have also become available; these are sold mainly in health food stores and by various practitioners.
Flower remedies are best used together with appropriate affirmations. | | You might also try a combination of homeopathy and herbalism. Herbs often seem to be more effective when used as low-potency homeopathic remedies. In this way any undesirable side effects of concentrated herbs are lessened, while specific healing effects, especially cleansing actions, are greatly strengthened. You can experiment by potentizing one part of an unheated herbal extract or tincture with four or nine parts water. |
Dr. Michael Heinrich, Joanne Barnes, Simon Gibbons and Elizabeth M. Williamson
See book keywords and concepts | | Furthermore, the efficacy and safety of herbalism as a treatment approach has not yet been scientifically evaluated.
HOMOEOPATHY
History
Homoeopathy was founded around 200 years ago by Samuel Hahnemann, a German physician and apothecary. His development of the principles of this controversial approach to treatment should be considered against the background of medical practice at the time; the use of leeches, bloodletting, strong purgatives and emetics, and preparations containing toxic heavy metals, such as arsenic and mercury, was widespread. |
Robert S. McCaleb, Evelyn Leigh, and Krista Morien
See book keywords and concepts |  Madison Avenue Larchmont, NY 10538 Phone: (914) 834-3100
AlternativeTherapies in Health and Medicine Innovision Communications 101 Columbia AlisoViejo, CA 92656 Phone: (800) 899-1712
Australian Journal of Medical herbalism PO Box 61 Broadway Australia 2007
International Journal of Integrative Medicine
PO Box 12496
Green Bay, WI 54307-2496
Phone: (920) 434-8884
Medical herbalism PO Box 20512 Boulder, CO 80308 Phone:(303)541-9552 Website: www.medherb. |
John Heinerman
See book keywords and concepts |  He combines traditional herbalism with spiritual healing. He routinely goes out and collects different medicinal plants, berries, fruits, and roots growing near his private hospital. During his session with a patient, he will engage in praying after administering his vegetable or fruit remedy in order to induce a state of relaxation in the other person. In this capacity then he functions not only as an herbal doctor but also as a priest in faith-healing. |
Larry Trivieri, Jr.
See book keywords and concepts |  It was formerly employed as a remedy for difficulties associated with menstrual cycles in young women (the word parthenium is derived from the Greek word parthenos, meaning "virgin") and was later used in European herbalism to reduce fevers (the name feverfew is a corruption of the Latin word febrifuga, meaning an agent that lowers fevers).40
Interest in this herb has increased in the past 15 years because of several clinical studies published in British medical journals. |
Simon Mills and Kerry Bone
See book keywords and concepts |  They have written us not only an excellent 'take this herb for that health problem, and here's the science why' volume, but they also take care to put it into the larger context of traditional herbalism. They gently remind us that the 'magic bullet herbal' (they term it 'alternative allopathic') approach is only a part of a much greater herbal healing tradition, a tradition as yet unexplored by contemporary science. (For example, they discuss the traditional herbalists' approaches of cleansing, heating, cooling, and tonification, and how they fit into an over-all health improvement pattern. | | The A-Z of modern herbalism. Thorsons, London, 1989, p39.
46. Grieve M. A modern herbal, vol 1. Dover Publications, New York, 1971, p 81.
Buchu
(Agathosma betulina (Bergius) Pill.)
SYNONYMS
Barosma betulina (Bergius) Bartl. et Wendl. (botanical synonym), bucco (Engl), Barosmae folium (Lat), Bukkostrauch, Buccoblatter (Ger), buchu (Fr), diosma (Ital), bukko (Dan).
WHAT IS IT?
Buchu is a South African herb that is extensively used in diuretic preparations and may also be used in laxative, stomachic and carminative formulas. The Hottentots use buchu leaves to perfume their bodies. | | TRADITIONAL VIEW
Berberis vulgaris has had a long history of use in Western herbalism. A decoction was taken in the spring months as a blood purifier and used externally as a mouth and eyewash. The Eclectics regarded Berberis primarily as a tonic but it was also used for conditions affecting the liver and gallbladder, diarrhoea, dysentery and parasitical infections including malaria. | | Modern herbalism for digestive disorders. Thomsons, Northamptonshire, 1981
BILIARY SYSTEM
SCOPE
Apart from their use to provide non-specific support for recuperation and repair, specific phytotherapeutic strategies include the following.
Treatment of:
• cholecystitis (biliary infection);
• minor or early cholelithiasis (biliary stones);
• conjugated hyperbilirubinaemia.
Management of:
• established cholelithiasis;
• chronic and moderate hepatobiliary diseases. | | It is possible that the safety record for herbalism is better than for any other widespread human activity, including eating, drinking, sleeping (a particularly dangerous activity), taking exercise, working or travelling.
The problem with legislators, medical professionals and public guardians is that they inevitably find themselves balancing risk with benefit. If they can see a public benefit as well as a demand for an activity they will feel able to cover themselves against public and media attack if something ever went wrong. | | Nonetheless, professional herbalism had truly arrived in the UK.
In 1864, the British Medical Reform Association was founded, later to become the National Institute of Medical Herbalists (NIMH) which prospers to this day. Meanwhile in the USA, a relatively obscure system known as physiomedicalism evolved from Thomsonian medicine, with key works by Thurston, Cook and Lyle. Although the physiomedicalists were relatively few in the USA compared to the Eclectics, English herbalists aligned themselves with the physiomedicalists in the early 20th century. |
Richard Leviton
See book keywords and concepts |  The intimate working relationship (and energy equivalency) of the human etheric body with the plant kingdom makes it easier to understand why the majority of the holistic pharmacopoeia, from herbalism to homeopathy, is botanical in origin.
In distinguishing physical from etheric energies, the anthroposophic scientist Ehrenfried Pfeiffer notes that chromosomes and genes, for example, are carriers, not originators, of the fundamental human pattern. To attribute organic effects to genetic inheritance, in other words, is tautological. |
Larry Trivieri, Jr.
See book keywords and concepts | | Offers training in all aspects of traditional Chinese medicine, including Qigong and Tai Chi, acupuncture, and Chinese herbalism.
Recommended Reading
Chi Kung: The Ancient Chinese Way to Health. Paul Dong and Aristide H. Esser, M.D. New York: Paragon House, 1990.
The Complete System of Self-Healing: Internal Exercises. StephenT. Chang. San Francisco:Tao Publishing, 1986.
The Healer Within. Roger Jahnke,O.M.D. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1999.
The Healing Promise of Qi. Roger Jahnke,O.M.D. New York: Contemporary Books, 2001.
Tlie Most Profound Medicine. Roger Jahnke,O.M.D. |
Gary Null, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Belford/Courtney, "Comparison of Chinese and Western Uses of Angelica Sinensis,"
Aust Journal of Med herbalism, 5(4), 1993, p. 87-91.
Results of this study showed that XT isolated from the dried roots of Angelica archangelica L., produced dose-dependent sedative activity in dogs, cats, rats, mice, and hamsters.
—O.P. Sethi, et al., "Evaluation of Xanthotoxol for Central Nervous System Activity,"
Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 36(1992), p. 239-247. |
James Green
See book keywords and concepts |  The AHG is a group of herbalists dedicated to the advancement of excedent herbal education, and with this booklet and other services provides a tremendous assistance to both serious and casual students of Herbalism; and the organization can use the funds to help continue its volunteer work.
The AHG Directory of Herbal Education, A.H. Gudd Directory
American Herbalists Guild 1931 Gaddis Rd.
P.O. Box 70 Canton, GA 30115
Roosevelt, Utah 84066 (770) 751-6021
Phone (435) 722-8434 or Fax (435) 722-8452 Fax (770) 751-7472
SUPPLIES
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P.O. | | Comfrey has been praised throughout history as a premier heahng plant used extensively in folkloric herbalism internally and externally for the repair of innumerable body wounds and illnesses. However, in the past few years reductionist science has proclaimed Comfrey (in particular, the root and the early spring leaves) to be the possessor and conveyer of certain toxic components called pyrrolizidine alkaloids which are said to cause damage to the liver of human beings. Many herbalists have accepted this as truth and a number of us have not. | | Remember, herbalism is a human response to plants, and this response ever dwells alive and well within each of us. I ask you to relate to the learning of the overall process of making herbal medicine more like the way you might relate to creating art or reading a novel, rather than the way you might relate to viewing a movie or a TV program that leaves little if anything to your imagination. Like a Zen painter (don't I wish), I will create some empty space suggesting forms and ideas which your creative imagination can fill in as we proceed. | | It is your plant medicine, the enchanted doorway through which you just entered the enthralling world of herbalism. Label the container appropriately. On this label include the name of the herb, the part of the herb used, (i.e., Dandelion root and top, Taraxacum officinale) and the date that will arrive fourteen days from the date you are preparing this extract. This date you write on the label is the day your tincture will be ready for you to separate the saturated liquid (the tincture extract) from the then-depleted plant material (the marc). | | Meanwhile, during the following hours when you are not eating, dreaming, working, playing, or shaking your tincture, we can explore more ideas concerning the home practice of herbalism and consider other forms of herbal extracts you can make.
It's a jungle garden out there; roots and flowers are everywhere. That's why this leafy turquoise planet is so dear to the hearts of herbalists. Here we enjoy an unending variety of plants and animals to embrace as our allies and teachers. | | The nutritional and medicinal actions of each herb in our materia medica constitute the fundamental vocabulary of the language of herbalism. Knowledge of the actions (the biochemical energetics) of each plant and the plant's
Goldenseal, Black Cohosh, Echinacea, and Pipsissewa are four plant allies that are due a collective show of human appreciation and currently require our concerted acts of tender loving care. |
Daniel B. Mowrey, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Licorice is, of course, one of the most prescribed herbs in China, second only to Ginseng in Chinese herbalism (11). It is called the "Great Detoxifier" and is used especially for the spleen, kidneys, liver and stomach, as well as for many other ailments (12). In Europe, Licorice root, because of its diuretic property, is used to treat urinary and kidney problems (13). Modern research provides evidence for the use of Licorice root in treating liver disorders, especially as these are connected with the corticosteroid metabolism (14). |
Larry Trivieri, Jr.
See book keywords and concepts | | Medical herbalism. Available from: Bergner Communications, P.O. Box 20512, Boulder, Colorado 80308; (303) 541-9552;Website: medherb.com.Written primarily for practitioners, this quarterly newsletter deals with the appropriate use of herbs in a clinical setting, including case histories, dosages, contraindications, and toxicity issues.
Robyn's Recommended Reading. Available from: 1627 W. Main, Suite 116, Bozeman, Montana 59715; (406) 585-8006;Website: www.wtp.net/~rrr. Newsletter summarizing some of the latest herbal literature, with reviews reflecting an herbalist's perspective. |
the Editors of PREVENTION
See book keywords and concepts |  Institute of Medical herbalism in Calistoga, California. Medicinal herbs can complement
Stevia: Sweeter Than Sugar virtually no calories and no effect on blood sugar levels, stevia is a safe herbal alternative to sugar or artificial sweeteners, says C. Leigh Broadhurst, Ph.D., a nutrition consultant and herbal researcher based in Clovery, Maryland, and a diabetes researcher with the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center in Beltsville. You won't find it next to aspartame or saccharin in your grocery store, though. |
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