Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We can expect them to expand later to include herbs, but for the time being herbs are not on the table.
Mike: Now from the point of view of many readers, what you have described so far does not sound too bad, having basic standards for food and supplements. Where does Codex go wrong from there?
John: To make it simple for your readers, what Codex does wrong is it only attempts to assess supposed risks of these substances. It doesn't make any effort to weigh risks versus benefits, which is the only honest thing to do. |
| Mike: What is also astonishing, John, in this is that it seems like the FDA and the government regulatory bodies all assume that all drugs are safe unless proven dangerous, but that all herbs are dangerous until proven safe. That it is the herbs and supplements that are the danger to Americans, not the drugs.
John: Yes, and with this adverse event reporting legislation, let's just say that a person calls in, they are on multiple pharmaceutical drugs while simultaneously taking one or more nutrients, and then the burden is being put on the vitamin company to prove that it is not their product. |
Nicola Reavley
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 Licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra)
One of the most widely used herbs, liquorice has an important place in both Western and Eastern herbal medicine. It has hormonal, anti-inflammatory, antiallergic, antibacterial and antiviral effects. Licorice has also been shown to stimulate the immune system.
Marshmallow (Althea officinalis)
Marshmallow has a reputation has a soothing, healing plant. It has demulcent, emollient, diuretic, anti-inflammatory and expectorant actions.
Uses
Marshmallow is used to treat stomach and duodenal ulcers, catarrh, coughs, colds and urinary tract infections. |
Bill Sardi
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 Chen began her research into the role that natural herbs can play in healing and curing cancer, and obtained a dozen U.S. patents. In 1993, Dr. Chen co-founded the International Medical Research Corporation with "Allan" Xuhui Wang, MD, and John Chen (her brother), which did business under the name BotanicLab, the maker of PC-SPES.
Chen and Wang, who is also an herbalist, collaborated to modify an existing herbal formula used in China to treat uro-logic problems, which became the PC-SPES product. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 The natural treatments in this book—vitamins, herbs, minerals, foods, plants, "designer" nutrients, acupuncture, stress reduction, image therapy, reflexology, or any of the many specific treatments or combinations of compounds—can make a huge difference in your health. No kidding. They can address certain metabolic conditions and blocked pathways that can contribute to your illness. They can clear up some of the obstacles that stand in the way of your healing. They can jump-start the body's amazing, natural curative powers. |
Nicola Reavley
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| For ingredients that have no RDI, such as herbs, the package will list the ingredients. Herbal products must identify the part of the plant used to make the substance.
Supplements could only claim to be 'high potency' if a nutrient is present at 100 per cent or more of the RDI. For multivitamin supplements to carry the 'high potency' labeling, at least two-thirds of the nutrients must be present at levels that are more than 100 per cent of the RDI. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Herbs taken orally are useless, they say, but herbs that are surgically injected into tumors represent "good science," it seems.
You see, modern medicine likes to make things really technical and overly complicated, and it hates to give credibility to anything that's really simple, because then people could have access to their own medical cures. If people realized that being healthy was so simple, doctors couldn't maintain control, and the American Medical Association wouldn't exercise nearly as much authority. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Mayo Clinic — Complete Index for Prescription and Over the Counter Drugs, Vitamins, Supplements, herbs and Drug Watch Archive www.mayoclinic.com/health/drug-information/DrugHerblndex
Medwatch www.fda.gov/medwatch
Internet gateway for timely safety information on drugs and other medical products regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
MedlinePlus www.rxlist.com
RxList: The Internet Drug Index is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.
PDR® Family Guide to Prescription Drugs www.pdrhealth. |
| One of the top-selling herbs, ginkgo biloba, has been used for nearly 3,000 years. Amongst many claims, it has been touted as an herbal remedy that improves blood flow because of its ability to increase vascular dilation. The result is said to improve brain function in Alzheimer's patients, improve short-term memory and can even reduce retinal damage from diseases such as macular degeneration.6 Be certain to read the fine print telling you to "Contact your physician before taking this product," because combining ginkgo with prescription or over-the-counter drugs can be dangerous. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Then you start to rebuild the brain and the center of the brain with phosphatidyl serine, acetyl-l-carnitine, phosphatidyl choline, and herbs that are known to have an impact, like feverfew and green tea. You flood the body with flavonoids. And don't forget the juice—four to six juices a day from fresh organic vegetables. After six months to a year of this regimen, I've seen about 80 percent of addicts cleared up, staying off it, and not coming back.
I would add that if you have a problem drinker in your family, one of the things you can do is just try to see that they take some vitamins. |
| Medicines are not always bad any more than nutritional supplements are always good, because people can be harmed from inappropriately using nutritional supplements, especially herbs that have pharmacological effects in certain doses."
According to Dr. Richard Kunin, people tend to have ideas about health habits that are too generalized. "Before Linus Pauling and the word 'ortho-molecular,' most people thought they were in the avant-garde if they took a multivitamin. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| Hyla Cass ISBN: 1591200881
Book Description: In this overview of the most popular herbs, Hyla Cass, M.D., describes the top ten herbal supplements. Dr. Cass also provides clear guidelines for how to safely use herbal remedies. interactions
A to Z Guide to Drug-Herb-Vitamin Interactions/Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition
Edited by Alan R. Gaby, M.D. ISBN: 0307336646
Review: Julian Whitaker, M.D. |
Anne Harrington
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 Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a stalled ox and hatred therewith," Widdowson concluded, with a quote from Proverbs. From The Lancet, 1 (1951): 316—18. Reprinted with permission from Elsevier municipal orphanages in one of the British-occupied zones of Germany had been selected for the study. Each housed about fifty boys and girls between ages four and fourteen. For one year, Widdowson arranged for height and weight measurements of all the children to be taken every two weeks. |
| Herbs and acupuncture are one way to strengthen and unblock qi; mental exercises, especially a practice called qigong, are another. Masters of qigong become so good at moving their own qi, Moyers learns, that some of them can direct it out of their own bodies. In the case of martial arts, directing qi outside the body can repel an attacker (the film shows a rather campy demonstration of this). In a medical context, directing qi out of the body and into the body of a patient can act to revitalize his flagging or stagnant qi. |
| Working in the fields alongside their patients, many of these new doctors grew their own herbs for use in traditional potions.57
News of the barefoot doctor movement spread to the West and excited considerable admiration among some left-leaning observers. Nevertheless, there was little awareness at the time of how it worked in detail or of the larger policy and politics behind it. The United States had broken off diplomatic relations with Communist China in 1949, and the Bamboo Curtain had largely excluded visitors from the United States since then. |
| They also circled burning herbs over his abdomen. In short order, he experienced a rapid reduction in the distension of his stomach and relief of his abdominal pain.
All this seemed so astonishing that, when Reston returned to the United States, he wrote an article that the New York Times published on its front page under the disarming title "Now, Let Me Tell You about My Appendectomy in Peking . . ,"58
Here, with humor and a certain obvious affection for his Chinese caretakers, Reston told the story of his medical encounter with "the very old and the very new. |
Robert S. McCaleb, Evelyn Leigh, and Krista Morien
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 Georgia
Living with herbs Institute
931 Monroe Drive #102-343
Atlanta, GA 30308
Phone: (404) 607-8222
Classes, workshops. Catalog available.
Massachusetts
Blazing Star Herbal School
PO Box 6
ShelburneFalls,MA01370
Phone: (413) 625-6875
Classes, workshops. Catalog available.
Montana
Rocky Mountain Herbal Institute
PO Box 579
Hot Springs, MT 59845
Phone: (406) 741-3811
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: http://www.rmhiherbal.org
Chinese medicine. Classes, workshops, correspondence course. Catalog available. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| The German Commission E, which is responsible for testing herbs and supplements, approves horse chestnut for "venous insufficiency," meaning lack of blood flow through the veins.
Those Delicate Veins
Varicose veins are almost always related to a weakness in the walls of the veins, which are fairly delicate structures to begin with. The veins contain valves that prevent blood from flowing back down due to gravity, but when these valves get weak, blood pools in the veins and causes them to bulge and/or become purplish. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 So we'll look at a condition like diabetes, for example, and look at when you use, say, the herbs, when you use the nutrients, when you use the drugs, how the drugs and herbs interact with each other, and provide an integrated care profile so that we can provide the best quality care for our patients.
Mike: So, let me ask you about, in the headlines recently, we've seen about other medical journals, this controversy about, now I think 11 of them are saying they're only going to print studies from companies that are willing to print all of the studies. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| We hear this constantly about vitamins, antioxidants, herbs, and all sorts of non-medical healing traditions (from acupuncture to shamanism). (Later I'll go into ¦why we hear this refrain constantly and the reason the media tends to report on vitamin studies so negatively.)
The point is that it's not true.
There's a ton of research on vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, amino acids, fatty acids, and other nutritive substances. (Want proof? Go to the National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health online library, www.pubmed. |
| That's why the standard method of testing is not well suited to teasing out the powerful healing effects of vitamins and herbs. And that's why you should be more than suspicious next time you hear an "expert" tell you that the research shows a vitamin doesn't "do" anything. In nature these compounds are found together and often work synergistically, as a team. |
| Your food, your lifestyle choices, your relationships— to job, spouse, friends, family, and environment—have the capacity to fine-tune this
A Few Definitions
For purposes of organization, I've divided the book into several sections:
Pure Cures are single nutrients or herbs that have been used by themselves to produce an effect. Vitamin B12, for example, is very effective against aging complications, so it's listed under Pure Cures, as is melatonin for jet lag. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Em sure many of you are wondering how exactly you should navigate a treatment route of drugs and whether other pills and herbs can provide similar benefits at a lesser monetary cost and with lower risk of side effects. Because I was a contributor to the development of cholinesterase inhibitors, it is disappointing for me to see that treatments just haven't worked as we hoped they would. We have FDA-approved pills, but they don't contribute enough to quality of life to justify using them with my patients across the board. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 John's Wort and other herbs in an allopathic fashion, which means they attempt to counter a disease or symptom with a chemical, regardless of whether that chemical comes from a plant or a prescription drug. Using medicinal herbs or prescription drugs in such a way is really not a healthy way to treat symptoms, disorders or diseases. The only way to achieve a high state of health is to pursue a healthy lifestyle through nutrition, physical activity, exposure to natural sunlight, strong social interaction, brain exercise, good breathing, staying away from environmental toxins, and so on. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 Then add the seitan, dried herbs, miso, and remaining broth. Cook for about 10 minutes, or until vegetables are tender. In a cup, combine the water and arrowroot and mix well. Add to the skillet, and stir until thickened. Season as desired.
FROZEN WATERMELON DELIGHT
Serves 2
1% cups ice cubes
1 cup seedless watermelon, coarsely chopped
1 cup lemon-flavored herbal tea at room temperature
Place all ingredients into a blender and process on high until smooth.
?DAY 5 Breakfast ?
Quinoa Breakfast*
Sliced hard-boiled egg Green tea
?DAY 5 Lunch ? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And, by the way, Tamiflu is anti-viral, but even it is not nearly as strong as the combination of antiviral herbs and various nutritional supplements as outlined in my free downloadable book called "How To Beat The Bird Flu Virus." So even though these countries are stockpiling Tamiflu, people would actually be far better protected by acquiring potent antiviral herbs, minerals and supplements as a protection against the bird flu virus.
But knowing the way most people think, few will actually prepare for this. And frankly, they might get away with it. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That's where herbs are truly powerful and can, indeed, help a person overcome practically any disease: cancer, heart disease, diabetes, depression, you name it.
Similarly, acupuncture is much more than just something to stop nausea after chemotherapy (a role to which organized medicine would love to relegate the therapy). In fact, virtually all the healing arts -- acupuncture, Chinese medicine, herbal medicine, Ayurvedic herbs, etc. -- have all been "dumbed down" as they were introduced to western cultures. |
| Herbal medicine has a much higher purpose than to be relegated to the limited worldview of conventional medicine. herbs should be used holistically to support a healthy lifestyle. Patients should be taught to use herbal medicine, acupuncture, chiropractic care, nutritional supplements and naturopathic advice in conjunction with their own good decisions about health. That's where herbs are truly powerful and can, indeed, help a person overcome practically any disease: cancer, heart disease, diabetes, depression, you name it. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I notice it contains not only some vitamins, but also more importantly some anticancer herbs and superfood elements.
Horner:Women can do many highly protective things. I always give the bad news first, and then everyone wants to know what you can do to stop this from happening. Actually, what the research shows is there is a tremendous amount of natural things that you can do.
Some of them are specific foods that you can consume like spices, herbs and supplements that have tremendous effect at either slowing down the growth of breast cancer or preventing it in the first place. |
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