Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan
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 Add V2 cup fresh herbs to the oatmeal scone dough. Divide the dough in half and follow the instructions for making the bannock shape. Make indentations all over the dough with your fingertips. Spray the tops lightly with water from a pump sprayer and sprinkle with coarse salt or soy Parmesan, or top with steam-fried or grilled chopped mushrooms, garlic, bell peppers, and/or onions. Serve with balsamic vinegar for dipping.
Tender Barley Cornbread
You can whip up this high-fiber, low-fat cornbread fast, and it bakes in 15 minutes. Use stone-ground cornmeal if you can. |
John A. McDougall
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 For additional flavor, try sauteing in one of the following:
Soy sauce (tamari) Vegetable broth
Red or white wine (alcoholic or nonalcoholic)
Sherry (alcoholic or nonalcoholic)
Rice vinegar or balsamic vinegar
Tomato juice
Lemon or lime juice
Salsa
Worcestershire sauce
For even more taste, add herbs and/or spices (such as ginger, dry mustard, or garlic) to the above liquids.
Dinner with the Bortons
Six months after Louise's cooking class with my wife, Mary, the Bortons invited us to their home for dinner. |
| Other herbs, including Picrorhiza kurroa, Curcuma longa (turmeric), Camellia sinensis (green tea), and Glycyrrhiza glabra (licorice), have also been used to promote liver health.
Sadly, due to the nature of the pharmaceutical and medical industries, patients and even doctors are rarely apprised of the benefits of herbal therapies. Both patients and doctors are very well aware, however, of the latest drug therapies. The best standard medical treatments for chronic hepatitis are with drugs known as interferon and ribavirin. |
Brenda Davis and Tom Barnard
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 Nonprescription Drugs, herbs, and Teas
Medicinal herbs are largely unregulated, so quality, effectiveness, and safety can be highly variable. While some of these products may help kick start weight loss efforts, they are not necessary, nor are they ever the answer to long-term healthful weight. Here are some of the more common products you'll see on the market.
Metabolic Stimulants
Herbal fen-phen is an over-the-counter replacement for the once popular prescription medication. It is made from ephedra (ma huang) and a combination of other active ingredients such as St. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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SOY AND THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM breeding discontent
Herbalists, midwives and witches have long known that certain plants and herbs have a contraceptive effect.1 Scientists first recognized the fact that plants contained such substances in 1926. Interest picked up in the mid-1940s when sheep were diagnosed with "clover disease." The cause was three phytoestrogens in clover: formononetin, biochanin A and genistein. Sheep can efficiently convert formononetin to equol, the highly estrogenic metabolite that also comes from the soy isoflavone daidzein. |
Antoinette Saville and Antony J. Haynes
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 Chicken Livers, Fava Beans and Farfalle
This delicious pasta dish is best served with a mixed green leaf salad with herbs. If free-range or organic chicken livers are not available in your local supermarket, I suggest removing and freezing the chicken liver each time you cook a free-range or organic chicken. |
| Here is a list of the most commonly used nutrients and herbs, with a brief description of each one's specific role.
Glutamine - The number-one fuel for the enterocytes (cells of the intestinal lining). The intestinal tract is the principal user of glutamine in the body, but this amino acid has a number of other roles in the body as well. Estimates (in animals) are that 40 percent of the glutamine ingested is used by the intestinal lining. Cells in the large intestine also use glutamine, although short-chain fatty acids (see below) are the main fuel source in the colon. |
| I usually serve this dish with a large salad of mixed leaves and herbs and a bowl of steamed wild and brown rice, sprinkled with plenty of freshly chopped parsley. |
Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D.
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 They are also found in several herbs and spices, as well as in vegetables and nuts. Other classes of phytochemicals are characterized by their odour: the smell of sulfur we associate with crushed garlic, for example, or with cooked cabbage is due to the presence of sulfur compounds (sulfides) in these foods, while the far more pleasant odour of citrus fruit is associated with the presence of certain ter-penes. |
| It is equally fascinating to observe that many herbs and spices used as seasonings contain large quantities of molecules that act as anti-inflammatory compounds, which also reduce the risks of developing certain chronic diseases such as cancer. Ginger is the best example of this latter category; one of the principal molecules present in this root, gingerol, has often been put forward as a powerful potential anti-cancer agent, for its anti-inflammatory properties as well as its inhibiting activity on cancerous cells. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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 You may need to make some special changes to your diet; take some women's herbs; and some women may even need a little bit of natural estrogen (about one-tenth the dose prescribed by most doctors).
3. Symptom Group 3
Excess estrogen: In women, this is most often solved by getting off of the conventional synthetic hormones most often prescribed by doctors for menopausal women.
4. Symptom Group 4
Estrogen dominance: This is caused when you don't have enough progesterone to balance the effects of estrogen. |
| By taking the powdered herbs in pill form for 1 to 5 months, 29% were cured.
In another study, 38 patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis were treated with codonopsis (or ginseng), plus pinellia, hoelen, and licorice to tonify qi and normalize the digestion, and citrus, blue citrus, salvia, and red peony to regulate qi and blood. |
| Since adrenore-ceptors influence nervous system functioning, it is possible that the use of these herbs in formulas can help regulate the system that has been adversely influenced by autoimmune attack.
It has long been known that consumption of vegetables in the Brassica family can inhibit thyroid function. Rabbits fed on a cabbage diet develop goiter, due to content of sulfaguanidine. A Chinese herb from this plant family, sinapis (mustard seed), is sometimes used in hyperthyroid formulas because of its phlegm-resolving quality. |
| One patient with hyperinsulinemia was given the herbs for 3 months, and seven patients with sub-clinical hypoglycemia were given the formula for 6 weeks.
Most participants in the study were also taking pharmacological agents. One NIDDM patient and the hypoglycemia patients were not on any pharmaceutical treatments during the study period.
Criteria: Five people were disqualified after the study for not matching the above criteria. Patients who had a weight change of more than 5 pounds within the 3 months were not included in the final data. |
Healing Children's Attention & Behavior DisordersDr. Abram Hoffer, M.D., FRCP(C)
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| With more sophistication our ancestors began to flavor their foods with herbs. This became much more important when food which had gone bad had to be consumed. The herbs were used to cover the awful taste of these stale preparations. Fresh food for most people tastes pretty good, even without the addition of salt and sugar. Many people, however, cannot enjoy the taste of food unless it is saturated with the two substances salt and sugar because they have been so much a part of their diet for so many years.
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The natural diet is simple. |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
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 Human research on O the effectiveness of goldenseal or other berberine- ^ containing herbs, such as Oregon grape (page 721), J barberry (page 632), or goldthread (Coptis chinensis), O for people with colds has not been conducted. ^
Goldenseal root should only be used for short peri- _| ods of time. Goldenseal root extract, in capsule or tablet 3" form, is typically taken in amounts of 4 to 6 grams O three times per day. Using goldenseal powder as a tea or * tincture may soothe a sore throat. |
Henry Hobhouse
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 The Peruvian government, anxious to dispose legally of surplus coca, marketed leaves, mixed with other natural herbs, to appeal to North American and European markets. Millions of teabags with names like "Inca Tea" were sold through health food shops and mail-order houses, and everyone thought that they were decocain-ized and innocent. Until neuro-physicians became suspicious of the innocent tea and of its effect on some of their patients and began to analyze their contents. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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| Researchers visited dozens of native cultures to discover which herbs and plants were being used to prevent pregnancy, examined hundreds of plants and analyzed their phytochemicals. Although they found many contraceptive plants—soy, flax and red clover among them—they ultimately abandoned the project. Not because "natural" methods didn't work, but because the side effects were similar to—and just as serious—as those of the birth control pill.
SOURCE: Farnsworth NR, Bingel AS et al. Potential value of plants as sources of new antifertility agents. II. J Pharm Sci, 1975, 64, 717-754. |
Eric R. Braverman
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 The fats you do eat should be healthy ones—olive oil is an excellent choice, as it contains monounsaturated fatty acids, which are proven to lower cholesterol and improve overall lipid profile.
Use herbs, salsa, and spices instead of rich sauces, gravies, and extra salt. Bake, broil, boil, or steam foods. If you cook with fat or oil, use just a little or, better yet, none at all. Try nonstick pans and cooking spray. Trim the fat from meat before cooking.
Choose foods high in fiber such as fresh vegetables and fruits, which level off blood sugar. |
| As I began to study Eastern medicine, I saw firsthand the healing abilities of herbs, and the power that the mind and the spirit could exert over the body. As I looked deeper into various traditional practices, I found more evidence of their effectiveness, and I became convinced that this softer approach had to be incorporated into a Western medical strategy.
By 1988 I had completed my formal medical education and training and had studied widely in alternative medicine. |
Patricia Bragg and Paul C. Bragg
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 If dried herbs, use 1 to 2 tsp. herbs.) Now cover to top with Bragg Organic Raw Apple Cider Vinegar and store 2 weeks in warm place, strain and refrigerate.
Honey-Celery Seed Vinaigrette lA tsp dry mustard 1 cup Bragg Apple Cider Vinegar lA tsp Bragg Liquid Aminos xh cup Bragg Organic extra virgin olive oil
Va tsp paprika 1 medium onion, minced
3 Tbsp raw honey Vz tsp celery seed
Blend ingredients in blender or jar. Refrigerate in covered jar. |
Hyla Cass
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 Tylenol here and there . . . and, of course, your nightly beer or glass of red wine (or two). You're playing a danger-
153 ous game with your health—a game that has killed some well-known people. Remember Anna Nicole Smith? Hers is far from the only example where young, generally healthy people—who didn't think that the combination of chemicals they were consuming would hurt them?ended up in the hospital or dead.
Your body is an amazing machine, and it can bounce back from a lot of abuse. |
Lesley Tierra
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 These herbal oils can be used over the entire body or specific areas needing treatment. Oils which are warming and stimulating are made by adding pure essential oils such as cinnamon, thyme, cajeput, camphor, eucalyptus, peppermint, ginger or wintergreen to name a few. These herbal oils are generally used over specific areas where treatment is needed.
The best oils to use are olive or sesame because these warm the skin and keep longer. A few other oils are nice to add in smaller amounts such as apricot, almond and avocado. Experiment with these oils until you find your favorite combination. |
Eric R. Braverman
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| Blood-flow enhancers such as quercetin and D, L-phenylalanine and herbs such as huperzine-A, Rhodiola rosea, and ginkgo have improved memory and focus in Alzheimer's patients. Supplements such as Cognitex, ProCog, and my Brain Youth and Brain Memory formulas are also vital to memory and cognitive functions. |
Lesley Tierra
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| These herbal oils can be used over the entire body or specific areas needing treatment. Oils which are warming and stimulating are made by adding pure essential oils such as cinnamon, thyme, cajeput, camphor, eucalyptus, peppermint, ginger or wintergreen to name a few. These herbal oils are generally used over specific areas where treatment is needed.
The best oils to use are olive or sesame because these warm the skin and keep longer. A few other oils are nice to add in smaller amounts such as apricot, almond and avocado. Experiment with these oils until you find your favorite combination. |
Walter Last
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 What to Test: In addition to foods, testing can be done on vitamins, herbs, drugs, even garments. You will frequently find synthetic fibers (especially nylon) and many drugs, refined foods, chemical additives, and incompatible colors to be weakening.
You can assess food combinations by holding them jointly during a test. Individual items can even remain in their separate containers. Samples that are strengthening individually may test weakening if held together, and vice versa. The test results can be influenced by what you have eaten beforehand. |
| Tomato and grated cucumber can be used for flavoring, with a salad dressing of extra-virgin olive oil, lemon juice, herbs, and spices.
If you eat flesh food, you can marinate fish or other seafood and even liver and other meat, which are best minced (see the recipes). This destroys parasites and makes raw flesh food safe to eat. You can also use raw minced meat, suitably flavored with grated or chopped onion, tomato, or radish, and with lime or lemon juice.
Use only organic or otherwise safe meat from a reliable source. Never use meat from a feedlot; also, pork is generally not safe. |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
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 Please realize that all treatments, be they dietary changes, nutritional supplements and herbs, or drugs, are an experiment, or more accurately, an experience. Until you try them yourself, you cannot really know their exact effect upon your symptoms, disease, or health. To properly assess this personal experiment, be patient and be aware of and attentive to changes that occur. Initially, you may experience some adverse or unusual side effects, as in cleansing or healing reactions, but these should pass relatively quickly. (This is discussed more thoroughly in Chapters 2 and 3. |
| If the symptoms persist, herbs or homeopathy are more gentle remedies.
Aspirin and caffeine are at the top of the OTC drug problems list. (Caffeine is discussed thoroughly in Chapter 10.) Aspirin, a valuable medicine in common use for many decades, is on the decline due to GI irritation and other concerns. Acetaminophen (Tylenol), ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), and other anti-inflammatory medications (NSAIDs—Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs) have reduced the overall intake of aspirin. However, they come with their own health risks. |
The Editors of Prevention Magazine Health Books
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 Some doctors also consider two herbs, saw palmetto and pygeum (a tree batk used extensively in Europe for this problem), an essential part of treatment. One product, Ptostata, from Gero Vita International, combines all of these herbs and nuttients, says Dr. Balch.
Research findings are disappointingly slim when it comes to nuttition and BPH, however. Here's what studies show.
Zinc May Shrink Enlarged Gland
Zinc is highly concenttated in the prostate gland, but many doctots think zinc deficiency has little, if anything, to do with prostate enlatgement. |
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