Elson M. Haas, M.D.
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 Serve with the Better Butter (page 211), a splash of olive oil, and the seasonings of your choice, such as sea salt, garlic salt, cayenne pepper, or other herbs.
Roasting
To roast vegetables, preheat the oven to 325 to 350°F. Cut up the vegetables into edible strips. Slice zucchini and carrots lengthwise into quarters, cut potatoes into bite-sized pieces, and cut onions into quarters. Place all in a large bowl and pour 1 to 2 tablespoons of olive oil and mix with hands. Sprinkle on a little vegetable salt. Place in a baking pan or dish and put in the oven. |
| Herbs such as garlic, red clover, echinacea, or cayenne may also enhance detoxification, as can saunas, sweats, and niacin therapy (see Chapter 6 for more discussion of Supplements for Detoxification). Simply increasing liquid intake and decreasing fats and refined flour and sugar products will improve elimination and lessen toxin buildup. Increased consumption of filtered water, herb teas, fruits, and vegetables while reducing fats (especially fried foods, red meat, and milk products) will also help detoxification. |
Mark Hyman, M.D.
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 Take these as well as more fiber and less sugar. Some herbs and their extracts, too, may be helpful, such as oil of oregano, garlic, citrus seed extract, berberine, plant tannins, undecylenate, and caprylic acid.
• Intestinal parasites are not uncommon and also should be identified and treated. A stool sample sent to an experienced lab can identify most intestinal parasites. Treatment often requires medications such as Flagyl, Humatin, or Yodoxin, although some herbals, such as artemisia, oil of oregano, and berberine, may also be helpful. |
Steven G. Pratt, M.D. and Kathy Matthews
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 Toss different varieties together for a colorful salad with some fresh herbs and olive oil.
¦ Baked beans count, too! Buy or make them without too much added sugar or salt.
¦ Don't forget about lima beans or green peas. They're available year round, frozen, in the supermarket. Baby lima beans are delectable.
¦ Combine beans with pasta. I like pasta e fagioli.
¦ Mash beans with some finely chopped garlic and use as a sandwich spread.
See the SuperFoods Rx Shopping Lists (page 282) for some recommended beans. |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
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| Sample Detox Formula
Echinacea Cayenne pepper Parsley leaf
Goldenseal root Garlic Licorice root
Yellow dock root
Obtain powders (or ground herbs) in equal amounts for all of the above except cayenne, for which you should get half. Mix and put into "00" capsules. Take two capsules, two or three times daily between meals. Drink lots of water with this as well. |
Mark Hyman, M.D.
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| Use herbs, spices, lemon, or lime rather than salt.
Throw Out Processed Foods
Commercially prepared, packaged, and processed foods are often loaded with preservatives, artificial colorings, flavor enhancers, and sweeteners, not to mention hydrogenated fats and sodium. Do your best to follow our favorite motto: Buy fresh, eat fresh!
Reduce Caffeine Intake
For an optimal response to our plan, we recommend eliminating or sharply reducing your caffeine intake. Caffeine raises levels of adrenaline, causes overexcitation, increases stress, and impairs the relaxation response. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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 Spike seasoning blend; Bragg's Liquid Aminos (after you have tested for soy). beverages: water; green drink; caffeine-free herbal tea; carrot and other fresh vegetable juices; fresh or bottled fruit juices diluted by half to maintain steady blood sugar levels.
Changing your ideas of what is normal to eat for breakfast or have as a snack is helpful for expanding the possibilities of what to eat. As long as you don't have any trouble digesting bananas, The Frozen Banana Cream Treat and the No-Bake Apple Crisp (see Recipes) are great for planned indulgences. |
Patrick Holford
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 Antioxidant nutrients, essential fats, and herbs such as boswellia, curcumin, and certain hop extracts reduce inflammation. B vitamins and vitamin C support the endocrine system, which controls calcium balance. Vitamin D, calcium, magnesium, and boron support bone health. Glucosamine and MSM help build healthy joints.
Diet advice
Follow the optimum diet in this book and be sure to avoid adrenal stimulants such as tea, coffee, sugar, and refined carbohydrates. Drink plenty of water and herb teas. Check for allergies, and have a hair mineral analysis done to check your mineral levels. |
Jeremy P. Tarcher
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 A light pizzaC hand with weighty ingredients such as cheese, tomatoes, and so on, and bold amounts of fresh herbs, garlic, anchovies, flavored oils, and the like, works best. It is better to err on the side of flavor.—Alice
3 bell peppers—1 red, 1 orange, 1 yellow yi small red onion yi cup parsley leaves yi cup basil leaves
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon red wine vinegar salt and pepper to taste 2 ounces mozzarella cheese 1 clove garlic homemade pizza dough for 1 pizza (recipe follows)
Preheat the oven—with a pizza stone in it—to 450° to 500° F. |
| Carrot Salad with hfot Qoat Cheese Crotin
Serves 4 Fresh herbs are essential in this recipe. The parsley, mint, and dill spark up the Jerusalem-style shredded carrot salad; the warm coated goat cheese coins contrast in temperature and texture. When topped with the toasted pine nuts, the salad sings with Jlavor. |
| Taste to adjust the seasonings, adding the optional herbs if desired.
Cover tightly and chill. Serve cold or at room temperature.
Indian Summer Casserole
Serves 4 Highly seasoned vegetables are combined with olives, chilies, and cheese, and baked in custard. This recipe is named in honor of that time of year when corn, peppers, and fresh basil are peaking, and late crops of tomatoes are barely ripe. If you cant get green tomatoes, use the firmest and least-ripe red ones available. (The recipe below can be made in advance to the point where you spread the mixture in the pan. |
| Toss the carrots with the dressing, herbs, and pine nuts. Taste for seasoning.
Cut each goat cheese log into four thick coins. Beat the eggs with the water and salt in a small bowl. Put flour on a plate. Coat each side of the cheese coin in flour, then egg mixture, then flour again.
Heat the oil in a small frying pan and brown the goat cheese coins on both sides. Serve hot on top of the carrot salad. You can make the salad a couple of hours ahead of time and refrigerate. Let it come to room temperatute before serving, and reheat cheese for 4 minutes in a 400° F oven or toaster oven. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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 In a study of senile hyperthyroidism, a typical case was presented in which 30 days of decoction was consumed and a follow-up visit one year later showed no recurrence.19 In 45 cases of hyperthyroidism said to be cured by an astragalus-based formula (Yiqiyangyin Tang), recurrence was noted in only two cases.21 Follow-up duration was from less than 6 months to 4 years (12 cases under 6 months and 33 cases from 6 months to 4 years).
In the study of herb treatments for hyperthyroidism, in which exophthalmos was a symptom, a follow-up 4 years later showed no recurrence of the initial condition. |
Michael Castleman
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 Herbs: The Original Medicines
Medicinal herbs are central to the alternative therapies. Practitioners of Chinese medicine and Ayurveda, India's traditional healing system, often prescribe herbal formulas. Many of the microdose medicines used in homeopathy come from plants. In fact, it was experiments with cinchona bark—the first effective treatment for malaria—that laid the groundwork for the development of homeopathy. Plants also provide the basis for Western herbal medicine, a cross-cultural blend of age-old European, Asian, African, Middle Eastern, and Native American herbal traditions. |
Arthur Agatston, M.D.
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 They make interesting use of herbs and spices—especially the more intensely flavored ones such as horseradish, hot peppers, garlic, cinnamon, and nutmeg. One patient invented a new soup made with every green vegetable he could find.
Boredom is the enemy here. It leads people back to their bad old ways. So at every stage, it's best to make this diet as lively and diverse as possible.
The most effective strategy for achieving your goals is to make use of creative substitutions. |
Mark Hyman, M.D.
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| Try herbal detoxification teas containing mixtures of burdock root, dandelion root, ginger root, licorice root, sarsaparilla root, cardamom seed, cinnamon bark, and other herbs.
3. Repair the Rust: Oil the Oxidative Stress System
Antioxidant Foods
Among the many classifications of food is a new one—ORAC, or oxygen radical absorbence capacity, a measurement of the ability of a food to mop up free radicals.
To measure ORAC, scientists put a person's blood in a test tube, add some toxins, and measure how well it takes care of the damage—the higher the ORAC score, the better. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 SEE Cancer, and Tumors. Carbuncles Bacterial inflammation appearing similar to a group ofboils, but deeper in the skin, over a larger area, with more pain and slower healing than a boil; sloughing off a core of dead connective tissue several inches large, on the back of the neck, the back, or any part of the body. Sometimes consigning to bed for 4-6 weeks, with pain and exhausting discharge, lost strength. If a second large carbuncle appears afterthe first begins to heal, it is frequently fatal. Eat more whole foods; Tonics; 6 grains of Quinine daily. Wash well. |
David Wolfe
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 Chlorophyll is the pigment in plants within which photosynthesis takes place. It absorbs the vibrant Sun energy and transforms it into plant energy. This energy is transferred directly to you when you eat chlorophyll-rich foods, such as green-lealed vegetables.
Chlorophyll is the blood of plants, just as hemoglobin is the blood of the body. The difference between the two molecules is that chlorophyll is centered on magnesium, while hemoglobin is centered on iron. Eating green-leafy food is a transfusion of Sun energy to blood energy in the arteries. |
volker schulz and Rudolf Hansel
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 Thus, isolating the active constituents from herbs with a narrow therapeutic range (Fig. 1.1) and administering the pure compounds is not simply an end in itself. This scientific method of medicinal plant research is, rather, the means by which very potent constituents can be processed into safe medicinal products. The goal is not to concentrate the key active component but to obtain a pharmaceutical product that has a consistent, uniform composition. Processing the isolated constituent into pills, tablets, or
Figure 1.1. |
Gary Null
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| In this section I'll present some of those studies and then go into a handful of studies proving that various vitamins, minerals, and herbs are helping to prevent and fight cancer. Again, this is the type of information that you need to be armed with when your doctor says, "You get all the vitamins you need in your diet." I've done the research for you and it's only a drop in the bucket compared to what is available in the literature. |
Joseph Glenmullen, M.D.
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 With the tendency to become dependent on pills in our culture, we need to be careful not to do the same thing with herbs that we have done with prescription medication, relying on them indefinitely. Nor should one rely on herbs exclusively, since, like synthetic drugs, they are not cures but merely suppress symptoms.
No one knows the exact mechanism by which St. John's wort improves mood and energy level. The active ingredient is said to be hyperforin. In fact, St. John's wort contains more than a dozen physiologically active agents. |
Patrick Holford
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| So too have the herbs agnus castus, dong quai, black cohosh, and St. John's wort. Vitamin E is also helpful for menopausal symptoms. One possible explanation is that vitamin E protects essential fats and prostaglandins from oxidation.
Balancing your hormones
The following guidelines will help you keep your hormones in balance. However, if you are suffering from a major hormone imbalance such as estrogen dominance, it may be necessary also to take small amounts of natural progesterone. |
Dr. Michael Heinrich, Joanne Barnes, Simon Gibbons and Elizabeth M. Williamson
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 These aspects of treatment will be considered first, before herbs are introduced. It is considered that the original vital energy, yuan qi, is gradually dissipated throughout life, so it is important to conserve it using diet, kung fu, breathing exercise and herbal medicine.
Yin and yang
These have already been mentioned as central to Taoism, and the theory of yin and yang still permeates all aspects of Chinese thought. Attributes of both are:
• Yin: negative/passive/dark/female/water.
• Yang: positive/active/bright/male/fire. |
| Sacramento Williamson EM (ed) 2002 Major herbs of Ayurveda. Churchill
Livingstone, Edinburgh
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The reproductive and urinary tracts
Drugs used in hormonal disorders have been covered in Chapter 18. Other drugs that are used in obstetrics, including substances used in childbirth, and genitourinary disorders and erectile dysfunction in men, will be mentioned briefly here.
PHYTOMEDICINES IN CHILDBIRTH
Taking (any) medicine during pregnancy is generally not advisable as safety to the mother and fetus cannot be guaranteed. |
| Importation of herbs from countries with less restrictive legislation on pesticides means that this material should be checked very carefully. Examples of relevant limits for some important pesticides are given in Table 9.2.
Plant breeding
Cultivated species are normally optimized to relatively high and constant levels of active ingredients. Other important goals for breeding relate to the reproducibility of the drug. Matricaria recutita (the common camomile), for example, should have large and homogenous flower heads. |
Mark Hyman, M.D.
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| Other helpful herbs include kava kava, passionflower, and lemon balm. Experiment with herbal combinations or blends to find the best effect for you.
Consider testing
The most common sleep disorder (and most underdiagnosed) is sleep apnea. If you experience excessive daytime sleepiness, fatigue, snoring, and have been seen to stop breathing in the middle of the night by a partner, you could be one of the many undiagnosed sufferers of this condition. Your risk of increased blood pressure and heart disease is high; diagnosis and treatment are necessary. |
Dr. Michael Heinrich, Joanne Barnes, Simon Gibbons and Elizabeth M. Williamson
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| It deals with all medicinal plants, including those yielding complex mixtures, which are used in the form of crude herbs or extracts (phytotherapy), pure compounds such as morphine, and foods having additional health benefits (nutraceuticals).
TYPES OF DRUGS DERIVED FROM PLANTS
Herbal drugs, derived from specific parts of a medicinal plant
These are known as herbal medicinal products (HMPs), herbal remedies or phytomedicines and include, for example:
• The herb of St John's wort (Hypericum perforatum), used in the treatment of mild to moderate depression. |
Walter Last
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 The amino acid glycine (10 g four times daily) is useful, but not needed if you use a gelatinous broth of fish heads. herbs; Especially strong with antiinflammatory properties are goldenseal, slippery elm powder, and ginger, also devil's claw, ginseng, gotu kola, pau d'arco, and sage. Try suitable Bach Flower Remedies; do the herbal parasite therapy and follow protocols in Intestinal Sanitation (see step 3). additional therapies: Try a strong antimicrobial therapy with electronic zapper, magnetic pulser, colloidal silver, and oxygen therapy. |
Dr. Michael Heinrich, Joanne Barnes, Simon Gibbons and Elizabeth M. Williamson
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| All these forms of traditional medicine use herbs and minerals and have many features in common. Naturally, many plants are common to all systems and to various official drugs that were formerly (or still) included in the British Pharmacopoeia (BP), European Pharmacopoeia (Eur. Ph.) and US Pharmacopoeia (USP).
Ayurveda
Ayurveda is arguably the most ancient of all medicinal traditions. |
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