| Lark emphasizes avoiding caffeine and alcohol and taking nutritional supplements of vitamin E and bioflavonoids. "Herbs to treat hot flashes," says David Hoffmann, "include dong quai, ginseng, gotu kola, and motherwort to help with palpitations that accompany hot flashes."
Ayurveda recommends treating for a pitta imbalance (see section on Premenstrual Syndrome).Traditional Chinese medicine may use dong quai and ginseng but, according to Honora Wolfe, each patient needs a specific formula that only a doctor can give based on diagnosis. |
| D, because herbs and the dietary-supplements made from them use an indirect route to the bloodstream and target organs, their effects are usually slower in onset and less dramatic than those of purified drugs administered by more direct routes. "Doctors and patients accustomed to the rapid, intense effects of synthetic medicines may become impatient with botanicals for this reason," Dr. Weil states.3
Herbal medicine often has much to offer when used to facilitate healing in chronic problems. |
| In TCM, the heart and liver are the two systems that are addressed in cases of hyperactivity. herbs such as schisandra berries, biota seed, and zizyphus seed are used to calm the system. He also points to a poor diet as a probable cause of hyperactivity and suggests that a nourishing diet be implemented. Dr. Ni recommends parents reduce or eliminate a child's intake of simple sugars and instead provide a diet high in complex carbohydrates, especially beans.
Homeopathy: Dr. |
| Ni prescribes herbs like dandelion, used internally as a tea or externally ground into a powder and made into a poultice with some aloe and applied to the lumps.This will help reduce the swelling.
Homeopathy: Homeopathic remedies for mumps symptoms are Apis mei, Belladonna, Bryonia, and Pulsatilla, according to Dr. Moskowitz.
Childhood Parasites
The problem of parasites in children can provoke fear and embarrassment in parents, but neither response is necessary, according to Dr. Smith. |
Dr. Joseph M. Kadans, N.D.
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 Some butter may be placed into the casserole dish for flavoring, and some herbs and spices may be sprinkled over the dish just prior to baking in a moderate oven of 375°F. for forty-five minutes or until the onions are tender.
While fresh spring green onions may be eaten raw in a vegetable salad, the onions may be trimmed and cooked in boiling salted water until tender. |
| Season with some herbs or spices when ready to serve.
BRUSSELS SPROUTS
Botanical information: Brassica oleracea, a variety of cabbage known as bullata gemmifera with blistered leaves and stems covered with heads.
Nutritive values:
Vitamin A: 400 I.U. per 100 gm. Fat: .5 gm. Vitamin B: .08 mg. Carbohydrates: 8.9 gm.
Vitamin C: 94 mg. Calcium: 34 mg.
Protein: 4.4 gm. Iron: 1.3 mg.
Calories: 47 Phosphorus: 78 mg.
Potassium: 307 mg. |
Kenny Ausubel
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 Just herbs and vitamins." The blocky border guard scowled inside the van. He asked a couple of people to open their little brown bags carrying the Hoxsey tonic and vitamins. Grudgingly, he let the van through. The effervescence went flat. We all knew we had crossed not just a political boundary, but a philosophical border as well.
After a couple of more days at the clinic, Catherine and I passed the better part of Memorial Day weekend holed up with Mildred in her small trailer next door where she had lived since coming to Tijuana. |
| I have no regrets because my first objective as a scientist is to hang on to this theory of the existence of an anticancer substance in the bodies of all multicellular animals, and all multicellular plants," a coded reference endorsing Hoxsey's herbs, after all.29
Dr. Ivy remained philosophical to the end. "When you come forward with a committee opinion to kill a scientific theory or destroy scientific observations, you're living in the past, in the dark ages of medicine. |
| Duke's first concern about the tonic was its safety, and he quickly pointed out that only one of the herbs, poke root, might be dangerous. A common plant throughout the Southeast, poke is a well-known herb and food to local residents, who like to parboil the leaves and add them to salads. The root, berry, and leaf are toxic in larger quantities. The amount in the Hoxsey tonic, however, is well below any threshold of danger. [Warning: Do not even consider self-medicating with poke. Eating the leaves can also be toxic without proper preparation. |
| The state had long been a haven of Hoxsey support because of the Mormon community's commitment to the use of herbs as biblical medicines. Mildred said the head of the Mormon church used to send hundreds of patients to Dallas. (Utah is today the largest herb-producing state in the country.)
Working with a Dr. Homer Cate, Mildred set up shop in Bountiful in 1962. Once again, the FDA found patients "extremely uncooperative" in government efforts to bust the clinic. |
Jonathan Goodman ND
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 I also prescribed a variety of herbs and supplements to bring her blood sugar down to healthier levels.
Diabetes is potentially serious, and I strongly advise everyone with this condition to work closely with a physician. Sometimes insulin and other medications are the only way to keep blood sugars in a healthy range, but Jean was lucky. After 2 months on the program, she had lost 30 pounds. Her energy increased and, more important, her glucose levels fell to a healthier 115. lems. |
Sandra Steingraber
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 Hunkered down between headstones, I cupped the unfamiliar plants in my hands and tried to will into existence thousands of acres of these grasses and herbs, the sound of animals running, wildfires, birdsong.
As I became ever more enchanted with the Illinois prairie, I found that I was, nevertheless, unable to banish from my heart its remaining enemies—the nonnative invading species. Queen Anne's lace, ox-eye daisy, chicory, foxtail, goat's beard, teasel: all European immigrants, these are the familiar weeds of roadsides and fallow fields. My mother taught me the names of most of them. |
Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 1Michael T. Murray, ND
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| By her attention to the family, and the benefits they received from her skill, we became very much attached to her; and when she used to go out and collect roots and herbs, she would take me with her, and learn me their names, with what they were good for.
Thomson's methodology systemized Mrs Benton's methods, which she in turn had learned from native American Indians and the tradition of women healers before her. In 1822, he published A New Guide to Health, which described what was basically her entire healing system. |
Dr. Gary Null
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 Western herbs:
Garlic. Excellent for fighting infections. Can be eaten raw, lightly cooked, or taken in capsule form. Odorless brands are sold in health food stores.
Black walnut tincture. Thirty drops three times daily, added to water before meals.
Pau d'arco has wonderful immune-enhancing and antifungal properties. As a tea, three to four cups can be taken daily.
Summa. This is another good herbal tea for helping the immune system.
Also helpful are goldenseal, bearberry, Oregon grape, German chamomile, aloe vera, rosemary, ginger, alfalfa, red clover, and fennel.
COLON THERAPY. |
| Other herbs used to heal the urinary tract have been marsh mallow, cornstalk, and uva-ursi.
D. Mowrey, The Scientific Validation of Herbal Medicine (New Canaan, Conn.: Keats Publishing, 1986): 273.
TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE
Female urinary tract infection patients given yishenkang granules experienced enhanced immune function, with a cure rate reaching over 68 percent.
J. S. Sun, [Prevention and Treatment of Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection with a Yishenkang Granule], Chung Hsi I Chieh Ho Tsa Chih 9, no. 8 (August 1989): 452, 469-71. |
| The soothing herbs previously mentioned are useful here as well: marsh mallow, corn silk, slippery elm, and goldenrod.
DIET. A low-acid diet decreases irritations. High-acid foods to omit are red meat, dairy, shellfish, and citrus fruits. The diet should include whole grains, beans and vegetables. Essential fatty acids, such as those found in flaxseed oil, evening primrose oil, and fish oils, can help reduce inflammation. In interstitial cystitis, they are key for reversing the cycle of irritation and blood congestion.
"If you follow these basic points," says Dr. |
| The other formula contains small doses of toxic herbs that must be carefully prescribed by a naturopathic physician.
In addition, Dr. Hudson sometimes prescribes natural progesterone made from wild yam. The wild yam extract is converted in the laboratory to natural progesterone.
In addition, Dr. Hudson sometimes prescribes natural progesterone made from wild yam. The wild yam extract is converted in the laboratory to natural progesterone.
ASIAN MEDICINE
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D. Lindsey Berkson
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 Try helpful herbs in capsules or teas, such as black cohosh, ginseng, dong quai, licorice, unicorn root, and fennel.
• Try natural hormone potentiators, such as products that contain paba, bioflavonoids, and supportive nutrients.
• Consider natural progesterone and dhea.
Weight Gain and Menopause
We live in a society, so they say, where you can never be too rich or too thin. Even if this is true, the average woman still tends to gain five to ten pounds during menopause. A study at mit followed a group of menopausal women who did not change their diet or exercise habits. |
| In fact, at a recent symposium on menopause for breast cancer patients, oncologists recommended nutrients and herbs as the protocol for high-risk groups.
However, not all women are helped by alternative methods. If you do not get relief of menopausal symptoms from natural methods, then try more conventional treatments. One important new study has shown that women can use lower doses of replacement hormones to prevent postmenopausal bone loss with reduced side effects if they take calcium and vitamin D along with the hormones. |
| Alan and I sat in the sauna (with heat around 130 degrees, also for mobilization); drank lots of water; and took herbs, vitamin C, minerals, and nutrients to help the detoxification enzymes, such as zinc, manganese, selenium, and N-acetyl-cysteine. Every hour we had a ten-minute break, then did more skin brushing. After the sauna we had naturopathic hot and cold therapy along with electro-physiotherapy to heighten liver excretion and immune functioning.
Colonics were performed at the end of the day to help eliminate the chemicals out of the body. |
| Many spices and herbs, salt, sugar, and vitamins are included in this category. The third category of additives is "prior-sanctioned" substances—ingredients that had been approved by the fda or the U.S. Department of Agriculture before the ^58 amendment. So nitrites, for example, can be used in meats because they were sanctioned for that use before 1958, but they cannot be used on vegetables.
Substances that leach from food packaging are indirect additives. Since they can end up in food, the fda requires that they be evaluated. |
| I designed one of the first natural alternatives to hormone replacement therapy made from herbs and nutrients for women who are not candidates for synthetic hormones, such as some des daughters. I wrote freelance columns on food for the San Francisco Chronicle, had a radio show on nutrition, taught relicensing courses for nurses and Ph.D.s in public health, lectured around the country on health for different professional groups, and held free weekly classes on health and nutrition for the public. |
| It is probably best either to take herbs for just a short time to relieve symptoms, to include natural progesterone, or to add natural hormone potentiators.
Note: If you are interested in trying natural hormone replacement, find and work with a physician who understands and appreciates natural hormones. Triple estrogens or estriol alone are available in either cream or pill form only through prescription from medical doctors (mds), osteopathic doctors (dos), and, in some states, naturopathic doctors (nds) and certified nurse practitioners (cnps). |
William Duffy
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 This vast tract of land is held in trust as an inexhaustible source of natural herbs and plants with which to minister to a polluted and chemicalized world outside.
In 1964, I prepared a translation of the first of some fifty books written by a Japanese natural healer. My introduction to Sakurazawa's You Are All Sanpaku detailed the experiences I had had healing myself according to his simple teachings. |
Sandra Steingraber
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| Almost none of us who live here has ever seen prairie—nor have our parents or grandparents—and we can scarcely imagine the familiar surfaces of this place covered in eight-foot grasses, rushes, gentians, blazing stars, and a hundred other flowering herbs. To be sure, Illinois was once overlain by twenty-three different prairie types. Their varying colors and textures would have thrown into sharp relief the topographic dips and swells that seem so imperceptible now. But Illinois inhabitants do not make these distinctions. |
Donald R. Yance, j r.,C.N., M.H., A.H.G., with Arlene Valentine
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 This notion is responsible for a move to standardize commercially sold herbs to the so-called active ingredient, making them more like drugs. I regard this trend with apprehension. We need to respect and honor each herb as perfect in its own right; separating its constituents can create problems.
For example, many people today are using the herb St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum) as a natural remedy for depression. |
Rex Adams
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 After boiling the water, I put the herbs in—about two tablespoons of elderberry and two of the mixture—boiled it and then steeped it, simmering gently on the fire for about 15 minutes.
"Then I put the brew in a pan and bathed my feet in it... Oh! what a comforting relief it was! Immediately, I felt a wonderfully refreshing feeling coursing through my legs, and my legs and feet began to tingle ... When I took my feet out about ten minutes later, the pains were completely gone and they felt so strong and new! It was really amazing. |
Dr. Gary Null
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| This Ted
Kapchuk formula can be found in certain health food stores or ordered from
Kahn herbs.
Xiao Yao Wan. This wonderful remedy, which can be purchased at pharmacies in Chinatowns in major cities, such as Pearl River Pharmacy in New York City, helps digestive processes. Not only does this formula relieve painful periods, it also alleviates anger.
Green tea is cooling and satisfying, with very little caffeine. A pinch of tea can be added to a pot of boiled water, steeped for five minutes, and sipped throughout the day. |
Rex Adams
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| Wealth from herbs. September-October 1967.
Liver Functions Explained!
Basically the liver has two main functions: it manufactures digestive enzymes, and it also acts as a filter between the intestine and the heart. It detoxifies the many "poisons" which we take into our digestive tracts each day, such as nicotine, caffeine, and tannic acid (from tea)—traps and changes them into harmless compounds. The liver cells also catch bacilli and digest them to protect the blood stream. It processes waste nitrogen in the body into urea for excretion, and produces red blood cells. |
| In Common and Uncommon Uses of herbs for Healthful Living, Richard
2John E. Eichenlaub, Op. cit.
Lucas reports that olive oil is a valuable preventative against gallstones. The oil causes strong healthy contractions of the gall bladder, greatly favoring complete emptying, and can be regarded as a very good gall bladder tonic. Olive oil also seems to melt gallstones. He says that in 1893 an experiment was reported by Dr. E.M. Brockbank, in which a gallstone lost 68 percent of its weight when immersed in pure olive oil.
Chamomile tea has long been known to dissolve gallstones. |
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