Earl Mindell
See book keywords and concepts |  Cats and Alternative Remedies That Don't Mix
Cats have very different reactions to drugs and herbs because of their species bioindividuality. (Morphine, for example, a sedative, painkilling drug causes excitation in cats.) And many commonly used alternative compounds that work wonders for people can harm your pet.
Any compounds with benzene, benzyl alcohol, or phenol-containing essential oils such as thyme, cinnamon, and tea tree can be toxic to cats. They should not be given orally or used on the skin, as the cat will lick it off. |
Richard Leviton
See book keywords and concepts |  The nature doctor worked with natural, gentle healing agents, such as pure air, water, sunshine, food (usually vegetarian), and herbs (including homeopathic remedies) to stimulate the body's innate ability to purge itself of poisons and heal itself. The nature doctor honored the vis medicatrix naturae, the inborn healing power of nature, working through the body, and used therapeutic approaches that did not mask, suppress, obscure, or hinder this power, but rather that supported and stimulated it. |
James Green
See book keywords and concepts |  Certain compressed tablets, and, often, encapsulated, powdered whole herbs may pass completely through the intestinal tract without effect. It is very difficult to determine the quality or authenticity of commerciaUy powdered and capped herbal ingredients, for the powdered herb which is encapsulated in a gelatin capsule is generally never touched, smeded, or tasted by the consumer.
Systemic medicines can act only when absorbed by the blood or lymphatics, so it foUows that conditions must be right to obtain the most efficient results. |
John Robbins
See book keywords and concepts |  To allow acupuncture, chiropractic, naturopathy, midwifery, homeopathy, herbs, massage therapy, and many of the other valid alternative methods fully into the medical picture would not only make medicine more effective, it would also incorporate a more compassionate perspective into medicine, for these approaches have in common that they nurture the inherent healing forces and potentials of the body, something orthodox medicine often neglects to do.
The medical myth casts an intimidating shadow. | | Rather than take AZT, she chose to take various herbs and dietary supplements, and receive acupuncture treatments, to support and bolster her immune system.
Within only a few months, virtually all of Sharon Lund's symptoms disappeared. Her diarrhea ended, her memory improved, she no longer had to have her daughter change her sheets three times a night due to night sweats, and she could function on 8 hours of sleep, not 18 to 20, as had been the case before.
Five years later, her insurance company stopped paying for the cost of her supplements and acupuncture treatments. | | His formula, which interestingly enough contained some of the same herbs found in Essiac, was attested to by thousands of cancer patients who said it had cured them.
In fact, Hoxsey's cancer treatments might have been accepted into the mainstream of Western medicine were it not for the activities of one man, the long-time editor of the AMA Journal by the name of Morris Fishbein. This was the same Morris Fishbein who supplemented his AMA salary by acting as a highly paid consultant for a number of tobacco companies. | | He claimed to have inherited herbal cancer remedies from his grandfather, who had devised them after seeing a cancerous horse cure itself by grazing on medicinal herbs. The AMA has given absolutely no credence to his work, and has attacked it viciously. But a deeper look reveals a most intriguing story.55
In the 1950s, Hoxsey operated clinics in 17 different states. His center in Dallas was the world's largest privately owned cancer center. |
Ben Davis
See book keywords and concepts | | If I, on the other hand, declare water and herbs only to be my stock in trade for the healing and relieving of all human maladies, the thought may occur to many, 'This chemist with his two simple remedies is really too insignificant to deal with the large number of diseases and infirmities.' Yet pause for a moment! Just as one can make many garments out of one large bale of cloth, so we can obtain from water a number and variety of remedies not inferior to those in the well-stocked chemist's shop. |
Richard Lucas
See book keywords and concepts |  CHINESE herbs FOR FEMALE DISORDERS
To improve female health the natural way, let us consider some of the Chinese herb remedies that have been developed over the centuries.
DONG QUAI
English Name: No equivalent. Botanical Name: Angelica polymorpha
In different parts of China, according to the variations of dialect, this Oriental plant is either called Dong Quai or Tang Kuei. Botanically the herb is known as Angelica polymorpha, but is often mistaken by Westerners as either common angelica (Angelica archangelica) or Lovage (Lisgusticum). | | Along with the usage of herbs, the Chinese explain that Nature also requires sensible attention to the diet. Junk foods should be replaced by wholesome, well-balanced meals. And since food must have time to digest, you should never retire immediately after eating a meal. This practice has been known to cause nightmares or the stress and discomfort of prolonged restless twisting and turning in bed. Sufficient sleep is necessary so that energy used during the day can be restored to exhausted bodies.
The Chinese also advise that insomniacs cut down on salt in the diet. | | Another formula for treating nervous insomnia and nervous headache consists of 1 ounce each of catnip, scullcap, and peppermint. The herbs are thoroughly mixed and stored in a capped jar. One or two heaping teaspoons of the mixture are placed in a cup and filled with boiling water. The cup is covered with a saucer, the tea is allowed to stand until it is lukewarm and then strained, and a teaspoonful of honey is added.
For insomnia, one cupful is taken at bedtime. For nervous headache, one hot teacupful is sipped slowly every hour or two until relief is felt.
3. | | It is used alone or in combination with other herbs.
• Place 2 ounces of sage in a container and pour one quart of boiling water over them. Cover with a lid, remove from the heat, and allow the tea to stand for two hours. Strain, and add one tablespoon of honey and a tablespoon of Ts'u (vinegar). Use as a hot gargle for stubborn sore throat or inflammation of the tonsils.
• Simmer 1 ounce of sage in one pint of water for ten minutes, then allow it to stand until cold. |
E. Richard Brown
See book keywords and concepts |  Some of the herbalists were midwives, and others were men and women who had experimented with herbs and were known for their abilities to heal the sick. Lay healers were distributed throughout the countryside. They seldom relied on healing for their entire support and charged little for their services.3 Regular physicians were increasingly plying their art on a full-time basis and charging substantially higher fees, often supported by medical societies' publishing "fee bills" to place a floor under competing doctors' charges. |
Richard Leviton
See book keywords and concepts | | Natural medicine, including dietary supplements, herbs, enzymes, acupuncture, and other alternative treatments, which may once have been considered on the "fringe" of health care, is now "reaching the mainstream," reported The New York Times. Yet on the Op-Ed page of that same issue, a physicist and biologist railed against this project (which, incidentally, would put alternative treatments within reach of low-income people), claiming it was tantamount to "buying snake oil with tax dollars. |
E. Richard Brown
See book keywords and concepts | | Homeopaths and eclectics, along with lay healers, used a wide assortment of herbs, and many claimed high rates of cures. By the 1880s the regular profession still had only a few drugs that were widely recognized to be curative: Quinine could save the victim of malaria, mercury could cure syphilis, and digitalis was often successful in treating heart disorders.35
The field of disease prevention was somewhat more successful. |
Richard Leviton
See book keywords and concepts | | He found that the acupoints change their measurement readings when substances (such as allopathic or homeopathic medicines, vitamins, herbs, supplements) are introduced into the measurement circuit; this information has prescriptive value because the pathway can be used to gauge the potential efficacy of proposed remedies before they're taken.
Sierck and his M.D. colleagues cite a dossier of successful case studies in which conditions of asthma, sleeping disorders, and energy depletion, among many others, were resolved, after an initial diagnosis revealed geopathic stress, by moving the bed. | | Aura Soma brings the wavelengths of color, herbs, and gems within the same band of color vibration into the same area of the body, thereby blending their resonant wavelengths, says Booth. The red Balance blends, for example, include the energetic essences of red gems like ruby and garnet, along with the red flowering plants, so it's red energy from three different realms. "The three kingdoms of mineral, plant, and human are united within the same color vibration to bring about the healing response. | | For example: a diabetic woman's monthly drug cost is $150; a heart transplant patient shells out $50 a day for anti-rejection pills; a Gaucher's disease patient needs $270,000 a year to pay for his drugs. herbs are mostly unpatentable and thus unprofitable, so it's easier for drug companies to suppress rather than support them.
That's what keeps "The Club," or the organized conventional medicine establishment, highly profitable, says medical researcher and activist Michael L. Culbert, D. |
J.D. Kleinke
See book keywords and concepts |  By contrast, his wife with inoperative breast cancer may have begged for the physical torment of a bone marrow transplant that we now know to be futile, swallowed a garden of medicinal herbs, and overmedicated herself because of her own depression and fear of death. There is a rationality to her irrationality, borne of the most harrowing crisis a human being will ever face.
The implacability of this behavior is expressed with lyricism and poignancy by the old Arabian proverb: "He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything. |
Nontoxic, Natural and EarthwiseDebra Lynn Dadd
See book keywords and concepts | | Earth herbs, InterNatural, Kettle Care Products, Sunrise Lane.
McClinton's Barilla Soap (E. McCor-mack & Company). Unscented, un-colored vegetable soap made since the 1800s. ? M Basically Natural, InterNatural, SelfCare Catalog.
Melos Cosmetic Plant-Oil Soap (Walter Rau Gmbh & Company Speickwerk).
Contains coconut, palm, and olive oils, beeswax, and honey. ED
Nature de France Natural French Milled Soaps/Verite Facial Cleansing Bar (Nature de France). Scented. CD M Amberwood, The Compassionate Consumer, EveryBody Ltd. | | Natural salt, pink, and plant-gel formulas, Amberwood, The Compassionate Consumer, Deer Valley Farm, Earth herbs, EveryBody Ltd., Humane Alternative Products, InterNatural, Janice Corp., Meadowbrook Herb Garden, Natural Lifestyle Supplies, Naturpath, Sunrise Lane, Weleda.
10 ® Textiles
When I wore synthetic fabrics, I was distracted by unwelcome sensations: clammy skin, static cling, and a vague feeling that something wasn't right. When I wear a cotton shirt, I don't have to think about the shirt—it is an extension of me. | | All types of plants, including flowers, weeds, trees, roots, and bark, as well as various foods, herbs, and spices can be used. Fennel, for example, produces a brilliant yellow; eucalyptus, a deep red; walnut leaves, a whole spectrum of earthy browns. Certain animals and insects also provide natural dyes: mollusks yield a Tyrian purple, and for centuties tiny cochineal insects wete the most widely used ingredient fot ted dye. In ancient times, nearly one thousand different natutal sources provided dyestuffs. | | S§1 EB Aura Cacia, Auromere, Basically Natural, Earth herbs, InterNatural, Vegan Street.
Chef's Soap (Beh Housewares Corporation). Unscented. Made from tallow. H Allergy Resources, The Allergy Store, The Ecology Box, Janice Corporation.
Clearly Natural Glycerin Soaps (Clearly Natural). Sixteen fragrances and colors. Profits from their "Save the Whales" Soap are donated to Greenpeace. Q EveryBody Ltd., InterNatural, Vegan Street.
Community Soap Factory Natural Castile Soaps (Community Soap Factory). Plain, peppermint, or almond. Made with coconut and olive oils and lecithin. | | ED S3 Mountain Rose herbs, Simons Handcrafts.
+ Speick Soap (Walter Rau Gmbh
& Company Speickwerk). Biological or biodynamically grown herbal extracts. Scented with essential oils. Contains beeswax and honey. ED Meadowbrook Herb Garden.
+ Weleda Soaps (Weleda). Lightly scented with plant oils and herbal essences, such as iris, rose, and rosemary. ED S3 The Allergy Store, Amberwood, The Compassionate Consumer, Deer Valley Farm, EveryBody Ltd., Humane Alternative Products, InterNatural, Meadowbrook Herb Garden, Naturpath, Sunrise Lane, Vegan Street, Weleda.
The Allergy Store. | | From organically grown or wildcrafted herbs. Bioforce of America.
Boiron Borneman Homeopathic Kits (Boiron Borneman). Homeopathic remedies and kits, cell salts, and books. Auro Trading Company Boiron Borneman, SelfCare Catalog.
Ellon Bach Homeopathic Remedies (Ellon Bach USA). Exclusive representative for the Bach Centre in England. The Bach remedies were developed over fifty years ago by a renowned British physician and scientist, Dr. Edward Bach. Strictly homeopathic remedies, they contain the essence of flowers in a small percentage of alcohol to prevent spoilage. |
Bill Gottlieb
See book keywords and concepts |  May cause illness; banned in the United States
Coltsfoot
May cause cancer
Comfrey
May cause liver damage and cancer (but not through external use)
Foxglove
Potent heart toxin
Pennyroyal
The essential oil may cause convulsions in large doses; possibly harmful to pregnant women
Pokeweed
May cause respiratory paralysis and convulsions with any medication, it's important to know how to take herbs, how frequently and in what dosage."
Many people are guided by magazines and books. It's also a good idea, says Gladstar, to ask for advice from health professionals, including M.D.'s and R.N. |
Richard Leviton
See book keywords and concepts | | According to Lisa, these dangerous substances included, in part, coenzyme Q10, germanium, essiac, Hoxsey herbs, hydrogen peroxide, laetrile, and selenium.
Based on his research, Lisa contends that "I not only found that there was a major campaign against every single aspect of alternative medicine, I was also able to analyze the data for a common denominator that would explain why organized medicine felt compelled to attack these entities." That common denominator is any form of drugless healing arts, that is, medicine not beholden to patented drugs. |
Dian Dincin Buchman, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Witch hazel extract is one of the best antiswelling herbs in our pharmacopoeia. Apply "neat" from the bottle to reduce heat and swelling on the body.
Heated paraffin dips are excellent for tendinitis as well as foot injuries and arthritic pains. Such paraffin treatments are frequently available at physiotherapist and massage offices or a paraffin wax machine may be obtained via mail-order sources. (See Resources.)
General Therapy
Ferrum phos. is the homeopathic cell salt used in the initial stage of any inflammation. During the acute stage take 5 tablets of ferrum phos. |
James Green
See book keywords and concepts | | Avoid using plastic bags; they retain heat and moisture and quickly compost (before you can get them home) the fresh herbs they contain.
A basket is also practical, especially one designed with a large stiff handle that arches over the top of the basket. You can stick your arm through the handle and retain the use of both hands for picking and placing the plant parts into the conveniently positioned basket hanging on your arm. |
Christian Ratsch
See book keywords and concepts |  Virtuous herbs: Plants in
Chumash medicine. Journal of Ethnobiology 7 (2): 171-80.
Walker, Phillip L. and Travis Hudson. 1993. Chumash healing. Banning, Calif.: Malki Museum Press.
Dad
Thorn Apple Species
Family
Solanaceae (Nightshade Family); Subfamily Solano-ideae, Datureae Tribe
Eleven species of Datura are usually accepted today (D'Arcy 1991, 78*). Some botanists have recently suggested that the genus Datura is indigenous only to the New World and did not spread into Asia (D. metel) and Australia (D. leichhardtii) until the past four hundred years. |
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