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CD covers: 1995, Dope Records; 1992, Rehash Records) 74 Comparable homeopathic agents (relations) include Belladonna (deadly nightshade), Hyoscyamus (henbane), and Stramonium (thorn apple), the "witches' herbs" of old. Anhalonium lewinii, the extract of Lophophora williamsii, is a substitute (Boericke 1992*). inhaled hemp smoke to relieve worries, cares, and sadness (Thompson 1949, 220*). Since these afflictions often hide behind the masks of demons, it is very likely that hemp was also used in exorcisms.

In the earliest sources on the Chinese use of herbs, it is said that chronic use of ma-fen ("hemp fruits") will enable one to "see devils" that can then be pressed into service. Unfortunately, these sources do not say how the hemp was ingested, i.e., whether it was eaten, drunk, or burned as incense (Li 1975*). Hemp products had a cultic significance among the ancient Greeks. The Greek archaeologist Sotiris Dakaris, who has been investigating the oracle of the dead at Acheron since 1959, discovered "bags full of black clumps of hashish" in Ephyra (Vandenberg 1979, 24*).

Hartlieb 1989a, 45) It is not possible to make a definite botanical identification of the herbs that were associated with the days of the week (and the planetary gods). However, some of the names can be identified with plants that were called by the same name in the late Middle Ages. It seems that this recipe from Johannes Hartlieb is more an agent of sympathetic magic than a psychoactive substance (cf. Biedermann 1974). That is, unless there are psychoactive ferns that have not yet been identified.

Unfortunately, the witches of today no longer know which herbs they were, although both are said to grow in England. It is also said that a woman will appear more beautiful if a man inhales incense mixed with kat. Magicians use something similar for the same purpose. Their mixture contains hemp [Cannabissativa] and many other ingredients with tonic effects." Gerald B. Gardner Ursprung und Wirklichkeit der Hexen [Origin and Reality of the Witches] (1965,109) 434 It is very unlikely that the plant being referred to is khat (Catha edulis), as this does not grow in England.

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Herbalists for thousands of years have recorded information concerning the proper time to pick various herbs. And of course, being experts, they don't always agree with each other. However, most do agree that during specific periods of the plant's yearly growth and daily life cycle the medicinal constituents are more fully developed and abundant in certain parts of the plant than they are in others. Plants are conveniently divided, for the purposes of the herbalist, into the roots (and/or rhizomes), stem, inner and outer bark, leaves, buds, flowers, saps and pitches, fruits, and seeds.

When Healing Becomes A Crime: The Amazing Story of the Hoxsey Cancer Clinics and the Return of Alternative Therapies Kenny Ausubel See book keywords and concepts

Fishbein himself mocked herbs as "veritable vegetable soups."2 It was in the unhappy wake of one of Hoxsey's court victories affirming the efficacy of his tonic that the AMA Journal echoed the FDAs frustration in its acerbically titled editorial "Cough Medicine for Cancer."3 "It is fair to observe that the American Medical Association or any other association or individual has no need to go beyond the Hoxsey label to be convinced.

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We can also duplicate the technique of world-famous spas just by adding minerals, herbs, or salts to the water. There are several whirlpools available commercially, but the most effective and reliable whirlpools are manufactured by Jacuzzi. One of the outstanding therapeutic uses of the whirlpool is to relieve muscle soreness and fatigue. This is the reason many athletes and dancers purchase portable whirlpools for their bath, or go swimming in a pool with such whirlpool action.

The Omega Solution: Unleash the Amazing, Scientifically Based Healing Power of Omega-3 & -6 Fatty Acids Jonathan Goodman ND See book keywords and concepts

Using nutrition, herbs, homeopathy, physical medicine, nutritional supplements, and counseling, I provide support for my patients as they reclaim their health. Essential fatty acids play a key role in so much of what I do. Let me share an example from my practice. Like so many women today, Jill, a 3 5 year-old executive, was both a full-time professional and a mother. She was still nursing her four-month-old daughter while back at her job from nine until at least five o'clock each day.

Reclaiming Our Health: Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the True Source of Healing John Robbins See book keywords and concepts

They also have a great respect for the healing power of nature, with widespread use of spas, herbs, mud baths, and other natural methods. It's not only Germany. In England, physicians are much more sensitive than are Americans to the side effects of treatments that may damage a patient's quality of life. To their eyes, the uncritical acceptance of chemotherapy in America is unconscionable. The English medical system has much more respect for the patient's experience, and doesn't strive to keep people alive at any cost.

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An herbal tonic and restorative with 10 herbs plus aloe (a laxative when taken internally). Tiger Balm: Available at health food stores and drugstores. An Asian herbal analgesic ointment, available in white and red formulations; the red is stronger but may stain clothes. Alternate with arnica ointment for muscle and other aches; a whiff of Tiger Balm may avert a sinus attack. Zostrix: In pharmacy section of drugstores, but it's a nonprescription item.

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Herbal Therapy Drink cramp bark tea for painful menstrual cramps, says Barre, Vermont, herbalist Rosemary Gladstar, author of Herbal Healing for Women and other books about herbs. To make the tea, Gladstar says, place four tablespoons of cramp bark, one tablespoon of pennyroyal and one to two teaspoons of freshly grated ginger in a pot and add a quart of cold water. Slowly bring the water to a simmer. Cover the pot and allow it to simmer for 2 to 3 minutes. Then remove it from the heat, steep for 30 minutes and strain. Drink 14 cup every 15 minutes until cramping stops, says Gladstar.

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To use any of these herbs on a preventive basis, drink a glass of the herb tea each day before lunch. For pain, use a half-cup of any of these natural diuretics every two hours. For bloody urine, take one small sip an hour of St. John's wort tea. A macrobiotic remedy is to sip adzuki bean water. Prepare it by adding 1 tablespoon of adzuki beans to 2 quarts of boiling water. Reduce by boiling down to 1 quart. Add a pinch of salt. A series of acupuncture treatments can often provide relief from various kidney pains. Magnesium and B6 are beneficial.

Heal the irritated mucus lining of the digestive tract with mucilaginous marshmallow or slippery elm herbs. Alleviate discomfort with massage, reflexology, or Shiatsu. Yoga, relaxation breathing, meditation, and biofeedback can help you manage the stress of this disease. ITCHING GENERAL ITCHING Apply an ice bag to the area of the itching. Briefly immerse the itching part in very cold water. Apply a cold compress to relieve the itching. Take a warm bath containing 1 or 2 cups of apple cider vinegar. Before taking the bath splash diluted apple cider vinegar over the itchy parts of the body.

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For a cup of tea, said Father Kneipp, one usually takes as much as one can grasp with three fingertips, or, if weighed, nine grains; if several sorts of herbs are to be mixed together, then take for a cup of tea, which for instance consists of a decoction of juniper berries, wormwood and shave-grass, eight or 10 pounded juniper berries, 1 grain of wormwood and 3 grains of shave-grass. Here are a few more instructions: • Wormwood must never be taken in large quantities because the tea would otherwise be too bitter.

Note: most herbs are available at any health food store. If not, ask the dealer to order any you need.) Father Kneipp recommended the following tea mixtures: Bark of oak.........3 grams For bleeding, spitting Tormentilla.........3 grams of blood. Mistletoe is Cass-weed..........3 grams ..... also very helpful. Juniper berries, crushed (8 or 10) Good for diseased Shave-grass.........2 grams stomach and liver Wormwood..........2 grams.....complaints. Dwarf-elder root.....3 grams Excellent in urinary Rosemary...........3 grams troubles and valuable Shave-grass.........3 grams.....

In addition to the fennel, one may use in the head vapor bath either the yarrow herb, the common nettle, camomile or other good herbs. A handful of any one of these may be thrown into the bath." When the process of steaming was over, the covering was raised and a shower bath, including the head, was given immediately. Without the shower bath, the patient would scarcely avoid taking a very heavy cold and thus make matters worse, said Father Kneipp. This procedure can dissolve hardened ulcers and abscesses, and open the hearing passages, he said.

These herbs cleanse and strengthen the eyes. Other ingredients may be used with advantage, for example, aloes, shave-grass and alum, the last, however, very much diluted ... Just as one extinguishes an outburst of fire with water, so may you drive inflammation of the eyes away by the same means... Eye water may be made from honey; a teaspoonful of honey is boiled in a quart of water for four or five minutes and furnishes a good eye bath. The honey purifies and strengthens, decreases the heat and relieves pain... "I have never had any difficulty in clearing up cloudy or filmy eyes ...

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I began to order very powerful herbs and I played around with them, although I have to admit that I was afraid of trying anything on my own, because I was so dependent on my nutritionist for every detail of my illness. The major problem I had in overcoming the seizures was that I was too dependent. I was looking at natural healing as if it were Western medicine when it couldn't be farther from it.

I would have given the babies lots of herbs, love, touching, and most of all - MOM! It was the medical students' job to evaluate all of the babies to see if they were normal. We checked their dny heartbeats, their feeding patterns, their fontanelles - everything. The silver nitrate drops were so causdc that they caused a chemical irritation to the eyes of each and every newborn.

Wild yam, chaste tree berry, blessed thisde, dong quai, black cohosh, and many other herbs help nourish and balance a woman's reproductive organs. The young girls were guinea pigs for a new drug that came out that provided birth control for a few months at a time. It was implanted underneath the skin of their upper, inner arms. There really wasn't much research done on it and after a while, it became apparent that there were a few side effects that had not been mentioned during the supposed clinical trials, like heavy menstrual bleeding and headaches.

It is not anything outside of ourselves - medicine or even herbs - that can heal our lives. It is that miraculous power within us that can heal anything. Now I have my healing and my peace. There are saints and mystics who take on diseases, but they do not suffer because of them. The disease has no meaning to them. The pain has no meaning to them.

What would be the point ofputting a toxic drug into someone, and at the same time, trying to clean it back out with the herbs'? No, if I was going to be natural healer, I would go all the way with that. What most people don't realize is that natural healing, for the most part, needs no complements. People could live their entire lives following the principles of natural healing, and never need to go into the world of modern medicine. For thousands of years, people have lived this way. In fact, worldwide, 80% of the world's population uses only natural healing methods.

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Herbal Aids: Three safe herbs are used in Europe for incontinence or bedwetting. Capsules and/or tincture of St. John's wort act on the nervous system to control bedwetting. Try 2 to 30 drops of gentian tincture in water at midday or evening. Or try sweet sumac, a North American plant that most herbalists use specifically for bedwetting: 5 to 10 drops in water 2 times a day. Hyperforat (Klien), Suburgen (Vogel & Weber), and Nierenklar (Salus) are effective German products that can be ordered through your pharmacy or health food store.

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ONE-HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD ALEX HARDY grows fresh herbs and glorious perennials in the window boxes of the cottage he shares with his "child bride," Eleanor, a mere youngster at eighty-three. I often see the two of them out for a stroll on warm summer evenings, and I miss them when they head south to Arizona each November. By March I find myself wondering if Alex made it through another winter. But then I drive past his home, spot new seedlings beginning to sprout in his window boxes, and smile. My friend is alive—and still well enough to continue doing what he loves most.

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We gave her boiled skim milk and a mixture of herbs and chemicals in miniature doses. In 24 hours the diarrhea stopped, the fever was lower, and a great general improvement was noticed. The specialist could not believe the improvement, and when I told him what I had done, he remarked that his grandfather had used just such a treatment, but he was not aware that it was still available. I am proud to report that he has since used this mixture on some of the most stubborn cases with a very high percentage of success.

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Foods approved for treatment include fruits and vegetables, dry and dehydrated herbs, spices, teas, pork, poultry, white potatoes, wheat, and wheat flour. However, New York, New Jersey, and Maine have prohibited the sale and distribution of irradiated food, as have foreign governments, including Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Australia, and New Zealand. Claims of safety are unproven at best. High-energy irradiation produces complex chemical changes in food with the formation of poorly characterized radiolytic products, including benzene.

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Ucchin, or Turmeric (Curcuma longa, Jiang Huang, Curcuma, Indian Saffron, Ukon, Valerian) Ucchin, commonly known in North America as turmeric, is one of the Okinawans' favorite herbs (as it is in India), and claims a multitude of health benefits. It's known as ukon to the Japanese, Jiang huang to the Chinese, and curcuma and Indian saffron in other areas of the world. In North America, turmeric can readily be found in regular supermarkets and in Asian and international markets. Now, as word spreads about its health benefits, turmeric is even available in some places in capsule form.

Lifestyle determinants: Traditional diet, herbs, and an open-minded approach to Eastern and Western healing methods. Research suggests that good health care is one of the main determinants of population health. Certainly places with the highest life expectancies all have good health care coverage for their citizens. Hong Kong ascended to the number two position in terms of world life expectancy among countries only when health care became more widely available and more integrated with Western medicine."4 The same was true in Okinawa, at least in this century.

In the diet surveys, our sample of fifty-three centenarians ate 206 different foods in all, including herbs.3 Thirty-eight different foods were eaten regularly. Each elder ate an average of eighteen different foods in a day. Seventy-eight percent of the foods in the elders' diets were plant foods. That's a lot of plant food and a lot of variety. Guideline 2: Eat at least five or more servings of vegetables and fruits daily. The elders pass this one with flying colors.

Green choices are endless—any of the green vegetables or herbs, salad, avocado, cooked zucchini, basil leaves on thick-sliced tomatoes. For white you could use onions, tofu, or a staple carbohydrate food such as rice, bread, noodles, potato. And black beans, black-eyed peas in a soup or a salad, or sliced black olives can represent black; or if you are interested in Japanese and Okinawan dishes, you could try nori seaweed sheets (available in most health food stores and Asian markets). You can put crushed nori in miso soup, sprinkle it on salad, or roll rice with some cooked fish and avocado.

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