| A more in-depth description of some of the health-promoting qualities of Okinawan and Japanese herbs is provided later in this chapter and in Chapter Five, but here are a few quick tips to beautify a meal and add nutrients at the same time.
• Green mint leaves—perilla (called shiso in Okinawa), peppermint, spearmint, or flat-leaf parsley are excellent garnishes.
• Yellow turmeric (ucchin) flakes—sprinkle on white miso soup or combine with rice to make turmeric rice.
• Red chili peppers—give you vivid red color. Sprinkle on baked potato,
Japanese noodles, or tuna salads. |
| Add herbs such as cilantro, dill, fennel, parsley, rosemary, or Italian parsley to your fish. Sprinkle on lemon juice before serving.
• Add vegetables to instant dishes when you are in a hurry. (Celery or spinach for canned soup; mushrooms, tomatoes, and zucchini for prepared pizza; canned beans for tuna helper, etc.)
• Have miso-simmered zucchini, mushroom, spinach, or broccoli with tofu once in a week.
• Select tomato sauce with celery, broccoli florets, mushrooms, or green peppers for your pasta instead of meat sauce or plain tomato sauce. |
Robert Becker, M.D., and Gary Selden
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 The means may be direct—the psychic methods mentioned above—or indirect: herbs can be used to stimulate recovery; this tradition extends from prehistoric wisewomen through the Greek herbal of Dioscorides and those of Renaissance Europe, to the prevailing drug therapies of the present. Fasting, controlled nutrition, and regulation of living habits to avoid stress can be used to coax the latent healing force from the sick body; we can trace this approach back from today's naturopaths to Galen and Hippocrates. |
Neal Barnard, M.D.
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 The Chinese arthritis treatment called gnake-wmej for example, is made by soaking one hundred dead snakes in five liters of red wine with various herbs for three months and adjusting the alcohol content to 40 percent. The arthritis sufferer drinks it three times per day. It is intoxicating, but it does nothing for your joints.
While Advil, Motrin, Naprosyn, and other typical anti-inflammatories are better than snake wine, they have plenty of side effects, including stomach pain and bleeding, among other problems. |
Bill Gottlieb
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 Tyler says that these nine herbs stand up to the highest clinical standards.
Chamomile. In the United States, chamomile is generally used as a tea, but Europeans use chamomile extracts, ointments and tinctures as well to treat a range of health problems, from indigestion to skin rashes. Chamomile tea, a gentle relaxant, makes an excellent bedtime drink. Scientific studies support chamomile's antispasmodic, anti-infective and anti-inflammatory uses.
Echinacea. Native American healers used this plant as a remedy for snakebites and skin wounds. |
Neal Barnard, M.D.
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| Italian seasoning—a commercially prepared mixture of commonly used Italian herbs.
Jicama—"hick-ama." Jicama is a delicious root vegetable that is a crisp, slightly sweet addition to salads. Usually sold in the unrefrigerated area of the supermarket produce section.
Kasha—buckwheat groats that have been toasted to bring out the full buckwheat flavor.
Masa harina—cornmeal processed with lime and water to enhance its flavor and calcium content. Commonly used for making corn tortillas. Sold in most supermarkets.
Mochi—a dense cake of sweet brown rice sold in natural food stores. |
Mark Bricklin
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 Slippery elm is also used in the form of a tea, often in combination with other herbs to coat the throat and stop coughing.
An old miner put elm bark to the most unique use I have ever seen. He bought the elm bark in its whole form (before it was powdered), consisting of long sticks looking just like the inner bark of a tree. He then broke the sticks into one-by-one-inch pieces. To these pieces he added ten drops of kerosene and then sucked on the bark during the day in the mine pits to keep the coal dust from adhering to his throat and make it easier to spit out the black dust. |
Artemis P. Simopoulos, M.D., and Jo Robinson
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 Lemon to taste approximate calories: 670
Dinner #19
Grilled trout
(Trout with Wine and Fine herbs, p. 276) Swiss chard
(Chard with Nuts and Raisins, p. 268) 1 baked potato 11. canola/butter approximate calories: 730
Dinner #20 ¦ ¦¦¦¦¦
6 oz. grilled tuna l/2 cup baked acorn squash
V2 cup lima beans
1 T. olive oil
Pepper, garlic to taste
1 small dinner roll approximate calories: 710
• Lamb roast
(Lamb, Green Pepper, and Apple Curry, p. 286)
• 1 whole-wheat roll (Honey Flax Bread, p. 249)
• 2 t. canola oil mayonnaise or canola/butter (p. 238)
• 6 oz. |
| Trout with Wine and Fine herbs, p. 277) Swiss chard
(Chard with Nuts and Raisins, p. 268) approximate calories: 491
Dinner #20
6 oz. grilled tuna V2 cup baked acorn squash 3/4 cup steamed spinach 1 small dinner roll approximate calories: 510
• Lamb roast
(Lamb, Green Pepper, and Apple Curry, p. 286)
• 1 cup cooked carrots
• It. |
| For variety add: herbs of your choice, grated citrus fruit rind, or garlic (fresh, not powdered).
NUTRITIONAL VALUE PER TEASPOON: Canola/Butter
Calories
Protein
Carbs
Sodium
Total Fat
Sat. Fat
Choi.
37
<1 gms.
0 gms.
20 mgs.
4 gms.
1 gms.
5 mgs.
LA
LNA
EPA
DHA
Omega-6/Omega-3
0.4 gms.
0.2 gms.
0 gms.
0 gms.
2
Olive/Butter
Calories
Protein
Carbs
Sodium
Total Fat
Sat. Fat
Choi.
37
<1 gms.
0 gms.
20 mgs.
4 gms.
1 gms.
5 mgs.
LA
LNA
EPA
DHA
Omega-6/Omega-3
0.2 gms.
0.3 gms.
0 gms.
0 gms.
6. |
Dr Bernard Jenson and Mark Anderson
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 Imported foods may still be irradiated, such as spices and herbs.) This public support has, for now, succeeded in blocking the use of irradiation as a food preservative technique in America. Our vigilance will keep it that way.
RADON GAS
In recent years, the EPA investigated and found the health danger posed by radon gas to be very real in the United States. The deadly nature of radon was first discovered several decades ago when uranium miners began to develop lung cancer. |
| Naturalist doctors have long
103 supported the idea that the thymus gland must always be nourished with the right nutrients and herbs because it functions throughout our lifetime. If the thymus gland was not continuously active in creating immunity, why was it the foremost obstacle to be overcome in the procedure of organ transplants? It is the thymus that sets up the rejection of the foreign implanted organs because "they do not belong to this body. |
| He does not allow irradiated foods or herbs in his store. Irradiation of foods, a preservation technique of exposing foods to high doses of radioactive material, has been banned in England since 1968 because of the disapproval by the British Medical Association regarding the technology. Perhaps the United States nuclear industry, desperate to get rid of cesium-125, a nuclear waste product, tore a page out of the aluminum industry's method for getting rid of their waste product, fluoride. |
| A WORD TO THE WISE
Before you spend money on expensive and exotic herbs and nutritional supplements to try to fortify your immune system, don't try to fortify on top of a toxic system. You would not pour new topsoil over a toxic waste sight and say that now it's okay to plant. Nor, after driving your car 10,000 miles since your last oil change, would it be wise to add clean, fresh oil. It would become instantly contaminated by the old, dirty oil. You would first drain your dirty oil. So, why take expensive nutritional supplements that are only going to go into a toxic system? |
Dr. Cass Ingram
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 The answers are found in nutrients, herbs, spices, and aromatic plant oils.
Emotional distress combat kit
• oil of lavender (wild type) — rub topically on the chest, especially at night. Also, rub on soles of feet and buttocks.
• oil of sage in olive oil — highly calming, rub on face, chest, and especially soles of feet and mid-lower back (adrenal reflex).
• Royal Kick (premium quality royal jelly) — 2 or more capsules in the morning.
• B complex — take one tablet twice daily. |
| Certain herbs, such as milk thistle, beet extract, artichoke, and chlorella, are well respected liver detoxifying agents. However, they are far less potent than the edible essential oils in purging the liver of poisonous compounds.
Drug detoxification kit
• oil of cumin — take 10 to 20 drops three times daily.
• oil of rosemary — take 10 drops twice daily.
• oil of oregano — take 10 drops twice daily.
• oil of cilantro/coriander — take 10 or more drops twice daily. |
| These herbs are safe for pregnant and/or nursing mothers. Plus, in the proper form they are safe for infants. Oregamax is a wild oregano, garlic, onion formula available for all ages. It also contains an edible unique wild mountainous berry called Rhus coriaria (mountain sumac, unrelated to poison sumac). Wild oregano is the main active ingredient. A study published in the International Journal of Food Microbiology found that wild oregano in an amount less than 1% completely killed all fungi tested against it. In the Mediterranean the Oregamax formula is consumed by children of all ages. |
| The medicine of Hippocrates, the supposed father of medicine, was based exclusively on food and herbs.
The health of Americans is declining, largely because of the devastation of the immune system, which results from modern living. Bizarre germs are attacking our bodies, and our immune systems are failing to successfully combat them. In terms of total loss of productivity cold and flu viruses wreak the greatest devastation. Food poisoning epidemics afflict tens of millions yearly and permanently disable thousands. |
Neal Barnard, M.D.
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| I encourage you to explore the benefits of herbs, extracts, and vitamins that can treat painful conditions. Some have been in use for a long time and have been tested in good research studies, as we will see. Do this under your doctor's care, so that a nutritional approach can be integrated with other medical measures as needed, and so that you have a solid diagnosis.
WHY DIDN'T MY DOCTOR TELL ME?
In presenting the information in this book, I have given particular emphasis to dietary approaches that have been tested in reputable research studies. |
James S. Gordon, M.D.
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 Almost every issue of every women's magazine contains a piece on "Herbs for Weight Loss," "Acupressure for Pain" or "What PNI (Psychoneuroimmunology) Can Mean to You."
Every aspect of the new medicine is more visible and more widely accepted now than it was six years ago. There are far more health food stores than there were in 1990, and many carry complete lines of herbal products, food supplements, and homeopathic remedies. Even conventional pharmacies and chain drugstores have set aside whole sections for "natural remedies. |
James Green
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 Your goal and the mark of success in drying plants is to end up with herbs that closely resemble the living plant in color, aroma, taste, and texture. But, in order to achieve this, the drying procedure must follow as soon after harvesting as possible.Trust me, procrastination quickly teaches the wisdom of this counsel. But go ahead, catch a movie that evening instead of tending to the St. John's Wort you spent the afternoon harvesting. Go canoeing and leave your bag of fresh Nettles sitting around for a couple days. I have. |
John Boik
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 A number of purified polysaccharides and proteoglycans have been isolated from HMWP-rich herbs. Some of these, such as PSP, PSK, and lentinan (from Lentinus edodes) may prolong the life-span of tumor-bearing animals and humans (reviewed by Chihara, 1992; Chihara et al., 1987; and Yang and Kwok, 1993). Oral doses are normally about three grams per day. Lower doses are used when the agents are administered intravenously. |
Bill Gottlieb
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| Pour the oil into a bottle or jar and add the following herbs in tincture form: 1 ounce of cramp bark, V2 ounce of lobelia and XA ounce of willowbark or wintergreen. (If you don't have wintergreen tincture, Dr. Bove says to substitute 30 drops of wintergreen oil.) These ingredients are also available in most health food stores and through mail order (for mail-order information, refer to the resource list on page 635). |
Richard Lucas
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 Along with its principal herb, this formula contains six assistant herbs.
The Coix Combination has been highly valued in China for centuries, and has now been approved by the government of Japan for treating the early stages of arthritis and related ailments. Its use covers such conditions as subclinical or subacute arthritis; muscular rheumatism; neuralgia; lumbago; sciatica; rheumatism with pain, swelling, and fever; generalized pains in the joints and muscles; wrist pain due to rheumatism and/or overuse; early stages of osteoarthritis; and shoulder stiffness. |
| For example, they may use them as a tea prepared from the berries alone, as a combination tea made with the berries and other select herbs, as a Juniper berry wine, or as an oil obtained from the berries (Juniper berry oil).
Simple Tea. One tablespoonful of crushed Juniper berries is placed in a saucepan, and four cups of water are added. The saucepan is covered with a lid, and the tea is brought to a boil and boiled slowly down to two cups. One cup of the strained tea is taken during the day, and a second cup is taken at bedtime.
This simple tea is considered a good kidney remedy. |
Ronald Klatz and Robert Goldman
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 Many people find success in substituting other herbs and spices for salt, including basil, red pepper or lemon. Others have discovered that, after a few weeks on what seems like an impossibly bland no-salt diet, suddenly, food takes on a whole new range of flavors and the palate actually rejects the salty taste it used to crave.
SUGAR: SWEET AND DEADLY
We've saved the worst news for last: sugar is terribly bad for you. |
| Our grandmothers and grandfathers probably got more chromium from their diets than we do, just from cooking in those old cast-iron kettles; however, even today, in the age of Tupperware and TV dinners, we have a variety of wholesome foods and herbs to choose from which will help us increase our daily chromium intakes.
Brewer's yeast is one good source of chromium. Other food sources to check out and add to your daily menu should include whole grains, meats, grape juice, orange juice, broccoli, black pepper, thyme, and even that summertime favorite, barbecue sauce! |
| Motherwort is one of the most popular herbs used to combat menopausal symptoms. It has been shown to decrease the frequency, duration, and severity of hot flashes; thickens the vaginal wall; relieves anxiety; and lessens menstrual cramping and stress-related palpitations. May cause a rash in high doses.
• Licorice root contains flavonoids which have an estrogen-like activity, and saponin, which has progestational-like activity. The root also has anti-inflammatory properties. |
Sandra Ingerman
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 I suggest burning herbs or incense that is pleasing to you. If a smell is pleasing to you, your own healing and divine energy will infuse the space you are in.
Simply through intention and concentration, ask that the light of the divine or your creator come and fill the space with divine love. This works especially well if you are in a room with people who are putting out negative emotions. As long as you are in union with the divine, there will be no opening inside yourself for this energy to enter. |
James S. Gordon, M.D.
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| Twenty years ago, when I first began to prescribe specific foods, herbs, and spices, people looked at me in the strangest way: it was as if I had emerged, with leaves and roots in my hair and the mystery of the dark woods in my voice, to announce that ginger works for stomach problems; that garlic and onions forestall the flu; that romaine lettuce broth can be used for sleep; or that yogurt may be placed intravaginally to dispel a yeast infection. |
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