Daniel B. Mowrey, Ph.D.
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 Of the thousands of plants purported to have aphrodisiac properties, this blend contains only herbs with proven long-term effectiveness in regenerating good hormonal health. Because it enriches the entire genito-urinary and reproductive system, when used regularly, it diminishes the symptoms of arthritis, rheumatism, and especially menstrual problems. Evidence of the blend's effectiveness is provided by basic animal research, human research, clinical trials, cross-cultural verification, and pharmacological investigation. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The New Hope group that organized the show actually invites an "FDA Enforcement Officer" to join the show, and they run around the show sampling brochures and making sure nobody makes any "unproven claims" about supplements, herbs, vitamins or even colloidal silver.
The FDA "presence" at the show, of course, is intended to make sure nobody can tell the truth about what natural supplements actually do to prevent and even cure degenerative disease. The point of all this is to keep the public ignorant and make sure there's a huge market for pharmaceuticals and surgery. |
Mark Blumenthal
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 Reliable references for efficacy, dose, and safety should be consulted (D'Epiro, 1997).
In working with patients, healthcare professionals should ask about botanical medicine use when the patient has chronic or relapsing disease, is experiencing or concerned about adverse drug reactions, or there is unexplained poor compliance with treatment or follow-up. Useful questions when inquiring about use of botanical medicine include: "Have you tried other treatments for this problem?" "Have you changed your diet because you thought it might help this problem? |
| In Germany, ginkgo is also an approved therapy for the treatment of memory loss in conditions such as Alzheimer's, ringing in the ears, dizziness, and poor circulation in the lower legs resulting in pain during walking (intermittent claudication).
Uses
Poor memory, poor concentration, depression, and headache occurring with dementia diagnosed by a healthcare practitioner; attention and memory loss in Alzheimer's; ringing in ears (tinnitus); dizziness or whirling sensation (vertigo); peripheral vascular disease including poor circulation to the lower legs (intermittent claudication). |
Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon
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 Seguros are flasks filled with powerful herbs as well as perfumes, pictures of saints, and hair and fingernails of the patient.
Fever, Malaria, Yellow Fever
In many cases, any fever is attributed to malaria or yellow fever, ji.iiiiug.i iivqutfuiy no confirming diagnosis is conducted. Yellow fever is very rare in Southern Ecuador. The frequent occurrence of the term in local illness categories is thus somewhat surprising. Malaria is rather common in some lower parts of Loja province, and does indeed represent a serious threat to the population, especially during the rainy season. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Aeroponics)
I have grown several seasons of lettuce, tomatoes, herbs and other plants using high-end aeroponic systems, and they indeed produce amazingly rapid plant growth. Plant root mass expands rapidly, and as long as you keep the nutrients supplied, plants will grow two or three times faster in an aeroponic system vs. soil.
The problem with the AeroGrow AeroGarden unit, however, is that in my analysis, I cannot see any justification whatsoever for calling it an aeroponic unit. The product has no sprayers, no spray nozzles, no high-pressure pump and creates no "fine mist.". |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It contains whole food concentrates, superfoods like spirulina and sea vegetables, enzymes, probiotics, amino acids, herbs, antioxidants, vitamins and minerals, all without using any refined sugars, artificial sweeteners, soy protein or other offensive ingredients.
This is an independent review based on the personal experience of Mike Adams. The author has no financial relationship whatsoever with Living Fuel, nor does NewsTarget sell this product or earn any commission from its sale. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It does contain "spices," but even that ingredient is specifically explained as, "100% pure herbs & spices (no hidden ingredients)."
That's an interesting phrase: "No hidden ingredients." You don't find that phrase on the Vegetable Pie package. Does that mean the vegetable pie contains hidden ingredients? Because, of course, if the vegetable pie product didn't contain any hidden ingredients, wouldn't they proclaim it on the label by saying, "No hidden ingredients"?
It's a suspicious company that would use hidden ingredients on some foods while proclaiming "no hidden ingredients" on others. |
| I say we encourage Amy's to drop yeast extract as an ingredient and stick with 100% pure herbs and spices for ALL its food products.
Will you join me in letting Amy's know that we don't want yeast extract in our organic food? If so, post a comment at the Amy's Kitchen website and let them know you don't want this processed taste enhancer substance in your food!
Specifically, we want no yeast extract, no MSG, no hidden MSG, and no hydrolyzed or autolyzed ingredients. As organic food consumers, we wish to protect our health, not compromise it. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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 Learn to use herbs to enhance the flavor of food. Our society is conditioned for fat, salt, and sugar intake, leading to cravings for junk. herbs can introduce flavor back into the picture, a key topic that helps control cravings.
Avoid completely high sugar cereals, candy, cookies, cake, bakery goods, and foods or beverages sweetened with high fructose corn syrup. Also eliminate all MSG and all artificial sweeteners. High salt and high fat junk food should be completely avoided. Avoid ice cream. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Anyone who promotes good nutrition through supplements, vitamins or herbs is labeled a "quack," and anyone who dares question the sanctity of the cult of pharmacology is discredited, attacked and sometimes even arrested and jailed. (See my documented history of armed FDA raids against alternative doctors and vitamin companies in my book Natural Health Solutions and the Conspiracy to Keep You From Knowing About Them.
It's all so hilarious that it makes you wonder how the so-called "quack" police can continue to peddle their pro-drug propaganda with a straight face. |
| If the American public learned the truth about nutrition, herbs, sunlight, acupuncture, superfoods and other naturopathic modalities, they would drop their drugs in a minute and pursue the safe, natural and non-patented therapies from the world of natural health. And that's precisely what Big Pharma cannot allow to happen. So drug companies continue their campaigns of influence, corruption, buying off the mainstream media and controlling the curricula at medical schools. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 Mail-order herbs and herbal products.
Sunburst Bottle Company
5710 Auburn Boulevard, #7
Sacramento, CA 95841
916-348-3803 www.sunburstbottle.com
Glass and plastic bottles and containers for herbal preparations.
Education
American Botanical Council
P.O. Box 14445
Austin, TX 78714-4345
800-373-7105 www.herbalgram.org
Publishes Herbalgram; sells herbal books.
American Herbalists Guild 141 Nob Hill Road Cheshire, CT 06410 203-272-6731 www.americanherbalist.com
Offers a member directory of peer-reviewed herbal practitioners.
American Herb Association P.O. |
Daniel B. Mowrey, Ph.D.
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| These herbs provide circulation to the cells of the brain, nurture nerves, calm irritability, impart restfulness and clarity of mind, and generally increase mental capabilities. They probably will not reverse any neural damage already sustained, but the increased mental capacity experienced may make you think they have.
PEPPERMINT LEAF, due to the presence of several essential oils, prevents congestion of the blood supply to the brain, helps to clear up any circulatory congestion that exists, stimulates circulation, and strengthens and calms nerves. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You could take all of these herbs separately and you would get the same positive results. So I'm talking about these herbs in a general sense. New Chapter's Zyflamend, however, happens to put them all into one capsule with a specific market positioning. I think that's fantastic. I think they deserve a lot of credit for introducing a product like that.
Another ingredient in this product, as I mentioned, is holy basil. There's 100 mg of this particular extract in every serving of Zyflamend, which is two soft gels. The holy basil is a beneficial ingredient as well. |
James A. Duke, Ph.D.
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 Garlic may be my numero uno treatment for athlete's foot, but ironically, in my database, it is nowhere near the top of the list of herbs containing the largest number of antifungal compounds. That distinction belongs to licorice, which has 25 reportedly fungicidal compounds. (Garlic has only 10, but they are quite potent.)
Licorice's clear antifungal action lends credence to the Chinese practice of using it to treat ringworm. I'd add some chopped licorice sticks to the garlic footbath mentioned above. |
| Medically known as rubefacients, mustard and other herbs with this effect have long been used to treat Raynaud's disease.
You can make a mustard plaster by mixing four ounces of fresh ground mustard seed with warm water to make a thick paste. Try applying this to your fingers when symptoms are acting up. Other rubefacients, according to British herbalist David Hoffmann, author of The Herbal Handbook, include cloves, garlic, ginger, horseradish, stinging nettle, peppermint oil, rosemary oil and rue. Any of these can be applied to the fingers.
Red pepper (Capsicum, various species). |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 But consumers need to suspend their fear of reprisal and tell physicians and pharmacists of any supplements, herbs, or alternative practices they may be using so potential interactions can be identified. I understand that, in our age of data banks, many pharmacies keep track of what their clients are taking and their computers "red flag" possible adverse interactions. Physicians will soon have access to that information to inform their patients about potentially dangerous drug/supplement reactions. (Now that I have that off my chest, let's get back to Fran. . . . |
Frantisek Stary
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 The genus Valeriana is very diverse, including, as it does, herbs and shrubs, as well as climbers. Common Valerian is indigenous to the whole of Eurasia and its root has been used medicinally since medieval days. It contains about 1 percent of an essential oil of widely differing composition, plus very effective but unstable valepotriates, isovaleric acid, and traces of pyridine alkaloids. Since collecting it in the wild is no longer sufficient to cover the great demand for the drug, the plant is now cultivated. Valerian is a reliable sedative and has a calming, anti-stress action. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Maybe it is the drugs interfering with the herbs, because the herbs are supporting healthy immune function, detoxification of the body and a healthy nervous system with mental awareness and lucidity.
Prescription drugs try to hijack your body's biochemistry
The drugs, on the other hand, try to take over the body and hijack the biochemistry. They try to force blood pressure to be lower or force the liver to not manufacture cholesterol. In fact, prescription drugs interfere with normal human metabolism, and that is one reason why prescription drugs are killing people. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The FDA has well proven it's going to defend the financial interests of the pharmaceutical industry at all costs, it's going to discredit supplements and herbs (and especially Chinese herbs) at every opportunity and it's going to completely ignore any standards of safety for prescription drugs.
For example, the FDA panel voted to put Vioxx back on the market, even though this drug – according to the FDA's own drug researcher, Dr. David Graham – has caused 144,000 heart attacks, and at least 40 percent of those were fatal. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| After I determined which herbs and supplements Fran could safely take together, I suggested that she also change her diet and incorporate mental imagery into her daily routine. We even worked on ways in which she could actually visualize her own heart healing. I encouraged Fran to follow the voice of her own heart, and keep using that intuition to guide her to healing therapies that I might not know about.
These suggestions not only helped Fran physically, but emotionally and spiritually as well. |
Ralph W. Moss PhD
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 Finally, Barrett concludes that "with safe and effective treatment available, treatment with herbs rarely makes sense." This is a specious argument. While I agree with Dr. Barrett that cancer patients should never forego surgery, radiation therapy, or chemotherapy when these treatments have been proven to be effective and reasonably safe, even this leaves a wide area for herbal treatments.
Cancer treatments in general are not always very safe. And ultimately they are not effective for about 40 to 50 percent of the patients. |
| This set the stage for the great battle of the 20th century concerning herbs and cancer, the Hoxsey saga (see Chapter 5).
Back to Eden
Despite the AMA's opposition throughout the 20th century, medical herbalists were busy proposing and using cancer formulas. It is impossible to describe them all. One prominent exemplar was Jethro Kloss, whose book Back to Eden is arguably the best-selling herbal of modern times. (His family claimed that by 1975 the book had sold over one million copies. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 Maize-based bread in the form of tortillas and tamales had no attraction for them; nor did the wide variety of vegetables and pot herbs, for the traditional Iberian cuisine was heavily weighted toward meat and starch, as it is today, with an emphasis on frying with lard and olive oil. In contrast, the Mesoamerican housewife never cooked with oils and fats. To make matters worse, cheese was totally absent from the native table (in fact, they didn't even have tables). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Think the color of the shampoo is from the herbs? Think again. Three other ingredients in the shampoo are Yellow #5, Orange #4 and Violet #2.
In other words, this is a shampoo product purchased by naive consumers, in my opinion. People who really know herbs and natural products can only laugh at a product like this. Want a real shampoo? Buy Olive Oil Shampoo from Heritage Products, available at most natural health stores. |
Erich Grotewold
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 Numerous conjugates of flavones and flavonols were identified in extracts obtained from herbs, vegetables, fruits, and berries or juices. In the last few years, numerous papers related to the analysis of anthocyanins in wine and grape or catechin derivatives in green tea also were published (reviewed in Justesen et al., 1998; Stobiecki, 2000, 2001; Careri et al, 1999, 2002; Prasain et al, 2004).
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Maybe it is the drugs interfering with the herbs, because the herbs are supporting healthy immune function, detoxification of the body and a healthy nervous system with mental awareness and lucidity.
Prescription drugs try to hijack your body's biochemistry
The drugs, on the other hand, try to take over the body and hijack the biochemistry. They try to force blood pressure to be lower or force the liver to not manufacture cholesterol. In fact, prescription drugs interfere with normal human metabolism, and that is one reason why prescription drugs are killing people. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 One of her comments that really struck me was she said, "You know, with herbs there's such a wide margin of safety that I really recommend that all physicians should integrate herbs with their medical practice."
Mike: That's quite a statement coming from an MD.
Frank: Yes it is. |
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