John Heinerman
See book keywords and concepts |  Millspaugh, had a great deal to say about the wonderful virtues of prickly ash bark and berries in his book on American medicinal plants. For instance, while walking in the woods one day doing botanical research, his tooth began to ache. "But upon chewing the bark of prickly ash for relief," he recounted, "speedy mitigation of the pain followed! |
Daniel B. Mowrey, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  American medicinal plants. Dover Publications, Inc. New York, 1974 (first published 1892).
14. Train, P., Henricks, J.R., & Archer, W.A. "Medicinal Uses of Plants by Indian Tribes of Nevada." U.S. Dept. Of Agriculture,
_ Washington, D.C., 1941, 96.
15. Bergel, M. "Nordihydroquaiaretic acid in therapy." Semana Medical, (Buenos Aires), II, 123-131, 1955.
16. Sporn, A. & Schobesch, O. "Toxicity of nordihyroguaiaretic acid." Igiena, (Bucharest), 15(12), 725-726, 1966.
17. Waller, C. W. & Gisvold, 0. N. |
Dr. Gary Null
See book keywords and concepts |  Desta, "Ethiopian Traditional Herbal Drugs, Part III: Anti-Fertility Activity of 70 medicinal plants," Journal of Ethnopharmacology 44, no. 3 (December 1994): 199-209.
BIRTH CONTROL PILLS: RISKS
Risks of birth control pills can include cerebral arterial thrombosis, peripheral arterial thrombosis, cerebral embolism, pelvic vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, thrombosis of the sinus agittalis, recurrent pancreatitis, and focal nodular hyperplasia of the liver, according to a report.
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Barrie R Cassileth, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Consult an authoritative book such as Varro Tyler's The Honest Herbal (1992) or Herbs of Choice (1994) (both published by Haworth Press, New York), or Steven Foster and James Duke's medicinal plants (Houghton-Mifflin Company, Boston, 1990).
? Read the comprehensive summary article about herbal products in the November 1995 issue of Consumer Reports.
? Beware of some pop publications about herbal remedies. Many contain misinformation and incorrect data.
? Contact the American Botanical Council in Austin, Texas (512 331-8868). They publish booklets about herbs as well as HerbalGram magazine. |
Rudolph M. Ballentine, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  More anthropological than medical in its perspective, this book remains the single best work on Native American medicinal plants. Though unfortunately not arranged in such a way as to be very useful to the practicing clinician, it is nevertheless a valuable reference work.
Planetary Herbology, Michael Tierra, Lotus Press, Santa Fe, N.M., 1988. An inspiring attempt to integrate the four major herbal medicine traditions of the world: Ayurvedic, Chinese, European, and Native American. | | American medicinal plants, Charles F. Millspaugh, Dover, N.Y., 1974. Originally published in the nineteenth century, this is the classic Materia
Medica of American plants used in homeopathy. The line drawings are beautiful and helpful for plant identification. Many if not most of these plants are familiar to Americans.
How to Be Your Own Herbal Pharmacist, Linda Rector-Page, Ph.D., Crystal Star Herbs, Sonora, Calif., 1991; new edition, 1997. This is an easy-to-use guide to putting together your own herbal combination remedies. |
Gale Maleskey
See book keywords and concepts |  When you hear about all of the potential medicinal plants in a tropical rain forest, you probably picture an inconspicuous fern beneath the damp forest canopy or a dainty watr~ !:!" ^oating in a steamy swamp.
How about a tree-climbing, Iw-ioot vine that's 12 inches around, with thorns as sharp and tenacious as a jaguar's claws?
Cat's claw is one of the newly discovered herbs of the Amazon. It's actually new, however, only to Western civilization, since the Peruvian Indians of the region have used the vine medicinally for centuries. | | Department of Agriculture who specializes in medicinal plants, and author of The Green Pharmacy. "It's simply not safe to use otherwise." rheumatoid arthritis
If you have rheumatoid arthritis, your body's infection-fighting immune cells decide that you're the enemy. They attack your joints and cause inflammation, with pain, redness, heat, swelling, and tissue damage. The inflammation doesn t always confine itself to joints, either, says Andrew Rubman, N.D. | | Department of Agriculture who specializes in medicinal plants, and author of The Green Pharmacy.
Chasteberry has been approved in Germany for treating menstrual problems, PMS, and breast tenderness. The fresh herb is available, and you can also find it in tinctures and capsules.
Moore. Alternative practitioners believe that when your estrogen levels are too high, the weaker form of plant estrogen found in herbs such as licorice takes up receptors that would normally be occupied by your body's much stronger estrogen. | | Department of Agriculture who specializes in medicinal plants, and author of The Green Pharmacy.
In your quest for peak performance, take 250 milligrams of Siberian ginseng three times a day, says Dr. Stengler. While you are training, take the ginseng for four weeks, then take a break for one week. Look for a standardized extract containing 0.4 percent eleutherosides. osfeoa rt h r it is
Just like age, osteoarthritis can creep up on you. It starts out quietly, with some occasional stiffness. Later, you may begin to feel some occasional joint pain. | | Department of Agriculture who specializes in medicinal plants, and author of The Green Pharmacy. After taking allopurinal prescribed by his doctor for acute gout, Dr. Duke learned that celery seed extract might help just as much, so he decided to try it. The extract was supposed to help his body eliminate uric acid and prevent it from reaching the critical levels that induce an attack of gout.
Dr. Duke took two to four tablets of celery seed extract every day instead of allopurinol, and his attacks of gout disappeared. | | Department of Agriculture who specializes in medicinal plants, says that some naturopaths whom he respects suggest drinking valerian root tea about 30 minutes before retiring. Others suggest taking 150 to 300 milligrams of a standardized extract (0.8 percent valeric acid). Do not use valerian with sleep-enhancing or mood-regulating medications such as diazepam (Valium) or amitriptyline (Elavil), however. If stimulant actions such as nervousness or heart palpitations occur, discontinue use.
Try one of these sleep remedies at a time and see if it works for you, Dr. Hubbuch says. |
Bradley J. Willcox, D. Craig Willcox, and Makoto Suzuki
See book keywords and concepts |  The only remedies available to treat the ravages of wartime injuries and the inevitable diseases were medicinal plants and herbs from the Okinawa rain forest. Many lives— including Otasan's own—came to depend upon them and her knowledge of their healing powers. It was from her hands-on healing experience with these
146 amazing plants that Otasan developed a new respect for herbal medicines and fully realized the value—the necessity—of passing them on to future generations. This continues to be her lifelong work. | | There is certainly strong evidence that some of the compounds in the herbs and medicinal plants regularly consumed by Okinawans have powerful antioxidant and positive hormonal effects, and few ill effects have been associated with using them as foods, condiments, spices, teas, or home remedies.2
Not that this is particularly surprising. Herbs and plants have always been a major medicinal source for traditional cultures. The World Health Organization estimates that 85 percent of the world's inhabitants depend direcdy on plants as medicines. | | Although Shimojisan's parents wanted him to become a medical doctor, he preferred to skip classes and spend his time trudging through the rain forest on magical quests for new medicinal plants. Over the years he discovered a vast array of herbs and plants, many of which were at first deemed worthless, only to turn out later to be of great nutritional and medicinal value. Shimojisan now cultivates over a thousand varieties of herbs commercially, and runs a healthy herb restaurant located in the town of Sashiki on the main island of Okinawa. |
Larry Trivieri, Jr.
See book keywords and concepts |  In addition, many of these medicinal plants grow only in the Amazonian rain forest or other politically and economically unstable places, which also affects the supply of the herb.
Before the 1970s, the demand for herbal medicine decreased in the United States because Americans had been conditioned to rely on synthetic, commercial drugs to provide quick relief, regardless of the potential adverse side effects.This viewpoint is changing, however. |
James Green
See book keywords and concepts |  You might consider altering your landscape design to include cultivated medicinal plants that harmonize with the wild volunteers. There is a myriad of wild and cultivated herbal alternatives to standardized urban lawns. (See Appendix B.)
Get Permission
Private landowners in the U.S. and Canada love to fence themselves in and become resident ogres. North America is pregnant with chain link fences, rails, and real estate boundaries. If you are seeking to harvest "noxious weeds" such as Stinging Nettles, Dandelions, or St. |
John Heinerman
See book keywords and concepts |  They were Des Hommes Et Des Plantes (Paris, 1970) and C'est La Nature Qui A Raison (Paris, 1972), which became useful additions to my own ever-expanding library of books on medicinal plants and folk medicine.
One of the most remarkable cures mentioned by him involved the use of asparagus juice for treating a severe case of renal disorder. The patient was identified as one Gaston Valore, "a short, thick necked, heavyset man with a gluttonous appetite for any food his eyes set on."
The symptoms came on quite suddenly, about ten days after his patient suffered a sore throat. | | In his outstanding treatise on medicinal plants, Mon Herbier de Sante (Paris: Laffont/Tchou, 1975), the renowned French herbalist Maurice Messegue, recommends that people suffering from cellulitis consume parsley voraciously. "You should gorge yourself on it, in salads, omelettes, in soups, as a juice, and with all of your meat dishes," he writes.
Mercury Poisoning. With all of the recent attention given amalgam fillings, which dentists have routinely used, the public mind has been confronted with the very real dangers attending mercury poisoning. | | He routinely goes out and collects different medicinal plants, berries, fruits, and roots growing near his private hospital. During his session with a patient, he will engage in praying after administering his vegetable or fruit remedy in order to induce a state of relaxation in the other person. In this capacity then he functions not only as an herbal doctor but also as a priest in faith-healing. |
James Green
See book keywords and concepts | | As you can see, since the time we developed our CSHS list of thirty herbs, herbalists and other plant people have become quite alert to the fact that a number of important medicinal plants (in addition to the four on our list) are currently extremely harvest-sensitive. | | For a multitude of reasons, but specifically for invaluable insight into the use of this plant as an important substitute for the endangered Black Cohosh, I suggest and highly recommend that you consult medicinal plants of the Pacific West, researched and written by herbalist Michael Moore.
• In place of Pipsissewa when treating urinary tract inflammation, substitute Uva Ursi (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi) for its excellent diuretic, antiseptic, and astringent properties. |
Mark Bricklin
See book keywords and concepts |  No indication at all that the herb may be dangerous—unless you turn to page 38 and suddenly discover that "monkshood is one of the most poisonous medicinal plants." Likewise, on page 163, we are offered the enticing information that autumn crocus (or meadow saffron) relieves the pain and inhibits the inflammation of acute gout attacks. But unless you turn to page 57, you'll never know that "the meadow saffron is poisonous and should be used only in pharmaceutical preparations." It's the same story with belladonna (deadly nightshade), wormwood, rue and nuxvomica. |
James Green
See book keywords and concepts | | In my travels as an herbalist, the experience of harvesting medicinal plants has become the most intimate and compassionate portion of this communion. As I harvest a plant being, I put forth my desire to make medicine, and in turn plant spirits acquiesce to my request for the aid of their embodied nutrients and aesthetic healing vibration. I strive to receive these gifts with gratitude, and feel the sacred circle of giving sanction our union. That is a very good feeling, a feeling of health. In my practice as an herbalist, I deeply revere this mutually conscious act of alliance. |
Daniel B. Mowrey, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | These properties all contribute toward making Chamomile one of the few medicinal plants that still retain a prominent role in traditional medicine. See Also nerves & glands
FENUGREEK SEED imparts tonus to the uterus through a general stimulant action (27). The seeds also lower blood sugar levels, and dramatically lower cholesterol levels (28), probably as a result of their high saponin and fiber content (see CHOLESTEROL REGULATION). |
James Green
See book keywords and concepts | | The primary principles of gathering wild medicinal plants are discussed below.
Harvest Abundance Only
Gather solely in those prime areas that you find abounding with plants of the same species. Try not to harvest the same stand year after year. Never harvest or disturb threatened or endangered plants. Plant them instead. Seek them out and sing to them. You don't have to sing out loud. If you have a singing voice like mine it's probably better that you don't. Plants hear a silent song (and often prefer it). I know this sounds a bit corny, but I find it true in my experience. |
Daniel B. Mowrey, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Stillingia root was official in the USP from 1831 to 1926, and in the National Formulary from 1926-1947, much longer and later in both volumes than many of the more well-known medicinal plants. See Also BLOOD PURIFICATION/DETOXIFICATION; SKIN DISORDERS.
BURDOCK ROOT is another classic blood purifier, or alterative. It is also diuretic and diaphoretic. So, in three different ways it helps cleanse the body of toxins and wastes, especially those that accumulate during illness. These three mechanisms are further enhanced by the herb's proven restorative effects on the liver and gallbladder (23). | | A synopsis, of systematic catalogue of the indigenous and naturalized, flowering and filicoid... medicinal plants of the United States..." Transactions of the American Medical Association, Vol V, 1852, Philadelphia.
6. Farnsworth, N.R. & Segelman. A.B. "Hypoglycemic plants" Till and Tile. 1971, 57, 52-55.
7. Nutrition Almanac. Nutrition Search, Inc. John D. Kirschmann, ed. McGraw Hill Book Co., New York, 1979, 178.
8. Bestways, May 1980, p. 75.
9. Li Shih-chen, Chinese Medicinal Herbs. Translated by F. Porter Smith and G.A. Stuart. Georgetown Press, San Francisco, 1973. | | Guide to medicinal plants, Keats Pubs., New Canaan, Connecticut, 1977.
5. Felter, H. W The Eclectic Materia Medica, Pharmacology and
Therapeutics. Eclectic Medical Publications, Portland, Oregon, 1983 (first published 1922). 6 Ellingwood, F. American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and
Pharmacognosy. Eclectic Medical Publications, Portland, Oregon, 1983.
7. Leung, A.Y. Chinese Herbal Remedies, Universe Books, New York, 1984, 47-49.
8. Matt, J.M. & Breyer-Brandwijk, M.G. The Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of Southern and Eastern Africa. E. & S. Livingstone, LTd. | | Session of the Committee to Study Ginseng and Other medicinal plants of the Far East, Vladivostok, 96 pages.
18. Thompson, E.H., Wolk, I.D. & Allen, C.E. "Ginger rhizome: a new source of proteolytic enzyme." Journal of Food Science, 38(4), 652-655, 1973.
19. Glatzel, H. "Treatment of dyspetic disorders with spice extracts." Hippokrates, 40(23), 916-919, 1969. |
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