| Biological or biodynamically grown herbal extracts scented with essential oils El ® Meadowbrook Herb Garden.
+ Weleda Body and Massage Oils (Weleda). Contain biodynamically grown herbs. El ® Amberwood, The Compassionate Consumer, Deer Valley Farm, EveryBody Ltd., Humane Alternative Products, InterNatural, Meadowbrook Herb Garden, My Brother's Keeper, Naturpath, Weleda.
Aura Cacia Aromatherapy Massage 6k Bath Oils/Massage Butter (Aura Cacia). Scented with essential oils. Sweet almond oil comes unscented; can be scented with your choice of essential oils. El S§! |
| Aloe-vera gel and herbal extracts including chamomile; gardenia scent. Home Health Products.
Mountain Rose Herbs. Bath herbs and mineral salts.
Natural Bodycare Aloe-Herb Body Wash for Bath and Shower (Natural Bodycare). Eartfi Herbs.
Nature's Gate Foaming Bath Oils (Levlad). EH EveryBody Ltd.
O'Naturel Bath 6k Shower Foams (O'Naturel). ? M InterNatural.
Olbas Bath Liquid (Penn Herb Company). Stimulates and invigorates painful muscles. EH EveryBody Ltd., Meadouibrook Herb Garden.
Patricia Allison Roman Oil Beauty Bath (Patricia Allison). EH The Living Source. |
| Plant oils with biological or biodynamically grown herbal extracts. Scented. El @ Meadowbrook Herb Garden.
+ Weleda Bath Oils (Weleda). Contain biodynamically grown herbs. El [§! Amberwood, EveryBody Ltd., InterNatural, Meadowbrook Herb Garden, Naturpath, Weleda.
Abracadabra Bath Products (Abracadabra). Mineral bath salts combined with aloe vera. El ® Amberwood, Earth Herbs, InterNatural
Alba Botanica Sparkling Mint Body Bath (Alba Botanica Cosmetics). El EveryBody Ltd., InterNatural, Sunrise Lane
Anton Hubner Therapeutic Bath Oils (Baudelaire). |
| Natute's Sunshine Herbs and herbal extracts (Nature's Sunshine Products). Organically grown or wildcrafted whenever possible.
Nuts, Seeds, and Butters_
Harmful ingredients: BHA/BHT, colors, glycerin, hydrogenated oil, pesticide residues, sucrose.
Avoid red pecans and pistachios, which are colored with coal-tar dyes.
At the Store/By Mail
Buy nuts and seeds in the shell, ot buy unroasted and unsalted shelled nuts and seeds; buy organically grown peanut butter and othet nut and seed buttets. All ate available at natutal-food stores or by mail.
Earthwise nuts and seeds
+ Cross Seed Company. |
Christian Ratsch
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 Absinthe definitely has a much more pleasant taste when only the distilled oil of Artemisia absinthum is used. herbal extracts can impart an unpleasantly bitter taste to the liquor.
Absinthe was also produced by macerating the following herbs in a high-proof alcohol (brandy or similar spirits, with up to 85% ethanol content) (Albert-Puleo 1978, 69):
Wormwood leaves Angelica root
Calamus root Dictamnus leaves
Star anise fruits Cinnamon bark Peppermint
Hyssop herbage Fennel seeds
Artemisia absinthium Angelica archangelica L. (cf. theriac) [syn. Archangelica officinalis Hoffm. |
| Many different kinds of alcohol can be aromatized by adding either herbal extracts or essential oils (Mayr 1984). For example, Scandinavian aquavit, "the water of life," is actually a grain alcohol to which the essential oil of caraway (Carum carvi L.) has been added. An absinthe substitute can be made by adding wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) to alcohol:
Place the upper parts of the flowering herb in alcohol and allow the mixture to sit in a sunny location for two weeks. Shake often. Allow to sit undisturbed for another two weeks, strain, and store for a long time before drinking. |
Schuyler W. Lininger, Jr. DC
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 The drug colchicine is much more commonly used than are herbal extracts of Autumn crocus. Both the herb and the drug have significant toxicity and for this reason should only be used under the guidance of a physician.
Are There Any Side Effects or Interactions? Refer to the individual herb for information about any side effects or interactions.
Checklist for Gout
Ranking
Nutritional Supplements
Herbs
Other
Folic acid (p. 297) Quercetin (p. 328) Vitamin C (p. 341)
See also: Homeopathic Remedies for Gout (p. 540)
Hay Fever
Hay fever is an allergic condition (p. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Coleus
Forskolin dry extract from TR-Metro Natural herbal extracts. Take as directed on the label.
Helps to prevents asthma attacks. Recommended for people with high blood pressure.
Elderberry
Sambucol. Take as directed on the label.
Relieves nasal congestion and fever.
Ephedra2
Dried herb (preferred). Take 5-9 gm daily, in teas or food; or
Any over-the-counter formula containing ephedra, such as Breathe-Ease. Use as directed on the label.
Opens bronchial passages; deepens and intensifies breathing. Drink eight glasses of water daily while taking this herb.
Ginger
Hexanol extract. |
Schuyler W. Lininger, Jr. DC
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| Nevertheless, it can be found in some herbal cough syrups. herbal extracts in capsules and tablets providing 5 to 6 grams of marshmallow per day can also be used, or it may be taken as a tincture in the amount of 5 to 15 ml 3 times daily. Are There Any Side Effects or Interactions? Marshmallow is safe; only rare allergic reactions have been reported.
Meadowsweet
(Filipendula ulmaria)
Parts Used and Where Grown: Meadowsweet is found in northern and southern Europe, North America,
Historically, maitake has been used as a tonic and adaptogen. |
Dr. Gary Null
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 Other nutritional supplements found useful for herpes treatment are vitamin C, adenosine, L-lysine, and retinoic acid, a form of vitamin A found in breast milk. herbal extracts that have lessened or eliminated herpes symptoms include gly-cyrrhizic acid, a component of licorice root; pine cone extracts; tannins; poplar bud extract; lemon balm cream; an infusion from flowers of Sambucus nigra, aerial parts of Hypericum performatum, and roots of Saponaria officinalis; peppermint; and extracts of Cordia salicifolia, Geum japonicum, Rhus javanica, Syzgium aromaticum, and Terminal chebula. |
Schuyler W. Lininger, Jr. DC
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| For liquid herbal extracts, 2 to 4 ml 3 times per day are used. Standardized extracts supplying 8 to 1,290 alkaloids are available. Recommended dose is 250 to 500 mg 3 times per day. Continuous use should not exceed 3 weeks, with a break of at least 2 weeks between use. Goldenseal powder as a tea or tincture may soothe a sore throat. Due to environmental concerns of overharvesting,5 many herbalists recommend alternatives to goldenseal, such as Oregon grape (p. 449) or golden-thread.
Are There Any Side Effects or Interactions? Taken as recommended, goldenseal is generally safe. |
Patrick Quillin, PhD,RD,CNS
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 Numerous herbal extracts, including ginseng and ginkgo biloba, can enhance the aerobic capacity of the cell. Coenzyme Q-10 is a nutrient that is the rate-limiting step in aerobic metabolism, not unlike the bridge that ties up traffic going into the city during rush hour. Most people are low in their levels CoQ.
Breathing is a lost art in our modern world. Ancient scholars and spiritual teachers taught us that breath is the essence of life. |
Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 1Michael T. Murray, ND
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| Excipients
The same excipients used in the manufacture of drug preparations and vitamin and mineral supplements are often used in the production of tablets and capsules containing herbs or herbal extracts. Many manufacturers will provide a list of excipients contained in their products.
Analytical methods
Improvements in analytical methods have definitely led to improvements in harvesting schedules, cultivation techniques, storage, stability and concentration of active compounds, and product purity. |
| Strengths of extracts
The potencies or strengths of herbal extracts are generally expressed in two ways. If they contain known active principles, their strengths are commonly expressed in terms of the content of these active principles. Otherwise, the strength is expressed in terms of their concentration. For example, tinctures are typically made at a 1:5 (to 1:10) concentration. This means one part of the herb (in grams) is soaked in five parts solvent (in ml of volume). This means that there is five times the amount of solvent (alcohol / water) in a tincture as there is herbal material. |
| Improvements in plant cultivation techniques and the quality of herbal extracts (quality control and standardization) have led to the development of some very effective plant medicines. It is quite apparent that many of the "wonder drugs" of the future will be derived from plants or plant cell cultures and from compounds naturally occurring in the human body produced by cell cultures (e.g. interferon, interleukin-II, various hormones, etc.). Several herbal medicines described in this textbook may in fact already fulfill the role of wonder drug, e.g. |
| If current standardization techniques had been available earlier in this century, it is possible that the majority of our current prescription drugs would be herbal extracts instead of isolated and modified active constituents or synthetic chemicals.
THE FUTURE OF HERBAL MEDICINE
Currently, there is a renaissance occurring in herbal medicine. It is ironic that this renewal is coming not from traditional herbalists but rather from pubic demand for alternatives to the monopolistic conventional medicine and renewed scientific investigation into the use of plant medicines. |
volker schulz and Rudolf Hansel
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 The dosage figures shown in column 3 refer to different extract preparations, however. Six studies (Schulz et al., 1994,1998; Kuhlmann et al., 1999; Donath et al., 2000; Vorbach et al., 1995; Dorn, 2000) employed a standardized ethanol extract (70 % v/v, herb:extract ratio 4-7:1, valerenic acid content 0.4-0.6 %), and four studies (Leathwood and Chauffard, 1983, 1985; Kamm-Kohl et al., 1984; Balderer and Borbely, 1985) used freeze-dried aqueous extracts (herb:extract ratio 3-6:1). |
John Heinerman
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 Natural Skin Softening Agent
Most cooks may not realize, when they're using rosemary to flavor their favorite dishes, that this culinary spice makes a wonderful skin softening agent when combined with special water and other herbal extracts. But the irony to this is that the product in which these things appear is normally used in the care of horsed You read it correctly. I said horsed Coat-So-Soft (as it is called) is a botanical spray intended to soothe the coat of horses and leave their skin feeling soft, healthy and refreshed.
The transition to human skin care came about in a gradual way. |
Schuyler W. Lininger, Jr. DC
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| Nutritional supplements containing extracts of proanthocyanidins from various plant sources are available, alone or in combination with other nutrients, in herbal extracts, capsules, and tablets.
Who Is Likely to Be Deficient?
Flavonoids and proanthocyanidins are not classified as essential nutrients, since their absence does not induce a deficiency state. However, proanthocyanidins may have many health benefits, and anyone not eating a wide variety of plants will not derive these benefits. |
Patrick Quillin, PhD,RD,CNS
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| Anti-oxidants include beta-carotene, C, E, selenium, zinc, riboflavin, manganese, cysteine, methionine, N-acetylcysteine, and many herbal extracts (i.e. green tea, pycnogenols, curcumin).
Tumor tissue does not absorb anti-oxidants as effectively as healthy host tissue. Hence loading the patient with therapeutic levels of anti-oxidants is like giving the good cells bullet proof vests before you go in with a SWAT unit that opens fire (chemo and radiation), thus killing more cancer cells than healthy cells. |
J. E. Williams, O.M.D.
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 Nutraceutical antiviral substances are more concentrated than herbs and can have greater antiviral activity than even herbal extracts; they should be considered the first line of treatment.
Homeopathic antiviral remedies can be used to complement herbal or nutraceutical antiviral medications.
Co-infections are common in serious chronic viral infections such as HIV and HCV. Combine natural antibiotic alternatives with antiviral medications to treat bacterial and fungal co-infections.
Dosages vary according to the size, age, and general health of the person. |
Thomas Bartram
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 Important components of Floradix preparations are herbal extracts of various medicinal plants. Those rich in iron include: Stinging Nettle, Couch grass roots and algae Macrocystis pyrifera and Spinach. Extracts to aid digestion and metabolism (as well as strengthen the system) include: Hawthorn for heart function; Fennel, Angelica root and Wormwood for digestion; and Juniper berries to aid metabolism. See: SALUS-HAUS.
FLUID EXTRACTS. Another term for liquid extracts, chiefly used in America and among a modern generation of herbal practitioners. |
James A. Duke, Ph.D.
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 Tinctures are herbal extracts made with alcohol or, in some cases, glycerin or vinegar. If you want to try making your own, place an ounce or two of dried, crushed herb in ajar and add twice the amount of alcohol necessary to cover the herb. (I use the cheapest vodka I can buy.) Close the jar and let it sit in a cool, dark spot for a week or two, shaking the brew every couple of days. When it's done steeping, transfer the tincture to a dropper bottle. Tinctures are often taken by the dropperful.
Few people make their own capsules, but you can if you wish. |
Nicola Reavley
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 In fact, many of the pharmaceutical products sold today are synthetic chemicals based on herbal extracts. Herbal medicines may contain a whole plant, parts of a plant, or extracts of either one or a combination of plants. Many people prefer to use herbal medicines because in many cases, they exert beneficial effects without the side effects caused by many pharmaceutical drugs.
In the western world, in the last 10 to 20 years, there has been a tremendous growth in interest in herbal medicine and more natural and less toxic therapies have become increasingly popular. |
Velma J. Keith and Monteen Gordon
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| These are herbal extracts that have been freeze-dried, removing the moisture content, but leaving the healing elements. The result is a highly concentrated capsuled form. One capsule of the concentrated herb equals four of the regular herb.
Herbs chopped, blended, grated, or powdered and applied to external swellings, wounds, etc. If using powdered herb mix first with mineral water and then olive oil or castor oil and apply directly to wound. If using fresh herb blend in blender with small amount of mineral water and put prepared herb in soft, clean cloth. |
Gary Null
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 Since we have dwelt on the value of herbal extracts, we'd like to mention how you would go about making your own extract if you so desired. Herbalist C.J. Puotinen tells us, "One way these herbs are available is in raw or crude tinctures." A tincture of this sort is an alcohol extract made by putting one of these herbs in combination with vodka or another grain spirit. These extracts are named crude because you are not dealing with one chemically manufactured in the laboratory. |
John Boik
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 It also discusses results of Chinese clinical trials using crude herbal extracts. i I.I INVESTIGATIONS OF PLANT EXTRACTS AT THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE
11.1.1 Plant Screening Program
11.1.2 Extraction Methods
11.1.3 Assay Methods
II. 1.4 Results of the NCI Screening Program i 1.2 ANTITUMOR COMPOUNDS SELECTED FOR ADVANCED DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA
I1.3 ANTITUMOR COMPOUNDS OF INTEREST
11.3.6 Psoralen
11.3.7 Rhein and Emodin
11.4 CHINESE HERBS THAT EXHIBIT ANTITUMOR
ACTIVITY
11.5 CHINESE HERBS THAT EXHIBIT
ANTICANCER ACTIVITY
11.5.1 Colon Cancer
11.5. |
James A. Duke, Ph.D.
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 For years scientists believed that only two constituents in valerian, valepotriates and bornyl esters, produced its sedative effect. But one more recent Italian study notes that other chemicals in this herb, valeranone and kessyl esters, also contribute to its sleep-inducing effectiveness. The researchers concluded that the sedative effect of valerian comes from the actions of its many different constituents working in harmony with each other.
VV Lavender (Lavandula, various species). It's nice to see lavender approved by Commission E for insomnia. |
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