Frances Darragh and Louise Darragh Law
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 BABIES
HERBS
The breastfeeding mother can drink herbal tea and the benefits of the herb will be passed on to the baby through the milk. Alternatively, make a mild infusion of one quarter to one half a tsp. of dried herbs per cup of boiling water and give small amounts to baby on a teaspoon.
Using these guidelines, see individual headings for Constipation, Diarrhea, Sleep, Teething, and Diaper Rash.
Cradle Cap: Rub Wheatgerm oil, Apricot Kernel oil, or Castor oil on to scalp daily. |
Sharol Tilgner, N.D.
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 Mucilaginous herbal tea such as marshmallow
• Respiratory Tea
• Decrease consumption of dairy products.
• Consider mustard or onion poultices.
Profiles of herbs used in this formula:
Elecampane, Inula helenium, is an antiseptic, expectorant, diaphoretic, anti-inflammatory, immunomodulating and tonifying to the lungs. Elecampane is used in persistent bronchial catarrhs where there is an irritable cough, especially in chronic coughs.
Marshmallow, Althea officinalis, is soothing and healing to the mucous membranes in the respiratory tract. |
The Complete Book of Alternative NutritionSelene Y. Craig, Jennifer Haigh, Sari Harrar and the Editors of PREVENTION Magazine Health Books
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| Beverage choices include hot herbal tea, hot chocolate, hot milk and fruit juices.
*Ghee, which is used often in Ayurvedic cooking, is simply clarified butter.
Lunch —Cottage cheese, pasta salad and a small lettuce salad Snack —Yogurt and/or a warm drink Dinner—Pasta Primavera (page 105)
Pitta Menus
In general, pitta people should seek cool foods and drinks. Favor those foods with predominantly sweet, bitter and astringent tastes. |
Sharol Tilgner, N.D.
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| A strong herbal tea is used to make an herbal compress. Note: See index under "tea preparation." Make enough tea to soak the cloth thoroughly. Other ingredients can be substituted for the water. A vin egar tea is an example of an alternative to a water tea. Apple cider vinegar is very drawing and can be used as an astringent compress. The addition of astringent herbs, such as oak, witch hazel or geranium, to a vinegar tea will create a wonderful compress to use to treat bug bites, stings, hives or poison oak rashes. |
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| Beverage choices include grape juice, apple juice, water, herbal tea and milk. If you're pitta, you should have no caffeine and only moderate alcohol —a maximum of two drinks per week.
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Kapha Menus
Whenever possible, kaphas should seek food and drink that are light, dry and warm. Always try to find foods that are pungent, bitter and astringent in taste. |
Ralph Golan, M.D.
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 With meals, a cup of herbal tea or a small glass of water is fine. Neither very hot nor ice-cold beverages should be taken with meals since these can slow down or arrest digestive secretions and action.
A reasonable amount of wine with dinner on occasion may be fine if you are in good health. Some reports even attest to the digestion-aiding capacities of wine.' However, do not interpret this as free license to use alcohol inappropriately.
Portions
Overeating is another common cause of poor digestion and assimilation. |
Kathi Keville
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 You can sip herbal tea without worrying that a rat or a guinea pig had to die to enable you to do so," he says.
Instead of contributing to destroying the environment, herbs bring us closer to it. Herbalist and acupuncturist Michael Tierra, author of Planetary Herbology, believes that herbs can make us more conscious of our place among all of Earth's living things: "The path of the herbalist is one that can offer a vital link to the natural and interaction with nature's wilds. It gives us a point of view by which we can see ourselves as being connected with the entire process of life. |
Dr. John Heinerman
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 But as you know just how much cats hate water, you should shampoo them only once a month or every six weeks at the most.
An herbal tea made from sour citrus fruits is of value in getting rid of fleas on your pet. Thinly slice an wnpeeled lemon and lime. Pour one pint of boiling water over them, cover with a lid, and let them steep overnight. Strain and put into an empty sprayer bottle and spray onto the animal's coat and leave it to dry. Or you can sponge it on your pet's skin for a more thorough saturation. |
Kathi Keville
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| Because children with indigestion are often cranky, they sometimes refuse to drink even a tasty herbal tea. If this is the case with your child, try an herbal bath or tummy massage, which are soothing and help to eliminate gas pains. You can use essential oils such as lemongrass, orange and chamomile, which have calming fragrances, in either the bath or massage oil.
Child's Indigestion Bath
2 drops lemongrass essential oil 1 drop each orange and chamomile essential oils TO Add essential oils directly to bath water. Stir to distribute on water's surface before child gets into the tub. |
| Her mother and friends spread a concoction that was mostly aloe vera on the burns, and Terry took nutritional supplements and drank an herbal tea to promote healing. As soon as she could bathe, she spent four weeks taking daily baths of skin-healing comfrey plantain, calendula and lavender. I saw the burns during their various stages of healing and watched as new, unmarked skin gradually replaced the old without leaving a trace—not even one scar—of that unfortunate accident. |
| Don't provide anything to drink, even herbal tea, because the victim may not be able to swallow.
SPRAINS AND STRAINS
An active lifestyle generally makes for a more healthy person, but it also has its drawbacks. For one thing, an afternoon of digging up plants, rearranging furniture or participating in your favorite sport makes you more prone to wrenching an ankle or waking up with stiff, painful muscles. Even those who seldom venture from their easy chair find themselves with an occasional sprain or strain, sometimes just from using a muscle in an unaccustomed way. |
| When you are in a hurry or traveling, place two herbal tea bags (chamomile is a good choice) in a cup and pour boiling water over them just as if you are making tea. Hold your face over the cup to steam in the fragrant vapors. Then apply a facial cream or moisturizer. After-ward, you can drink the tea! When your eyes are puffy, strained or bloodshot, make the tea with two tea bags of chamomile or black tea, cool slightly and place one bag on each eye.
The Body >f
The face shows the most obvious signs of sun exposure and aging, but all of your skin suffers equally from these factors. |
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| If you like having a hot drink in the morning, have some herbal tea or a roasted grain beverage like Postum, which has a coffeelike aroma but contains no caffeine.
Dr. Ornish's program also discourages the use of alcohol. Aside from the well-known health hazards caused by excessive drinking, some people also use alcohol to avoid dealing with stress, says Dr. Ornish.
But what about reports that light drinking—the equivalent of one or two glasses of beer or wine a day—might actually offer some protection from heart disease? |
| In modern America, we're more likely to reach for a bottle of pills than a pot of herbal tea when we're under the weather. But herbs haven't disappeared from the therapeutic landscape. Americans are likely to spend over $1.5 billion a year on herbal products.
Most of those dollars are spent in natural food stores, for everything from concentrated herbal essences and capsules to beauty products—those mysterious herbal lotions and potions you may have seen lurking on the shelves but couldn't find a use for. |
Prevention Magazine
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 As long as it's real tea and not herbal tea, which doesn't contain leaves from Camellia sinensis, the tea plant, there's very little difference among them, says tea researcher Joe A. Vinson, Ph.D., professor of chemistry at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania. After all, they all contain leaves from the same plant.
They're not identical, however. Here's a brief look at the various "real" teas.
• Green tea is the freshest and least processed. The taste is light and subtle, appreciated most deeply by tea drinkers in Asia and parts of North Africa. |
the Editors of PREVENTION Magazine Health Books
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 Have some herbal tea. Parsley or uva-ursi tea can help flush out excess water without any harmful side effects, according to Dr. Lark. You can find these teas in most health foods stores, she adds.
Check out vitamin B6. Taking up to 250 milligrams of vitamin B6 daily helps reduce premenstrual water retention, says Dr. Lark. This nutrient also reduces fluid buildup caused by hormone replacement therapy during menopause. Vitamin B6, however, can be toxic in higher doses and should only be taken under the supervision of a doctor. |
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 If your dog likes ice cubes, you can freeze some herbal tea. "Don't be afraid to be creative," says Tilford.
For fast absorption, tinctures are the best options. Dogs and cats prefer the taste of glycerin-based tinctures to that of alcoholic tinctures. "If you give cats an alcohol tincture, they'll foam at the mouth. They're quite dramatic," warns Tilford. He advises against using capsules, unless you break them open before you feed them to your pet. Because dogs and cats are carnivores, their digestive tracts are too short to adequately absorb capsules. |
Sharol Tilgner, N.D.
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| Mucilaginous herbal tea such as marshmallow
• Respiratory Tea
• Eliminate consumption of dairy products.
• Consider mustard or onion poultices.
Profiles of herbs used in this formula:
Yerba santa, Eriodictyon californicutn, is a stimulating expectorant, bronchial dilator and antimicrobial. It thins and stimulates the free flow of mucus from the lungs in conditions of congestion with thick ropy mucous. It is used in colds, laryngitis, bronchitis, asthma, hay fever or any condition where there is a cough with poor expectoration.
Usnea, Usnea spp. |
Dr. Gary Null
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 This is another good herbal tea for helping the immune system.
Also helpful are goldenseal, bearberry, Oregon grape, German chamomile, aloe vera, rosemary, ginger, alfalfa, red clover, and fennel. colon therapy. "My battle with Candida lasted a long time." says colon therapist Tovah Finman-Nahman. "I tried everything, including a strict diet, antifungals, and vitamin C drips. But I never got it under control until I started doing colonics. Then I saw quick results. The gas and the bloating went away, and my chronic fatigue amazingly disappeared. |
Michael Tierra
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 One of the most commonly used preparations is the herbal tea, but there are many more methods of application, including:
1. bolus
2. douche
3. electuary
4. enema
5. fomentation
6. gelatin capsule
7. liniment
8. oil
9. pill
10. poultice and plaster
11. salve
12. smoking
13. syrup
14. tincture
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The choice of method will depend on a number of factors; through familiarity with the nature of the different preparations, one will be able to choose the method that best fits the ailment, the individual and the herbs. |
Mark Bricklin
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 Herbal Preparations to Overcome Insomnia
An excellent herbal tea to induce sleepiness is camomile. Long recognized by traditional herbalism as a harmless sedative, camomile was tested by Lawrence Gould, M.D., and colleagues, who reported their findings in the Journal of Clinical Pharmacology in 1974. Actually, the purpose of their test was to see if camomile tea had any ill effects on cardiac patients who had undergone ventricular catheterization as part of their treatment. The tests showed that drinking camomile tea had no significant cardiac effects. |
Richard Lucas
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 The loss of appetite which sometimes accompanies these conditions is said to also be remedied by use of this herbal tea.
PIEN-HSU
English Name: Knotgrass
Botanical Name: Polygonum aviculare
Pien-hsu (knotgrass) is a low-growing herb which has been used in China as a remedy for lung ailments since the second millenium B.C. The Chinese often call the plant Fen-chieh-ts'ao because of the white powder that covers the stem. |
Ben Davis
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| If you wish to prepare more than 1 cup of an herbal tea, then take so many times more as you want cups prepared.
• Roots, berries, barks and hard herbal stalks are cooked for a longer period, whereas leaves and blossoms, if they are in dried condition, only have boiling water poured on them; they are then left to get cold, and before being used they are strained.
• Berries and kernels are crushed first, as for example juniper berries, etc. |
James Green
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 In other words, except for those folks who prefer to use herbs sim-plistically as drugs rather than as herbal tonic foods and medicines, I fail to see how we (in spite of the revered evolution of technologically sophisticated alternative forms of extraction) have improved much on (unfiltered) herbal tea (or capsules of powdered truly whole herb) as a potent tonic beverage and plant medicine — I rest my rant.
A properly prepared herbal infusion or decoction is not merely a cup of tea. |
| And when using Dandelion, it is quite appropriate to change the delivery vehicle by preparing this tonic herb as an herbal tea (a decoction). Drink it with the tincture, or alternate a dose (1 cup) of tea with a dose of tincture, or use Dandelion tea in place of Dandelion tincture altogether, drinking a cupful twice a day.
So, now you have an herbal tincture in the making, and you know how to store and use this specific health-supporting herbal tonic once the extraction process is completed. |
Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D.
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 Instead, try herbal tea. Finally, coffee acts as a diuretic, contributing to dehydration, which causes fatigue. The irony is rhat people report having more energy within weeks of giving up caffeine.
Coffee Basics
Thete is no need to give up coffee; just cut back. One to three 5-ounce cups, or the equivalent of 300 milligrams of caffeine or less, in the morning or early afternoon appears to be safe and, except for rhe mosr sensirive people, should not contribute to fatigue.
You should pay close attention to your serving size and rhe caffeine content of the beverage you choose. |
Larry Trivieri, Jr.
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 The evening meal consists of another dry roll, followed with yogurt, herbal tea, and cooked vegetables.
During the Mayr cure, Dr. Chaitow advises having no fruits, raw vegetables, fatty foods, alcohol, coffee, or sugar. According to Dr. Chaitow, the key to success in this program is the length of time spent chewing food, which is encouraged by the dry roll. If the bowels aren't moving after starting the diet, he recommends taking a teaspoon of Epsom salts in a cup of hot water 30 minutes before breakfast. After 3-5 days, the bowels should start to function efficiently. |
| Chaitow recommends a milder program of detoxification be employed:
• Breakfast: Fresh fruit (raw or lightly cooked, no sweetening) and yogurt with live bacterial cultures, homemade muesli (seeds, nuts, grains) and yogurt, or cooked grains (buckwheat, millet, linseed, barley, rice) and yogurt. herbal tea is recommended, especially linden blossom, chamomile, mint, sage, lemon verbena, or a lemon and hot water drink.
• Lunch/Supper: One of the meals should be a raw salad with potato or brown rice and one of the following: bean curd (tofu), low-fat cheese, nuts, or seeds. |
| These helped with the symptoms, but later Susan drank a cup of fenugreek herbal tea and experienced a severe reaction of chills, muscular stiffness, and high fever. Dr. Nambudripad then tested her for an allergy to the tea and
Here are other successful cases from Dr. Nambudripad's practice that illustrate the wide range of potential allergens as well as NAET's effectiveness for both detecting offending allergens and eliminating their symptoms. |
| Essiac
In the 1920s, a Canadian nurse named Rene Caisse introduced a nontoxic herbal tea for treating cancer. The tea was originally named Lasagen by the Ojibway, a Native American tribe based in Ontario, Canada. Caisse obtained the formula for this natural herbal combination from a breast cancer patient who had been healed by an Ojibway medicine man; she renamed it Essiac (which is Caisse spelled backwards) and used it to treat thousands of cancer patients. |
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