Cheryle R. Hart, M.D. Mary Kay Grossman, R.D.
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 Some ideas to help with this include the following:
?Drink herbal teas.
?Drink a full glass of water any time that you brush your teeth, take any vitamins or medication, and eat a meal or snack.
?Have a bottle of water handy when you sit down at your desk to work, watch TV, do physical activity, and drive in your car.
?Keep filtered water, lemon water, or herbal iced tea in your refrigerator.
?Freeze two bottles of water every night—one to take to work and drink as it thaws and one to take in your lunch to keep your food cool and then drink throughout the afternoon. |
Frantisek Stary
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 In addition to medicinal plants there are many more that are used as such, by themselves, in various forms such as herbal teas or alcohol extracts and tinctures. A further seven hundred species or so worldwide is a sober estimate, and this is without taking into account traditional home remedies.
European folk medicine currently uses some two hundred species of native medicinal plants to treat a wide range of common diseases. Many are obtained by collecting in the wild, a lesser number are grown on small plots. |
| The first group includes synthetic medicines, the second most drugs from medicinal plants and naturally also preparations from these drugs such as herbal teas, infusions, tinctures and extracts. The objective person must acknowledge that we need both groups of medicines.
Synthetic medicines enable the physician to give rapid and effective treatment in acute cases. Natural medicines, on the other hand, if administered correctly, generally have a mild action and the effect usually occurs after a lengthier period. |
James Green
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 Of course, all the naturally good-tasting herbal teas, glycerites, and tinctures like Lemon Balm, Mint, Chamomile, and Fennel are also garnished with fun when transformed into a phytojel.
Adults (senior kids) can take a bit of dessert before meals as a digestive aid, using an herb jello incorporating Peppermint, Chamomile, Lemon Balm, Ginger, or any of the other carminatives. Merely the name "Lemon Balm-lemon-lime jello" shimmies with vibrations of gastric approval and up-liftment. |
Frantisek Stary
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| The drag is also a component of many herbal teas used for coughs and the extract from the drug is included in pills used for the same purpose. Elecampane also has antispasmodic properties, stimulates the flow of bile and has a beneficial effect on the digestion, facts well known in folk medicine. One teaspoon of the crushed drug is boiled briefly in one cup water and the decoction is then sipped slowly ?three cups daily. The high concentration of inulin is the reason for the drug's marginal use for diabetes. |
Dr. Richard Schulze and Sam Biser
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| You could also take quarts of echinacea root tea, which has worked even when echincacea tincture has failed. herbal teas contain compounds that may be destroyed when you soak an herb in alcohol. Teas can be essential in stubborn cases. However, in an emergency, a tincture is ready in seconds, versus minutes for a tea to steep.
Emergency Internal Dosage for Tincture: 2 to
4 Dropperfuls per hour (a dropperful is approx. 30 drops).
Maintenance Dose: 2 to 4 Dropperfuls 3 times daily for 1 to 3 weeks. Then take a week or two off.
Garlic for infections: One of Dr. |
Frantisek Stary
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| Lungwort is an ingredient of numerous herbal teas used for treating chest complaints. The current demand for the drug is relatively small and for the time being collection in the wild is sufficient. The leaves and stems must be spread out and dried rapidly, as if they are dried slowly and layered they readily turn brown and become less potent. When dried excessively the drug is crumbly. A word of warning ?Lungwort easily becomes mouldy.
Common Lungwort (1) is a perennial herb of meadowland, damp woods and humusy soils in lowland as well as foothill districts. |
Dr. Gary Null
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 On a juice fast, a person abstains from solid foods and drinks juice, water, and herbal teas throughout the day. "We should be drinking every half hour to an hour," advises Lombardi. "If we go for long periods of time without drinking anything, then a little glass of juice will not be able to sustain us. But if we are constantly drinking, the day will go by very smoothly."
Lombardi recommends a combination of the following:
Carrot juice. High in the antioxidant beta carotene, and full of wonderful enzymes. Celery juice. |
| These herbal teas may be taken orally as well. Simple dietary changes have been made by now, such as the addition of water. This simple measure spells the difference between success and failure in alleviating many bowel conditions. I ask all my clients to double their intake of water.
"I love to see people's change in attitude from the time they come in to the time that they leave. Sometimes people are very irritable when their bowels are backed up. They're often depressed, and sometimes nasty. By the time they leave, you can see a smile and a bounce in their step. |
| In addition to using Reiki, she uses herbal teas for detoxification, drinks vegetable juices, fasts, and gets colonics.
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DHEA, a precursor to the hormones estrogen and testosterone, may be one factor that determines natural life span, since its production decreases with advancing age, reaching a low at maximum recorded age; a natural DHEA supplement is found in the wild yam. Also shown to decrease in the body with age are melatonin, a free radical scavenger, and the antioxidant coenzyme glutathione, both of which can be supplemented to good effect in the elderly. |
| Short fruit fasts, with plenty of pure water and cleansing herbal teas, can be very helpful. Good herbs to include are sage, rosemary, cayenne, echinacea, goldenseal, red clover, astragalus, and burdock root. Beneficial bacteria, such as those found in yogurt, or supplements of lactobacillus and acidophilus, support the digestive processes necessary for the maintenance of the immune system. Other nutrients that directly enhance the immune system include garlic, quercetin, zinc gluconate, buffered vitamin C, and beta carotene or vitamin A. |
Earl Mindell and Hester Mundis
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 For caffeine-sensitive individuals, 3 or more cups daily could cause adverse reactions.
All herbal teas can contain caffeine, so it's important to read the labels. Celestial Seasonings Morning Thunder, for instance, the flavor of which is derived from mate (a South American plant with leaves rich in caffeine) and other tea leaves, contains 35 mg of caffeine. Flavored black teas (orange, cinnamon, blackberry, apple, and so forth) contain about the same amount, which is still less than unflavored black teas. |
Frantisek Stary
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| PREPARATION OF herbal teas FOR HOME REMEDIES
The dosages given in this book are those generally used in practice.
Teaspoon ?a full (not heaping) teaspoon is the equivalent of about 2 g of herbal tea mixture, 1.5 g of dried flowers, and 3 g of dried roots or fruits.
Tablespoon ?a full tablespoon is the equivalent of about 5 g of herbal tea mixture, 4 g of dried flowers or leaves, and 7 g of dried roots or fruits.
A cup is the equivalent of about 125 ml.
A glass is the equivalent of about 200 ml. |
Lesley Tierra
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 In general, however, herbal teas keep about three days when tighdy bottled and refrigerated. When reheating, do not boil die tea. Tinctures and wines last for 7-10 years. Vinegar extracts last 3 years or more if stored in a cool dark place.
Oils last up to seven years if a small amount of Vitamin E or benzoin tincture is added to the oil to preserve it. They also need to be stored in tightly covered jars and kept in a cool place. Likewise, salves last for 5 years or more when preserved and stored in this way. |
Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 2Michael T. Murray, ND
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| Herbal spices were allowed, and water and herbal teas were allowed up to 1.5 L/day. Vegetables used freely were lettuce, carrots, beets, onions, celery, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, nettles, cucumber, radishes, Jerusalem artichokes, and all beans except soya and green peas. Potatoes were allowed in restricted amounts. A number of fruits were also used freely: blueberries, cloudberries, raspberries, strawberries, black currants, gooseberries, plums, and pears. Apples and citrus fruits were not allowed, and grains were either very restricted or eliminated. |
Mark Bricklin
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 Although I had been selling herbs and herbal teas for some years before this, I had somehow overlooked the usefulness of raspberry leaves in our own situation. So Irene began drinking a few cups of raspberry leaf tea when she next became pregnant. Everything went beautifully, even though 10 years had passed since the birth of our first son. The following year, Irene had another very easy and successful pregnancy. Now, besides George, we have Thomas, who is 27, and Janet, 26."
Dr. |
| You may want to try herbal teas to help ease the pain, especially at bedtime. A cup of strong camomile tea alone will help. For something that herbal literature indicates is somewhat more powerful, try making a tea consisting of two parts camomile, one part skullcap (the powdered herb) and one part lady's slipper (the roughly ground root). If taken at bedtime, you may also want to add some hops and passionflower.
Bursitis and Diet
A word about bursitis and diet is now in order. Most people are aware that calcium deposits are usually present at the point of pain in bursitis. |
| The fasting liquids used in this case were herbal teas and vegetable and fruit juices, and the average weight loss was 30 pounds (Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology, vol. 17, no. 3, 1982).
At the Brookhaven Medical Center in Dallas, researchers have been using fasting to eliminate pain in headache sufferers, who stay in a special Environmental Control Unit free of contamination from chemicals, cigarette smoke and other pollutants. |
Bradley J. Willcox, D. Craig Willcox, and Makoto Suzuki
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 Don't confuse green, black, or jasmine tea with herbal teas such as mint, lemongrass, or chamomile. The latter teas are from entirely different plants, and while they can be delicious, they contain far fewer cancer-fighting flavonoids than true teas.
Kudzu, or Arrowroot
(Pueraria lobata, ge-gen)
Kudzu is used as a food in China, Japan, and Okinawa, and as a thickening starch in other Asian cooking. It can be generally substituted for flour, tapioca, gelatin, and other starches. It is also used as an herb in traditional Chinese and Okinawan medicine. |
Lesley Tierra
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| In fact, herbal teas can be given by the eye dropperful for babies.
When choosing a formula make sure the other herbs it contains are also good for the lungs. Since mullein also has an astringent effect on the colon and hemorrhoids, it can be found in formulas with other herbs which treat the colon for that purpose. These would obviously not be appropriate for your child's cough or cold.
I have given an example for treating children as this requires taking more possibilities into consideration when choosing herbal remedies. |
Francisco, M.D. Contreras
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| When we have the flu, our body asks for herbal teas, broth (Jewish penicillin), and rest. Less money and lives would be lost if we would just listen to our bodies!
According to the modern-scientific-uncommon-sense medical establishment, some "waco" doctors in Paris, France, are treating "terminal" patients (to me there are only terminal illnesses) in the most outrageous, inhumane way. In this clinic of torture, the patients are "forced" to fast as long as their condition will permit. |
Lesley Tierra
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| Herbal tea can be taken medicinally and also as a beverage. herbal teas taken medicinally can have the strongest effects and are, therefore, appropriate for the most serious illnesses. To be this effective, however, the proportion of herbs to water is much greater than generally realized. Rather than the typical 1/4 oz of herbs to 1 cup of water as in a beverage tea, the medicinal dosage is 1 oz of dried herbs to 1 pint of water (or 1/2 oz herbs to 1 cup of water). Anywhere from 2 to 3 oz of herbs should be used if they are fresh.
Teas are made from fresh or dried herbs, either cut or whole. |
Barnet Meltzer, M.D.
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 It's difficult to let go of American dietary staples such as milk, hamburgers, ice cream, coffee, and beer, and substitute them with healthy alternatives such as rice milk, garden burgers, fruit salads, and herbal teas. But I don't expect you take my word at face value. Find your favorite items on the Top Ten list, then check out what they're really doing to your body.
/. White Refined Sugar:
White refined sugar, or sucrose, drains your liver, imbalances your adrenal glands, overtaxes your nerves, and depletes your B vitamins. |
Lesley Tierra
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| Storage: herbal teas may be made in large batches of 1 quart to 1 gallon and stored up to 3 days in tightly sealed container in refrigerator. Comfrey is an exception to this as the high protein content causes it to go bad more rapidly.
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Tincture
In a tincture the medicinal parts of herbs are extracted by one of the solvents alcohol, vinegar or glycerine. This process is called maceration, the solvent is called the menstruum and the herbs are called the marc. The final result is called the extract or extractive. |
| Give stimulating herbal teas throughout the day.
When sweating has occurred for 10-15 minutes, then unwrap the person and dress in clean, dry clothes. Have the person go back to a clean, dry bed, covered adequately, to rest. Be sure to give plenty of fluids and simple nourishing food when appropriate.
Foot Soak Method
In this process, the person only removes shoes and socks, sits on a stool or chair and soaks the feet in a pot of hot water or herbal tea, such as ginger. |
Carol Simontacchi
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 They select water or herbal teas for their beverage.
Nutritional Guidelines for Young Children
During this critical period of life, your child's brain is continuing to gain weight through dendrite and axon growth. The myelin sheath is being laid into place around the dendrites, forming a fatty-acid conduit for the transmission of nerve signals. Neurotransmitters and neurohormones are being formed to transmit messages. Children's brains are extremely active because they are constantly learning. The materials for each of these brain constituents come from the diet. |
| You may also enjoy hot or warm herbal teas for variety, or you may squeeze a fresh lemon or lime into the cool water for added flavor. Serve water with your meals. Sip water throughout the day to keep your body hydrated.
3. Go through the recipes and menus in this book and follow our menu plan carefully for the next few weeks. Plan to include several servings of freshly prepared vegetables with your lunch and dinner meals. Get your family used to the taste of well-prepared vegetables. Plan to prepare one protein food with each dinner meal, especially seafood. Fish is brain food.
4. |
Dr. Julian Whitaker
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| A nice, relaxing cup of one of these herbal teas thirty to sixty minutes before going to bed melts away stress and prepares you for a peaceful sleep.
SUMMING IT UP
As this step has shown, it is very important not to underestimate the role of sleep in mental function. It's one factor that busy people tend to discount. Keep in mind that a good night's sleep makes all the difference in the world in your mental outlook and cognitive function.
Step 9
Enhance Brain Function With Hormones hen Betty went through menopause, she "fell apart. |
| I highly recommend that you give up caffeine or limit yourself to a maximum of one cup of coffee (or, better yet, green tea) in the morning, and switch to herbal teas and water for the remainder of the day. Keep in mind that there is also caffeine in black and green teas, most sodas, chocolate, and some over-the-counter and prescription medicines.
Nicotine is another stimulant that impairs nighttime sleep and daytime cognitive performance. Obviously, it's not possible to smoke and sleep at the same time, so levels of nicotine drop during the night, leading to withdrawal symptoms. |
James Green
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| If a person is extremely alcohol-intolerant and doesn't want to chance taking any alcohol at ad, it is advisable to use tinctures prepared with glycerin or vinegar menstrua or use herbal teas.
The administration of hard and difficult-to-digest medicines should be avoided because of their slow and uncertain rate of disintegration and absorption and their consequent unreliability. Certain compressed tablets, and, often, encapsulated, powdered whole herbs may pass completely through the intestinal tract without effect. |
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