Ralph Golan, M.D.
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 If you are using delicate plant parts, such as flowers (e.g., red clover blossoms, chamomile) or soft leaves, or you want to retain the volatile oils (such as in peppermint), cover the pot tightly while steeping. Leaves and flowers are generally prepared by steeping, not boiling.
DECOCTION METHOD: For stems and roots, bring the water to a boil, then simmer thirty minutes to one hour in an open pot; some volume loss should occur through evaporation. If volatile oils need to be preserved, such as in burdock root or cinnamon stick, gently simmer in a covered pot.
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Gale Maleskey
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 The use of red clover dates back centuries. The Chinese used the sap to help treat colds and influenza, it was a popular remedy in England and Germany and came with the American colonists when they immigrated from those countries.
On the American continent, it was taken up by many Native American tribes, including the Iroquois and Cherokee, who began using it to ease the discomforts of menopause. At the beginning of the twentieth century, it was often brewed into a tea to relieve spasmodic coughing and had a reputation as a "blood purifier. |
Ralph Golan, M.D.
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| HERBAL REMEDIES
• Include some blood-purifying teas, such as echinacea, burdock root, and red clover (up to three or four cups a day), or take in capsule form (one or two capsules three or four times a day).
• Drink green juice or some other form of chlorophyll.
OTHER THERAPIES
• Skin brush regularly (see Chapter Eighteen). Take Epsom salt baths and saunas.
Fungus
Fungal growths most often appear on the feet (athlete's foot), in the groin, under breasts, and in abdominal folds. |
Kathi Keville
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 Lymph Drainer
Vi teaspoon each tinctures of mullein leaves, echinacea root, prickly ash bark, red clover flowers and cleavers leaves
«s» Combine ingredients. Take half a dropperful 4 to 8 times daily during an active infection. This formula can be taken along with the Immune Tincture on page 106.
Cancer
Although there is still no cure for cancer—pharmaceutical or herbal—medical researchers are busy searching the plant world for an answer to this plague. |
Dr. Richard Schulze and Sam Biser
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| In a blender put:
1 heaping handful of fresh, if not dried red clover Blossoms
1 entire bulb of peeled garlic cloves, at least 12 large cloves.
1/4 cup of fresh grated poke root or 1/3 cup of the dried powder
2 tablespoons of goldenseal root powder 2 tablespoons of activated charcoal
1 teaspoon of tea Tree Oil
1 Cup of Bentonite Clay
1 cup of Slippery Elm inner bark
Put this all in a blender and add enough 50/ 50 solution of distilled water and raw apple cider vinegar to make a paste, add at least 1 ounce of blood root tincture per 8 ounces of liquid, blend well and apply. |
| Schulze's Heart Formula: Hawthorne berry 40%, Hawthorne Flower 5%, Hawthorne leaf 5%, red clover blossom 25%, Cactus grandiflorus stem and flower 5%, Motherwort herb 10%, Garlic bulb 5%, Ginger root 3% and Habanero pepper 2%.
Technical Information
Common name: Hawthorne
Latin Name/Genus: Crategeous oxycantha
Part of plant used: Berry, Flower, Leaf
Note from Dr. Schulze: If your coronary arteries are blocked, hawthorn is not going to open them up. Cayenne will. Cayenne definitely gets any and all herbs into the heart. |
Lesley Tierra
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 Good herbs to use include antibiotic, alterative and anti-inflammatory herbs, such as echinacea, chapparal, red clover, dandelion and goldenseal (which is especially valuable since it tones the mucus membranes) and astringents, such as raspberry, calendula and squawvine. A small amount of demulcent may be added, like marshmallow or licorice, to soothe inflamed and irritated tissues. Make up your own customized solution and experiment to find your favorite ones. |
Michael Tierra
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 Other useful blood purifiers include: burdock root, dandelion, red clover, sar-saparilla, sassafras and Oregon grape root.
The use of blood purifiers is particularly important for the treatment of infections. Not only does the herb help remove toxins produced by the infection, but it can also remove the excess moisture that provides the medium in which it grows. Furthermore, the infection may be totally eradicated because the herb will stimulate our natural defense mechanisms. |
Lesley Tierra
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| Examples: black haw, red clover, dong quai.
Saponins: These are also glycosides which have an ability to dissolve in water and form a lather when shaken. Sarxmins have a structure similar to the human sex and stress hormones and so have been used in the synthesis of these types of drugs. Examples: fenugreek, licorice, sarsaparilla, wild yam.
Tannins: As the name suggests, these principles have been used to tan leather. In small amounts, tannins cause an astringent action, acting on protein to form protective skin on wounds and inflamed mucus membranes, promoting their rapid healing. |
Michael Tierra
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| It is considered an effective anticancer herb taken either alone or in combination with other alteratives such as red clover blossoms, dandelion, echinacea, poke root, sarsaparilla, barberry root, stillingia, burdock root and buckthorn bark.
Externally it is an antiseptic healing herb when applied as a poultice or fomentation directly on wounds and injuries. A liniment made by steeping the leaves in rubbing alcohol can be directly applied on bruises and injuries as well as warts. |
Ralph Golan, M.D.
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| The most common seeds used for sprouting are alfalfa, mung beans, red clover, and sunflower, although radish, Chinese cabbage, grains, and legumes can also be used. Most health food stores and many supermarkets carry sprouts, and you can grow them easily yourself.
Basic Sprouting Guidelines
To grow sprouts, you need: a quart or V2-gallon jar plastic or cloth mesh a rubber band
Or you can buy special sprouting kits.
Soak small seeds (e.g., alfalfa) three to five hours, large seeds (e.g., lentil and sunflower) twelve hours. After soaking, drain off water. Put seeds in jar (1 tbsp. |
Sharol Tilgner, N.D.
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 Mental picture and specifics: It is indicated for debilitated individuals and children with spasmodic coughs, salivary gland congestion, pharyngeal inflammation and chronic skin eruptions. red clover is specific for swollen hard nodes, especially for single nodes and a stiff neck with cramping in the sternomastoid muscles that is relieved by heat and massage.
Use: (a) Mild antispasmodic, (b) Sedative, (c) Expectorant, (d) Blood thinner, (e) Mild alterative with a special affinity for the lungs, throat and salivary glands. |
Frances Darragh and Louise Darragh Law
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 HERBS
Make a mixture from the following:
To calm the child: Chamomile or Lavender
To purify glands: red clover or Thyme
To soothe respiratory passages: Mullein or Marshmallow
To tonify the system: Gentian
HOMEOPATHIC
After suspected contact, see Resistance and Immunity, page 19.
Antim Tart 30c: Worse from drinking and eating, cries before cough, vomits large amounts of mucous; nausea and cold sweat, white-coated tongue. Belladonna 30c: Stomach pain and tears before spasm, dry throat, coughs until mucous comes up, excited by tickling in throat.
Bryonia 30c: Must sit up to cough. |
| To purify the blood: red clover, Thyme, or Poke Root. To soothe the inflamed surfaces: Licorice, Marshmallow, or
Slippery Elm.
Inhalation:
Two drops of Thyme, Lemon, and/or Peppermint oils can be added to steaming water. Cover head and bowl with towel and breathe in the steam to clear the air passages and loosen mucous.
Chest Rub:
Two drops of Thyme, Teatree, and/or Clove oil can be mixed with a half-cup of Olive or Soya oil and rubbed on chest several times daily.
Bath:
The same oils can be added to bathwater (footbath is beneficial). |
| HERBS
For Hydrochloric Acid: Safflowers
For Iron: Yellow Dock, Golden Seal, Nettle, Raspberry,
Rosehip, Basil For Manganese: Black Walnut, Golden Seal, Watercress For Vitamin B: Dandelion, Garlic, Kelp, Parsley, Chickweed,
Hawthorn
To help build good blood: red clover, Echinacea, Myrrh,
Licorice, Barberry, Dandelion To help increase red blood cells: Gentian, Thyme To help soothe intestinal lining in case of allergy: Comfrey,
Slippery Elm
HOMEOPATHIC
Alumina 30c: For anemia at puberty with abnormal craving for indigestible substances, e.g., chalk, pencils. |
| HERBS
To cleanse: Golden Seal, Dock, Mullein, and/or red clover To provide extra nourishment: Lavender, Juniper, and/or Thyme
To soothe: Slippery Elm or Marshmallow HOMEOPATHIC
After suspected contact, see Resistance and Immunity, page 19.
Apis 30c: High fever, no thirst, prickly skin, scanty urine; child is drowsy, restless, and agitated. Belladonna 30c: Sore throat, strawberry tongue, swollen glands; rash is smooth and bright red. Delirium. Bryonia 30c: For very slow appearance of rash; or sudden disappearance of rash with onset of complications. |
| HERBS
Daily drinks of red clover tea during the mumps and afterward to clear out the lymph glands.
Keep bowels clear by drinking Licorice and Rosemary tea.
HOMEOPATHIC
After suspected contact: Pilocarpine 30c. This can help the child's resistance to the disease. Give one dose night and morning for three days (starting within 2 days of contact), then one dose per week for 2 weeks.
Belladonna 30c: Bright red swelling on right side; also useful where swelling disappears and head or neck pain develops. |
Sharol Tilgner, N.D.
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| RESPIRATORY GLYCERITE
Echinacea Goldenseal Elecampane Yerba santa red clover Make in glycerin form.
Actions:
Echinacea angustifolia/purpurea 30-45%
Hydrastis canadensis 15-25%
Inula helenium 15-25%
Eriodictyon californicum 15-25%
Trifolium pratense 3-6%
This compound will support the immune system, decrease congestion and increase expectoration while soothing and healing the tissues of the respiratory tract. It is antiviral and antibacterial.
Indications:
This formula is specific for supporting the lungs during infectious lung diseases. |
Dr. John Heinerman
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 With her boyfriend's permission, she combined 15 drops each of sar-saparilla, red clover, and barberry and gave it to Rover orally twice a day for two weeks. She also fed him a tablespoon of cod-liver oil and one teaspoon of liquid vitamin C every day, too.
Rover soon recovered from his bladder discomforts and was himself again, much to the delight of George and his girlfriend. This made a believer in herbs out of him, and he started using some of them to improve his own health. |
Sharol Tilgner, N.D.
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| Contraindications: It is contraindicated in pregnancy and for individuals using blood thinning agents.400 Red clover's action as a blood thinner will potentiate the effect of other blood thinning agents.
Red raspberry -Rubus idaeus in the Rosaceae or Rose family. Part used: Leaf.
Taste/smell: Bitter, aromatic, astringent. Tendencies: Cooling.
Dosage: Infusion: 1 tablespoon per cup of water; or 1:4 dry strength liquid extract: 10-60 drops 1-4 times per day.
Use: (a) Mild, soothing astringent, (b) Preparatory parturient, (c) Uterine tonic, (d) Improves uterine tone and blood supply. |
Kathi Keville
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| Herbs that have traditionally been used to encourage lymph flow and to reduce swollen glands include red root, red clover, cleavers, mullein, prickly ash, lemon peel, bap-tisia and echinacea. With the exception of mullein and echinacea, these herbs have not been well-studied, but herbalists have been using them to help drain infections for hundreds of years.
Herbalists consider baptisia, also called wild indigo, one of the first options in treating swollen lymph conditions such as tonsillitis and laryngitis. |
Sharol Tilgner, N.D.
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| Examples:
• Burdock (Arctium lappa)
• Calendula (Calendula officinalis)
• Cleavers (Galium aparine)
• Flag (Iris versicolor)
• Mullein (Verbascum thapsus)
• Ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens)
• Poke root (Phytolacca decandra)
• Queen's root (Stillingia sylvatica)
• red clover (Trifolium pratense)
• Wild indigo (Baptisia tinctoria)
Mucilage: A gummy or gelatinous substance used as a demulcent. All mucilage can be used as a demulcent but all demulcents are not necessarily mucilaginous. Mucilage is a hydrating agent to be used with dry tissues. |
| Licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra)
• Ligustrum (Ligustrum lucidum)
• Poke (Phytolacca decandra)
• Queen's root (Stillingia sylvatica)
• red clover (Trifolium pratense)
Antiviral: Destroys or suppresses growth of viruses, generally by supporting the immune system and allowing the body to support and fight invading organisms.
Examples:
• Astragalus (Astragalus membranaceus)
• Cedar scales (Thuja spp.)
• Echinacea (Echinacea spp. |
Kathi Keville
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| Preliminary scientific evidence shows that some of the herbs in this remedy, including calendula, chamomile, burdock, baptisia, red clover and marshmallow, have immune-enhancing properties similar to those of echinacea. Yellow dock and yucca have similar properties.
All of these herbs increase immune system responses and decrease the number of cancerous cells, at least in the laboratory. They also have a long history of use in treatments for immune-related problems. Burdock, for example, has been used around the world to inhibit and slow the growth of cancerous tumors. |
| Menopause Tincture
J teaspoon black cohosh root Vi teaspoon each tinctures of vitex berry, ginseng root, red clover flower, licorice root, don quai root, motherwort leaf and fenugreek seed TO Combine ingredients. This recipe can also be made into a tea using the same proportions of dried herbs and steeping them in 1 quart of boiling water. As a tea, however, this brew is too strong for most peoples taste. Take 2 to 5 dropperfuls of tincture or 3 to 6 cups of tea a day. |
| When these women ate red clover sprouts, flaxseeds and soy flour every day for two weeks, their estrogen levels rose and remained high. Once they stopped the special diet, the levels fell back down to their original postmenopausal level.
Alfalfa seeds and sprouts may produce a similar effect. These herbs have long been used as a folk cure to relieve hot flashes for women in New Mexico. The large amount of estrogenlike substances in soy and soy products is thought to be one reason that Japanese women experience so few menopausal symptoms. |
Lesley Tierra
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| It combines well with other alteratives, especially yellow dock, sassafras, burdock, dandelion and red clover.
A hot decoction promotes profuse sweating, helping colds, fevers and mucus problems, and powerfully expels gas from the stomach and intestines. Sarsaparilla contains estrogen-like substances which make it valuable in glandular balance formulas. It has traditionally been used in root beer and other soft drinks. |
Sharol Tilgner, N.D.
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| Water-soluble polysaccharides in red clover showed antitumor activity and chemotactic effects for leukocytes, mostly granulocytic, when administered by intraperitoneal injection in mice with peritoneal sarcoma 37 ascites tumor cells.179
Licorice, Glycyrrhiza glabra, is an adrenomodulator, antimutagen, anti-allergenic, anti-inflammatory, nutritive, antioxidant, immunomodulator, mild laxative and hepatoprotective.43,139 " 147,257 It is used in immune deficient states and for protection and regeneration of liver cells. |
Patrick Quillin, PhD,RD,CNS
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 Genesis 1:29
HERBAL MEDICINE
AS SUPPLEMENTS: echinecea astragalus Cat's claw Pau D'arco" ginseng grape seed extract aloe vera red clover milk thistle. Essiac Hoxsey Floressence
AS FOODS: soy green & orange dandelion greens citrus tomato green tea broccoli/cabbage beets sprouts flaxseed meal sesame seeds Maitake mushrm
AS SEASONINGS: garlic onion hot peppers cinnamon ginger real licorice tumeric (curry) parsley sage chicory thyme basil
Our ancestors used to practice botanical medicine all day everyday~in the kitchen. |
Thomas Bartram
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 Take heads of red clover and fill a kettle. Boil in water for one hour. Remove and fill kettle with fresh flower heads. Boil as before in the same liquor. Strain and press heads to express all the liquor. Simmer over a low fire till of the consistency of tar. It must not burn. Spread over a piece of suitable material."
(19) Wipe affected area with cut Houseleek. (Dr Wm Boericke)
(20) Chinese Herbalism. Take 1-2 Liang pulverised liao-ko-wang (Wickstroemia indica), mix with cold boiled water or rice wine for local compress. Also good for mastitis. |
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