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Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy: Modern Herbal Medicine Simon Mills and Kerry Bone See book keywords and concepts

In the open phase at the end of the trial, addition of co-factors (zinc, niacin and vitamins C and T36) to EPO treatment produced an increase in omega-3 and omega-6 EFA incorporation into red cell membranes. During this phase, marked and significant clinical improvements in memory, schizophrenic symptoms and abnormal movement were observed in comparison to placebo or EPO-only treatment.

The trophorestoratives were thus often combined with other tonics and convalescent foods such as molasses, yeast and malt extract (now known as rich sources of the B vitamins), oatmeal and other cereals. Application Trophorestoratives may be taken as required or before food. Long-term therapy with trophorestoratives is generally the norm. References Liao JF, Jan YM, Huang SY et al. Evaluation with receptor binding assay on the water extracts of ten CNS-active Chinese herbal drugs.

The Natural Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs Frantisek Stary See book keywords and concepts

The fruits also contain the above-mentioned flavonoids, anthocyanin pigments, vitamins A, B, and C, and ancillary substances (sugars and organic acids). The flowers are very effective in producing perspiration and also possess mild diuretic, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic and mild laxative properties. An infusion used to treat colds and other infections associated with chilling can be prepared from one tablespoon of the drug to one cup water, taken five or more times daily. The infusion should be very warm and its effect may be enhanced by a hot foot bath.

Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy: Modern Herbal Medicine Simon Mills and Kerry Bone See book keywords and concepts

Topically to open wounds • Coeliac disease, fat malabsorption and vitamins A, D, E, and K deficiency • In some upper digestive irritations Traditional therapeutic insights into the use of saponins Saponins are common constituents in plants used in Chinese and Asian medicine as tonics and harmonizing treatments. Modern pharmacological interest in the effects of ginseng has raised speculation that as steroidal molecules, some saponins may modulate steroid hormone control mechanisms in the body (see also p.43).

Prescription Medicines, Side Effects and Natural Alternatives American Medical Publishing See book keywords and concepts

Many contain vitamins and minerals to supplement the amounts of these nutrients that people get from the food they eat. There also are many products on the market that contain other substances like high-potency free amino acids, botanicals, enzymes, herbs, animal extracts, and bioflavanoids. The FDA's review of the safety and efficacy of these products is significantly less than for drugs and other products it regulates. Be cautious about using any supplement that claims to treat, prevent or cure a serious disease.

Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy: Modern Herbal Medicine Simon Mills and Kerry Bone See book keywords and concepts

Dietary flavonoids, antioxidant vitamins, and incidence of stroke: the Zutphen Studv. Archives of Internal Medicine 1996; 156 (6): 637-642. 112. Knekt P, Jarvinen R, Reunanen A et al. Flavonoid intake and coronary mortality in Finland: a cohort study. British Medical Journal 1996; 312 (7029): 478-481. 113. Rimm EB, Katan MB, Ascherio A et al. Relation between intake of flavonoids and risk for coronary heart disease in male health professionals. Annals of Internal Medicine 1996; 125 (5): 384-389. 114. Nagao M, Naokata M, Yahagi T et al.

Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? The Rest of the Story on the New Class of SSRI Antidepressants Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Lovan, Luvox & More Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

Extreme stimulation of the nervous system, adrenal glands and metabolism creates severe deficiencies of the neurotransmitters, calcium, magnesium, fatty acids, and B vitamins. Heavy users often develop serious mental disorders, including acute paranoia." (ADDICTIONS, A NUTRITIONAL APPROACH TO RECOVERY, P. 29) It should seem extremely irrational to be using drugs with a strong stimulant effect to treat mental disorders when in the long run they create mental disorders.

The reason for this is most likely that with the natural vitamins there are no artificial substances which would interact and possibly cause an interaction with the drug residue in the patient's system. Vitamin C is always listed as the most critical ingredient these programs use. Unfortunately I have found that most ex-Prozac patients cannot handle vitamin C except for the acerola C because of stomach problems.

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Smart Exercise: Burning Fat, Getting Fit Covert Bailey See book keywords and concepts

People worry too much about vitamins, proteins, and carbohydrates — it's FAT that runs the body. Like starving people, those who are very fit occasionally have lighter-fluid problems. During long, rigorous sports events their muscles run out of sugar. When that happens, their energy drops abruptly because the burning of fat, triggered by sugar's spark, has ceased. Athletes think they run out of energy because their sugar has run out, but in reality, they have plenty of "fat energy" left but no way to draw from it.

A muscle cell membrane has little pores in it that allow vitamins, fluids, and such to trickle in and out. But those pores are a little bit tight for glucose molecules. To facilitate their entry, insulin makes those little holes dilate, almost the way your pupil dilates in the dark. After a sugary meal, insulin, secreted from the pancreas, travels in blood to all the muscles saying, "Open up, baby, let the Ding-Dong in." After exercise, muscle, eager to have its glucose, reacts almost as if it's in an emergency situation.

When a mother is breast-feeding her baby, the breast cells must convert vitamins, protein, and fluids from her blood into milk. That takes lots of energy, so breast cells use lots of ATP. Producing breast milk demands even more ATP than pregnancy. Even the neurons in your brain transmitting electrical messages as you read and think about this book demand ATP-matches to do their job. Every cell of your entire body makes ATP-matches, uses them, and then makes them over again. The problem with ATP-matches is that each cell has a limited supply.

Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy: Modern Herbal Medicine Simon Mills and Kerry Bone See book keywords and concepts

Effects of dietary saponins on fecal bile acids and neutral sterols, and availability of vitamins A and E in the chick. Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry 1994; 5 (3): 134-137 48. Oakenfull D, Sidhu GS. Could saponins be a useful treatment for hypercholesterolaemia? European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1990; 44: 79-88 49. Juarez-Oropeza MA Diaz-Zagoya JC, Rabinowitz JL. In vivo and in vitro studies of hypocholesterolemic effects of diosgenin in rats. International Journal of Biochemistry 1987; 19: 679-683 50. Roman ID, Thewles A, Coleman R.

The Okinawa Program : How the World's Longest-Lived People Achieve Everlasting Health Bradley J. Willcox, D. Craig Willcox, and Makoto Suzuki See book keywords and concepts

Without it we could not absorb vitamins A, E, D, and K. So it's clearly not fat per se that's the problem, it's too much of the wrong kind that we have to worry about. Good Fat versus Bad Fat Fats are made up of four different types of fatty acids, which come in various mixtures depending on what kind of food they're in.23 They are composed of a carbon backbone and a bunch of hydrogen atoms, and they derive their names and their health properties from the number of hydrogen atoms, and where those atoms are placed.

Healing with Plants in the American and Mexican West Margarita Artschwager Kay See book keywords and concepts

Equisetum is rich in silica and also contains the B vitamins nicotine, thiamin, riboflavin, and niacin, along with ascorbic acid (vitamin C), saponins, luteolin, and kaempferol. It is poisonous to livestock. ¦ Eryngium (Apiaceae) ERYNGO, BUTTON SNAKEROOT Eryngium carlinae Delar. saibari, Tarahumara Eryngium hemsleyanum Wolff yerba del sapo, Mountain Pima; babadai, vasogadi, Tepehuan Eryngium heterophyllum Engelm. yerba del sapo (toad herb), Mountain Pima; sawiwari, Tarahumara Eryngium longifolium Cav. chinaca, Tarahumara Eryngium maritimum L.

The Okinawa Program : How the World's Longest-Lived People Achieve Everlasting Health Bradley J. Willcox, D. Craig Willcox, and Makoto Suzuki See book keywords and concepts

The active components for cancer prevention include vitamins, minerals, fiber, plant sterols (e.g., flavonoids), and other hormonal compounds and antioxidants. There is no better example of the success of these recommendations than the Okinawans who in our nutrition studies get "Seven-a-Day" despite their low calorie intake and who, of course, have very low cancer rates. The take-home message? Eat more vegetables and fruits! Cancer Protective Factor 3: Good Fats Dietary fat was the original bogeyman when it came to hormone-dependent cancer.

Vitamin D is one of the few vitamins that the body can manufacture on its own—if it's exposed to adequate amounts of sunshine. This hypothesis has been supported by the discovery of vitamin D receptors in the normal prostate, as well as other evidence that vitamin D can modify cancer cells in a beneficial way. The fact that Okinawans are exposed to regular sunshine may be a factor in their low rates of prostate cancer. This, of course, does not mean that we should run out to the beach, slather on the oil, and bake ourselves to a fine crisp.

Permanent Remissions Robert Hass, M.S. See book keywords and concepts

A soy cocktail is a beverage mix that contains a clinically effective dose of soy isoflavones in addition to other phytonutrients, antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals. People who don't eat soy foods can use any commercially prepared soy cocktail—sold in most health-food stores and natural-food markets—to obtain genistein, the powerful disease-fighting phytonutrient available only in soybeans.) Within a month, Hal's symptoms—pain, urinary urgency, lethargy—and the worry and anxiety that accompanies them—began to disappear. His energy levels improved by leaps and bounds.

Others adopt various fad diets and take daily megadoses of vitamins. Still others seek out offshore clinics for more exotic therapies. Does it do any good? To date, there is no evidence that any one of these approaches cures cancer. Any claims about the efficacy of such treatments vanish under the impartial scrutiny of scientific inquiry. There is substantial clinical evidence, however, that diet and lifestyle changes improve your health and significantly reduce your risk of cancer, heart disease, diabetes and osteoporosis. Indeed, it is overwhelming.

I'll tell you the truth about the role of vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients in fighting cancer, free of media hype and sensationalism. And the truth is this: certain nutrients can and do help the body fight cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and osteoporosis when used as part of a total dietary strategy. But no pill, however potent, can take the place of a phytonutrient-rich diet. The most brilliant scientists alive today cannot recreate in a pill what Mother Nature has put in oranges, tomatoes, and soybeans.

Certain vitamins, minerals, and nutrients can effectively boost the safety and cancer-stopping power of traditional cancer treatments. For example: • Antioxidants, such as carotenoids, vitamin E, and selenium, enhance the effectiveness of radiotherapy and chemotherapy while providing protection against damage to normal cells. • Vitamin C, vitamin E, calcium, and selenium help stop tumor cells from rejecting anticancer drugs. These same nutrients protect against heart damage caused by anticancer drugs called anthracyclines and they scavenge harmful free radicals produced by radiotherapy.

Prescription Medicines, Side Effects and Natural Alternatives American Medical Publishing See book keywords and concepts

They offer a battery of herbs, vitamins, powered drink mixes, foods and dozens of other products — all promising everything from a cure for cancer or depression, to more robust health for people who already enjoy normal health. Perhaps the key word in "natural." Everyone believes that if it is "natural" it is automatically safe, healthy, and risk free. Nothing is more trusted than herbs, and herbal remedies. After all, herbs are just plants, many of them already extremely familiar to us. What could be safer than eating a lot of garlic every day to improve health? Or how about fish oil tablets?

The Okinawa Program : How the World's Longest-Lived People Achieve Everlasting Health Bradley J. Willcox, D. Craig Willcox, and Makoto Suzuki See book keywords and concepts

But it is interesting to note that, in general, fruit does not contain as many vitamins, minerals, flavonoids, and other small nutrients as vegetables. Okinawans are not big carnivores, either. Less than 10 percent of the elders' diet is meat, mosdy pork and poultry. This usually works out to about an ounce of meat a day—certainly very little by North American standards. The Okinawans' tradition of consuming pork on religious occasions has led to some lively debates among the elders about pork as a "longevity food.

Prescription Medicines, Side Effects and Natural Alternatives American Medical Publishing See book keywords and concepts

They are available in a variety of forms, including water infusions (teas), powders, tablets, capsules, and elixirs, and may be marketed as single substances or in combination with other materials, such as vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and non-nutrient ingredients. Although data on the availability, consumer use, and health effects of herbals are very limited, some herbal ingredients have been associated with serious adverse health effects. A.

The Politics of Cancer Revisited Samuel S. Epstein, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Avoid organ meats, particularly liver (even though this is high in protein and vitamins and relatively low in calories), pancreas or sweetbreads, and kidney, as these concentrate residues of both accidental carcinogenic contaminants and carcinogenic feed additives. Avoid any food, oil, or beverage sold or stored in rigid PVC containers. Although banned, these are still on the market. Residues of carcinogenic and other chemicals from the plastic are dissolved in the contents. 4. Water.

On the other hand, some chemicals, such as vitamins C and E in high doses, can retard but not block nitro-samine synthesis. Air Nitrosamines have been detected by use of the thermal energy analyzer in the air of several American cities, particularly in the vicinity of chemical plants manufacturing or handling amines. In the summer of 1975, levels ranging up to about 0.05 ppb DMN were found in the downtown areas of Belle and Charleston, West Virginia.

Sarusua and Savitz concluded: The results linking hot dogs and brain tumors (replicating an earlier study) and the apparent synergism between no vitamins and meat consumption suggest a possible adverse effect of dietary nitrites and nitrosamines.20 Peters, et al. studied the relationship between the intake of certain foods and the risk of leukemia in children from birth to age 10 in Los Angeles County between 1980 and 1987. The researchers found that children who ate 12 or more hot dogs per month had approximately seven times the normai risk for developing childhood leukemia.

Not only were the women treated with a carcinogenic drug — evidence for which had been established over a decade prior to the test — but according to some they were told that the pills they received were vitamins.* The initial tests produced somewhat ambigubetween use of oral contraceptives and some types of benign liver tumors, specifically hepatic cell adenomas and focal nodular hyperplasias.... the problem of the malignant potential of benign hepatic tumors should be addressed.

But the decrease in these vitamins suggests that other related nutrients and beneficial plant substances, not available through supplements, may also have been decreased. Another area of possible carcinogenicity deals with workers who will be exposed to cobalt-60 or cesium-137 and communities where such radioactive materials are transported and stored. In 1988, at a Decatur, Georgia, plant that irradiated medical supplies, some steel rods corroded, exposing employees to radiation and contaminating twenty-five thousand gallons of water with radioactive isotopes.

Prescription Medicines, Side Effects and Natural Alternatives American Medical Publishing See book keywords and concepts

That means a healthy diet, with daily adequate amounts of vitamins A, D, E, C, B complex, and the minerals calcium, chromium, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, selenium, zinc and beta cerotine. No. 3 — Synthroid — Used for cases of underactive thyroid and other thyroid problems. Perhaps one of the safest of all prescription drugs. Very few problems and few if any deaths are reported as a result of this drug. Potential Dangers — Side effects are rare, but can include heart palpitations, rapid heart beat, weight loss, tremors, headaches, nervousness and a few more.

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