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Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals: A Handbook for Practice on a Scientific Basis Josef A. Brinckmann and Michael P. Lindenmaier See book keywords and concepts

Caraway fruit is an important component of Species carminativae (with fennel and anise) and of Species deflatulentes (with chamomile, peppermint, valerian and anise). Commercially available combination products include Weleda Nursing Tea, Sidroga® Stilltee, Midro® Tee, and Good Earth® Medicinals™ Laxative Tea . Significant amounts of caraway Excerpt from the German Commission E monograph (BAn% no. 22a, Published February 1, 1990) Uses Dyspeptic complaints such as mild, colicky upsets in the gastrointestinal tract, feeling of repletion, and flatulence. Contraindications None known.

Femi-cur®N capsules (4 mg dry extract, 7— 13:1, ethanol 60%). Regulatory status Canada: Approved active ingredient in numerous homoeopathic medicines requiring pre-marketing authorization. Natural Health Product. U.K.: Herbal medicine on General Sale List, Table A (internal or external use), Schedule 1 (requires full Product License). U.S.: Dietary supplement or homeopathic medicine depending on dosage form and label statements. Authentication: Macroscopic (see: Description) and microscopic (see also: AHP or BHP).

The Herbal Drugstore Linda B. White, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Typical dosage: up to six 580-milligram capsules per day,- or 1 cup of tea three times per day (simmer % to \V2 teaspoons of dried fruit in 1 cup of water for 10 to 15 minutes),- or 1^ to 1 teaspoon of tincture or glycerite up to three times per day. Lyme Disease HEN IT COMES TO LISTS OF favorite creatures, nobody rates ticks very high. You'll never see them listed in glossy brochures that crow about the wildlife that graces a particular natural area or national forest. But you can be sure that wherever warm-blooded animals thrive, ticks are likely to prosper as well.

Typical dosage: up to six 580-milligram capsules per day, or 15 to 25 drops of tincture in water two times per day, or 2 cups of tea per day (simmer 2 heaping teaspoons of dried fruit in 2 cups of water for 10 to 15 minutes). Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum) This medicinal mushroom can help calm anxiety, ease insomnia, and tone the immune system. Typical dosage: up to five 420-milligram capsules per day,- or up to three 1,000-milligram tablets up to three times per day,-or up to 2 teaspoons of tincture 2 or 3 times per day,- or 1 teaspoon of syrup per day.

Typical dosage: 3 cups of tea per day (simmer 1 teaspoon of dried fruit in 1 cup of hot water for 10 to 15 minutes),- or l/s to V2 teaspoon of tincture three times per day. Natural stimulants to Avoid Your local health food store is likely to carry a variety of products advertised as energy boosters. They may be natural, but that doesn't mean they're good for you. In general, avoid herbal stimulants containing ephedra (ma huang) or caffeine (kola nut, guarana, or yerba mate). Unfortunately, that includes those double lattes you've been using to get over the mid-afternoon need for a nap!

To satisfy your sweet tooth, turn to fresh whole fruit in season, carob, nuts, and dried fruit. þEat several small meals per day. This strategy supports the immune system and reduces food cravings and emotional swings. þ Avoid caffeine. Reduce your intake of coffee, chocolate, and tea before and during menstruation. þAdjust your nutrition. Before your period, increase whole grains in your diet to help stabilize moodiness. Then, once your period starts, eat fewer whole grains. When it ends, consume more protein. þTry ginger tea.

Typical dosage: 1 to 3 cups of tea per day (simmer 1 to 2 teaspoons of dried fruit in 1 cup of water for 10 minutes),- or Vs to V2 teaspoon of tincture three times per day. Turmeric (Curcuma longa) This bright yellow spice has been shown to help remove the carcinogens that smoking puts in your body. If you're overwhelmed by the number of herbs recommended here, just put turmeric on your spice shelf where it's handy and add it to food several times a week.

The Doctors Book of Home Remedies II: Over 1,200 New Doctor-Tested Tips and Techniques Anyone Can Use to Heal Hundreds of Everyday Health Problems the Editors of PREVENTION See book keywords and concepts

You'll be using a root (black cohosh), a leaf (skullcap), and a powder made from dried fruit (cayenne). The skullcap, of course, is a useful herbal component of your stress-relief campaign. Helping it along is the black cohosh, a common herb for menstrual problems whose cramp-soothing properties address your jaw pain. Cayenne is a circulation stimulator, helping to rid your aching jaw muscles of toxins. The popularity of black cohosh makes it easy to find at health food stores. Look for dried, cut root.

Herbal Medicine, Healing and Cancer: A Comprehensive Program for Prevention and Treatment Donald R. Yance, j r.,C.N., M.H., A.H.G., with Arlene Valentine See book keywords and concepts

Also include soaked dried fruit, ground flaxseeds, and flaxseed oil in your diet. Do not take laxatives. Helpful nutritional supplements include: • Magnesium, nature's natural laxative, or trace-mineral tablets rich in magnesium. Dose: Magnesium—200 to 1,000 mg daily in divided doses. Trace mineral tablets—2 to 6 tablets daily in divided doses. • Liver-detoxifying formula containing choline, inositol, and taurine, along with herbs such as dandelion and fringe tree.

Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives: A Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients Vitamin E Ruth Winter See book keywords and concepts

BLACK PEPPER OIL • From steam distillation of dried fruit of Piper nigrum. An odorless to greenish liquid with the odor and taste of pepper. A flavoring agent used in meat, salads, soups, and vegetables. A moderate skin irritant. BLACK WALNUT EXTRACT • Extract of the leaves or bark of the black walnut tree, Juglans nigra, found in eastern North America. It produces nuts with a thick oil and is used as a black coloring. BLACKBERRY BARK EXTRACT • Rubus fruiticosus. A natural flavoring agent extracted from the woody plant.

Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 1 Michael T. Murray, ND See book keywords and concepts

The ripe, dried fruit of Vitex agnus castus is the part of the plant used in medicinal preparations today.1 CHEMICAL COMPOSITION The fruit of Vitex contains essential oils, iridoid glycosides, and flavonoids.2 The essential oils include limonene, 1,8 cineole, and sabinene.3 The primary flavonoids include castican, orientin, and isoVitexin. The two isolated iridoidglycosides are agnuside and aucubin (see Figs 123.1 and 123.2).4 Agnuside serves as a reference material for quality control in the manufacture of Vitex extracts.

PDR for Nutritional Supplements Sheldon Saul Hendler and David Rorvik See book keywords and concepts

Hydroxycitric acid is the principal acid in the fruits of Garcinia cambogia and makes up to 16% of the content of the dried fruit. Hydroxycitric acid, in addition to being called (-)- hydroxycitric acid, is also known as hydroxycitrate, (-) — threo-hydroxycitric acid and 4S-hydroxycitric acid. It is abbreviated as (-)-HCA and sometimes as HCA. It is a different substance than either citric acid or isocitric acid, which are key intermediates in the tricarboxylic acid or Krebs cycle.

Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 1 Michael T. Murray, ND See book keywords and concepts

In 1986, the FDA finally banned sulfite use on produce and required labeling of other foods, such as wine, beer, and dried fruit, that have added sulfites. The average person consumes an average of 2-3 mg/day of sulfites, while wine and beer drinkers typically consume up to 10 mg/day.39 The Feingold hypothesis The hypothesis that food additives can cause hyperactivity in children stemmed from the research of Benjamin Feingold MD and is commonly referred to as the "Feingold hypothesis".

Intake of refined carbohydrate and concentrated sugars (including honey, pasteurized fruit juices, and dried fruit, as well as sugar and white flour) should be limited to less than 10% of the total calorie intake. Constructing a diet winch meets these recommendations is simple using the exchange lists. In addition, the recommendations ensure a high intake of vital whole foods, particularly vegetables, rich in nutritional value. Following are examples of exchange recommendations.

Nontoxic, Natural and Earthwise Debra Lynn Dadd See book keywords and concepts

Walnut Acres Hunza dried fruit (Walnut Acres). Apricot halves, apricots, mixed fruits and nuts, white mulberries, fruit mix. All grown and sun-dried in northern Pakistan. Walnut Acres. hut Food dryers Bee Beyer's Natural Food Dryers (Bee Beyer). All-steel, with baked enamel finish. Stainless-steel mesh trays. Bee Beyer. Fish and Seafood_ Harmful ingredients: benzyl alcohol/sodium benzoate, hydrogen peroxide, nitrates/ nitrosamines.

Prepared with biologically grown grains, dried fruit, and nuts. Bioforce of America. Deer Valley Farm. Soybean grits, wheat middlings, wheat cereal. Diamond K Enterprises. Brown rice, corn grits, cracked wheat, steel-cut oats, seven-gtain, soy grits. Eagle Agricultural Products. Brown-rice cream, wheat bran, yellow and white corn grits, cracked wheat, oat btan, wheat flakes, rye flakes, barley flakes, soy flakes, and rolled oats. Eden Foods Organic Cereals (Eden Foods). Rice cream, seven-grain. Fiddler's Green Farm. Hot-cereal mixes: oat btan and brown rice, four grain, and oatmeal.

Intelligent Medicine: A Guide to Optimizing Health and Preventing Illness for the Baby-Boomer Generation Ronald L. Hoffman, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Soak some dried fruit overnight in water or apple juice for your breakfast the next day. This is very easy food for the body to digest, and it contains pectin and vitamins.

Surprising to some is the fact that dried fruit, despite its "naturalness," has a glycemic index virtually identical with that of commercial candy. The message is that not all that emanates from the health food store is beneficial for patients with sugar disease. No wonder my patient Steven, with his family history of diabetes and heart disease, and his morning granola, raisins, and apple juice and his evening pasta and bread, was suffering from Syndrome X. His diet was "healthy" by popular standards but was making his blood sugar problem even worse. What are the alternative carbohydrates?

As noted in chapter 6, the high glycemic index foods are products like bread, pasta, mashed potatoes, and dried fruit. The high glycemic index foods have a powerful roller-coaster effect on mood and energy as well as long-term effects on the endocrine system. (Look again at chapter 6 for more on the glycemic index.) They are not inherently unhealthy, and they provide the key to performance for athletes competing in, say, the Tour de France. But they are distinctly unhealthy for the normally active or slightly sedentary.

These foods slowly release their stored sugar without precipitating insulin surges, unlike dried fruit and fruit juice, cold cereal, flavored yogurts, pasta, breads, and most "natural desserts." Sitting down to eat a large plate of pasta, or eating other large portions of high glycemic index foods, can be especially risky. With a large portion, you are more likely to exceed the ability of your system to produce sufficient insulin. You're challenging the insulin response, which tends to induce high cholesterol levels and levels of fat-enhancing hormones.

Active Wellness - A Personalized 10 Step Program for a Healthy Body, Mind & Spirit Gayle Reichler, M.S., R.D., C.D.N. See book keywords and concepts

If you are trying to lose weight, avoid breads that contain dried fruit, which is often high in calories. Remember to follow the low-fat rule to determine which bread products qualify: 3 grams or less of fat per serving. A slice of bread (1 ounce) equals one grain unit on your Active Wellness eating plan. Crackers and Baked Snacks I am often asked how many crackers or baked snacks equal one grains serving. With the wide variety of crackers and baked snacks available, the serving size on the nutrition label is a reliable guide to how much of an item equals one serving.

Intelligent Medicine: A Guide to Optimizing Health and Preventing Illness for the Baby-Boomer Generation Ronald L. Hoffman, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Other fruits, jams, jellies, fruit juice, and dried fruit because of their high sugar content. Avoid • Commercially raised beef, veal, pork, lamb, organ meats, luncheon meats, sausages. • Alcoholic beverages, sweet sodas. • White rice and all flour products: breads, muffins, cookies, noodles, pasta, cakes, crackers, matzoh, breakfast cereals (except Wheatena, oatmeal, or oat bran). • Margarine, butter, lards, other oils. • All nuts other than those mentioned above, nut butters. • All other dairy products, frozen or flavored yogurt, soy-based or rice-based frozen deserts.

Dr. Cass Ingram's Lifesaving Cures Dr. Cass Ingram See book keywords and concepts

Fruit, dried There is little sustenance value in dried fruit. However, it is an optimal source of naturally occurring vitamin C and bioflavonoids. In this respect it is valuable for survival. Select low sugar fruit for drying, since they contain a greater density of important nutrients than high sugar fruit such as oranges and apples. The high amount of simple sugars is detrimental, providing only hyper energy but offering little longevity nutrition. Remember, it is the nutrients in the fruit, that is the enzymes, vitamin C, folic acid, and flavonoids, that offer the greatest survival power.

Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 2 Michael T. Murray, ND See book keywords and concepts

The diet should also eliminate concentrated simple carbohydrates - sugar, honey, dried fruit, concentrated fruit juice, etc. - since they inhibit the immune system. These simple dietary recommendations will bring relief to most children in a matter of days.

Diet Eliminate all sources of concentrated simple sugars: sugar, honey, fruit juice, dried fruit, etc. Restrict food intake to less than 1,000 calories/day. Increase fluid intake to 8 oz/hour using water and the herbal teas listed below. Supplements • Vitamin A: 50,000 IU/day for 1 week; or beta-carotene: 200,000 IU/day (Note: do not use vitamin A in menstruating women due to teratogenic effect) • Vitamin C: 500 mg every 2 hours • Bioflavonoids: 1,000 mg/day • Zinc: use lozenges supplying 15-25 mg of elemental zinc (gluconate form without citrate mannitol or sorbitol).

These include elimination of all simple sugars (foods containing added sucrose, fructose or glucose; fruit juice; dried fruit; and low-fiber fruits such as grapes and citrus fruits), limitation of processed carbohydrates (white flour, instant potatoes, white rice, etc.), and an increase in complex carbohydrates (whole grains, vegetables, beans, etc.).

Foods That Fight Pain: Revolutionary New Strategies for Maximum Pain Relief Neal Barnard, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Cut and core apple, if used, then add it to the dried fruit in the food processor. Chop fine. Transfer the fruit mixture to a medium-size saucepan and add the remaining ingredients. Simmer slowly—stirring occasionally—for about 5 minutes, or until thickened, per Vz cup: i6o calories, 5 g protein, 31 g carbohydrate, 2 g fat, 47 mg sodium *May be a trigger food for some individuals.

Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 2 Michael T. Murray, ND See book keywords and concepts

Patients with reactive hypoglycemia should eat regular meals and carefully avoid simple carbohydrates of all forms (sugar, honey, dried fruit, fruit juice, etc.). Lifestyle The individual with angina should stop smoking and drinking alcohol and coffee. Stress should be decreased by using stress management techniques such as progressive relaxation, meditation or guided imagery. A carefully graded, progressive, aerobic exercise program (30 minutes three times / week) is a necessity. Walking is a good exercise with which to start. • Coenzyme Q10: 150-300 mg daily.

Dr. Cass Ingram's Lifesaving Cures Dr. Cass Ingram See book keywords and concepts

Perhaps the greatest value of carbohydrates is that many of these foods are easy to store for prolonged periods: hence, the survival value of brown/wild rice, lima beans, honey, and dried fruit. What's more, they are easy to administer, especially for children and the elderly. The top quality carbohydrates for the maintenance of optimal health are listed throughout this section. Brazil nuts These nuts are a nutritional treasure chest. The problem is they tend to spoil. If storing, preserve in the freezer or in air tight containers.

Herring plus dried fruit or tomatoes is a nutrient dense meal. Honey Honey provides fuel, that is calories, and nutrients, plus it is a lifesaving medicine. It is a relatively inexpensive natural remedy with a versatility unmatched by modern drugs. Knowing the therapeutic powers of honey is a must for those who wish to have the survival advantage for the future. The bees use honey for food, but they also know it is a means of keeping the hive sterile. Germs cannot flourish in it. This is because of a phenomenon known as hydroscopicity. Honey is low in moisture. Thus, it attracts moisture.

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