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 For this reason, individuals are advised to inform their healthcare professionals about all medicines and supplements they use, especially before surgery.) This section provides herb-drug interactions and clinical management guidance from the Thomson Micromedex database. Further, drug interactions are evaluated as to their likelihood of occurrence and categorized by risk level—Major Risk, Moderate Risk, Minor Risk, and Potential Interactions.
¦ Overdosage: As we all know, "natural" is not synonymous with "benign," and an overdose of certain herbs can have serious—even fatal—consequences. |
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| Drug Interactions: The drug can hinder the resorption of other medicines.
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General: Health risks following the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages are not recorded. Quantities corresponding to up to 500 mg caffeine daily (5 cups of coffee) spread out over the day are toxicologically harmless for healthy adults accustomed to drinking coffee. Caution is advised for persons with sensitive cardiovascular systems, kidney diseases, hyperfunction of the thyroid gland, higher disposition to convulsions and certain psychic disorders, for example panic anxiety states. |
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| The authors of a 2004 review of adverse effects (from case reports) conclude that the most relevant risks involve interactions with other medicines, such as with cyclosporine in people with organ transplants. St. John's Wort increases metabolism and consequently reduced plasma concentrations of drugs that are metabolized by the cytochrome P450 enzyme system. Of all the research published on St. John's Wort for depression, only one was identified that focused on the patient's motivation in considering the herb over standard medications. |
| Potential coagulation effects of preoperative complementary and alternative medicines. Alt Ther; 7(6):58-67. 2001
O'Hollaren MT & Porter GA. Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors and the allergist. Ann Allergy; 64(6):503-506. 1990
Palevitch D & Craker LE. Nutritional and medical importance of red peppers. Herb Spice Medicinal Plant Dig; 11(3): 1-4. 1993
Park KK, Surh YJ, Effects of capsaicin on chemically induced two-stage mouse skin carcinogenesis. Cancer Lett Mar 19; 114(1-2): 183-4. |
| David Heber, MD, PhD, FACP, FACN
Professor of Medicine and Public Health Director, UCLA Center for Human Nutrition and UCLA Botanical Research Center David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Los Angeles, CA
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In this completely updated fourth edition of PDR® for Herbal medicines, we have significantly expanded both the range and depth of the first three volumes. Among the many improvements you'll find:
¦ Expanded Coverage: The book contains more than 700 botanicals, including extensive updates of the most commonly asked-about herbs such as Ginkgo, Green Tea, and St. |
| Inhibitory Effect of Egyptian Folk medicines on Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Reverse Transcriptase. Chem Pharm Bull. 43 (4); 641-648. 1995.
Evans FJ (Ed.), Naturally Occurring Phorbol Esters, CRC Press 1986.
Evans FJ, Taylor SE. Prog Chem Org Nat Prod 44:1. 1983
Lee TY, Lam TH. Contact dermatitis due to topical treatment with garlic in Hong Kong. Contact Dermatitis 24; 193-196. 1991
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Medicinal Parts: The medicinal parts are the dried, not fully ripe fruit. |
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 Last month, an FDA advisory panel partially agreed with the recommendation, and voted to declare that such medicines should not be used in children younger than six.
Notably, the FDA advisory panel still somehow believes the same useless medicines are perfectly fine to be used by children older than six (they struck down a vote to recommend blocking the use of such medicines in children aged 6 to 11). This is especially relevant given that the panel openly admitted that there is no evidence that cold medicines work in older children, either. |
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| Potential coagulation effects of preoperative complementary and alternative medicines. Altern Ther Health Med; 7(6): 58-67. 2001
Oakenfull D & Sidhu GS. Could saponins be a useful treatment for hypercholesterolaemia? Eur J Clin Nutr; 44(l):79-88. 1990
Sadovsky R. Foodborne disease and shiga toxin-producing E coli. Am Fam Phys; 61(7):2194. 2000
Schneeman BO. Effect of plant fiber on lipase, trypsin and chymotrypsin activity. J Food Sci; 43(2):634-635. 1978
Story JA. Dietary fiber and lipid metabolism. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med; 180(3):447-452. 1985
Swanston-Flatt SK et al. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Cough syrup and over-the-counter medicines
Nearly all children's over-the-counter medicines contain multiple toxic substances such as chemical sweeteners, preservatives and additives. Cough syrup, in particular, has been scientifically proven to be absolutely worthless in preventing coughs. Many "children's" medicines are actually more toxic than their adult counterparts because they're sweetened up and cosmetically enhanced with artificial colors made from petrochemicals. Yet parents poison their children every day with over-the-counter medicine.
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 These Senators, of course, all insist they were voting to protect the "safety" of Americans, claiming that medicines imported from other countries are dangerous. But medicines bought right here in the United States are killing 100,000+ Americans each year! Do these Senators somehow imagine drugs bought in the U.S. are safer than the same medicines purchased somewhere else? Do they suffer under the illusion that paying more for prescription drugs somehow makes them safer?
When it comes down to it, none of the arguments against drug reimportation hold water. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 This cuts down on both costs and patients being given unnecessary medicines. Research has shown, for example, that cheap diuretics are as effective as brand-name high-blood-pressure medicines for most patients, and they often have fewer side effects. Physicians often don't act on this evidence, either because they are unaware of it or because drug company representatives aren't pushing diuretics and don't give out free samples of them. But at the VHA, doctors are urged to try diuretics first. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| American citizens, businesses and governments tens of millions of dollars by allowing them to import medicines from other nations with approved safety records (such as Canada or Japan).
But 49 Senators voted against the amendment, defending the Big Pharma monopoly that continues to force Americans to pay the highest prices in the world, by far, for medicines. As I've documented in my book, Natural Health Solutions and the Conspiracy to Keep You From Knowing About Them, some pharmaceuticals are marked up 500,000% or more over the cost of their ingredients! |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 But Aztec disease etiology bore little resemblance to the Galenic nonsense of the Europeans: for instance, fevers were not necessarily "hot," and were often cured not by administering "cold" medicines but by giving the patient "hot" medicines to induce sweating—excellent medical practice, as we now know.
Published in 1591, a treatise on New World foods by Juan de Cardenas15 takes Hernandez's Galenic analysis of chocolate one step further (this treatise was later to be studied by European "experts"). |
David Steinman
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 Pioneering totally certified organic nutritional supplements that are made all the more potent with probiotic fermentation and now farming over two hundred certified organic acres to produce natural anti-inflammatory medicines, New Chapter, of Brattleboro, Vermont, is bringing the health benefits of rain forest herbs into Americans' lives. The health benefits to the nation, as more and more consumers turn to such natural medicines, cannot be underestimated; nor can the growth potential of the company. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's a way to protect Big Pharma and keep the American people ignorant about how plant-based medicines can prevent and even cure degenerative disease.)
If elected, Ron Paul would work to restore genuine health freedom in this country, giving consumers access to accurate, scientifically-validated information about how cherries can ease arthritis inflammation, for example, or how pomegranates can prevent prostate cancer, or how broccoli sprouts can prevent breast cancer. There are thousands of healing medicines in plant (herbs, foods, superfoods, etc. |
Henry Hobhouse
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 Some people even abuse medicines prescribed by doctors and up to half of all prescription medicines are said to be taken incorrectly in Western countries. The cost of rectifying problems created by people who abuse drugs—drugs prescribed to get them better—very nearly equals the cost of the original prescription medicines themselves. So it could never be a reliable solution to the social problem of drug abuse to make cocaine only available on prescription. Nor is it difficult to imagine the amount of consequential trade in cocaine.
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The next possibility is to make cocaine absolutely safe. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Cold medicines are just the beginning of this medical scam
The truth here is that most pharmaceuticals are medical hoaxes. Most drugs simply don't work on most people, and that statement is backed up by tens of thousands of clinical studies. The medical literature shows a popular breast cancer drug, for example, only prevents cancer in 0.5% of women, yet it's hyped as a "miracle" cancer drug. Many over-the-counter medicines are nothing but chemical sweeteners, artificial colors, syrups and small doses of dangerous laboratory chemicals. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| David Kessler, former commissioner of the FDA, worried that "consumers who make health decisions based on what they learn from television commercials ultimately take medicines they may not need, spend money on brand medicines that may be no better than alternatives, or avoid healthy behaviors because they falsely believe a medicine is all they need."
Thirty years ago, Henry Gadsden, the head of Merck, told Fortune magazine he wanted his company to be more like the chewing gum maker Wrigley. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 We took him off all reflux medicines but continued to use antibiotics and sinus medicines.
"I had been to Dr. Frieden in the past when I needed a chiropractor, and I went back to see her again for some problems I was having. My dad was on NES, and so I discussed Mark's health and NES with Dr. Frieden, and we made him an appointment. Dr. Frieden used Total Body Modification and helped us deal with nutritional issues, with what turned out to be a gluten intolerance. We immediately started Mark on a gluten-free diet. He also had a NES scan and started on the Infoceuticals. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The real reason for this double standard is that over-the-counter medicines are profitable for Big Pharma, and that's exactly why this drug remains on the market.
Oh, by the way, it's also the same over-the-counter medication used to manufacture methamphetamines ("meth"). Virtually the entire meth drug problem in the United States can be traced back to over-the-counter cold medicines manufactured by pharmaceutical companies. Does this bother the FDA? Not one bit. As long as the medications keep selling, Big Pharma is happy and the FDA keeps it all legal. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In time, I hope to see the ending of patent law on all medicines, too.
Patents on genes, seeds, foods and medicines should have never been allowed. These things belong to the people (actually, they belong to no one except nature). They certainly do not belong to any corporation. Personally, I refuse to recognize these invalid patent laws which are artificially constructed by the U.S. patent office. There is no such thing as corporate ownership over a seed, there is only the illusion of such ownership. |
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| Many over-the-counter medicines are nothing but chemical sweeteners, artificial colors, syrups and small doses of dangerous laboratory chemicals. Some actually contain the very same chemicals banned by the FDA in herbal medicine.
For example, the FDA outlawed the selling of ephedra, a common herb in Chinese Medicine, yet the same active chemical is openly allowed to be purchased in over-the-counter cold medicines sold at virtually every corner pharmacy in America. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 People are getting off insulin, diabetes drugs, statin drugs, antidepressant drugs and all kinds of other drugs by switching to plant-based medicines. Juice Feasting is the best way I know of to ingest the highest density of plant-based medicines in their raw, natural, unprocessed form. And that's why I've adopted Juice Feasting as the foundation of my own diet.
Juice Feasting has become the most enjoyable and beneficial diet I've ever adopted. |
Ron Garner
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 It is a bitter and acidic mixture made from dried and ground grapefruit seeds that is proving to be a potent alternative to toxic medicines and cleaning chemicals. Its wide variety of applications include its use as a fungicide, antibacterial, antiparasitic, antiviral, preservative in food and medicines, and as a sanitizing and disinfecting agent. It kills germs but does not harm people. It first gained attention from farmers for its ability to protect produce, fish, and poultry from bacteria, fungi, and parasites. |
| Hippocrates (460 bc)
We would not need medicines or food supplements if our bodies were supplied with the essential nutrition they require. Unfortunately, that is not the case for most of us. We have lost conscious awareness of what we should be eating for health. Commercial food processing and marketing interests have added to our confusion. We have lost touch with the simplicity and purity of nature's provision. We alter our food and add chemicals to it and wonder why our health deteriorates. We try to prod our bodies back to health with medicines. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 All fruits contain natural medicines called "phytonutrients," and cherries contain well over a hundred different phytonutrients. The most potent phytonutrients are found in the skin of the cherries, and that's why drinking cherry concentrates made with cherry skins can be so powerful in creating positive health effects.
The scientific literature on cherries is very clear that cherries contain very powerful natural anti-inflammatory medicines. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Plants are like tiny pharmaceutical factories, and they synthesize natural medicines automatically, using soil, sunshine, air and water. It's amazing, but true. These medicines are what the human body was intended to eat, not the processed factory food advertised on television and stocked in grocery store shelves. Food made by man will probably kill you. But food made by nature will heal you, and pomegranate juice is made entirely by nature. Get it fresh if you can, or mininally processed as a second choice.
Scientists today have only begun to explore the healing benefits of pomegranate juice. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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| We took him off all reflux medicines but continued to use antibiotics and sinus medicines.
"I had been to Dr. Frieden in the past when I needed a chiropractor, and I went back to see her again for some problems I was having. My dad was on NES, and so I discussed Mark's health and NES with Dr. Frieden, and we made him an appointment. Dr. Frieden used Total Body Modification and helped us deal with nutritional issues, with what turned out to be a gluten intolerance. We immediately started Mark on a gluten-free diet. He also had a NES scan and started on the Infoceuticals. |
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