by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| Despite its wide occurrence in food, folic acid deficiency is the most common vitamin deficiency in the World. The reason reflects food choices: animal foods, with the exception of liver, are poor sources of folic acid, while plant foods, which are rich sources, are not as frequently consumed. In addition, alcohol and many prescription Drugs, such as estrogens, sulfasalazine, and barbiturates, impair folic acid metabolism; and folic acid is extremely sensitive to and easily destroyed by light or heat. The RDA for folic acid is 200 micrograms for males and 180 micrograms for females. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 The outcome of this system that uses modern and ancient healing techniques is the world's highest longevity figures for both men and women. There are seven situations in which most Japanese doctors recommend herbs and herbal formulas as a primary form of treatment.
• Disorders and symptoms in older adults. Older people often have disorders affecting several organs. Their symptoms may change from day to day and from week to week. To cover the broad range of complaints they experience, doctors often give elderly patients six, eight, or even a dozen different prescription Drugs. |
| It is a native of Asia and is now cultivated throughout the World.
EVIDENCE OF BENEFIT
Codonopsis prevents stomach pain and headache. It is beneficial in the treatment of both asthma and cancer. Codonopsis reduces stress and enhances tolerance to stress. It also boosts stamina.
Benefits of codonopsis for specific health conditions include the following:
• Cancer. Codonopsis increases red and white blood cell counts, which reduces the side effects of toxic Drugs such as those used in cancer chemotherapy. It also helps the body recover from radiation therapy.
• Headache. |
Sydney Walker III, M.D.
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 Restak fears that such Drugs will lead users to conclude that "if the World isn't behaving as you believe that it should, and you feel good while taking your own special drug, then say no to the World rather than to the drug."
Are We "Pushing" Legal Drugs?
The similarities between street drug abuse and psychotropic prescription drug use are disturbing. Both types of Drugs are toxic. Both can cause psychosis, damage the brain and other organs, and even cause death. And neither type of mind-altering Drugs, legal or illegal, treats disease. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 The World Health Organization reports that approximately 75 percent of the world's population depends on botanical medicines for its basic health care needs. In fact, people in a number of countries are using medicinal plants as a significant part of their health care regimens.
Herbs have been used as medicines for millennia. Prior to the introduction of modern pharmaceutical Drugs, herbal remedies were among the few reliable healing and treatment methods available.
Approximately 25 percent of modern medicines are still made from plants first used in traditional medicine. |
| In fact, throughout the World millions of people are using these products on a daily basis.
Many of the adaptogens that are commonly used today have a history of use that goes back hundreds and thousands of years. Over that time, a vast amount of experience has been gained that has gone toward understanding their therapeutic applications.
Adaptogens can greatly increase the effectiveness of some modern Drugs, including antibiotics, anxiolytics (anxiety relief), antidepressants, and hypoglycemic (blood sugar lowering) agents. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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 This review of the world's medical literature on NSAIDs concluded that such Drugs are reasonable only for short-term use. But arthritis is a long-term affair. The only conclusion we can draw: Regular use of such Drugs is inappropriate for a chronic condition like arthritis.
Even more alarming, some evidence suggests that these medications may actually be harmful to arthritic joints.61,62'63 Researchers in the Netherlands followed more than 1,600 patients for several years. |
| ALLHAT—the Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial—rocked the World of cardiology in 20 02.631 This government-sponsored study, which cost $120 million, tracked more than 40,000 subjects for years to determine the outcomes of various blood-pressure-lowering Drugs. The scientists found that chlorthalidone, an inexpensive diuretic, was superior to some popular brand-name blood pressure pills. |
| Richard Smith, MD, former editor of the British Medical Journal, tells how pharmaceutical companies around the World stack the deck:
• Conduct a trial of your drug against a treatment known to be inferior
• Trial your Drugs against too Iowa dose of a competitor drug
• Conduct a trial of your drug against too high a dose of a competitor drug (making your drug seem less toxic)
• Present the results that are most likely to impress11
What all this means is that doctors have a very hard time determining how one medicine stacks up against another, or even against alternative approaches. |
| Because why should we spend more money than anybody in the World for Drugs we think are the safest and in fact it's really quite the opposite? be hard to track. Your medicine may have been manufactured by a small generics company in Florida, put into the drug distribution system there, shipped to New York, and sold to a hospital, a nursing home, or a repackager. From there the pills might be shipped to California or Louisiana, resold to another wholesaler, and eventually end up on the shelf at your local pharmacy. |
| In the crazy World of pharmaceuticals, the prices for 5-milligram, 10-milligram, and 20-milligram pills are often similar. Not all tablets can be split safely, however.
5. Find out if you are eligible for free medicine. The pharmaceutical industry maintains a program to help people who are in serious financial need obtain their prescription Drugs. To find out if you qualify, you can visit www.helpingpatients.org or call 888-477-2669.
6. Take advantage of the Medicare Part D benefit. If you are eligible, this program makes sense despite the donut hole. |
| Topical NSAIDs
Americans have been deprived of an arthritis treatment that is widely available all over the World. Topical NSAIDs (gels, creams, and sprays) are very popular with patients and physicians in Europe, Australia, Canada, Italy, New Zealand, and dozens of other countries, but they are virtually ignored in the United States. The very same Drugs (diclofenac, ibuprofen, ketoprofen, ketorolac, piroxicam, etc. |
Michael T. Murray, N.D., Joseph E. Pizzorno, N.D.
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 Magnesium therapy is now being used in many parts of the World to treat acute MI, due to its effectiveness, low cost, safety, and ease of administration. But in the United States it plays second fiddle to the high-tech Drugs.
The fact is that, during the past decade, eight well-designed studies involving over four thousand patients have demonstrated that intravenous magnesium supplementation during the first hour of admission to a hospital for an acute MI produces a favorable effect in reducing immediate and long-term complications as well as death rates. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Almost any substance can cause an allergic reaction in someone, somewhere in the World, but the most common allergens are pollen, dust, certain metals (especially nickel), some cosmetics, lanolin, dust mites, animal hair, insect venom, some common Drugs (such as penicillin and aspirin), some food additives (such as benzoic acid and sulfur dioxide), animal dander, and chemicals found in soap, washing powder, cleaning supplies, and many other chemicals.
Many people are allergic to mold. Molds are microscopic living organisms, neither animal nor insect, that thrive where no other life form can. |
Leslie Taylor, ND
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 Herbal Primer here are currently more than one hundred substances derived from plants in use as Drugs throughout the World. Since Drugs and active cu i' chemicals in plants can have widespread effects when consumed, it is important that people understand the differences and similarities between Drugs and medicinal plants. Part One: Rainforest Herbal Primer discusses the use of herbs in health care, pointing out the differences and similarities between Drugs and medicinal plants and the need for users to be well informed about the herbs they use (Chapter 2). |
| As evolving pathogens develop widespread resistance to our standard antibiotics, antivirals, and antimalarial Drugs, it is of little wonder that the use of the natural medicine in quinine bark is being revisited, even by such giants as the World Health Organization.
A recent use for quinine Drugs has been for the treatment of muscle spasms and leg cramps. A 1998 study documented the beneficial effects of quinine for leg cramps, with tinnitus being the only documented side effect. |
| It's important to note that much of the history of the medicinal uses of the plants discussed in this book is mainly recorded in tropical Third World countries where the plants grow. The populations of people using plant-based herbal remedies don't regularly take the amount or types of prescription Drugs Americans do, and the history of side effects or contraindications when combining the plants with the Drugs we use is virtually nonexistent. |
| By purchasing renewable and sustainable rainforest products and resources and demanding sustainable harvesting of these resources using local communities and indigenous tribes of the rainforests, we all can be part of the solution, and the rainforests of the World and their people can be saved. part one rainforest Herbal Primer here are currently more than one hundred substances derived from plants in use as Drugs throughout the World. |
| People in tropical forests around the World have used the plants growing in their backyards as part of their healthcare systems for millennia. In fact, archaeologists have discovered the remains of plants used as medicine at archaeological dig sites in Latin and South America dating back to 8000 B.C. In the northwestern Amazon alone, at least 1,300 plant species are used to create drogas do certao or "wilderness drugs" for the primary health care needs in the region today. Many of these plant-based remedies have never been subjected to any type of scientific research. |
| Since fresh plants are generally used for bathing remedies (chopped or crushed first before adding to the bath water), modifications are not always possible when only dried plant materials are available, as in most of the Western World.
The Indian's bathing remedies are not unlike more complex skin-delivery systems employed with some dermal patch Drugs.
An alternative approach is adding 20 to 30 ounces of a strong decoction or infusion to the bath water and having the patient soak in it for at least ten minutes.
Curanderos set up shop at local markets to dispense herbal remedies. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 Paul Revere Insurance Company of Worcester, Massachusetts provides the medical industry with the world' s most-coveted i nsurance for doctors that wi 11 pay them their annual wages if incapacitated, but this company does hairtesting and rejects about 76% of doctor applicants because of their drug addictions. Over-the-counter Drugs are deactivated more slowly as one ages, and drying-out in the elderly brings high concentrations quickly. Liver breakdown and kidney excretion slows as metabolism declines in aging. Take Indium forLiverand body detoxifying. Acetaminophen (Tylenol, Panadol. |
| This process of transgressive construction and regressive destruction of molecules represents all the basic particles and objects of the known World, precursing life and energy.
BRAIN BLOOD BARRIER (BBB) aprotective double shield to toxins, chemicals, and Drugs affecting our emotions, thought patterns, and other vital Brain functions. |
| The SKIN The largest body organ, dynamic, versatile and ingenious nine pound organ of two square yards, the essential seal and filter protecting the aqueous purity ofthe biodynamic tissues, the internal cellularprocesses, from the harsh bombarding stress ofheat, moisture, dust, debris, dirt, infections, and injury from the outside World. This organ processes Drugs and chemicals like the liver does; and is amajor Immune organ, also called the "third kidney", which has about 3000 pores/stomas per square exhaling wastes; and which if disordered afflicts skin rashes. |
Attaining Medical Self SufficiencyDuncan Long
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| Third World countries? How wise is it to go to someplace like a drugstore in Mexico and buy heart medicine that costs one third of what it sells for in the US? How do you know that the pharmacist isn't taking advantage of the "gringo" from the North to make a little extra cash off someone who isn't a regular customer and probably will never return to buy anything in the store again?
My advice is to play it safe and spend a little extra on Drugs you know are what the label on the bottle says they are. |
| This guide listed inexpensive medications that could be purchased around the World.
The problem was that the quality and safety of the Drugs wasn't taken into account. Which isn't too surprising because the UN's second-ranking official in charge of the project had actually lied about his credentials, hiding the fact that he wasn't qualified to be in charge of such evaluations.197
Of course the UN seldom polices its own people. Currently the official who lied), Fernando Antezana, is a candidate to take over WHO's top post. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 In 1975, the World Conference on Animal Products reported that factory-farmed animals have about thirty times more saturated fat than pasture-raised animals. Since World War II, these farm animals have been inundated with an insidious brew of pesticides, hormones, growth stimulants, insecticides, tranquilizers, radioactive isotopes, herbicides, antibiotics, and other assorted Drugs and colorants. All these substances are considered legal. Other illegal hormones are sometimes added to increase weight. |
| She often tackled projects in the work World that would overwhelm her. She was depressed and angry with herself and her work. After eighteen months of nutritional and dietary work, homeopathy, family therapy, and meditation training, her life was transformed into a model of balance and harmony that she could hardly believe. Her marriage became a happy one, she began to enjoy her motherhood, she meditated on a regular basis, she changed to a balanced, vegetarian, 80% raw-food diet, and got off Drugs. |
Isadore Rosenfeld, M.D.
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 Another cause of malabsorption in the Western World is the gastrectomy operation in which a substantial portion of the stomach is surgically removed—usually for the treatment of severe gastric bleeding, cancer, or otherwise unmanageable ulcer disease. What with all the new Drugs now available for the treatment of peptic ulcers, this operation is now being performed much less frequently. In such cases, there is so little stomach left that food whizzes right through it, too fast for the pancreatic enzymes to digest it. |
Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H.
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 It was quickly apparent that the WHO set the standards for the development, manufacture, distribution, and administration of essentially all pharmaceuticals used throughout the World (see fig. 2.1).34
As seen in figure 2.2, they were also intimately involved in determining which Drugs should be made or remain illegal.4
Besides assembling teams of scientists to develop, test, and standardize new (and ancient) Drugs, the WHO applied similar administrative leadership to develop plans for attacking all the woes of humanity. |
| After all, Merck was the world's largest supplier of AIDS-related Drugs and hepatitis vaccines,2 with documented connections to military intelligence and biological weapons research and development,3 and Califano had his military, intelligence, and public health background. The fit seemed natural. Moreover, Califano was part of the politically ignoble elite. The Rockefeller led military-medical-industrial complex held Kissinger's confidence as he held Califano's.4 Kissinger was also a paid consultant of Merck, Sharp and Dohme (MSD). |
Gina Kolata
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 He was part of a team that was scurrying to develop vaccines and what they hoped would be flu-fighting Drugs while the illness burned through the world's population.
"It was a firefighting exercise," Oxford said. That flu epidemic ended, of course, and after a lull HIV appeared, making influenza seem like yesterday's problem.
"Influenza began to seem less and less exciting," Oxford said. The flu virus had been discovered years ago with the work of Professor Wilson Smith, Sir Christopher H. Andrewes, and Sir P. P. Laidlaw in 1933, when they transmitted human influenza to ferrets. |
| And yet, if she could find the 1918 flu virus, the work could help scientists to make vaccines and test antiviral drugs; it could help protect the World from another catastrophe if that virus returned. "It's an impossible decision. It's a decision I fought with every day."
Agonizing over the moral thing to do, Duncan turned to her parents and her family for counsel. In the end, her father helped her decide, telling her: "Kirsty, if I held the secrets to this deadly disease, I would hope that someone would come along and unravel them. |
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 But you can still get this essential vitamin if you live in a cloudy part of the World like New England or Vancouver. Just eat plenty of low-fat dairy, eggs, and seafood to get your full supply of vitamin D.
Ginger and turmeric. Try these spices and you might be able to cut back on your painkillers. Both contain curcumin, a phyto-chemical with proven anti-inflammatory powers. It may even work as well as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) like aspirin and ibuprofen, according to the latest research. Brewing ginger tea is a painless way to add curcumin to your diet. |
Jean Carper
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 About 75 percent of the world's population still does. Such a body of human wisdom should not be discounted, says James Duke, Ph.D., a botanist and specialist in medicinal plants at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In his view, if a food has a wide folklore reputation as a remedy for specific diseases, this constitutes some proof of its potential validity. After all, he points out, such folk usage has often led scientists to discover strong medicines in plants. At least 25 percent of our prescription Drugs are derived from plants, including a powerful new anticancer medicine, taxol. |
| Despite our man-made wonder Drugs, Mother Nature is truly the world's oldest and greatest pharmacist, the source of major and minor health miracles. Listening to science's new revelations about this ageless wisdom gives you unprecedented control over your health.
"Diet has the distinction of being the only major determinant of health that is completely under your control. You have the final say over what does and does not go into your mouth and stomach. |
Dr. Michael Heinrich, Joanne Barnes, Simon Gibbons and Elizabeth M. Williamson
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 European) remedies - that is, through the bioscientific investigation of plants used by people throughout the World. Table 5.1 lists just a few of the many examples of Drugs derived from plants. As can be seen, most plant-derived pharmaceuticals and phytomedicines currently in use were (and often still are) used by native people around the World. Accordingly, our information is derived from local knowledge as it was and is practised throughout the World, although European and Mediterranean traditions have had a particular impact on these developments. |
| Billions of the world's population live in abject poverty, and in 1995 the (then) Director of WHO defined the world's most deadly disease as poverty (Phillipson 1995, 1999a). With insufficient money to purchase medicines, it is not surprising that billions of poor people rely on their own systems of traditional medicine, despite the efforts of national governments and non-governmental organizations to provide access to cheap sources of essential Drugs. |
| Red clover, Trifolium pratense L
The plant and the drugs
Red (or pink) clover (Fabaceae) is widely distributed throughout Europe, naturalized in North America and found in many other parts of the World. The flower heads are ovoid, red or pinkish purple, about 2-3 cm in diameter, composed of numerous individual, keeled flowers. The leaflets are trefoil, often with a whitish crescent in the centre. Both the leaves and isolated isoflavones are used medicinally. |
| Academics had to face up to the real World. Was it really necessary to include information on herbal Drugs that were no longer prescribed by the medical profession? Was botany required in the education of pharmacists, many of whom would spend their future in busy pharmacies dispensing mainly tablets and capsules containing single chemical entities? As course revision followed course revision during the 1960s to 1980s, the inevitable happened and pharmacognosy courses were cut. Some pharmacy degree courses in the UK and USA were developed without any pharmacognosy content. |
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