Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Soap berries have been used for generations in Asian countries, but their use fell out of favor when manufactured "western" laundry products began to appear on the market in the mid 1900's. In much the same way that Asian consumers have begun to experience typical western diseases (like cancer and heart disease) as they abandoned their traditional diets in favor of processed western foods, their adoption of western chemical products instead of using local solutions from nature is also contributing to a sharp rise in disease throughout the region. |
C. P. Khare
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 Use in western herbal
Nicholas Culpeper (1616-1654) wrote about Mustard (the yellowish variety): "It is excellent for such whose blood wants clarifying ... for weak stomachs. It strengthens the heart and resists poison. The decoction of the seeds made in wine and drank provokes urine. The seed helps the spleen and pain in the sides, and gnawings in the bowels, and used as a gargle for the diseases of the throat. The outward application hereof upon the pained place of the sciatica eases the pains, as also the gout and other joint aches. |
Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
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 My home Perth, western Australia has the highest prescription rates of amphetamines in Australia. western Australian children are 4 times more likely than other Australian children to be diagnosed ADHD and drugged with amphetamines. In 2002 western Australia per-head prescription rates first exceeded the USA national average.
Do Perth children have different brain chemistry from children in Sydney, San Diego, Chicago or London? Of course they don't. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They are typically staffed by western doctors and surgeons trained in western medicine, and they provide equal or greater quality surgical care than U.S. hospitals. These surgical procedures are performed with the same technology and expertise, yet cost a fraction of the price.
For example, a knee replacement surgery in a high-tech hospital in the Philippines performed by western trained surgeons might only cost you $6,000. Here in the United States you're probably looking at $50,000. Heart bypass surgery in Asia costs around $10,000. In the US, it's $60,000 to $80,000. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Western Europe. I don't have details on that plan, but I know it's in the works. Alex's vision is to take this company (and its products) global, so watch for announcements along those lines. I hope to be reporting on ways that our readers around the world can enjoy these products. In addition to our North American readers (U.S. and Canada), we've got lots of readers in Australia, New Zealand and across western Europe. I'm always keeping you in mind when reviewing these products, in the hopes that I can recommend regional sources wherever possible. |
C. P. Khare
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| Aloe powder was not used in this area in western herbal.
Solidified juice originating in the cells of the pericycle and adjacent leaf parenchyma, when dried, forms dark chocolate-brown, usually opaque, masses. This is called Curacao or Barbados Aloe, which contains not less than 28 % hydroxyanthracene derivatives, expressed as barbaloin.
The laxative effects of Aloe are primarily due to the 1,8-dihydroxyanthracene glycosides, aloin A and B (formerly designated as barbaloin). |
| Use in western herbal
Capsicum annuum is used mostly in creams for painful muscle spasm. Prophylactically used internally for artherosclerosis, stroke and heart diseases.
It is also used as a female orgasm stimulant.
German Commission E monograph recognized the drug's efficacy in: ft Muscle tensions ft Rheumatism.
For sore throat, a pinch of chilli powder, added to 25 ml lemon juice and honey, diluted with hot water, is used as a gargle. 5-10 drops of tincture in half a tumbler of warm water is also used as a gargle in throat affections. |
| Habitat
Wild throughout India, especially in the hill forests of western and Southern India, Orissa, West Bengal, Assam, ascending up to 1000 m. Also grown in other parts of India.
Classical & common names
Ayurvedic: Vamsha, Venu, Trinadhwaja, Duraru-haa, (Charaka), Shatparvaa. Vansalochana, Vansa-rochana (Bamboo-manna).
Unani: Qasab (Arabic), Nii (Persian); Tabaasheer (Bamboo-manna). Siddha: Moongil. English: Thorny Bamboo.
Parts used
Root, leaves, fruits, Bamboo-manna. Dose
Decoction 50-100 ml, Bamboo-manna 1-3 g. |
Elaine Magee
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 Until recently, women in Japan and China had a sixfold lower risk of breast cancer than western women. And we know it's not entirely genetic because as Asian women adopt western lifestyles and diets, this protection disappears.
Wu's study found that women whose diets put them in the highest 25 percent of soy consumption (the equivalent of more than three servings of tofu a day) had 15 percent lower blood levels of an important form of estrogen. Women who ate average amounts of soy, however, showed no drop in estrogen.
So is it the soy? |
C. P. Khare
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| Use in western herbal
Dried root, bark of Cissampelos pareira or Pareira brava are employed as a diuretic for the relief of chronic inflammation of the bladder and urinary passages; also for calculus affections, leucorrhoea, gonorrhoea, jaundice, dropsy, rheumatism. Infusion of the root is given internally, while the bruised leaves are applied externally.
Vitaceae
Cissus quadrangularis (L.) Wall, ex Wt. Habitat
Distributed throughout India, particularly in hotter parts; also cultivated in gardens.
Classical & common names
Ayurvedic: Asthisamhaara, Asthisamhrit, Asthisamyojaka, Vajravalli. |
David Brownstein M.D.
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 In almost every health parameter measured, the United States lags behind other western countries. In fact, over the last 30 years, the United States has fallen further behind the other western countries in nearly every category of health system performance.4 All during this time, the U.S. was outspending every other country on health care.
Our medical system is broken. It is a system based on the disease and drug model. Physicians are trained to properly diagnose the illness and to prescribe the drug therapy to treat the symptoms of the illness. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 If your ancestors are western European, the odds are about one in three, or one in four, that you carry at least one copy of the hemochromatosis gene. Yet only one in two hundred people of western European ancestry actually have hemochromatosis disease with all of its assorted symptoms. In genetics parlance, the degree that a given gene manifests itself in an individual is called penetrance. If a single gene means everyone who carries it will have dimples, that gene has very high or complete penetrance. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Based on treating the entire patient and not just the symptoms, integrative medicine is a mix of proven Eastern and western disciplines, giving patients the benefits of practices that have worked for thousands of years — Ayurveda, acupuncture, chiropractic, energy healing, tai chi, massage therapy, etc. — coupled with more modern techniques of traditional western medicine. Unfortunately, most health insurance companies do not pay for preventive "alternative" therapies, so people must spend their hard-earned money to take advantage of integrative medicine. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mike: A lot of people are used to seeing western herbs in this kind of packaging or going to a health food store and finding western herbs, but even though traditional Chinese herbs are more common now, people still tend to associate them with Chinese herbal medicine shops. You are Westernizing the packaging and the naming of traditional Chinese medicine. I think that's innovative.
St. Clair: Well, we've actually been doing this now for about 12 years, and, initially, some of our formulas were used just in practitioners' offices and not in health food stores. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 But this is how western medicine operates.
Thus, the big push to get Indonesia to give up its H5N1 samples is nothing more complicated than good old fashioned corporate greed all dressed up to look like public safety. It's all about getting a country to give away its virus samples so that western corporations can exploit them for increased profits.
Indonesia, of course, isn't a stupid nation. Its leaders have figured out that there's no benefit in giving up these H5N1 bird flu influenza samples. |
C. P. Khare
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| Use in western herbal
The herb has been used in English domestic practice from early times. Dr Ellingwood wrote of Shepherd's Purse: "This agent has been noted for its influence in haematuria...soothing in irritation of the renal and vesical organs. In cases of uncomplicated menorrhagia, it has accomplished permanent cures. The agent is also useful where uric acid or insoluble phosphates or carbonates produce irritation of the urinary tract." (Cited by M. Grieve.)
All over the West, the herb continues as one of the best remedies for preventing or arresting haemorrhage. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 Studies have consistently shown that rates of heart disease are higher in western cultures, that heart disease rates go up in countries that adopt western diet and lifestyles, and that modifications of diet reduce heart disease. Some of the differences may not be attributable to diet per se but rather to how food is raised and the industrialization of American agriculture (e.g., the effects of corn-fed vs. pasture-fed animals). |
Charles Barber
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 In the development of western science, physics and chemistry came first, and thereby framed what we believe a science should be. Biology came later and aspired to fit these earlier paradigms. This is all well and good, but the difficulty lies in the fact that biology is inherently messy—and neurobiology messier still. The completion of the Human Genome Project in 2001, also, by association, has served to bolster psychiatry's newfound scientific image. |
| The United States is unique among western countries in that it does not limit drug costs in some way.27 Big Pharma has the largest lobbying contingent in the country— there are more drug lobbyists than members of Congress28—which has helped create an extraordinarily regulation-friendly environment for the industry. The New York Times has stated baldly that the pharmaceutical industry "often gets what it asks for from Congress and the executive branch. |
| Interestingly, psychological distress is far more common in the western and southern states (the red states, mainly) than in the Northeast and Midwest. States with particularly high rates are Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, West Virginia, Wyoming, and the one exception to the geographical rule, Rhode Island. The least stressed-out state, predictably, is Hawaii. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 But a standard western diet (high in fats, salt, and sugar and low in complex carbohydrates) also lacks essential vitamins and minerals needed during pregnancy and breast-feeding, which can compromise your baby's health.3 The appropriate diet is well balanced and varied and includes fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, beans, and fish, with a limit on refined sugars, processed foods, and saturated fats. Organically grown produce, meats, and poultry are preferable, or inorganic produce that has been carefully washed to remove agricultural chemicals. |
| Black cohosh was introduced to western gynecology in the middle of rhe eighteenth century in the treatment of menopausal symptoms.20
The exact mechanism of how black cohosh works has yet to be elucidated. We attribute most of its gynecological effects to its "estrogen-like" action, yet recent research has shown that black cohosh does not contain phytoestrogens, nor does it change hormone levels such as estradiol, LH, FSH or prolactin. |
Charles Barber
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| CBT is actually based on a very old idea in western culture, specifically the work of the Stoic philosophers, including Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius. Epictetus wrote in The Enchiridion, "Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them."
In experiments, Beck found that after a successful or positive experience, "depressed patients had a positive shift in mood, increased optimism, and increased motivation."3 Creating such a positive feedback loop for patients disconfirmed their negative feelings about themselves. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| Observations in large Asian populations, whose diet includes soybeans as a basic food group, show a lower incidence of CVD than in populations who consume a traditional western diet.104
Much research has been done on soy and its relationship to blood pressure, cholesterol, and even some inflammatory biomarkers of cardiovascular disease. In general, the studies are varied, with some showing clear benefit and some not showing any. Perhaps the best evidence comes from a review of 38 scientific studies. |
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