Hyla Cass
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 Senna, a common ingredient in modern-day laxatives, can be found in ancient Middle East hieroglyphics, showing it as a treatment for constipation.
?Willow bark, the predecessor of modern aspirin, was also used medicinally in the ancient Middle East.
All over the planet, wherever humans lived, knowledge about healing plants has been passed down from generation to generation and from healer to apprentice, with that knowledge being continually refined. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 The interest in protein (meat) probably dates back to ancient Greece. There are reports that athletes in ancient Greece, in preparation of Olympic games, consumed large amounts of meat. This belief stems partly from the fact that muscle contains a large proportion of the total protein in a human body (about 40%). Muscle also accounts for 30% to 50% of all protein turnover in the body. Both the structural proteins that make up the myofibrillar proteins and the proteins that act as enzymes within a muscle cell change as an adaptation to exercise training. |
Hyla Cass
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| Willow bark, the predecessor of modern aspirin, was also used medicinally in the ancient Middle East.
All over the planet, wherever humans lived, knowledge about healing plants has been passed down from generation to generation and from healer to apprentice, with that knowledge being continually refined.
THE ADVENT OF MODERN PHARMACEUTICALS
Many ancient plant medicines have been chemically altered in drug company laboratories in hopes of creating something that has a targeted, specific action when taken as a drug. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Besides its use as a food, beverage, stimulant, and medicine, tea had other uses in ancient China. Tribal people living in the interior of China would compress bricks of tea with primitive ox-presses and use these tea bricks as currency to exchange with other tribes. It is interesting to note that in ancient cultures the value of minted money generally decreased the farther one was from the place where it had been minted. |
Lynne McTaggart
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 For me, the most intriguing question about this research on focused attention was the means by which a Buddhist monk could turn himself into a human boiler, and how these means compared with techniques and practices of other ancient traditions. Like Benson, I was intrigued by "masters" of intention: practitioners of ancient disciplines—Buddhism, Qigong, shamanism, traditional native healing—who had been trained to perform extraordinary acts through their thoughts. I wanted to work out their common denominators. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Exercise. Like ancient Gaul, there are three parts: mental exercise, physical exercise, and mind/body exercise. Dr. Kalsa notes, "Aerobic reconditioning enhances mental function by 20 to 30 percent. The ancient art of brain regeneration, and innovative mind/body exercises derived from my 20 year practice of advanced yoga and meditation, are important in enhancing global brain energy."
4. The final phase comes from the forefront of anti-aging medicine. "Among pharmaceutical drugs used to help regenerate the brain cells is 1-deprenyl citrate. |
Lynne McTaggart
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| The modern science of remote influence has finally offered proof of ancient intuitive beliefs about manifestation, healing, and the power of thoughts. We would do well to appreciate, as these traditional cultures do, that every thought is sacred, with the power to take physical form.
Both modern science and ancient practices can teach us how to use our extraordinary power of intention. If we could learn how to direct our potential for influence in a positive manner, we could improve every aspect of our world. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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| Willow bark, the predecessor of modern aspirin, was also used medicinally in the ancient Middle East.
All over the planet, wherever humans lived, knowledge about healing plants has been passed down from generation to generation and from healer to apprentice, with that knowledge being continually refined.
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THE ADVENT OF MODERN PHARMACEUTICALS
Many ancient plant medicines have been chemically altered in drug company laboratories in hopes of creating something that has a targeted, specific action when taken as a drug. |
| Senna, a common ingredient in modern-day laxatives, can be found in ancient Middle East hieroglyphics, showing it as a treatment for constipation.
• Willow bark, the predecessor of modern aspirin, was also used medicinally in the ancient Middle East.
All over the planet, wherever humans lived, knowledge about healing plants has been passed down from generation to generation and from healer to apprentice, with that knowledge being continually refined. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 The ancient Aphrodisiacs
It may sound like a character in a sci-fi movie, but Tribulus terrestris might have some benefits for men and women experiencing a decline in libido. The fruit, which has been used since the times of ancient Greece, increases luteinizing hormone, which enhances testosterone production—possibly leading to an aphrodisiac effect (studies using an extract have found it to be effective). Formerly recommended as a treatment for female infertility, impotence, and low libido in both men and women, it was also used to aid rejuvenation after a long illness. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 A tradition of herbal cleansing is recorded in the cultures of the ancient Sumerians, Egyptians, Romans, Greeks, Chinese, Europeans, and American and Asian Indians. The Chinese have a long and rich herbal tradition, dating back some five thousand years. They count their medicinal herbs in the thousands, as compared to the hundreds used therapeutically in Western societies. The therapeutic use of herbal preparations is also an integral part of Ayurvedic medicine, an ancient Indian system of healing that has its roots in Vedic culture. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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| THE ADVENT OF MODERN PHARMACEUTICALS
Many ancient plant medicines have been chemically altered in drug company laboratories in hopes of creating something that has a targeted, specific action when taken as a drug. This process also assures its ability to be patented, so that it will he profitable.
The key invention that enabled science to make this leap was the microscope, which was created in the nineteenth century. With this tool, scientists could see the workings of individual cells. This insight was the gateway to creating drugs that could influence specific aspects of cell function. |
Anne Harrington
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 By 1972 he was clear: whatever other functions they might have had, TM and all the other ancient meditative techniques central to faith traditions around the world also acted as technologies for turning off the stress response. Ironically enough, this made them of greater importance than ever to individuals living in the modern age. As Benson told a journalist at this time, "In modern society this fight or flight response is often an anachronism, and such stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system may lead to diseases like hypertension. |
| From Mao to Moyers: Qi, China, and the invention of an ancient tradition
Kabat-Zinn's perspective surely captures a partial historical truth, but there is more to say. Even as efforts were made on one front to thoroughly secularize and disentangle one mind-body practice from its Eastern associations, the public was being offered a different, thoroughly exotic new vision of mind-body healing from the East: one grounded in previously little known principles of traditional Chinese medicine. |
| It is Eisenberg who proposes the classic "Eastward journeys" solution: these Eastern ancient traditions must now submit to the rationality and rigor of Western science. In this sense, East and West should seek to come together and complete each other.49
The ideas of qi and qigong were perhaps quite mysterious to the American audiences who watched that first segment of Healing and the Mind; but in another sense, they were not unfamiliar. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 One thing is clear—an ancient medical practice that "modern" medical science dismissed out of hand is the only effective treatment for a disease that would otherwise destroy the lives of thousands of people. The lesson for medical science is a simple one—there is much more that the scientific community doesn't understand than there is that it does understand. iron is good. Iron is good. Iron is good.
Well, now you know that, like just about every other good thing under the sun, when it comes to iron, it's moderation, moderation, moderation. |
| It's no wonder all those ancient Greeks were philosophers— they clearly had a lot of time on their hands. But they weren't the only people to notice the mysterious reaction many people have to fava beans. In the twentieth century, a schoolteacher in Sardinia, an island off the coast of Italy, is said to have noticed a seasonal lethargy that settled on her students every spring and lasted for weeks. Supposedly recalling Pythagoras's warning, she connected her students'nodding heads to flowering fava plants. Superstitions against eating uncooked fava beans were common throughout the Middle East. |
| Archaeologists have found evidence suggesting that Neanderthals may have used plants for healing 60,000 years ago. The ancient Greeks used opium milk, which is the fluid that oozes out of the opium poppy when it's slashed, as a painkiller—today we derive morphine, one of the most powerful painkillers available, from the same place.
The first really effective antimalarial medicine came from the bark of the cinchona tree. |
| It's very likely that the werewolf myth, in which one bite transforms the victim into a possessed beast just like the biter, almost certainly has its roots in ancient observations of the rabies virus at work.
Enslaved spiders and suicidal grasshoppers are examples of host manipulation at its most extreme. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Arugula
Arugula sure doesn't look like an aphrodisiac, but that's exactly what the ancient Egyptians and Romans considered it to be. I don't know about that, but I do know that it's the iiberfood of nutritional bargains: One cup contains ... get ready ... 5 calories. For that you get some folate (folic acid), vitamin A, and a surprisingly decent amount of the extremely eye-healthy carotenoids, lutein and zeaxanthin.
There's also about the same amount of calcium as there is in spinach, but arugula is actually lower in oxalates, a substance that inhibits calcium absorption. |
| Olives are an ancient food, and olive trees have been around since at least 3,000 B.C.E., particularly in the Mediterranean. Actually, the olive in its natural state isn't very appetizing—it contains very bitter compounds that have to be removed by soaking and curing. Problem is that the traditional methods of fermenting—which produce a healthy and wonderful food—have become way too slow for modern times. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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| It wasn't intended to be a scientific book; rather, she attacked the savanna theory with that ancient and highly effective debunker of all things highfalutin—common sense.
The Descent of Woman was published in 1972, and it roundly savaged the idea that male behavior was the driving force in human evolution. Humans started walking on two legs so we could cover distances between water and food faster than we could on four legs? Yeah, right—ever race a cheetah? Even some of the slower quadrupeds can outrun us. We lost our hair because the males got too hot chasing antelope? |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 And the amazing thing is that this ancient food has been used in China and Japan for more than 2,000 years. The noodles are derived from the root of a kind of yam, which is finely ground into the most water-soluble fiber known, glucomannan. Oat bran also contains some water-soluble fiber, giving it a limited ability to reduce cholesterol. In contrast, glucomannan can absorb up to 100 times its weight in water! When made into noodles, the fiber is translucent and tasteless, but combine it with a small amount of tofu, and it has the texture and appearance of overcooked spaghetti. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 This finding was of immense interest because the midbrain controls many of the regulatory functions of the body, such as blood pressure, blood sugar levels, and body temperature. The ancient Chinese had their energetic anatomy partly right, and now Peter was able to show why at the anatomical level.
Another surprising result involved the liver meridian. In TCM, the liver meridian has an internal channel that connects to the eye and the top of the head. Peter found in his matching experiments that the liver meridian did indeed talk to the eye, but only to the retina and iris. |
| Of course, alternative and complementary medicine and science have a rich, and ancient, history of viewing the body in terms of energy, which is fundamentally what physics is about. Traditional Chinese medicine and Indian ayurvedic medicine have long explored the energies of the body. Acupuncture and homeopathy are practiced widely in Asia and Europe (Britain, for example, has at least four exclusively homeopathic hospitals) and are slowly gaining acceptance in the United States and elsewhere. |
| Some of them confirmed the ancient Chinese system of medicine. For example, TCM views the heart meridian as the master connector, holding all the energies of the body together and linking them to the brain. Peter found that was the case, but he also was able to bring an amazing level of anatomical specificity to the matches. According to his tests, the only part of the brain that the heart talked to was the midbrain. It did not set up an energetic match with the higher-level, more integrative parts of the brain. |
Devra Davis
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 He offered this modification of Hippocrates' ancient advice: "When a doctor visits a working-class home he should be content to sit on a three-legged stool, if there isn't a gilded chair, and he should take time for his examination; and to the questions recommended by Hippocrates, he should add one more—What is your occupation?"10 Ramazzini based this advice on his own practice. "I for my part have done what I could and have not thought it unbecoming to make my way into the lowliest workshops and study the mysteries of the mechanical arts. |
| The author of the papyrus reports only one treatment for these ancient tumors: repeated use of a "fire drill" to burn out those growths that had broken through the skin.
Cancers that could be seen were sometimes removed successfully as long ago as the Middle Ages. Even then a healthy life was considered to lessen the chance the disease would occur. The twelfth-century Jewish polymath Moses Maimonides, who served as the chief rabbi of Cairo as well as chief physician to the sultan of Egypt, carefully described how to excise a cancer and uproot all surrounding tissue. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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| You can add them to coffee to make mocha or even vegetable smoothies, stir-fries, and sauces. The ancient elixir of the Incas and Aztecs, mole sauce, was based on cocoa. Or try my recipes for dark cocoa smoothies and chocolate ice cream using raw cocoa nibs mixed with dark chocolate. Yum!
Likewise, enjoy your coffee and tea minus milk, or use unsweetened plain, chocolate- or vanilla-flavored soymilk if you want to preserve the phytonutri-ents. (West-Soy and Trader Joe's make good unsweetened soymilk. |
| Only now are researchers beginning to understand that calorie optimization is a hormetic stressor that activates an animal's ancient genetic programming to increase its chances of survival under adverse conditions.1,4'6 Limiting calories makes the animal's genes circle the wagons to protect and preserve the species. Genes send signals to the animal to hunker down until more food appears, just as desert plants bide their time, waiting for a wet spring.
No matter what type of food they eat, animals that consume fewer calories live longer. |
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