Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 The cool air helps you refocus and slow down.
þ cork it. Hold a wine cork vertically between your teeth. Putting a gentle bite on the cork forces your jaws-a major holder of tension-to relax. (Don't fight stress by emptying the bottle of wine into your body first.)
YOU Tip: Lean on Him, Her, or Whomever. Friends aren't just good for borrowing sugar from or for telling you that you have wing sauce on your cheek. Friends are the ultimate de-stressor. Friends can remove over 90 percent of the aging penalty you face after a major life event accelerates your aging. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Use cork tiles and plastic sheets: Lay untreated cork tiles under the bed or between the box spring and mattress for a few weeks. The cork is said to neutralize the detrimental energies, at least temporarily. Plastic sheeting will also screen out geopathic energies for about a week, but then must be replaced, according to Karen Kingston in Creating Sacred Space with Feng Shui.i0
• Get a new bed: Kingston notes that if you have a metal bed frame or a mattress with metal springs and your bed sits over an area of geopathic stress, "the metal will conduct the harmful radiation throughout the bed. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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 If you pop the cork, the bottle sinks and you flow out and merge with the sea around you.
So how do you pop the cork? By getting rid of the distractions confining your awareness. When you stop devoting all your mental energy to the sensory world, you free up that mental energy to focus instead on the ocean of electromagnetic energy behind it. At that point, you will naturally obtain the power to heal yourself.
There are three levels of distraction that keep our awareness "stopped up" in a bottle instead of unified with the ocean of energy around us. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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| Hold a wine cork vertically between your teeth. Putting a gentle bite on the cork forces your jaws-a major holder of tension-to relax. (Don't fight stress by emptying the bottle of wine into your body first.)
YOU Tip: Lean on Him, Her, or Whomever. Friends aren't just good for borrowing sugar from or for telling you that you have wing sauce on your cheek. Friends are the ultimate de-stressor. Friends can remove over 90 percent of the aging penalty you face after a major life event accelerates your aging. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 The external surface is brownish-gray, usually fissured with an exfoliating cork. Lichens and mosses may be seen as grayish-w'hite or greenish patches. The inner surface is yellowish to reddish-brown. The fracture is fibrous.
Characteristics: The bark has an astringent, bitter taste and the odor is slight.
Habitat: The herb is indigenous to mountainous regions of the tropical U.S. and is cultivated elsewhere.
Production: Cinchona bark consists of the dried bark of Cinchona pubescens or other varieties. Trees are felled at between 6 and 12 years. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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| Sambuscus Nigra
Black Elder
DESCRIPTION
Medicinal Parts: The medicinal parts are the bark peeled from the branches in spring and freed from the cork, the air-dried flowers, the leaves harvested when young and dried, the fresh or dried ripe fruit, the dried roots, the fresh leaves and inflorescences in equal parts, the fresh bark of the young branches, and the fresh leaves.
Flower and Fruit: The strongly perfumed, yellowish-white flowers are in large, flat, apical, richly and densely blossomed erect cymes with 5 main branches. The edge of the calyx is small and 5-tipped. |
| Production: The thin bark without the cork or outer rind is dried in the shade.
Not To Be Confused With: Other powdered cinnamon varieties
Other Names: Ceylon Cinnamon
ACTION AND PHARMACOLOGY
COMPOUNDS
Volatile oil: chief components - cinnamaldehyde, weiterhin eugenol, cinnamylacetate, cinnamyl alcohol, o-methoxycin-namaldehyde, cinnamic acid
Diterpenes
Oligomeric proanthocyanidins Mucilages
EFFECTS
Antibacterial, fungistatic, promotes motility; mildly positive estrogen reactions on the genital system of animals in tests; increases gastric secretions and is an insecticide. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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 These include natural or "true" linoleum, untreated hardwood, cork, ceramic tile, marble, stone slate, and concrete (which can be stained in a variety of colors). For a nursery, resilient flooring (such as true linoleum or cork) is a good alternative to carpeting, absorbing much of the shock of a tumbling baby.
Furniture
Furniture makes our homes comfortable, livable spaces. But whether we're talking about the sofa or a baby's crib, there are a few things to consider about materials used to construct furniture. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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| The external surface is brownish-gray, usually fissured with an exfoliating cork. Lichens and mosses may be seen as grayish-white or greenish patches. The inner surface is yellowish to reddish-brown. The fracture is fibrous.
Characteristics: The bark has an astringent, bitter taste and the odor is slight.
Habitat: Indigenous to mountainous regions of the tropical U.S., cultivated elsewhere.
Production: Cinchona bark consists of the dried bark of Cinchona pubescens or other varieties. Trees are felled at between 6 and 12 years. |
Mark Lynas
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 Glaciologists have long argued that a loss of floating coastal ice shelves could result in faster glacier flows upstream, just as a cork popped out of a bottle allows the champagne to flow freely. Three major ice shelves on both sides of the Peninsula have now disintegrated: the Wordie, Larsen A and Larsen B, the latter collapsing spectacularly in a matter of days in March 2002. In each case, the glaciers which act as tributaries into the ice shelves have accelerated their flow of ice into the sea, just as predicted. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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| Calotropis Procera
Calotropis
DESCRIPTION
Medicinal Parts: The bark with its outer cork layer removed is known as Mudar, and is the medicinal part.
Flower and Fruit: The fragrant flowers are 2.5 cm in diameter and form umbel-like flower clusters. The erect petals are whitish and have purple spots on the upper half. The bracts of the corolla are smooth or downy with a divided tip. The ovate folliclesare is 7.5 to 10 cm long by 5 to 7.5 cm wide. The seeds have a tuft of silky hair.
Leaves, Stem and Root: The upright herbacious perennial normally grows to a height of 1.8 to 2.4 m. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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| The drug, from branches 2 to 3 cm thick, is peeled with horn knives, freed from cork and outer rind, and dried in the sun for 24 hours.
Not to be Confused With: Chinese Cinnamon should not be confused with waste products from the production process or other barks and materials, nor with the skins of horse chestnut seeds. |
| The trunk is silvery or gray, with cork warts.
Characteristics: The fruit is edible. Habitat: Japan, China, Korea
Production: Chocolate vine is the dried stem of Akebia quinata. |
| Production: Cinnamon consists of the dried tree bark, separated from the cork and outer rind, of young shoots growing on the branches of Cinnamomum verum. The tree is widely cultivated, and the harvested bark is dried in the shade.
Not to be Confused With: Confusion can arise with other powdered cinnamon varieties. |
| The main roots have obtuse, quadrangular, upright collarlike sections, 10 to 20 cm long and 30 to 60 cm thick, which are covered in a fissured cork layer. The nodes of the lateral roots are up to 60 mm thick and 20 cm long, and are light-brown to red-brown on the outside. The roots extend out to an area of about 150 cm around the plant and grow down to a depth of 30 to 60 cm.
Characteristics: The dried, pulverized secondary tubers and roots are yellowish-gray to bright pink and hornlike in their hardness. They have a bitter taste. |
| They are covered on the outside with a blackish-brown, paperlike, horizontally folded cork, which is sometimes fibrous. The fracture is spongy and roughly fibrous with white spots and resin drops.
Characteristics: The odor is strong and musklike; the taste is bitter and aromatic.
Habitat: The plant is found in some parts of Russia, Turkestan, and northern India.
Production: Sumbul or Musk root is the root of Ferula moschata (Reinsch, Kozo) or Ferula sumbul.
Other Names: Ferula, Musk Root actions and pharmacology
COMPOUNDS
Volatile oil (0.3-0. |
Devra Davis
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 Floors can be made out of cork or natural rubber, or other fast-growing plants and trees that can be harvested and replanted. Walls can be painted in naturally based paints that don't leave painters or workers with red eyes, parched throats or asthma attacks. Hospital gowns can be made from recycled paper.
At Poretto's urging, the University of Texas figured out that the only way out of the large, financially draining building was to build an entirely new nursing school in a totally new way. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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| The main roots have an obtuse, quadrangular, 10 to 20 cm long and 30 to 60 cm thick upright sections which are covered in a fissured cork layer. The nodes of the lateral roots are up to 60 mm thick and 20 cm long. They are light-brown to red-brown on the outside. They are found in a area of about 150 cm around the plant and grow down to a depth of 30 to 60 cm.
Characteristics: The dried, pulverized secondary tubers and roots are yellowish-gray to bright pink, hard, horn-like, and have a bitter taste.
Habitat: The plant grows in South Africa and Namibia. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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| So how do you pop the cork? By getting rid of the distractions confining your awareness. When you stop devoting all your mental energy to the sensory world, you free up that mental energy to focus instead on the ocean of electromagnetic energy behind it. At that point, you will naturally obtain the power to heal yourself.
There are three levels of distraction that keep our awareness "stopped up" in a bottle instead of unified with the ocean of energy around us. |
James Trefil
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 If you put a cork in the bottle, it can no longer perform its function, because the cork keeps liquids from entering or leaving the bottle. Using this analogy, a molecule in your cell is the bottle and a drug you take to block its action is the cork.
Historically, people have looked in all sorts of places for molecules that can play the role of medicines. Nature, after all, has been cooking up chemicals for billions of years, so there is a huge supply of possible "corks" out there. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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 Quigley of cork University Hospital in cork, Ireland, chastised his colleagues thus: "Long the sole preserve of the music hall and the stand up comedian, the application of serious science to the area of intestinal gas has been long overdue. It is also regrettable that these symptoms have tended to be trivialized and dismissed as imaginary by the medical practitioner."311
Most doctors would never cop to causing flatulence. And yet many of the medications they recommend can actually contribute to gassiness. |
James Trefil
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| If you put a cork in the bottle, it can no longer perform its function, because the cork keeps liquids from entering or leaving the bottle. Using this analogy, a molecule in your cell is the bottle and a drug you take to block its action is the cork.
Historically, people have looked in all sorts of places for molecules that can play the role of medicines. Nature, after all, has been cooking up chemicals for billions of years, so there is a huge supply of possible "corks" out there. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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| Quigley of cork University Hospital in cork, Ireland, chastised his colleagues thus: "Long the sole preserve of the music hall and the stand up comedian, the application of serious science to the area of intestinal gas has been long overdue. It is also regrettable that these symptoms have tended to be trivialized and dismissed as imaginary by the medical practitioner."311
Most doctors would never cop to causing flatulence. And yet many of the medications they recommend can actually contribute to gassiness. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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| Putting a gentle bite on the cork forces your jaws-a major holder of tension-to relax. (Don't fight stress by emptying the bottle of wine into your body first.)
YOU Tip: Lean on Him, Her, or Whomever. Friends aren't just good for borrowing sugar from or for telling you that you have wing sauce on your cheek. Friends are the ultimate de-stressor. Friends can remove over 90 percent of the aging penalty you face after a major life event accelerates your aging. Research shows that one of the most vital elements in reducing the negative health effects of stress is to have strong social networks. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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| They are covered on the outside with a blackish-brown, paper-like, horizontally folded cork, which is sometimes fibrous. The fracture is spongy and roughly fibrous with white spots and resin drops.
Characteristics: The odor is strong and musk-like, the taste is bitter and aromatic.
Habitat: The plant is found in some parts of Russia, Turkestan, and northern India.
Production: Sumbul or Musk root is the root of Femla moschata (Reinsch, Kozo) or Ferula sumbul.
Other Names: Ferula, Musk root
ACTIONS AND PHARMACOLOGY
COMPOUNDS
Volatile oil (0.3-0. |
Henry Hobhouse
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 In 1845 a man passed through a certain district on his way to cork for a week's stay with some relatives. On his way south all looked well. On his way back, however, the whole parish was stricken as if by frost, and the fields were black with devastated foliage.
The tubers, if dug, appear to be sound, but within a month they go rotten, first with dry rot, then with wet rot. When an area was struck by the blight for the first time, the people and the priest thought, with some justification, that God had forsaken them. |
Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan
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 The growing clot can fill the artery like a cork and stop blood-flow. If that happens in an artery that carries blood to the heart, a portion of heart muscle will die. That's a heart attack, which doctors call a myocardial infarction.
The solution to the problem is to reduce the number of cholesterol particles circulating in the bloodstream. Luckily, we know how to do that. Although previous diets had only a modest ability to lower cholesterol, the diet changes described within the pages of this book are dramatically effective. |
Jacky Law
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 The aggregate data from PROVE-IT and now TNT greatly help convict even so-called normal LDL cholesterol levels as deleterious and worthy of treatment in secondary prevention,' said Dr Carl Vaughan of University College, cork, at the meeting. 'The concept of "lower is better" has been strengthened this morning with a call to treat to new targets with LDL cholesterol goals of less than 80.'13
In this way, the boundaries of diseases change. In disease areas such as obesity, blood pressure, bone density, depression, pain, the yardsticks are similarly flexible. |
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