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Plants of Longevity, The Medicinal Flora of Vilcabamba Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon See book keywords and concepts

Familia / Family: POACEAE Partes usadas / Plant part used: Hojas y Rafz, fresca - Leaves and Roots, fresh Administracion / Administration: Oral Preparation / Preparation: Tomar extracto de la Rai'z para Disenten'a, las Hojas para te - Drink Root extract for dysentery, Leaves for making tea Usos / Uses: Disenten'a - Dysentery Grama Duke Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.

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In 1976,1 was trekking in Afghanistan and contracted severe amoebic dysentery, compounded by being a diabetic. I began to rapidly lose weight, and was down from my normal 185 pounds at six feet three to 165 in less than a month. Then I continued my travels on to Nepal, because I had heard of this ayurvedic physician, Dr. Mana (Vaidya Mana Bajra Bajracha-rya). However, it was a few weeks before I could get to him. When I saw him, he gave me medicine for the dysentery, which calmed down in a few days.

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It is used in the treatment of arthritis, cancer, cholesterol, constipation, dysentery, headache, hypercholesterolemia, liver stagnation, parasites, rheumatism, and skin diseases. Edible Uses The nuts are edible raw or cooked, and they are often used in baked goods. The sap of the tree can be made into a sweet syrup. Other Uses Butternut wood is softer than that of black walnut, but like walnut, it has been used in woodworking, notably to make cabinets, instrument cases, and fur-niture.The husks of the nut and bark yield an orange or yellow dye.

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At that point he gave me a strong-smelling black pill, along with a diet and more dysentery medicine, and told me I was close to death, that my heart may give out from the sixty-pound weight loss and nonstop diarrhea. As soon as I began the new tonic, my energy rapidly came back, perhaps 30 percent in a week, and I was on the mend. My weight came up to 150 pounds in the next two months, and I began my study with him. The medicine he gave to me was shilajit rasayana (tonic), a compound about 50 percent shilajit, 30 percent triphala, and a number of other minor herbs.

When I saw him, he gave me medicine for the dysentery, which calmed down in a few days. But I was staying in a hotel, and had a skin puncture, and developed blood poisoning, and my weight began to again drop further, the diarrhea returned, and I finally was down to 125 pounds when I got back to see Mana and could hardly walk from the motorbike (Nepali cab) to the clinic—fifty yards.

He said that it was a styptic and astringent that was used for people with hernias, leucorrhea (vaginal discharge), dysentery, hysteria, and headaches. Rhodiola was popular with the Vikings, who used it to enhance mental and physical endurance, and it was included in the first Swedish pharmacopoeia in 1755. Modern Uses An excellent review of the use of rhodiola was printed in HerbalGram, a publication of the American Botanical Council (Brown, Gerbarg, and Ramazanov 2002).

Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness Tori Hudson, N.D. See book keywords and concepts

This astringent herb, high in tannic acid, was relied on by early American Indians to treat diarrhea, dysentery, leukorrhea, and chronic menorrhagia, especially cases of prolonged bleeding. Cranesbill was used by early practitioners of natural medicine (the eclectic physicians) to achieve prompt and predictable results in cases of menorrhagia without any unpleasant side effects. Without Tannins • Horsetail (Equisetum arvense) • Goldenseal (Hydrastis canadensis) • Shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris) Shepherd's Purse.

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By 1960, the insecticide DDT had eradicated malaria from the United States, along with yellow fever. dysentery, typhus, and tetanus were now preventable with vaccines; pneumonia and meningitis could be cured with antibiotics. Newsmagazines ran weekly reports on medicine under hopeful headlines: 1 U T l_ l\ I I \ 1— #~» I 1— "Machine of Life," a story about dialysis, and "Hunt for Cancer Vaccine Closes In." Newsweek quoted U.S. Surgeon General Luther L. Terry, who predicted that by 198 c nine out of ten diseases would be eradicated and "spare parts for the human body . . .

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It's found in drinks or in drugs, as well as some antibiotics, especially metronidazole (Flagyl), which is commonly used to treat certain intestinal infections, such as giardiasis and dysentery, and the vaginal infection trichomonas. Pee that looks like tea is also a sign of several serious medical conditions, including bleeding from the kidney or bladder that has stopped, allowing the blood in the urine to turn brown, as well as the liver diseases hepatitis and cirrhosis. Jaundice of the eyes, skin, and stools is another color-related body sign of liver disease.

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Home Remedies Hippocrates and other healers have used elderberry as an antiinflammatory, anti-rheumatic, diuretic, and laxative agent, as well as for the treatment of dysentery, stomach ailments, scurvy, and urinary tract problems. Warm elderberry wine is a remedy for sore throat and influenza, and induces perspiration to reverse the effects of a chill. The juice from the berries is an old-fashioned cure for colds, and is also said to relieve asthma and bronchitis.

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Chlorine is a disinfectant used to kill waterborne diseases such as cholera, dysentery, E. coli and typhoid and has been used regularly in municipal water treatment facilities for more than a century. It's estimated over 200 million Americans have at least marginally chlorinated water pumped into their homes every day for washing clothes, bathing, cooking, and drinking. Chlorine may be effective at eliminating many pathogens, but its presence in drinking water does more harm than good. When chlorine is added to water, it bonds with other natural compounds to form Trihalo-methanes (THM's).

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Some people have chewed the seeds to reduce toothache pain, and even the skin has been used as an antibiotic for intestinal parasites and dysentery. The flesh has long been used to condition dry hair and as a soothing shaving cream. Throw Me a Lifesaver! gingivitis and other gum disease: Test tube studies conducted on human gum tissue found that avocado helped to decrease the occurrence of gingivitis and other periodontal disease.

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In years past in Japan, food poisoning was very common, and people used natto to prevent cholera, typhoid, and dysentery. Natto accomplishes this by suppressing the growth of harmful bacteria that are found in food, while at the same time supporting the growth of the beneficial bacteria like lactobacillus. Natto contains another useful component, namely vitamin K2. Vitamin K2 helps to prevent osteoporosis, which it is estimated will affect more than 52 percent of women and men aged fifty and older by the year 2010.

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Safety Issues: Avoid use in diarrhea or dysentery. Herb/Drug Interactions: This herb contains tannins, and these substances can interfere with mineral absorption, especially iron. Tannins also can bind alkaloid medications such as theophylline. Separate the ingestion of amla and iron or alkaloid medications by three to four hours. Selected Research Studies Adaptogenic Properties of Six Rasayana Herbs Used in Ayurvedic Medicine (Rege, Thatte, and Dahanukar 1999). Six traditional rasayana herbs were studied to determine if they had adaptogenic activity.

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It can be used in treatments for diarrhea, dysentery, internal bleeding, and leukorrhea. Topically, blackberry leaf is used as an astringent for oily skin, to treat wounds, as a mouthwash for sores and weak gums, and as a gargle for sore throat. The leaves can be applied as a poultice to relieve the pain and itchiness of insect bites and to shrink hemorrhoids. As a flower essence, blackberry is helpful for those who find it difficult to initiate projects and those who are hampered by lethargy and inertia.

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In Indonesia, Hong Kong and Singapore during World War II, prisoners suffering from acute dysentery recovered when rations of whole boiled soybeans were replaced with tempeh.35 The Rhizopus mold seems to inhibit the growth of dysentery-causing bacteria. Researchers studying the impact of soy sauce on five strains of E. coli found that that no single component of traditionally fermented soy sauce could be credited for the success of anti-£. coli action.

Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You Andreas Moritz See book keywords and concepts

Apart from at least 29 previously unknown diseases, 20 well-known ones have re-emerged, including malaria, tuberculosis, pneumonia, cholera, yellow fever and dysentery. The germs causing the diseases are rapidly mutating to forms beyond the reach of today's antibiotics. Drugs that once cured malaria are being foiled by the mosquito-borne parasite. Its "changing coat" of mutations baffles scientists. Yesterday's "super drugs" have become today's weapons of self-destruction.

Slippery elm bark was also traditionally used for treating abscesses, dysentery, urinary conditions and fever. Poultices were traditionally used to support bone and joint health, reduce swollen glands and stop the spread of infections. The bark contains a complex mixture of polysaccharides including pentoses, methyl-pentoses and hexoses that form a soothing gelatinous fiber or mucilage. The bark also contains high concentrations of anti-oxidants including beta-sitosterol, traces of beta-carotene and flavonoids including proanthocyanidins.

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INDICATIONS AND USAGE In Chinese medicine, the drug is used for pathological leukorrea, diarrhea, chronic diarrhea, chronic dysentery and dysmenorrhea. In Africa, it is also used for cramps, asthma, fast heart rate, gonorrhea, epilepsy and tapeworm infestation. It is increasingly used in the treatment of malaria. Efficacy has not been proven. PRECAUTIONS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS Large doses of the drug are said to lead to queasiness, dizziness, headache, tingling in the limbs and diarrhea. OVERDOSAGE Fatal poisonings have been observed in animal experiments.

INDICATIONS AND USAGE The powdered root bark is used against dysentery. It has a similar effect to that of the ipecacuanha root. In Indian and African folk medicine, the bark is used to treat epilepsy, hysteria, cramps, cancer, warts, leprosy, elephantitis, worms, fever, gout, and snake bites. In particular, the milky juice is used against boils, ulcers, swellings, and rheumatism. In Africa, it is used to treat toothache, syphilis, digestive disorders and diarrhea. In India, the smoke (fumes) from the bark is used for coughs and asthma and as a sudorific.

INDICATIONS AND USAGE Loosestrife is used for scurvy, diarrhea and dysentery as well as hemorrhages (nose bleeds and heavy menstrual blood flow) and wounds. PRECAUTIONS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS No health hazards or side effects are known in conjunction with the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages. DOSAGE Mode of Administration: The herb is used externally in the powdered form. LITERATURE Hansel R, Keller K, Rimpler H, Schneider G (Hrsg.), Hagers Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, 5. Aufl., Bde 4-6 (Drogen), Springer Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1992-1994.

In folk medicine, coriander is also used for digestive and gastric complaints; in other cultures for coughs, chest pains, bladder complaints, leprosy rash, fever, dysentery, externally for headaches, oral and pharyngeal disorders, halitosis, post-partal complications; the folk indications have not been proven. PRECAUTIONS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS Health risks or side effects following the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages are not recorded. The drug possesses a weak potential for sensitization.

In folk medicine, preparations are used internally for bronchitis, asthma and dysentery and externally for ulcers. PRECAUTIONS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS SYZYGII CUMINI SEMEN No health hazards or side effects are known in conjunction with the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages. Administration in the presence of diabetes mellitus is not recommended, due to the fact that the blood sugar-reducing effect is unproven. SYZYGII CUMINI CORTEX No health hazards or side effects are known in conjunction with the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages.

INDICATIONS AND USAGE The drug has many indications: amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, irregular menstruation, nausea, fever, headache, diarrhea and dysentery; as an oxytoxic, to expel the afterbirth, for urethritis, nerve inflammation, poor lactation, metrorrhagia, hemorrhage, menorrhagia and atonic amenorrhea, painful menstruation, climateric complaints; it is used in China as a male contraceptive. PRECAUTIONS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS Health risks or side effects following the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages are not recorded.

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When we ask representatives of our government to establish safe levels of bacteria in our drinking water, they do not select a level at which a substantial proportion of the population will contract cholera and dysentery; instead, they set a level that guarantees none of us will be infected. The case is similar with official standards for other contaminants. We do not choose a level at which 20 percent of our children will develop lead-induced brain disease from lead in the water. We choose a level that ensures the safety of everyone.

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Juniper berry is used in the treatment of appetite loss, arthritis, catarrh, cholera, cystitis, diabetes, dysentery, flatulence, flu, gonorrhea, gout, kidney stones, tapeworm typhoid, and urinary tract infection. Topically, juniper can be added to massage oil or used as bath herb in the treatment of joint and muscle soreness, rheumatism, and cellulite; it also can be added to salves to treat acne, eczema, or psoriasis or, as a chest rub, congestion.

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Chinese Medicine: In China, Knotweed is used for gonorrhea, jaundice, skin defects, dysentery (red), itching, and tapeworm in children. Homeopathic Uses: In homeopathy, Polygonum aviculare is used for rheumatism of the fingers. precautions and adverse reactions No health hazards or side effects are known in conjunction with the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages. dosage Mode of Administration: As a ground herb for teas and other galenic preparations for internal use and local application. The drug is a component of various pectoral and bronchial teas.

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In Hong Kong, among Cantonese speakers, it is known as ng may gee and is used for people with dysentery, wheezing, jaundice, and spermatorrhea. Modern Uses In modern Chinese medicine, schisandra is used to "astringe the jing." This means it is used to control diarrhea, frequent urination, excessive vaginal discharge, and premature ejaculation. Because it dries up excess fluids, it also is used along with astragalus and Chinese dogwood fruit to control excess sweating, night sweats, and menopausal sweating. Schisandra frequently is used when the kidneys are not grasping the lung qi.

Plants of Longevity, The Medicinal Flora of Vilcabamba Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon See book keywords and concepts

Familia / Family: PUNICACEAE Partes usadas / Plant part used: Hojas, frescas - Leaves, fresh Administracion / Administration: Oral Preparacion / Preparation: 2 cucharadas en 21 de agua hervida - 2 tbsp in 11 of boiling water Usos / Uses: Disenteria, Diarrea con sangre - dysentery, Diarrhea with blood Nispero Eriobotrya japonica (Thunb.) Lindl.

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JAMBOLAN BARK Approved by Commission E: ¦ Diarrhea ¦ Inflammation of the mouth and pharynx ¦ Inflammation of the skin Unproven Uses: Preparations are used internally for bronchitis, asthma, and dysentery, and externally for ulcers. Indian Medicine: The drug is used for diabetes, leukorrhea, stomachache, fever, dysuria, and inflammation of the skin. Homeopathic Uses: Syzygium cumini is used for diabetes. precautions and adverse reactions JAMBOL SEED No health hazards or side effects are known in conjunction with the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages.

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