David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 HORSERADISH: The English name "horseradish" was first thought to be a bungled twist on the German word meerrettich, interpreted as mare (female horse) radish (meaning root). However, several English plant names use the word "horse" to indicate that it is big or strong. Horseradish is a member of the cabbage family.
WASABI: There are several species of wasabi but the most commonly found is Wasabia japonica. Like horseradish, all are members of the cabbage family. Wasabi, also known as "Japanese horseradish," is not a root but rather a knotty stem or "rhizome. |
Jack Challem
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 For example, a person who is anxious or uncertain will evoke those responses in a horse.
In her first couple of encounters with a horse—-petting, walking, brushing, and feeding—Theresa was particularly nervous and worried. After all, a 1,300-pound animal could seriously hurt her, even by accident. Not surprisingly, the horse seemed wary and uncertain. Yet with some tips from the horse trainer,Theresa quickly became comfortable handling the horse, and the horse responded in kind. The experience of interacting with a large animal increased her self-confidence, and her anxieties decreased. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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| However, several English plant names use the word "horse" to indicate that it is big or strong. Horseradish is a member of the cabbage family.
WASABI: There are several species of wasabi but the most commonly found is Wasabia japonica. Like horseradish, all are members of the cabbage family. Wasabi, also known as "Japanese horseradish," is not a root but rather a knotty stem or "rhizome." It is used predominantly as a spice and has a strong flavor, so much so that it is nicknamed "namida," which means "tears" in Japanese. |
Jack Challem
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| Not surprisingly, the horse seemed wary and uncertain. Yet with some tips from the horse trainer,Theresa quickly became comfortable handling the horse, and the horse responded in kind. The experience of interacting with a large animal increased her self-confidence, and her anxieties decreased. Theresa also improved her diet and started taking several supplements, such as 5-HTP and GABA.Together, these methods began to help her overcome the traumas and the anxieties that had shaped her life.
Phenylethylamine
What it does. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 The bark, seed, twigs, and leaves from the horse chestnut trees are used in traditional Chinese medicine. horse chestnut extract is helpful for improving circulation, which makes it also useful for relieving leg cramps. The German Commission E, which is responsible for testing herbs and supplements, approves horse chestnut for "venous insufficiency," meaning lack of blood flow through the veins.
Those Delicate Veins
Varicose veins are almost always related to a weakness in the walls of the veins, which are fairly delicate structures to begin with. |
Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA
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| Horse estrogen is natural if you're a horse, but it's not natural if you're a human, and the combination is certainly not found in nature. There are actually several different types of estrogens, and horses have estrogens in their bodies that are unique to horses but are foreign to the human body. Other estrogens appear in both horse and human urine, but the levels are very different. The relationship between the levels of the three human estrogens— estriol, estrone, and estradiol—in a woman's body makes a big difference in how she feels and in her state of health. |
Jack Challem
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| Yet with some tips from the horse trainer,Theresa quickly became comfortable handling the horse, and the horse responded in kind. The experience of interacting with a large animal increased her self-confidence, and her anxieties decreased. Theresa also improved her diet and started taking several supplements, such as 5-HTP and GABA.Together, these methods began to help her overcome the traumas and the anxieties that had shaped her life.
Phenylethylamine
What it does. Phenylethylamine (PEA) is a mood-elevating neurotransmitter that promotes feelings of love and bliss. |
James Howard Kunstler
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 The American scene further into the twenty-first century will have to include more working animals. The horse population in the United States reached its height around 1915 at about 21 million (two years after Henry Ford introduced the assembly-line method of production for his Model T) and declined sharply afterward. The 1920s was a kind of horse holocaust as the automobile and tractor came into broad use and the sudden oversupply of horses sent them by the trainload to rendering plants, like so much scrap. The low point of the U.S. horse population came in the mid-1950s at about 500,000. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 We compare it to the difference between feeding a horse right and whipping a horse. You can make a horse work harder for awhile with the whip, but you'd better feed him or he won't continue to work. We try to get the whips out of there and enhance nutrition instead."
Dr. Ken Korins explains how homeopathy works in the case of chronic fatigue. "Homeopathy," he said, "is a type of energy or vibrational medicine. It works by stimulating the person's innate healing forces. In some traditions, for instance Chinese medicine, that's called the chi. In homeopathy, we call it the vital force. |
Covert Bailey
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 The researchers asked, "If we get a horse walking and then steadily increase the speed on the treadmill, when will the horse begin to jog or trot?" After much horsing around, they found that a given horse would switch from a walk to a trot consistently at a particular speed. Then they repeated the experiment with a rider on the horse's back. The horse would switch to a trot at a different speed, but it would always switch at that same speed as long as the rider was the same.
I'm sure you're suspicious at this point. What if they used a different horse? Yes, you're right. |
Jack Challem
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| Yet with some tips from the horse trainer,Theresa quickly became comfortable handling the horse, and the horse responded in kind. The experience of interacting with a large animal increased her self-confidence, and her anxieties decreased. Theresa also improved her diet and started taking several supplements, such as 5-HTP and GABA.Together, these methods began to help her overcome the traumas and the anxieties that had shaped her life.
Phenylethylamine
What it does. Phenylethylamine (PEA) is a mood-elevating neurotransmitter that promotes feelings of love and bliss. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 It contains horse chestnut and escin, a component of the horse chestnut plant. Although both of these ingredients have research about their benefit for varicose veins (especially when consumed orally), the research does not study the effects of the small amounts contained in cosmetic products like this (Sources: Pharmacological Research, September 2001, pages 183-193; Phytotherapy Research, March 2002, number SI, pages 1-5; and Archives of Dermatology, 1998, volume 134, pages 1356-1360). |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 Holistic horse magazine.
Small relates a case in which she was called by a frustrated trainer to discuss a thoroughbred filly that he had.
Gary was beside himself because the horse had been sick for weeks, and three vets and seven antibiotics could not bring this filly around. Gary and the vets gave up on this filly and sent her out to a farm since she could not be trained and was taking up valuable stall space at the racetrack.
Upon my arrival to the farm, I found a thin filly despondently looking out of the stall. She had copious white mucus glued around each nostril. |
Bill Sardi
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 Medical Hypotheses 63:986-96, 2004]
The Trojan horse Bacterium: Is cancer a tuberculosis infection? tuberculosis:"
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Stealth chameleon bacterium
Mycobacteria, such as tuberculosis and para-tuberculosis, have been called a "Trojan horse." [Trends in Cell Biology 15: No. 5, May 2005] They are stealth bacteria.
The outer shell of the TB bacterium is very fatty and repels staining by standard detection methods. Since it has an oily outer membrane, it resists drying and most disinfectants.
PARA-TB is almost invisible to the human immune system. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 Production: horse Chestnut leaf consists of the fresh or dried leaf of Aesculus hippocastanum. A dry extract is manufactured from horse chestnut seeds adjusted to a content of 16-20% triterpene glycosides (calculated as anhydrous aescin).
Not To Be Confused With: The leaves of the sweet chestnut Other Names: Spanish Chestnut, Buckeye. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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| From Nick Larkin's Case Files—Laminitis
After PB had her horse, Mouse, for more than fifteen years, the horse developed laminitis. The vet prescribed Finadyne injections, followed by a powder, remedial shoeing, and Bute. A blood test also revealed a hormonal imbalance. The mare had been on Bute for two months but reacted to it, with ulcers around the mouth and sores on the muzzle; hence, the owner was keen to find an alternative. Two products, one containing eleuthero and schisandra, the other containing MSM and chondroitin, were suggested. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 As a flower essence, horse chestnut helps those who repeat their mistakes over and over, without learning from them, to see themselves more clearly.
Edible Uses
Horse chestnuts are not considered edible unless they have been soaked or boiled in multiple changes of water to leach out the toxins. Some Native Americans prepared a porridge from the nuts using this processing.
Other Uses
Saponins in the seeds can be used to make soap. The wood, though weak, has a nice grain and is used to make household items. |
| The name has also been interpreted to mean "giving light to a horse," in reference to the plant's supposed power to cure equine blindness, or "shining underneath," in reference to the silvery undersides of the leaves.
Sea buckthorn was said to have been the preferred food of Pegasus, the flying horse of Greek mythology. |
Devra Davis
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 Decades earlier, the brilliant French experimental physiologist Claude Bernard had inserted a catheter directly into the heart of a living horse to track the way that blood circulated through the body. Yet French researchers feared that what was possible in a horse might prove fatal for a human.
Cournand had a different view. He was intrigued by relatively freewheeling American research that relied heavily on the use of x-rays and active examinations in contrast to its limited scientific applications in France. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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| The green shell of the nuts can cause digestive distress, drowsiness, and skin flushing and should be peeled off. Use horse chestnut only in small amounts, generally one-fourth that of other herbs. Nausea and gastrointestinal upset are possible side effects; the plant can also thin the blood. Avoid during pregnancy and while nursing.
Range and Appearance
Horse chestnut is a deciduous tree native to Eurasia that can grow 50 to 80 feet tall. It prefers well-drained, moist soil in full sun to partial shade. Its leaves are large, rough, serrated, palmate, and compound. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 A baby horse will drink horse's milk from its mother. But humans? We're sorta stupid. We mostly drink cow's milk. (And the dairy industry insisted for decades it was better for infants than human milk!)
Of all the mammals on planet Earth, only humans are dumb enough to seek out the mammary gland juice of another species while shunning the breast milk of their own species. And did we choose the milk of a species SMARTER than us that might have more brain-boosting nutrients? Nope. We get our milk from a low-IQ species well suited to pulling a plow. |
Berkeley Holistic Health Center and Shepherd Bliss
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| Upon reaching the road, the horse turned and continued walking. When the horse occasionally wandered off the side to graze, Erickson would nudge him back onto the path. Eventually the horse turned up a driveway and walked to a small farmhouse. The excited farmer ran out of the house exclaiming: "You found my lost horse. How did you know he belonged here?" Erickson replied: "I didn't know where he belonged, but the horse did. All I did was get him on the path and keep him moving." and make sense of the world. The N.L.P. practitioner uses this information to help people achieve what they want. |
Devra Davis
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| They both had played in an office just outside the horse show arena that had been drenched with waste oil. They got better when they stopped playing in the area. Bliss carried on. Every once in a while more horses would die. Finally, in 1979, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control came in and measured soils and collected samples of dead animals. That same year, an employee of the chemical firm confessed that the still-bottom wastes Bliss had been hauling had hundreds of times more dioxin than was then legal. CDC soon figured out that the illnesses in the girls and animals had been no coincidence. |
Ron Garner
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 For example, if you are riding a horse and want it to go faster, it will respond to the stimulation of a whip. However, stimulating it in this manner to keep going at a rapid pace will only work for so long. Eventually, its energy reserves deplete and it becomes exhausted. Repeatedly whipping a horse to make it run faster can kill it. It is the same with our bodies. They work as long and as efficiently as they can, attempting to respond to our needs and wants. Under the repeated whip of stimulation, they too eventually become exhausted, break down, and die. |
James Howard Kunstler
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| A horse is generally able to begin useful work at four years and it can labor for more than twenty years depending on how well it is cared for. Unlike machines, horses can reproduce themselves. A substantial fraction of production on farms organized around horse power has to be dedicated to growing their feed. Obviously, relations between humans and working animals can range from respectful and loving to careless and cruel, and social norms of decent behavior toward them will have to be reestablished. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Horse chestnut extract is helpful for improving circulation, which makes it also useful for relieving leg cramps. The German Commission E, which is responsible for testing herbs and supplements, approves horse chestnut for "venous insufficiency," meaning lack of blood flow through the veins.
Those Delicate Veins
Varicose veins are almost always related to a weakness in the walls of the veins, which are fairly delicate structures to begin with. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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| In a horse study (Lai 2004), animals given reishi had increased humoral immunity (CD5+, CD4+, CD8+, T lymphocytes) and were able to produce a much higher level of specific antibodies more quickly. naaptogens for nnimais z / /
Rhaponticum
Rhaponticum (Rhaponticum earthamoides) enhances muscle development, endurance, and blood circulation. The roots are eaten by deer, cows, and horses, improving their stamina, preventing illness, and increasing tolerance to cold or harsh conditions. |
Ray Dodd
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 If you love horses and riding horses gives you great joy, at the end of the ride you still have to brush down the horse, tend to the gear, put down food and water, and clean out the stall. |
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