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The Secret History of the War on Cancer Devra Davis See book keywords and concepts

You would never take all the different pills in your medicine chest in one swallow, even though ingesting one or a few is fine. Why, then, should we accept that there is no danger in being subjected to combinations of agents without precedent in human history? Biologist Tyrone Hayes of the University of California at Berkeley thinks the tadpoles of the seed-corn fields of York County, Nebraska, are trying to tell us something: one in every three exposed to mixtures of ordinary chemicals in those fields die.3 Everybody knows that cancer can run in families.

The Green Tea Book Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews See book keywords and concepts

CHAPTER 1 A medicine chest of Good Health Few herbs have as long or impressive a history as green tea has. The first recorded use of green tea dates back more than 4,000 years, and even then, tea enthusiasts believed that this tasty drink could ward off disease and improve health. Since that early reference to green tea as a health elixir, an impressive amount of evidence has accumulated to link green tea with good health. From protecting the heart against any number of cardiovascular diseases to keeping teeth strong and healthy, green tea seems to do it all.

Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 Bottom Line Health See book keywords and concepts

But don't clear out your herbal medicine chest just yet. What went largely unreported was that study participants received only 900 milligrams (mg) of echinacea daily—less than one-third of the dose recommended by the World Health Organization for combating upper-respiratory infections. That's akin to expecting one-third of a dose of aspirin to relieve a headache. What's the other side of the story?

101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! David W. Grotto, RD, LDN See book keywords and concepts

What's the Story? There are over twenty species of elder trees in existence today. Formerly thought to be in the honeysuckle family Caprifoliaceae, elder is now classified in the Moschatel family Adoxaceae. The flowers, leaves, berries, bark, and roots have all been used in traditional folk medicine for centuries. The fruit goes into elderberry wine, brandy, and the popular drink Sambuca, which is made by infusing elderberries and anise into alcohol. When cooked, elderberry can be used to make pies and jam.

The Einstein Factor: A Proven New Method for Increasing Your Intelligence Win Wenger, Ph.D. and Richard Poe See book keywords and concepts

It will ensure you some snooze time better than anything in your medicine chest. When he was engaged in his "deep thought" experiments, Einstein would hold a rock in either hand. If he started to drift off, the rock would fall and snap him awake. This method will certainly keep you from falling asleep, but it will also deprive you of the extra dimensions of speech and auditory feedback essential to Image Streaming. Some methods for making your Image Stream more vivid and useful follow. USE THE PRESENT TENSE Remember that the Third Commandment of Image Streaming is to use the present tense.

Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies Greg Critser See book keywords and concepts

Everybody wanted bigger ones, better ones. This book is about the products taking up an increasingly huge and expensive chunk of space in that American medicine chest: prescription drugs. Unlike potions and lotions for one's skin and hair, they are not products that we "decide" we want. Prescription drugs are products that highly educated people, whom we trust with our money and our lives, tell us that we need in order to survive or to avoid undue risk to our health. Over the past decade the use of these drugs, almost all for chronic diseases, has soared.

Rapid Healing Foods Ben Davis See book keywords and concepts

THE MEDICINE CHEST "Everything that I recommend in my medicine chest is easy for poor people to obtain," said Father Kneipp, "for the little herbs grow in God's open air and can be easily collected, dried and made into tea ... It is not always possible to get a doctor at once, and then it is of the greatest advantage to have merely to put your hand in the first drawer of your medicine chest and take out that which is needful to help the sufferer!" (Note: most herbs are available at any health food store. If not, ask the dealer to order any you need.

The Side Effects Bible: The Dietary Solution to Unwanted Side Effects of Common Medications Frederic Vagnini, M.D. and Barry Fox, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

With all this pain, it's no wonder that our national medicine chest contains a variety of painkillers, from aspirin to morphine. Propoxyphene is one of those painkillers. A chemical cousin of methadone, it's a narcotic painkiller that acts on the central nervous system to alter the perception of pain. Used for mild to moderate pain, propoxyphene is often combined with other painkillers, such as acetaminophen, which slows production of the prostaglandins that encourage pain. (For more on acetaminophen, see the entry on page 90.

The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs: A Guide to Understanding and Using Herbal Medicinals Leslie Taylor, ND See book keywords and concepts

CURRENT PRACTICAL USES Traditional Preparation While iporuru will probably long remain in the South American herbalist's and shaman's medicine chest of natural remedies for impotency, arthritis, pain, and inflammation, its use by the rest of the world will be limited until more people and practitioners learn more about the plant and/or additional research is performed. Very few iporuru products are sold here in the U.S., and it is only available through a handful of companies (which mostly include it in multi-herb combination formulas).

Clearly, it has played an important role in the herbal practitioner's medicine chest of natural remedies for many maladies in both South America and India. It is an effective natural remedy, especially for the liver and kidneys, which is deserving of much more attention and use here in the United States. Several research groups studying various biological activities of erva tostao have shown the safety of the plant—indicating no toxicity of root and leaf extracts taken orally by mice at up to 5 g per kg of body weight.

In addition, its lack of side effects or toxicity places it in the first line of defense in the herbalist's medicine chest of natural remedies. Generally, 1-3 cups of amor seco leaf tea (standard infusion) daily, 4-6 ml of a standard tincture, or 4-5 g of powdered leaves in capsules daily are used for most conditions. Contraindications None known. Drug Interactions None reported.

In this process, many active and beneficial plants have been found in the shaman's medicine chest, only to be discarded when it was found that the active ingredients of the plant numbered too many to be cost effectively synthesized into a patentable drug. It does not matter how active or beneficial the plant is or how long the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) process might take to approve the new drug; if the bioprospector can not capitalize on it, the public will rarely hear about a plant's newly discovered benefits. The fact is there is a lot of money at stake.

The Side Effects Bible: The Dietary Solution to Unwanted Side Effects of Common Medications Frederic Vagnini, M.D. and Barry Fox, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

CHLOROTHIAZIDE AND RELATED DIURETICS Chlorothiazide, Methyclothiazide, Polythiazide, Trichlormethiazide (klor-oh-THYE-uh-zide, meth-i-kloe-THYE-uh-zide, pol-ee-THYE-uh-zide, trye-klor-meth-EYE-uh-zide) Brand Names: Chlorothiazide: Diuril Methyclothiazide: Aquatensen, Duretic, Enduron Polythiazide: Renese Trichlormethiazjde: Metahydrin, Naqua About Chlorothiazide and Related Diuretics Chlorothiazide, developed in the late 1950s, was a powerful new addition to the nation's medicine chest.

The Rhodiola Revolution: Transform Your Health with the Herbal Breakthrough of the 21st Century Richard P. Brown, M.D., and Patricia L. Gerbarg, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

By the time she got to Dick's office, she had tried a whole medicine chest full of drugs, including tricyclic antidepressants, Prozac, and Wellbutrin, among a score of others. Some of them eased her depression temporarily, but eventually they either stopped working or caused intolerable side effects. More drugs were tried. So was phototherapy, with partial improvement. (Phototherapy involves the use of a special powerful light box.) At age 45, Linda was married, sober, and free from panic attacks and eating disorders.

Disease Prevention and Treatment The Life Extension Editorial Staff See book keywords and concepts

In a population study in Cache County, Utah, 201 cases of Alzheimer's disease and 4425 participants with no indication of cognitive impairment were identified, interviewed, and their medicine chest assessed. Compared with cognitively intact individuals, the Alzheimer's disease cases had significantly less reported current use of NSAIDs, aspitin, and histamine H2 receptor antagonists (Anthony et al. 2000).

Whole Foods Companion: A Guide For Adventurous Cooks, Curious Shoppers, and lovers of natural foods Dianne Onstad See book keywords and concepts

Like many other foods, sage got into the pantry via the medicine chest. Its health-protecting advantages have been forgotten by many, but along the way most people have learned to like its flavor. The French produced so much sage at one time that they exported it in the form of tea; the Chinese became so fond of sage tea that they traded four pounds of their tea for one pound of sage. Culinary Uses Sage is available as fresh or dried leaves, the dried being generally preferred over the fresh leaves.

A ruffian with a heatt of gold and a wealth of talents—serving in the kitchen, the medicine chest, and the vegetable garden—garlic is totally undistinguished of appearance, and its smell (to some) is coarse and offensive. California produces 90 percent of the United States crop (more than 250 million pounds); some of the best is reported to be cultivated around Gilroy. In years when frost strikes the garlic crop, the cloves turn out firmer and smoother. Elephant garlic (A. scorodoprasum) cloves are roughly the size of quail eggs.

Sugar industry denies links between sugars and obesity Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Saying that sugar is part of a healthy diet is sort of like saying that crack cocaine should be part of your medicine chest. It's not that far-fetched, actually: Coca-Cola contained cocaine for decades following its introduction in the 1800's. Not surprisingly, patients got hooked on the product rather easily. Today, Coca-Cola still uses coca leaves, which are imported into the United States from South America, and which are subjected to a process that removes their cocaine content.

Prescription for Dietary Wellness: Using Foods to Heal Phyllis A. Balch, CNC See book keywords and concepts

Actually, garlic has been part of humanity's medicine chest for thousands of years. Touted since ancient times as a miraculous "cure-all," useful for everything from athlete's foot to warding off heart disease, garlic's medical reputation goes back at least to 1550 b.c.e. The Persians, the Medes, the Phoenicians, and the Babylonians all had extensive knowledge about garlic. The Talmud also contains references to the benefits of garlic. Dubbed the "stinking rose," garlic belongs to the lily family and is related to onions, chives, shallots, and leeks.

Complete Guide to Prescription and Nonprescription Drugs 2005 H. Winter Griffith, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Bathroom medicine chest too moist. • Obesity reduces effectiveness. • Some nicotinic acid products contain tartrazine dye. Read labels carefully if sensitive to tartrazine. POSSIBLE INTERACTION WITH OTHER DRUGS GENERIC NAME OR DRUG CLASS COMBINED EFFECT Antidiabetics* Decreased antidiabetic effect. Beta-adrenergic blocking agents* Excessively low blood pressure. Dexfenfluramine May require dosage change as weight loss occurs. HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors* Increased risk of muscle or kidney problems. Mecamylamine Excessively low blood pressure.

The Natural Medicine Guide to the 50 Most Common Medicinal Herbs Heather Boon, BScPhm, PhD and Michael Smith, BPharm, MRPharmS, ND See book keywords and concepts

Traditional Use Known as 'Mother Nature's medicine chest', elder has traditionally been used to treat a wide variety of ailments, including coughs, colds, allergies, and arthritis. Elder is also rich in folklore, believed to be a good charm, used to drive away robbers and kill snakes.6In rural England, it was considered a grave offence to damage any part of the tree since it was thought to be inhabited by the 'Elder Mother' and intrinsically linked to 'Mother Earth'.7 Elderberries are also used as food, in making elderberry pie and wine.

The Doctors Book of Home Remedies II: Over 1,200 New Doctor-Tested Tips and Techniques Anyone Can Use to Heal Hundreds of Everyday Health Problems the Editors of PREVENTION See book keywords and concepts

Although nature's medicine chest is well-stocked with herbs to help your skin heal, don't overlook basic first-aid. When you nick your finger while cutting tomatoes, your first instinct is probably to clasp your other hand over the cut. That instinct's right on target. Applying pressure to the wound with a cloth, a T-shirt, your finger—whatever you have handy—helps to stop the bleeding, says Pierre Brunschwig, M.D., a member of the American Holistic Medical Association who practices at the Helios Health Center in Boulder, Colorado.

American Herbalists Guild (AHG), an herbalist in Oyster Bay, New York, and author of The Natural medicine chest. Some herbs act as powerful antiseptics, slowing the growth of microbial marauders. Others help soothe tender, swollen gums. Echinacea Combine 30 drops of tincture with a few ounces of water and rinse your mouth at bedtime. "I use echinacea for any condition that causes inflammation," says Ed Smith, a professional member of the AHG and founder of Herb Pharm in Williams, Oregon. Echinacea helps your immune system fight the bacteria and viruses that attack the body.

Douglas Schar, a medical herbalist in London, editor of the British Journal of Phytotherapy, and author o/~Backyard medicine chest, uses this recipe to indulge his coffee habit while being kind to his skin. Here's what you need. I salad bowl of dandelion roots and leaves I cup ground coffee Preheat the oven to 250°F. Wash the dandelion and put it on a baking sheet. Bake for 30 minutes, or until the dandelion is brown and crisp. In a food processor or blender, grind the dandelion to a powder.

The Garlic Cure James F. Scheer, Lynn Allison and Charlie Fox See book keywords and concepts

Now it also had to enter the medicine chest. To reach and benefit multi-millions of people everywhere -to overcome resistance to it — the garlic supplement had to be a "sociable" product, one without a tell-tale odor. Creating it would be an inflexible goal for company biochemists. Better Than the Best Meetings with Dr. Schnell lit a fire in Mr. Wakunaga, who founded a new Japanese industry, Wakunaga Pharmaceutical. For full appreciation of bonus values Wakunaga has developed in its products, it is necessary to know more about garlic.

The Herbal Drugstore Linda B. White, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

No automobile glove box or medicine chest should be without it. One British study found ginger root more effective than either Dramamine or a placebo (fake pill) in fighting motion sickness. In another study, ginger reduced nausea and vomiting after major surgery. Be aware that ginger may be more effective when taken at least four hours before your car or boat ride. Typical dosage: up to eight 500- to 600-milligram capsules per day,- or 10 to 20 drops of tincture in water three times per day,- or V2 to 1 teaspoon of the fresh ground root per day.

Taking a few of the antacids you keep in your medicine chest helps a little, too. But the pain keeps coming back. And it gets worse every time you become upset, drink a cup of coffee, or have a cocktail. Could you have an ulcer? Peptic or gastric ulcers are raw sores in the upper gastrointestinal tract—either in the stomach or in the duodenum, where the stomach connects with the small intestine. A certain amount of hydrochloric acid and the digestive enzyme pepsin are necessary for the stomach to do its work of digesting food and absorbing some nutrients.

Viral Immunity J. E. Williams, O.M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Being prepared, by understanding the way influenza spreads and having a medicine chest of natural flu remedies, is wise. Exercise good judgment when considering use of the flu vaccine, and use antiviral drugs only as the medication of last resort. Prepare for seasonal illnesses and a possible flu pandemic by using natural remedies, especially Chinese medicine, to shorten its duration and intensity. Warts Human papilloma viruses (HPV) belong to the Papovaviridae family and cause common warts, plantar warts, and genital warts.

The Doctors Book of Home Remedies II: Over 1,200 New Doctor-Tested Tips and Techniques Anyone Can Use to Heal Hundreds of Everyday Health Problems the Editors of PREVENTION See book keywords and concepts

But as a basic medicine chest for general health, the following herbs are a great starter kit. 1. Echinacea. The number one herbal remedy for colds, flu, sore throats, and other respiratory infections, echinacea is an immune system booster and antibiotic. Keep either a tincture or capsules of extract handy, because you need to start taking echinacea as soon as symptoms appear. 2. Garlic. This is a multipurpose natural wonder. How many herbs can lower blood pressure, reduce cholesterol, boost immunity, fight infection, and flavor your spaghetti sauce?

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