C. P. Khare
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 Traditional use
The extract or juice of Crataegus crenulata, locally known as Ghingaaru, is used as a tonic in heart diseases in Chambaa, Kaanaataal, Ghanshtaal, Bhilanganaa valley, Jamunaa valley, Tauns areas of north-western Himalayas. Another variety, Crataegus songarica, found in the Kashmir region, is also used locally in heart diseases.
According to the Wealth of India, the fruits are used as a cardiac tonic. They are used as a marmalade. A beverage, similar to tea, is also prepared from the rind and pip.
Hawthorn berries have not yet entered into cardiac tonics in India. |
Lynne Mctaggart
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 These were also discoveries which scientifically verified the ancient wisdom and folklore of traditional cultures. Their theories offered scientific validation of many of the myths and religions humans have believed in since the beginning of time, but have hitherto only had faith to rely on. All they'd done was to provide a scientific framework for what the wisest among us already knew.
Traditional Australian Aborigines believe, as do many other 'primitive' cultures, that rocks, stones and mountains are alive and that we 'sing' the world into being ?that we are creating as we name things. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 Plus, studies do show lower breast cancer rates among Japanese women who eat traditional diets, which include soy, compared to those who eat a typical Western diet. (Other elements of a traditional Japanese diet may also be factors, such as a high intake of fish, vegetables, and tea and a low intake of red meat and dairy products.) The benefits of soy phytoestrogen seem best achieved by societies that have used moderate amounts of these products for generations-rather than Americans forcing down entire tofu forests in a single bound.
Saturated fats cause constriction of arteries after a meal. |
Byron J. Richards
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 Traditional Foods Are the Foundation of Your Eating Plan
Eat foods prepared in the traditional manner of your heritage.
Understand what kind of diet your recent ancestors ate when they were at their healthiest. These foods, prepared in their traditional ways, should form the foundation of your food plan. If you are of European descent, why would you concoct a diet grounded in soy products? If you are of Asian descent, why would you consume dairy products on a routine basis and why would you eat soy that was not prepared as your ancestors prepared the food? |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 As the result of diligent and persistent research by his mother, they identified orthomolecular medicine as a promising alternative, despite the fact that the traditional medical community was highly skeptical. Seven long years later at the age of 25, after following an orthomolecular treatment plan, J.S. began the exciting re-entry process into society and is now a promising young graphic artist.
While still receiving orthomolecular treatment, J.S. is using only one primary medication, at a dosage that is well below the traditionally recommended maintenance level. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| However, a constipation remedy may not involve just colon cleansing, especially if the problem is addressed according to traditional medical guidelines. A good intestinal cleanser will attack the source of the constipation. traditional constipation treatments (such as laxatives) may only temporarily relieve the symptoms and do nothing to address the compaction or heal the delicate intestinal tissue.
Can Laxatives Cleanse My Colon?
Laxative sales exceed $700 million annually. |
Mark Schapiro
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 Where traditional farmers apply pesticides, she counts on natural predators and aromatic repellents to keep the pests away; where traditional farmers apply herbicides to rid their fields of weeds, Krause and a crew do the weeding. It is a lot of work—all of which, suddenly, meant nothing in the cool calculus of the marketplace. From no fault of her own, the premium price she was accustomed to receiving for her organic seeds dropped from $3.50 a bushel to $1.75. No one compensated Krause for her losses. |
C. P. Khare
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| The Indian National Science Academy (INSA) was the only exception where scientists rose above the traditional approach, discarded the age-old, predetermined format, and presented literary research in a scientific environment. The basic approach of INSA has been followed while documenting classical uses.
In my earlier book, "Indian Herbal Therapies—Application of Research Findings," processing techniques of herbs were discussed at length in the chapter "Harnessing the Herbal Medicine through Microcosm. |
| In Scotland, a traditional wound ointment was made from the herb.
Achillin has experimentally reduced clotting time without toxic side-effects (the decoction of the whole herb has the same effect in vitro and in vivo). The herb helps arrest internal and external bleeding.
All these constituents confirm the key actions of the herb, as discussed earlier.
Flowers are rich in active principles. When converted by steam into anti-allergenic compounds, can be used for various allergic catarrhal problems, incl. hay fever. |
| In Unani medicine, in addition to its therapeutic application in traditional medicine, the drug is used as a cardiac and nervine tonic, and for external application to indolent ulcers.
Active principles and pharmacology
A number of phenolic acids is reported in the plant.
The fruit-husk and flowers contain an alkaloid, 1-stachydrine. n-pentacosane, n-triacontane. They also contain n-triacontanol, n-nonacosane, pelar-gonidin-3-galactoside, glucocappasalin, beta-sitosterol and phthalic acid. The flowers yield a steam-volatile sulphur compound (0. |
| While taking traditional herbal preparations, signs of poisoning can appear even with the administration of therapeutic doses. Better to switch over to homoeopathic preparations.
Araceae
Acorus calamus Linn.
Figure 1 Acorus calamus [CCRAS]
Figure 2 Acorus calamus [CCRAS] Habitat
Growing wild and also cultivated throughout India, ascending to an altitude of 2200 m in the Himalayas. Thrives best in marshy and moist places. Cultivated in Koratagere taluk in Karna-taka.
Three more varieties of Vachaa have been mentioned in Ayurvedic and Unani texts: 1. |
| In traditional medicine, flowers and leaves form a good application to scabies and dermatosis. Some alkaloids present in the plant showed protection against allergin-induced symptoms. The leaf powder is used as a counter-irritant and to treat urticaria.
Cinna aatatotai (Tamil) has been equated with Adhatoda beddomei C.B. Clarke. This plant also contains bioactive alkaloids of Adhatoda vasica viz., vasicine and vasicinone, and is used in medicinal preparations in Kerala as antiemetic, antibe-chic and haemostatic.
Haemostatic properties of Adhatoda spp. have not yet been proved clinically. |
Melody Petersen
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 We will also have traditional island foods and featured island cocktails. All the while, a traditional beach band will be playing the sounds of the beach. Of course, dancing is optional . . .
The drug industry did not stop its efforts in medical education with physicians. As I paged through postings of these events in Iowa, I found that Pfizer had paid in 2004 for occupational health nurses to lunch and attend a class at a sparkling new conference hall overlooking the Mississippi. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 In the early 1900s, the traditional Pima diet was high in superior starches and fiber and included about 15 percent fat. In fact, according to Dr. Ravussin, until after World War II, the Pima Indians maintained a traditional way of life and economy until their water supply was diverted by American farmers who settled upstream. Then, the Pimas began to eat lard, sugar, and white flour that the U.S. government gave them to survive. Apparently, these sugary, processed foods, especially deep-fried bread—a combination of flour and lard—contributed to their weight gain. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 What interested me most was how a traditional Eastern treatment was integrated with Western scientific medicine in a clinical setting like this. In China, separate medical schools train physicians in each tradition, but each school is well aware of and accepting of the other's approach. Whereas physicians being trained in Eastern medicine receive considerable training in modern scientific medicine, the allopathic physicians in China are much more aware and embracing of traditional approaches. |
Mark Sircus
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 I doubt any traditional doctor would have been willing to prescribe that much magnesium. The RDA is 400mg, but many people believe this is too low. Traditionally, it's been recommended to take calcium and magnesium in a ratio of 2:1, because that is the ratio that these minerals are found in bone. But magnesium is less easily absorbed than calcium, so this ratio may not be valid for a lot of people, and in fact many calcium/magnesium combinations found in health food stores often have additional magnesium. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 The Chinese, for whom cupping was also a popular remedy, theorised that it rid the body of unwanted or perverse chi by drawing it to the surface and diffusing it. traditional Chinese medicine still uses cupping to treat asthma, as well as boils or abscesses, arthritis, rheumatism, bruising, colds and chills.
There are two types of cupping, wet and dry. Dry cupping is by far the most common and involves heating the air in glass or bamboo suction cups and then placing the cups along energy meridian lines or affected areas of the body. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 For example, studies have shown that peasants in Indian villages who have been diagnosed as schizophrenic and are treated with chlorpromazine, the original antipsychotic, which is dirt cheap, and receive family support actually do better in terms of having fewer psychotic symptoms than Americans who get expensive new-generation antipsychotics and traditional Western psychiatric care. Another example is Nexium, "the purple pill," which works no better for gastric reflux than older medications like Prilosec, even though it costs much more.
Drugs cost twice as much in the U.S. |
Michael J. Panzner
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 The securitization process proved to be a virtual circle, generating fees for everyone involved, serving as a wellspring of almost unlimited credit that supplanted traditional financing sources, and helping to raise the American home ownership rate from around 64 percent in 1990 to a record 69.2 percent 14 years later. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Jahnke sees are from yin deficiencies, although he does see some people with insomnia caused by digestive problems. of traditional Chinese Medicine. For intestinal parasites, purgative herbs are usually used. Pumpkin and quisqualis seeds are two common remedies. The pumpkin seeds are eaten raw, while the quisqualis seeds are usually roasted. Both are taken every morning on an empty stomach, approximately 10 to 12 seeds of each, for about two weeks. "Quisqualis and pumpkin seeds are mild and safe enough for adults and children to take daily as a preventative measure as well," says Dr. Ni. |
Michael J. Panzner
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| Many of these "subprime" borrowers discovered that by taking on adjustable-rate mortgages, or ARMs, which featured ultralow introductory rates instead of the traditional 30-year, fixed-rate loans, they could tap into the American dream and own their own home. Some had to stretch even harder than that, but bankers were only too willing to oblige. |
| The savings and loans, or S&Ls, had long toiled in the sleepy backwaters of traditional mortgage lending. That is, until they were set free to compete with banks and other financial operators. By the time it was all over, a combination of poor management, ill-conceived forays into unfamiliar and risky investments, naivete, fraud, and a cornucopia of regulatory blunders cost more than $150 billion—approximately $240 billion in 2006 dollars—in a taxpayer-funded bailout. |
Roberta Bivins
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 In the twentieth-first century, there is a wide diversity of routes into acupuncture practice: while some would-be acupuncturists travel to China to participate in either traditional or modern training programmes, others participate in seminars or degree programmes at dedicated western institutions, and many self-educate via the vast and growing literature. Crucially and distinctively, many medical students have the opportunity to study acupuncture and other alternative therapies within orthodox universities or medical schools? |
| While the turbaned Indian and the frequent references to opium suggest the exotic, and the 'roots and herbs' hark back to traditional folk remedies around the world, the rest of this advertisement leans on the standard claims of patent medicines in the nineteenth-century west. The small print adds a perhaps inadvertent layer of irony by asserting 'Milford Drug Co., Sole manufacturers and originators of the Hindoo Tobacco Habit Cure': the remedy was as Indian as Indiana.
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| In India, as David Arnold has illustrated, medical recommendations to control cholera amongst pilgrims and tuberculosis amongst enclosed women (and their families) had been first ignored and, when implemented even in muted form, hody contested, as interfering with religious freedom and traditional social mores.
Srinivasamurti cited numerous western critiques of germ theory? |
| On the other hand, local cultures of acupuncture use persisted; for instance, it was 'for years a favourite traditional practice at the Leeds Infirmary' where three generations of Pridgin
Teales used it as Surgeons to the Infirmary.29 But informal networks and family traditions were increasingly peripheral to the process by which innovations in medicine were diffused and entered the mainstream. Periodicals, textbooks, and formal medical education had, by the end of the nineteenth century, become the essential media for the transmission of medical knowledge. |
| They also blamed traditional practices and practitioners for the continued prevalence of smallpox, and tried to suppress variolation, while making vaccination compulsory, at least in certain areas and lines of work?those in which Indians were most likely to interact with Europeans. British authorities never doubted the virtues of vaccination, nor its suitability to India—nor, indeed, their own benevolence in introducing and mandating the practice. |
| In any case, when the rise of germ theory and 'scientific medicine' (like homeopathy and mesmerism before them) threatened the fragile unity of the western profession, Indian traditional practitioners took careful note of the debates that followed.
One of the more famous anecdotes of the germ-theory era exemplifies both the timing and public nature of the debate involved. The story is that of Max Von Pettenkofer, an eminent Bavarian hygienist and public health worker. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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| We're here to challenge that perception of aging and create a new way of thinking about "antiaging medicine." The traditional focus of the medical community has been on treating chronic diseases and reversing acute illnesses associated with aging—cancer, heart disease, stroke. The assumption was clear: Since heart disease and cancer alone account for over 50 percent of all deaths, you could live maybe 50 percent longer if you could avoid the big killers. As it turns out, this isn't what would happen. |
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