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An Interesting Herb Fact
Two Natural Herbs to Detoxify Your Liver
Your liver may just be one of the most overlooked organs in your body. Your liver is vital to your body's ability to filter out any number of toxins or poisons that may enter your body. Here are two highly regarded herbs that can help detoxify your liver so that it is working at its highest capacity.
Milk Thistle (Silybum marianum): Milk thistle seeds are essentially comprised of three components that are collectively referred to as silymarin. Milk thistle seeds are well known for their...
Echinacea: Cure to the Common Cold?
Perhaps the most famous herbal remedies these days are made from the Echinacea flower. Native Americans have traditionally used Echinacea to treat colds, fevers, snakebites, and stubborn wounds. It is believed that the early settlers adopted the Echinacea plant early on as a popular home remedy to treat colds and influenza. The plant was a popular choice with the 19th century Eclectics. In recent years, Echinacea has grown immensely in popularity for its antiviral, antifungal, and antibacterial properties. Echinacea has also been used in AIDS therapy. The cultivated purple coneflower is known as E. purpurea, but E. angustifolia is generally considered to be the more potent version by most herbal practitioners. The character of Echinacea has alternately been described as cool, dry, and strongly pungent. Its constituents include volatile oils, glycosides, antibiotic polyacetylenes, amides, and inulin. The actions of the Echinacea plant are described as antibiotic, an immune stimulant, antiallergenic, and a lymphatic tonic.
Several parts of the Echinacea plant are used to create herbal remedies, but the most common parts that are used are the root and the aerial parts. The root of the Echinacea flower is most commonly used to make tinctures or powders. These tinctures and powders are used to treat many different types of infection or inflammation. Many traditional herbalists have used Echinacea to treat recurring kidney infections, as well as to treat less serious conditions including the common cold, influenza, and cold and respiratory infections. The aerial parts of the Echinacea flower are often used to make an effective antibiotic. These are usually taken in capsule form.
There are many applications for the Echinacea flower. For instance, the flower can be used in a decoction. Simply take 10 ml doses every one to two hours, especially during the acute stage of infections. Echinacea can also be made into a tincture. Herbalists recommend taking two to five ml doses of Echinacea tincture. Take the tincture every two to three hours for influenza, chills, and for urinary tract infections. For more serious or chronic conditions, herbalists recommend that standard doses of Echinacea be combined with the appropriate herbs. For instance, Echinacea can be combined with buchu and couch grass to make a potent tincture to treat kidney infections. It can also be combined with cleavers to treat mononucleosis. To treat food poisoning or snakebites, roughly 10 mil doses can be used.
A special wash can be created from the Echinacea flower that can be used to treat infected wounds. Simply bathe the affected area with this wash several times a day. Echinacea can also be used in an effective gargle. Simply combine with warm water to treat sore throats. Echinacea can also be made into a powder that is dusted over infected skin conditions, including weeping boils, infected eczema, and other skin infections. One of the most common ways of taking the Echinacea plant is in capsule form. Herbalists and naturopaths recommend taking three 200 mg up to three times a day to treat acute infections, colds, influenza, urinary tract infections, and kidney infections. |
12/11/2008
FDA cracks down on fake cancer cures (Nutraingredients.com)
Products such as teas, tonics, tablets and creams have been discovered on the internet marketed with claims such as "Treats all forms of cancer", "Shrinks malignant tumors", and "Causes cancer cells to commit suicide".
FDA cracks down on fake cancer cures (Nutraingredients.com)
12/30/2008
Trick or Treatment (Slashdot)
brothke writes "The recent collapse of financial companies occurred in part because their operations were run like a black box. For many years, alternative medicine has similarly operated in the shadows with its own set of black boxes. In Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine, Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst, MD, break open that box, and show with devastating clarity ...
Trick or Treatment (Slashdot)
12/29/2008
Put an end to holiday hangovers (The Springfield News-Leader)
New Year's Eve is a-comin', and with it come many traditions: Watching the ball drop on Times Square, singing "Auld Lang Syne" and, often, socializing at alcohol-fueled parties.
Put an end to holiday hangovers (The Springfield News-Leader)
12/11/2008
FDA cracks down on fake cancer cures (Nutraingredients.com)
Products such as teas, tonics, tablets and creams have been discovered on the internet marketed with claims such as "Treats all forms of cancer", "Shrinks malignant tumors", and "Causes cancer cells to commit suicide".
FDA cracks down on fake cancer cures (Nutraingredients.com)
12/23/2008
Bogus treasures land conman in hot water (Pretoria News)
Seoul - A conman in South Korea opened a private museum stuffed with fakes and earned $440 000 from people who thought they were ancient treasures, police said on Wednesday after arresting him.
Bogus treasures land conman in hot water (Pretoria News)
12/12/2008
China blacklists 74 herbal web sites (The Inquirer)
Nick Farrell the inquirer Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:38:04 +0000 Sold fake herbal drugs
China blacklists 74 herbal web sites (The Inquirer)
12/12/2008
Bogus cure horror (Gulf Daily News)
DOCTORS have saved a Bahraini man who collapsed into a coma after abandoning his normal medicine in favour of a bogus herbal "cure". The 35-year-old construction worker came out of the coma at Salmaniya Medical Complex yesterday.
Bogus cure horror (Gulf Daily News)
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