The Magic of Herbs

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By

Jake Anthony

(C) IQ Inc. 1990. 2009.


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Jake Anthony

The driving force behind this series

of publications was born in England,

just one year into World War Two.

People dying not in combat

but from health problems relating to

lifestyle, including his own parents,

was the life-amending catalyst which

launched Jake Anthonys lifelong

interest in health, fitness and lifeextension - and a search for answers.

A wish to become a professional actor and writer was ful-

filled through hard work and dedication against the odds, and Jake

Anthony obtained a degree of celebrity over the years. His work

as a character actor can still be seen on TV from time to time.

Jake also became one of the most published writers who

nobody knows about! This was due to his work going mainly

uncredited as an internationally published journalist in advertising

and PR; under pseudonyms as author, with many to-kill-for re-

views; and as editor and/or ghost writer for others. Jake had a

couple of small best sellers in the East and and the West, and is

the man behind a handful of cult novels which change hands for

large sums via on-line booksellers.


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Another life-amending incident occurred when his extremely

fit and healthy actor and stunt man son, died from an interaction

between prescribed drugs. Like Lord Jim - Joseph Conrads char-

acter in the book and movie - Jake left his homeland and wan-

dered the Orient for 20 plus years trying to make sense of it all.

This was interrupted by a series of health disasters at the

hands of the allopathic medical system in the West which would

have killed most people. Ironically, they were initiated by prescribed

drugs that were supposed to cure, not kill. This was added to by

the Western system of treating the symptom rather than fully iden-

tifying the cause.Jakes series of the potential lifestyle based killers included

cancer, crisis level hypertension, borderline type-2 diabetes, acute

and chronic pancreatitis, and gallstones. As prescribed drugs had

initiated his series of interlinked health disasters - and time after

time exacerbated them - Jake turned his back on the Western

medical system and from then on utilised nutritional, holistic andalternative therapies known about for thousands of years in the

Orient and the East. His host of ailments regressed or were con-

trolled, and extra decades of life were obtained. Some joint prob-

lems came later, but you would not believe it when you see the

author pumping iron and skipping (jump rope) like an in-shape boxer.

The authors beating the odds experience and use of ho-

listic and alternative therapies, almost certainly played a part in hissurvival. The How To and Why are detailed in this series of

books. Jakes fit and youthful appearance belies the fact that he is

technically a senior citizen, well over the age of retirement.

Knowledge is power. Your choice.


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Packaged by IQ Inc.

International licencing enquiries:

[email protected]

www.iqincmedia.com

(C) 1990. 2009.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be re-printed or reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or trans-

mitted in any form or by any means, mechanical, electronic,

photocopying, recording or otherwise, except for brief ex-

tracts for the purpose of review, without prior permission in

writing from the publisher.

ISBN: 978-974-576-476-7

First Pressing: E-book: 2009.


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CONTENTS

1. THE ROLE OF HERBAL REMEDIES IN THE

PREVENTION AND CURE OF EVERYDAY

AILMENTS

The Whole Person

Herbal Antibiotics

Herbal Antibiotics - An Instant GuideHerbs To Expel Parasites

Herbs That Help During Pregnancy

Herbs That Help During Birth

Herbs That Help Promote Milk Flow

Herbs That Stop Milk Flow

Herbs To Be Avoided During Pregnancy and LactationHerbs - An Instant Guide to Potential Interactions

2. HERBAL REMEDIES FOR SPECIFIC COMPLAINTS

- AN INSTANT GUIDE

Chinese Medicinals Albert Y. Leung Sells Out to Big Pharma

Herbal Plant GroupsHow To Use the Herbal Remedies List

Medical Terms Utilised in Herbal Medicine

3. HERBS & THEIR USES - AN INSTANT GUIDE

REFERENCE NOTES


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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

(Nutrition)

Dr. Robert J. Woodward B.Pharm., Ph.D., M.Royal Pharm.

Soc., C. Chem., F.R.S.C. London.

The knowledge, experience and assistance

provided by the above, was invaluable in

the compilation of this publication.

REFERENCE

Thanks are offered to the many scientists, nutritionists,

naturopaths, social scientists, psychologists,

educational psychologists and professionals in a wide rangeof disciplines throughout the world, whose work has been

utilised as reference material in the

Holistic Health series of publications.

Cover Design: Bird and Jake Anthony.

NB. The content of this publication is for informationpurposes only. It should not be used as a substitute for

the advice of a physician, naturopath or other certified

health care practitioner. The products and holistic

procedures discussed herein are not intended to

diagnose, cure, prevent or treat any disease.


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Foreword

Naturopathic and Folk Remedies have proven safe and effective

for centuries in the West. In India and the Orient, natural remedies

have been used for up to five thousand years. Gallbladder and liver

detox cleanses were used by the Ancient Egyptians, and they still

work.

Antibiotics and drugs have many adverse side effects. Assuch, natures ingredients are regaining their prominence as a safer

and more efficacious alternative to modern day drugs.

It is little known that herbal treatments for the Western

worlds lifestyle based scourges - AIDS, cancer and diabetes -

have been registered for use by doctors and scientists in Thailand,

Vietnam and China. Similarly, herbs long used in traditional AyurvedicMedicine in India, and traditional Chinese Medicine, to treat ma-

laria without adverse side-effects, have proven more effective than

conventional drugs.

Details of these simple yet almost revolutionary treatments

are included in this reader-friendly, ultimate guide to herbs and

healing.

The authors beating the odds experience and use of ho-

listic and alternative therapies, almost certainly played a part in his

survival. The How To and Why are detailed in this series of

books. Jakes fit and youthful appearance belies the fact that he is

technically a senior citizen, well over the age of retirement.

Knowledge is power. Your choice.


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The Role

of

Herbal

Remediesin the

Prevention and Cure of

Everyday Ailments


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THE WHOLE PERSON

Modern medicine has not particularly made great strides in the

prevention and cure of many incurable diseases. There have been

no magical cures for cancer, diabetes, stroke, heart attack, etc..

As to more common place everyday ailments, the allopathic

medical community has not made much progress here either. In

fact, many would say that since Big Pharma has dominated the

medical scene during the last fifty years or so in the West, the

standard of health care has regressed.

This is basically because the whole person is not usuallytaken into account. All too often the symptom is targeted rather

than the cause. When healing does takes place utilising modern

medicine, often the suspicion lingers that nature took its course - as

against the efficacy of the often expensive medicine which the

doctor or pharmacist prescribed.

That is probably the most fundamental difference betweenconventional medicine and naturopathic alternatives: Modern medi-

cine more often treats the symptom; naturopathic procedures treat

the cause. Where success is achieved in treating the cause, the

symptoms are automatically taken care of. Simple, effective, but

not profitable for Big Pharma and the allopathic medical brigade.

Fever, high blood pressure, skin outbreaks, lack of breath

and other manifestations are more often symptoms of a deepercomplaint. They are the bodys way of communicating distress or

malfunction.

As an example, fever is a symptom of malaria. If we treat

the symptom - fever - and ignore the underlying cause of the fever,

in this case malaria, the individual is liable not to get better and

could perhaps die.


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High blood pressure can be an indication of an infection.

This is because blood pressure rises when the immune system

fights off an infectious invader. Giving drugs to counter the high

blood pressure completely ignores the underlying cause. In turn,

this could lead to the patient becoming even more ill if any under-

lying infection remains untreated.

Mushrooms have traditionally been used in Chinese medi-

cine to help treat hay fever and allergy sufferers. Antihistamine

drugs simply reduce the symptoms without solving the problem of

the immune system overreacting and producing excess histamine

- triggering runny nose, streaming eyes and other allergy symp-toms. The natural chemicals contained in mushrooms act on the

immune system to prevent excess histamine being produced. Na-

ture almost always knows best.

Dizziness or vertigo can sometimes be caused by blood sugar

crashes that border on diabetic coma. This symptom can be an

indication of an inflamed pancreas - particularly if alcohol has beenconsumed in preceding days. If left untreated, this can lead to

acute pancreatitis - a very dangerous and potentially life- threaten-

ing condition. Treating the symptom by prescribing a drug for ver-

tigo/dizziness such as Stemetil, potentially places the patient at great

risk of an inflamed pancreas developing into acute pancreatitis.

Further, medications like Stemetil have a rare side effect of caus-

ing drug-induced pancreatitis.In this case, treating the symptom instead of taking steps to

ascertain the cause, actually gives the patient a complaint which

he or she never actually had - just symptoms of a complaint which

couldoccur if the whole person is not fully investigated. Adding

fuel to the pancreatitis fire by prescribing medication with a poten-

tial side effect that can cause drug-induced pancreatitis, makes


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matters even worse. It suggests that seeing a doctor in the West

should carry a government health warning.

The Western manner of giving a quick drug fix and getting

rid of the patient, requires considerable amendment. The author

speaks from personal experience in the aforementioned scenario.

The opposite occurs in China, where the symptom is al-

ways seen as the manifestation of an underlying cause. China is

still a developing country, where drugs are not easily affordable

by the masses. Yet the Chinese people have been able to survive

without Western type drugs. They have done this by using what

nature has given them - natural plants and herbs. In China, herbsare cheap because they are grown there. In the West, herbs and

plants are turned into drugs - aspirin, digitalis and many more - and

the public are charged a fortune for them.

Many conventional medicines are derived from plants, and

pharmaceutical companies are prospecting in tropical rain forests

to locate promising plants with medicinal properties. Unfortunately,they are synthesising the main active ingredient and just using that,

thereby losing the synergy between all the different constituents

which give each plant its unique power and effectiveness.

A herb has hundreds of active constituents - many of which

may not have been scientifically studied - which in combination

provide its medicinal properties. A drug like Aspirin contains one

active ingredient - acetyl salicylic acid. Unfortunately, salicylic acidon its own can give severe gastric side-effects.

Our natural defences and bacteria can eventually adjust to

one substance, but many hundreds or even thousands is a different

matter. Its the same in agriculture, where huge fields of just one

crop - monoculture - are more likely to be targeted by pests than

mixed crops using more natural systems of agriculture.


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In Oriental medicine, it is said that disease is the physiologi-

cal expression of disharmony of the bodys energy system. Acu-

puncture, cultivation of the breath (as in yoga and Buddhist medi-

tation, and Chi-Gong breath therapy) and/or immune enhancing

herbal formulas are administered to rehabilitate the individual back

to a state of balance and health. The philosophy is that medicine is

the person and needs only to be turned on [1].

Although potentially beneficial for the individual, using such

simple and low cost methods of disease prevention and cure is

obviously not profitable for Big Pharma and the health industry in

the West. As an associated result, they have not been fully testedand researched. In the Orient, they have. Albeit, that is changing in

the West as Big Pharma scents the potential profit of patenting

and branding traditional cures.

In times past, doctors in the Orient were paid a regular fee

all the time their patient was well. When they became ill, payments

ceased until the patient was better. Preventative medicine waspractised as a result. In contrast, Western medical practitioners

only get paid when the worst has occurred and treatment (usually

expensive) is required. The Western approach tends not to be in

the interests of society or the individual.

To quote Dr. Albert Y. Leung, in his article Modernisation

of Herbal Medicine is Not Pharmaceuticalisation: Western

herbal medicine has traditionally been used mainly for treating spe-cific conditions, such as headache, cough, arthritis, menstrual prob-

lems, skin sores, insect bites, colds and sore throat. One aspect of

Chinese herbal medicine does the same. However, a major differ-

ence is that, in addition to this aspect of disease treatment, Chinese

herbal medicine stresses disease prevention and good health main-

tenance. The concept of disease prevention and health mainte-


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