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Spring Tonics



Tonics have been used for centuries to invigorate and strengthen ones body and mind. The use of Spring Tonics is a time honored tradition dating back to before the first century A. D. when the Greek physician Dioscorides wrote the famous De Materia Medica which describes many tonic herbs. The traditions are so old no one really knows where or when they began! Grandma didn't know anything about Dioscorides, what she did know was what her grandma taught her, that taking your spring tonic was important for good health.

After a long hard winter the body needs to rejuvenate, and prepare for spring when daily activities will increase while the air fills with pollens and allergens. Spring tonics are often used to cleanse and detoxify the blood, aid the liver in cleansing and to carry toxins out of the body. The liver processes our hormones, cleanses the body of toxins, and has many other important functions. To work properly, the liver must also be cleansed.

Spring tonics or Overall tonics are most often made from fresh early spring greens like dandelion, chickweed, cleavers, nettles, plantain, ground ivy, rhubarb, new blackberry shoots and poke shoots. Of course in other parts of the world the ingredients will vary depending on what plants grow there. Herbal research has now taken the best of these tonic herbs from around the world and combined them into many different tonic formulas.

We often think of a tonic as a liquid to be drank. Webster's defines a tonic as "an agent that increases body tone; one that invigorates, restores, refreshes, or stimulates."

A tonic can be a single herb dried, cooked, fresh, infused to make tea, or tinctured. Some single herbs considered to have a strong tonic effect are: Tonic formulas which combine many of these, are used for various purposes such as:
  • Restorative tonics for faster recovery from a disabling illness and to restore balance to the body and nervous system.
  • Digestive tonics to strengthen the stomach, stimulate appetite, and aid digestion. Find More Digestive Formulas Here
  • Liver Tonics to cleanse the liver and restore liver function.
  • Male tonics designed to increase libido by improving blood circulation to certain organs and increase testosterone levels thereby enhancing sexual performance, restoring vitality, improving physical and emotional response.
  • Female tonics to stimulate the nerves and sex organs, boost the level of the sex hormones, relieve frigidity and increase drive to enhance sexual enjoyment.
  • Women's tonics to balance hormones, relieve menstrual tension, depression, insomnia, nervousness, and other symptoms including PMS and menopausal indications.
  • Immune System tonics to build, stimulate and activate the immune system. More Tonics for the Immune System are here.
  • Cardiotonics have a regulatory effect on heart rhythm. Strengthening the heart and arteries, eliminating excessive build-up of cholesterol thereby relieving hypertension.
  • Nerve tonics to help the body cope with chronic stress, fatigue, and physical exhaustion.
  • Performance tonics used by athletes for training and competing, to increase oxygen absorption and delay lactic acid buildup, producing higher energy levels, increased stamina and endurance.
Which ever tonic formula you choose as your Spring Tonic, remember what Grandma always said about this ages old tradition " Jist hold your nose, open wide and swaller"!

Copyright 2002 Herbal Remdies USA LLC & Deb Jackson
Deb Jackson is an herbalist, freelance writer, editor, artist. Visit more of her work at www.altnature,com

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Minerals Make the Difference
by Susun S. Weed

By 2015 half of the female population of the United States will be post-menopausal. But this group of post-menopausal women won't be old fuddy-duddies with broken hips, heart attacks, and failing memories. Women of today expect to emerge from menopause energetic, zesty, and passionate! Are hormones necessary? No! Wise women nourish their hearts, bones, and spirits with simple, safe mineral-rich herbs.

The secret to keeping your bones flexible, your spirits high, your sleep deep, and your elder years free of chronic problems is not complicated. It doesn't require a vast knowledge of herbs. It can be summed up in a single word: minerals.

Minerals are critical building blocks needed for optimum functioning of the nervous system, the immune system, and all muscles -- including the heart. The production of hormones also requires large amounts of minerals. During menopause 30 to 60 times more hormones are produced than at any other time of a woman's life. If the diet is not mineral-rich the deficit is drawn out of women's bones.

Minerals are plentiful in well-balanced diets composed of organic whole grains, beans, fruits, vegetables, dairy products (especially yogurt), seafoods (especially seaweeds), and small amounts of meat. But if your diet is only partially organic, or if you limit it (by choice or necessity), or if you are menopausal, you need extra minerals.

Herbs, especially the weedy ones, are minerals powerhouses. Getting those minerals isn't as easy as taking a tincture (alcohol extracts little to no minerals) or swallowing a pill (minerals are poorly utilized from encapsulated herbs) but it isn't difficult either. At the Wise Woman Center we include mineral-rich herbs in our daily diet; it's easy, tasty, and very rewarding. How do we do it? 1) Drink 1-2 cups nourishing herbal infusion each day. 2) Eat wild plants in salad. 3) Dress salads with olive oil, tamari, and 1-2 tablespoons of a tonifying herbal vinegar.

Herbal Infusions

Herbal infusions differ from herbal teas: They are darker in color and richer tasting because their long brewing extracts many more nutrients -- especially minerals. My favorite nourishing herbal infusions for menopausal women are oatstraw, red clover blossoms, stinging nettle leaves, and comfrey leaves.

To prepare your infusion: Put a quart of cold water up to boil. Weigh one ounce of dried (not fresh!) herb into a quart canning jar. Go brush your teeth and count your grey hairs until the teapot whistles. Pour the boiling water into the jar with your herb (only one herb at a time, please!), screw on a tight lid, turn off the light, and go to bed. Next morning strain out the herb and drink the liquid: cold, hot, or at room temperature. Add honey, tamari, or milk if desired.

Oatstraw (Avena sativa) has a mellow taste. It eases frazzled nerves, lowers cholesterol, improves circulation, strengthens bones, eases headaches, relieves depression and encourages us to be sexy old ladies!

Red clover (Trifolium pratense) infusion not only builds bones, and prevents cancer, it reduces serum cholesterol (protecting heart health) and helps maintain strong pelvic tissues --thus preventing incontinence, lowered libido, atrophic vaginitis, and uterine prolapse. Red clover contains ten times more phytoestrogens than soy, without soy's bone-damaging, thyroid-impairing side-effects.

Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) infusion contains more than 500 milligrams of calcium per cup. (Nettle tea has none, neither does the tincture.) Nettle strengthens adrenal functioning, promotes sound sleep, increases overall energy, prevents allergic reactions, strengthens the blood vessels, and prevents hair loss.

Comfrey (Symphytum uplandicum x) is controversial. Ingestion of its roots can cause severe liver congestion. The leaves are safe, though labeled otherwise. Comfrey leaf infusion helps maintain good vaginal lubrication, strengthens the bones, protects against cancer, soothes painful joints, and improves mental functioning. Information on preparing infusions and vinegars is in my book Menopausal Years the WiseWoman Way.

Or you can come take a class with me and learn how. (For a free schedule, write Weed, POBox 64, Woodstock, NY 12498.) Eat Wild Salads During Menopause Eating a few wild leaves in my salads helps keep me connected to the earth even when I'm in the city. (I figure the pollution on the plants is the same stuff I'm breathing!) Wild foods nourish the wild woman within and help me remember that Mother Nature does, indeed, provide.

It's easy to find chickweed (Stellaria media) in large planters on street corners and in gardens. Mince her stalks and leaves into your salads to nourish your thyroid and help prevent excess weight gain during menopause. (Ten to fifteen pounds can be normal and healthy however.)

Mallow (Malva neglecta) likes city parks as well as country farms and is often found in drainage ditches. Both the roots, thinly sliced, and the leaves (flowers, too!) can be added to salads to soothe and strengthen intestines and reproductive organs, to ease nerves, and to cool our hot flashes.

The two similar tasting but unrelated sour grasses -- sheep sorrel (Rumex acetosella) and wood sorrel (Oxalis) -- are vitamin C rich additions to salads found under trees and shrubs.

Spicy cresses -- such as wintercress (Barbarea vulgaris), cowcress (Lepidium campestre), and garlic mustard (Allaria officinalis) -- are common weeds throughout much of the world and renowned as cancer preventatives.

And, of course, the seaweeds, added to salads either fresh or dried. Some of my favorites include hijiki/ celery/shitake salad and seapalm fronds soaked, sliced and tossed with salad greens. Use Tonifying Herbal Vinegars During Menopause Vinegar is the ideal medium for extracting minerals from fresh herbs. Making them is easy and fun. Chop the herb finely, enough to fill any jar. Add enough room temperature pasteurized apple cider vinegar to fill the jar to the top. (Be careful not to put in too much herb; an 8 ounce jar will hold a cup of chopped herb and about 6 ounces of vinegar.) Cork your jar or cover it with plastic wrap, and don't forget the label. For best mineral extraction, wait at least six weeks before using the vinegar. (You can eat the pickled roots and leaves or discard them.)

Tonifying herbs add specific effects to their mineral-rich properties. Fresh leaves of any mint (including motherwort, rosemary, lavender, thyme, sage, lemon balm, and bergamot) are excellent tonics. So are dandelion, burdock, and yellow dock roots. And everyone lives near my favorite tonic: the herb I call cronewort -- in honor of the visionary powers of old women.

Motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca) may be the single most useful herb for menopausal women. Taken as a vinegar or as a tincture (dose is 5-25 drops as needed), motherwort leaves and flowers act to calm the nerves, relieve premenstrual tension, ease menstrual cramping, restore lubrication and elasticity to the vagina, strengthen the heart, and maintain hormonal balance. Motherwort vinegar is exceptionally rich in minerals, too.

Dandelion (Taraxacum officinalis) is a powerful ally for the menopausal woman who suffers from endless hot flashes. All parts of the herb -- leaves, roots, and flowers -- can be used to strengthen the liver, aid digestion, and cool off those volcanic flashes. Dandelion also helps promote healthy breasts and clear skin. It's rich in bone-building minerals and contains enormous amounts of cancer-preventing carotenes (14,000 units of pro-vitamin A in 100 grams of leaves).

Burdock (Arctium lappa) roots may be, with great difficulty, dug out of the ground at the end of their first year of growth. Or they may be, fairly easily, bought in health food stores and Oriental markets. Cook the fresh roots as a tasty vegetable (see Healing Wise for recipes), preserve them in vinegar, or tincture them (a dose is 10-50 drops, up to three times a day). All will help strengthen the liver, clear the skin, promote regrowth of thinning hair, cool hot flashes, ease mood swings, and reverse pre-cancerous changes.

Yellow dock (Rumex crispus and other species) roots are intensely bitter, suggesting moderation. The vinegar is delicious as a condiment with beans and cooked greens. Both tincture and vinegar encourage the blood to utilize more iron, important for the menopausal woman who's bothered by flooding or fibroids.

Cronewort/mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) is an ideal tonic for older women: It strengthens the cardiovascular, urinary, and nervous systems. Mineral-rich cronewort builds steady nerves as it relaxes. As with all Artemisias, cronewort has visionary properties and can be used to help us see menopause differently: More than the end of physical fertility, menopause is also the beginning of one of the most creative, productive times of a woman's life.

To learn more, read: Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way, Alternative Approaches for Women 30-90 by Susun Weed. Available at Herbalremedies.com, Susun S. Weed is the author of four highly-acclaimed books on women's health: Healing Wise; Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year;Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way; and Breast Cancer? Breast Health! the Wise Woman Way. Visit Susun's website at: http://www.susunweed.com/



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The Underlying Cause of Cancer

Have you ever wondered why so many people are getting cancer today? Maybe the answer lies in the things that we consume. Here is some food for thought that may be of interest to you.

A survey was conducted approximately ten years ago that said that one out of every three people in North America would develop cancer at some point in their life.

That same survey was again undertaken just recently and it now tells us that ONE out of ONE people will develop cancer at some point in their life.

What has happened to cause such a tremendous increase in the rate of cancer in our society? What has happened to cause so many of our younger generation to develop this disease?

I believe the answer lies in the quality of the nutrition that we consume. We have raised a generation of "junk food" addicts, and this is a large part of our problem.

A 1999 statistic published by the American Cancer Society states this; "Scientific evidence suggests that up to one-third of the 563,100 cancer deaths expected to have occurred in 1999 were caused by nutrition, and could have been prevented".

The American Cancer Society is telling us that up to one-third of cancer deaths are caused by nutrition, but I believe the number is much higher.

Just what is the cause of cancer? The cause of cancer is not bacteria, the cause of cancer is not a virus, and the cause of cancer is not a fungus. Cancer is a metabolic disease. This means that it is caused by the inability of your body to properly utilize the nutrition that it receives.

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All the cells in your body require two things in order for them to remain healthy. One of these is electrical stimulation, and the other is a high quality of nutrition.

Think of it this way. High quality food "burns" a lot cleaner than low quality food, and because of this, high quality food will leave very little residue behind. Also, high quality food is able to provide a higher level of nutrition to the cells of your body.

If the cells of your body do not receive the level of nutrition that they require, they cannot remain healthy, and here is why.

Your body will always attempt to absorb the highest quality nutrition it can from the food that you give it, but if high quality nutrition is not available, your body will attempt to absorb the highest quality nutrition it can find.

If what you consume is not compatible with your body's matrix, and cannot be used to nourish you, it will in effect be toxic to you.



Disease cannot develop or grow on healthy tissue, it can only develop on unhealthy tissue. If you weaken your body by not supplying it with proper nutrition, it will not be able to fight off disease, and cancer, among other things, will likely develop.

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In order for the tissues of your body to remain strong and healthy you must supply them with a level of nutrition that they can use.

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What is a high level of nutrition? It is nutrition that is "electrically compatible" with the matrix of your body. What does that mean?



There are certain items in our world that are designed as food for us, and certain items that are not. The things that are designed as food for us will have the proper molecular configuration to make them compatible with our physical matrix.



If we consume those things that are "electrically compatible" with our physical matrix they will nourish us, but if we consume those things that are not electrically compatible with our physical matrix they will not nourish us, they will in fact be toxic to us.



Do you eat healthy? You may think you eat healthy, but if you consume those things that your body does not recognize as nutrition and cannot use, then all you are consuming is "filler", and filler is something that your body cannot properly utilize.



What is the underlying cause of cancer? The underlying cause of cancer is the inability of your body to properly utilize the nutrition that it receives.

Cancer cannot develop or grow on healthy tissue, so the only way that you can prevent cancer from developing within you is to keep your body free of toxins, consume only those things that your body can use, and be as healthy as you can be.

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Make sure that you keep your tissues supplied with quality nutrition and you will not have to worry about this dreadful disease.

WHOLE FOOD NUTRITION

Copyright © Ron Harder 2002 Other articles by Ron Harder are available at www.shift.to/health/

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This article written by Ron Harder, Nutritional Health Consultant, Iridologist, and Author of "How To Defeat Cancer - Naturally - without Chemo, Radiation, or Surgery". More information on the underlying cause of cancer is available at http://www.defeatcancer.ca

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Herb of the Month Aloe Vera

Aloe vulgaris



Other Names: Aloe, Aloes, Barbados Aloe, Curacoa Aloe, First-aid plant, Burn Plant, Kitchen medic, Medicinal Aloe, Miracle Plant, Hsiang, L'Alois, Musambra Aloe, Zabila

Habitat: Aloe is an evergreen perennial native to Europe and the Mediterranean, but have escaped cultivation and spread throughout the world. It is now found in deserts and jungles, temperate and cold climates. Cultivation is fairly easy, the plant prefers light, sandy, well-drained soil and a very sunny position. Aloe makes a very suitable houseplant. Aloe plants are succulent with strong fibrous roots. The leaves form a rosette at the base of the plant and are thick, fleshy, smooth, lancelet, mottled and light or dark green with spiny cactus like edges.

The stem or flower stalk is smooth, erect, and branched, growing to the height of large trees given time. In remote districts of southwest Africa Aloes have been discovered growing 30 to 60 feet high. Flowers are tubular and grow in compact spikes, terminating atop each stem, they may be white, yellowish or pinkish. It is in leaf all year, and blooms according to climate. Collect the juice from fresh cut leaves and store refrigerated, can be frozen.

Properties: Most of us know of Aloe as a kitchen plant to brake off a leaf and use for burns, but Aloe has a very long history of use as a medicinal plant. It was documented by the Mesopotamians in 1750 B.C., and later by the Egyptians (550 B.C.) and the Greeks. The plant is antibacterial, emmenagogue, emollient, laxative, purgative, stimulant, stomachic, tonic, vermifuge and vulnerary. Claims of its use as a panacea used to treat everything from cancer to minor cuts and burns may not be far from true.

Internally, Aloe vera is an effective antibacterial and antifungal agent and is often used to treat peptic ulcers, gastrointestinal disorders, intestinal infections and constipation. Externally, Aloe vera helps heal and relieve burns, giving an immediate soothing effect on all minor irritations and various other even serious skin conditions. It is used in many pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and dermalogical products.

Plant constituents include aloectin B, which stimulates the immune system, anthraquinones called bitter aloes, which are a digestive stimulant and a strong laxative, taken internally in the treatment of chronic constipation, poor appetite and digestive problems. Other Aloins are present in the plant and known to be active, though the mechanism by which they work is presently unknown. The plant is strongly purgative, it should not be taken internally by pregnant women or people with hemorrhoids or irritable bowel syndrome.

Folklore: There is much lore and legend throughout the world concerning Aloe. Life giving even magical properties have been attributed to the plant. Whole cults have been found in remote jungles who praise it to be the plant of life and worship it as a god! It is said that when Christopher Columbus discovered the Aloe plant he referred to it as his "Potted Physician". The glamorous Cleopatra regarded Aloe vera as her beauty secret. Aloe was held in such reverence in Egypt that it was considered to be the "Plant of Immortality". Drawings of the Aloe plant have even been found in the tombs of pharaohs.

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Copyright 2001 Deb Jackson & Karen Shelton Alternative Nature Online Herbal

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Herb and Ailment Questions & Answers:

  • Q. Are stomach pains and other side effects normal when first taking Niacin?

  • A. Niacin comes from two sources Nicotinic Acid or Niacinamide. Nicotinic acid has side effects of flushing and red rash or tingling sensation. Usually harmless and they go away after a few minutes depending on the quantity taken, individual and level of absorption. Any supplement taken with food may reduce the immediate absorption. All people are effected diffently by supplements, as everyone has different chemical makeups, absorption rates, etc.
    Niacinamide is available at http://www.herbalremedies.com/40480.html
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  • Q. Will Horny Goat Weed's ability to increase sperm production interfere with my husbands vasectomy? My husband had a vasectomy 9 years ago for obvious reasons. We do not want children, but desire to enjoy our sex lives.

  • A. A vasectomy cuts the cord between the testicles and the urinary duct that delivers the sperm. Many men have sperm production yet are unable to deliver that sperm because of a vasectomy. Horny Goat weed will not have any impact on the movement of sperm from the testicles.
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  • Q. How long does the Nisim Hair Loss treatment package last?

  • A. Nisim is a very concentrated product needing very little shampoo, conditioner, or extract. I expect it will last at least 3 months. Of course, depending on how much you use the time may vary.
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  • Q. I have a friend who is experiencing a rather itchy rash that has spread over her body. Do you have a product that would help?

  • A. Internally MSM has shown to reduce allergic reactions :
    MSM excellent for allergic conditions - http://www.herbalremedies.com/1315.html may take starting with 1000mg up to 4000mg per day.
    Jewelweed spray and use the soap, we have a kit available, and it is very affective against allergic reactions, www.herbalremedies.com/poisonivykit.html always apply in a small skin area first to insure you are not allergic to the Jewelweed, which happens in very rare occasions.
    may also try colloidal silver spray http://www.herbalremedies.com/0351.html or lotion, also available on our site.
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  • Q. I have terrible Acid Reflux. Are there any herbal remedies for this?

  • A. We have some great natural remedies for acid indigestion and some helpful information.
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