David Wolfe
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 Add 2 tablespoons of hempseeds and/or 2 tablespoons of blue-green algae if desired.
Lunch
One small green-leafed vegetable salad with one avocado. Add fresh-blended lemon, basil, miso and avocado as a dressing. One item of cooked starch (baked, no-salt corn chips would be preferred) eaten with one avocado. (All salted food products should be salted after cooking as the heat alters the salt making it harsh on the circulatory system and the kidneys). Warm vegetable soup.
Snacks
2 oranges.
Two handfuls of pumpkin seeds.
Assorted green leaves (lettuce, spinach, endive). |
Marion Nestle
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 Reports quoted a spokesman for the berry growers: "Last year the guerrillas were in the fields asking my workers about their conditions . . . and this year it was the C.D.C. The C.D.C. is killing us. They kill us every time they open their mouths." The growers charged the United States with unfair trade practices: "Cydospora? . . . They can't find it. .. . Protectionist forces find bugs or whatever to protect their market. It's a commercial war. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 SAXIFRAGE SEE Pimpernel.
•Field SCABIOUS (Knautia arvensis) A 3-4 feet tall perennial with soft hairy whitish-green leaves, with round lilac blue flowers, growing in sunny meadows, walls, slopes, and cornfields. Helps coughs, respiratory and lung ailments; "scabies" in Latin means "itch;" and has similarproperties as Lesser Field Scabious, below. •Lesser Field Scabious (Scabiosa columbaria) Similar in appearance to Field Scabious (above), but smaller, growing in dry pastures. Dislodges cold mucous, helps coughs, short breath, pleurisy (in wine), pestilence (4 oz. juice in the morning with 1. |
Dr. Gary Null
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 Hawthorn berry. Hawthorn is an overall heart tonic that works against arrhythmia, angina, blood pressure, and hardening of the arteries. It aids circulation, as well as ameliorating valvular insufficiency and an irregular pulse. Hawthorn berry can also correct acid conditions of the blood, and can be safely taken every day.
Mistletoe. Mistletoe is a cardiac tonic that stimulates circulation. Fifteen drops taken three times a day, or three cups of tea daily, help lower blood pressure and alleviate heart strain. Mistletoe should not be overused, nor should the berries be eaten.
Motherwort. |
Alexander Hellemans and Brian Bunch
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 Atanasoff and his assistant Clifford berry in 1942 built the first operational computer that used vacuum tubes to perform mathematical operations. It was called the Atanasoff berry Computer, or ABC. The ABC used binary numbers that were stored in capacitors mounted on a rotating drum; it could perform operations with 16-digit binary numbers, which correspond to eight-digit decimal numbers.
Around the same time, several other scientists and engineers started devising and building electronic computing machines. |
Gale Maleskey
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 As the story goes, British pilots during World War 11 began eating bil~ berry jam—made from a type of northern European blueberry—to help counteract night blindness. Searching for the active component in these dark berries, scientists found chemical substances called anthocyanfns. "Blueberries, elderberries, huckleberries, and red grapes also contain this pigment," says Robert Abel Jr., IV1.D., clinical professor of ophthalmology at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and author of The Eyecare Revolution. In the body, Dr. |
David Wolfe
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| Add 2 tablespoons of cold-pressed hempseed oil and/or 2 tablespoons of spirulina or bee pollen if desired.
One medium or large papaya eaten whole or blended with fresh orange or lime juice.
Or
Drink the water of 2 coconuts with Nature's First Food or some other green superfood blend in order to increase mineralization.
Lunch
One small green-leafed vegetable salad containing soaked sunflower seeds, thyme, dulse seaweed and fresh-squeezed lemon. One item of cooked protein (i.e. tofu). 2 oranges.
Snacks
1 small melon.
2 cherimoyas.
Assorted greens (lettuce, endive, bok choy). |
Alexander Hellemans and Brian Bunch
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| Atanasoff and Clifford E. berry for the purpose of solving systems of equations. In the case of the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, or ABC, the war prevented complete development, as both inventors were drafted for other wartime duties. Nevertheless, ideas based on the ABC were used in creating ENIAC, the first general-nurrjose electronic dieital con-muter, ooerational bv 1945. |
Rudolph M. Ballentine, M.D.
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 Increase fluids, whey; Dolomite; NS (or NS/KM combination); moxibus-tion, acupuncture; Acute: Hmp: Cantharis, Cann ind or sat, or Sepia, all 30C; Hrbl: Buchu, luniper berry, Marshmallow, and/or Uva ursi (try combn tea); FRx: cranberry, grapefruit, and/or cherry juices. Chronic, prevention (females): cotton pants, frequent urination.
Boil/Abscess: Anger popping out. Acute: Sil 6x (TS) until it "gathers" (comes to a head), then Sil 1M ("homeopathic scalpel") once, to open it and initiate drainage. CS 6x (TS) until drainage finishes. |
Dr. Michael Heinrich, Joanne Barnes, Simon Gibbons and Elizabeth M. Williamson
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 The three-lobed carpels may be free or united and develop into a berry, drupe or nut.
Distribution
The family, with about 2700 exclusively evergreen woody species, is widely distributed in the tropics and subtropics.
Chemical characteristics of the family
The accumulation of polyphenols, some relatively simple alkaloids (especially pyridine derivatives) and steroidal saponins, as well as fatty acids [coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) and oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.)] is typical. |
| The taxa have bisexual, radial flowers with five fused sepals, mostly five fused petals, five stamens and two gynaecia, which generally develop into a berry or a capsule.
Distribution
This family of about 2600 species is particularly well represented in South and Central America, but is widely distributed in most parts of the world.
Chemical characteristics of the family
Typical for the family are alkaloids, especially of the tropane, nicotine and steroidal type (Fig. 4.16). Many taxa are characterized by oxalic acid, which often forms typical structures (e.g. |
Committee on Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer, Assembly of Life Sciences National Research Council
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P. berry, H. Timourian, and F. T. Hatch. In press a. Mutagens from the cooking of food. II. Survey by Ames/Salmonella test of mutagen formation in the major protein-rich foods of the American diet. Food Chem. Toxicol.
Bjeldanes, L. F., M. M. Morris, J. S. Felton, S. Healy, D. Stuermer, P.
Berry, H. Timourian, and F. T. Hatch. In press b. Mutagens from the cooking of food. III. Secondary sources of cooked dietary protein. Food Chem. Toxicol.
Brown, J. P. 1980. A review of the genetic effects of naturally occurring flavonoids, anthraquinones and related compounds. Mutat. Res. |
Dr. Michael Heinrich, Joanne Barnes, Simon Gibbons and Elizabeth M. Williamson
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| It is an evergreen shrub, with the true leaves reduced to small scales and the stems flattened at the ends into oval cladodes which resemble leaves, each bearing a small white flower in the centre, followed by a round scarlet berry, and ending in a sharp spine. The rhizome or whole plant can be used.
Constituents
Saponin glycosides, including ruscine and ruscoside, aculeosides A and B, which are based on ruscogenin (lf3-hydroxydiosgenin) and neoruscogenin. |
Dr. Gary Null
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| Chaste berry. Sold under the trade name, Vitex, chaste berry is commonly referred to as the menopausal herb because it alleviates many symptoms, including hot flashes, vaginal dryness, and mood swings. It works by raising the progesterone level.
Ginkgo biloba. Studies demonstrate ginkgo's effectiveness in leveling mood swings.
Ginseng normalizes brain hormones. It balances body temperature and is effective in preventing hot flashes.
Wild yam contains beneficial progesterone, the precursor of estrogen. This gives a woman the building blocks needed to create more hormones. |
Ralph Moss, PhD
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 Prior confessed that he has added blueberries to his regular diet, hi December, 1998, Eating Well magazine named the blueberry "Fruit of the Year," and in June, 1999, Prevention dubbed it the Miracle berry.
"If you add one food to your diet this year, make it blueberries," said Prevention's Nutrition Editor. According to her, blueberries are the "single most ferocious food in the supermarket at halting the forces that age you."
In 1998, scientists at Rutgers University in New Jersey showed that blueberries, like cranberries, contain substances that prevent the E. |
Dr. Michael Heinrich, Joanne Barnes, Simon Gibbons and Elizabeth M. Williamson
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| BMJ Books, London Lacaille-Dubois M et al 2001 Phytomedicine 8:47 Morazzoni P et al 1996 Fitoterapia 62:3 Parrado F et al 1999 Clinical Drug Investigation 18(4):255 Pittler M et al 1998 Archives of Dermatology 134:1356 Redman D 2000 Journal of Alternative and Complementary
Medicine 6(6):539 Sirtori C et al 2001 Pharmacological Research 44(3): 183 Upton R (ed) 1999 Hawthorn leaf and flower and hawthorn berry.
American herbal pharmacopeia. AHP. |
Joseph E. Mario
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| Peach leaf, Marshmallowroot, Uva Ursi, Parsley, and Alfalfa); Bright's disease and dropsy/congestive heart failure (boil 1 oz. of berries in 2 pints water, drink 1 pint daily); antiseptic for bladder inflammation cystitis (2 fl. oz. tea 3-4 times daily), nephritis (homeopathic form 1 -2x), urethritis, painful urination, makes the urine smell like violets, forchronic incontinence; helps the stomach, gas, and dysentery. |
National Women's Health Network
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 The herb is called chaste-tree berry and monk's pepper because it is reputed to lower libido in both women and men.
The usual dose is 0.5 to 1.0 grams of the fruit three times a day or aqueous-alcohol extracts corresponding to 30 to 40 mg of the crushed fruits.
Recommendation Chaste-tree berry is a relatively benign herb. It may cause an acne-like rash or itching in some people, but really severe adverse effects have not been reported. There are no clinical trials on its use for menopausal symptoms, but it appears to be safe. |
| Ch dste-Tree berry (Vitex dgnus-cdstus)
Chaste-tree berry, also called vitex, contains flavonoids (primarily casticin) and iridoids (aucubin and agnuside). Scientists don't yet know what the most active compounds dence for its effectiveness, there are few studies of acceptable scientific caliber.
The usual dose of black cohosh is 0.3 to 2.0 grams in capsules or infusion three times a day; liquid extract (1:1 increases endometrial cancer risk, and if there are estrogens in black cohosh, they may not be entirely safe. are. |
Dr. Michael Heinrich, Joanne Barnes, Simon Gibbons and Elizabeth M. Williamson
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| REFERENCES
Anesini C et al 1999 Fitoterapia 70(4):361
Asano T et al 2001 Biological & Pharmaceutical Bulletin 24(6):678 Barak V et al 2001 European Cytokine Network 12(2):29() berry M 1996 Pharmaceutical Journal 256:234 Bauer R 1998 In: Etkin NL et al (eds) Plants for food and medicine. |
| Daily doses of powdered berry are usually 1.5-6 g or higher if used to treat kidney disease (see Upton 1999).
Toxicology
Few toxicity studies have been carried out but, although relatively safe, schisandra is reputed to increase gastric acidity and may cause allergy in susceptible individuals. It should be avoided during pregnancy (possible uterine stimulation) and epilepsy.
Skullcap, Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi
The plant and the drug
Scutellaria baicalensis (Huan qin, Lamiaceae) is sometimes known as baical skullcap to differentiate it from American skullcap (S. laterifolia L.). |
Henry Pasternak, D.V.M., C.V.A.
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 Antispasmodic substances are found in fennel, red bell pepper, cabbage, carrot, currant, cranberry, eggplant, grapefruit, orange, tomato, and acerola berry, which are all high in vitamin C complex.
About 50 percent of human patients with acute asthma attacks have low serum magnesium. High dietary magnesium intake has been associated with better lung function in humans.3 Magnesium relaxes the constricted muscles of the lung bronchioles, alleviating the wheezing and severity of asthma attacks. |
Ben-Erik van Wyk
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 S. gerrardii) and water pear (S. guineense). They all grow in wet places and all have edible but rather bland-tasting fruits. These species are also similar to the garden eugenia or brush cherry (S. paniculatum), a popular ornamental shrub or small tree that produces small, oblong, reddish-purplish fruits that are sometimes used for jams and jellies. Origin & history The jambolan is indigenous to India, Malaysia and Indonesia. It is commonly cultivated in India and Java and has been distributed to botanical gardens in all tropical parts of the world. |
Dr. Richard Schulze and Sam Biser
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| Schulze: My experience tells me the berry is the best, but during the time of the year when the berry is not available, the flower and leaf also have great healing properties.
Forget commercially-available hawthorne berries. They are of low quality, with the berries being harvested when they are dried-out and lower in vital chemicals. This is done because it is easier to harvest dry berries by shaking the tree.
Berries should be harvested at peak of ripeness, by picking them off the tree. This takes more effort and money, which is why it isn't done. |
Barnet Meltzer, M.D.
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 Everybody looks forward to berry season, and with good reason. Berries bring a wonderful burst of flavor to fruit salads and smoothies. They're upbeat day-brighteners. The strawberry hails from Europe and the Americas, raspberries originated in the Middle East, and currants come from central Asia. Man has been relying on them for millennia. For example, physicians in Ancient Rome used strawberries to cure scurvy.
Therapeutic and Healing Powers: In spite of their small size, berries pack a therapeutic punch because of their high flavonoid content. |
Josef A. Brinckmann and Michael P. Lindenmaier
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 The fruit is a mul-tilocular berry.
DAC: Pomeranzenbluten
Plant sources: Citrus aurantium L. ssp. aurantium [= C aurantium L. ssp. amara Engler] (bitter orange), Rutaceae; also Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck, syn.: Citrus x aurantium L. var. sinensis L. (sweet orange).
Synonyms: Neroli flowers, Seville orange flowers (Engl.), Fleurs d'oranger, Fleurs de neroli (Fr.), Bitterorangenblii-ten, Pomeranzenbluten, Bigaradebliiten, Nerolibliiten (Ger.), Flores Naphae (Lat.), Flor de naranjo (Span.).
Origin: Cultivated in southern Europe and in other subtropical regions. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
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 Hawthorn berry (Crataegus oxyacantha)— normalizes blood pressure; is beneficial to dieters and those with congestive heart failure; prevents premature ventricular contractions and hypoxia; has diuretic and antioxidant potential; lowers cholesterol; acts as a vasodilator; is an ACE inhibitor, beta-blocker, and anti-inflammatory; increases exercise tolerance; and reduces the incidence of tachycardia and palpitations
Dr. James Duke, botanist, says that when hawthorn is evaluated chemically, it appears that the herb covers most of the cardiovascular bases. |
Joseph E. Mario
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| HOLLYHOCK Leaf and Root (Althea Alcea rosea) Marshmallow family; a Chinese garden plant growing 6-7 feettall, with thick round stalks, large hairy 5-sided leaves, and pale red flowers. Soothing, diuretic, pectoral tonic. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
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| The hawthorn berry is considered a smart herb with adaptogenic qualities in regard to normalizing blood pressure. Hawthorn gains much of its hypotensive and weight management properties through its diuretic action. Also, its ACE inhibiting factors interrupt the renin-angiotensin sequence, resulting in lower blood pressure and improved cardiac output (Duke 2000b). Clinicians compare the effectiveness of hawthorn to Captopril, a drug prescribed for congestive heart failure (CHF) and hypertension that also works by inhibiting ACE. |
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