Kathi Keville
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 Surveys show that Crohn's disease is almost nonexistent in cultures where the basic diet includes natural, unrefined grains and plenty of vegetables and fruits. Surveys also show that the cases of the disease are rapidly increasing in technologically advanced countries, where people tend to eat more refined sugar, fewer vegetables and less fiber.
Crohn's disease alters your natural intestinal flora, making it difficult for you to assimilate important nutrients, particularly protein. |
| Grind the fruits in a food processor, then add juices. Add honey if desired. Store in a covered jar in the refrigerator. This dish tastes even better after it sits for a day. You can also make this sauce into a gelatin dessert: Bring the sauce to a boil and stir in the agar. Continue simmering for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally to make sure that agar is dissolved and evenly dispersed. Pour into a bowl or pan. Let cool to thicken.
For centuries, elderberry has been used to cure ffus and colds. |
| You can do that by eating lots of fruits, vegetables and whole grains. You should also stay away from pastries and breads made with refined flour, and be sure to drink plenty of water.
Bulk laxatives are the gentlest solution to occasional constipation, especially if you have sensitive or inflamed bowels. Bulk laxatives are often safe to use even when you have intestinal inflammation, hemorrhoids, or colitis or are pregnant or nursing. If you have any of these conditions, ask your doctor if these kinds of laxatives are safe for you to use. |
| You get some anthocyanidins when you eat deep red and blue fruits. They are also sold in pill form. cholesterol reduction
Cholesterol is on the minds, as well as the plates, of many people these days. In 1984 the results of the Coronary Primary Prevention Trial, a ten-year study on cholesterol involving about 4,000 men, were released. These results showed that lowering blood cholesterol from elevated levels will reduce the risk of heart disease. After that, the anticholesterol bandwagon started rolling.
But even public enemy number one has a good side. |
Sharol Tilgner, N.D.
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 Dosage: Infusion: 1 teaspoon of crushed fruits per cup ofwater; or 1:3 dry liquid extract: 20-75 drops 1-4 times per day.
Use: (a) Female reproductive tract regulator. It is used for PMS, 320 endometriosis, menstrual cramps, premenstrual herpes, premenstrual acne, polymenorrhea, secondary amenorrhea, PMS, menopause with hot flashes.
Chaste tree appears to increase luteinizing hormone production and inhibit the release of follicle stimulating hormone. This shifts the ratio of estrogens to progestagens in favor of the progestagens with a corpus luteum hormone effect. |
The Editors of Prevention Magazine Health Books
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 Good sources include orange and yellow vegetables, fruits and whole grains.
"In addition, I'd go so far as to advise people who want to take steps to slow down the aging process to take a daily multivitamin/mineral supplement," he says. "The idea behind this is that you can die 'young' as late as possible."
Alcoholism
Repairing Nutritional Damage
"Vou probably know someone with a drinking problem. In fact, maybe that person is you.
Problems with alcohol are fairly common in the United States. "Two-thirds of all Americans drink," says Charles H. Halsted, M.D. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Cooking may reduce the fiber content of foods by breaking down some fiber into its carbohydrate components. When you do cook vegetables, steam them only until they are tender but firm to the bite.
In addition, one or more of the following high-fiber foods should be part of daily meal planning:
• Oat bran, which helps to lower blood cholesterol.
• Cooked beans. One cup contains the same amount of soluble fiber as xh cup of oat bran.
• Psyllium seed, which is an intestinal cleanser and stool softener. It is one of the most popular dietary fibers. |
Margarita Artschwager Kay
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 Juan Nentuig ([1764] 1977) reports, "Divine providence has enriched this province, destitute of doctors, surgeons or apothecaries, with such excellent medicinal products in herbs, shrubs, roots, gums, fruits, minerals and animals that you will never find such a collection in any botanical garden in Europe."25 After listing the plants already known to medicine that were found in Sonora, Nentuig then went on to describe thirty-three new plants.
After the Jesuits were expelled by papal decree in 1767, Sonora passed to secular control. Natural histories, however, continued. |
| They occur mostly along arroyos but also on hillsides and have numerous tiny leaflets, clumps of small yellow flowers, and beanlike fruits. Most species have spines. Acacia gets its botanical name from the Greek akis, a sharp point, referring to the thorns. The sixteenth-century names also emphasize the sharp thorns, including pua in Spanish and the hui-prefix in Nahuatl. Binorama is a hybrid word; bino- is Cahi-tan (from binole, acacia) and rama is Spanish for branch (Sobarzo 1966:43).
Historic Use. |
| Renaissance English; tepetomatl (mountain tomatoes), tomdzquitl, planta que dafrutos acinosos parecidos al tomatl, Aztec; manzanita, Tepehuan, Spanish, English
Manzanitas are evergreen shrubs with crooked, twisted trunks and branches and reddish bark, growing at altitudes of 3,000 to 9,000 feet. The fruits are small spherical berries eaten by many kinds of wildlife, including bears, from which come the botanical and English names. Manzanita means "little apple."
Historic Use. The great Greek and Latin pharmacologists apparently did not know the bush. |
| They bear white flowers at the very tops of the cactus and its arms; the flower becomes a delicious red fruit used in making jam, syrup, and wine. The fruits of several of the large Cactaceae are commonly called pitahaya.
Historic Use. In northwestern New Spain, Esteyneffer ([1719] 1978:552) noted that the pitahaya fruit was an important part of the diet to cure aflegmdn, or cellulitis (that is, an inflammation of cellular tissue), for which he gave the classical description: "tumor . . . con calor, rubor, pul-sacidn y tensidn," a swelling with heat, pain, redness, throbbing, and tension. |
The Editors of Prevention Magazine Health Books
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| Levin advises eating a diet low in fat, high in fiber and loaded with fruits and vegetables. Then if you like, he says, you can add enough calcium-rich foods (and supplements, if necessary) to push you over the 1,000-milligram mark. He also suggests that you avoid any tobacco and excessive alcohol.
Incidentally, fortified dairy foods such as milk may provide additional protection. Fat-soluble vitamin D, best known for helping to escort calcium into the bloodstream, may also play a role in protecting cells from cancer-inducing genetic damage, says Dr. Levin. |
Stephanie Beling
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 Medical anthropologist John Heinerman, in his Encyclopedia of fruits, Vegetables, and Herbs, lists ten foods and two herbs that have been shown to be effective against diabetes—from blueberries, rich in the phytochemical called myrillin, to garlic and onions, so rich in infection-fighting substances called organosulfurs that they are seemingly omnipotent healing foods.* Traditional Chinese medicine also prescribes mushrooms, carrots, wheat bran, corn, and a tea made from dried guava leaves—in addition to garlic and onions—as diabetes fighters. |
The Editors of Prevention Magazine Health Books
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| Most of those calories—about 60 percent—should be in the form of carbohydrates such as breads, pastas and other grains as well as fruits and vegetables. Another 15 percent of those calories should come from protein, and the remaining 25 percent should come from fat (10 percent from animal sources).
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I LI dark green, leafy vegetables and in orange and yellow vegetables. But for a drinker, beta-carotene has the same problem as vitamin A itself, says Dr. Lieber. |
Margarita Artschwager Kay
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| It has shiny, resinous, two-lobed leaves; small yellow flowers; and fuzzy, white fruits.
Historic Use. This New World bush is a veritable panacea for many in the American and Mexican West, particularly those who live in very arid regions. Pollen from the plant was found abundantly in coprolites of Archaic southwestern sites (Reinhard, Hamilton, and Helvy 1991). Larrea seems to have been used throughout this area but not outside of it: no plant described by Hernandez has been identified as Larrea, nor does it grow in the areas that he surveyed. |
Frances Darragh and Louise Darragh Law
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 Restricted diet of fresh fruits, vegetables, soups, broths, and fresh juices.
HERBS
Daily drinks of Red Clover tea during the mumps and afterward to clear out the lymph glands.
Keep bowels clear by drinking Licorice and Rosemary tea.
HOMEOPATHIC
After suspected contact: Pilocarpine 30c. This can help the child's resistance to the disease. Give one dose night and morning for three days (starting within 2 days of contact), then one dose per week for 2 weeks.
Belladonna 30c: Bright red swelling on right side; also useful where swelling disappears and head or neck pain develops. |
| Give a liquid diet initially—plenty of fluid-apple juice or apple cider vinegar/water
• Later add citrus fruits, greens, and root vegetables, fish, and white meats.
• Avoid meat, egg, dairy products, pickles, refined carbohydrates, sugar and spices, rhubarb, gooseberries, coffee, and tea.
• Massage helps stimulate circulation to the affected parts and prevents toxic deposits from settling in joints. |
| Use fresh fruits and vegetables if child is hungry.
• Avoid fried foods, fatty foods, egg yolks, excess protein, and alcohol.
• Beetroot, carrot and dandelion juices are especially beneficial. Freshly squeezed citrus juice mixed with water (1:1) should be sipped daily.
HERBS
As antiseptic: Golden Seal or Thyme For diarrhea: Meadowsweat, Raspberry For depression: Gotu Kola, St. |
| Fresh Vegetables: Fresh beans, beetroot (top included), carrots, celery, lettuce, and cucumber.
• Fruits: Figs, prunes, pears, peaches, grapes, berries, pineapple.
• Eliminate junk foods, white flour, sugar products, and cheese.
• On rising drink a glass of water that has the juice from half a lemon added to it.
• Cold-pressed Olive oil (1 tsp.-l Tbsp.) should be included in the daily diet.
• Make homemade jelly using agar instead of gelatin (2Tbsp agar to 2.1 cups of boiling water; half boiling water, half fruit juice; or Rosehip tea). Flavor with honey or lemon juice. |
| Nuts, chocolates, and citrus fruits can cause recurrence of mouth ulcers; ulcers may also be caused by bowel inflammation or physical and emotional stress.
WHAT TO DO
HERBS
Gargle and also use as herbal tea one or more of the following herbs: Myrrh, Golden Seal, Raspberry, Marjoram, or Sage. Teatree oil may be applied directly to the ulcer.
HOMEOPATHIC
Borax 30c: Small ulcers that bleed if touched, or when eating; mouth is hot.
Mercurius 30c: Much saliva with spongy gums, sweet metallic taste and thirst.
Nitric Acid 30c: Ulcers with splinterlike pains, bad breath, and much saliva. |
Stephanie Beling
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| The ripe fruits will last three to five days in the refrigerator. Combine apricots with raspberries, or with dried figs and prunes, or with almonds for a superior taste treat.
Bananas
This is the quintessential yellow fruit, although you can easily buy a bunch that is quite green, then watch it ripen in a day or two. Bananas are ripe when the peel is solid yellow. Never refrigerate bananas; it turns them black.
Bananas grow on what looks like a tree but is actually an above-ground stem. The stem is made up of leafstalks growing one inside the other; these are the banana bunches. |
The Editors of Prevention Magazine Health Books
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| The foods most likely to cause reactions confined to the mouth: uncooked fruits, nuts and vegetables.
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Other studies have shown that vitamin C may also help dampen some of the inflammation associated with chronic allergies.
"My experience is that vitamin C can have modest beneficial effects for inhalant allergies and asthma if it's taken on a regular basis," says Richard Podell, M.D. |
Josef A. Brinckmann and Michael P. Lindenmaier
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 Steep for 10—15 min and then pass through a tea strainer.
6.6 Duration of use
In acute cases that last longer than one week or periodically reoccur, it is recommended to seek medical advice.
6.7 Side effects
None known.
6.8 Storage
Store protected from light and moisture. |
Adrian Forsyth and Kenneth Miyata
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 Most lowland rain forests in the New World tropics are diverse, and it is not surprising that trees that simply let their fruits go are uncommon. Even small seeded trees usually employ the services of mobile animals because below the parent tree populations of seed-eating lygaeid bugs and Apterostigma ants home in on piles of seeds and eat them. A fig tree might be able to disperse its seeds successfully by simply dropping them as long as there were enough peccaries to swallow them up and carry them off before the seed predators got to them. |
Robyn Landis
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 The above fruits and vegetables are probably best eaten fresh and raw (except for beans, obviously) but are also probably just as effective lightly cooked (steamed is best) as well. A few, such as the sulforaphanes in crucifers, are reported to be enhanced by light steaming or microwaving. Don't overcook vegetables, since phytochemicals may be destroyed in the process just as some vitamins and minerals are. Juicing is a good way to concentrate nutrients, so it's probably a good way to concentrate phytochemicals as well. |
| Haritaki—One of the three fruits that goes into the Ayurvedic remedy triphala, this bitter, astringent fruit by itself treats diarrhea in small doses (1 to 3 capsules). (Interestingly, in larger doses it is laxative.)
Kwtaj—Another excellent Ayurvedic remedy; 1 to 10 capsules as needed.
Carob powder—An excellent stool tightener; take 2 heaping tablespoons mixed into yogurt, honey, or even just water, several times a day as tolerated. This is also a good long-term strategy for chronically loose stool.
Dried blueberry—This popular European remedy should be used to comfort level. |
| It's a technicality: Those fruits are warming compared to grapes and pears, but they would rate a .01 on a scale where chilies were a 10.
If you pay attention, you will begin to be able to "sense" what foods will truly aggravate you and which ones will complement or balance. This will happen especially as you become more attuned to the Asian concept of food and herb energetics and tastes. The deeper your awareness of a food's warming tendency, drying ability, or "oiliness," etc. |
| Nutrients such as zinc, boron (found in fruits, beans, and vegetables, or supplements), and magnesium are needed in order for calcium actually to calcify bone. Too much protein—milk again, as well as meat—increases calcium loss. Also, phosphates (in processed foods and soft drinks, common in the average child's diet) can cause calcium loss or excretion. A well-rounded diet as described earlier and a daily multivitamin will help boost the total nutrient load to support better absorption. |
| Another study on athletic college women showed that boron supplementation lowered serum phosphorus levels, and high phosphorus is another factor associated with osteoporosis.10 fruits, vegetables, and beans are the best natural sources of boron, which may help explain why vegetarian women have less osteoporosis (besides the lower protein content of a vegetarian diet).
Eat as many soy foods daily as you can manage. As we will discuss below, soy foods contain estrogenlike compounds that may offer protection against bone loss in the same way your own estrogen does. |
Josef A. Brinckmann and Michael P. Lindenmaier
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| Odor: Pleasantly aromatic.
Taste: Spicy and slightly salty.
Fig. 2: Ocimum basilicum L.
A 20—50 cm tall annual with ovate, acuminate leaves. Flowers zygomorphic, yellowish white to reddish, and mostly in whorls of six.
Excerpt from the German Commission E monograph
(BAn^ no. 54, Published March 18, 1992)
Pharmacological properties, pharmacokinetics, toxicology
In vitro antimicrobial. Clinical Data Uses
Preparations of basil herb are used as a supportive therapy for feeling of distension and flatulence, as well as to stimulate appetite, facilitate digestion, and as a diuretic. |
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