Michael Talbot
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 In his book Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yoga-nanda (1893-1952), the first eminent holy man of India to set up permanent residence in the West, describes his meetings with several Hindu ascetics who could materialize out-of-season fruits, gold plates, and other objects. Interestingly, Yogananda cautioned that such powers, or siddis, are not always evidence that the person possessing them is spiritually evolved. "The world [is] nothing but an objectivized dream," says Yogananda, and "whatever your powerful mind believes very intensely instantly comes to pass. |
| For over thirty years Lashley had been involved in his own ongoing search for the elusive mechanisms responsible for memory, and there Pribram was able to witness the fruits of Lashley's labors firsthand. What was startling was that not only had Lashley failed to produce any evidence of the en-gram, but his research actually seemed to pull the rug out from under all of Penfield's findings.
What Lashley had done was to train rats to perform a variety of tasks, such as run a maze. Then he surgically removed various portions of their brains and retested them. |
James Green
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 Suddenly in a rush of Nature's sweet magic, lush green vines could be seen growing from out of nothingness, lining the wads of Chiron's cave whereon clusters of berries, fat bunches of grapes and fruits, and the kindly buds of the hop family flourished in abundant display, ad ripe for the picking. Dragonflies and damselflies, hummingbirds, and honey bees touched here and touched there, finding nectar-fud flowers everywhere.
"And we have made potions, cordials, and herbal brews to share. |
Patricia Hausman & Judith Benn Hurley
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 In this one, Deepa Beri of the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi treated RA patients with a very limited starter diet of fruits, vegetables, oil, and sugar. One at a time, suspect foods such as rice, wheat, legumes, milk, and meat were added. Of the 14 participants, 10 experienced a worsening of symptoms when one or more of the test foods was given.
As you might guess, the culprits varied among these ten reacting patients. Four appeared sensitive to wheat and rice, two to rice only Of the remaining four, each had a unique set of trigger foods. |
Andrew Chevallier
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 Carotenoids
¦ Flavonoids
¦ Volatile oil
¦ Steroidal saponins (capsicidins - in seeds only)
Cayenne
A perennial, spiky shrub growing to 3 ft (1 m), with scarlet-red conical fruits filled with white seeds.
0 Parts Used
Fruit improves the digestion and the circulation.
Dried fruit
- Fruit pods grow to 4 in (10 cm)
Fresh fruit
B Key Preparations & Their Uses
Cautions Do not exceed the stated dose. Do not take the seeds on their own. Do not take if suffering from peptic ulceration or acid indigestion. Do not take medicinal doses in pregnancy or if breast-feeding. |
Dian Dincin Buchman, Ph.D.
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 Avoid red meats, increase fruits and vegetables in the diet, and use olive oil, a monounsatu-rated fat. Some complementary physicians believe that the primary cause of most high blood pressure is a food allergy, so this should be investigated.
According to cardiologist Dr. Stephen Sinatra, author of Heartbreak and Heart Disease, about 35 percent of high blood pressure patients may have a coenzyme Q10 deficiency, a substance, he says, that functions like a vitamin as it rescues body tissues that have been damaged by free radicals. Dr. |
| Pineapple, figs, and papaya fruits contain special enzymes believed to be helpful in overcoming a delayed, suppressed, or scanty period. Gingerroot candy and gingerroot tea are also helpful.
PREGNANCY Water Therapy
Drink water freely to stimulate the kidneys. Especially drink 2 glasses of cold water every morning before breakfast. After this, gently massage the abdomen for 5 minutes. Continue this throughout the pregnancy; it will help to regulate the bowels.
Take a warm-water shallow bath for 30 minutes every day, at noon, whenever possible. |
| Add more fiber to the diet, including whole-grain breads and cereals, and many green vegetables and fruits each day. A high-fiber diet with plenty of liquids is likely to prevent the formation of hemorrhoids and make the stools bulkier and softer, thus causing less straining. Try eating around the same time each day. Chew food slowly and thoroughly. Never ignore an urge to defecate. Include some brisk walking and other exercise in your daily routine. Learn to breathe in an easy way, especially when lifting, stooping, and squatting. |
Ben Davis
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| This list is as follows:
Fish Beef
Eggs Rice
Lamb Rolled oats
Chicken Cereals
Mutton Walnuts
Veal Peanuts
Corn, canned Bread, whole wheat,
Oysters bran or rye
When these foods are eaten, be sure they are only 10 percent of the meal; the other 90 percent should consist of fresh raw fruits or fresh raw vegetables. |
| The natural way to remedy this condition is to eat a preponderance of raw fruits and vegetables, with these slow-moving foods, to speed up their transit.
Briefly, here's why laxative drugs are no good. They work by irritating the lining of the intestines. To protect itself, the intestines "weep," just as the eye waters when irritated. This liquid creates soft stools and rapid elimination. If frequently used, however, laxatives irritate the intestines to such an extent that an inflamed colon (colitis) or ulcers result. Repeated enemas weaken the colon walls by dilating them with water. |
Andrew Chevallier
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| Has lance-shaped eaves, green flowers, and small round purple-black fruits.
Habitat & Cultivation Southern hackberry is native to the Mediterranean region and southwestern Asia. It is also planted as a border tree in Italy and France. Parts Used Leaves, fruit. Constituents Southern hackberry contains tannins and mucilage.
History & Folklore An ancient Egyptian recipe to make "scented ox fat" required 4 lb (2 kg) of hackberry seeds per 2 lb (1 kg) of ox fat. The fruit is edible (though rarely eaten today) and can be made into preserves. |
Jean Carper
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 STROKE
Fresh fruits and vegetables—even an extra serving a day, according to one study—may cut the risk of stroke-associated death by forty percent. In animal studies, compounds from black currants and blueberries helped prevent disease of blood vessels in the brain. Brown seaweed has prevented strokes in rodents.
ULCER
Plantains (unripe, large and green, especially in concentrated powder form) combat ulcers. Whole milk and yogurt, which contain drug-like protective prostaglandins in the fat may prevent, but not heal ulcers. Fresh cabbage juice heals or wards off ulcers in some people. |
Andrew Chevallier
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| Related Species
Other Pcrsea species have similar fruits to avocado and are used in a similar way.
Key Constituents
Leaves & bark:
¦ Volatile oil (methylchavicol, alpha-pinene)
¦ Flavonoids
¦ Tannins Fruit pulp:
¦ Unsaturated fits
¦ Protein (about 25%)
¦ Sesquiterpenes
¦ Vitamins A, B,, B,
Key Actions
Leaves & bark:
¦ Astringent
Avocado Tree
»|§j|§fi' An evergreen tree, growing to 70 ft (20 m), with dark green, leathery leaves and white flowers.
Bark is stripped from the tree for use in treating diarrhea and dysentery.
Seed contains good-quality oil. |
Adrian Forsyth and Kenneth Miyata
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 This may seem wasteful to anyone who has seen the price of cashew nuts, but these fruits must be carefully peeled in order to avoid poisoning. The sap is full of toxins similar to those found in poison ivy; it is much easier to eat the nutritious stems and ignore the potentially dangerous seeds.
Howler monkeys don't have much of a throwing arm and there are better ways to move around a heavy seed. One of the more peculiar sights in tropical rain forests is the monkey pot. |
Andrew Chevallier
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| The tiny fruits containing the seeds are picked in late summer before they have fully ripened. related species
Bishop's Weed (A. majus, p. 164) is a close relative. This plant has been used to treat asthma but is mainly taken as a diuretic and to treat psoriasis. key constituents
¦ Khellin (1%)
¦ Visnagin
¦ Khellol glycoside
¦ Volatile oil (0. |
| Problems such as these are reversed with herbs to help relieve stress, and with advice on taking exercise, and following a diet rich in nonacidic vegetables and fruits.
Popular Herbs
In European herbal medicine, native herbs are still highly popular. Alpine plants such as arnica (Arnica montana, p. 170) and pulsatilla (Anemone Pulsatilla, p. 165) are much used in Swiss, German, Italian and French herbal medicine, while comfrey (Symphytum officinale, p. 136) is particularly well liked in Britain.There has also been a surge in demand for exotic herbs.The Chinese ginkgo tree (Ginkgo biloba, p. |
Gary Null
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| VegiWash. This will remove pesticide surface residues.
5. Buy your foods in glass containers; avoid cans and plastic.
6. Take supplements, especially vitamins C and E, and minerals such as magnesium. Check out the literature and take charge of your health. If you need hormones, consider primarily natural ones and/or transdermally administered varieties in the smallest possible doses—they bypass the liver.
7. Join a health or cancer activist group.
8. |
James Green
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| This way we co-create while experiencing the ripening fruits of this medicine show. (There are some instances, however, when I will tend to go on and on; kind of like I am now.) We know that young children enjoy themselves for a significantly longer time and experience far more quality time when given simple pine cones, small rocks, colorful ribbons, and randomly shaped blocks of wood to play with than they do when given complex, perfectly molded, and fully complete toys. |
Kenny Ausubel
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 A diet rich in antioxidants from fruits and vegetables has been found to be a factor in protecting against nonmelanoma skin cancer.10
A 1988 study by Dr. Harold Foster at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, reviewing two hundred cases of "spontaneous regression" from cancer discovered that almost 90 percent had made changes in their diet preceding their recoveries. Most involved shifting to a vegetarian menu and eliminating white flour, sugar, and heavily processed foods. Many also used vitamin and mineral supplements, as well as herbal teas. |
Bill Gottlieb
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 Avoid citrus fruits, and be careful with vegetables from the nightshade family, including potatoes, tomatoes, peppers and eggplant," says Calbom. "Citrus seems to promote swelling, and nightshades contain psyllium alkaloids, which cause problems for some people."
For more information about juicing techniques, see page 93.
Massage
If you have osteoarthritis, gentle massage can help ease the pain, says Elliot Greene, past president of the American Massage Therapy Association. Start by putting a little vegetable oil or massage oil on your fingertips, so they glide more easily over your skin. |
Andrew Chevallier
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| Yellow dock has spikes of small, red, woody fruits in autumn.
Habitat & Cultivation
Native to Europe and Africa, yellow dock is commonly found growing wild in many regions of the world. It thrives on dumps, roadsides, and in ditches. The root is dug up in autumn, chopped, and dried.
Related Species
Many other docks have a similar action - for example, broad-leaved dock (R. obtusifolius). Certain sorrels, such as sheep's sorrel (R. acetosella, p. 262), are also used similarly to yellow dock. |
Bradley J. Willcox, D. Craig Willcox, and Makoto Suzuki
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 At least seven vegetables and fruits are eaten daily (generally six servings of vegetables and one serving of fruit) and at least two legumes (soy foods). Vegetables, potatoes, and legumes were among the most common foods in their diet.
Guideline 3: Eat six or more servings of grain-based foods daily. The elders have no problem meeting this one, either. They eat at least three servings of Japanese white (sticky) rice, supplemented by whole grains such as buckwheat noodles (soba) and wheat noodles (udon). Rice is the most commonly eaten single food in Okinawa. |
Bob LeBow, M.D., M.P.H.
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 But the later we start to deal with the fruits of our neglect, the harder it will be to catch up. There's no doubt that the system needs to change. It must be more responsive to real health care needs, not just the whim of "the market." We have to make it more efficient. And in the reorganization of the system, first priority needs to go to patients and their needs.
Universal coverage should lead to the more appropriate use of emergency rooms (ERs) once people have improved access to primary care. |
| Conversely, subsidies and/or rewards for people who walk or bike to work, agricultural subsidies for the producers of fruits and vegetables—as opposed to the current subsidies for producers of tobacco and sugar.
9) A national campaign, looked at as "an investment in America," to promote prevention and exercise as goals that will improve our society's health and sense of well-being as well as make health care for everybody more affordable.
10) Research activities to document the effects of "Putting Prevention into America" and making it truly mainstream. |
Lesley Tierra
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 The green fruit is good for diarrhea and the roasted and charred fruits are good to use both for diarrhea and chronic dysentery-like disorders.
The berries and flowers, which have an affinity for alcohol, may be made into a tincture or herbal wine. All three forms of hawthorn are also taken in tea form. There is a growing consensus that the flowers and leaves are more potent than the berries for the heart. Hawthorn is completely safe for long-term use, with no toxic effect or habituation. uo i rvrujYVing inc. |
| Gnnamon powder may be effectively added to fruits, milk and desserts to balance their cooling energy.
Chinese cinnamon, C. cassia, can often be found in many herbal stores. It is a stronger variety of cinnamon and is commonly used for impotence, spermatorrhea, cold and weak legs, backache, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting. It is also commonly used to promote menses and alleviate menstrual pain from coldness and in cases when the upper part of the body is hot (dry mouth, sore throat, toothache) and the lower part is cold (lower back pain, diarrhea, cold lower extremities). |
| An example classification is lemon balm:
Kingdom: Plantae (plant kingdom) Division: Magnoliophyta (this is the angio-sperms, including the flowering plants) Class: Magnoliopsida (this is the dicots) Subclass: Asteridae (gentian-aster subclass) Order: Lamiales (mint order) Family: Lamiacea (mint family) Genus: Melissa Species: officinalis Common Name: lemon balm
These groupings are done according to their botanical classification, usually based upon the comparative study of the structure of their flowers, fruits and leaves. |
Bill Gottlieb
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| While you could get the nutrients you need from taking vitamin supplements, the advantage to getting them in fruits and vegetables is that you also
Food Sensitivity: How to Discover the "Healthy" Foods That Can Cause Disease
Orange juice, whole-wheat toast and some low-fat yogurt with a banana on top. Sounds like a healthy breakfast, right? Maybe not, according to David Edelberg, M.D., an internist and | medical director of the American Holistic Center/Chicago. |
Lesley Tierra
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| Seeds, fruits and berries: when fully ripened and mature.
Leaves and stems: when fully matured, usually before full development of the plant's flower.
Flowers: just as they are fully developed, that is, when aromatic principles are easily smelled, or oil content is evident, and before the fruiting and seeding stages.
Saps and Pitches: in the late Winter or early Spring.
Buds: when sticky.
It is usually best to pick herbs in the early morning after the dew has dried and by 12:00 noon as this is when the life force is at its strongest. |
Carol Krucoff and Mitchell Krucoff, M.D.
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 The ADA's healthy weight-management guidelines advise people to:
* Change to a more healthful eating style with proportional increases in whole grains, fruits, and vegetables.
* Adopt a nonrestrictive approach to eating based on eating when hungry and stopping when full.
•fc Work your way up to doing at least 30 minutes of enjoyable physical activity a day.
The ADA also encourages the notion of a "healthy weight," which someone can achieve and maintain, as opposed to a cosmetic weight or ideal weight on a standardized chart. |
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