Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D.
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 Stir together in a medium bowl the cilantro, hoisin, ginger, brown sugar, and peppers. Sprinkle lemon over salmon, then brush both sides of salmon with glaze mixture. Grill or broil until opaque in center, basting occasionally with remaining glaze (approximately 6 minutes per side). Transfer salmon to a plate of fresh spinach. Makes 6 servings.
'A lemon
I pound salmon fillet, I -inch thick, or six 5-ounce salmon steaks Fresh spinach, washed and stemmed
Nutritional information per serving: 284 calories; 50 percent fat (15.9 grams); 3 percent carbohydrates; 47 percent protein; 0 grams fiber. |
| Use ground ginger in baking and marinades, rice dishes, and soups, and in preparing carrots, beets, and squash.
• Mace. Similar in taste to nutmeg but milder (it is the fibrous covering on the nutmeg seed), this spice enhances the flavor of broccoli, carrots, cauliflower brussels sprouts, baked goods, and puddings.
• Mint Choose from more than thirty types of mint (fresh is most flavorful and sweet) to enhance grains, vegetable and fruit salads, iced teas, peas, corn, beans, cucumbers, carrots, and potatoes.
• Nutmeg. |
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 To try it, dissolve a teaspoon of powdered ginger in a cup of hot water. Drink the tea every four hours as needed.
Be aware of B6. Dr. Niebyl conducted a study in which women who took 25 milligrams of vitamin B6 three times daily for three days reduced severe nausea. Women who took a placebo—a fake, look-alike pill—had no benefit. But B6 only worked for severe cases. "The nutrient had no effect on mild nausea," says Dr. Niebyl. Ask your doctor whether B6 supplements are right for you. |
The Complete Book of Alternative NutritionSelene Y. Craig, Jennifer Haigh, Sari Harrar and the Editors of PREVENTION Magazine Health Books
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| Mowrey recommends encapsulated ginger root, available at most health food stores. "Just take it as needed every couple of hours," he says. "If you get really seasick, you may need up to a dozen or so capsules a day."
Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS)
"Women were coping with premenstrual syndrome long before Midol was invented," says Dr. Hudson. In the absence of drugstore remedies like Midol for PMS, women turned to nature for relief.
One of the most common premenstrual complaints among Dr. Hudson's patients is water retention, a condition she treats successfully with herbs. |
Dr. Joseph M. Kadans, N.D.
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 A variation of this can be made with the addition of two tablespoons each of cream cheese and chopped ginger, beaten into the basic recipe.
A unique sauce for cooked meat or raw fish is the Brazilian pepper and lemon sauce. Combine four Tabasco peppers, drained, with one chopped onion, one clove garlic, one-half cup lemon juice, and a sprinkle of salt and freshly ground pepper. Cover and refrigerate until ready to use. |
Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D.
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| The Zinger Smoothie Brain Teaser
Gazpacho Smoothie Over Ice
Vegetable Lentil Soup Curried Squash Soup Vegetable Beef Soup Curried Turkey Vegetable Soup
Open-Faced Black Bean Burritos Black Bean and Cheese Roll-Ups Spicy Grilled Salmon with ginger Sauteed Shrimp and Vegetables
Pumpkin Mousse Pie
Crunchy Pea and Shrimp Salad Vegetable Tabbouleh
Wild Greens Topped with Pears, Blue Cheese, and Walnuts Fresh Green Bean Bundles with Dill Apricot-Glazed Carrots
What Do Eggs, Wheat Germ, and Your Brain Have in Common? |
Annemarie Colbin
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 Lino Stanchich, an experienced macrobiotic teacher, helped me with exercises, mustard plasters, and ginger compresses. My husband and I prayed a lot, visualizing all manner of healing possibilities. Both Dr. Sherman and Dr. Northrup mentioned that there had been autopsies of women showing signs of old ectopics that had apparently been reabsorbed, but no case had been documented in the literature, and the doctor was definitely not willing to let me try to be the first: The sonogram showed the lump in my Fallopian tube to be already the size of a hen's egg. |
| Drinking hot fluids, perhaps with some spice, to encourage perspiration: Five-Phase Drink, vegetable broth, ginger tea.
• If the patient has chills or is restless, a fifteen-minute warm bath of the same temperature as the fever is very soothing and will banish the chills. This remedy is especially good for children.
• After the fever breaks—or if the patient is really hungrybarley water, soft rice, (page 255) and salt-free vegetable soup (page 253) are the best choices in foods. |
| Plenty of hot fluids, in the form of juice (try hot apple or pear juice with cinnamon); chamomile, ginger, or lemon tea; or plain hot water with lemon, to help loosen the tightness, (page 252)
• Alkalizing foods, on the expansive side: fruits and salads, unsalted vegetable soup, (page 253)
• Rest. It is mandatory. In fact, often the rest alone will allow the body to recuperate easily.
As should be evident, these remedies are not intended to interrupt the process of a cold, but rather to relieve the discomfort of its symptoms. |
| I find that it is only edible when crisp and dry and served with a sharp side dish, such as horseradish, mustard, ginger, or grated Japanese radish (daikon) to aid in the digestion of the fats.
Many of my students ask me about microwave cooking. They often have an intuitive feeling that it must affect food, yet they don't know how. Fire heats food by friction, as it causes the molecules to move around and rub against one another. Microwaves heat food by alternating the magnetic polarity of the atoms; that is, the positive pole is made negative and back again, thousands of times per second. |
| One of my students, for example, discovered recently that adding ginger and garlic generously to her soups and stews helped her overcome a feeling of inner chill that had plagued her for years.
Contractive foods, as a rule, hold the heat and thereby are warming. Heat, however, expands; and we need to eat something hot when we're too contracted from the cold, so as to expand into balance. Expansive foods disperse the heat, and therefore are, as a rule, cooling. |
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| Hot foods include ginger and red and green peppers.
As for scientific evidence that this "balance" produces better health, the usual range of Western-style research just doesn't exist. Those who follow the diet advice of Chinese medicine practitioners take it on faith that their advice works. The real track record here is history, they claim.
"Everything doesn't have to be analyzed at the molecular level," adds Pitchford. "Western science would be able to explain these properties if they chose to. It's just the science of observation. |
Simon Mills and Kerry Bone
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 DOSAGE
• Fresh root equivalent 500-1000 mg three times a day; dried root equivalent 500 mg 2-4 times a day.
• ginger tablets (500 mg): one tablet 2-4 times per day.
• 0.7-2 ml per day of 1:2 liquid extract, 1.7-5 ml per day of 1:5 tincture.
DURATION OF USE
There are no known problems with long-term consumption. However, for most purposes dosage need only be short term and directed to immediate symptom relief.
SUMMARY ASSESSMENT OF SAFETY
No problems known from ingestion in moderate doses. |
Janet Zand, LAc, OMD, Allan N. Spreed, MD, CNC, James B. LaValle, RPh, ND
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 Grate a large ginger root into a pot containing 1 pint of water and simmer for fifteen minutes. Use the resulting tea to make a hot compress.
¦ Grapefruit-seed extract is antibacterial, antiviral, and antifungal. Take 100 milligrams two or three times a day. You can also put 2 drops of liquid extract in an ounce of distilled water and instill a few drops in each nostril several times a day.
¦ Menthol lozenges help to clear respiratory passages. Menthol is a purified and refined extract of peppermint. Lozenges made without sugar are preferable. |
| Most of these are oils distilled from various parts of plants also used for food and as spices, such as basil, black pepper, ginger, orange, and thyme. Use any or all of these oils as inhalants or diffuse them into the air shortly before meals.
GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS
¦ Eat in a relaxed setting and enjoy your meals as much as possible. Try not to feel as if you are forcing yourself to eat. This will only cause additional stress and make eating all the more distasteful.
¦ Consider weight training to build and maintain muscle mass. |
| Essential oil of geranium, ginger, neroli, and peppermint can help to boost circulation and relieve pain. Add up to three of these oils to a warm bath or massage oil, or blend a few drops in warm or cool water (experiment to see which temperature suits you best) to make comforting compresses. Apply the compresses for fifteen minutes at a time while sitting with your legs elevated. Repeat as often as needed.
GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS
¦ Spend as much time as you can resting with your legs elevated, preferably above the level of your heart. |
Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D.
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| For additional information on the Federal Violence Initiative and the attempt to counteract this measure read Peter and ginger Breggin's new book, THE WAR AGAINST CHILDREN, St. Martin's Press, 1994.
Dr. Martin Teicher deserves to be commended for the courage and integrity obviously required for him to come forward with his findings...the first in a long list of medical data which continues to replicate his and his colleagues discoveries. A true scientist will not bend under pressure and Dr. Teicher has proved himself to be classified as such. Last September 20, 1991, Dr. |
Simon Mills and Kerry Bone
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| The monographs in this text include well-conducted clinical trials, notably for garlic, ginkgo, St John's wort, valerian, feverfew and ginger. These studies show that the conventional methodology is very powerful and can be suited to understanding herbal remedies in some contexts at least. They also show that even such unremarkable plants, when researched thoroughly, can demonstrate efficacy beyond the placebo. |
James Green
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 When the stomach and/or the intestines are sluggish, medicines act more quickly when local stimulants such as Cayenne or ginger are given with them. When diarrhea or vomiting occur during administration of medicines, certainly less is absorbed and a portion is lost through this heroic elimination.
Art of Simpling
A simple is a common health-enhancing plant.
A simpler is one who knows how to use these plants.. .an herbalist. The simpler:
• Uses local herbs, recently harvested.
• Uses only mild nutritional herbs with generous amounts of pure water. |
Simon Mills and Kerry Bone
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| Pungent
Sometimes also called 'acrid', this is the taste of the hot spices, cayenne, ginger, mustard, the peppers, horseradish, raw onions and garlic (both the latter become sweet when cooked) and generally all the 'heating' herbal remedies. Unlike the other four tastes, the effect is not linked to any special taste bud but simply follows direct irritation of any exposed tissues and sensory nerve fibres. The association with the Metal phase may have followed inhaling the fumes given off from smelting. |
Janet Zand, LAc, OMD, Allan N. Spreed, MD, CNC, James B. LaValle, RPh, ND
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| Take ginger or peppermint tea with meals to combat nausea and enhance digestion. Green tea also is an excellent beverage to take with meals. It improves digestion and supplies potent antioxidant bioflavonoids that can help prevent free-radical damage.
¦ Goldenseal and the Chinese patent medicine Huang Lian Su contain berberine alkaloids, which have antibiotic effects and can be helpful for diarrhea. Choose a standardized goldenseal root providing 8 to 10 percent berberine and take 500 milligrams three times daily for up to one week. |
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| Dried ginger is pungent and hot and is used for Cold conditions characterized by pallor, poor appetite and digestion, cold limbs, vomiting, diarrhoea, pale tongue, or thin, watery or white sputum. It is to be used cautiously during pregnancy.
SUMMARY ACTIONS
Carminative, antiemetic, peripheral circulatory stimulant, spasmolytic, antiinflammatory, antiplatelet, diaphoretic, digestive stimulant. |
| In India, Withania is given with pungent or heating herbs such as ginger and long pepper to increase its tonic effects.
MAY ALSO BE USED FOR
EXTRAPOLATIONS FROM PHARMACOLOGICAL STUDIES
Debility and nervous exhaustion, especially due to stress; convalescence after acute illness or extreme stress, impotence due to devitalization; chronic diseases, especially those marked by inflammation (e.g. |
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| Cooking with ginger and nutmeg is also recommended.
There can also be vata and kapha diarrhea. With vata diarrhea, you'll have alternating constipation and diarrhea. If it's kapha diarrhea, you'll detect mucus in the stool. Both improve with diets for their respective constitutions, says Dr. Frawley.
In Sue Grenager's case, a tri-dosha diet was necessary. Gren-ager, a vata-pitta from Pennsylvania, experienced diarrhea for two and a half years during a stressful time at her job. After trying other alternative medicine treatments, she found Ayurveda. |
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| Search them out and try them out for at least three months:
Devil's Claw Tumeric
Bilberry Hawthorne
Bromelain Hawthrone Berry
Burdock Root Yucca Powder
Sarsaparilla Root ginger Root Willow Bark Ginseng
Eat a lot more of these foods
1 R-3
Pineapple
Pineapple juice Brazil nuts Salmon Broccoli
Garlic
Herring
Onions
No. 47 — Atrovent — This is a drug used to treat bronchospasm that is related to lung diseases, such as bronchitis and emphysema. It is also prescribed for allergies and the common cold.
Potential Dangers — Can cause moderate to sever allergic reactions in many people. |
Ben Davis
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| Cold Sores sage tea (2-3 leaves per cup, plus one teaspoon powdered ginger, 3 cups daily)
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Cuts
ţcocoanut oil
Cysts ?mango
Dandruff
ţlemon juice ?yucca plant shampoo
Diabetic Dent Marks
ţPeanut oil (applied around dents, never inside, plus gaining a few pounds, holding the gain for two months and losing it;—repeated over a period of time) squash sunflower seeds vitamin A vitamin B complex linoleic acid
Eczema beet juice black currant juice blackstrap molasses (2 teaspoons in a glass of milk twice daily) carrot juice ?? |
Daniel B. Mowrey, Ph.D.
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 Whenever the hypoglycemic condition is attended and/or made worse by improper digestion and assimilation of foods, ginger root will markedly facilitate the utilization of energy stores (18-19). Functional hypoglycemia, that rundown feeling, is especially well-served by this treatment. See Also circulation; nervous tension; fatigue; digestion; nausea; stomach/intestinal
OTHER NUTRIENTS
Eating properly and ingesting adequate supplementary vitamins and other nutrients each day will go far toward preventing hypoglycemic episodes. |
Simon Mills and Kerry Bone
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| Capsaicin was most active but piperine and zingerone (from ginger) also showed activity, although allylisothiocyanate (from mustard) and diallyldisul-phide (from garlic) did not have this effect. The effective principles were readily transported from the gut around the body.186 Capsaicin is known to increase energy expenditure in the body and boost basal metabolic rate, which has implications for its use in weight control.187
The above findings hark back to the use of cayenne promoted by Samuel Thomson, who regarded it as a life-promoting heating herb and a general metabolic stimulant. |
Gary Null, Ph.D.
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 Other herbs that can help diabetes and other pancreatic problems include pau d'arco, cedar berries, aloe, ginger, burdock, evening primrose, false unicorn root, onion, juniper berries, cranberry, fenugreek, goldenseal, alfalfa, and kelp. These herbs are safe to take along with any preexisting medications, and are especially good to take before pharmaceuticals are prescribed.
•Homeopathy...The remedy Mucokehl, from Germany, may actually reverse diabetic neuropathy. People have reported getting feeling back in their extremities, as well as eyesight improvement, with this medicine. |
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 Remove from the heat and grate a 2-inch piece of fresh ginger into the water. Cover and steep for 5 to 10 minutes. While the tea is still hot, but not so hot that you can't put your hand in it, soak a washcloth, wring it out, and apply it to your tender joint. Leave the cloth on until the heat dissipates, then immediately apply another cloth soaked in ice water. Leave the cold cloth on for 3 to 4 minutes, then reapply the hot cloth. Continue to alternate for about 15 minutes. As you're applying the treatment, keep the lid on the pot as much as possible so the tea stays hot. |
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