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Vh ounces vegetable glycerin V/i ounces water I ounce dried cramp bark 20 drops tea tree essential oil (optional) Melt the wax in the top of a double boiler. Stir in the glycerin, water, and herb. Simmer slowly, stirring occasionally, for 3 hours. If you try to rush the emulsifying process, the oil and water will separate. Strain the mixture through cheesecloth or a fine sieve. Stir slowly and continuously until it cools and sets. To discourage mold growth, you can stir in the tea tree oil before transferring the cream to a sterilized dark glass jar.

Medicinal Mushrooms: An Exploration of Tradition, Healing, & Culture (Herbs and Health Series) Christopher Hobbs See book keywords and concepts

Although the work has never been translated into any western language in its entirety, there are two English summaries of various parts which include botanical, chemical, and herbal information about a limited number of species; these are Chinese Materia Medica, vegetable Kingdom, (Porter F. Smith and rev. G.A. Stuart, 1911) and Chinese Medicinal Plants from the Pen Ts'ao Kang Mu...A.D. 1596 (Bernard E. Read), first published in 1936 from smaller earlier editions. Smith and Stuart cover about 700 species and include some information on their historical uses.

The Food Bible Judith Wills See book keywords and concepts

COOKED BREAKFAST A typical cooked breakfast 2 large eggs fried in 2 teaspoons oil, 2 slices of Canadian bacon, lightly broiled, yi cup hash browns made with 4-6 oz (115-150 g) potato and 4 teaspoons vegetable oil, 1 cup (200 ml) orange drink. 808 calories, 64.4 g total fat, 16.5 g saturated fat, 17.9 g protein, 39 g carbohydrate. 72% of the calories in this breakfast come from fat and 18% from saturated fat—that's about twice the recommended level for both. Both figures could have been even higher if it were commercial bacon and fried in lard, not broiled.

A pure vegetable oil spread on any bread would add a little more fat. By using skim milk and low-fat yogurts, saturated fat intake can be kept to a minimum. Breakfast should provide a good mix of both starch and sugars. Sugar is best provided in the form of fruit or fruit juice, which will soon (within 20 minutes or so) break down into glucose and raise the blood sugar levels, as well as providing your first vitamin C of the day.

Food Your Miracle Medicine Jean Carper See book keywords and concepts

NOTE: Cooking (boiling, steaming, blanching) destroys about half of a vegetable's vitamin C. However, it does not matter how much water you use; broccoli cooked in one-quarter cup of water loses just as much vitamin C as that cooked in a quart of water, tests show. Best bet: microwaving, which destroyed from zero to about 15 percent of broccoli's vitamin C. Vitamin E (Tocopherol). Because of its antioxidant activity, vitamin E is heralded as a leading protector of the heart and arteries.

The Food Bible Judith Wills See book keywords and concepts

Low in saturates * Low in saturates Some vegetable sources have certain amino acids but not others, and they need to be combined with the correct "missing" amino acids in other forms of protein in order to be utilized in the body. For example, the protein from legumes forms a complete protein when mixed with grains or with nuts and seeds, e.g. rice with beans, or hummus with pita bread, or bean taco. For more on protein in the diet of vegetarians and vegans, see pages 60-63.

Animal sources of protein, such as all animal meats, dairy products, fish, and eggs, contain all eight essential amino acids within themselves, which is why they have been called "first-class" proteins. All vegetable sources of protein—with the exception of soybeans—don't, which is why they have been called "second-class" proteins. SELECTED GOOD SOURCES OF ANIMAL PROTEIN SELECTED GOOD SOURCES OF PLANT PROTEIN (g/average portion) (g/average portion) Food Protein Total fat Food Protein Total fat Chicken breast portion without skin 42 2.9 Soybeans, yi cup (50 g) dry weight 18 9.

Ghee, vegetable 0.3 Sardines 0.3 Sesame oil 0.3 Salmon 0.2 longevity, lower levels of obesity, and less cancers than the American diet. Oils high in monounsaturates are also often rich sources of the antioxidant vitamin E. The FDA recommends that the remainder of the fatty acids in our diet not eaten as saturated or polyunsaturated or trans fats should be eaten as monounsaturated. However, for the sake of your heart, your circulation, and your general health it would probably be wise to replace more of the saturated and trans fats in the diet with monounsaturates, i.e.

Manifesto for a New Medicine: Your Guide to Healing Partnerships and the Wise Use of Alternative Therapies James S. Gordon, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

One of the few studies published, which was done in Japan some years ago, did show that several weeks of fasting—on water or fruit and vegetable juices—was generally helpful for chronic illness. This was true whether the condition was asthma or chronic pain, cardiovascular disease or a bad back. Interestingly, many of the beneficial effects lasted long after the period of fasting ended. Fasts on single foods, or "mono fasts," are helpful for specific conditions. So far as I know, none has received the kind of investigation it deserves.

Love, Medicine and Miracles: Lessons Learned About Self-Healing from a Surgeon's Experience with Exceptional Patients Bernie S. Siegel, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

This automatically increases one's intake of the following five nutrients known to have a protective effect against cancer: beta carotene (a vegetable precursor of vitamin A), vitamin C, vitamin E, selenium, and dietary fiber. 3. Consume salt-cured and charcoal-broiled foods only in moderation (or not at all). 4. Drink alcoholic beverages only in moderation (or not at all). In addition, the Pritikin-type regimen eliminates from the diet: 1. Nearly all salt except that found in food itself. 2. All stimulants like coffee and tea. 3. All refined sugar and flour. 4. Hydrogenated fats. 5.

Do We Still Need Doctors?: A Physician's Personal Account of Practicing Medicine Today John D. Lantos, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Under what category of the Dead could you subpoena, prosecute, and sentence a baby with only vegetable functions who died no sooner than he was born? Only a few hours on this earth, spent in crying, tongue fluttering in his stretched, pearly-red mouth, wouldn't any judge consider that insufficient evidence? (pp. 30—31) Bird initially decides against treatment, motivated mostly by his fears of what caring for the baby will mean for his own life. "I must forbid them to operate," Bird thinks, "otherwise the baby will march into my world like an occupying army.

The Doctors Book of Home Remedies II: Over 1,200 New Doctor-Tested Tips and Techniques Anyone Can Use to Heal Hundreds of Everyday Health Problems the Editors of PREVENTION See book keywords and concepts

In the top of a double boiler, mix 2 cups of dried leaves with 4 cups of olive, sunflower, or other good-quality vegetable oil so that the herbs are completely covered. Add water to the bottom of the double boiler and bring to a boil. Place the herb mixture over the boiling water and simmer gently for 1 to 2 hours on low heat. (Or you can use a slow cooker set on low.) Check the oil frequently, and reduce the heat if it bubbles. If it begins to smoke, start over. Remove the pan from the heat and let the mixture cool. The oil will be dark green when it's ready.

Prevention's New Foods for Healing: Capture the Powerful Cures of More Than 100 Common Foods Prevention Magazine See book keywords and concepts

You can use it with meats, soups, vegetable dishes, and even desserts. There are two main types of tofu, firm and soft. Which one you buy depends on how you're going to use it. • Firm tofu has had much of the water removed, giving it a solid consistency. It's usually used when you want the tofu to keep its shape, as in recipes for stir-fries, casseroles, or mock meatballs. • Soft (also called silken) tofu contains more water than the firm variety, giving it a soft, creamy texture. It's usually used for making dips, salad dressings, and desserts.

Conscious Eating Gabriel Cousens, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Roll and cut into one-inch pieces. SEA vegetable SOUPS Sea Veggie Miso Soup Balances V, neutral for K, unbalances P All Seasons 1 handful dulse, alaria, kelp, or nori (or a mixture), soaked 1 tsp fresh ginger Vi tsp mellow miso 1V2 cups water, heated to 1150 F Dissolve the miso in a quarter-cup of the heated water and mix back in. Stir in the sea veggies and ginger. Serve. Remarks: Excellent for building digestive fire.

Dummus Nori Roll Balances K, P, and V All Seasons 1 sheet raw nori 3 Tbs dummus (see Sea vegetable Recipes: Dips, Light Bites, and Seasonings) Vi avocado, sliced Vi tomato, chopped 1 handful sunflower sprouts Spread the dummus on the nori. Add avocado, tomato, and sprouts. Roll and cut into one-inch pieces.

Alaria (essentially identical to the Japanese wakame) and kelp are extremely high in calcium. All of the sea vegetables seem to be high in potassium, with kelp being the highest, followed by dulse and alaria. Alaria and kelp are high in magnesium, each having three times the FDA per 100 grams. Kelp and alaria have very high amounts of iodine. One hundred grams of kelp has approximately ten times the estimated RDA. One hundred grams of alaria and nori have approximately 8487 and 4266 iu of vitamin A per hundred grams.

Once foods containing oxalic acid are cooked, according to the dean of juice therapy and author of Raw vegetable Juices, Dr. Norman Walker, the oxalic acid becomes a dead and irritating substance to the system. He feels that in its cooked form it binds irreversibly with the calcium and prevents calcium absorption. An excess of cooked oxalic acid may also form oxalic acid crystals in the kidney. In the live organic form of oxalic acid, Dr. Walker claims oxalic acid stones and calcium blockage do not occur because the organic oxalic acid can be metabolized appropriately. According to Dr.

Prevention's New Foods for Healing: Capture the Powerful Cures of More Than 100 Common Foods Prevention Magazine See book keywords and concepts

Vitamin E, however, is found mainly in vegetable oils. To get more vitamin E in your diet without all the fat, Dr. Reilly recommends having several servings a day of nuts and seeds, which are high in vitamin E. An even better source of vitamin E is wheat germ. A Sweet Problem For women who frequently get yeast infections, sugary foods can be a real problem because yeast, it appears, likes sweets just as much as we do, Dr. Reilly says. Research has shown that women who eat a lot of honey, sugar, or molasses get more yeast infections than women who eat less.

Doctor, what Should I Eat?: Nutrition Prescriptions for Ailments in Which Diet Can Really Make a Difference Isadore Rosenfeld, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Do not drink commercially softened water, which may be rich in salt (check the label), and beware of the salt content in some brands of tomato juice and vegetable juice. (Juice made from fresh tomatoes in a blender, however, contains only a trace of natural salt. Prepare your Virgin Mary with low-salt tomato juice and use only those brands of Worcestershire sauce that have no sodium.) The table on page 247 lists the most popular drinks and their sodium content. Look at the tremendous variation among them!

For example, a vegetable serving consists of only half a cup. A serving of fruit is one piece—one apple or one orange (but not just one strawberry), and only half a banana. Aside from all the tables and charts, and dos and don'ts, there's an art to eating heart-healthy—a way of hfe, a frame of mind, a pattern of behavior, that can and should become ingrained. I see it all the time in some friends, and, I am happy to say, among my own children. Even if you are an incurable "snacker," you can do so to your heart's content (accidental pun!

The possible impact of too much polyunsaturated vegetable oil on the development of cancer is still unresolved. Once the polyunsaturated fat is rendered solid by the process of hydrogenation (which is what happens to most margarine and peanut butter), producing the so-called trans-fatty acids, you should either avoid it or use it very sparingly because it is bad for the arteries. Again, examine the label on the container (look for the word hydrogenated) and buy only those brands that are soft or the tub variety.

Remember that there are three kinds of fat—polyunsaturated fat (present in vegetable oils), monounsaturated fats such as olive oil and canola oil (avocados and prepared mustards are also good sources), and saturated fat, present in animal and dairy products. Saturated fat is the least desirable because it promotes hardening of the arteries, especially in diabetics. I suggest you limit its intake to 7 percent of total calories consumed, but you may have up to 10 percent of calories from polyunsaturated sources.

The Doctors Book of Home Remedies II: Over 1,200 New Doctor-Tested Tips and Techniques Anyone Can Use to Heal Hundreds of Everyday Health Problems the Editors of PREVENTION See book keywords and concepts

Mix 3 parts vegetable oil with 1 part tea tree oil. Comfrey Saturate a bandage with oil and tape it over the blister. Whitney Miller, N.D., a naturopathic doctor who has a family practice in New London and Colchester, Connecticut, favors a comfrey dressing because this powerful herb is known to speed wound healing. Change the dressing as often as your level of activity requires. Bloodshot Eyes v/ity smog, smoke, dust, allergies, infections, sun, wind, lack of sleep—there are probably more potential sources of eye irritation in the world today than you can count.

Doctor, what Should I Eat?: Nutrition Prescriptions for Ailments in Which Diet Can Really Make a Difference Isadore Rosenfeld, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

These fatty acids are present only in meat, dairy products, and some vegetable oils. Finally, in an attempt to understand why the incidence of prostate cancer is so much lower in Japan than in the Western world, researchers have been studying various components of the Japanese diet in great detail. Their findings to date suggest that a substance (genisten) present in soybeans, soy meal, and tofu, all of which are consumed in large amounts in Japan, may protect against this malignancy. Genisten has estrogenlike properties that may inhibit the growth of prostatic cancer early in its development.

Intelligent Medicine: A Guide to Optimizing Health and Preventing Illness for the Baby-Boomer Generation Ronald L. Hoffman, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Drink three to eight glasses of spring water, diluted vegetable broth or juice, miso broth, herbal teas, carrot juice, or watermelon juice throughout the day. If you find you are thirsty, drink more. Work or light exercise is fine, but don't undertake strenuous activity. Soak some dried fruit overnight in water or apple juice for your breakfast the next day. This is very easy food for the body to digest, and it contains pectin and vitamins.

Earth Right H. Patricia Hynes See book keywords and concepts

A carpenter whose sole garden space is flower boxes on the wall of his lower Beacon Hill, Boston shop described for me his system of composting to make soil for his vegetable and flower garden and grape vines: Last year I started composting in a large, plastic, household-size trash can—indoors, since I have no yard. Everything trimmed from the garden or left over from the kitchen goes in. Sawdust from the shop (but not plywood, because of the glues) gets added when the mixture gets too liquid or stinky, this regulates it amazingly. It gets turned to mix, otherwise it requires no attention.

A mix of one part lemon to two parts vegetable or olive oil makes a furniture polish, for example. Similar ecological "recipes" for house products, including oven cleaner, window washer, drain cleaner, and all-purpose cleaners, have been developed by environmental groups. The Resources section contains a list of agencies and organizations with information on non-hazardous substitutes for hazardous household products and proper methods of disposal and recycling. WHAT YOU CAN DO Protect Your Private Wells.

Flower and vegetable gardens are designed at the edges and borders as a frame for the centerpiece lawn. If this is true, writes Warren Schultz of Rodale Press in Chemical-Free Lawn, then we should think of and understand our lawn, with its varieties of grasses, insects, weeds and diseases, as we do our gardens. Herbicides kill weeds but also some lawn grasses. Herbicides and other pesticides kill beneficial earthworms, spiders, and mites, which help control weeds, bugs, and fungi. Water-soluble nitrogen fertilizer can end up feeding weeds more than grass.

Miracle Cures: Dramatic New Scientific Discoveries Revealing the Healing Powers of Herbs, Vitamins, and Other Natural Remedies Jean Carper See book keywords and concepts

Kudzu is a tenacious traveling vine of the legume family that spreads so quickly, especially in warm climates, including the southern part of the United States, that poet James Dickey called it "a vegetable form of cancer." Its starchy root tubers have been used as a medication in China since 200 b.c. It has a special reputation for combating drunkenness, as noted in the Chinese Pharmacopeia of a.d. 600. What's the Evidence?

Earth Right H. Patricia Hynes See book keywords and concepts

My mother buries her nonmeat kitchen scraps in 8-inch deep holes in her backyard vegetable garden, enough of a distance from her plants not to injure their roots. She reports that small, once-thin garden worms are now plump and long. I constructed simple, lightweight, portable compost containers from flexible wire fencing. They are 3 feet in diameter and stand 3 feet high. To aerate the heap, I lift off the wire frame, place it next to the original pile, and shovel the composting material back into it.

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