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This Element serves as a welcome to the Cambridge Elements Genetics
in Epilepsy series. The series editors look forward to sharing with
you the story of epilepsy genetics through a series of Elements.
They will bring together many voices, by text as well as video, to
illustrate the history of epilepsy genetics, the many on-going
efforts in the field, and how they hope to address the still
unanswered questions that command the attention of all of us and
our colleagues across the globe.
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find
it. Samuel Johnson The Internet Guide to Herbal Remedies helps you
find reliable online resources for the information you need about
herbs used to treat a variety of medical conditions, including
cancer, heart disease, depression, and AIDS. This easy-to-use
consumer guide will help you steer clear of misleadingand
potentially harmfulinformation that often amounts to nothing more
than a thinly veiled product advertisement, as you search for the
accurate and up-to-date news, facts, and advice that are out
thereif you know where to look. Author David J. Owen, whose
previous book, The Herbal Internet Companion: Herbs and Herbal
Medicine Online (Haworth) won the 2002 International Herb
Association Book Award, guides you through Web sites, mailing
lists, listservs, newsgroups, and databases to uncover safe and
sound health information that's aimed at specific conditions and
specific populations; there's even a chapter on herbs for pets!
You'll find the information you need on the safety and
effectiveness of herbal remedies, current laws and regulations
governing their use, and the basics of botany, including how herbs
are named and what parts of the plants are used. Internet Guide to
Herbal Remedies provides the information you need on: decoding
herbal product labels general and CAM Web sites PubMed (MEDLINE)
Google versus PubMed Web sites that discuss side effects and
herb-drug interactions consumer awareness Web sites Web sites for
specific diseases and conditions Web sites for specific populations
Web addresses, browsers, and navigating Web sites and much more!
Internet Guide to Herbal Remedies also includes helpful tables,
figures, and screen captures from Web sites. This book is essential
for anyone looking for safe and reliable information online.
"This comprehensive, accessible, full-color guide includes plant
profiles, step-by-step instructions for essential herbal remedies
and seasonal foraging tips." --Natural Awakenings Chicago In
Midwest Medicinal Plants, Lisa Rose is your trusted guide to
finding, identifying, harvesting, and using 120 of the region's
most powerful wild plants. You'll learn how to safely and ethically
forage and how to use wild plants in herbal medicines including
teas, tinctures, and salves. Plant profiles include clear, color
photographs, identification tips, medicinal uses and herbal
preparations, and harvesting suggestions. Lists of what to forage
for each season makes the guide useful year-round. Thorough,
comprehensive, and safe, this is a must-have for foragers,
naturalists, and herbalists in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,
Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South
Dakota, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
In Farmacology, practicing family physician and renowned nutrition
explorer Daphne Miller brings us beyond the simple concept of food
as medicine and introduces us to the critical idea that it's the
farm where that food is grown that offers us the real medicine.By
venturing out of her clinic and spending time on seven family
farms, Miller uncovers all the aspects of farming--from seed choice
to soil management--that have a direct and powerful impact on our
health. Bridging the traditional divide between agriculture and
medicine, Miller shares lessons learned from inspiring farmers and
biomedical researchers and artfully weaves their insights and
discoveries, along with stories from her patients, into the
narrative. The result is a compelling new vision for sustainable
healing and a treasure trove of farm-to-body lessons that have
immense value in our daily lives.In Farmacology you will meet: a
vegetable farmer in Washington State who shows us how the
principles he uses to rejuvenate his soil apply just as well to our
own bodies. Here we also discover the direct links between healthy
soil and healthy humans. a beef farmer in Missouri who shows how a
holistic cattle-grazing method can grow resilient calves and
resilient children. an egg farmer in Arkansas who introduces us to
the counterintuitive idea that stress can keep us productive and
healthy. We discover why the stressors associated with a
pasture-based farming system are beneficial to animals and humans
while the duress of factory farming can make us ill. a vintner in
Sonoma, California, who reveals the principles of Integrated Pest
Management and helps us understand how this gentler approach to
controlling unwanted bugs and weeds might be used to treat invasive
cancers in humans. a farmer in the Bronx who shows us how a network
of gardens offers health benefits that extend far beyond the
nutrient value of the fruits and vegetables grown in the raised
beds. For example, did you know that urban farming can lower the
incidence of alcoholism and crime? finally, an aromatic herb farmer
in Washington State who teaches us about the secret chemical
messages we exchange with plants--messages that can affect our mood
and even keep us looking youthful.In each chapter, Farmacology
reveals the surprising ways that the ecology of our body and the
ecology of our farms are intimately linked. This is a
paradigm-changing adventure that has huge implications for our
personal health and the health of the planet.
The increasing prevalence of diabetes mellitus world-wide is an
issue of major socio-economic concern. Scientific interest in
plant-derived medicine is steadily rising, yet there is often a
wide disparity in the caliber of information available. A detailed
compilation of scientific information from across the globe,
Traditional Medicines for Modern Times: Antidiabetic Plants
highlights the potential role of dietary and medicinal plant
materials in the prevention, treatment, and control of diabetes and
its complications. The book not only describes plants traditionally
used to treat diabetes, but evaluates the scientific studies on
these plants and describes in vitro, in vivo, and clinical methods
for their investigation. It examines the theory that changes in
dietary patterns from traditional plant foodstuffs containing
beneficial components, to richer, more processed "junk" food is
responsible for the increased prevalence of diabetes worldwide. The
book begins with an introduction to the disease diabetes mellitus
written by a consultant physician and an up-to-date, detailed
summary table and discussion of scientifically screened
antidiabetic plants compiled by authors from the Jodrell
Laboratories, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. The next chapters
provide an outline of clinical, in vivo, and in vitro methods for
assessing antidiabetic activity of plant materials, followed by
descriptions of traditional plant remedies used in Asia, the
Americas, Africa, Europe, and Australia written by an international
group of authors active in antidiabetic plant research. The final
chapters emphasize the role of particular phytochemical groups in
the treatment or prevention of diabetes. By documentingboth
traditional and scientifically derived knowledge, Traditional
Medicines for Modern Times: Antidiabetic Plants brings us closer to
the translation of traditional knowledge into new methods for
treatment of this important disease.
A modern reference guide on the benefits of incorporating
traditional Chinese medicine into modern-day therapies! The Healing
Power of Chinese Herbs and Medicinal Recipes is an easy-to-follow
introduction to the history of traditional Chinese phytomedicine.
This useful guide clearly explains the basics of this unique
medical system and describes in detail the therapeutic properties
and use of medicinal herbs and herbal recipes. The book includes a
bibliography, glossary, contact information for herbal dealers and
Oriental medicine schools, and an indexed list of 300 commonly used
Chinese medicinal herbs and 245 herbal recipes. In The Healing
Power of Chinese Herbs and Medicinal Recipes, you will find the
fundamentals, evolution, and development of the herbal formulas of
the 4,000-year-old Oriental Materia Medica, also known as ben cao.
The book contains 11 sections documenting the therapeutic
applications, dosages, precautions, and modern research findings of
138 of the most popular medicinal herbs. In addition, this resource
provides 101 of the most frequently prescribed master recipes by
famous ancient physicians, including their origin, ingredients,
actions, indications, and modern clinical uses. The Healing Power
of Chinese Herbs and Medicinal Recipes offers an in-depth education
on: tonic herbs herbs that adjust the yin and yang of the body
herbs that invigorate circulation of vital energy, qi, and blood
herbal tranquilizers herbal diaphoretics herbal expectorants,
antitussives, and antiasthmatics herbal pain killers herbs which
regulate digestion and elimination herbal diuretics herbal
antipyretics, antimicrobials, and detoxicants antitumor herbs The
Healing Power of Chinese Herbs and Medicinal Recipes provides
up-to-date information on the effectiveness of traditional Chinese
medicine, as well as how to use Chinese medicinal herbs in
conjunction with Western conventions. This comprehensive reference
will benefit healthcare practitioners who want to include Oriental
medicine in their practice, and anyone who is interested in Chinese
herbs or patients for whom conventional medicine has offered no
relief.
Plant-based medicines offer many healing possibilities for the
body, mind, and spirit. In this holistic guide, naturopath J. J.
Pursell provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to
medicinal plants, explaining how they work and how to use them
safely. Incorporating traditional wisdom and scientific
information, The Herbal Apothecary includes advice on growing and
foraging for healing plants and recommendations for plant-based
formulations to fight common ailments, like muscle strain, anxiety,
and insomnia. Step-by-step instructions show you how to make your
own teas, salves, capsules, tinctures, and other essential herbal
remedies. Whether you want to treat a wound or fight the common
cold, taking charge of your health and well-being begins here.
Know which botanical medicines are effective--and which to
avoid--in an instant Medicinal Herbs: A Compendium contains the
profiles of about 200 important and commonly used medicinal herbs.
This short, concise resource is translated, complete revised, and
updated from the German compendium "Arzneidrogenprofile" (2000) and
was largely edited by the late Varro E. Tyler before his death in
2001. With this guide, pharmacists and health practitioners will be
able to quickly find information on medicinal plants and directions
for their use.This compendium incorporates important botanicals
from both European pharmacognosy and the North American medicinal
herb market. Designed originally for pharmacists who need a
succinct, easy-to-use manual for every day use, Medicinal Herbs can
also benefit pharmacognosists, physicians specializing in natural
treatments, midwives, physiotherapists, herbalists, and students of
these disciplines. Included in the text are two tables for the
medicinal plants--an English-to-Latin binomial list and a Latin
binomial-to-English list--allowing readers who are not as familiar
with English to more easily find what they need.Each herb's profile
in Medicinal Herbs has its own page which lists: its English name
and Latin binomial the parts of the plant used for treatment areas
of applications--what ailments are indicated and how the herb is to
be used dosage for using herbal teas, tinctures, poultices, and
more instructions for the duration of application and when to
contact a medical practitioner comments on the use of the herb, its
efficiency and safety, and any traditions or folklore on that herb
contraindications--when not to use the herb adverse effects
interactionswith other drugs
Know which botanical medicines are effective--and which to
avoid--in an instant Medicinal Herbs: A Compendium contains the
profiles of about 200 important and commonly used medicinal herbs.
This short, concise resource is translated, complete revised, and
updated from the German compendium "Arzneidrogenprofile" (2000) and
was largely edited by the late Varro E. Tyler before his death in
2001. With this guide, pharmacists and health practitioners will be
able to quickly find information on medicinal plants and directions
for their use.This compendium incorporates important botanicals
from both European pharmacognosy and the North American medicinal
herb market. Designed originally for pharmacists who need a
succinct, easy-to-use manual for every day use, Medicinal Herbs can
also benefit pharmacognosists, physicians specializing in natural
treatments, midwives, physiotherapists, herbalists, and students of
these disciplines. Included in the text are two tables for the
medicinal plants--an English-to-Latin binomial list and a Latin
binomial-to-English list--allowing readers who are not as familiar
with English to more easily find what they need.Each herb's profile
in Medicinal Herbs has its own page which lists: its English name
and Latin binomial the parts of the plant used for treatment areas
of applications--what ailments are indicated and how the herb is to
be used dosage for using herbal teas, tinctures, poultices, and
more instructions for the duration of application and when to
contact a medical practitioner comments on the use of the herb, its
efficiency and safety, and any traditions or folklore on that herb
contraindications--when not to use the herb adverse effects
interactionswith other drugs
Best-selling author and popular herbalist Rosemary Gladstar is a
one-woman crusader for the benefits of apple cider vinegar
remedies, including the popular fire cider, made by infusing
vinegar with garlic, horseradish, onions, ginger, and other
immune-boosting herbs. She shares her recipes for making and using
fire cider along with favorite variations from 77 other herbalists.
From Fire Cider Dark Moonshine to Black Currant Fire Cider, Bloody
Mary Fire Cider, and Triple Goddess Vinegar, this collection
explores the wide range of possibilities for making healing tonics,
all with an apple cider vinegar base.
Discover A Life-Changing Detoxification and Rejuvenation
TherapyThis book has all the science and all the soul you'll need
to restore a sustainable sense of self-care in your life." -Joan
Borysenko, PhD, NY Times bestselling author of Minding the Body,
Mending the Mind Psychiatrist Judith E. Pentz, MD, travels to
Nagpur, India, to study 5000-year-old Ayurvedic Panchakarma
detoxification and rejuvenation therapy in a quest to provide
enhanced holistic wellness treatment for her patients. A change at
the cellular level. Part travel memoir and part spiritual guide,
Cleanse Your Body and Reveal Your Soul is one woman's
transformative quest with Ayurvedic Panchakarma (a fivefold
detoxification treatment involving massage, herbal therapy, and
other procedures) and the profound shifts that led to some
sustainable, substantial life changes. Dissatisfied with a
mainstream psychiatric practice, Dr. Pentz heads to India, where
she undergoes an ancient, rejuvenating cleanse. The tools and
practices of Panchakarma. Dr. Pentz's narrative offers a
compassionate and compelling path for Western audiences and the
Ayurveda-curious. Complete with healing oils, Ayurvedic daily
rituals, and yoga poses, she supplements her journey with tips
about preventive lifestyle changes that promote sustainable
well-being. Inside, find definitions, quizzes and wisdom, as well
as chapters like: Cellular Shift: the science behind Panchakarma
and cellular change Food As Medicine: tips about one of the central
tenets of Ayurveda, food is healing, and maintaining an Ayurvedic
diet The Dish on Doshas: facts that illuminate concepts around the
three doshas-vata, pitta, kapha-your constitutional and functional
intelligence If you have benefited from books like Ayurveda
Beginner's Guide, The Ayurvedic Self-Care Handbook, Body Thrive, or
Ayurveda and Panchakarma, then Cleanse Your Body and Reveal Your
Soul should be your next read.
NATIVE AMERICA / HERBALISM "The first in-depth analysis of the
processes used by Native Americans to communicate with the plant
world for the purposes of healing human illness. It is a work long
overdue by an author who himself 'talks' with plants as Native
Americans have always done." WILLIAM S. LYON, author of The
Encyclopedia of Native American Healing and Black Elk: The Sacred
Ways of a Lakota "Buhner articulates the sacred underpinnings of
the herbal world and deep ecology as only a real 'green man' can."
DAVID HOFFMANN, author of Medical Herbalism As humans evolved on
Earth they used plants for everything imaginable--food, weapons,
baskets, clothes, shelter, and medicine. Indigenous peoples the
world over have been able to gather knowledge of plant uses by
communicating directly with plants and honoring the sacred
relationship between themselves and the plant world. Because they
locate their consciousness in the heart, they are able to use the
intelligence of the heart to merge their consciousness with the
consciousness of any living organism. In Sacred Plant Medicine
Stephen Harrod Buhner looks at the long-standing relationship
between indigenous peoples and plants and examines the techniques
these cultures use to communicate with the plant world. He explores
the sacred dimension of plant and human interactions--a territory
where humans experience communications from plants as expressions
of Spirit. For each healing plant described in the book, he
presents medicinal uses, preparatory guidelines, and ceremonial
elements such as prayers and medicine songs associated with the use
of the plant. STEPHEN HARROD BUHNER is an Earth Poet and senior
researcher for the Foundation for GaianStudies. He lectures
throughout the United States on herbal medicine, the sacredness of
plants, and the intelligence of nature. He is the author of nine
works of nonfiction and one book of poetry, including The Secret
Teachings of Plants and the award-winning The Lost Language of
Plants.
Oncological Functional Nutrition: Phytochemicals and Medicinal
Plants presents the anticancer activities, metabolism, mechanism of
action, doses, and sources of various phytochemicals and medicinal
plants. Broken into five parts, this book addresses cancer
epidemiology, molecular and therapeutic bases of cancer, macro and
micronutrients in cancer prevention and treatment, phytochemicals
in the cancer treatment, and medical plants as potential functional
foods or resources for the obtention of metabolites with anticancer
activity. Written for nutritionists, food scientists, health
professionals, oncologists, endocrinologists, natural product
chemists, ethnobotanists, chemists, pharmacists, biochemists, and
students studying relating fields, Oncological Functional
Nutrition: Phytochemicals and Medicinal Plants will be a useful
reference for those interested in learning more about functional
nutrition and cancer.
Cannabidiol (CBD) oil is quickly becoming one of the biggest trends
in beauty and wellness, as top athletes, celebrities and doctors
embrace its anti-anxiety, antioxidant and pain-relieving
properties. A powerful anti-inflammatory agent, this
non-psychoactive compound of the cannabis plant can benefit the
body and skin in myriad ways. Using the latest science and drawing
from the knowledge of leaders in the health and wellness world,
this book is a one-stop lifestyle resource for all things CBD,
including how to pick a high-quality product and what you need to
know before you take CBD for the first time. Thirty appealing
recipes-from CBD-infused popcorn to ginger tonics to
chocolates-help readers incorporate CBD into their daily routine.
Recipes include: * CBD-Infused After Dinner Drink *
Skin-Brightening Probiotic Face Mask * Adaptogenic Hot Chocolate
When the train comes to a stop a new adventure would begin. Sun was
returning to their grandparents for another summer. Expectations
were high. They wanted to explore how the channels and the
acupuncture points on them worked. Written in an accessible,
story-telling format in the context of a child, Sun, visiting their
grandparents and having lessons over afternoon tea, this book
targets practitioners looking to go beyond the foundations to
acquire a deeper understanding of Chinese medicine theory,
philosophy, and concepts. This is the second book in the series and
focuses on distal needling techniques and Unified Acupuncture
Theory as well as Dr Richard Tan's Balance Method, Master Tung
acupuncture and Japanese Manaka acupuncture styles. Along with an
overview of the theoretical basis for holography, it also presents
a logical explanation of the channel interaction systems and covers
how they can be applied in practice.
Within the holistic framework of the Daoist way, Ronald H. Davis
provides a comprehensive and straightforward guide to the
principles and practice of actively living in harmony with the
seasonal energetic changes throughout the year. The program focuses
on the importance of Qigong, meditation, and diet to support good
mental and physical health. The author includes clear explanations
of the theory underlying this approach to a healthy life, including
the Five Phases of Change (Five Elements) of Chinese Medicine, the
body's Qi system of channels and reservoirs, and the concept of
chronobiology. For each season he provides a Qigong specific for
the season, meditations, herbal information, and dietary
recommendations with simple recipes to support the functions of the
organ in focus in that season. This accessible program of Qigong
for the seasons will be of interest to anyone seeking a healthy
life, students of Qigong at any level, and the seasonal emphasis
makes this an excellent quick reference for Qigong teachers.
Inflammation and Natural Products brings together research in the
area of the natural products and their anti-inflammatory action in
medical, nutraceutical and food products, addressing specific
chronic inflammatory diseases like cancer and the mechanistic
aspects of the mode of action of some key natural products.
Inflammation is a complicated process, driven by infection or
injury or genetic changes, which results in triggering signalling
cascades, activation of transcription factors, gene expression,
increased levels of inflammatory enzymes, and release of various
oxidants and pro-inflammatory molecules in inflammatory cells.
Excessive oxidants and inflammatory mediators have a harmful effect
on normal tissue, including toxicity, loss of barrier function,
abnormal cell proliferation, inhibiting normal function of tissues
and organs and finally leading to systemic disorders. The emerging
development of natural product formulations utilizing the unique
anti-inflammatory compounds such as polyphenols, polysaccharides,
terpenes, fatty acids, proteins and several other bioactive
components has shown notable successes. Inflammation and Natural
Products: Recent Development and Current Status provides a
comprehensive resource, ranging from detailed explanation on
inflammation to molecular docking strategies for naturally
occurring compounds with anti-inflammatory activity. It is useful
for graduate students, academic and professionals in the fields of
pharmaceutical and medical sciences and specialists from natural
product-related industries.
This 23rd volume of the Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine
series aims to provide a multi-faceted 'whole evidence' analysis of
the management of Episodic Migraine in integrative Chinese
medicine.Beginning with overviews of how Episodic Migraine is
conceptualized and managed in both conventional medicine and
contemporary Chinese medicine, the authors then provide detailed
analyses of how Episodic Migraine were treated with herbal medicine
and acupuncture in past eras.In the subsequent chapters, the
authors comprehensively review the current state of the clinical
trial evidence for Chinese herbal medicines (Chapter 5),
acupuncture and other Chinese medicine therapies (Chapter 7), and
combination Chinese medicine therapies (Chapter 8) in the
management of Episodic Migraine, as well as analyse and evaluate
the results of these studies from an evidence-based medicine
perspective. In Chapter 6, the authors review and summarize
experimental evidence for the bioactivity of commonly used Chinese
herbs in Chapter 6. The outcomes of these analyses are summarised
and Chapter 1 Introduction to Migraine.This book can inform
clinicians and students in the fields of integrative medicine and
Chinese medicine regarding contemporary practice and the current
evidence base for a range of Chinese medicine therapies used in the
management of Episodic Migraine, including herbal formulas and
acupuncture treatments, in order to assist clinicians in making
evidence-based decisions in patient care.
Nora Franglen's straightforward, accessible guide introduces this
ancient Chinese system of medicine. She briefly covers its history
and explores the philosophy behind it, explaining how it can
benefit the reader personally by addressing specific health needs
and general well-being. Five element acupuncture treats the whole
person by accessing the natural energy channels each of us possess
and correcting the imbalances between our five elements to restore
both physical and mental wellbeing. With case studies of patients
throughout, the guide provides immediate insight into how an
acupuncturist diagnoses and treats patients, looking at the
importance of each of the five elements in turn, and how they
relate to each other. This deceptively simple guide will help
anyone interested in learning about the benefits and traditions of
five element acupuncture, five element theory or Chinese medicine
in general. It will be of particular interest to students as well
as a great resource for practitioners to recommend to patients.
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