Jean Carper
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 One problem plaguing scientists was that vitamin A levels in blood didn't consistently link up with cancer rates. But low blood levels of beta carotene do! It appears that the less beta carotene flowing through your veins, the greater your susceptibility to lung cancer. A 1987 landmark study by the late Marilyn Menkes, Ph. D., of the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, laid out a grim connection between low beta carotene in the blood and the appearance of lung cancer nine years later. |
Dian Dincin Buchman, Ph.D.
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 Flaxseed intake should be balanced with vitamin E intake to offset the formation of free radicals.
RINGWORM Water Therapy
During ringworm outbreaks take particular care to wash and disinfect the hands throughout the day. Also wash children's clothes every day.
Each day during an outbreak liberally apply tea tree oil diluted with distilled water to the ring-shaped rash until the rash disappears. To use this impressive disinfectant and antifungal Australian herb, combine 8 drops of the oil and 2 glasses of water (preferably distilled water). Apply with a disposable cotton swab or cloth. |
Michael Talbot
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 Many drugs are effective whether we believe in them or not: vitamin C gets rid of scurvy, and insulin makes diabetics better even when they are skeptical. But still the issue is not quite as clear-cut as it may seem. Consider the following.
In a 1962 experiment Drs. Harriet Linton and Robert Langs told test subjects they were going to participate in a study of the effects of LSD, but then gave them a placebo instead. |
Nontoxic, Natural and EarthwiseDebra Lynn Dadd
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| Gardens Alive . . . vitamin D rat and mouse bait.
Stick-Em Rat 6k Mouse Glue Traps (J. T. Eaton Company).
Termiticides_
Harmful materials: pesticides.
The two questions regarding pesticides that I am most often asked have to do with termite treatments—how toxic are they, and what can be done for nonchemi-cal treatment?
Termites play an essential role in nature by helping to clear the forest of dead trees. |
Dian Dincin Buchman, Ph.D.
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| An old English country remedy to control painful periods consists of eating vitamin A-rich grated carrot with lemon juice and olive oil. The problem with dysmenorrhea may indicate a calcarea fluor. deficiency, which can be overcome with a daily intake of 4 calcarea fluor. cell salts (tissue salts) tablets dissolved under the tongue. If this is not available, prevent cramps by taking 1 or 2 calcium tablets every hour. Several herbal essential oils are pain-easing and restorative as well. |
Richard Leviton
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 When at last Newsweek abandons fustian for details, it excoriates a "self-appointed therapist-herbalist" for charging an $80 fee; it chastises a nonagenarian healer because he once had his medical license revoked for two months; it provisionally exempts vitamin supplements, acupuncture, and macrobiotics from the Grand Inquisitor's pyre only because they are "basically harmless. |
| The implicit goal in either case was to position all economic competitors to conventional medicine—chiropractic, acupuncture, homeopathy, naturopathy, vitamin therapy, cell therapy—as "quacks." The priority targets, Lisa explains, do not use standard pharmaceutical drugs in their practice, which makes them direct economic competition to conventional medicine, which prefers to dominate the market. |
| Consider the seventeen-year controversy over the comparative therapeutic efficacy of megadoses of vitamin C for cancer, proposed in the early 1970s by Nobel laureate Linus Pauling and Ewan Cameron, a Scottish surgeon, and interferon, the synthetic anticancer drug (made from recombinant DNA) forwarded by the allopathic-pharmaceutical interests. |
| Allopathic clinical trials to adjudicate the possible efficacy of vitamin C, a holistic-empiric remedy are inherently at odds, a function of "socioeconomic and political structuring of professional judgments." As a result, "we must expect, as recent sociology of scientific knowledge suggests, that clinical trials, no matter how rigorous their methodology, will inevitably embody the values or commitments of the assessors, and that they will not provide definitive answers. |
Nontoxic, Natural and EarthwiseDebra Lynn Dadd
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| With aspartame now being used in every food product from breakfast cereals to vitamin pills, it's easy to ingest too much.
More diseases have been linked to eating sugar (sucrose) than to any other aspect of nutrition. One of the most important characteristics of sugar to consider is that as a simple carbohydrate it cannot be digested, assimilated, or utilized by the body without the help of other nutrients that must be provided from somewhere else. |
Richard Leviton
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| It has been known since as the notorious "B vitamin Bust." Within 24 hours of this day of infamy in Tacoma, the White House received 2,000 faxes protesting the outrageous raid; eventually, that number swelled to 20,000.
In late 1995, Dr. Wright was exonerated of all charges, his inventory returned by the FDA, and he remains in business. Other well-regarded physicians in New York, North Carolina, Texas, and elsewhere have similarly been harassed, attacked, invaded, subpoenaed, or even indicted for practicing alternative medicine. |
Nontoxic, Natural and EarthwiseDebra Lynn Dadd
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| Hives are treated with vitamin C instead of antibiotics. Schoon-maker/Lynn Enterprises.
Eden Foods Barley Malt Syrup (Eden Foods). Gold Mine Natural Food Company.
Eden Foods Organic Amazake (Eden Foods). Sweetenet made from organic brown rice. Gold Mine Natural Food Company.
Eden Foods Organic Sorghum Molasses (Eden Foods).
Erwin's Bee Farm. Oregon wildflower honey.
Fiddler's Green Farm. Raspberry honey.
Jack's Honeys (Jack's Honey Bee Products). |
Mark Blumenthal
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EPO and fish oil combination appears to alter prostaglandin metabolism in patients with PsA though this study failed to prove that it could substitute for NSAID therapy. All measures of skin disease activity were unaffected by treatment and did not allow reduction in NSAID requirement. Authors conclude that the study did demonstrate metabolic effects on prostanoid and leukotriene metabolism, suggesting that larger doses might produce a clinical response. |
Nontoxic, Natural and EarthwiseDebra Lynn Dadd
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| HOMEMADE ALTERNATIVES
• Use plain sesame oil, which screens about 30 percent of the sun's ultraviolet rays in addition to softening the skin with natural vitamin E.
• Use cocoa butter.
• Use a mixture of olive oil and cider vinegar.
• Boil three quarters cup of pure water and brew strong tea with three black-tea bags. Put one quarter cup tea into a blender with one quarter cup lanolin and one quarter cup sesame oil. Blend at low speed. Add remaining tea steadily.
At the Store/By Mail
Natural suntan lotions are sold at natural-food stores. |
| Contain 50 percent olive oil and vitamin E. EJ ® Earth Herbs.
Jaffe Brothers. Jaybee liquid soap, made from potassium solution and coconut, olive, and peppermint oils. Can also be used as a shampoo.
Kiss My Face Soaps (Kiss My Face). Olive, olive and aloe, and olive and herbal. Q Wi Amberwood, Carole's Cosmetics, Ecco Bella, The Ecology Box, Eco-Choice, EveryBody Ltd., Janice Corp., Kiss My Face, My Brother's Keeper.
KSA Jojoba. Jojoba glycerine soap in liquid or bar. Also jojoba liquid soap without glycerin. El [§1
Livos Lavenos—Hand Soap (Livos). Made from pure plant ingredients. ? |
Bill Gottlieb
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 Whitaker also recommends cauliflower, soybeans, peanuts, walnuts and lentils, which are all rich in bio tin, a B vitamin that he says can prevent the splitting and cracking that are associated with brittle nails. (For other food sources of biotin, see "Getting What You Need" on page 142.)
Homeopathy
Take one of the following remedies in a 6C dose three times a day until improvement is noted, says Chris Meletis, N.D., a naturopathic physician and med-icinary director at the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, Oregon. |
| Juice Therapy
Many people with intestinal problems are deficient in vitamin K, found in dark green lettuce and cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli and kale, says Cherie Cdbom, M.S., a certified nutritionist in Kirkland, Washington, and coauthor ofJuicing for Life. She dso advises those with diverticular disease to load up on beta-carotene, which is believed to help heal damaged intestinal tissue.
Juice blends such as Calbom's Alkdine Cocktail provide a healthy dose of both nutrients. To prepare, says Calbom, juice three carrots, three celery ribs and one-fourth of a head of cabbage. |
| It would be impossible to get that much vitamin E from foods alone." lilll
The Mighty Minerals
While antioxidants get most of the headlines, they're not the only super supplements. "There is a lot of exciting research being done with minerals right now," says Dr. Anderson. And as with antioxidants, it seems that big benefits come in dosages you can't normally get through foods alone.
"One thing I've been working on is chromium, a trace mineral that has been shown to reduce risk factors for diabetes and cardiovascular disease in some people," he says. |
| For other food sources of vitamin C, see "Getting What You Need" on page 142.)
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Reflexology
Work the adrenal gland, colon and liver reflex points on the hands or feet, says St. Petersburg, Florida, reflexologist Dwight Byers, author of Better Health with Foot Reflexology.
To help you locate these points, consult the hand and foot reflex charts beginning on page 582. For instructions on how to work the points, see "Your Reflexology Session" on page 110.
Phobias
It started off small enough: You got stung by a bee while pruning the petunias. |
Nontoxic, Natural and EarthwiseDebra Lynn Dadd
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| It is a very good source of protein, rich in vitamin E, and is a good blood-building food. Dark buckwheat flour, which contains more of the hull than the light variety, also has the amino acid lysine. Kasha (roasted buckwheat groats) is a traditional dish of eastern European countries.
Job's tears. An Asian staple, this is also one of the few nonhybridized grains available today.
Millet. One of the oldest foods, millet is commonly used in China, Aftica, and India. |
John Robbins
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 Although high doses of vitamin A over short periods of time can be extremely helpful when poorly fed children get measles, it remains the case that many times the children's malnourished immune systems simply can't handle the infections, and permanent brain damage, if not death, results.
In such situations, vaccines are unquestionably a great blessing, but I do not believe they are a panacea. To vaccinate underfed people who are living in overcrowded squalor and poverty may save them from the particular disease involved, but they will remain susceptible to a host of other problems. |
Gary Null
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 Creams and oils on the breast are not encouraged for nipple soreness; vitamin E toxicity could be a concern because of liberal applications, and pesticide residues are a concern in sheep-fat-derived lanolin.
Engorgement may be experienced by newly breast-feeding mothers but is almost always indicative of inappropriate or infrequent suckling.
The let-down process is not a singular event, but occurs continually during suckling.
The human nipple is different from artificial nipples: it can stretch two to three times its nonsuckled length. |
Cynthia A. Foster, M.D.
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 Does taking vitamin A made out of toxic, mercury-filled fish liver build new tissue? Do chemicals build new bones and muscles - how about heart or brain dssue? Will they regenerate new dssues like these? I think not! Medical doctors love to get a hold of these fad "natural products" and rip them apart, proving to their padents that they'd be better off in their office than they would be in the health food store. Nothing could be farther from the truth. |
| We think it must be some sort of vitamin, mineral or antioxidant deficiency. Many health product manufacturers have played on our gullibility in this area and have sold us a lot of hype. I have wasted much of my money and time searching for the magic bullet that would cure all my own ills.
Many of us read books, watch videos or listen to audiotapes about how to get healthier. |
| But the doctors still thought it was controversial to treat high cholesterol with niacin - a B vitamin, even though it was cheaper with less side effects than any other medication out there. Cayenne would have been out of the question. It was hot. People might complain.
Another patient, Mr. Smith, was admitted with a serious lung disease called pulmonary fibrosis, which is a condition in which the lungs gradually scar up over the years until the person can no longer breathe and suffocates to death. |
| You really should try this herb, this supplement, this IV vitamin therapy, this particular mineral, etc." Yes, even the "natural" advice would come. I tried not to get annoyed. I know everyone really just wanted to help in my dme of trouble, but there were too opinions to process all of them. I had to focus my mind. I had to trust my doctor inside and do the one thing I knew was right.
Even my parents didn't know what was going on undl I finally told them, years later. I had to be the only priority if I wanted to make it. |
| In fact, the one cholesterol-lowering medicadon I learned that did not cause too many harmful side effects was niacin, a B vitamin that stimulated circulation. Its cost was ridiculously low, and maybe this is one of the reasons it was rarely prescribed.
Not only were the meals atrociously prepared, irradiated (scientists know that radiation causes cancer) and chemically laden with pesticides, chemicals, hormones and artificial and refined ingredients, but the patients would pick at them because the food tasted so horrible. |
Richard Leviton
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| The U.S. vitamin and dietary supplement market was estimated in 1995 to be $4 billion a year, and was growing at the rate of 15% each year.
• Worldwide, sales of herbal medicines (called phytomedicines outside the U.S.) are equally booming, estimated at $12.4 billion for Europe, Japan, Asia, and North America. In Europe, sales of herbal medicines are allocated according to these categories: cardiovascular, 27.2%; digestive, 14.4%; respiratory, 15.3%, tonics, 14.4%; sedative, 9.3%; and others. |
John Robbins
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| In a maneuver eerily reminiscent of the vitamin C tests, patients would now be included who had previously received massive chemotherapy and radiation.56
Impartial scientists were horrified, saying the change seemed designed to produce a negative result. |
Dian Dincin Buchman, Ph.D.
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| General Therapy
Increase your calcium and vitamin C intake. Eat foods high in potassium.
ATROPHIED MUSCLES
Water Therapy
Apply alternate hot and cold compresses; direct alternate hot and cold showers to the atrophied muscles; or immerse the atrophied area in alternate hot and cold partial baths.
STIFF MUSCLES Water Therapy
Hot baths, especially when they contain a cup or two of Epsom salts, are a great defense against stiff muscles. |
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