John Heinerman
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 A; has considerable potassium salts (about 2% in fresh or 75% in the dry plant); enough iron to equal any serving of raw or cooked spinach; and lesser amounts of calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, and sodium. Purslane also has a nice cross-section of several important trace elements, including boron, molybdenum, tin, and zinc.
The herb, when made into a tea, is good for all respiratory disorders and skin afflictions. It also induces more vigorous contractions of the heart in cases of low blood pressure (hypotension). For urinary tract disorders, it has often proven very useful. |
Dr. Cass Ingram
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 A) — eat a pound per week.
• cranberry (either concentrate or extract) — use as much as possible.
• parsley — chew on a bunch daily; or, make parsley juice and drink a cup daily.
Things to avoid
• caffeine, alcohol, chocolate
• refined sugar and all sweets
• calcium supplements made from oyster shell, calcium carbonate, dolomite, or bone meal
Killer bees (see also Bee stings)
A laboratory freak, killer bees are the scientist's worst nightmare. Now they have become a public menace of enormous proportions. |
Rebecca Wood
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 A.
Use Green or immature wild ground cherries may be toxic. Use only those that are yellow or yellow-orange and have a fresh-looking husk. Remove the husk just prior to eating, or, if you are using the fruit as a garnish, pull back the husk and leave it intact. Ground cherries have a distinctive sweet, slightly acidic taste; they are used in jams, jellies, pies, tarts, sauces, and salsas.
See Nightshade Family.
Groundnut See Peanut.
GUAVA
(Psidium guayava)
The guava is a relative of cinnamon and feijoas and its fruit is grainy and pearlike in texture. |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
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 A, helps protect the tissue and mucous membrane health.
There are many other helpful nutrients needed during smoking and detox. First, we need to support the B vitamins that are more easily depleted in smokers, mainly thiamine (B,), pyridoxine (B6), and cobalamin (B12). The Bu may also help to decrease the cellular damage caused by tars and nicotine. Niacin (B3) helps in opening up the circulation that is constricted with nicotine. It also lowers cholesterol, which may reduce the risk of atherosclerosis. |
Dr. Cass Ingram
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| A eye drops — add one drop in involved eye twice daily.
• Flavin-C (as a source of crude natural vitamin C and bioflavonoids) — take 3 capsules twice daily.
Constipation
Constipation is a disease only of modern civilization. In this condition the colon fails to eliminate wastes efficiently. Symptoms include abdominal pain, bloating, gas, headaches, bad breath, and fatigue. When movements finally occur, the stool is usually hard and dark. A good definition is having less than a bowel movement per day. Extreme constipation is having less than a bowel movement per week. |
Committee on Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer, Assembly of Life Sciences National Research Council
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 A, vitamin C, and riboflavin, are lower in high risk regions of the Caspian littoral in Iran (Hormozdiari et al., 1975; Joint Iran-International Agency for Research on Cancer Study Group, 1977). |
Judith Wills
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 A retinol equivalent per 100 g, but a normal portion is about 2 g.
* If you want to know whether a particular food, which isn't listed here, contains a certain vitamin, the Food Charts at the back of the book list the significant vitamin content of about 400 foods.
* Many people use vitamin pill supplements—often in the belief that if enough is good, more is even better. Although this may sometimes be true for some people and of some of the vitamins and minerals, it is by no means always a good idea to take more than the RDI. Indeed, most vitamins and minerals can be toxic in excess. |
Ralph Golan, M.D.
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 A (best if it is micelized, which is the most absorbable form—available as Nutrisorb A by Interplexus of Kent, Washington) into fifteen to twenty drops of water or saline (see "Other Therapies"), either from a squeeze spray container or a medicine dropper. Sniff deep into nostrils/sinuses three times a day and swallow the residual that comes into your throat.
• Take N-acetylcysteine (up to 500 milligrams four or five times a day) to thin mucus. After one week, reduce dose to three times a day. |
| A (25,000 to 50,000 I.U. daily) and calcium (1,000 to 1,500 milligrams daily). (See Chapter Six for precautions.)
• Take molybdenum (500 micrograms twice a day), as a molybdenum deficiency may contribute to sulfite sensitivity. Intravenous injections of molybdenum are sometimes more effective. If you use molybdenum, also take copper (2 to 4 milligrams a day), but do not take at the same time as the molybdenum.
• Take hydrochloric acid with pepsin as directed.
INJECTABLE SUPPLEMENTS
• According to the work of Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
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| A. Other minerals, such as iodine, magnesium, and sodium, are also needed in increased amounts. For years, obstetricians were advising pregnant women to avoid sodium, but now they are suggesting that they use it as usual. For most women, some added salt is fine, and they can eat foods that naturally contain sodium, such as celery, beets, red meats, cheese, eggs, and scallops. The craving that some women have for pickles, olives, or sauerkraut may be related to a need for sodium. |
Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 1Michael T. Murray, ND
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| A content is stored in the liver. It is stored as a lipoglycoprotein complex consisting of 96% retinyl esters and 4% un-esterified retinol. The retinyl esters are hydrolyzed by a tightly bound retinyl ester hydrolase which transfers the released all-trans retinol to intracellular retinol binding protein (RBP). The bound retinol is then processed through the Golgi apparatus and secreted into the plasma where it forms a reversible 1:1 molar complex with prealbumin.1,2
Table 121. |
| A. This may reflect carotene's superior antioxidant, immune potentiating activity, and anticarcinogenic activity.27
While there is no argument that a diet high in carotenes is protective against cancer, the big question is: "Can beta-carotene supplementation reduce the risk of cancer?" The answer appears to be that synthetic beta-carotene supplementation does not. Three highly publicized reports on cancer prevention trials featuring synthetic all-trans beta-carotene in high-risk groups have produced negative results. |
Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 2Michael T. Murray, ND
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| A, and 21.3 vs. 13.9mcg/dl for beta-carotene).17,18
Carotenes and retinols offer several types of protection. They improve the integrity and function of the epithelial tissues, provide antioxidant properties and enhance immune system function (see Ch. 53). As with other diseases, it appears that beta-carotene is more advantageous than retinoids, possibly due to greater antioxidant properties, immune-enhancing effects and its tendency to be concentrated in epithelial tissues. |
| A deficiency?)
• a marked tendency to lichenify in response to rubbing and scratching (membrane fragility?)
• a tendency of the skin to be heavily colonized by bacteria, especially coagulase-positive Staphylococcus aureus (immune dysfunction).2
Other aspects of possible significance are Dennie's sign (an accentuated double pleat below the margin of the lower eyelid) and a tendency towards vasoconstriction which can be provoked by physical pressure (also called white dermatographism). |
James S. Gordon, M.D.
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 A, is water soluble) and 200 micrograms of selenium with breakfast. Most people probably ought to add a B-complex vitamin (larger than "recommended" amounts of folic acid, B6, and B12 seem to help prevent heart disease) and a multimineral—with iron for women who are still menstruating, without it for postmenopausal women, and men— once a day with food.
If supplements have sometimes evoked strident debates, discussions of food allergy have on occasion provoked frenzies. |
Michael T. Murray, N.D., Joseph E. Pizzorno, N.D.
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 A equivalence (e.g., 50,000 IU twice per day with meals).
Selenium Selenium supplementation is an absolute necessity in the treatment of HIV-positive and AIDS patients. Levels of selenium-dependent glutathione peroxidase (GSH-PX), an important antioxidant enzyme, are usually found to be quite low in HIV patients, and even lower in AIDS patients. Selenium supplementation significantly increases GSH-PX activity in HIV-positive subjects. |
Committee on Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer, Assembly of Life Sciences National Research Council
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| A in the body), rather than by the vitamin itself. Their report suggests that, when examining naturally occurring compounds in foods, we should not limit our attention to those already identified as having a nutritional role.
Until fairly recently, fiber was also overlooked as a possible protective factor in carcinogenesis. For many years, fiber was regarded as a collection of inert substances in foods, even though it was known to be present in relatively large amounts, compared to vitamins and minerals. |
Dr. Cass Ingram
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| A eye drops — for dry or exposed eyes
• BromaZyme — take 2 or 3 capsules three times daily on an empty stomach.
Bite wounds
At some point fully half of all North Americans will be bitten by some type of animal or another person. Such wounds may induce great physical and emotional trauma but also readily become infected. Certain infections are life threatening, notably tetanus and rabies. However, the latter can be prevented if the bite is treated immediately with antiseptic compounds and/or immunizations. |
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