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4 Herbs Everyone Should Have in their ‘Medicine’ Cabinet

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Naturalsociety, By: Elizabeth Renter, 10/28/2013

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There are perhaps hundreds, or at least dozens of medicinal foods and herbs that deserve a place in your kitchen’s herbal medicine cabinet. But for someone who is just getting their feet wet in the world of herbalism and natural healing, collecting numerous herbs can be overwhelming. For that reason, we’ve chosen 4 healing herbs to get you started—herbs that should be the cornerstones of every natural healer’s arsenal. From calming upset stomachs to killing cancer cells, these 4 herbs have been shown time and time again to provide incredible healing powers.

 

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4 Health Benefits of Rooibos Tea

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Naturalsociety.com, By: Elizabeth Renter, 10/25/2013

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For many novice tea drinkers, the selection of tea varieties can be overwhelming. While green tea seems to be the go-to, as we know it has numerous health benefits and is even considered a super-food by many, there are other superior teas worth looking into. One of them is the South African tea known as rooibos, or red bush tea.

 

Rooibos tea originated in South African and has only recently begun gaining popularity in other world regions. But this doesn’t mean the tea is new, hardly, as it’s been cultivated in Africa for centuries. Research into the health benefits of rooibos tea, which started in the early 1900s, only increased its popularity both in its homeland and abroad.

 

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Man Heals His Excruciating Pain With Cannabis After A Battery of Pharmaceuticals Failed

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Prevent Disease, By: Marco Torres, 10/24/2013

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A man with excruciating pains following multiple traumas was monitored, daily, over one year while managing chronic pain by self-administering quantifiable amounts of natural cannabis. Tetrahydro-cannabinol, Cannabidiol, and Cannabinol were all measured in tinctures, capsules, smoke-able product plus some baked goods, prior to their administration. By allowing standardization, the man was able to develop a daily regimen of pain management that was resistant to a battery of most patented analgesics.

 

More than 100 million people in the United States suffer from debilitating chronic pain. Pain resulting from a severe on-the-job injury is a frustrating experience both for the patient as well as the treating health practitioners and physicians. If pursuing conventional medical care, it leads to chronic dependence on opiate painkillers and anti-depressants which eventually cause toxicity of the brain and metabolic function. However the relief of pain may be less desired if quality of life of such individuals is poor. The physician and the patients are left with no option but to resort to alternative modes of therapy.

 

At Family’s Urging, Man’s Life Saved from Pneumonia Using High Dose Vitamin C

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Natural Society, By: Elizabeth Renter, 10/24/2013

Numerous studies have linked vitamin C to truly dramatic health benefits. One recent case study, made popular by a documentary, shows how vitamin C could be credited with saving a man’s life from pneumonia. It looks like this immune-boosting vitamin isn’t just effective against a sore throat or the sniffles.

 

Allan Smith contracted Swine Flu while on vacation in Fiji. When he returned home to New Zealand, the dairy farmer’s illness progressed to severe pneumonia, which left him comatose in the intensive care unit. His lungs were filled with fluids and the doctors told the family nothing more could be done. They suggested turning off the life support. Not easily convinced that their loved one was done living, the family looked into other treatment options. Allan’s brother argued a high dose of vitamin C could be the answer.

 

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Study Reveals How Turmeric Inhibits Pancreatic Cancer Cell Growth

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Natural Society, By: Elizabeth Renter, 10/24/2013

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Pancreatic cancer is one of the most deadly forms of cancer around. The National Cancer Institute estimates 45,220 new cases of pancreatic cancer will be diagnosed and 38,460 people will die of the disease in 2013. While treatment is often considered futile in this highly lethal form of cancer, a new study indicates a turmeric extract could provide a reasonable chemotherapy alternative.

 

Research published in the peer-reviewed medical journal Anticancer Research found liposomal curcumin was able to inhibit pancreatic cancer cell proliferation in vitro and when administered to mice three times a week for four weeks, it was able to suppress tumor growth when compared with control groups.

 

Vitamin D Proven More Effective Than Both Anti-Viral Drugs and Vaccines At Preventing The Flu

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Prevent Disease, Marco Torres, 10/22/2013

The risk of children suffering from flu can be reduced by 50% if they take vitamin D, doctors in Japan have found. The finding has implications for flu epidemics since vitamin D, which is naturally produced by the human body when exposed to direct sunlight, has no significant side effects, costs little and can be several times more effective than anti-viral drugs or vaccines according to research in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

 

Only one in ten children, aged six to 15 years, taking the sunshine vitamin in a clinical trial came down with flu compared with one in five given a dummy tablet. Mitsuyoshi Urashima, the Japanese doctor who led the trial, told The Times that vitamin D was more effective than vaccines in preventing flu.

 

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Ayahuasca, Alternative Medicine and the Amazon Rainforest

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By: Jonathon Miller-Weisberger, 10/17/2013

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We are beginning to understand why ayahuasca — yagé or “Grandmother Medicine” (a modern name that indicates respect) — is considered to be an entheogen, a substance that “reveals inner divinity.” This differs greatly from a hallucinogen or a psychedelic, in that visions and experiences under the influence of ayahuasca (as well as other known entheogens used in ceremonial context) can provide deep and meaningful — oftentimes uninhibited — insights into the nature of life, illness, and well-being, including revelations about the very fabric of existence itself. Experiences are seen and felt as “real,” as opposed to flat-out hallucinations, which ultimately are of little or no consequence, as they are mere mental stimulation, no matter how amusing. It is as if upon drinking the medicine a window to other worlds is opened to realities that exist right here and now, closely alongside our own. Boundaries and egos crumble. It is without doubt a shift of viewpoint, an extension of experience beyond ordinary consciousness. Nonetheless, regardless of how “real” the experience may be, or how accurate a reflection it allows of both outer and inner “reality,” there still exists the great risk of misinterpreting these “otherworldly” experiences and how they might relate to one’s life in the everyday world.

 

Green Tea and Tai Chi Team Up to Protect Bones

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Greenmedinfo, By: Margie King, 10/19/2013

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Green tea is one of the latest superfoods making its way into bottled waters and energy drinks.  You’ll even find it in energy bars, mints, chewing gum and ice cream. It has many claimed health benefits.  Texas researchers add to the list with evidence that green tea aids in the prevention of osteoporosis.  Especially when coupled with a tai chi practice.

 

Green tea is full of compounds called polyphenols which are known for their potent antioxidant activity. Studies have shown that people who consume the highest levels of green tea polyphenols tend to have lower risks of several chronic degenerative diseases such as cardiovascular disease.

 

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Sea cucumber extract kills 95 percent of breast cancer cells and shrinks lung tumors

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By: Thewatcher, 10/18/2013

A new study has shown that sea cucumber extract kills up to 95 percent of breast cancer cells, 90 percent of melanoma cells, 95 percent of liver cancer cells and 88 percent of lung cancer cells in vitro. The extract also stimulates the immune system against cancer and impedes key processes required for metastasis. While the science behind this is very new to Western medicine, the sea cucumber has been used in Chinese medicine for centuries.

 

In previous studies, extracts of sea cucumber have demonstrated potent cytotoxicity against pancreatic, lung, prostate, colon, breast, skin and liver cancer cells as well as leukemia and gioblastoma. Researchers have identified a key compound responsible for sea cucumber's anti-cancer properties: a triterpenoid known as frondoside A.

 

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