Before carrying out the cure, it would be useful to take a natural plant remedy that helps to liquify the bile, for example Boldocy-nara made from artichokes and other medicinal herbs. If a chronic condition suddenly flares up again, accompanied by a high temperature and an increase in the number of white blood corpuscles, there [...]
Another advantage of brown rice is that it is nutritious and can sustain one over a long period of time. It is filling too, so that even a small quantity is satisfying. This is good for the pancreas, an organ that is often weakened through eating excessive quantities of food. If we stick to a [...]
Psychological problems and disturbances lead to reactions in the physical body as well. Knowing of this interaction, it is necessary to treat the body, the physical problem, in order to relieve the psychological disorder. The reverse is also true, in that physical afflictions leave their mark on the mind of the patient to such an [...]
Many people have kidney stones without being aware of the fact. The same goes for gallstones. Their presence is only noticed when the stones enter the ureter (or in the case of gallstones, the bile duct) and can move neither forward nor backward. When a kidney stone becomes stuck in the ureter the resulting pain [...]
Women frequently get haemorrhoids after childbirth. Even during pregnancy the entire venous system is subjected to greater pressure than usual, often giving rise to varicose veins or enlarging those already there. In the weeks just before delivery the baby’s head presses on the vessels in the pelvis and this, in turn, affects the vessels in [...]
Another remedy for a sickly plant, where root disease is suspected, was given to me by a very knowledgeable “herb lady”. Make a circle of copper wire (fairly thick gauge, or several strands of thinner gauge) and place it round the base of the ailing plant and about 1\2-inch under the soil. This is a [...]
For information on the growing and use of plants beneficial to man, we can go right back to some of the earliest history recorded in the civilizations of Arabia and Egypt, as well as Greece and Rome. The George Ebers papyrus found in the ruins of Thebes, and the more recently discovered Edwin Smith papyrus, [...]
Like most so-called superstitions, the belief in rue’s great powers has a sound basis of practical common sense. Rutin, its most active ingredient, was found during the last World War to be of great value in the treatment of weakened bloodvessels, and it is this property that makes it so effective an eye-strengthener, by increasing [...]
Cochlearia armoracia CRUCIFERAE Authorities differ as to the correct botanical name for this herb; some of the confusion seems due to its variation in leaf shape and habit of growth, the Encyclopaedia Britannica referring to it as Armoracia rusticana, but Culpeper, and many later writers such as Clare Loewenfeld, who has the famous Chiltern Herb [...]
Anthriscus cerefolium UMBEIXIFERAE Chervil might be called a flavour catalyst amongst other herbs. It has the unique property of adding to the flavour of any other herb in a dish while keeping its own slightly aromatic parsleylike taste, and should always be added to a bouquet garni. It has no perfume and, being delicate and [...]