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Patient Heal Thyself
“The body’s innate capacity for regeneration is what all stem cell therapies strive to emulate and improve upon. For that reason, the simplest route to many treatments may involve recruiting and activating the stem cells already hiding within our tissues. A major medical research effort now focuses on learning the subtle chemical language that directs stem cell behaviour during natural wound healing. Mastering this idiom could in some cases help to eliminate the need for therapeutic infusions of lab-grown cells. The right chemical cues might even restore the vigour to cells in older patients. The potential benefits are many–but there are also dangers.” EBSCOhost
Pomegranate juice reduces risk of brain injuries in babies – Yahoo! News
My own daughter benefited from fresh pomegranate juice when she was two years old. Pomegranate juice reduces risk of brain injuries in babies – Yahoo! News
This Wormwood Is Sweet to Farmers and the Malarial – New York Times
A traditional Chinese herb, qinghao, is in great demand as a source of a medicine for malaria. This Wormwood Is Sweet to Farmers and the Malarial – New York Times Here is a recipe for using it as an anti-malarial medicine.
Many immigrants use herbs instead of prescriptions
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Star Anise – Traditional Chinese Medicine Remedy for Bird Flu
We should not only use the herb star anise to manufacture Tamiflu, but, as has been done profitably many times before for traditional medicinal herbs, we should research the benefits of star anise itself for preventing or controlling the symptoms of bird flu. How about a simpler, cheaper way for preventing bird flu? Traditional Chinese medicine already uses several herbs to prevent getting the flu, including star anise, dyers woad and honeysuckle flowers. These herbs are usually in short supply in Chinese herb stores when there are flu scares, due to the demand by those familiar with the benefits of these traditional Chinese medicines. On October 15, 2005, The Independent reported that True Star Anise (Illicium verum), a commonly used spice in Asian cuisine, not only serving as an anti-inflammatory, and analgesic in Traditional Chinese Medicine, now has become the only commercial source of shikimic acid from which the drug Tamiflu is made (see U.S. patent nos.5,763,483 and 5,866,601). Tamiflu made from star anise is the only defense the world currently has against the threatened avian flu pandemic caused by the deadly H5N1 virus. The Eastern Morning Newspaper in China reported on Oct. 17, 2005, that as bird flu panic rapidly spreads in Europe, various countries have rushed to purchase Tamiflu. However, because of insufficient supplies of star anise in the seven southern provinces of China that are its main habitat, the drug has fallen into short supply in many countries. Tamiflu production needs a huge amount of the octagonal seeds pods of star anise and 90% of the annual supply is harvested from March to May in this area of China. How much shikimic acid is produced through other methods is not known, for example, U.S. patent nos. 6436664 and 6,613,552 detail bioengineering methods to sythesize shikimic acid. Star anise has long been known as an anti-bacterial agent . Although too much is toxic, and, if adulterated with more toxic species, such as Japanese star anise (Illicium anisatum L), can cause neurotoxity, especially, when used to treat infant colic. Other types of star anise, such as yellow star anise and shikimi are also highly toxic. To grow the star anise tree , once source claims requires constant warmth, bright light and high humidity. However, another source claims it will also grow in partial shade, prefers a light, moist well-drained loam and a sheltered position. Seed can be sown in early spring in a greenhouse and seedlings transferred into individual pots and grown in the greenhouse for at least their first winter. The seedlings should be planted in late spring or early summer, after the last expected frosts, and shoud be given some protection from the cold over the winter for the first year or two. A related species of star anise, Florida Star Anise (Illicium floridanum) is a fast growing, evergreen shrub native to the southern United States that thrives in a cooler environment than True Star Anise and can also be used in cooking like its Asian relative. Not known is this variey’s suitability as an alternate source of shikimic acid to fight Asian flu.
Bai He – Chinese Yellow Lily
Traditional Chinese medicine uses both the flower and the bulb of the Chinese Yellow Lily, Bai He (“bai huh”), aka scientific names Lilium brownii F. E. Brown var. viridulum Baker, colchestri Wils., L. pumilum DC, L. longiflorum Thunb. One possible supplier of extract of lily bulbs is Xuancheng Baicao Plant Industry And Trade Co., Ltd. Here is a TCM link on the herb in Chinese. This variety of lily has been documented in both ancient Chinese medical literature and most recently in Western research literature for its medicinal qualities.