Natural Medicine For The Recovering Addict
... The term "addiction" encompasses almost all imbalanced and self-destructive behavior. Substance abuse can create an illusory sense of well-being, but in the end it severely damages physical, psycholog...

Therapeutic Uses of Aromatherapy
... In this chapter we explain how essential oils heal the body. We have divided the chapter into sections dealing with the major systems in the body-circulatory, digestive, respiratory, nervous, glandula...

The Hidden Link Between Stress, Aging and Caffeine
... It’s the common complaint you hear uttered by friends, family and co-workers throughout the day. “I just can’t get going without my cup of coffee!” What happened to the days of childhood when we used ...

Aromatherapy for the Glandular System
... In his book The Holistic Herbal, David Hoffmann states: "It is in the complexities of our inner control systems that mind meets body most closely. If consciousness is seen as a faculty of the brain, t...

Aromatherapy for the Nervous System
... The nervous system provides the intricate connection between mind and body. As a result of mental or emotional responses, a problem in one area of the body may affect another. For stress in general, t...

Shingles (Herpes Zoster)
... An acute CNS infection involving primarily the dorsal root ganglia, characterized by vesicular eruption and neuralgic pain in the areas of the skin supplied by peripheral sensory nerves arising in the...

Multiple Sclerosis
... The nervous system carries messages to and from the rest of your body. Normally, delicate nerves are protected with a covering called myelin. With multiple sclerosis (MS), the myelin becomes inflamed ...

Nervous System
... Much of what is described in traditional medical systems as the "balance" of forces, such as yin and yang in the Chinese system, can be associated with the dualistic components of the nervous system. ...

Parkinson''s Disease
... Parkinson''s disease is a nervous system disorder. It causes tremors (involuntary shaking in the limbs and head) a shuffling gait, and a gradual, progressive stiffness of muscles. Parkinson''s disease...

Bitters (Bitterstoffe) L. Maiwald, Wu
... A different evaluation is given by the pharmacologist, on the basis of the separate constituents shown to be in bitters preparations, than that based on medical therapeutical experience. According to ...

Valerian and Other Anti-Hysterics in European and American Medicine (1733-1936)
... Summary Throughout the history of western medicine, valerian (Valeriana officinalis L.) has been one of the best-known herbal remedies of all time. Since the 1600''s it has been known as one of the gr...

Herbal Therapy for Nervous System Disorders
... Perhaps the most dramatic and fascinating field of Herbalism is the way in which plants affect consciousness. The integration revealed by the Gaia hypothesis lays a philosophical foundation for this....

Nervine
... What is a Nervine? A nervine is a plant remedy that has a beneficial effect upon the nervous system in some way. This makes the word nervine another catch-all expression, and to study them properly it...

The Nervous System and Herbal Remedies
... In no other system of the body is the connection between the physical and psychological aspects of our being as apparent as in the nervous system. Clearly, the tissue of the nervous system is part of ...

Self-Applied Health Enhancement Methods and the Future
... Many methods to reduce medical costs have failed. It is amazing that the last remaining strategy is to allow people to heal themselves. Most medical experts remain hesitant to give you permission to h...

Glutamic acid
... Glutamic acid (glutamate) is simply converted to glutamine and is synthesized from argi-nine, ornithine, and proline. It is abundant in both animal and vegetable proteins and is found in high concent...