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Is there one herb you can use for fever, hot flashes, anxiety, and insomnia? It may be skullcap named for the decorative hat worn by women during early American colonial times. Skullcap (Scutellaria lateriflora,) AKA helmet flower, blue pimpernel, Quaker bonnet, hoodwort, and mad dog weed, grows wild in the woods of eastern North America. Skullcap was originally used as a treatment for rabies because of its tranquilizing effect on the central nervous system. Clinical studies have demonstrated skullcap’s ability to improve blood flow in the brain, inhibit muscle spasms, and act as a sedative. Some alternative health practitioners are now using skullcap to help treat symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Skullcap is used in the treatment of a wide range of nervous conditions including epilepsy, insomnia, hysteria, anxiety, delirium tremens, withdrawal from barbiturates and tranquilizers.
Manufacturing defects have led to the recall of 43 child and infant liquid formulations of Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec, and Benadryl by McNeil, a division of Johnson & Johnson. No injuries or deaths have been reported, but If children who have taken the recalled products develop unusual symptoms, parents are urged to contact a health care professional. The voluntary recall follows an April 19 FDA inspection of a McNeil plant in Fort Washington, Pa. that uncovered “manufacturing deficiencies,” the Washington Post reports. . . McNeil did not say how many units were being recalled, but the number likely is huge. Recalled products were distributed in the U.S., Canada, Dominican Republic, Dubai (UAE), Fiji, Guam, Guatemala, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Panama, Trinidad & Tobago, and Kuwait.
A Normal Tongue Tongues are not exclusively a female preoccupation: Men have them too. But women may be naturally attuned to subtle changes in their body and emotions. Tongues are of special interest to cooks, people who eat to remain healthy and beautiful and, of course, to alternative medicine. You can learn interesting things about a person by looking at their tongue. It indicates a cohesive picture of life choices. A normal tongue is pink, moist, and not too fat or thin. The coating is thin, moist, and white not thick, dry and cheese-like or colored yellow to indicate acidity or brown or black to indicate extreme inflammation. Few people have normal tongues for long. The tongue’s shape and color change as symptoms and diets change for better or worse. Emotions, nervous exhaustion, or overuse of stimulants may show up as a shaky tongue.
Honeysuckle Flower (Lonicera japanica) Grow this lovely, fragrant flower in your garden. I remember lying awake, a girl in the New Mexico desert, entranced by the intoxicating sweetness of honeysuckle, dreaming of romance in bloom. It grows in temperate climates in a well-drained soil. Honeysuckle, a perennial, needs full sun, but tolerates light shade. Best planted in the fall as a hedge, spacing the shrubs three feet apart, water them freely during summer and sparingly during winter. Feed the plants monthly during the growing season with a balanced fertilizer, and propagate new plants from softwood cuttings in late spring or from cuttings in late summer. Throughout the year, steep a handful of dried honeysuckle flowers and a slice of raw ginger as a tea to kill strep, staph, salmonella, TB, and pneumonia germs. Honeysuckle is your protection against colds and flu.
[googlemap lat=”19.410636″ lng=”-99.130588″ width=”300px” height=”150px” zoom=”3″ type=”G_NORMAL_MAP”]Mexico[/googlemap] You can chart the progress of the “swine flu” here at google maps. Swine Flu as of Monday April 27, 2009 Mexico 1,600 infected, 149 dead (as of 3 PM) United States diagnosed in Texas, California, including (100) in New York New Zealand 13 students returned from Mexico may have the flu Netanyahu a man was hospitalized at the Laniado Hospital after returning from Mexico with signs of flu. Spain 3 suspect cases France 2 suspect cases Pigs were the mixing bowl for this virus. Birds can’t pass bird flu to people. But pigs are uniquely susceptible to getting flu viruses that infect birds. Experts have long worried that a pig would catch a bird strain of the flu and then the virus would mutate inside the pig to a form that could also infect other mammals. That may be what happened in this case. Pigs can also be infected with more than one influenza virus at a time, allowing the viruses to share genes, called “genetic reassortment,” creating new and potentially much more virulent viruses. You can do a lot more than wash your hands to prevent the flu!
Beauty, like a pearl, is formed in layers caressed by time and the elements. Pearls suggest enduring loveliness. It takes the oyster three years to make a pearl. When a grain of sand penetrates a mollusk shell, cells located inside the shell mantle secrete concentric layers of mother of pearl around the particle, finally creating the pearl. Pearls culled from depths of 48 to 120 feet are found in waters of the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Mannar near Sri Lanka, Indonesia, islands in the South Pacific, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Mississippi River. In China, pearling was known before 1000 BC. Powdered pearl, ingested as an anti-inflammatory herbal medicine or applied to the skin as a beauty treatment was preferred by CiXi, the last Empress of China, during the Qing Dynasty. Her flawless complexion was renowned. In Bernardo Bertolucci’s epic film, The Last Emperor, a giant black pearl was placed in the Empress’ mouth the moment she died–in homage to her as a precious jewel.
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