Herbalism

  Pimpinella anisum Anise is native to the eastern Mediterranean areas as well as western Asia and North Africa, where it still grows wild as a wayside weed. Because it is so shortlived, it often appears in spring and again in late summer, drawing bees and butterflies to it in droves with its sweet liquorice fragrance. Remarkably, anise has been cultivated in Egypt for over 4 000 years. Pharaonic texts show that even then it was used as a digestive herb, diuretic   and to help ease toothache. The Greeks used it too; Dioscorides wrote in the first century that aniseed ‘warms, dries and dissolves, facilitates breathing, relieves pain, provokes urine and eases thirst’. Modern medical science has proved that these ancient uses of this marvellous herb were indeed correct. Cultivation Anise is an attractive, shortlived annual growing up to 50 cm in height with pretty, feathery flowers typical of the Umbelliferae, often mistakenly called lace flowers. It is a rewarding plant to grow ...

  It is hardly possible to take up any newspaper or magazine now a days without happening on advertisements of patent medicines whose chief recommendation is that they "contain phosphorus."  They are generally very expensive, but the reader is assured that they are worth ten times the price asked on account of their wonderful properties as nerve and brain foods. The proprietors of these concoctions seemingly flourish like green bay trees and spend many thousands of pounds per annum in advertising. From which it may be deduced that sufferers from nervous exhaustion and brain fag number millions. And surely only a sufferer from brain fag would suffer himself to be led blindly into wasting his money, and still further injuring his health, by buying and swallowing drugs about whose properties and effects he knows absolutely nothing. How much simpler, cheaper, and more enjoyable to eat apples! The apple contains a larger percentage of phosphorus than any other fruit or vegetable...

Green tea contains the natural lipase inhibitor that have been found to inactivate gastric and pancreatic lipases. For fat and oil to be absorbed in our body ( after we eat any food that contains fats and oil such as burger and hotdog), it needs to be broken down in to smaller molecules by lipase enzymes in our stomach and small intestines.   The more fat and oil in our diet, the more it will broken down, absorbed and store away in our body, resulting in weight gain and obesity. The natural lipases inhibitiors in green tea will attach themselves to lipases, preventing them from breaking down some of them from breaking down some of the oil that we have eaten.This cause the dietary oil remain as large particles. Since, undigested oil cannot be absorbed, it stays in the intestines, until it is finally flushed out of the body through normal bowel movement.

A banana a day keeps the doctor away! The Good of Banana After reading this, you'll never look at a banana in the same way again . Bananas contain three natural sugars - sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fiber. A banana gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of energy. Research has proven that just two bananas provide enough energy for a strenuous 90-minute workout. No wonder the banana is the number one fruit with the world's leading athletes. But energy isn't the only way a banana can help us keep fit. It can also help overcome or prevent a substantial number of illnesses and conditions, making it a must to add to our daily diet. Depression: According to a recent survey undertaken by MIND amongst people suffering from depression, many felt much better after eating a banana. This is because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin, known to make you relax, improve your mood and generally make you feel happier....

Ganoderma, a rare variety of Mushroom credited with the highest medicinal qualities by the classic Chinese ‘Seng Nong’ is indeed a subject of much research from the ancient china of 100 B.C. or earlier to the modern times by various universities and research organizations. It is also known as Linghzi in China and Reishi in Japan. It is said that in the ancient times anyone who found the rare Linghzi never revealed the place and kept it a secret of health, longevity and wealth. The Japanese revered the herb as ‘God’s Herb’ where it is known as Reishi. Lingzhi in medicine was considered so auspicious that its medical efficacy has been attested to in the oldest Chinese medical text (over 2,000 years old). The book, which is known in Japan as "Shinnoh Honsohkyo", is now accepted as being the original textbook of Oriental medical science. In it, 365 kinds of medicines are classified and explained. Ganoderma is classified as “Superior Herb” or "God's Herbs" and they a...

  Pine-apple juice is the specific for diphtheria. This seems to have been first brought to the notice of Europeans by the fact that negroes living round about the swamps of Louisiana were observed to use it with great success. A writer who records this says: "The patient should be forced to swallow the juice. This fluid is of so pungent and corrosive a nature that it cuts out the diphtheria mucous and causes it to disappear."   The above direction looks satisfactory enough on paper, and it is eminently cheering to read of how the pine-apple juice causes the diphtheria mucous to disappear, but anyone who knows anything about diphtheria knows that to "force" a diphtheria patient to swallow is more easily written about than accomplished. Fortunately, I have been able to obtain the following explicit directions from an experienced nurse and mother:   The pine-apple should be cut up and well pounded in a mortar. The juice must then be pressed out and strained thro...

  Treating high blood pressure with Bile of Earth ( Hempedu Bumi) Bile of Earth or Hempedu Bumi plant is also known by local as akar cerita. Hempedu Bumi plant abundantly found in China , India, Thailand and Malay island. Could be easily found at the peat soil. Hempedu Bumi is a herbal plant that grows vertically. This seasonal herbaceous plant can grow until 70-90 cm heights. The upper part of the leaf is dark green in color while the lower part is light green in color, smooth and arranged. The leaf also oval in shape. The stem is green and has many branches. Hempedu Bumi leaf can used as the remedy to lower the high blood pressure pressure, besides to cure diabetes, antiinflammation, antibacterial, antivirus, relieve fever and as the phlegm liquefier. It is also used to improve defecation, destroy the worms in digestive system and fasten the blood clotting. The method to made it as the medicine is by braising the leaf to drink the water. The leaf can cure wound by grinding it and...