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By

Jake Anthony

(C) ‘IQ Inc’. 1990. 2009.

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Jake Anthony

The driving force behind this series


of publications was born in England,
just one year into World War Two.
People dying not in combat
but from health problems relating to
lifestyle, including his own parents,
was the life-amending catalyst which
launched Jake Anthony’s lifelong
interest in health, fitness and life
extension - and a search for answers.
A wish to become a professional actor and writer was ful-
filled through hard work and dedication against the odds, and Jake
Anthony obtained a degree of ‘celebrity’ over the years. His work
as a character actor can still be seen on TV from time to time.
Jake also became one of the most published writers who
nobody knows about! This was due to his work going mainly
uncredited as an internationally published journalist in advertising
and PR; under pseudonyms as author, with many ‘to-kill-for’ re-
views; and as editor and/or ghost writer for others. Jake had a
couple of small ‘best sellers’ in the East and and the West, and is
the man behind a handful of ‘cult’ novels which change hands for
large sums via on-line booksellers.
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Another life-amending incident occurred when his extremely
fit and healthy actor and stunt man son, died from an interaction
between prescribed drugs. Like ‘Lord Jim’ - Joseph Conrad’s char-
acter in the book and movie - Jake left his homeland and wan-
dered the Orient for 20 plus years trying to make sense of it all.
This was interrupted by a series of health disasters at the
hands of the allopathic medical system in the West which would
have killed most people. Ironically, they were initiated by prescribed
drugs that were supposed to cure, not kill. This was added to by
the Western system of treating the symptom rather than fully iden-
tifying the cause.
Jake’s series of the potential lifestyle based killers included
cancer, crisis level hypertension, borderline type-2 diabetes, acute
and chronic pancreatitis, and gallstones. As prescribed drugs had
initiated his series of interlinked health disasters - and time after
time exacerbated them - Jake turned his back on the Western
medical system and from then on utilised nutritional, holistic and
alternative therapies known about for thousands of years in the
Orient and the East. His host of ailments regressed or were con-
trolled, and extra decades of life were obtained. Some joint prob-
lems came later, but you would not believe it when you see the
author pumping iron and skipping (jump rope) like an in-shape boxer.
The author’s ‘beating the odds’ experience and use of ho-
listic and alternative therapies, almost certainly played a part in his
survival. The ‘How To’ and ‘Why’ are detailed in this series of
books. Jake’s fit and youthful appearance belies the fact that he is
technically a senior citizen, well over the age of retirement.
Knowledge is power. Your choice.

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(C) 1990. 2009.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be re-


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ISBN: 978-974-576-476-7

First Pressing: E-book: 2009.

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CONTENTS

1. THE ROLE OF HERBAL REMEDIES IN THE


PREVENTION AND CURE OF EVERYDAY
AILMENTS

The Whole Person


Herbal Antibiotics
Herbal Antibiotics - An Instant Guide
Herbs To Expel Parasites
Herbs That Help During Pregnancy
Herbs That Help During Birth
Herbs That Help Promote Milk Flow
Herbs That Stop Milk Flow
Herbs To Be Avoided During Pregnancy and Lactation
Herbs - An Instant Guide to Potential Interactions

2. HERBAL REMEDIES FOR SPECIFIC COMPLAINTS


- AN INSTANT GUIDE

Chinese Medicinals Albert Y. Leung Sells Out to Big Pharma


Herbal Plant Groups
How To Use the Herbal Remedies List
Medical Terms Utilised in Herbal Medicine

3. HERBS & THEIR USES - AN INSTANT GUIDE

REFERENCE NOTES
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

(Nutrition)
Dr. Robert J. Woodward B.Pharm., Ph.D., M.Royal Pharm.
Soc., C. Chem., F.R.S.C. London.

• The knowledge, experience and assistance


provided by the above, was invaluable in
the compilation of this publication.

REFERENCE

• Thanks are offered to the many scientists, nutritionists,


naturopaths, social scientists, psychologists,
educational psychologists and professionals in a wide range
of disciplines throughout the world, whose work has been
utilised as reference material in the
‘Holistic Health’ series of publications.

Cover Design: Bird and Jake Anthony.

NB. The content of this publication is for information


purposes only. It should not be used as a substitute for
the advice of a physician, naturopath or other certified
health care practitioner. The products and holistic
procedures discussed herein are not intended to
diagnose, cure, prevent or treat any disease.

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Foreword
Naturopathic and Folk Remedies have proven safe and effective
for centuries in the West. In India and the Orient, natural remedies
have been used for up to five thousand years. Gallbladder and liver
detox cleanses were used by the Ancient Egyptians, and they still
work.
Antibiotics and drugs have many adverse side effects. As
such, nature’s ingredients are regaining their prominence as a safer
and more efficacious alternative to modern day drugs.
It is little known that herbal treatments for the Western
world’s lifestyle based scourges - AIDS, cancer and diabetes -
have been registered for use by doctor’s and scientists in Thailand,
Vietnam and China. Similarly, herbs long used in traditional Ayurvedic
Medicine in India, and traditional Chinese Medicine, to treat ma-
laria without adverse side-effects, have proven more effective than
conventional drugs.
Details of these simple yet almost revolutionary treatments
are included in this reader-friendly, ultimate guide to herbs and
healing.
The author’s ‘beating the odds’ experience and use of ho-
listic and alternative therapies, almost certainly played a part in his
survival. The ‘How To’ and ‘Why’ are detailed in this series of
books. Jake’s fit and youthful appearance belies the fact that he is
technically a senior citizen, well over the age of retirement.
Knowledge is power. Your choice.

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The Role
of
Herbal
Remedies
in the
Prevention and Cure of
Everyday Ailments

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THE WHOLE PERSON

Modern medicine has not particularly made great strides in the


prevention and cure of many incurable diseases. There have been
no magical cures for cancer, diabetes, stroke, heart attack, etc..
As to more common place everyday ailments, the allopathic
medical community has not made much progress here either. In
fact, many would say that since Big Pharma has dominated the
medical scene during the last fifty years or so in the West, the
standard of health care has regressed.
This is basically because the whole person is not usually
taken into account. All too often the symptom is targeted rather
than the cause. When healing does takes place utilising modern
medicine, often the suspicion lingers that nature took its course - as
against the efficacy of the often expensive medicine which the
doctor or pharmacist prescribed.
That is probably the most fundamental difference between
conventional medicine and naturopathic alternatives: Modern medi-
cine more often treats the symptom; naturopathic procedures treat
the cause. Where success is achieved in treating the cause, the
symptoms are automatically taken care of. Simple, effective, but
not profitable for Big Pharma and the allopathic medical brigade.
Fever, high blood pressure, skin outbreaks, lack of breath
and other manifestations are more often symptoms of a deeper
complaint. They are the body’s way of communicating distress or
malfunction.
As an example, fever is a symptom of malaria. If we treat
the symptom - fever - and ignore the underlying cause of the fever,
in this case malaria, the individual is liable not to get better and
could perhaps die.
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High blood pressure can be an indication of an infection.
This is because blood pressure rises when the immune system
fights off an infectious invader. Giving drugs to counter the high
blood pressure completely ignores the underlying cause. In turn,
this could lead to the patient becoming even more ill if any under-
lying infection remains untreated.
Mushrooms have traditionally been used in Chinese medi-
cine to help treat hay fever and allergy sufferers. Antihistamine
drugs simply reduce the symptoms without solving the problem of
the immune system overreacting and producing excess histamine
- triggering runny nose, streaming eyes and other allergy symp-
toms. The natural chemicals contained in mushrooms act on the
immune system to prevent excess histamine being produced. Na-
ture almost always knows best.
Dizziness or vertigo can sometimes be caused by blood sugar
crashes that border on diabetic coma. This symptom can be an
indication of an inflamed pancreas - particularly if alcohol has been
consumed in preceding days. If left untreated, this can lead to
acute pancreatitis - a very dangerous and potentially life- threaten-
ing condition. Treating the symptom by prescribing a drug for ver-
tigo/dizziness such as Stemetil, potentially places the patient at great
risk of an inflamed pancreas developing into acute pancreatitis.
Further, medications like Stemetil have a rare side effect of caus-
ing drug-induced pancreatitis.
In this case, treating the symptom instead of taking steps to
ascertain the cause, actually gives the patient a complaint which
he or she never actually had - just symptoms of a complaint which
could occur if the whole person is not fully investigated. Adding
fuel to the pancreatitis fire by prescribing medication with a poten-
tial side effect that can cause drug-induced pancreatitis, makes
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matters even worse. It suggests that seeing a doctor in the West
should carry a government health warning.
The Western manner of giving a quick drug fix and getting
rid of the patient, requires considerable amendment. The author
speaks from personal experience in the aforementioned scenario.
The opposite occurs in China, where the symptom is al-
ways seen as the manifestation of an underlying cause. China is
still a ‘developing’ country, where drugs are not easily affordable
by the masses. Yet the Chinese people have been able to survive
without ‘Western type’ drugs. They have done this by using what
nature has given them - natural plants and herbs. In China, herbs
are cheap because they are grown there. In the West, herbs and
plants are turned into drugs - aspirin, digitalis and many more - and
the public are charged a fortune for them.
Many conventional medicines are derived from plants, and
pharmaceutical companies are prospecting in tropical rain forests
to locate promising plants with medicinal properties. Unfortunately,
they are synthesising the main active ingredient and just using that,
thereby losing the synergy between all the different constituents
which give each plant its unique power and effectiveness.
A herb has hundreds of active constituents - many of which
may not have been scientifically studied - which in combination
provide its medicinal properties. A drug like Aspirin contains one
active ingredient - acetyl salicylic acid. Unfortunately, salicylic acid
on its own can give severe gastric side-effects.
Our natural defences and bacteria can eventually adjust to
one substance, but many hundreds or even thousands is a different
matter. It’s the same in agriculture, where huge fields of just one
crop - monoculture - are more likely to be targeted by pests than
mixed crops using more natural systems of agriculture.
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In Oriental medicine, it is said that disease is the physiologi-
cal expression of disharmony of the body’s energy system. Acu-
puncture, cultivation of the breath (as in yoga and Buddhist medi-
tation, and Chi-Gong breath therapy) and/or immune enhancing
herbal formulas are administered to rehabilitate the individual back
to a state of balance and health. The philosophy is that medicine is
the person and needs only to be turned on [1].
Although potentially beneficial for the individual, using such
simple and low cost methods of disease prevention and cure is
obviously not profitable for Big Pharma and the health industry in
the West. As an associated result, they have not been fully tested
and researched. In the Orient, they have. Albeit, that is changing in
the West as Big Pharma scents the potential profit of patenting
and branding traditional cures.
In times past, doctors in the Orient were paid a regular fee
all the time their patient was well. When they became ill, payments
ceased until the patient was better. Preventative medicine was
practised as a result. In contrast, Western medical practitioners
only get paid when the worst has occurred and treatment (usually
expensive) is required. The Western approach tends not to be in
the interests of society or the individual.
To quote Dr. Albert Y. Leung, in his article Modernisation
of Herbal Medicine is Not Pharmaceuticalisation: “Western
herbal medicine has traditionally been used mainly for treating spe-
cific conditions, such as headache, cough, arthritis, menstrual prob-
lems, skin sores, insect bites, colds and sore throat. One aspect of
Chinese herbal medicine does the same. However, a major differ-
ence is that, in addition to this aspect of disease treatment, Chinese
herbal medicine stresses disease prevention and good health main-
tenance. The concept of disease prevention and health mainte-
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