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American Indian Healing Arts: Herbs, Rituals, and Remedies for Every Season of Life
by E. Barrie Kavasch, Karen Baar
American Indian Healing Arts is a magical blend of plant lore, history,
and living tradition that draws on a lifetime of study with native healers
by herbalist and ethnobotanist E. Barrie Kavasch.
Here are the time-honored tribal rituals performed to promote good health,
heal illness, and bring mind and spirit into harmony with nature.
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Here also
are dozens of safe, effective earth remedies—many of which are now being
confirmed by modern research.
Each chapter introduces a new stage in the life cycle, from the delightful Navajo First
Smile Ceremony (welcoming a new baby) to the Apache Sunrise Ceremony (celebrating puberty)
to the Seminole Old People's Dance.
At the heart of the book are more than sixty easy-to-use herbal remedies including
soothing rubs for baby, a yucca face mask for troubled skin, relaxing teas, massage oils,
natural insect repellents, and fragrant smudge sticks. There are also guidelines for
assembling a basic American Indian medicine chest.
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Research Articles:
Effect of Pancreas Tonic (an ayurvedic herbal supplement) in type 2 diabetes mellitus
Metabolism. 2004 Sep;53(9):1166-73.
by Hsia SH, Bazargan M, Davidson MB.
Although there is widespread use of herbal dietary supplements that are believed to
benefit type 2 diabetes mellitus, few have been proven to do so in properly designed
randomized trials; their efficacy for intermediate-term glucose control remains unclear.
Pancreas Tonic is a botanical mixture of
traditional Indian Ayurvedic herbs currently available as a dietary supplement
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Indian food ingredients and cancer prevention - an experimental evaluation of anticarcinogenic effects of garlic in rat colon
Asian Pac J Cancer Prev. 2004 Apr-Jun;5(2):126-32.
by Sengupta A, Ghosh S, Bhattacharjee S, Das S.
The major food items of Indian cuisine include rice, wheat, diary products, and abundant
fruits and vegetables. Beside these, there are several kinds of herbs and spices as important
ingredients, containing many phytochemicals with medicinal properties, adding taste to
Indian cuisine. An impressive body of data exists in support of the concept that Indian
food ingredients can be used in preventive strategies aimed at reducing the incidence and
mortality of different types of
cancers because of their antioxidative, antimutagenic and anticarcinogenic properties
Abstract
Epigallocatechin gallate, a constituent of green tea, represses hepatic glucose production
J Biol Chem. 2002 Sep 20;277(38):34933-40.
by Waltner-Law ME, Wang XL, Law BK, Hall RK, Nawano M, Granner DK.
Herbs have been used for medicinal purposes, including the treatment of diabetes,
for centuries. Plants containing flavonoids are used to treat diabetes in Indian medicine
and the green tea flavonoid, epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG),
is reported to have glucose-lowering effects in animals
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