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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................... 3 PLANT CHEMISTRY…………………………………… .....................………………………………………………………………………………………..6 MEDICINAL AND THERAPEUTIC ACTIONS OF HERBS………… .......... ………………………………………………………………………….8 HERBAL PROFILES ………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ................................... 12 AGRIMONY ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ..................................... 13 BARBERRY…………………………………………………………………………… ....................... ……………………………………………………..….15 BEARBERRY…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………17 BUCHU …………………………………………………………………………………… ...................... …………………………..….………………….19 CASCARA SAGRADA ............................................................................................................................ 21 CAYENNE ............................................................................................................................................ 23 CHAMOMILE................................................................................ ................... ........................................25 DANDELION ROOT .............................................................................................................................. 27 ELDER ….. ......................................................................................................................................... 29 EUCALYPTUS ...................................................................................................................................... 31 GARLIC ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ..................................... .33 GENTIAN ........................................................................................................................................... 36 GINGER............................................................................................... .................. ...............................38 HOPS ……........................................................................................................................................... 40 JUNIPER ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...................................... 42 LIQUORICE ........................................................................................................................................ 44 MARSHMALLOW …………………………………………………………………………………………………………... ................................... 46 MILK THISTLE…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….48 NETTLES ........................................................................................................................................... 50 PARSLEY ........................................................................................................................................... 52 PARSLEY PIERT .................................................................................................................................. 54 PEPPERMINT ...................................................................................................................................... 58 RASPBERRY ....................................................................................................................................... 57 SEAWEED .......................................................................................................................................... 60 SKULLCAP ......................................................................................................................................... 62 VALERIAN ........................................................................................................................................... 64 VERVAIN ………………………………………………………………………………………………… .................. ………………………………………66 THERAPEUTIC INDEX ………………………………………………………………………................... ………………………………………………68 2
INTRODUCTION HERBAL MEDICINE The art of using plants to heal, that is the therapeutic or medicinal use of herbal remedies, is not new. It is, in fact, an ancient system of healing which is undergoing a revival in the light of modern analytical methods and new-found knowledge and understanding. Herbal remedies whose uses were once simply handed down by folk lore and backed by little evidence of efficacy, can now be safely prescribed backed by a sound knowledge of plant chemistry and botanical therapeutics. Today herbal medicine is seen as having a world-wide presence not only as represented by the use of healing plants in Western culture, but as being an integral part of Indian Ayurvedic medicine and combined with acupuncture as part of Traditional Chinese Medicine or TCM. In recognition of the growing importance of this type of treatment, herbal medicine is more often referred to by a much more appropriate term; phytotherapy. A BRIEF HISTORY One of the earliest recorded uses of herbal medicines dates back to the Egyptians, but it is more than likely that plants were used long before this, probably by the Chinese. The use of medicinal plants is also documented by the Babylonians (around 750 BC) and by the Mesopotamians. Enough details were included in the materia medica (a textbook detailing plant and their medicinal properties and formulae for patent mixtures) of the time, to be utilised later by the Greeks, Romans and Arabs. It was the Greek physician Hippocrates (who lived around 400 BC), who was the first to take a rational view of medicine and to look seriously how herbs might be applied to instigate healing. His model of health was based on a balance of four main principles, earth, fire, water and air and their bodily representations, the cardinal humours, blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. For a state of health to exist, the humours must be in balance that is in a state of harmonious equilibrium for the animal or person to be healthy. If the balance of the humours was disturbed, then symptoms of ill-health would appear in the patient. These signs were then treated by using plant-based medicines to correct imbalances in the humours, with the prescription based on the known medicinal properties of the medicinal plants available at the time. The era of Hippocrates was also the time which saw the emergence of the Doctrine of Signatures which held the belief that the appearance of plants bore some resemblance to the conditions that they could possibly be used to treat. The cut surface of a nutmeg, for example, bears some similarities to the appearance of the brain and was said to help with disorders of the brain. The patchy leaves of Lungwort were used to treat chest conditions based on the fact that they resembled diseased lungs and the bright yellow flowers of Dandelion suggested its use in treating liver disorders such as jaundice. Further advances in plant based healing occurred around 150 AD, when Galen, the personal physician to the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, made extensive studies based on the work of Hippocrates. He published several books which became 3
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