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06 May 2008, 00:54
Dandelions: If you can't beat 'em, eat 'em
Although I can't yet endorse from personal experience about their gastronomic and condition attributes, I've been impressed with what I've read.
Perhaps these bright lily-livered lawn invaders should be treated as delightful crops rather than cussed adversaries. You be the judge. The botanical bible of eastern Colorado's plants, "Colorado Flora" close to Weber and Wittman, says dandelions are alien invaders.
The bourgeois head comes from the French: Dent de Lion or "Lion's Tooth." Presumably, the jagged leaves of the tree inspired the name.
Resident writer Kathryn Cox in her "Pocket Guide to Deserted Edible and Healing Plants" (Motherlove herbal company, 1996), claims that dandelion blade tea is a good diuretic, the floret oil is good for stiff muscles and skin sores, and the tea can be splashed on skin to help remove wrinkles and time spots.
She also assertion the roots can be prepared to help liver and stomach state and stem extract can pleasant up warts. The dandelion sounds like a truly underappreciated "Wunder Weed."
Dine on dandelions Many dandelion prescription testify that all parts of the bush may be devoured. Sing Williams in Backwoods Home Magazine (www.backwoodshome.com articles williamsc44.html) declare greens "must be gathered before the flower blooms to be delicious.
The best bout to convene them is conscientious when the bloom bud appears, earlier the stalk grows."
She recommends washing the greens in water, hot them for five minutes, then seasoning with butter and salt. Cox proposes adding flower petals to flours and batters. Flowers can again be transformed into tea, wine, beer and syrup.
Cox says to eat roots arid and roast them in a slow oven until brown (about four hours), powder and simmer 10 split second "for a drink some liken to coffee with no caffeine." Boiled roots may be served as a vegetable. And dandelions are ace for you.
The Northwest Coalition representing Alternatives to Pesticides quotes USDA stats that say a serving of uncooked dandelion off contains 280 percent of an adult's daily beta carotene needs, more than half his or her vitamin C requirements, and is also fat in vitamin A. I'm not sure what you misplace in the cooking process.)
Contemplate www.pesticide.org dandelions.html for more information. For those who would rather sip their weeds, dandelion wine formula abound. Jack Keller at the Winemaking Home Page (www.winemaking.jackkeller.net dandelio.asp) lists three recipes.
He claims in concordance progress with a recipe that calls for 2 quarts of dandelion flowers, 3 pounds of granulated sugar, 4 oranges, 1 gallon of water and yeast increased by yeast nutrient. The recipe requires some patience:
60 days for fermentation and bottling and six months to a year for aging. He says the secret to acceptable wine is peeling the citrus outgrowth completely. The white pith in all citrus skins will breakup any wine," Keller claims.
Dandelion biology Dandelions look prize effortless flowers, but they represent a flower colony nested on a head of green bracts. Each "petal" represents a showy flag for ray flowers on the outer margins of the colony and simpler flowers with sexual parts crowding the center of the head. Insects love these fast-food, multi-flower landing platforms.
From http://northfortynews.com/news/200805gl_17dandelions.htm
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05 May 2008, 06:52
Anti-fibrotic Mechanism Of A Chinese Medicinal Herb May Inspire Drug Development
Hepatic fibrosis, which can lead to portal hypertension or cirrhosis, is a wound-healing response to continuing liver wound due to a diversification of insults. The altered balance between the synthesis and degeneracy of matrix proteins (mainly collagens) is the major pathogenic feature in the hepatic fibrosis process.
Although exceptional progress has been made recently in understanding the mechanisms of hepatic fibrosis and while numerous agents annex been studied, very few effective antifibrogenic drugs have been approved for use in humans. Previous research has showed that Cpd 861, which was formulated beside one the authors (Dr.
Bao-En Wang) in accordance with traditional Chinese medical theory, can significantly improve the clinical manifestations and biochemical parameters of patients with hepatic fibrosis.
Their virgin drudgery found that the antifibrotic function of Cpd 861 is mediated not only by inhibiting collagen synthesis (by downregulating collagen type III gene expression) however also alongside enhancing the degradation of collagens (by increasing the term of matrix metalloproteinase-1, which is an enzyme that degrades collagens).
These result are at variance from those of Western antifibrogenic drugs (such as interferon- gamma).
The inventor explain that the herbs used to prepare Cpd 861 acquire been worn for thousands of senility in Habitual Chinese Medicine, and the results of this research could allow for the development of emphatic antifibrogenic drugs from Chinese sanative herbs.
Using human hepatic stellate chamber and a real-time quantitative PCR method, this check was performed by physicians from the Beijing Genomics Institute, the Liver Research Center of the Beijing Congeniality Hospital, and the Institute of Medicinal Plant Development of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, China.
Further research should be done to explain the machine for Cpd 861's regulation of collagen-related gene expression and to identify the vigorous antifibrotic ingredient in Cpd 861. Reference: Wang L, Wang BE, Wang J, Xiao PG, Tan XH.
Herbal make up 861 regulates the mRNA expression of collagen synthesis and degradation linked genes in anthropoid hepatic stellate cells. Macrocosm J Gastroenterol 2008; 14(10): 1790-1794 http:
1007-9327 14 1790.asp Adapted from matter provided by Sphere Journal of Gastroenterology, via EurekAlert!, AAAS.
18, 2007) - Using Chinese herbs either alone or in conjunction with chemotherapy may lift guard a bosom cancer patient's bone marrow and immune system, as blooming as improving the woman's overall merit of.
Chinese Medicine Compound Has Satisfactory Anti-cancer Effects On Hepatocellular Carcinoma (Oct. 16, 2007) - Traditional Chinese medicine is world renowned. It has aftermath on some diseases, but some of the reasons are much unknown. Human hepatocellular carcinoma is a challenging disease worldwide and.
A Rosetta Stone For Routine Chinese Medicine (Oct.
30, 2007) - Scientists have "decoded" the inscrutable speaking of usual Chinese medicine, revealing its strong chemical bottom in a way that may help scientists excavation age-old Chinese medicines to. New Drugs Awaiting Discovery In Chinese Herbs?
Jan. 23, 2007) - The elementary large-scale machine screenings of Chinese herbs -- commonly euphemistic pre-owned in traditional Chinese medicine -- has revealed a broad divergency of compounds with potential for use in treating HIV AIDS,.
From http://sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080430094820.htm
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02 May 2008, 04:20
allAfrica.com: Ghana: Herbalist Censure Gov't of Not Supporting Traditional Prescription (Page 1 of 1)
He named the unfulfilled solemn word of honour as, the integration of traditional herbalists into the country's health sector, and the provision of adjustment facilities, to house their patients. Mr. Mahama was interacting with some journalists, at his residence at Korkobeng.
The dream of the interaction was to broaden the knowledge of the media practitioners, on issues affecting standard herbalists. He observed that non-native medicine had failed miserably, in the areas of disease prevention, and the management of the many new and chronic illnesses, currently annihilating Ghanaians.
Mahama, therefore, called on the government to build traditional medicine, an alternate medicine to foreign ones, to help fight diseases.
Currently, treatment of chronic diseases, gives a reason for for about 85% of the civic healthcare bill. This is payable to the fact that Ghana spends almost nothing, to act towards the occasion of inveterate diseases, before they degenerate into major illnesses.
Mahama added his voice to the Health Minister's clarion call, on Ghanaians to eat foods of their biological adaptation. This includes fruits and vegetables, as well as unprepared food, to guidance the body functions effectively.
Mahama, who deal with all kind of diseases, and is a bone-setter, including break and dislocations, passionately appealed to the government, and other benevolent organizations, to provide him with a befitting accommodation, to accomodate the patients who troop from all piece of the country, to his clinic to seek medication.
Mahama hinted that he inherited the traditional medicine from his great grandparents, when he was about five years old, adding because of that he could not appear at school. When asked whether he was training some people, to take on from him, when he is demised, he answered in the affirmative.
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