Your Guide to Health with Herbs
Welcome to Herb-Health-Guide.com - another health resource site by Dr Jenny Tylee and Dr Peter Tylee.
Are you well? I mean really well. Are you brim full of health and bursting with vitality? I hope so.
The trouble is, not enough people are. Really well I mean.
The good news is, there is plenty you can do to start - or keep - feeling well and it doesn't involve spending a fortune on pharmaceutical drugs or medical bills.
It's great that you have found this site. Bookmark us now because there is a lot more here than you can take in during this visit. Once again, welcome!
As health care professionals we are passionate about Primary Health Care. We firmly believe in empowering people with health knowledge so individuals can make informed lifestyle decisions and accept responsibility for their own health-related behaviors and outcomes.
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Within this site you can learn:
- about medicinal herbs, including essential oils
- various herbal treatments for many diseases
- how to use herbs as part of healthy living
- details of 95 common medicinal herbs
- where to find highest quality medicinal herbs
The detailed version
- About Herbs
- This section explains methods of gathering and conserving herbs, explains herbal actions, talks about using herbs for health and gives practical guidelines for how to prepare herbs for medicinal use. It also covers the essentil oils. The important topic of herb safety is covered.
- Diseases
- We take the traditional body system approach here. We don't scare you with "integumentary system", preferring to talk about healthy skin. We also talk about bones and muscles rather than the "musculo-skeletal system" but other more standard names are used, like circulatory, digestive, immune and the other systems. Herbal and other treatments for several common diseases from each system are presented.
- Healthy Living
- Here we include many simple herbal remedies that we call first aid. We also list herbs to avoid while pregnant. Safety in the use of herbs is a strong theme.
- Herbs A » Z
- This is a biggie! There are details for 95 common herbs so far. They are currently organized into seven groups, simply alphabetically based. There are details on usage and safety. Most even include how to grow the herbs for keen gardeners.
- Products
- This section will soon be developed to include our recommendations of the highest quality herbs. Without relaxing quality standards we will ensure they represent excellent value for money.
- The Health Gazette
- Herb-Health-Guide.com is part of The Health Gazette family. You can subscribe on almost any page of this site. The Health Gazette includes both a newsletter and a blog.
Site Features
Standards Compliance
We believe in setting high standards. So when it comes to web programming we naturally adopt the W3C standards for websites. We present valid XHTML code with valid CSS. You can learn more by following the links to the right.
In addition to standards compliance, which you can read about in the box, we have introduced a couple of handy features for you.
The first is a rotation of some brief clinical case studies. To help avoid the sameness of pages that may be visited repeatedly as you work through the herb pages, we will rotate the case studies. There should be a fresh one available each time you return to those pages.
The other feature is the inclusion of a sample of The Health Gazette blog. You should be able to see it below and we may place more updates on other pages over time.
TopThe Health Gazette Blog Excerpt
The Health Gazette - Herbs
Medicinal use of herbs for health.
New Research Finds African Plant Root Could Beat MRSA Infection
A plant root used in Africa as a traditional remedy could hold the key to combating the potentially fatal Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) infection, according to research findings presented at the British Pharmaceutical Conference in Manchester, 4 to 6 September, 2006.
Pharmacists at King’s College London have discovered that the roots of the shrub Paullinia pinnata possess anti-bacterial properties that are effective against MRSA.
MRSA infections are difficult to combat because the bacteria involved have developed complete resistance to certain antibiotics. Usually it is hospital patients with weakened immune systems who are most likely to become infected.
Health Canada Also Issues Black Cohosh Advisory
It appears that the herb Black Cohosh has come under fire by authorities again, this time in Canada. It is interesting to note that the alarm is being raised in markets where drug companies make -- and want to continue to make -- fortunes in profits from hormone replacement therapy (HRT). It may be that the large numbers of menopausal women in these places means that large amounts of black cohosh are consumed and therefore there is an incidence of the reported problems. However, knowing how the player work, I suspect there is drug company influence behind these alarms.
So now Canada, following similar recent moves in the UK and Australia, has issued an advisory about a possible link between black cohosh and liver damage. The herb is used widely in relieving menopausal symptoms, mainly because it works and increasingly women want to avaoid the serious risks associated with HRT. The US is notably missing from the growing list of countries which have flagged black cohosh.
Natural Compound Interests Lung Cancer Researchers
Milk thistle (with active compound silibinin) could inhibit lung cancer growth and progression according to research from the University of Colorado published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (Vol. 98, pp. 846-85). Silibinin, a flavanone compound in milk thistle, stopped lung cancer growth and spread in mice.
Lung cancer is the most common form of cancer worldwide with over 1.2m new cases diagnosed annually. It also has a poor survival rate, with approximately 75% of people diagnosed with the condition dying within 12 months.
Milk thistle extract is a widely used dietary supplement. It generally contain 80 per cent silymarin, a flavonolignan mixture which contains approximately 40 per cent silibinin. The research used pure silibinin, not silimarin.
Hawthorn Useful as Anti-Hypertensive Adjunctive Therapy
Researchers led by Dr Ann Walker, senior lecturer in human nutrition at Reading University, have found that tablets made from hawthorn flowers and leaves significantly reduce blood pressure readings in patients already taking prescribed medicines for diabetes and hypertension. Significantly, the study showed it was safe to take a natural remedy at the same time as prescribed medication. The study, was published in the latest British Journal of General Practice.
Patients benefited after just four months of treatment with Hawthorn, as widely used herb for cardiovascular support. The anti-hypertensive effect worked in addition to the orthodox drugs being taken by patients.
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