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Seven steps to a long and healthy life - Telegraph

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Seven steps to a long and healthy life - Telegraph

Seven simple steps could give even those already well into middle-age a very good chance of reaching 90 - or even 100 - according to American cardiologist Dr Clyde Yancy. Here they are in full. (more)

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Can't Sleep After Workouts

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An exercise paradox: a walk wakes you up, but hard training will run you down. ...sleep specialists often tell people with insomnia to exercise five to six hours before bedtime. The mild exercise raises the body’s core temperature. When the temperature falls again a few hours later, that signals the body to sleep. But that is a different sort of exercise from what endurance athletes do, and so what happens to marathoners-in-training must have another explanation. One possibility, Dr. Chediak said, is th... (more)

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Common Anemarrhena Rhizome

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Indications: Hyperpyrexia, hectic fever Polydipsia Cough with thick yellow sputum and difficult expectoration Constipation Chemical Composition: timosaponins A-I, A-II, A-III, A-IV, B-I, B-II and anemaran A, B, C, D. Note: According to C.P., also used for medicinal purposes is the rhizome of A. chinensis (DC.) Koidz. (more)

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Platycodon Root

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Indications: 1. For treatment of cough due to wind-cold, it is usually used in combination with Folium Perillae, Semen Armeniacae Amarum, Rhiaoma Zingiberis Recens, and other drugs having the effects of dispelling cold, promoting the dispersing function of the lung, and relieving cough, such as Xingsu San; For treatment of cough due to wind-heat, it is used together with Flos chrysanthemi, Semen Armeniacae Amarum, Folium Mori, and other drugs with the effect of dispersing wind-heat to relieve cough; For ... (more)

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Trichosanthes Root

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Effects: Clearing away heat, promoting the production of body fluid, subduing swellings and draining pus. Indications: For treating the impairment of the production of body fluid, dry cough, short of sputum, red tongue, lack of tongue fur, hemoptysis, it is used in combination with ophiopogon root, rehmannia root to clear away heat in lung, moisturize dryness and quench cough. For treating the impairment of the production body fluid due to febrile diseases, vexation, thirst, red tongue and dry throat,... (more)

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Calculus bovis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Calculus bovis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Calculusbovis[1], niu-huang or ox bezoars are dried gallstones of cattle used in Chinese herbology, where they are claimed to remove toxins from the body. In Asian countries calculus bovis are harvested when cattle (Bos taurus domesticus Gmelin) are slaughtered. Their gall bladders are taken out, the bile is filtered, and the stones are cleaned and dried. In western countries they are usually discarded. Calculus bovis have a color varying from golden yellow to brownish yellow. The shape of a stone is var... (more)

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The Non-Profit Consumer Wellness Center

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Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants Product Description The essential encyclopedic guide to modern complementary medicine, featuring more than 550 key herbs and their healing properties. An illustrated edition of Hoffmann's earlier The New Holistic Herbal (Element, 1992), The Complete Illustrated Holistic Herbal offers a listing of over 200 herbs and detailed sections on their use in treating ailments associated with each major body system (circulatory, respiratory, digestive, nervous, reproductive, g... (more)

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Radix Rehmanniae

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"Botanical name: Rehmannia glutinosa. Pharmaceutical name: Radix Rehmanniae Glutinosae Conquitae. Properties: sweet, slightly warm. Channels entered: Liver, Kidney, Heart. Functions and clinical use: Tonifies the Blood: used for Deficient Blood patterns with such symptoms as a pallid face, dizziness, palpitations and insomnia. Also used for irregular menstruation, uterine bleeding, and postpartum bleeding. Nourishes the Yin: used for Deficient Kidney Yin, with such manifestations as night sweats, nocturn... (more)

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Lung Cancer : Treatment / West and East Medicines

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Lung Cancer : Treatment / West and East Medicines

The treatment chosen depends on the type of lung cancer (See definition section), whether or not it has spread to other parts of the lungs and body and what kind of symptoms it is causing. Other factors, like the general health of the person and his or her ability to withstand major surgery also affect treatment choices. For example, many smokers have very poor lung function making them a high surgical risk. (more)

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Figwort Root

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In both eastern and western traditions, figwort (S. nodosa) is a very cleansing herb. In the past, figwort was known as the scrofula plant (hence the botanical name), and used to treat abscesses, purulent wounds, and the "King's Evil" or scrofula (tuberculosis of the lymph glands in the neck). Culpeper calls the herb throatwort because of its use in treating this disease. The Chinese use xuan shen, the root of a related species, S. ningpoensis, as a prime remedy for "fire poisons," the kind of purulent c... (more)

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Nutrition Facts Today

Nutrition Facts Today

Science & Research

Seven steps to a long and healthy life - Telegraph

Can't Sleep After Workouts

Common Anemarrhena Rhizome

Platycodon Root

Trichosanthes Root

Calculus bovis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Non-Profit Consumer Wellness Center

Radix Rehmanniae

Lung Cancer : Treatment / West and East Medicines

Figwort Root

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