[senior citizen]

The Green Pharmacy

Many diseases and conditions for which we turn to modern medicine can also be treated naturally with healing herbs, medicinal food, other natural remedies--and these treatments can be safer, less expensive and possibly even more effective than traditional methods. Let Dr. James Duke, the world's leading authority on healing herbs, lead you through the vast world of natural remedies--from Anise for Asthma to Violet for Varicose Veins, and everything in between. With just a few trips to the health-food store, the supermarket, or your own backyard--and with the help of Dr. Duke--you'll have everything you need to create your own Natural Medicine Cabinet.

THE GREEN PHARMACY HERBAL HANDBOOK:
This is the handy companion book to James A. Duke Ph.D's original
THE GREEN PHARMACY.......

YES, he is a botanist but has studied all the herbal remedies from plants.......his books are great "food for thought".
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HERBAL REMEDIES FOR VIBRANT HEALTH:


Rosemary Gladstar is the mother of modern herbalism. Her wisdom and vision have inspired an entire generation of herbal healers, and her insights into the healing power of plants have helped people everywhere embrace more natural, healthy, and radiant lives.

Rosemary Gladstar's Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health is the author's practical compendium of herbal know-how. Written with her signature warmth, this must-have reference will help readers of every life stage enjoy radiant well-being, every day. Limit stress and anxiety, get adequate rest, boost immunity, improve mental acuity, and embrace life balance — these are elements of Gladstar's prescription for wellness, longevity, and boundless energy.

The bulk of the book is dedicated to specific herbal remedies for everyone in the family — adults, babies, children, and elders.
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Herbs, like anything else, should be used safely and in moderation , not in mega doses.

What suprises me is how many people will willingly take coumadin or another prescribed blood thinner and then have to "LIMIT" or eliminate, depending on their blood workup........foods like BROCCOLI, CRANBERRIES, GINGER AND ON AND ON AND ON........which are all natural blood thinners...........

What they don't know is that coumadin and warfarin type pharmaceuticals were originally developed from a simple rat poison which had the rats bleed out. Horrible thought either way, and sad, but true if you do the research.

Garlic is another natural blood thinner; perhaps that is the clue to why Italians lived so long back in the olden days.

A dear friend and relative has to limit so many of her beloved healthy foods because she is on the prescribed blood thinner for her mitral valve replacement (artificial valve).

The pharmaceutical companies want you and the doctors beholden to them for simple profit reasons.

[quirky3]

Cool! I think there is a lot we can learn (or rediscover) about natural remedies. "Everything old is new again"!

[jblum315]

Wasn't James Duke part of the Duke tobacco family? Just asking?

[senior citizen]

Originally Posted by jblum315

Wasn't James Duke part of the Duke tobacco family? Just asking?

That was James Buchanan Duke.....I just looked it up. Link below.


James Buchanan Duke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

p.s.
I believe there also was a "Duke" who was involved in a white supremacist type organization.

However, the Dr. James A. Duke I referred to, studied plants in the rain forest and all over, in fact. Many of the things he suggested have now been turned into big bucks by the pharmaceutical companies.......we have an inlaw who is a chemist by trade, and a Ph.D, who worked for the big Drug Companies.......they manufacture the same natural ingredients found in plants, etc. into synthetic versions and charge a lot more.........than if you say , bought an aloe plant..........my mom always kept an aloe plant on her window ledge.......great for any skin problem...........or the capcasin in icy hot is really from red peppers or whatnot. You can even grow some of your own remedies..........the old Europeans and Asians, back in the old countries, knew all of this, without the benefit of an education............or Ph.D. for that matter.
They knew what garlic could do and so forth and so on..............

Back in our childhoods and beyond, doctors did NOT TEST TO THE EXTREME like they do now.
They could tell by looking at you, at various parts of your body, "what might be going on".
Strange but it is true that even big medicine is now advising NOT TO HAVE SO MANY TESTS as were suggested or required a decade ago............could it be that they've discovered all that radiation is NOT GOOD for the human body????? Just saying.

BIO



Duke James



Job
Lecturer, International Expeditions Inc
Main Location
Helena, AL




GENERAL INFO






JAMES A. DUKE, PhD
Former Economic Botanist with USDA Germplasm Resources Laboratory Scientific Consultant
Dr. James Duke is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Carolina. Following a 2½-year tour of military duty, he took his Ph.D. in Botany at the University of North Carolina, moving on to postdoctoral activities at Washington University and the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, Missouri, where he assumed professor and curator duties, respectively. He worked for extended periods in Panama and Colombia on studies addressing crop diversification and medicinal plant utilization. Duke has served as a leader on over 20 programs to the Amazon rainforest since 1991. A popular lecturer, he has appeared on many radio and television programs. His publications are numerous. Some of his most recent include Handbook of Northeastern Indian Medicinal Plants, CRC Handbook of Agricultural Energy Potential for Developing Countries and The Amazonian Ethnobotanical Dictionary. His most recent publication is entitled The Green Pharmacy. In addition to a distinguished 30-year career with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Dr. Duke sits on the board of directors and advisory councils of numerous organizations involved in plant medicine and the rainforest. Dr. Duke was presented with the 2000 Distinguished Economic Botanist award from the Society for Economic Botany. Currently he is working on a second draft of his Amazing Amazon Food, featuring twenty Amazon herbs that can be exceedingly useful as “food farmacy”