A Mini - Course in Herbal Medicine
QUIT FOR SURE™ Stop Smoking Support Program
Ingredients, Properties, Uses and Applications
This information is for educational purposes only.
The information provided is not intended as a
treatment or cure nor is it meant to replace
professional medical advice.
ALFALFA
Usage: Very high amounts of nutrients. Contains easily absorbed vitamins A, C, D, E, K, B vitamins, protein, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, sodium, potassium, silicon, iron, zinc, copper. Also contains eight digestive enzymes that aid the stomach in the processing of food which allows better assimilation of nutrients throughout the body.. Tonic for kidneys, liver, prostate, digestive system, glands, reproductive system, musculoskeletal system. Cholesterol lowering action. In quit smoking program, supplies minerals and nutrition in order to strengthen your system.
ARTICHOKE LEAF
Usage: Increases liver production of both liquid and solid constituents of bile. Protects liver from toxins and stimulates regeneration of liver cells. Good for fatty degeneration of liver. Decreases cholesterol synthesis in liver. Helps get fat stores out of liver and into bloodstream to be excreted from the body. Lowers blood fats. It helps to remove toxins caused by cigarette smoking.
ASTRALAGUS
Usage: Strengthens defensive energy of body. Tones lungs, used for frequent colds, shortness of breath. Stimulates responsiveness of T-cells (cells that make direct contact with foreign materials to either destroy them or alert other immune cells to their presence). Lowers blood pressure. Good for cardiovascular problems, vascular degeneration and congestion, heart disease. Tones blood. Improves blood circulation of the skin. Balances energy of all internal organs. Used for glandular problems - liver, kidney, spleen, adrenal glands. Regulates sugar metabolism. Promotes urination. Good for water retention.
BAYBERRY
Usage: Clears sinus, astringent but doesn't dry out mucous membranes. Improves voice. Aids digestion, helps ensure nutrients are absorbed into the bloodstream. Used for chronic stomach inflammation. Cleanses lymphatics and liver. Good for circulation. Blood builder. Gets rid of obstructions. Tones up tissue, muscles. Promotes healthy glandular activity.
BUCKTHORN
Usage: Aids liver congestion, helps to carry blood and liver toxins out of the body. Good for gall stone, lead poisoning. Calms gastro-intestinal tract, mild laxative, good for chronic constipation. It serves as detoxifier in quit smoking program.
BURDOCK
Usage: Cleans the body of wastes and toxins. Restores liver and gall bladder, stimulates digestive juices and bile secretion. Clears congestion, cleanses the blood and lymphatics, promotes urination and perspiration, clears kidneys of waste and excess uric acid. Antibiotic, anti-fungal and anti-tumor.
CAPSICUM FRUIT
Usage: Nourishing, tonic, stimulant, anti-fatigue. Expectorant. Decongests lungs. Stimulates immune system. Aids digestion and assimilation. Good for constipation. Lowers blood pressure. Strengthens and gives elasticity to arteries and capillaries, regulates cholesterol. Good for kidneys, spleen and pancreas.
CATNIP
Usage: Mild tonic. Aids digestion. Gentle sedative on the nerves, used for restlessness, hysteria and nervous headache. Antibiotic properties, used for colds, flu and bronchitis. Good for suppressed urination.
CHAMOMILE
Usage: Contains a natural substance that acts like a sedative on the body, and a high amount of easily assimilated calcium. Good for nervousness, insomnia, cramps and spasms. Strengthens the eyes. Good for indigestion, gets rid of gas. Used for gastro-intestinal inflammation, heartburn and constipation. Stimulates liver.
CHICKWEED
Usage: Soothing, heals what it contacts. Expectorant. Antibiotic properties. High nutritive content - rich in vitamin C, several B vitamins, calcium and iron. Contains some vitamin A, phosphorus and zinc. Used for constipation, kidney trouble, blood toxicity or poisoning, rheumatism, gout, joint disease, hemorrhoids, eye inflammation. Is an appetite suppressant and is used for weight loss.
DANDELION
Usage: General tonic. Aids all glands involved with digestive system. Stimulates liver in elimination of toxins and congestion. Increases bile production in liver and release stored bile in gall bladder. Blood cleanser, filters toxins and waste from bloodstream. Aids digestion, used for constipation. Expectorant.
ECHINACEA
Usage: Stimulant and tonic. Destroys infection and germs directly and also aids the body's own defense system. Purifies blood, stimulates lymphatic system, increasing its ability to carry waste tissue away from areas of infection.
FENUGREEK
Usage: Clears mucus from bronchial passages. Antiseptic, anti-viral, quickly kills infections of any kind in the lungs. Has large amounts of amino acids. Stimulates liver functions. Lowers blood cholesterol and glucose levels.
FUMITORY
Usage: Tonic. Valuable in clearing obstructions of liver. Powerful purifier of the blood.
GARCINIA
Usage: Have high contents of Hydroxycitrate (HCA) which is the active ingredient in many currently marketed weight loss products. It is marketed under the names Citrin (Sabinsa Corp.) and CitriMax (InterHealth Co.) and appears in products such as the No-Diet Diet , Bio-Max 3000, PhytriMax, Lite Bites , Garcinia Trim-Plus, Garcinia-Max Diet System, Citrilite, Citrichrome, Lipotrol, MicroSlim, Body Busters, and Super Prolean Mega Fat Burner.
GINGER
Usage: Energizes blood. Helps body utilize energy stores to deal with rundown feeling. Offsets nerve-wracking effects of stress, quickens recovery from stress and fatigue. Aids digestion. Good for heart disease, tonic to heart. Good for circulation. Used for headache. Expectorant.
GINKGO
Usage: Good for peripheral blood circulation and circulation to the brain to supply oxygen. Enhances utilization of oxygen and glucose. Enhances blood flow of arteries and veins without change in systemic blood pressure. Good for hardening of the arteries. Inhibits blood clots. Protects brain from free radical damage. Very good for nervous system. Helps prevent premature aging. Improves memory, mental efficiency and ability to concentrate. Reduces anxiety, tension headache, migraine headache and ear ringing.
GOTU KOLA
Usage: Revitalizes nerve and brain cells, improves memory, builds mental stamina, helps balance right and left hemispheres of brain. Helps cleanse hallucinogenic drugs from liver and brain. Produces mental calm and clarity. Nervine tonic, used for nerve disease, insomnia, stress, nervousness, disturbed emotions and depression. Cleanses and feeds immune system. Blood purifier, neutralizes blood acids.
GUGGULU
Usage: Helps regulate the lipid metabolism, showing excellent results in weight control and body fat reduction. Controls cholesterol level. Promotes comfortable movement of joints and muscles. Maintains healthy metabolism and removes toxins from the system.
HAWTHORN
Usage: Tonic for heart and circulation. Improves coronary blood supply. Normalizes heart function in a gentle way, strengthens heart muscle, dilates blood vessels away from the heart which lowers blood pressure and reduces burden on heart. Helps nervous conditions, tension, and insomnia. Controls appetite, aids digestion and assimilation.
HOPS FLOWER
Usage: Stimulating and relaxing nerve tonic. Good for tension, anxiety, headache and coughs. Mild laxative. Tonic for stomach, aids digestion and get rid of gas. Reduces inflammation and relieves accompanying pain.
HYSSOP
Usage: Excellent blood regulator increases circulation and equalizes blood pressure. Healing to kidneys, bladder and spleen. Excellent expectorant. Nervine, used for anxiety.
KELP
Usage: Nutritive tonic for the blood, supplies essential vitamins and mineral salts. Trace minerals and high iodine content. Cleanses blood stream.
KOLA NUT
Usage: A mild stimulant, energizing. Appetite suppressant. Used for migraine headache and indigestion. Increases concentration, good for treatment of fatigue.
LEMON BALM
Usage: Very good for intestinal gas. Used for indigestion, nausea, nervous stomach disorder. Calming and relaxing to the nervous system. Relieves tension and stress. Tonic to heart and circulatory system.
LICORICE ROOT
Usage: Feeds and revitalizes adrenals. Has hormone-like substances which the body can use while adrenals are being restored to their natural function. Purifies blood. Detoxifies spleen, kidneys, stomach and liver. Expectorant, good for coughs, cold and flu. Mild laxative. Calms mind, nourishes brain, promotes contentment and harmony.
LOBELIA
Usage: Causes immediate relaxation and expansion of contracted parts of respiratory system allowing oxygenated blood to flow freely to de-energized tissues. One of the best systemic relaxants available. Expectorant. Good for blood circulation problems. Good for cardiac congestion. Counteracts desire for tobacco.
MARSHMALLOW
Usage: High in minerals, especially calcium. High in oxygen. Rejuvenates lungs, cleanses and rebuilds. Good for inflammation of lungs, respiratory tract. Soothes respiratory tract irritated by coughs, colds, bronchitis, whooping cough, pneumonia and asthma. Good for weak digestion, chronic constipation, coats lower bowels with nutritious substance that strengthens and heals. Soothes and rejuvenates kidneys, good for kidney diseases, pain of gravel and stones, painful or difficult urination.
MILK THISTLE
Usage: Liver and gall bladder tonic, helps heal damaged liver. Increases secretion and flow of bile from the liver and gall bladder. Decreases the damage to the liver from alcohol, both short-term toxicity and long-term degeneration. Protects liver by preventing absorption of toxins. Spleen tonic. Used for congestion of spleen, enlarged spleen. Digestive tonic, good for indigestion and dyspepsia. Used for coughs, bronchitis and pleurisy.
MULLEIN
Usage: Soothes mucous membranes, reduces swelling and pain. Stimulates fluid production to aid expectoration. Antibiotic properties. Good for lymphatic congestion, swelling of glands, asthma, bronchitis, difficult breathing, bleeding from lungs, cough and whooping cough.
OAT STRAW
Usage: Good for nerves. Contains high level of calcium, good for building bone and connective tissue. Used for rheumatism, gallstone, liver and kidney problems, paralysis, gout, painful spasms, chest ailments and stomach problems.
OREGON GRAPE
Usage: Stimulates flow of bile through liver and gall bladder, improves liver function to purify blood of toxins. Laxative. Improves digestion and absorption, dispels gas. Used for chronic constipation. Antiseptic. Stimulates thyroid gland, very healing to lymphatics, good for spleen, helps in bronchial congestion.
PASSION FLOWER
Usage: Anti-spasmodic, sedative. Used for insomnia and various neurological disorders including anxiety, nervousness, restlessness, nervous headache, hypertension, agitation, cardiac palpitation from excitement or shock, exhaustion, and concentration problems. Improves circulation and nutrition to nerve centers. Tones sympathetic nervous system.
PEPPERMINT
Usage: Aids digestion and normalizes gastro-intestinal activity. Absorbs intestinal gas. Inhibits and kills many kinds of micro-organisms that might cause digestive problems. Direct stimulant to entire body, tones and cleanses, helps calm spasmodic pain. Calms and strengthens nerves, eases anxiety and tension. Aids sleeplessness, dizziness. Invigorates mind. Prevents congestion of blood supply to brain, improves ability to concentrate.
PLANTAIN
Usage: Soothing and healing. Beneficial for glandular system. Astringent. Anti-inflammatory. Good for coughs. Relieves pain, coughing, wheezing and irritation of chronic bronchitis. Heals lymph area. Helps clear ears, head of mucous congestion.
RED CLOVER
Usage: Helps liver and kidneys in cleansing the body of impurities. Contains an important trace mineral, molybdenum, that plays an important role in releasing nitrogen from body. Molybdenum with iron produces more rapid formation of oxygen-carrying element in blood than iron alone. Antibiotic properties, anti-spasmodic, expectorant. Good for bronchitis, spasmodic and bronchial coughs, whooping cough. Used in stomach problems, constipation. Anti-cancer.
ROSEHIP
Usage: One of the best natural sources of vitamin C. Helps the body's defenses against infection and colds. Good for debility and exhaustion, constipation, frequent urination. Helps headaches, sores and cramps.
ROYAL JELLY
Usage: Contains complete B-complex including a high amount of pantothenic acid (B5) and pyridoxine (B6). Also contains vitamins A, C, D, E, enzymes, hormones and 18 amino acids. Has anti-bacterial and antibiotic components. Activates immune system. Good for bronchial asthma, liver and kidney disease, insomnia, stomach ulcers, bone fractures and skin disorders.
SAFFLOWER
Usage: Expels gas. Aids intestinal peristalsis (muscle contraction that moves waste out of the body). Aids circulation and eases lower abdominal pains caused by blood stagnation.
SARSAPARILLA
Usage: Attacks and neutralizes microbial substances in the blood stream. Good for removal of heavy metal contaminates from the blood. Antidote for deadly poison, tonic for blood, glands, nerves. Promotes sweating to remove toxins from lymph and circulatory systems. Antibiotic properties, good for colds, flu, fever and pleurisy. Its strength concentrates in the delicate nerve fibers and tissues of the brain, spinal cord, lungs and throat. Purifies nervous system, helps in nervous disease. Stimulates production of reproductive hormones and is also good for hormone excess. Tonic action on sexual organs. Has been used in sexual impotence.
SCULLCAP
Usage: Renews and revives central nervous system. Has tonic influence on spinal cord and brain. Good for nervous tension, restlessness, exhausted or depressed conditions, drug or alcohol withdrawal. Brings about a quiet, natural sleep. Good for headaches. Gives strength to the entire respiratory system.
SLIPPERY ELM
Usage: Soothes, heals and gives strength to irritated and inflamed surfaces, mucous membranes. Absorbs gas and neutralizes acidity in the stomach. Draws out impurities. Used for sore and dry throat, coughs, bronchitis, pleurisy, pneumonia, asthma, lung hemorrhage, gastritis and gastric ulcers.
SPIRULINA
Usage: Is a microscopic blue-green vegetable algae that has been used as a significant food source for centuries. Highly absorbable protein, natural beta carotene, vitamin A, B, GLA (gamma linolenic acid) and essential amino acids. Highly enhances energy and strengthens immune system.
ST. JOHN'S WORT
Usage: Used for depression, alters brain chemistry to improve mood. Good for anxiety, feeling of worthlessness. Greatly improves sleep quality, effective for insomnia and hypersomnia. Pain-relieving sedative used in nerve afflictions and pain, injuries to nerves, nervous tension. Regulates size of blood vessels. Blood purifier. Good for liver, helps kidney and bladder trouble. Expectorant, used for coughs, lung congestion and bronchitis.
TURMERIC
Usage: Antioxidant. Anti-inflammatory properties. Stimulant to gall bladder. Lowers cholesterol and elevates metabolism. Relieves gas and improves digestion.
VALERIAN
Usage: Acts on higher brain centers, enhances motor coordination and maintains reaction time while calming and relaxing. Good for fatigue, restlessness, anxiety, tension, muscle pains, nervous and migraine headache. Promotes restful sleep. Reduces blood pressure, slows the action of the heart, while increasing its force. Aids digestion, prevents gas.
WILD LETTUCE
Usage: Sedative on nerves, calms over-active nervous system. Good for restlessness, insomnia, excitability. Anti-spasmodic, will relieve spasms and pain in stomach and intestines. Eases muscular pain.
