Gingko Biloba - An Herbal Foundation of Youth For Your Brain

Informationen zum Autor Glenn S.  Rothfeld, M.D, M.Ac., was a clinical fellow at Harvard University School of Medicine after his training in family medicine.  He has also been trained in nutritional and herbal medicine and has a master's degree in acupuncture.  He is the founder and medical director of Spectrum Medical Arts in Arlington, Massachusetts, one of the nation's first medical practices to combine conventional and alternative approaches.  Currently, he is the regional medical director for American WholeHealth.  He is also a clinical assistant professor of community medicine and family health at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston.  Dr. Rothfeld is the author of four books on natural medicine and has written numerous articles for medical journals and health magazines.  He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, with his wife and four children. Suzanne LeVert is the author of numerous health books, including: Melatonin: The Anti-Aging Hormone, Natural Medicine for Heart Disease, The Breast Cancer Prevention Plan, and Out of the Fog: Treatment Options and Coping Strategies for Adult Attention Deficit Disorder. Klappentext The latest scientific research on ginkgo biloba confirms that the herb can also improve circulation! alleviate depression! fight tinnitus! treat varicose veins! reverse impotence! and help patients in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. This comprehensive resource offers up-to-date ginkgo biloba facts plus advice on how to use the herb most effectively. Ginkgo Biloba: An Ancient Tonic for Health and Longevity Eons ago, when the first ancestors of humans noticed that chewing certain  leaves seemed to give them extra energy or protect them from sickness, the  field of herbal medicine was born. Through much of recorded history people  looked to the plant world to provide them with medicines as well as food,  shelter, and clothing. Folklore was built around the healing powers of  certain herbs. Wars were fought over ownership of ginseng, a medicinal  herb grown in the Orient, and over camellia sinensis (tea), an herbal  beverage plentiful in the East Indies. Holy men and women revered the  ginkgo biloba trees, protecting and cultivating them on the grounds of  their Chinese and Japanese temples. Healers learned to prepare herbs in  every manner from teas and infusions to poultices, washes, and tinctures.  And no garden was complete without the beauty of healing herbs like  echinacea, lavender, and feverfew. Then came the machine age, and with it the ability to create out of  chemicals what once was the province of nature. Following their successes  providing Civil War soldiers with battlefield medications, pharmacists  like Squibb and Eli Lilly started to produce medications and taught  doctors how to use them. New drugs were more powerful, but also more risky  and more expensive. Though many drugs were based on natural plant  components, they usually were altered so that the potency was heightened,  and the balance of natural ingredients was eliminated. Medical schools  graduated generations of doctors who relied heavily on these drug  therapies, and the pharmaceutical companies were constantly producing new  ones. Currently, of the 200 most commonly used medications, fewer than 20  were developed before World War II. But in the last few years, a movement has begun in medicine to turn again  toward our natural world and seek answers to what it might hold. Just as a  sprout of grass might grow up through a concrete sidewalk, so has herbal  medicine reasserted itself in the arena of healing choices. But there is a  new twist to the current use of herbal medicine (also called phytomedicine  or botanical medicine). That is, the state-of-the-art science that has  driven our pharmaceutical industry now analyzes the active components of  herbs to standardize them, to produce them in mass quantity and in easily  dispensed ...

Product details

• Authors: Suzanne Le Vert
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 10.11.1998
• EAN: 9780440226253
• ISBN: 978-0-440-22625-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 108 mm x 177 mm x 13 mm