HOW TO RESEARCH YOUR ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE HERBS
To Paraphrase The Seven Ages of Life;
SPILLS. DRILLS, THRILLS THRILLS THRILLS, BILLS CELEBRATION, CELEBRATION, And WILLS...
Some have said the Seven Ages of Life should be in other order with thrills 20 times (Who's counting?) and rhyme more with celebration, but when we are in power, let it be said that herbs are only the start of life, this is How the Seven Ages should be....
How to take your alternate medicine herbs, to know which are the best, and to remember if you took them? If you'd rather learn about alternative health without an expensive herbalist, this site you may be of value. If we want the economy to heat up more, it's simple, let it read the Swimwear Issue of Sports Illustrated! Nuns in Akron never retire, she'll always be around!
Herbs may be better than conventional health care in many instances, often doctors can't help and there are far more problems from prescriptions than OTC's each year by an order of magnitude of about 10,000/1. Herbs aren't completely safe, but they are "mostly natural" and most of the time are safe and of value because when metabolized they are simply removed from the body by the usual cleansing of our physiology via the liver and kidneys.
How To Take Herbs Best If Own Your Own Because a Doctor Can't or Won't Help Or To Improve Your Health Naturally
To find out about new herbs you think may be of worth read health magazines You can get a free subscription to, e.g. Energy Times, the price is the best of all! No doubt books by reputable authors e.g. Earl Mindel or the surgeon general, Time Life Books Health series and so on are good too. Even top web sites may be not as safe and reliable and sometimes like with "cures" like Progesterone or DMSO, the sulpfur compound. All the top websites may tell you they're cure alls when actually Progesterone and other hormones have been found to be carcinogenics by the state of California, and the elevated the risk has been found to never be reduced by going off the progesterone. Likewise DMSO has a long list of seemingly nobel prize winning awards but a closer look perhaps 50 pages down shows that it causes permanent bladder damage and damage to lense of the eye. With improved science a hen's aim is better with egg boxes than in the old days! In the unsolicited postal ads for DMSO you may read things like the reason it was disenfrachised by doctors and the government was because it would "put the doctors out of business" because it's so good not because of problems because it's too powerful to be of worth. There's no guarantee there are no hawkers who bought a lot of progesterone or DMSO cheap before it was found to be harmful and in order to make money after it became worthless, and who decided to just hang on to the original claims so they would feel good without worry about passing off the savings from the customer. Thus any unsolicited ad for a herbal claim of powerful healing or helping even if seemingly blostered via evidence of many top websites is to be viewed with caution. If at the wedding, "With all my wordly goods I do thee endow", many grooms are savvy if the bride to be hands him a softship, and a sweetship! Magazines like Fitness or the subscriptions to other magazines at no cost and books too are a good source of general savvy about OTC's. Building up your knowledge of the herbs gradually by doing research in realiable reams is the best way for safety. By finding the herbs in a magazine or a reputable herb catalog (e,g. Puritan's Pride, ZVitamins are low cost they've been doing good business for 40 or more years) you have a better assurance the OTC or vitamin you buy works and isn't just of no worth or even harmful. Helpful is a landlady who drives to labor day each month in a triple wide, and who always makes a living being alive for money!
...No doubt, once you've decided on a herb that seems best find out about safety first, type in words like does this "herb cause cancer, high blood pressure, blood sugar problems?" using specific health words. When you find a site that sez e.g. "panax ginseng causes general toxicity when used longer than 2 weeks" on a general site, type in "ginseng toxicity" or "panax toxicity" and find more pages here, this is especially of worth to safety if the word is a real caution because you find more truthful answers. Unlike commercial type sites authors with have no reason not to tell some truth, may have no reason not to tell you more. Do this in addition to typing in the word "herb, monograph" and other sites that you may type in with words like "herb cautions warnings" for. Think of your knowledge about herbs as an ongoing process, lasting months or years. If you type in one good question and recieve no answer, return later and ask other related questions, building up your knowledge. Herbs aren't simple and this takes time. Sometimes the answer is hidden deep within the web. While web fortune tellers are reliable via instant ginseng and read better so the years and months are allready here, real life is more reliable! In general use sites that aren't selling the herb for your safety information. And alternate medicine is not the opposite of traditional medicine, they go well when combined for most optimum worth, no doubt, ask your doctor..
This is the first phase of testing. A good method to find out about herbs is to read the ads themselves in health magazines (probably not as worthless as other ads) where you've also read about the herb in the articles of the magazine, you find out all the business promotion at the high end. For what's advertised as strong, more web research than usual is always advised especially if the source is unsolicited and seeking you out (like mailing lists.).
If it seems of worth, it's often of worth to buy it at lower cost from higher volume retailers by way of reliable information and low cost.
Once you have the herb in hand, how to know if it's of worth? First start at a low dose and watch for cautions or improvements. If you're especially cautious, try it on your body near where you want the health benefit. All herbs should be treated as of equal risk when you start because while the probability of dying is small the chance it will cause permanent side effects is about 1 in 100. Thus ALWAYS take a small dose the first time ON THE SKIN, and WAIT A WEEK while watching for any bad events that might be permanent, then if no harm has come, gradually increase to say two days, three days ect after reading and obeying all cautions no doubt.This is the safest way because there are some retailers who are selling compounds that can cause permanent side effects, and there's no way to always know which herbs or other compounds they are. This is a lot safer than perscription pharmaceuticals. It's a bit more inconvenient, but is the safer way to reduce risk for OTC's.
After this, in Phase 2 take it in the morning. For a more reliable way to know, set two loud alarms, one for morning, one for the afternoon at 12 noon or 1pm. The first day in the second phase just take the AM dose, then try just the PM dose and compare the two. This is good for refining your search fast. You know how it works because you take it at noon and you're awake all afternoon so you can compare the two. Three herbs that may be of worth one AM can be used to compare them to the PM so you're more alert than when you're zonked. If your results are good for the three herbs, try them one at at time by the AM FM method, to find the herb of worth. Since this knowledge is non intuitive and valuable it's of worth to document your progress. Being savvy by this method about which herb is rich makes it so you can achieve the most advantage for the cheapest sales and saving event you hope for. Be sure to take your herbs in phase 2 at the same time at first with the alarm. Many herbs, e.g. Ginseng (eleuthro) "settle in" and have a different effect if you take them at the same time each day. You may get another health option by knowing whether to change the time or not. (I think I'd settle for being over 21 if they made one simple change, base it not on how unaware they are but on how savvy I feel!) If you have to be real exact in hour and minute and second of your herbs or perscription (don't count on your doctor to tell you about this, they often don't even know or don't have time to tell you) and want to make real sure you don't miss the dose, In Phase 3 use two loud alarms for the time of day when you know you're near them, the first alarm say a minute or two ahead of the second (put them on two shelves so you have another way to know which is first, and use different clocks). This gives you time to get ready without so much adjustment/change to take the herb at the right time if timing is an issue, this is not uncommon, and is of worth when changing your dose ect because if one alarm fails you have the other one.
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HOW TO FIND HERBS OR PERSCRIPTIONS OR EVEN WHILE YOU'RE ALMOST ASLEEP.....
If you think outside the box, what will wear a path to you? Web Words! I've evolved a method of taking my vitamins and other compounds even in the PM while in bed if of worth. First many people take the herbs in all the jugs in a box, how to know if you've taken the herbs for that time? Pill boxes with the month's herbs? This takes hours of your life a year to load, and you may have dropped a months worth of vitamins and herbs two or three times when you drop the box. The box costs a lot for bigger boxes to fit the powders and herbs in, and may lose potency. It's not easy to know what's in the box (dose, number of herbs, safety) without writing for hours on the label. This doesn't work for powders like for dermal use (I was walking through a supermarket and I heard a faint voice yelling , "Save, Save me!" It was a package of powdered VISA!). And how to take them while in the cozy bed? I thought of the computerized pill box, seems like a bright idea, (finally, the web is OTC) even so this has the problem of cost, loading the herbs, dropping the expensive pill box and herbs, and no allowed use of other than solid herbs like caps. And like the older pill boxes you have to enter the data about each herb in the label on the outside or type in the cyber pill of science and math. I thought of a sort of pill loading machine, you pour the herbs in a series of pill bins, each say 2 1/2 inches wide, they drop into one trough, into your hand, 100% real! Even so you still have the problem of not knowing what herb is for what and safety info, and so on, and would the herbs stay viable in the bins?
Perhaps to hold on to the jugs, complete with the outer labels, and tying them with strong poly string around the top into a line of jugs, so you know if you took them in order by memory. The problem here was that I actually didn't remember just that, there were sometimes many of them. I was having a great AM that night, I opened a fortune cookie and it was a winning VISA for 10,000!
The best way I've found for the light hours is to put the herb jugs in a drawer, I use the kitchen shelf standard under my stove, it's easy to open and close.The low shelf is best because you you can see all the vitamins and you won't drop the herbs far, this was a real problem with A/Z viramins on the shelf even while A Z was of more worth than the other methods even the computerized box. With the herbs and vitamins in the jugs sidewise I can see them all at a glance, no need to put them in order, just cluster the jugs by purpose, one set for heart power, one for general health, and so on. Since I don't use my stove, the broiler rack holds the pill jugs with the small grease slots where the grease would fall down to the lower level, so they don't move from vertical.
A way to take them even while you'tr asleep if necessary is by a modular wire attached to each jug. First secure a line or rubber band around the top of one type of jug, say one batch for circulation, one for other health, time to take or whatever, then tie the line to perhaps just one or two more, then clip the center line to a clip attached to another wire, and at the other end of this wire itself was a second clip. The second clip can be clicked on the wires of my electric fan or shelf beside the bed. Thus there are batches of jugs attached at definite heights, so you can reach over and feel around for them even at night with many shapes of the jugs. And because it's over by the bed, when the alarm goes off, and in the day time this is a definite activity, it's more memorable sitting on the cushy bed over on the other side, so it's good to remember to take the herbs, often this isn't true with herbs up on the shelf, for better health. (I know why my delivery woman is so healthy, like a goddess. The glue on stamps, how many calories?) On the shelf there's often no guarantee you took them all, because if you're in a hurry you have to read the jugs one by one often with question and answer, but with the batches by lines they're already well sorted by type. Since these are modular batches you can edit them as your herbs improve with research science, and they're portable so you can unclip them from the fan or other shelf and move them to other batches, and put them in your knapsack to take them when you're on the road with Maria Shriver. To take herbs like powders you can combine them in small jugs with a binder like olive oil, this is not probable with pill boxes or even the pill bin. You always know the dose by the information on the jug. Modular wires and clips are better because with smaller batches of jugs they're organized. With many herbs and many of them running out at random times of the month the jugs were often jumbled in the box, out of the box they would be in other boxes. For the decor of your house they can go in a beautious box with the modular clips and line and you can always find them.
To remember to take a herb like fiber or other with food a good method is to put the jug right in front of where you eat each meal or snack and just sit in the chair facing the jug or herb you want to remember. This can be made more beautious by putting the herbs in a decorative box so if the site manager or my laundry woman arrives she hasn't lost a single button and has found 10 suds machines!
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