Holistic Health Articles and Research Related to Herbal Medicines, Foods and Phytochemicals

Sunday, 6 August 2017

Herbal Therapy: Chamomile, The Best Whole Herb medicine for Anti-Allergic Effects

Kyle J. Norton, Master of Nutrients
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published on line, including world wide health, ezine articles, article base, healthblogs, selfgrowth, best before it's news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
Named TOP 50 MEDICAL ESSAYS FOR ARTISTS & AUTHORS TO READ by Disilgold.com Named 50 of the best health Tweeters Canada - Huffington Post
Nominated for shorty award over last 4 years
Some articles have been used as references in medical research, such as international journal Pharma and Bio science, ISSN 0975-6299.

"Let foods be your medicine and let medicines be your food", using foods as medication has been a dream of many scholars and scientists over past many centuries. In order to achieve these, consumption of whole food medicine must accompany with moderated exercise, such as regular walking, change of diet and life style.

Chamomile, a most popular plant used in herbal medicine may consist a natural power in anti-allergic activity.
According to the Hanagal Shri Kumareshwar College of Pharmacy, in mast cell mediated allergy model, methanol extract from chamomile inhibited histamine release induced allergic activities.

Chamomile is also known as camomile, common name of many species daisy-like plants in the family Asteraceae, used in traditional medicine as antispasmodic and anti-inflammatory constituents and to treat menstrual cramps and sleep disorders, reduce cramping and spastic pain in the bowels, relieve excessive gas and bloating in the intestine, etc.

In the study of the biological activity of 20 essential oils (EOs) from herbal plants, chamomile not only inhibited significantly cancer cell growth but also and reduced cellular process of releases antimicrobial cytotoxic in mast cell which is the main cause of over reaction of immune system in induction of allergic effects.

Furthermore, the herbal plant is also found to suppress an immunoglobulin E (IgE)-induced increased permeability of vessels cause of allergic and inflammatory effects through immune stimulatory effects in inhibited the proinflammatory cytokines and protein involved in systemic inflammation.

Dr. Kobayashi Y, the lead author said, " The single peroral administration of the ethyl acetate extract or essential oil of German chamomile (Matricaria recutita L.) showed remarkable antipruritic effects in the compound 48/80-induced itch-scratching test in ddY mice"
and "essential oil of German chamomile and antihistamines might be effective for the pruritus which could not be perfectly resolved alone by conventional antihistamines".

Although, herbal chamomile may have a potential for prevention and treatment of auto immune system induced allergic effects, the use of the herb should be taken with care to prevent overdoses.

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(1) Anti-allergic activity of German chamomile (Matricaria recutita L.) in mast cell mediated allergy model BY Chandrashekhar VM1, Halagali KS, Nidavani RB, Shalavadi MH, Biradar BS, Biswas D, Muchchandi IS.(PubMed)
(2) Effects of essential oils from herbal plants and citrus fruits on DNA polymerase inhibitory, cancer cell growth inhibitory, antiallergic, and antioxidant activities by Mitoshi M1, Kuriyama I, Nakayama H, Miyazato H, Sugimoto K, Kobayashi Y, Jippo T, Kanazawa K, Yoshida H, Mizushina Y.(PubMed)
(3) Suppression of allergic and inflammatory responses by essential oils derived from herbal plants and citrus fruits by Mitoshi M1, Kuriyama I1, Nakayama H2, Miyazato H2, Sugimoto K2, Kobayashi Y3, Jippo T3, Kuramochi K4, Yoshida H1, Mizushina Y1.(PubMed)

(4) AMT: preclinical pharmacology studies by Niazi F1, Drevs J, Diergarten K, Dorn A, Maier A, Fiebig HH, Bruyns E, Scheele J.(PubMed)

(5) Antipruritic effect of the single oral administration of German chamomile flower extract and its combined effect with antiallergic agents in ddY mice by Kobayashi Y1, Takahashi R, Ogino F.(PubMed)

Saturday, 5 August 2017

Food Therapy: Asparagus, the Natural Whole Food for Reduced Risk, Complications and Treatment of Oral Cancer

Kyle J. Norton, Master of Nutrients
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published on line, including world wide health, ezine articles, article base, healthblogs, selfgrowth, best before it's news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
Named TOP 50 MEDICAL ESSAYS FOR ARTISTS & AUTHORS TO READ by Disilgold.com Named 50 of the best health Tweeters Canada - Huffington Post
Nominated for shorty award over last 4 years
Some articles have been used as references in medical research, such as international journal Pharma and Bio science, ISSN 0975-6299.

Whole food(herbal medicine) used as medical treatment, linking health benefits in prevention, management and treatment of diseases has induced much interests in today renowned scientists.
But many researchers have raised question of herbal quality, because geographic differences, time of grown and harvest, etc. may effect their's potency. I do believe, these questions can only be answered by experience herbalists.

Regular intake of Asparagus may have a reduced risk of progression and development of oral cancer, the renowned institution study suggested.

Treatment of oral cancer in conventional medicine involved immune suppression through the need of antibiotics may contribute to complications of patients with oral cancer, such as infection prompt many patients to research for alternative treatment with little or no side effects.

According to University of Florida, supplement, such as asparagus use currently in cancer prevention rather than treatment.of oral cancer probably due to mechanism of action for bioactive compounds, such as epigallocatechin, epicatechin-3-gallate,....

Dr. the lead author said, " Preclinical and clinical evidence for the use of green tea, raspberry, asparagus, and cannabis extracts is discussed in this review. Diet changes, supplementation with antioxidants, high-dose vitamin C therapy, and cannabinoid use have been suggested to decrease cancer cell replication and increase chance of remission"

Asparagus is a flowering plant belong to species the genus Asparagus, native to the western coasts of northern Spain, north to Ireland, Great Britain, and northwest Germany, northern Africa and western Asia, used from early times as a vegetable and medicine, because of its delicate flavour and diuretic properties.

Oral cancer is any malignant cell growth in the tissue located in the oral cavity, including the tissue of the lips or the tongue, cheek lining, floor of the mouth, gums (gingiva) and the roof of the mouth (palate).

In the study of blood sample of 40 oral cancer patients undergoing treatment in the radiotherapy unit of Regional Cancer Institute, Asparagus racemosus Willd. exerted a strong effect against infection caused byStaphylococcus aureus (23.2%), Escherichia coli (15.62%), Staphylococcus epidermidis (12.5%), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (9.37%), Klebsiella pneumonia (7.81%), Proteus mirabilis (3.6%), Proteus vulgaris (4.2%) and the fungal pathogens Candida albicans (14.6%), Aspergillus fumigatus (9.37%).

Researchers at the institute also suggested, oral cancer patients were neutropenic with abnormally low level of neutrophils and and prone to secondary micro infection.. Asparagus may be used as antimicrobial agent to check the secondary infections in cancer patients.

Taking altogether, asparagus has shown to exert a significant anti progression, complications and treatment of oral cancer, but further multi centers and large sample size studies are necessary to validate this claim.

Herbal Therapy: Chaste Tree Berry's Estrogenic Effects

Kyle J. Norton, Master of Nutrients
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published on line, including world wide health, ezine articles, article base, healthblogs, selfgrowth, best before it's news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
Named TOP 50 MEDICAL ESSAYS FOR ARTISTS & AUTHORS TO READ by Disilgold.com Named 50 of the best health Tweeters Canada - Huffington Post
Nominated for shorty award over last 4 years
Some articles have been used as references in medical research, such as international journal Pharma and Bio science, ISSN 0975-6299.

The use of plants for healing purposes has been predated long before the existence of modern medicine. Herbal plants have formed a fundamental source for conventional medicine in discovery of single ingredient medication, including aspirin (from willow bark), quinine (from cinchona bark), and morphine (from the opium poppy)......

Chaste-tree berry (Vitex agnus-castus L.) displaced estrogenic ability induced the reaction of estrogen from the binding site of estrogen receptors alpha (ERalpha) and beta (ERbeta), in ameliorated the deregulation of 17β-Estradiol (E2) in exhibited the initiation and progression of cell malignancies, affecting various aspect in women body, a study by respectable Institute suggested.

Chaste tree berry is a species of Vitex agnus-castus, genus Vitex, belonging to the family Lamiaceae, native to the Mediterranean region, used in herbal medicine for thousands of year as anaphrodisiac herb and considered as Queen herb in treating menstrual problems and discomforts.

According to the University of Illinois at Chicago, linoleic acid isolated from the extract of Vitex agnus-castus exerted estrogenic activity in binding to estrogen receptors, inducing certain estrogen-inducible gene expression in preserving the integrity of the genome, presented in a cell or organism.

Dr. Jarry H, the lead author in the study of "evidence for estrogen receptor beta-selective activity of Vitex agnus-castus and isolated flavones" found that beside linoleic acid, flavones derivative vitexin and penduletin. isolated from vitex agnus-castus (VAC) also expressed estrogenic effect as most active ERss-selective phytoestrogens.

Other researchers insisted that the estrogenic components of plant extracts may constitute a potential use for some dietary supplements in human for treatment of various estrogen related syndromes and diseases, including breast and prostate cancers, menopausal symptoms, osteoporosis, atherosclerosis and stroke, and neurodegeneration.

Taking together, Chaste tree berry processes a strong estrogenic effects in binding estrogen receptor site to preserve the balancing of hormone expression of estrogen through ER alpha and ERBeta inhibition and exhibition by regulating the function of some estrogen-inducible genes.

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(1) Isolation of linoleic acid as an estrogenic compound from the fruits of Vitex agnus-castus L. (chaste-berry) by Liu J1, Burdette JE, Sun Y, Deng S, Schlecht SM, Zheng W, Nikolic D, Mahady G, van Breemen RB, Fong HH, Pezzuto JM, Bolton JL, Farnsworth NR.(PubMed)
(2) Evidence for estrogen receptor beta-selective activity of Vitex agnus-castus and isolated flavones by Jarry H1, Spengler B, Porzel A, Schmidt J, Wuttke W, Christoffel V.(PubMed)
(3) Evaluation of estrogenic activity of plant extracts for the potential treatment of menopausal symptoms by Liu J1, Burdette JE, Xu H, Gu C, van Breemen RB, Bhat KP, Booth N, Constantinou AI, Pezzuto JM, Fong HH, Farnsworth NR, Bolton JL.(PubMed)
(4) Health effects of phytoestrogens by Branca F1, Lorenzetti S.(PubMed)

Friday, 4 August 2017

Alternative Therapy: Yoga Participants Experience Lower and Fewer Symptoms of Depression

Kyle J. Norton (Scholar, Master of Nutrients, All right reserved)
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published on line, including world wide health, ezine articles, article base, healthblogs, selfgrowth, best before it's news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
Named TOP 50 MEDICAL ESSAYS FOR ARTISTS & AUTHORS TO READ by Disilgold.com Named 50 of the best health Tweeters Canada - Huffington Post
Nominated for shorty award over last 4 years
Some articles have been used as references in medical research, such as international journal Pharma and Bio science, ISSN 0975-6299.

Good news for attendees in yoga lessons, a renowned institute study suggested yoga may be the best treatment used as adjunctive intervention for patients with continued depressive symptoms despite antidepressant treatment.

Depression is a normal response as part of our daily lives such as the loss of s job, the death of a love one, and illness. Over 30 million Americans suffer from depression and the amount is increasing in an alarming rate. Depression may be a mental health disorder that can affect the way you eat, sleep, and the way you feel about yourself.

Yoga is an ancient practical technique of India, included breath control, meditation, bodily movement and gesture,..... with an aim to achieve harmonization of the body, mind, and spirit.

In a randomized controlled trial of weekly yoga classes (n = 63) vs health education classes (Healthy Living Workshop; HLW; n = 59) in individuals with elevated depression symptoms and antidepressant medication use. HLW served as an attention-control group, with intervention period of 10 weeks, with follow-up assessments 3 and 6 months afterwards, group attended yoga class yoga showed a decreased levels of depression in comparison to control group.
At 6-month follow-up, 51% of yoga participants display an improvement of great than 50% in reduction in depression symptoms compared with 31% of HLW participants.

Dr. Uebelacker LA, the lead author suggested, yoga participants expressed a fewer depression symptoms which was found over the entire follow-up period. the benefits of yoga may gradually accumulate over time.

Nevertheless, a recruited 38 adults in San Francisco meeting criteria for major depression of mild-to-moderate severity, per structured psychiatric interview and scores of 14-28 on Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI) study also found that the efficacy of yoga in demonstration of decline in BDI scores than controls and yoga participants were more likely to achieve remission, defined per final BDI score ≤ 9 (p-value = 0.018)in adults with mild-to-moderate major depression.

Collectively, people with depressive syndrome may be benefits a reduction of symptoms and

if participated in yoga class regardless to the treatment of antidepressant medicine.

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Sources
(1) Treating major depression with yoga: A prospective, randomized, controlled pilot trial by Prathikanti S1, Rivera R2, Cochran A3, Tungol JG4, Fayazmanesh N5, Weinmann E6.(PubMed)
(2) Adjunctive yoga v. health education for persistent major depression: a randomized controlled trial by Uebelacker LA1, Tremont G2, Gillette LT3, Epstein-Lubow G1, Strong DR4, Abrantes AM1, Tyrka AR1, Tran T2, Gaudiano BA1, Miller IW1.(PubMed)
(3) Treating major depression with yoga: A prospective, randomized, controlled pilot trial by Prathikanti S1, Rivera R2, Cochran A3, Tungol JG4, Fayazmanesh N5, Weinmann E6.(PubMed)

Herbal Therapy: Green Tea, the Best Functional Food for Oral Health

Green tea, a precious drink processes numbers of health benefit known to almost everyone in Asia and Western world. However, as yin in nature herbal medicine or food, long term injection of large amounts may obstruct the balance of yin-yang, induced "yin excessive syndrome" or "yang vacuity syndrome" including lack of energy, weaken immunity and painful case of GERD,... according to traditional Chinese medicine's Yin-Yang theory.

According to the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Polyphenols including epigallocatechin 3 gallate (EGCG) isolated from green tea ameliorated oral cavity oxidative stress and inflammation, cigarette smoking and cigarettes' deleterious compounds nicotine and acrolein.

Dr. Narotzki B, the lead author of the study said, " Generally, green tea defends healthy cells from malignant transformation and locally has the ability to induce apoptosis in oral cancer cells. All together, there is an increasing interest in the health benefits of green tea in the field of oral health".

In the review of beneficial effects of green tea on oral disease, researchers found that green tea not only reduced the bacterial activity in the oral cavity in expression of the aforementioned oral afflictions but also attenuated risk of oral cancer through the antioxidant activities.

EGCG, in Solobacterium moorei, a volatile sulfide compound (VSC)-producing Gram-positive anaerobic bacterium study, displayed a significant effect in inhibited the growth of S. moorei, with MIC values of 500 and 250 μg/ml resulting in reduced the adherence of S. moorei to oral epithelial cells.

The study also suggested, the efficacy of green tea extract and EGCG protected oral health by inhibited the progression of Solobacterium moorei probably through the ameliorated S. moorei's β-galactosidase activity in production of volatile sulfide compound (VSC) in doses dependent manner.

Green tea with abundant natural compounds may be the next generation of whole food used a therapeutic supplement in promoted oral healthcare.

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Sources
(1) Green tea: a promising natural product in oral health by Narotzki B1, Reznick AZ, Aizenbud D, Levy Y.(PubMed)
(2) Green Tea (Camellia Sinensis): Chemistry and Oral Health by Khurshid Z1, Zafar MS2, Zohaib S3, Najeeb S4, Naseem M5.(PubMed)
(3) Green tea extract and its major constituent epigallocatechin-3-gallate inhibit growth and halitosis-related properties of Solobacterium moorei by Morin MP1, Bedran TB2, Fournier-Larente J3, Haas B4, Azelmat J5, Grenier D6.(PubMed)

Thursday, 3 August 2017

Herbal Therapy: Aloe Vera, the Natural Whole Food Medicine in Anti Microbial effects

Aloe Vera is species of succulent plant in the genus Aloe, belonging to the Family Xanthorrhoeaceae, native to Sudan, used in herbal medicine in treating many kinds of disease, including wound, burn healing, minor skin infections, sebaceous cysts, diabetes, and elevated of cholesterol, etc.

In a total of Sixty students in the age group 6-12 years selected from an orphanage center, divided into four groups study, oral adminiostration of Aloe Vera group showed a decrease of the bacterial count by 80.94% .

Dr. Bhati N, the lead author said, "Herbal dentifrices containing A. Vera... can be safely recommended as an alternative to fluoridated dentifrices in terms of antimicrobial efficacy".

In Streptococcus mutans strains, Aloe vera brushing showed a reduced the bacteria contamination of Streptococcus mutans strains, without differentiation from the other chemical agents used.

In fact, Aloe vera in the study against pathogenic such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus cereus, Salmonella Typhimurium, Proteus vulgaris, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Escherichia coli, Streptococcus pyogenes and Candida albicans displayed a significantly antimicrobial inhibition rate zones ranging from 6.0 ± 0.57 to 16.6 ± 0.57 mm as the result of the expression of bioactive compounds with high 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH, stable free-radical molecules isolated from the herb), composed of scavenging properties.

Taking together, oral administration of Aloe Vera is found to associate to reduced risk of microbial infection and infectious diseases, but large amount intake should only prescribed by related field specialist.

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(1) Evaluation of antimicrobial efficacy of Aloe vera and Meswak containing dentifrices with fluoridated dentifrice: An in vivo study by Bhati N1, Jaidka S1, Somani R1(PubMed)
(2) Antimicrobial capacity of Aloe vera and propolis dentifrice against Streptococcus mutans strains in toothbrushes: an in vitro study by Bertolini PF1, Biondi Filho O, Pomilio A, Pinheiro SL, Carvalho MS.(PubMed)
(3) Diversity, antimicrobial and antioxidant activities of culturable bacterial endophyte communities in Aloe vera by Akinsanya MA1, Goh JK2, Lim SP2, Ting AS3.(PubMed)

Alternative Therapy: Yoga, the Ancient Technique for Treatment of Patients with Lower Back Pain

Yoga is a ancient practical technique of India, included breath control, meditation, bodily movement and gesture,..... with an aim to achieve harmonization of the body, mind, and spirit.

Low back pain is a Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) of degenerative disc disease, with pain persisted for longer than 3 months, affecting over 80% of the population in US alone some points in their life.

In a randomized to either yoga or delayed yoga treatment of 150 military veterans in 2013-2015 with outcomes assessed at baseline, 6 weeks, 12 weeks, and 6 months, group attend yoga lessons expressed a greater reductions in Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire scores than delayed treatment participants at 6 months.

The study also found that treatment group displayed improved more on pain intensity and reduced opioid usage at 12 weeks and at 6 months compared to delay group.

Dr. Groessl EJ, the lead author said, " Yoga improved health outcomes among veterans despite evidence they had fewer resources, worse health, and more challenges attending yoga sessions than community samples studied previously".

Other, in a parallel randomized controlled trial comparing yoga to education for 120 Veterans with chronic low back pain, yoga treatment group addressed a great positive effects in improved pain score measured by the Defense and Veterans Pain Rating after 24 weeks.

Furthermore, the study also found that continuous yoga participationa after study not only benefits on physical pain but also showed improved psychological comorbidities.

In support to the above differentiation, the 95 adults recruited from an urban safety-net hospital and five community health centers comparing once-weekly (n = 49) versus twice-weekly (n = 46) standardized yoga classes supplemented by home practice study insisted that there was no differences between once-weekly and twice-weekly groups for pain reduction, but at the 12 weeks, groups with once-weekly or twice-weekly yoga classes exerted the similarly significant efficacy in pain reduction in both group of adults with moderate to severe chronic low back pain.

Truly, evidences in the working population with non-specific low-back pain participated in kundalini yoga at least two times a week, strongly support the effect of yoga in inhibited pain symptom with a significantly reduction in sickness absenteeism.

Taking together, yoga may be one of alternative treatment of ancient techniques having a potential effect in reduced pain in patients with lower back pain, please make sure you mention your specific limitation to your instructor before commencing.
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(1) Yoga for Military Veterans with Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial by Groessl EJ1, Liu L2, Chang DG3, Wetherell JL4, Bormann JE5, Atkinson JH4, Baxi S6, Schmalzl L7.(PubMed)
(2) Yoga versus education for Veterans with chronic low back pain: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial by Saper RB1, Lemaster CM2, Elwy AR3,4, Paris R5, Herman PM6, Plumb DN7, Sherman KJ8,9, Groessl EJ10,11, Lynch S12, Wang S7, Weinberg J13.(PubMed)
(3) Comparing Once- versus Twice-Weekly Yoga Classes for Chronic Low Back Painin Predominantly Low Income Minorities: A Randomized Dosing Trial by Saper RB1, Boah AR, Keosaian J, Cerrada C, Weinberg J, Sherman KJ.(PubMed)