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

Monday, 2 October 2017

Herbal Therapy: Green tea, the Best in Prevention and Treatment of Chronic Inflammatory Diseases

By Kyle J. Norton

People who turn to herbal Medicine for treatment of disease in avoidance of adverse effects induced by conventional medicine must be patient as the alternative treatment can only ease symptoms gradually, depending to stages of the treatment which directly address to the cause of the disease.

Good news for people with chronic inflammatory diseases, green tea polyphenols (GrTPs) is found to reduced risk and progression of the diseases through the exhibition of potent antioxidants in regulating vital signaling pathways involved production of inflammatory cytokines. a renowned institute study suggested

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 weaken immunity and painful case of GERD,... according to traditional Chinese medicine's Yin-Yang theory. Adding a slice of ginger in each drink will attenuate the expression.

Chronic inflammation diseases are medical conditions caused by over reaction of the immune system in protection against microbial invasion and damage to organs due to injure, affecting tissue healing process, which can lead to life-long debilitation and loss of tissue function and organ failure.

According to the University of Kentucky Medical Center, green tea phytochanical polyphenols protected our body against inflammation through actions in intercepted the surge of inflammatory markers like cytokines and production of cyclooxygenase-2 in innated anti inflammatory mytokins.

In chronic Inflammatory Bowel Disease patients, catechin isolated from green tea enhanced the antioxidant production such as such as glutathione peroxidases (GPO) and glutathione (GSH), in significantly inhibited excessive oxidative stress through direct or indirect in reducing the oxidative damages to the colon.

Dr. Fan FY, the lead author said, " catechins can exert their significant anti-inflammatory properties by regulating the activation or deactivation of inflammation-related oxidative stress-related cell signaling pathways( involved proinflammation specifically)".

Particularly, the study also specified, the impression of antioxidant catechin in stabilized the structure of the gastrointestinal micro-ecological environment via promoting the proliferation of beneficial intestinal bacteria and regulating the balance of intestinal flora for induction of relief in patients with IBD.

Furthermore, in psoriasis mouse model, BALB/c mice topically treated with IMQ for 6 consecutive days, displayed a significant alleviated psoriasiform dermatitis, improved the skin pathological structure by reduce the expression of epidermal PCNA(Base cells) and promoted the expression of caspase-14 involved in inflammation.

In fact, according to the study, the efficacy of Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), for treatment of
psoriasis-like inflammation is the result of the phytochemiclal functions in anti-inflammatory, immune regulatory and antioxidant activation.

Taking together, green tea may be used as a protectively functional food in prevention and treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases, but regularly large amount injection should be avoid to prevent toxicity.

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Author Biography
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.

Sources
(1) Chronic Inflammatory Diseases and Green Tea Polyphenols by Oz HS1.(PubMed)
(2) Catechins and Their Therapeutic Benefits to Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Fan FY1, Sang LX2, Jiang M3.(PubMed)

Food Therapy; Coffee and Coffee Caffeine in Reduced Risk of Cancers But Esophageal 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.

In compared to herbal medicine, food therapy even takes longer to ease symptoms, depending to stage of the treatment which directly address to the cause of disease.

Intake of coffee regularly may have a profound effect in reduced risk of cancers, a recent study proposed.

Cancer is a group of diseases characterized by irregular cell growth in any tissue and organ in the body.

Coffee, becoming a popular and social beverage all over the world, particular in the West, is a drink made from roast bean from the Coffea plant, native to tropical Africa and Madagascar.

According to the joint study lead by the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, consumption of healthy foods, particularly coffee with rich in polyphenols might have a substantial influence in reduced prevalence of cancer incidence.

Coffee extract with high chlorogenic acids (CGAs) exhibited the beneficial biological effects in ameliorated risk of cancer through anti-inflammatory activity and anti-carcinogenic activity.

In Ras-dependent breast cancer cell line MDA-MB-231, CGAs also displayed a molecular basis of the activity and chemoprotective in induction of cell apoptosis.

Furthermore, in the review of literature in expression of the association between total, caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee consumption and melanoma risk in a dose-response meta-analysis on prospective cohort studies through searching the data base of PubMed and Embase, researchers indicated, seven studies eligible for meta-analysis, comprised 1,418,779 participants and 9211 melanoma cases. caffeine attenuated melanoma risk with a linear dose-response association between total coffee consumption.

Prevalence risk of melanoma reduced by 3% for additional cup of coffee intake per day.

Dr. Micek A, the lead author said, "coffee intake may be inversely associated with incidence of melanoma".

In further demonstrated coffee and coffee caffeine in ameliorated risk of cancer, the Cox proportional hazards regression was used to estimate multivariable-adjusted hazard ratios (HR) for coffee consumption associated with death from all cancers combined and from specific cancer types among 922,896 Cancer with 1982 as a base line, researchers at joint study lead by the American Cancer Society found that only smokers showed a a non-linear association between coffee consumption and all-cancer death but not in never smokers.

Among non-smokers,drinking 2 cup/day or more showed a significantly inverse associated with death from colorectal, head and neck and female breast cancers, but positively associated with esophageal cancer death .

Taking altogether, coffee and coffee caffeine have a profound effects in reduced risk of many types of cancer, excepted esophageal cancer which may be attributed to long term themo effect of hot beverage intake.

Sunday, 1 October 2017

Alternative Therapy: Yoga, The Best Ancient Intervention In Ameliorated Chronic Pain

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.

People attending yoga lessons long terms demonstrated superior performance on measure of implicit motor imagery in reduced severity of chronic pain, compared non yoga participants.

This implication of superior motor imagery performance in yoga participants actually promoted cortical re-organization in alleviate pain associated with imagination and observation of movement, without triggering the protective pain response.

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.

Chronic pain is a persistence of pain last more 12 weeks and longer.

Dr. Hartnoll SH, the lead researcher said, " Yoga practice is associated with superior motor imagery performance; an association that may be important in explaining the established rehabilitative value of yoga for chronic pain".

In a total of 36 participants (18 yoga, 18 nonyoga) matched for age, sex and handedness, undertook the hand laterality recognition task yoga group scored a magnificent faster result in compared controls (p < 0.05), including greater accuracy, faster responses to images corresponding with the dominant limb and with awkward postures, as indicated motor imagery assay.

Additionally, researchers also emphasized that yoga practiced attendees also expressed a motor imagery performance, involving awkward postures in compared control group.

Other study insisted that mind-body techniques such as yoga may be used as pain and symptom management in conjunction of non-opioid pain medication for certain chronic pain as well as improved quality of life.

Intertestingly, in study to evaluate the regular yoga practice influenced in a left/right judgement task in compared to people who do not, participant after viewing into 40 photographs of a model with their head turned to the left or right, yoga group and non yoga scored a more faster and more accurate (p=0.001) at making left/right neck rotation judgement than they were at making left/right-hand judgements, regardless of groupd. These results may be an indication that yoga may have a chronic pain efficacy through other aspects unrelated to certain tasks.

Taking together, yoga may be a safe and effective technique used for treatment of chronic pain though many mechanisms, including superior motor imagery performance.

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Sources
(1) Yoga practice is associated with superior motor imagery performance by Hartnoll SH1, Punt TD1.(PubMed)
(2) Are people who do yoga any better at a motor imagery task than those who do not? by Wallwork SB1, Butler DS2, Wilson DJ1, Moseley GL3.(PubMed)
(3) A Mind-Body Approach to Pediatric Pain Management by Brown ML1,2, Rojas E3, Gouda S4.9(PubMed)
(4) The effects of graded motor imagery and its components on phantom limb pain and disability in upper and lower limb amputees: a systematic review protocol Katleho Limakatso, Lieselotte Corten and Romy Parker(Systematic Reviews)

Herbal Therapy: Green Tea, the Best Functional in Reduced Risk and Treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

By Kyle J. Norton

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)......

Green tea may be considered as a potential pharmacotherapy for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a renowned institute study suggested.

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 weaken immunity and painful case of GERD,... according to traditional Chinese medicine's Yin-Yang theory. Adding a slice of ginger will resolved the problem.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a condition of lung disease caused by obstruction of air flow in normal breathing.

In a total of 13,651 adults from three Dutch cities examined from 1994 to 1997. observation of dietary intake estimated using a food frequency questionnaire, and flavonoid intake calculated using specific food composition tables, showed a significant effect of flavonoid intake regularly in reduced risk COPD.

According to the returned questionnaire, total catechin, flavonol, and flavone intake was positively associated with FEV1 in air flow of a deep breath and inversely associated with chronic cough and breathlessness, common symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

More specified, Dr. Tabak C, the lead author said, "Flavonol and flavone intake was independently associated with chronic cough only"

Furthermore, Chafuroside A (CFA), a water-soluble flavone C-glycoside, isolated from oolong tea, in oral administration exhibited at 0.5mg/kg or higher exhibited a profound effect in attenuated inflammatory symptoms in a dose-dependent manner, in experimental asthma/chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)-like model.

In fact, Biomarker profiling revealed that the CFA/SAM at 0.1mg CFA/kg equipotent to CFA at 1.0mg/kg testing result also expressed protective activity against antigen-induced airway inflammation.

Taking together, there is no doubt that green tea may be used as a therapeutic and functional food for reduced risk and treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) through expression of plant phytochemicals, but large amount intake regularly should be taken with care in prevented toxicity.

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Author Biography
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.

Sources
(1) Phytoceuticals: the new 'physic garden' for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by Grandhi S1, Donnelly LE, Rogers DF.(PubMed)
(2) Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and intake of catechins, flavonols, and flavones: the MORGEN Study by Tabak C1, Arts IC, Smit HA, Heederik D, Kromhout D.(PubMed)
(3) Self-assembled micellar formulation of chafuroside A with improved anti-inflammatory effects in experimental asthma/COPD-model rats by Onoue S1, Matsui T, Aoki Y, Ishida H, Nukaya H, Kou K, Yamada S.(PubMed)

14 Surprising Health Benefits and 2 Adverse Effects of Kidney beans

By Kyle J. Norton

Kidney bean is popular because of its kidney shape, strong flavor and color of reddish brown in nature, It is often an excellent dietary selection with no cholesterol and good sources of protein and mineral.

Author Biography

Saturday, 30 September 2017

Food Therapy: Kidney beans May Induce Risk of Intestinal Atrophy

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

Intake of kidney beans may result in increased risk of the developed intestinal atrophy, the renowned institute study suggested.

Kidney beans with kidney shape, strong flavor and color of reddish brown in nature are often the excellent dietary selection with no cholesterol, but a good source of protein and minerals.

Intestinal atrophy is the abnormality of small intestine mucous membrane, caused by bacterial infection.

According to the University of Utrecht, animal fed with kidney bean induced mucosal atrophy microscopically causing atrophy and dissection of the intestinal villus in association with lengthen crypts with cells in increased mitotic activity in compared to than normal tissues.

In compared to controls, kidney bean intake significantly decreased the goblet cells in secrete gel-forming mucins, the major components of mucus but increased in the crypt region, a gland found in the intestinal epithelium lining of the small intestine and large intestine.

Dr. Kik MJ, the lead author of the study said, " feeding Phaseolus vulgaris beans reduced the digestive and absorptive capacity of the mucosa, resulting in weight loss and diarrhea in affected pigs".

In randomized study with mice fed to chow, elemental diet, elemental diet plus concanavalin-A and elemental diet plus phytohaemagglutinin groups, group fed phytohaemagglutinin showed a strong effect of chemical compound lectin in inducing cell proliferation in the small intestine and crypt fission of the middle and distal small intestine in compared to other groups.

The study also showed that phytohaemagglutinin with high amount of lectin also induced intestinal atrophy by affecting the gastric function and mobility through increased secretion of hormone in regulated gastric acid (HCl). In fact, the effects of lectins cause significant gastric trophy on the small intestine and colon may vary between different sites in the gastrointestinal tract.

In support to the above analysis, the Christian-Albrechts-Universität study
with 30 day old male rats pairfed for 10 days with lactalbumin as a control diet or lactalbumin plus PHA or purified soybean trypsin inhibitor (STI) as a positive control (42 mg/rat/day) with or without 20 micrograms of the cholecystokinin A (CCK-A) antagonist MK 329, also found that oral administration of phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) in rats dose dependently induces growth of the small intestine through significantly increased CCK plasma levels from 0.75 to 6.67 (SEM 2.23) compared with 2.3 (0.35) pM in the control group.

The result of phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) intake in exhibit the intestine atrophy may be attributed to the lectin levels in increased production of hormone cholecystokinin in stimulated additional release of bile into the intestine.

Taking together, intake of kidney bean should be taken with care with patients with digestive problems as level of lectin may induce intestinal atrophy.

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Sources
(1) Pathologic changes of the small intestinal mucosa of pigs after feeding Phaseolusvulgaris beans by Kik MJ1, Huisman J, van der Poel AF, Mouwen JM(PubMed)
(2) Lectins can reverse the dsstal intestinal atrophy associated with elemental diets in mice M by SASAKI*, A. J. FITZGERALD*, G. GRANT , M. A. GHATEIà, N. A. WRIGHT* & R. A. GOODLAD§(Wiley online Library)
(3) Red kidney bean lectin is a potent cholecystokinin releasing stimulus in the rat inducing pancreatic growth byK-H Herziga, S Bardoczc, G Grantc, R Nustedeb, U R Fölscha, A Pusztaic(BMJ Journals)

Food Therapy: Kidney Bean, the Natural Antioxidants Whole Food

Kidney bean is popular because of its kidney shape, strong flavor and color of reddish brown in nature, It is often an excellent dietary selection with no cholesterol, but a good source of protein and minerals.

According to the joint study lead by Nanchang University, kidney bean exhibited a strong antioxidant activities through the levels of total phenolics and flavonoids with respective values in compared to 0.25-3.79 mg gallic acid and 0.19-7.05 mg rutin found in analyzed chemical compounds assay.

In ultra-performance liquid chromatography with diode array detector (UPLC-DAD), kidney bean processed the antioxidant activity (AA) ranged from 1.568 ± 0.041 to 66.572 ± 3.197 mg and radicals inhibited by 50% (EC50)concentration.

The extracts of kidney also found to have a capability in inhibiting the proliferation of the human epithelial colorectal adenocarcinoma (Caco-2) cells, human breast cancer cells MCF-7, and A549 NSCLC cell line through its antioxidant effects.

Dr. Ombra MN, the lead author said, "Cultivars differed in composition and concentration of polyphenols including anthocyanins; cooking affected the antioxidant activity only marginally."

Further to the study to compare the antioxidant activity of two solvents, aqueous (70%) acetone and water, and the extracts in relation to their phenolic contents, researchers found that queous acetone (70%) extracted containing more than twice of phenolics from hulls exhibited significantly higher antioxidant and stronger inhibitory effect on both cyclooxygenases, COX-1 and COX-2, (in expression of inflammation and inflammation in gastrointestinal tract), than water in regulated inflammation.

Dr. Oomah BD the lead author in the compared study said, "antioxidant activity that were significantly affected by cultivar and extracting solvent".

Taking together, kidney beans exhibited a strong antioxidant effect through its procession of various phytochemical compounds, such as total phenolics and flavonoids, in regulated inflammation caused by free radicals and microbial invasion.

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Sources
(1) Nutrients, phytochemicals and antioxidant activities of 26 kidney bean cultivars by Kan L1, Nie S2, Hu J1, Wang S3, Cui SW4, Li Y1, Xu S1, Wu Y1, Wang J1, Bai Z1, Xie M1.(PubMed)
(2) Phenolic Composition and Antioxidant and Antiproliferative Activities of the Extracts of Twelve Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) Endemic Ecotypes of Southern Italy before and after Cooking. by Ombra MN1, d'Acierno A1, Nazzaro F1, Riccardi R2, Spigno P2, Zaccardelli M3, Pane C3, Maione M1, Fratianni F1.(PubMed)
(3) Antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities of bean ( Phaseolus vulgaris L.) hulls by Oomah BD1, Corbé A, Balasubramanian P.(PubMed)