Certain infectious and parasitic diseases
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Little known facts
Black cohosh or cimicifuga racemosa is a member of the Ranunculaceae. The plant is commonly found from such eastern North American areas as Ontario all the way down to Georgia, and as far west as Missouri. Black cohosh can grow up to 2.5 m tall.
American Colonists would use black cohosh to treat yellow fever, malaria, fevers, and bronchitis.
It's Latin name, Cimicifuga means, “bug repellent.”
Since it was great for curing snake bites, Native Americans called this magic potion, “snakeroot.”
Medicine manufacturer, Lydia Pinkham made the herb famous when she marketed it as a vegetable herbal compound.
Black cohosh was also well-known as a “baby in a bottle.”
True effects
I have felt so much better since I started taking black cohosh. The amounts of benefits cohosh have on the human body are almost endless. I wish I could name or describe any specific symptom I've experienced. All I know is how great I felt. I went from feeling “blah” to feeling purer, healthier, and more energized. All of this happened within a day of taking the herb.
The herbal medicine effects such vital organs as the lungs, heart and stomach directly. Black cohosh will lower your heart rate and raise your pulse. Black cohosh will equalize your blood circulation.
Black cohosh is especially good for getting rid of mucus in the bronchial tubes.
Being an excellent and safe sedative, black cohosh is great to treat epilepsy.
Black cohosh will help your kidneys, liver, spleen and lymphatic system in the secretion process.
Two more important notes: If you take too much black cohosh, you can get a headache in the base of your skull. While it is safe to take in the final weeks of pregnancy, black cohosh should not be taken in the beginning.
Disorders, irritations, ailments, and bodily systems treated by Black Cohosh
Angina
Female aphrodisiac
Arthritis – In case you don't know what it is by now, let me clarify. Arthritis is when there is serious damage to joints in the body. There are certain kinds of arthritis; rheumatoid arthritis for example can be an autoimmune disease where the body will literally be attacking itself.
Asthma – This should be self-explanatory. But in case it isn't, in case you don't know what it is exactly, I'll tell you. Asthma is a chronic disease of the respiratory system that constricts a person's airway. Common symptoms of asthma are wheezing, and coughing.
Bedbugs – Tiny, blood-sucking insects that are commonly found in torn mattresses, between floorboards and under the edges of wallpaper can grow to about 5 millimeters long with a reddish body.
Bee stings
Blood cleanser
High blood pressure – This should be self-explanatory. But let's get into it for argument's sake. High blood pressure or hypertension is when the pressure in your blood in chronically elevated. This can lead to heart attacks, heart failure, and strokes.
Bowels – Your bowels or intestines are extremely long canals in your belly that can be host to any number of diseases; such as, Gastroenteritis or inflammation of the intestines, Ileus or blockage of the intestines, Ileitis or inflammation of the ileum and of course, Colitis.
Chronic bronchitis – To explain bronchitis, you'll have to know what the bronchus or bronchi are. The broncus is one of two tree-branch-like pipes (trachea) that are used to transfer air to and from the lungs. Bronchitis is simply an inflammation of mucous membranes in those pipes.
Childbirth – This should be self-explanatory.
Cholera – An acute infectious and deadly disease that causes severe diarrhea, vomiting, cramps and a great loss of fluids.
Chorea – Disorders commonly affiliated with convulsive movements of the limbs, face and head. The types of chorea are as follows; acute (afflicting mostly children), hereditary (degenerative disorder of the brain), and senile (chorea as it attacks the elderly).
Convulsions – This should be self-explanatory. In case you don't know what it is, let me tell you. Convulsions are involuntary contractions of the muscles or a series of contractions in which your body is jerking.
Coughs
Diabetes – A disorder in which the body can no longer metabolize insulin, carbohydrates, fats and proteins. Severe conditions require frequent shots of insulin.
Diarrhea – Do we have to describe this ailment? Okay, if we must, we must. Diarrhea is the softening and liquefying of bowel movements. For infants, this ailment can be very dangerous.
Digestive disorders
Dropsy – Accumulation of clear fluids in bodily tissues or cavities, and an obsolete term to describe many other fluid retaining states is dropsy.
Dysmenorrhea – The ladies should know what this is. But in case no one does know what dysmenorrhea is, let me explain. Dysmenorrea is painful menstrual periods caused by a functional disturbance or say, something like tumor or an infection.
Epilepsy – A chronic neurological disease in which a person can lose consciousness, and seize in which there is violent convulsions.
Estrogen deficiency – Estrogen is simply the female sex hormones. Formed within the ovaries, estrogen is vital for maintaining a woman's every secondary sexual characteristic.
Fevers – This should be self-explanatory. But for the sake of argument, let's go into it anyway. It's when the body temperature goes rises above the normal 98.6 degrees Farhenheit.
Gallstones – Caused by a defect in the composition of bile, stones will form in the gallbladder.
Headaches
Heart palpitations
Hormone balancer – Hormones are glandular chemical secretions from an organ or part of the body. They are carried through the bloodstream to organs or parts of organs. Hormones can stimulate or retard an organ's function.
Hot flashes
Hysteria
Insect bites
Kidney ailments – Kidneys are the bean-shaped organs used to regulate acid-based concentrations and water balances in the tissues. But this significant organ can be host to any number of diseases or disorders. Problems include scarred kidney tissue, degeneration, abnormally placed kidneys, floating kidneys, stones, and blood deficient kidneys.
Every kind of inflammation
Insomnia – Simply put, if for whatever reason you just can't fall asleep or stay asleep, you're suffering from insomnia.
Liver – The liver is a mult-purpose and extremely helpful organ, but it can be host to a number of diseases and disorders; such as, Hepatitis or inflammation of the liver, Cirrhosis or the formation of fibrous tissue inside the liver, Gilbert's syndrome or the genetic disorder of the bilirubin metabolism, and Glycogen storage disease II which leads to progressive muscle weakness.
Lumbago – Simply put, lumbago is backache in the lumbar region.
Lungs – The pair-shaped organs in your chest are a necessity for breathing, but they can be host to any number of deficiencies and diseases. You can get black lung or coal miner's, you can get lung cancer, a rheumatoid in your lung, fluid in a lung (pulmonary edema), and lungs marked by honeycomb-shaped cysts.
Malaria – Malaria is simply an infectious disease of several different types. One type is so severe, a child could be playing in the backyard in the early afternoon and be dead by bedtime. Malaria could be one of the scariest infectious diseases I've ever heard of. How it works is by the malaria parasite entering the liver, from there, they spread, invading blood cells from which to reproduce. The cell is completely gone at this point. This cycle continues until the parasite reaches the brain.
Measles – An acute contagious, viral disease that can lead to red spots on the skin, and inflammation of the mucus membranes in the respiratory tract.
Menopause – Mostly a condition for women, commonly occurring between 45 and 50 years old, menopause is the death of menstruation. Symptoms include hot flashes, headaches, and vulvar discomfort.
Menstrual problems – Menstruation is when blood discharges from the uterus. It usually occurs every 4 weeks and lasts from 3 to 5 days in women. In typical menstruation cycles, this process is preceded by ovulation.
Nervous disorders
Neuralgia – Having severe pain along the course of a nerve is neuralgia. The only other form is trigeminal or a facial pain usually located near the nerve of the same name.
Pain
Paralysis – If you lose control of all your muscular functions, you're paralyzed.
Pelvic disorders – Your pelvis supports the spinal column, but this essential bone in your body can be host to any number of disorders and deficiencies. You can have a pelvis that is too small or too big. Symptoms vary depending on the severity of each case.
Poison antidote
Poisonous bites – Poisonous bites can come from insects and snakes.
Rheumatism – A term that best describes disorders of the heart, bones, joints, kidneys, and lungs. A symptom of Rheumatism is back pain.
Skin disorders
Smallpox – This dangerous, viral infectious disease incubates within 12 days. In the beginning of the virus, symptoms can include headaches, fevers, pains, and vomiting. Then those minor symptoms disappear only to bring about much worse conditions; such as, pustules breaking out on the face, hands and feet. This can lead to scabs. It's only after three weeks that the disease hits its end, leaving behind permanent scarring – also called “pock marks”. Just hope you never catch this nasty bug.
Snake bites – There are all kinds of poisonous snakes, including the rattler, the asp, and the cobra. But, of course you already knew that.
Sores – An open skin legion of many different types and origins, including bed sores, canker sores, cold sores and pressure sores.
Sore throat
Spasms – If your muscles are contracting and you can't control it, those are spasms.
Spinal meningitis – In order to describe spinal meningitis, we must talk about what spinal and meningitis mean exactly. Spinal is simply in relation to your spine or vertebral column. Meningitis is the inflammation of those membranes covering your brain and spinal cord.
Syphilis – An infectious STD (sexually transmitted disease) that can cause small ulcers around the genitalia, skin eruptions, mucous patches and fevers.
Tuberculosis – A deadly disease that primarily attacks the lungs. Just hope you never catch this bug.
Typhoid fever – Typhoid or typhus is an acute infectious and contagious disease marked by high fever, severe headaches, and a rash. This nasty bug is usually transmitted by body lice.
Uterine problems
Whooping cough – Also called, Pertussis, whooping cough is when you've got a severely hacking cough and you let out a “whoop” when you take another breath.
Worms – An example of a worm is the parasitic flatworm.
Herbal First Aide
No home should be without this recipe for an herbal first aide kit.
You must have Aloe Vera. The gel from the plant's leaves will help in relieving pain, and healing burns and cuts. Believe me, I know this works.
Also, you should have Arnica. Another healing gel that will take the blue out of bruises.
Take Calendula. When taken as a tea, this dry leaf will help clean cuts.
For indigestion, anxiety and insomnia, take some Chamomile in tea form.
You should most definitely take Echinachea if you want to treat the flu or the common cold.
Gingerroot is great for relaxing the stomach, killing nausea, and putting an end to motion sickness.
Keep a bottle of Witch Hazel handy to stop infections, and heal minor burns and rashes.
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Herbal Resources
The Herb Book by John Lust
The Prescription for Nutritional Healing by Phyllis Balch
Back to Eden, 2nd Revised Edition by Jethro Kloss & Promise K. Moffet
Children's Herbal Health by Deanne Tenney
Green Pharmacy Herbal Handbook by James Duke, Ph.D
Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine by Michael Nurray, N.D.
Herbally Yours by Penny C. Royal
A Modern Herbal by Mrs. Grieve
Desk Reference to Nature's Medicine by Steven Foster and Rebecca L. Johnson