Herbal Medicine For Obsessions, Addictions and Phobias by Franchis Adam
Obsessions are recurring
thoughts or ideas that are distressing and frightening. Like phobias,
obsessions are irrational and uncontrollable and are rooted in anxiety.
Compulsions or rituals often follow, when sufferers cannot stop themselves from
taking particular actions or following particular routines to ward off the
imagined danger.
Most people experience mild obsessions - for example, the
urge to check or count things - but an obsessive person might not be able to
leave the house without going back countless times to check the door was
locked. Someone with an obsession about cleanliness might be compelled to wash
his or her hands hundreds of times a day.
Doctors sometimes call this type of behavior "Obsessive
Compulsive Disorder." Performing a ritual means the sufferer feels better
for a while but the anxiety soon starts again and the ritual has to be
repeated. Obsessions and rituals interfere with daily life as they are very
time consuming.
Treatment
Anything that helps reduce anxiety and tension can help.
Relaxation techniques are useful for calming the body and mind. Some people
find that sharing experiences and information with other sufferers can help.
Addictions
A person is addicted when they are compelled to do any
activity repeatedly and to depend on it. Smoking, drinking, and taking drugs
are well Âknown addictions, but people can also be addicted to activities such
as gambling, eating, or sexual intercourse.
Addictions are normally classified as psychoÂlogical
dependence or physical dependence. Psychological dependence involves powerful
cravings for the activity, while physical dependence induces physical symptoms
when the object of the addiction is withdrawn.
Treatment
Psychotherapy, Counseling, and Self-Help Groups
For some treatments sufferers have to agree to stop the
addiction before therapy begins, while others concentrate on reducing the harm
being done to them. One of the best-known self-help groups for alcohol
addiction is Alcoholics Anonymous (AA).
Consult a qualified practitioner/therapist for:
Acupuncture It is claimed that acupuncture can reduce a
number of cravings, alleviate pain, and hi sufferers to relax.
Aromatherapy, Massage, Meditation, Yoga. and Hypnotherapy
These can all help people cope with physical withdrawal
symptoms by aiding relaxation and improving general well-being. In all cases,
strong willpower is essential. It is also vital to take care not to replace one
source of addiction with another.
Piao yi slimming tea (which might be more commonly known to the public
as Piao Yi Jian Fei Cha) is supposed to be a tea that was invented for a beautiful
Chinese woman named Xi Shi back in the ancient days of China. Xi Shi
wanted a tea that could help her stay slim and beautiful so she asked her royal
doctors concoct a special tea based on the Folium Nelumbinis ingredient – and
the final product is what we know now as the Piao yi slimming tea. Modern
Chinese women regularly drink the Piao yi slimming tea when they need to lose
surplus weight and as part of a regular fitness regimen.
The modern formula of the Piao yi slimming tea is composed of 10% from tea, 10%
from the pod of the Jia Guo, 20% from the Ye Ju Hua (also called Flos
Chrysanthemi Indici), 20% from the Tian Wei Jiao Gu Lan (or Sweet Gynostenium
Pentaplylla), and 40% from the He Ye (or the Folium Nelumbinis main ingredient
mentioned earlier.)
The manufacturer of the Piao yi slimming tea recommends that this product be
drunk by people who have a problem with surplus weight. To consume this product
the right way, you need to boil about 150 ml. of water then place it in a cup.
Add one Piao yi slimming tea tea bag to this hot water and let it soak for 10
minutes at the most. Consume this dosage of Piao yi slimming tea once in the
evening only for a week to start off your anti-overweight regimen. Then, you
can progress to one cup of Piao yi slimming tea in the morning and another cup
of Piao yi slimming tea in the evening. You should keep up this regimen for 45
days per cycle, but stop taking it for two weeks before pursuing the next
cycle. The manufacturer advocates each consumer to use the Piao yi slimming tea
for a total of three cycles only. This means you will probably have consumed
four boxes of the Piao yi slimming tea by the end of those three cycles, with
one box of the Piao yi slimming tea using 40 tea bags.
If you are stocking up on Piao yi slimming tea, be sure the product does not
get exposed to sunlight since the product might deteriorate through such
exposure. It is advisable to store your Piao yi slimming tea boxes in
well-ventilated, dry and cool storage places.
If you happen to be pregnant, the manufacturer strongly dissuades you from
drinking the Piao yi slimming tea while you are pregnant. It is also not
advisable to dry out previously used Piao yi slimming tea tea bags then re-use
them because then the formulation of your tea would have changed due to the
conditions it was used. If you must drink this Piao yi slimming tea, start your
regimen with fresh tea bags so that you get the full benefit of the Piao yi
slimming tea.
Fei yan slimming tea is a type of herbal tea that is touted to be an herbal remedy for obesity (or being
overweight.) Fei yan slimming tea is supposed to speed up your bodily
metabolism so that fat and cholesterol levels in the bloodstream go down – an
effect which ordinary tea is believed to lack. Fei yan slimming tea is composed
of several vital ingredients which are namely Vegetable Sponge, Cansia seeds,
Lotus leaves, and Green Tea. Among all these
components of Fei yan slimming tea, Green Tea would probably be the one which
is most well known to Westerners because of so many reports that Green Tea can
produce antioxidant benefits in the human body when consumed.
To consume your Fei yan slimming tea, you need to boil about 150 ml. of water
and place it in a cup then soak one tea bag of Fei yan slimming tea in that cup of hot water. Let
the Fei yan slimming tea tea bag soak in that hot water for around 10 minutes
at the most, before removing the tea bag and sipping your tea. When starting
out on this anti-obesity herbal remedy program, it is advisable to consume only
one Fei yan slimming tea tea bag per night before progressing after a week of
that treatment to one Fei yan slimming tea tea bag (to be taken in the morning)
and then another Fei yan slimming tea (to be drunk in the evening of that same
day.) You are to follow this cycle for a total of 45 days only. The
manufacturer advocates that patients take the Fei yan slimming tea for up to
three cycles (each cycle being made up of the 45 days specified.)
This type of cycle program means you will probably have to buy up to 4 boxes of
the Fei yan slimming tea per three cycles (since each box is made up of 40 tea
bags total.) However, not everyone can safely take the Fei yan slimming tea.
Actually, the manufacturer recommends that children and pregnant women totally
avoid drinking the Fei yan slimming tea. One reason children and pregnant women
should not consume the Fei yan slimming tea is because it is an appetite
suppressant tea. Children are still growing so they need adequate intake of
nutrition, not a product like the Fei yan slimming tea. Pregnant women should
also be consuming enough food to feed both their own bodies and that of the
child within them, so that definitely leaves the Fei yan slimming tea out of
the picture.
Some say that the Fei yan slimming tea can also stop cases of constipation
aside from inhibiting the absorption of dietary fat. And since a certain level
of dietary fat is required in the food of both children and pregnant women,
that may explain why these two types of people should not drink the Fei yan
slimming tea.
Why is Fei yan slimming tea becoming so popular nowadays? Well, due to modern
dietary changes (like an increased emphasis on frying food such as fast food
French fries), many people are eating the bad type of food which can result in
elevated blood cholesterol levels and obesity. To counter these two health
risks, some might resort to drinking the Fei yan slimming tea instead.
Is the Fei yan slimming tea safe to use? Well, provided you use it properly,
the Fei yan slimming tea should not produce any detrimental side effects. All
products when used to excess can cause problems so use the Fei yan slimming tea
prudently. Even the Fei yan slimming tea can be too much when used in abusive
fashion.
Polyphenols
are compounds found in nature. More specifically they are found in plants and
provide coloring for some. Their purpose appears to be a potent, natural
antioxidant. There are many plants that we consume that contain polyphenols.
Concentrations are high in Olive oil and Green Tea and have been the subject of
many health articles and promoted to enhance your health.
How
do Polyphenols work?
These
antioxidants eliminate free radicals, unstable molecules that are the major
cause of both aging and disease, in both plants and humans. Free radicals
continually attack the body. Free radicals are a normal product of metabolism
and result in a process called oxidation. Polyphenols and other antioxidants,
including beta carotene (a vitamin A precursor), vitamin C, vitamin E, and
selenium, scavenge these free radicals and help to prevent formation of
unstable oxygen molecules, known as oxidation. Oxidation can damage healthy
cells in the body and have been linked to many diseases including cancer, heart
disease and stroke. Polyphenols not only work to prevent diseases but may also
help to reduce abnormal cells and inflammation; get rid of cancer causing
agents and restore cells back to normal health.
What
foods contain Polyphenols?
There
are many but there are only a few, which contain particularly high levels. They
include red wine, olive oil, black and green tea. Green Tea is the #1 source of
polyphenols. These extremely high levels of polyphenols deliver green tea's
unique results in several ways. Just one example is a subgroup of polyphenols,
exclusive to green tea, called catechins. EGCG, the most abundant and powerful
of green tea's 5 main catechins, is dubbed the 'super antioxidant' because it
is 200 times more powerful than the popular antioxidant vitamin E.
Unfortunately, polyphenols have a quick life span (short half life) of about 3
hours, thus the scientific reason behind researchers' recommendation to drink
green tea a minimum of 8 times a day.
Not
only may green tea protect and heal the body from disease but also clinical
trials, conducted by the University of
Geneva, in Switzerland, indicate that green
tea raises metabolic rates and speed up fat oxidation. In addition to caffeine,
green tea's catechin polyphenols raise thermogenesis (the rate at which
calories are burned) and hence increases energy expenditure. And, research at
the University of
Chicago has shown green
tea extract injections in rats to cause appetite suppression. They consumed 60
percent less food and lost 21 percent of their body weight. However, as
explained by the scientists, a person would have to drink green tea almost
constantly to obtain these results. Green tea patches have been developed as a
solution. They contain up to 300mg of polyphenols (30 times the potency of
regular green tea) and provide a constant supply over 48 hours.
Research
is still continuing with green tea and more health benefits continue to be
discovered. For instance, EGCG's may one day play a role in treatment of mad
cow disease (Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, DOI:10.1038/nsmb743). And
the formation of unstable oxygen molecules in the body is unavoidable. Aging,
smoke, and environmental pollutants are all sources of the damaging free
radicals. Japan and China have
benefited from drinking green tea vs. black tea, like the rest of us, for
centuries. The west is just now catching on to the benefits of green tea. With
green tea being no more harmful than a cup of coffee (and actually containing
less caffeine) there's no reason why you shouldn't begin today to benefit from
green tea too.
Chemical
name:
Various
Also
known as:
Green Tea Polyphenols, Green Tea Water Extract, Black Tea Polyphenols, Black
Tea Water Extract, Epigallocatechin Gallate (EGCG), Polyphenon E (Mitsui-Norin,
Ltd.), Topical Polyphenon E (Epitome Pharmaceuticals Ltd).
Gerald Meyer RPh, provides advice on weight
loss. Information on the benefits of green tea and its antioxidant powers can
be found at http://www.natural-weight-loss-programs.com.
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It also called Baihe Gujin Wan. Bai He Gu Jin Wan nourishes yin to
moisten dryness and relieve cough. The herbal formula is used for cough with
dryness due to deficiency of yin fluid of both the lung and the kidney, sore
throat, cough by dryness and sputum mixed with blood, asthenia of viscera and
hectic fever due to yin- deficiency, afternoon fever, dry mouth, dark urine.
It is able to nourish the kidney and yin, relieve cough and reduce
sputum, nourish the blood and regulate yin, moisten the lung and clear away
heat.
It also called Banlangen Keli. This is a common herbal preparation found
in the medicine cabinet of many homes. It can be used at the first sign of a
cold or flu, or it can be taken as a preventive. This formula is most effective
when a sore throat is present.
Early in the 1980s, a disaster caused by
alpha-hepatitis attacked some areas in southern China and many were infected.
People crowded into drug stores to buy Banlangen granules, which effectively
treated hepatitis A. Facing people's surging demand for the medicine,
Tongrentang sent a special group of trunks to carry a great amount of such
medicine to the areas most severely stricken by the disease, instead of raising
the price. Its respectful deeds stabilized the local pharmaceutical market and
relieved patients' anxiety. History repeated itself in 2003 when the SARS
happend in Asia, this product has been sold out in most of medicine shops across
the China, as people stock it up in hope to fight for SARS.
Actions:
To clear heat and toxicity,and cool blood to ease the throat.
Indications: Swollen painful throat,dry mouth and pharynx and
swollen cheeks due to extremely abundant neat in the lung and stomach;acute
tonsillitis and mumps with above symptoms.
Main Ingredients: Radix
Lsatidis.
Directions: 1 Sachet per time, 4 times daily, to be taken
with warm boiled water.
Bi Min Gan Wan (Also called Hay Fever Pills) is one the most famous
herbal formula, which? an effective product to reduce the symptoms of hayfever
without cause drowsiness.
It is used for hay fever, allergic rhinitis,
perennial rhinitis, or ailments with symptons as: sneezing, running nose and
stuffy nose caused by sinus allergy. This medicine is utillized by herbalists
during allergy season to assist the body's natural resistance to eliminate the
discomfort feeling and maintain the healthy upper respiratory system function.
Action: Dispels wind, reduces inflammation, opens the nose.
Anti-allergic and anti-inflammatory, allergic response in the nasal mucous
membrane.
Cough syrup. Milian Chuang Bei Pi Pa Gao or Milian Chuanbei Pipagao.
Action & Indication: Clear away and moisturize lungs, relieve
cough and dyspnea, regulate qi and remove sputum. indicated to cough, excessive
sputum, stiffiness in the chest, itching and pain of throat, husky of voice,
which caused by lung-dryness.
Ingredient: Chuan Bei Mu (Bulbus
Pritillariae Cirrhosa) 15%; Pi Pa Ye (Folum Eriobotryae) 15%; Jie Geng
(Radix Platcodi) 15%; Chen Pi (Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae) 12%; Bei
Sha Shen (Radix Glehniae) 12%; Wu Wei Zi (Fructus Schizandrae) 12%; Xing
Ren (Semen Armeniacae) 11%; Bo He (Herba Menthae) 8%.
Usage:
Take orally, 22g every time, 3 times a day. Dosage should be reduced for
children.
This product adopts traditional plant as raw materials and is refined by
modern processing technology on the basis of folk formula and traditional
customer of two Guang. It is convenient to take with water and is the necessary
cool tea in four seasons.
It can clear away the liver-fire and improve
acuity of vision, dispel wind and bring down the heat. It is applicable to the
common cold of wind-heat type, congestion of the eyes and headache, swollen and
sore throat, etc.
Indications:
Used for shortness of breath, cough, excessive phlegm, unable to lie down,
itchiness in the throat, distention and fullness between the thorax and
diaphragm and all conditions associated with heat in the lungs and dampness in
the spleen.
Usage &
Dosage: For oral use, 20 pills each time, 3 times a day. Appropriae
reduction of the dosages for children under years old. Please ask for herbal
practitioner's advice before use.
Qing Qi Hua Tan Wan removes heat from the lung and dissolving phlegm,
relieves cough and asthma. The herbal formula is used fo continuous cough,
dysporia and asthma, thick, viscid, yellow sputum, fullness sensation and
oppressed feeling in chest adn diaphrgm, dry mouth with sore throat and dry
stool caused by lung- heat with aboundant expectoration.
Shi Quan Da Bu Pian or Shi Quan Da Bu Wan, is a Chinese Medicinal
Formula that is utilized when a patient has been diagnosed as having deficient
Qi and deficient Blood. It has been considered especially helpful and is
commonly prescribed for people suffering from long term and/or debilitating
illnesses. Its usage has been suggested for patients who suffer from chronic
skin lesions and ulcers s.c. as bedsores.
Shi Quan Da Bu Wan is also
used to treat women who are recovering from childbirth and women who suffer from
heavy menstruation. Symptoms that can be associated with deficient Qi and
deficient Blood are: general weakness, weakness in the limbs, insomnia,
shortness of breath, palpitations, insomnia, dizziness, reduced appetite,
chronic coughing, cold extremities, a pale face, and a pale tongue. .
Shi Quan Da Bu Wan is also used for Hayfever patients, to build a good
immune balance system.
Functions and Indications: Warming and
tonifying qi and blood. It can be used in deficiency of the qi and blood, wan
complexion, shortness of breath, palpitations, weariness, fatigue, profuse
menstruation.
Administration: To be taken orally, eight to ten pills
each time, three times a day.
Precaution: Pregnant women are not
advised to take it. Not suitable to be taken together with medications for
common cold.
For symptoms like sneezing, itchy eyes, facial congestion, and sinus
pain. Useful in acute and chronic rhinitis, sinusitis and hayfever, nasal
allergies, as well as general mucus congestion in the face.
