Facts and Fact Sheets about Medicinal Herbs and Herbal Remedies

There is an involved, scientific answer to this question, and a simple one. Let me see if I can give you an answer somewhere in the middle.

Like anything that is living, all plants contain a variety of chemicals, vitamins, and minerals. These chemicals can be good for you or bad for you. The general term used for any beneficial chemicals, vitamins and minerals found in plants is "phytonutrients".

When I first started using medicinal herbs, you had to search hard for any scientific validation for the nutritional and health benefits of herbs. Oh, science did use chemicals that were derived from plants, for example, the chemical the eases pain in Bayer Aspirin is derived from White Willow, and a chemical used in some pharmaceuticals for prostate problems is derived from Saw Palmetto. Digitalis contains chemicals derived from Foxglove (not an herb you want to be using medicinally). While pharmaceutical chemists will study a plant and then copy or synthesize the chemical that provides health benefits that they find in plants, those of us who are herbalists believe that the herbs work better in their natural form...just as God created them. We believe that, in most cases, the other components in the plant enhance the benefit of the chemical active that a pharmaceutical chemist would isolate and use to make one of their latest wonder drugs.

Over the years, more and more studies have been done validating the benefits...and at times the dangers...of some herbs. Personally, I'm still most comfortable with the things I've used for close to 23 years now, herbs that have a long standing history of safe use, and historical record of their health benefits. Plus, quite simply, I use them because they work.

Herbs are taken in the form of teas, extracts, and in their dried natural state. Essential Oils contain beneficial properties of herbs. Each form has it's advantages.

Here is a list of Fact Sheet Packages broken down, generally, by body system. If you are interested in FACT SHEETS about any of the following, you can ask for complete packages and I'll send all in the package, or you can ask for any single sheet within any category, as many as you like. Simply email me at nutritionist[at]happynutritionist.com replacing [at] with the @ symbol. All are herbal combinations that work in synergy, contain herbs, or are single herbs.

(Pictures are herbs from my garden this past summer)

BLOOD BUILDER PACKAGE:
Blood Build (TCM Chinese)
Liquid Chlorophyll

BRAIN & MENTAL HEALTH PACKAGE:
Brain Protex
Feverfew (migraine)
Focus Attention (add, adhd)
Ginkgo Biloba
Ginkgo & Gotu Kola
Kava Kava Conc.
SAM-e

CIRCULATORY SYSTEM PACKAGE:
Blood Pressurex
Capsicum w/ Garlic & Parsley
Carbo Grabbers
Cardio Assurance
Cholester-Reg
Co-Q10
Flax Seed Oil
Ginkgo Hawthorn
Guggul Lipid
Mega-Chel®
Vari-Gone® (vericose veins)

CLEANSING PROGRAMS PACKAGE:
All Cell Detox
Bowel Detox
Candida Clear
Clean Start
Dieter's Cleanse
Enviro-Detox
Heavy Metal Detox
Liquid Cleanse
Yeast/Fungal Detox

DIGESTIVE & INTESTINAL PACKAGE:
Activated Charcoal
Anti-Gas (TCM Chinese)
Bifidophilus (good bacteria)
Bowel Detox
Cascara Sagrada
Digestive Bitters
Everybody's Fiber
High Potency Garlic
Gastro Health
Intestinal Soothe & Build
LBS II® (laxative)
Liver Balance (TCM Chinese)
Liver Cleanse Formula
Milk Thistle Combination (Liver)
Papaya Mint
Proactazyme® Plus (dig. enzymes)
Probiotic Eleven® (good bacteria)
Psyllium Hulls (Fiber)
Slippery Elm (soothing,diarrhea)
Stomach Comfort
Yellow Dock

ENERGY PACKAGE:
Cellular Energy
Energ-V
Ginseng, Wild American
Ginseng, Korean

EYE HEALTH PACKAGE:
Lutein
Perfect Eyes®

GENERAL HEALTH PACKAGE:
Nature's Noni
Thai-Go®

GLANDULAR(ENDOCRINE) PACKAGE:
Master Gland®
SugarReg®
Thyroid Activator®
Thyroid Support

HAIR HEALTH
HSN-W® (hair,skin,nails)

IMMUNE SYSTEM PACKAGE:
Candida Clear
Defense Maintenance
Echinacea & Golden Seal
Elderberry Defense
E-Tea (Cancer)
Green Tea Extract
Immune Stimulator
Lymph Gland Cleanse
Olive Leaf Extract Conc.
Pau d'Arco (Taheebo)
Paw Paw Cell-Reg (Cancer)
Seasonal Defense
Super ORAC Antioxidant
Trigger Immune® (TCM Chinese)

MEN'S HEALTH PACKAGE:
dhea-m
Men's Formula w/Lycopene
Saw Palmetto (prostate)
X-Action® (Men)(Sexual Intimacy)

NERVOUS SYSTEM PACKAGE:
Herbal Sleep
Melatonin Extra® (sleep)
Nervous Fatigue (TCM Chinese)
Stress Pack
Stress Relief (TCM Chinese)
Stress-J
St. John's Wort

PARASITES:
Black Walnut
Chinese Para-Cleanse

RESPIRATORY PACKAGE:
ALJ (Allergies)
Allergy (Homeopathic)
Breathe E-Z (TCM Chinese)
Echinacea & Golden Seal
Fenugreek & Thyme
HistaBlock®
Lung Support (TCM Chinese)
Sinus Support EF®

SKELETAL & MUSCULAR PACKAGE:
Herbal CA (calcium)
Calcium - Liquid
Calcium plus Vit D
Chondroitin
Coral Calcium
Everflex PAIN Cream
Fibralgia (fibromyalgia)
Glucosamine
Joint Support
MSM/Glucosamine Cream
Nature's Sea Calcium
Skeletal Strength®
Yucca

SKIN HEALTH PACKAGE:
Aloe Vera Gel
Black Ointment
Golden Salve
HSN-W®
Irish Moss Lotion
Silver Shield Gel
Tea Tree Oil

URINARY SYSTEM PACKAGE:
Cranberry & Buchu
Kidney Activator
Kidney Drainage
Urinary Maintenance

WEIGHT MANAGEMENT PACKAGE:
Carbo Grabbers
Dieter's Cleanse
Fat Grabbers
MetaboMax Free
Nature's Hoodia Formula
Nutri-Burn Chocolate
Nutri-Burn Vanilla

WOMEN'S HEALTH PACKAGE:
Breast Assured
Breast Enhance
Cramp Relief
dhea-w
Evening Primrose Oil
Female Comfort
Menstrual Reg
Natural Changes®
Pro-G-Yam Cream
Vari-Gone® Cream (vericose veins)
Wild Yam & Chaste Tree
X-Action Gel (Sexual Intimacy)
X-Action® (Women)(Sexual Intimacy)

MISCELLANEOUS PACKAGE:
Boomerang Air & Surface Sanitizer
Dark Chocolate
Nature's Spring RO Water Purif.
Stevia Powder Extract (sweetener)
Essential Oils

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