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Car Mi Natives - Oct
Car Mi Natives - Oct
Car Mi Natives - Oct
Carminatives
most colourful group of botanical medicine
herbs characterized by their content of essential oils
o antimicrobial, muscle relaxing, dispersing of unwanted G.I gases,
stimulating G.I
many contain other constituents that make them widely useable
o bitters
considered herbs and spices used in culinary
trade began when people who found something very valuable, took it to another
culture near by to trade it for something they needed.
Spice trade was the beginning of a huge trade known as the ‘spice route’
o Across Europe and Asia
What was so special about these herbs and spices
o All carminatives
Cinnamon
• Bark of a tree
• When discovered – the cinnamon was found as a
component of eagle’s nest
• Lived on top, at unscalable cliffs
• Many men died in an attempt to take scrolls of cinnamon
• Therefore, very expensive
• Tastes wonderful, become flavouring in our foods
• Grown in temperate environment
o Mint, chamomile, rosemary, thyme, parsley, sage
• Tremendously evocative
Fundamentally, herb which strengthens digestion
Alterative to the digestive tract
Henry David Thorow (sp?)
o Waldon Pond – not far from Boston. Where Thorow built a cabin of stone
and wood and lived in wilderness
o Did an experiment where he tried to understand the laws of nature
o Did a book about all of the plants in his area
o Dr. Godfrey has this book
o Wild Fruits by Bradley Dean
o Catalogued plants as they came out through the seasons
o Noticed how things changed since the last time he was there
o If look under carminatives in Mongraphs
Acorus Calamus
A lot of root consciousness around the plants
Case 21
o Bacteria in GI tract causing odoriferous bacteria
o Bacteria are fermenting and putrefying undigested foods
o Food that’s reaching this level of the intestine are not as completely
digested as it should be
o Number of reasons for that
o How solving this problem?
Eating more easily digestible foods and in small amounts
o What might help this women?
Carminatives are stimulants to digestion
One of the first thing that a carminative does is disperse gas
Break up gas bubbles
Anti-microbial, therefore help minimize the proliferation of
microorganisms
Appropriate choice of carminatives
• Can stimulate stronger digestions
• Can treat symptoms of gas those that’s already produced
and reducing amount that is produced
Suggested bitters before she starts to eat
• Gentiana leutia – produce less gas and less uncomfortable
o put the root in her teeth before she’s eating
o then when sits down and eats, able to digest better
Mentha piperita
Chammomile
Feoeniculum Vulgare
Caution: Essential oil that has been distilled is very powerful
medicine. Almost all are extremely toxic. Can kill human cells.
Not wise to take most Essential oils internally as essential oils.
Peppermint oil is one of the few that’s safe to take
o She was having problems because teaching is very stressful job
o If drink these in teas – never upset the healthy flora
o Garlic
Doesn’t upset healthy flora
Sulfur sensitive people cannot digest garlic and onion very well
o Treat cause with Gentian
o Treat symptoms with Gentian and carminatives
o Tier 2
Resolve indigestion
Resolve digestive function
Suggest some improved eating strategies
Sit outside on porch to eat
Case 22
Concern that thymus was growing too large and invading with breathing, therefore
radiated to reduce size
Nestle’s Goodstart was best suited for the baby
o Cow’s milk derived formula, but extensively modified to be nutritionally
more similar to breastmilk and more digested
Any carminative would be good with this one
Mainly treat the symptoms, not much to treat the cause
At 4 mo. His colic disappeared
Chamomile – did best on
Matricaria recutita – did best on
Ginger
Catnip – did best on
Fennel – neurological defects if given too much
o Baby didn’t like it
Total treatment approach was amelioration of symptoms
Main fallout from the whole scenario
o Treating mother
o Mother is feeling guilty
o She has Hep. C
o Have to help reassure women that she’s done everything she can and not
to rob the relationship she has with her son and husband
Case 23
Why would her abdomen be more distended in the morning than at other times?
o Effect of the evening meal – not digesting it
Auscultation – normal is low swishing and gurgling
o Higher pitched – overcoming pressure
o Hear popping and clicking
o Therefore, contents are under pressure and spastic
A little bit of swelling in the intestine is associated with distended stomach
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Herbs:
o Filipendula Ulmaria
It has salicyates
Astringent b/c of it’s tannins (*good questions*)
One of the primary anti-inflammatory herbs
All carminatives are somewhat anti-inflammatory, also on joints
and other parts of the body
o Matricaria Recuritia – anti-inflammatory and anti-spasmodic
Antispasmodic
Slightly astringent
• Going to help with bleeding
• Tighten up mucous membrane
• Strengthen digestion
o Chammomilia
Widest spectrum
Good for almost everything
o Althea Officinalis (Marshmello Root)
Very useful herb
Demulcent - mucopolysaccharide
o Mentha Peprita
Anti-inflammatory and anti-spasmodic
o If need more astringency can ad more astringent herbs
o Made in a tea, 1-2 tsp 3 x daily
o All herbs treat symptoms and cause
o Deeper cause of inflammatory bowel disease are not so easy to uncover
When a person no longer feels stressed by the conditions they find
themselves
Tier 2
o Freedom from drug reliance
Used Chinese remedy – Liu Junzi Wan
o The formula that supports the ST SP complex
o Has enormously tonifying effect on a weak digestive system
Case 24
What is happening
o She needed to get rid of the toxins that are in her body from the food
poisoning
o Probably still bacteria and endotoxins within her
o Alleviate nausea, bloating and discomfort
o Re-hydrate her
Herbs
o Ginger
Used as carminative but good effect on circulatory system
Useful in helping gwith CVD
Helps with the removal of plaque
Helps to tonify and relax the muscle of the CVS
Useful in the treatment of high BP
Esp. in the treatment of atherosclerosis
Useful in the treatment of weak vessels and atherosclerosis
o Cinammon
o Matricaria
o MEtha Peprita
o Filipendula
o Carum carvi
Good at stimulating digestion
Help gets things moving
Recommended taking them
o Ginger – candied ginger
o Ginger tea – slicing ginger and making concoction
o Chew few seeds of caraway
o Cinnamon, filipendula, matricaria – together as a tincture 40 to 60 drops
3x daily
o Can take chamomile tea as it may help
Case 25
Overtired – milk production decreased
o Nervous
o Anxious
Used Chinese herbs to strengthen her qi
Herbs
o Borago Officinalis
Adrenal tonic
Energetics – encourages a person
• Helps them to feel that they can manage
• Have resources within them
o Foeniculum vulgare (Fennel)
o Trigonella fenum-graceum (Fenugreek)
o Carum Caraway
o Golageo officianalis
o All have galactogoge effect
o Causes
Borago
Panax Quinch
Eluthra Trictifolius
Somewhat stimulating and strengthening to qi
Can use for a few months at a time to get through the challenging
period
o 40 drops of tincture 3x daily
Anticipated outcome
o Increased milk supply
o Increased hopefulness
o Increase energy
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