Centuries of dedicated use backs up chamomile's credibility as a cure-all for menstrual cramps, insomnia, skin irritations, and stomachaches.
You know how a box of herbal tea is $3-$4? It's much less expensive to buy it in bulk. How much you ask? When you buy it in bulk, you get 20 times as much for the same price!
It's the main ingredient in all of the sleepy-time teas. I like to drink it when I can't sleep, am feeling uptight or just want to relax.
The following is from the article, 'Make Your Own Chamomile Tea' by Alan Hayes.
http://www.echonews.com/948/natures_way.html
Chamomile tea has a light, apple-like taste and is rich in calcium. It is a time-honoured remedy to soothe gastrointestinal disorders, to relieve menstrual pain, to calm the nerves, and to help prevent migraine headaches. A cup of chamomile tea at night is said to induce sound natural sleep and calm an overactive brain. It is an ideal drink at study time or when under stress, and students and tired business people will benefit from a cup of chamomile tea at the end of a day.
Because of its low toxicity, chamomile is especially suitable for children. It will soothe skin disorders such as acne, burns, stings, and rashes, and is excellent for conjunctivitis, infants' teething problems, rheumatism and neuralgia. To ease rheumatism and other aches and pains massage the affected spot with a blend of 25 ml of soy oil and two drops each of chamomile and rosemary oils.
To make it, all you have to do is steep 2-3 teaspoons in a cup of hot water.
That's it.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Rant On The Plant
What if there was a medicine that cured cancer, reversed aging and protected you from the common cold & flu? Would you be curious?
What if i told you it had no side effects? Would you be interested?
What if I told you it was an inexpensive, over-the-counter caffeinated (or not) drink that came in many flavors? Would you consider taking it?
Well, believe it or not, tea is that medicine. Drink five cups a day and you will reap all the benefits above. I drink three 16oz., two teabag, cups. You can even use it on your skin (there are creams out now). Oh, it comes in pill form too.
If you are one of the people that say, "I just don't like tea", listen up. There are hundreds of ways to 'take your tea'. I drink mine with milk (both black and green). You can mix it with sweetener, juice, or any other beverage. You can drink it hot or cold. You can cook with it and even take it in pill form!
Historically, it's been said that green tea is much healthier than black. However, scientists are finding out that black tea is just as good and in some ways better. Dang! So, the billions of people drinking it aren't so awfully misguided after all?
I am currently reading the book, 'Green Tea Health Benefits and Applications '.
Here's one of the Amazon reviews (by Paul T. Wegener):
Dr. Yukihiko Hara was the first to purify green tea catechins on a larger scale. As Director of the Food Research Laboratories at Mitsui Norin Co, he and his colleagues worked in their extra time to purify these compounds and make them available in the late 1980's. The methods they developed are used today to purify the green tea extracts available from pills to shampoo. This book reports on their scientific efforts exploring the activity of the catechins and reviews the work of others in the field. It is clearly written in layman's language with many illustrations.
Key areas covered include where catechins come from and how they are purified, anti-oxidant and radical scavenging in food products and animals. Their tests, mostly in animals of the anti-bacterial action, the anti-viral action and the anti-cancer action, are reported in the next few chapters. Each chapter describes the experiments in sufficient detail so you can evaluate the meaning of the effect. There are further chapters on health effects in humans, including fat reduction and improved bowel function, help for diabetes and also hypertension, backed up by straightforward experiments. He ends with a general discussion of trends in the field.
Much of this work was done by Dr. Hara's group and close collaborators, so the original papers were published in Japanese; for many experiments this book is the only way to read about them in English. Green Tea Catechins are now studied around the world, but the quantities needed originated in this lab and he has supplied the catechins other scientists have used for most of that work. Mitsui Norin purified the catechins sold at Sigma Chemicals until this last year.
Currently Dr. Hara's group has a collaborative research effort with the US National Cancer Institute to test the anti-cancer effects of green tea catechins in people with precancerous lesions. The book provides the background one needs to appreciate this effort and gives the history of the science leading up to the NCI trials in a convenient way.
Dr. John Weisburger, the distinguished research scientist from the American Health Foundation, has written a helpful foreword.
Tea is easy. Tea is great for you. Tea is cheap. So, do yourself a favor and spend 30 days trying tea in a myriad of ways to find your preferred method of taking this miracle medicine.
Stay tuned for the next episode of 'Rant on The Plant'
What if i told you it had no side effects? Would you be interested?
What if I told you it was an inexpensive, over-the-counter caffeinated (or not) drink that came in many flavors? Would you consider taking it?
Well, believe it or not, tea is that medicine. Drink five cups a day and you will reap all the benefits above. I drink three 16oz., two teabag, cups. You can even use it on your skin (there are creams out now). Oh, it comes in pill form too.
If you are one of the people that say, "I just don't like tea", listen up. There are hundreds of ways to 'take your tea'. I drink mine with milk (both black and green). You can mix it with sweetener, juice, or any other beverage. You can drink it hot or cold. You can cook with it and even take it in pill form!
Historically, it's been said that green tea is much healthier than black. However, scientists are finding out that black tea is just as good and in some ways better. Dang! So, the billions of people drinking it aren't so awfully misguided after all?
I am currently reading the book, 'Green Tea Health Benefits and Applications '.
It's a $150 book, but you might be able to find an electronic copy if you're resourceful enough.
Here's one of the Amazon reviews (by Paul T. Wegener):
Dr. Yukihiko Hara was the first to purify green tea catechins on a larger scale. As Director of the Food Research Laboratories at Mitsui Norin Co, he and his colleagues worked in their extra time to purify these compounds and make them available in the late 1980's. The methods they developed are used today to purify the green tea extracts available from pills to shampoo. This book reports on their scientific efforts exploring the activity of the catechins and reviews the work of others in the field. It is clearly written in layman's language with many illustrations.
Key areas covered include where catechins come from and how they are purified, anti-oxidant and radical scavenging in food products and animals. Their tests, mostly in animals of the anti-bacterial action, the anti-viral action and the anti-cancer action, are reported in the next few chapters. Each chapter describes the experiments in sufficient detail so you can evaluate the meaning of the effect. There are further chapters on health effects in humans, including fat reduction and improved bowel function, help for diabetes and also hypertension, backed up by straightforward experiments. He ends with a general discussion of trends in the field.
Much of this work was done by Dr. Hara's group and close collaborators, so the original papers were published in Japanese; for many experiments this book is the only way to read about them in English. Green Tea Catechins are now studied around the world, but the quantities needed originated in this lab and he has supplied the catechins other scientists have used for most of that work. Mitsui Norin purified the catechins sold at Sigma Chemicals until this last year.
Currently Dr. Hara's group has a collaborative research effort with the US National Cancer Institute to test the anti-cancer effects of green tea catechins in people with precancerous lesions. The book provides the background one needs to appreciate this effort and gives the history of the science leading up to the NCI trials in a convenient way.
Dr. John Weisburger, the distinguished research scientist from the American Health Foundation, has written a helpful foreword.
Tea is easy. Tea is great for you. Tea is cheap. So, do yourself a favor and spend 30 days trying tea in a myriad of ways to find your preferred method of taking this miracle medicine.
Stay tuned for the next episode of 'Rant on The Plant'
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Idea of the Day
OK, no one said I was going to have only one idea per day, so get off it!
Idea: Video games (add-ons for existing games) that contain quests/tasks/training on real world educational material.
I see so much time and effort being put into games like WoW, where people are 'training' or 'questing' on things that are limited to the game environment. What if you had to navigate a particular quest that helped you learn vocabulary for your economics class or that taught you how to use a CNC machine or taught you how to really cook something in the kitchen.
Studies have shown (sorry, no references) that people's learning performance and retention are better during play. It's just not for kids. If we enjoy what we're doing, we do it better.
It seems to me that this is a realitively untapped market.
-Charlie out.
Idea: Video games (add-ons for existing games) that contain quests/tasks/training on real world educational material.
I see so much time and effort being put into games like WoW, where people are 'training' or 'questing' on things that are limited to the game environment. What if you had to navigate a particular quest that helped you learn vocabulary for your economics class or that taught you how to use a CNC machine or taught you how to really cook something in the kitchen.
Studies have shown (sorry, no references) that people's learning performance and retention are better during play. It's just not for kids. If we enjoy what we're doing, we do it better.
It seems to me that this is a realitively untapped market.
-Charlie out.
Idea of the Day #00001
This is the first entry in my "Idea of the Day" portion of this blog. It will be simple, straight forward with possibly some thoughts on the topic of the idea. If anyone has any ideas on getting my ideas to production, I'd be glad to hear from it.
So, here we go!
Insulated cups using corrugated paper. Effective, inexpensive, sustainable. Where are they?
(...he takes a bow) "Thank you, thank you. Oh stop! You're too kind".
Charlie
So, here we go!
Insulated cups using corrugated paper. Effective, inexpensive, sustainable. Where are they?
(...he takes a bow) "Thank you, thank you. Oh stop! You're too kind".
Charlie
Stardate 2009.01.04, 08:23PST
My first post of my first blog. Oh, the pressure!
I'm not one for big introductions, so hellow and namas day. There's plenty of time for details...
Right now, here's a picture.
-Charlie
llo and welcome.
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