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- >>>>>>>>>>>>>HERBAL FORMULAS FOR CLINIC AND HOME>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>by Michael Moore>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
- Copyright 1995 by Michael Moore. Use it, share it, just don't sell it
- or change it in any way (unless you get my permission)
- CONTENTS:
- INTRO:
- 1.MOUTH/NOSE/EYES/EARS
- 1.1 LIP and SKIN BUTTER
- 1.2 TOOTH POWDER (Michael's)
- 1.3 TOOTH POWDER (Jared's)
- 2.GASTRO-INTESTINAL
- 2.1 STOMACH TEA
- 2.2 LAXATIVE TEA
- 2.3 COMFREY-MINT-LEMON TEA
- 2.4 PAPAYA-MINT-LEMON TEA
- 2.4 COLON TONIC (Modified Thomsonian)
- 2.5 BITTER TONIC
- 2.6 ILEO-CECAL TONIC
- 2.7 CATNIP-FENNEL TINCTURE
- 2.8 NEUTRALIZING CORDIAL (Modified)
- 3.LIVER/BILIARY
- 3.1 LIVER TONIC
- 3.2 ROBERT'S BILIARY FORMULA
- 3.3 ALTERATIVE TEA
- 3.4 LIVER DEFICIENCY TINCTURE
- 3.5 LIVER EXCESS TINCTURE
- 4.RESPIRATORY
- 4.1 DECONGESTANT TEA
- 4.2 WHITE PINE COMPOUND COUGH SYRUP
- 4.3 OSHA COUGH SYRUP
- 4.4 COMPOUND SYRUP OF RED ROOT
- 4.5 WINTER SOLSTICE COUGH/COLD SYRUP
- 4.6 MONARDA HONEY
- 4.7 TONSILLITIS FORMULA
- 4.8 ALLERGY FORMULA
- 5.REPRODUCTIVE
- 5.1 CANDIDA FORMULA
- 5.2 FEMALE BALANCER
- 5.3 MENOPAUSE: EARLY FORMULA
- 5.4 MENOPAUSE: LATER FORMULA
- 5.5 PMS FORMULA, LONG CYCLE
- 5.6 PMS FORMULA, SHORT CYCLE
- 5.7 CERVICAL DYSPLASIA SUPPOSITORIES
- 5.8 HPV (Venereal Wart) SUPPOSITORIES
- 5.9 CANDIDA DOUCHE
- 5.10 HAYDEN'S VIBURNUM COMPOUND(Modified)
- 6.URINARY TRACT
- 6.1 URINARY TINCTURE (all purpose)
- 6.2 ALKALIZING TEA
- 7.LYMPH/IMMUNE
- 7.1 LYMPH TONIC
- 7.2 IMMUNE STIMULANT #1
- 7.3 IMMUNE STIMULANT #2
- 7.4 LYMPH ANTI-EFFECT (for mumps, mono, etc.)
- 7.5 TONSILITIS FORMULA
- 7.6 IMMUNE TONIC
- 8.CARDIO-VASCULAR
- 8.1 GREASEBALL HYPERTENSION
- 8.2 HYPOTENSION FORMULA (Kidney deficient)
- 8.3 TACHYCARDIA FORMULA
- 8.4 CIRCULATORY STIMULANT
- 8.5 ARTERIOSCLEROSIS FORMULA (health alright, memory bad)
- 9.TOPICAL
- 9.1 PODOPHYLLIN OINTMENT
- 9.2 CHAC SALVE (Calendula, Hypericum, Arnica,Cajeput)
- 9.3 MUSCLE BALM
- 9.4 "TRAUMA TINCTURE"
- 9.5 ROTGUT LINIMENT
- 9.6 ECHINACEA SALVE
- 9.7 GOLDEN SEAL SALVE
- 10. CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
- 10.1 RELAXING TEA
- 10.2 NERVE TONIC
- 10.3 SPEED DETOX FORMULA
- 10.4 V's NERVE TONIC
- 10.5 B's ANTIDEPRESSANT
- 10.6 K's SYRIAN RUE FORMULA (what an Ayurvedic Medicine friend uses)
- 10.7 COMPOUND TINCTURE OF CANNABIS (1910)
- 10.8 POST-TREATMENT RELAXER
- 10.9 POST-TREATMENT STRENGTHENER
- 11.ACUTE DISEASE
- 11.1 EGO CAPSULES
- 12.CHRONIC/METABOLIC
- 12.1 ALTERATIVE SYRUP
- 12.2 DETOX FORMULA
- 13. FOR PLEASURE OR FUN
- 13.1 FIVE MINT TEA
- 13.2 ROOT TEA
- 13.3 FLOWER TEA
- 13.4 MESOMARBLES
- 13.5 GUARANA FUDGE (AKA Speed Fudge)
- SIMPLE SYRUP
- MATERIA MEDICA
- INTRO: These are a variety of formulas I have used in my business and practice
- over the years. Some are elegant, some are silly and trivial, some are very
- useful therapeutic formulas. I have mixed them all together with little by way
- of editorializing. Some of the herbs are readily available in commerce, some
- are obscure, since I have been gathering, selling, using, teaching and writing
- about herbs in the Western United States for 25 years and have come to know a
- lot of useful plants not often encountered in commerce. Many former students
- market them commercially, but since I try to teach bioregional herbalism, they
- TOO are mostly in business in the west. Herbs Etcetera of Santa Fe, Dragon
- River Herbals, Wyoming Wildcrafters, Bisbee Botanicals, The Herbalist (Seattle)
- and The Herb Store are some of the more visibly marketed of these lines (there
- are many more with a more local focus) and some of these obscure herbs are now
- to be found in the catalogues of Eclectic Institute, The Herb Pharm, Herbalist
- and Alchemist and Blessed Herbs. Anyway, scrambling around to try and locate
- some weird exotic 'cause Moore says so isn't the point. I have offered some
- substitutes, if you know YOUR herbs real well make your own substitutes and
- otherwise just try the stuff that you can get the herbs for. I have always
- maintained that formulas are the LEAST important part of herbalism anyway.
- You can get the same effects from 100 different variations of various herbs.
- You need to know the craft well in order to get the same end result using other
- paths, but the actual formula isn't all that important...knowing the palette
- is. Anytime I see references to some "secret formula" I walk away. The VAST
- majority of physiologic reactions produced by herbs are repeated OVER and OVER
- endlessly in different plants, the physiologic effects that are beneficial in
- plants that are ingested are really only a few. Although a specific herb may
- offer a subtle range of physiologic colors that warrant a homeopathic profile
- or a classic Eclectic Specific Indication separating its energy completely from
- other herbs, mixing stuff together reduces the subtleties to a gentle grey noise
- and you are left with the predominate effects. The Eclectics often raged against
- polypharmacy for the simple reason that botanical subtleties are lost. At the
- very same time most of them grimaced and ended up using formulas most of the time.
- They are simpler, effective, and, since most disease is self-limiting and not
- always so subtle, often all that's needed. Besides, having a bunch of
- useful formulas around the house (or, if you are a practitioner or physician,
- around the clinic) covers most bases and allows YOU to control the resources.
- You don't need to go trundling about seeing an Eclectic M.D. (100 years ago) or
- trying to figure out where to find a professional herbalist in the yellow pages
- (there aren't many of us).
- Most formulas I use these days are made for a specific person, and are the end
- product of constitutional evaluations and counseling. For the 20 years I SOLD
- herbs, I put together a number of these formulas to wholesale, knowing that,
- without a Professional Herbalist (giggle) around, the formulas needed to be
- shotguns, covering the common problems that herbs are most appropriate for, and
- where subtleties are unnecessary (or could not be defined legally on the label
- and therefore could not be communicated to the innocent user). Besides, if you
- can't make it simple, you don't know what you're doing. When we pack for our
- endless numbers of field trips we pile boxes with enough tinctures, salves,
- fluidextracts, patches and herbal junk to outfit a dispensatory for a practicing
- Physiomedicalist in 1885 (another one of those schools of Medical Practice long
- extinct, may Flexner be cursed!). What we ACTUALLY end up using, however, if we
- get sick, are those same old formulas I used to wholesale. We always run out
- of Neutralizing Cordial, Hayden's Viburnum Compound, the latest version of some
- analgesic balm I put together in pharmacy lab and Mouth Tincture. We dutifully
- drag back all the subtle stuff until the next field trip. I figure it's our
- version of the gallon jars of organic soybeans and mung beans (for sprouting)
- that were bought in the holy flush of some dietary asceticism in 1987 and, in
- over 470,000 households across this land, get dragged sheepishly from house to
- house with NOBODY willing to either use them or risk Bad Karma Points by tossing
- them...an alternative lifestyle equivalent of the Christmas Fruitcake from Hell,
- and related to the Ma Rollers, Pyramid Hats, New Zealand Green Lipped Mussel
- Extract bottles, Willard Water and the half-finished Orgon Box that clutter the
- symbolic attics of those of us that have resided in North American Alternative
- Village.
- 1.MOUTH/NOSE/EYES/EARS
- 1.1 LIP and SKIN BUTTER
- 20 ounces Almond Oil
- 1/2 pound Anhydrose Lanolin
- 8 ounces Glycerin
- 3 3/4 ounces Beeswax
- 5-10 drops of Essential Oil
- Over low heat, dissolve the lanolin in the almond oil, add the glycerin and stir
- until all three are dispersed. Add the finely-chopped beeswax, stirring until
- just melted, add the essential oil, and pour the salve into containers. Stir the
- pot frequently and pour as quickly as reasonable. If you take too long the
- lanolin and glycerin may begin to separate.
- 1.2 TOOTH POWDER (Michael's)
- Arrowroot Powder 12 ounces.
- Orris Root Powder 4 ounces
- Baking Powder 1 ounce
- Licorice Root Powder 1 ounce
- Myrrh Gum Powder 1 ounce
- Cloves, fresh pwd. 1 ounce
- Cinnamon, fresh pwd. 1 ounce
- Yerba Mansa Powder 1 ounce
- Peppermint Oil 20 drops
- Wintergreen Oil 10 drops.
- Thoroughly mix all constituents, blend briefly in 1/2 cup batches and remix.
- 1.3 TOOTH POWDER (Jared's)
- Orris Root Powder 4 ounces
- Arrowroot 4 ounces
- Myrrh Gum 2 ounces
- Licorice Root 1.5 ounces
- White Oak Bark 1.5 ounces
- Golden Seal Root 1 ounce
- Bistort Root 1 ounce
- Peppermint Oil 1/2 teaspoon
- Mix powdered herbs thoroughly with the Peppermint Oil.
- 2.GASTRO-INTESTINAL
- 2.1 STOMACH TEA
- Star Anise 3 parts
- Ginger Root 2 parts
- Papaya Leaf 2 parts
- Fennel Seed 2 parts
- Camomile 2 parts
- Comfrey Leaf 2 parts
- Peppermint (or Poleo) 2 parts
- Angelica or Calamus 1 part
- Drink as a simple infusion as needed for dyspepsia or mild gastritis.
- 2.2 LAXATIVE TEA
- Psyllium Seed 3 parts
- Licorice Root 3 parts
- Rhubarb Root 2 parts
- Senna Pods (crushed) 2 parts
- Angelica Root 2 parts
- Drink as a simple infusion in evening.
- 2.3 COMFREY-MINT-LEMON TEA
- Comfrey Leaf 3 parts
- Peppermint 2 parts
- Lemon Balm 1 part
- Drink as a simple infusion for gastritis and pre-ulcer pain
- 2.4 PAPAYA-MINT-LEMON TEA
- Papaya Leaf 3 parts
- Spearmint 2 parts
- Lemon Grass 1 part
- Drink as a simple infusion for indigestion and disempacho
- 2.4 COLON TONIC (Modified Thomsonian)
- Cascara Sagrada 2 parts
- Oregon Grape 2 parts
- Cayenne 1 part
- Ginger Root 1 part
- Lobelia 1 part
- Rhubarb Root 1 pt.
- Stimulates peristalsis for chronic constipation of long duration. 2 "00" caps
- with water, morning and evening. When feces soften up go to 1 capsule twice a
- day
- 2.5 BITTER TONIC
- Gentian Root 2 parts
- Quassia Wood 2 parts
- (or Castela) (2 parts)
- Angelica Root/Seed 2 parts
- Cardamon Seed .5 part
- Bayberry Bark .5 part
- Tincture 1:4, 50% alcohol.
- Best for chronic conditions, such as recovering anorectics, achlorhydria,
- chemotherapy queasiness. Take 10-15 minutes before meal..5-15 drops.
- 2.6 ILEO-CECAL TONIC
- Chaparro Amargosa or Quassia 4 parts
- Bistort Root
- (or Geranium or Heuchera) 4 parts
- Bayberry Bark 2 parts
- Yerba Mansa Root 2 parts
- Ginger Root 2 parts
- Tincture 1:4, 50% alcohol.
- Use for giardiasis, amebiasis, especially with ileo-cecal irritability. With
- active diarrhea, take 1/2 teaspoon every 2 hours, alternating with 4 oz. skim
- milk. With poor milk tolerance, use blackberry or pomegranate juice concentrate
- ...1-2 tablespoons, straight up.
- 2.7 CATNIP-FENNEL TINCTURE
- Fresh Catnip Tincture 3 parts
- (1:2, 95% alcohol)
- Fennel Seed Tincture 3 parts
- (1:5, 60% alcohol)
- Licorice Root Tincture 1 part
- (1:5, 50% alcohol)
- 15-30 drops as needed for acute gastritis or simple dyspepsia.
- 2.8 NEUTRALIZING CORDIAL (Modified)
- Rhubarb Tincture 80 ml
- Cinnamon Tincture 64 ml
- Hydrastis Tincture 40 ml
- Spirit of Peppermint 8 ml
- Potassium carbonate 16 grams
- Simple Syrup 250 ml
- Diluted alcohol (50%) 550 ml
- Step 1. Dissolve 16 grams of potassium carbonate in 250 ml Simple Syrup
- Step 2. Mix the tinctures, spirit and diluted alcohol.
- Step 3. Mix both liquids, stirring or blending until KCO3 is dissolved.
- Step 4. Add additional diluted alcohol to the total (if necessary) to bring the
- total volume to 1000 ml.
- Use a teaspoon or two for nausea, gas pains, dyspepsia, tenesmus, diarrhea AND
- constipation. An elegant pharmaceutical that may be the single closest thing to
- a universal GI tonic. Unfortunately it is no longer made by any American
- manufacturer.
- 3.LIVER/BILIARY
- 3.1 LIVER TONIC
- Barberry or Oregon Grape 2 parts
- Milk Thistle Seed 2 parts
- Chaparral (Larrea) 1 part
- Toadflax (Linaria) 1 part
- Echinacea 1 part
- Burdock Rt or Seed 1 part
- Yellow Dock 1 part
- Leptandra or Blue Flag Rt 1 part
- An old-fashioned "shotgun" formula. Grind well and encapsulate. Echinacea is
- the only one of these herb that deteriorates in a powdered form, so the best
- compromise would be to keep it as a rather coarse grind, the rest as fine a
- powder as desired.
- Useful for passive liver "heaviness", with periodic light stools and/or frontal
- headaches brought on by overeating or eating rich foods when tired. Look for
- greasy hair, acne on the cheeks (both kinds of cheeks) and acne around the mouth.
- It should be tried for those that regularly work with solvents or that drink
- regularly, whether in moderation or excess. In general, for those that regularly
- eat before going to bet and are slow in waking, grouchy and sluggish in the
- morning...they also have to cut back on the snacks.
- DOSE:
- Pronounced liver dysfunction, but w/out pathology: 2 caps, 3X a day.
- No overt symptoms, but having many of the risks mentioned: 1 cap, 3X a day.
- 3.2 ROBERT'S BILIARY FORMULA
- Chionanthus (Fringetree) 1 part
- Euonymus (Wahoo) 1 part
- Piper methysticum (Kava) 1 part
- Leptandra (Culver's Root) 1 part
- Marshmallow Root 1 part
- Powder the herbs and encapsulate. 1 capsule after each meal and one just before
- sleeping. A biliary laxative and gallstone preventative, it is also useful for
- cholecystalgia or biliary colic. Larger doses can be irritating; it is better
- to use the smaller dosages recommended, allowing a day or two to see if they
- help.
- 3.3 ALTERATIVE TEA
- Sassafras Bark 2 parts
- Sarsaparilla Root 2 parts
- Burdock Root 1 part
- Echinacea Root 1 part
- A simple drinkable tea for low-level chronic liver, metabolic and immuno-
- depressed states...a couple of cups a day, made from a rounded teaspoon in 8 oz.
- water, brought to a boil and removed from the heat and allowed to cool.
- 3.4 LIVER DEFICIENCY TINCTURE
- Mahonia (Oregon Grape) 2 parts
- Yellow Dock Root 2 parts
- Buckbean 2 parts
- Pleurisy Root 2 parts
- Blue Flag Root 1 part
- Ocotillo Bark 1 part
- Mix from tinctures, with Mahonia, Yellow Dock, Pleurisy Root and Blue Flag made
- from dry herb, and Buckbean (if possible) and Ocotillo (mandatory) made as fresh
- tinctures. Take 30 drops, morning, afternoon and before retiring. A
- constitutional tonic for those with catabolic or adrenergic excess.
- 3.5 LIVER EXCESS TINCTURE
- Burdock Root FE 2 parts
- Dandelion Root FE 2 parts
- Milk Thistle Seeds 2 parts
- Larrea 1 part
- Tribulus (Puncture Vine) 1 part
- Mix from Burdock and Dandelion Fluidextracts (1:1 strength) strong Milk Thistle
- Seed Tincture (1:2, 75% alcohol), dry Larrea and Tribulus tinctures (1:5) Use
- 30-60 drops to 3X a day, and decrease protein and fat consumption by at least one
- third. A constitutional tonic for those with anabolic excess.
- 4.RESPIRATORY
- 4.1 DECONGESTANT TEA
- Ma Huang 3 parts
- Mormon Tea 3 parts
- Yerba Santa 3 parts
- Coltsfoot Leaves 3 parts
- Cubeb Berries 2 parts
- Drink frequently as an infusion. If you find it interferes with sleep or makes
- you jittery, lessen or delete the Ma Huang.
- 4.2 WHITE PINE COMPOUND COUGH SYRUP
- White Pine Bark
- (or Balsam Root) 3 oz.
- Wild Cherry Bark 3 oz.
- Spikenard Root 1/2 ounce
- Poplar Buds 1/2 ounce
- Blood Root 1/4 ounce
- Percolate with 50% alcohol until you have reached 16 ounces.
- Add 12 ounces of simple syrup
- OR
- add 8 ounces of honey and 4 ounces of glycerin
- 4.3 OSHA COUGH SYRUP
- Osha Tincture 1 part
- White Pine Compound 4 parts
- Mix well and PARTY UP!
- 4.4 COMPOUND SYRUP OF RED ROOT
- Red Root Tops 4 ounces
- Red Root Rootbark 4 ounces
- Wild Lettuce 4 ounces
- Black Cohosh 1 ounce
- Pleurisy Root 1 ounce
- Wild Ginger Root 1/2 ounce
- Lobelia inflata 1/4 ounce
- Bloodroot 1/4 ounce
- Tincture 1:2 with 65% alcohol, (30 ounces) put it aside, add water to the
- percolation and drip another part (15 ounces), then add 1 part Simple Syrup (15
- ounces) "Coughs, pulmonary and hepatic affections" (Kings)
- 4.5 WINTER SOLSTICE COUGH/COLD SYRUP
- Wild Cherry Bark 4 ounces
- White Pine Bark 3 ounces
- Osha Root 3 ounces
- Elecampane Root 3 ounces
- Balsam Root 2 ounces
- Sweet Root 2 ounces
- Licorice Root 2 ounces
- Percolation I: 50% alcohol, 30 oz.
- Percolation II: 25% alcohol, open ended.
- Evaporate Perc II down to 10 ounces, add to Perc I to make 40 ounces total.
- Add 20 ounces of Monarda Honey, and 10 ounces glycerin.
- 4.6 MONARDA HONEY
- Fresh Monarda Flowers stuffed tightly into a mason jar, Honey added, and topped
- off several times (until bubbles work completely out and flowers are saturated
- and covered), kept around for a month or two, pressed out.
- 4.7 TONSILITIS FORMULA
- Red Root 4 parts
- Myrrh 2 parts
- Bayberry 2 parts
- Make from the individual tinctures, add 5% glycerin.
- Take 1/2 teaspoon in 2 tablespoons of hot water, gargle well and swallow every 2
- hours.
- 4.8 ALLERGY FORMULA
- Yerba Mansa 4 parts
- Yerba Santa 4 parts
- Bayberry 3 parts
- Ambrosia 2 parts
- Horehound 2 parts
- Oregon Grape 1 parts
- Mix herbs as tinctures, or tincture 1:5, 60% alcohol
- Use 30-60 drops (1 or 2 squirts) 2 or 3 times a day
- This is for the relief of seasonal allergies and resultant secondary
- hyper-sensitivities.
- 5.REPRODUCTIVE
- 5.1 CANDIDA FORMULA
- Dandelion FE 2 parts
- Pau D'Arco FE 2 parts
- Castela or Quassia Tinct 2 parts
- Larrea Tinct 1 part
- Sweet Root Tinct 1 part
- Mix formula with fluidextracts and tinctures
- Use 30-60 drops (1 or 2 squirts) 2 or 3 times a day
- A gradual, no die-off approach to alleviating symptoms of systemic candidiasis.
- 5.2 FEMALE BALANCER
- Vitex agnus-castus Tinct 3 parts
- Black Cohosh Tinct 2 parts
- Dandelion FE 2 parts
- Motherwort Tinct 2 parts
- Oregon Grape Root Tinct 1 part
- Mix with fluidextract and tinctures.
- Use 30-60 drops (1 or 2 squirts) 2 or 3 times a day
- This helps to regulate chronically short estrus cycles, with aggravated anabolic
- metabolism.
- 5.3 MENOPAUSE: EARLY FORMULA
- Vitex agnus-castus Tinct 3 parts
- Yellow Dock Tinct 2 parts
- Sarsaparilla Tinct 2 parts
- Peony Tinct 2 parts
- Nuphar Tinct 1 part
- American Ginseng Tinct 1 part
- Mix using tinctures, since some are best fresh, some best dry
- Use 30-60 drops (1 or 2 squirts) 2 or 3 times a day
- For women in earlier stages of menopause when erratic cycles and flooding result
- from increasingly disorganized corpus luteal progesterone production.
- 5.4 MENOPAUSE: LATER FORMULA
- Motherwort 3 parts
- Devil's Club 3 parts
- Black Cohosh 2 parts
- Licorice 2 parts
- Bugleweed 2 parts
- Dong Quai 1 part
- Blue Cohosh 1 part
- Mix from tinctures or make 1:5, 60% alcohol.
- Use 30-60 drops (1 or 2 squirts) 2 or 3 times a day
- For women in the later stages of menopause when ovulation has nearly ceased and
- the main symptoms arise not from erratic progesterone levels, but from the
- hypothalamus and pituitary attempts to increase diminished estrogen levels.
- 5.5 PMS FORMULA, LONG CYCLE
- Vitex 3 parts
- Devil's Club 2 parts
- Black Cohosh 2 parts
- Oregon Grape Root 2 parts
- Peony 2 parts
- Inmortal 2 parts
- Anemone (Pulsatilla) 1 part
- Mix as tinctures, since the Anemone MUST be made fresh, the Peony is BETTER
- fresh, the rest can or should be made dry.
- Use 30-60 drops (1 or 2 squirts) 2 or 3 times a day
- For symptoms that start just before menses, deriving from weak progesterone
- levels with a premature rise in estrogen before menstruation; the cycle is
- generally longer than 28 days. Problems include rapid-onset water-retention,
- headaches, joint pain,and labile emotions.
- 5.6 PMS FORMULA, SHORT CYCLE
- Dandelion FE 3 parts
- Red Root tincture 3 parts
- Yellow Dock tincture 2 parts
- Yerba Mansa tincture 2 parts
- Bugleweed tincture 2 parts
- Ocotillo tincture 2 parts
- Celery Seed tincture 1 part
- Make from the fluidextract and tinctures
- Use 30-60 drops (1 or 2 squirts) 2 or 3 times a day
- For symptoms that may start a week before menses, with the estrogen phase short,
- the progesterone phase strong, and the anabolic dominance showing as late-night
- energy, sweating, irritability, craving for proteins and fats (but with poor
- digestion), pelvic congestion (aggravated by fatty foods), and premenstrual acne.
- 5.7 CERVICAL DYSPLASIA SUPPOSITORIES
- *Echinacea Fluidextract 30 ml.
- Calendula Tincture 10 ml.
- Glycerin 175 ml.
- Gelatin (Pharmaceutical Grade) 25 grams
- (* you can obtain the same results by slowly evaporating 5 ounces of Echinacea
- Tincture down to 1 ounce of milky-grey liquid and use that in place of the
- hard-to-come-by-unless-you-make-it-yourself Fluidextract)
- Heat the glycerin on a double boiler, add the Echinacea and Calendula, and
- maintain at a low temperature for at least 30 minutes to evaporate off some of
- the alcohol. Add the gelatin (preferably finely powdered) and whisk (or egg-
- beat) until the gelatin is THOROUGHLY dissolved in the liquids. Don't leave any
- little gelatinous solids...continue stirring until the liquid is a clear
- grey-brown syrup.
- Fill a plastic roll of disposable 3 or 5 ml suppository molds up to the top of
- the form line. A small turkey baster (no jokes O.K.?) is the easiest tool for
- this. The mixture should make 80-100 suppositories. The usual two-piece hard
- plastic or metal suppository molds, although reusable, work TERRIBLY for
- gelatin-based suppositories, fine for glycerin or cocoa butter types.
- USE: A suppository should be inserted at night into the vagina and as close to
- the cervix as practical. Gelatin-based suppositories do not melt like those made
- with cocoa butter or gelatin...instead they dissolve slowly over 8-12 hours,
- maintaining the herb presence for long enough to facilitate resolution and
- stimulate regeneration of the tissues. This can be continued for many days if
- necessary.
- CLAUSE: If it causes inflammation, stop. I know of no instance where the
- constituents have caused this reaction, but anything is possible. It is better
- to deal with such a condition, particularly if a class 2 or class 3 smear is
- involved, when you can monitor the cervix yourself with a speculum or can have it
- done for you regularly by a nurse-practitioner or midwife..Cervical erosion, of
- course, is CAUSED by something and stimulating membrane healing is not likely to
- help much in the long run unless you deal at least to some degree with underlying
- causes.
- VEGETARIAN NOTE: Yes, gelatin comes from animals. No, Agar Agar and the like
- are NOT reasonable substitutes. Use gelatin or don't; it's up to you, since I
- know of no appropriate vegetable substitute. There ARE refined pharmaceutical
- colloids that are substituted for gelatin, but they are the refined by-products
- of it anyway, far more expensive, harder to get...and MUCH further from the
- source.
- CAUSES: One common cause is diminished estrogen availability to the cervical
- membranes: if cycles are consistently longer than 29 or 30 days, you might
- consider one of the reproductive tonics or simply Don Quai; if you have extended
- bouts of pelvic congestion, with hemorrhoid and/or varicose vein flare-ups, you
- might try a liver tonic, ileo-cecal tonic or colon tonic.
- Another common cause is a chronically imbalanced vaginal flora...sometimes from a
- Candida infection, sometimes from a subtler bacterial vaginosis condition. Both
- are helped by lactobacillus presence, both through diet and/or douche;
- candidiasis is highly reactive to sugars (both good and bad), fermented foods and
- booze...and is usually worse AFTER menses; bacterial vaginosis is not blood-sugar
- reactive, and is often worse between ovulation and menses.
- These are thumb-nail pictures and the conditions are highly variable, and not all
- are treatable through personal measures. Besides, this does NOT involve the
- thumbnail.
- SOURCES: The roles of perforated molds can be obtained from a number of
- pharmaceutical supply houses. Every pharmacy has these catalogues, and any
- reasonable pharmacist should be willing to locate a source, tack on a moral
- profit, and order them for you. Although unusual, your order is perfectly legal
- and you have an obvious right to request and obtain the product. The pharmacist
- is either A) lazy, B) so shell-shocked by the times that he/she figures it must
- have something to do with drug abuse and refuses on general principle or C) the
- pharmacist doesn't approve (also on general principle) with folks making their
- own medicine and D) they used to have their own drug store, got driven out of
- business by the chains, are now working FOR the chains and understandably hate
- the world.
- Simply explain that you will take your business elsewhere. Then, TAKE your
- business elsewhere, preferably to a smaller, personally owned drug store. Look
- for a drugstore named after somebody...like Jack's or Garcia's, or named after a
- brand of toilet tissue...like Regent's or Deluxe or Standard, or after a
- neighborhood, like Midtown, Uptown or Lakeside. Establishing a rapport with an
- adventurous and inquisitive pharmacist is VERY important if you wish to make
- anything more than teas and tinctures. After all, most herb formulating derives
- directly from the pharmacy of 50 or 100 years ago. They can order glycerin,
- anhydrous lanolin, potassium carbonate, even beeswax and colophony or rosin.
- It's in their catalogues...as is simple syrup, coca-cola syrup, even White Pine
- Compound.
- 5.8 HPV (Venereal Wart) SUPPOSITORIES
- Echinacea Fluidextract 30 ml
- Glycerin 175 ml
- Gelatin (N.F.) 25 grams
- Thuja Oil 5 ml
- Make the same way as the previous, but add the highly evaporative Thuja Oil to
- the dissolved syrup JUST before you begin to pour into the molds. Each
- suppository ends up containing about a drop of Thuja Oil...very easily tolerated.
- USE: The same as the previous, although it may need to be continued for month or
- more, and some herbs should be taken internally as well, such as Caulophyllum
- (Blue Cohosh), Echinacea, Trillium (fresh plant tincture only), Nuphar, Lomatium
- (it seems to help for some reason) and Thuja tincture (for its moderate
- anti-viral effects against papillomavirus).
- CAUSE: Sexual transmission...long ago or recently.
- CLAUSE: This condition presents a big potential risk for women...long term. The
- number of sexual partners one has (any gender), the greater the likelihood of
- picking it up. It also doesn't go away, just go dormant, like herpes or plantar
- warts (a related virus). You're in a monogamous relationship for ten years, your
- partner has a parent die and you've both just moved: if they break out in
- venereal warts it MIGHT only be the stress...and a flareup of something they had
- 15 years ago. It also might be the stress COMBINED with some R&R with a new
- friend.
- 5.9 CANDIDA DOUCHE
- MIX IN A BLENDER JUST BEFORE USING:
- Witch Hazel Extract (commercial) 3 tablespoons
- Golden Seal Tincture 1 teaspoon
- (or Oregon Grape Root (1/2 teaspoon)
- WITH Anemopsis (1 teaspoon)
- Warm Water 1 pint
- Table Salt 1/2 teaspoon
- Yogurt, live culture 3-4 tablespns
- Douche once in the evening, either every second or third day. Eat,if possible,
- 6-8 ounces of live culture yogurt a day, and check urine pH in the morning with a
- teststrip...it should be under 7.0 and above 6.0, i.e. slightly acidic. If
- frequently alkaline (above 7.0), decrease carbohydrates (especially fruits and
- sweets and tubers) and increase proteins. If too acidic, modify in the other
- direction.
- 5.10 HAYDEN'S VIBURNUM COMPOUND(Modified)
- Black Haw (Viburnum prunifolium) 1.5 ounces
- Cramp Bark (V. opulus) 1.0 ounce
- Trillium (dried) 1.0 ounce
- (OR Cotton Root Bark (1.0 ounce)
- Dioscorea (Wild Yam) .5 ounce
- Skullcap (recently dried) .25 ounce
- Cloves 1.0 ounce
- Cinnamon Bark .75 ounce
- Orange Peel .5 ounce
- Grind herbs together, moisten with a few tablespoons of alcohol, and let sit,
- covered, overnight. Tincture with 50% alcohol menstruum to a 1:4 tincture (about
- 26 ounces). Add 6.5 ounces (by volume) of Simple Syrup to bring the final
- strength to 1:5. You MAY substitute equal parts of glycerin and honey for the
- syrup, but it tastes weird.
- Take 1-3 teaspoons in HOT water for Killer Kramps, particularly of it is a
- problem that only happens every few months, or occurs only the first night of
- menstruation. Regular monthly dysmennorhea from organic causes, rarely responds
- very well to H.V.C.
- This is the Queen of Cramp Remedies
- 6.URINARY TRACT
- 6.1 URINARY TINCTURE (all purpose)
- Buchu Leaves 3 parts
- Juniper berries 2 parts
- Yerba Mansa 2 parts
- Pipsissewa 2 parts
- Eryngium yuccafolium 1 part
- Mix as tinctures or make 1:5, with 65% alcohol.
- Use 30-60 drops (1 or 2 squirts) in 8 ounces of water, 3 to 4 times a day
- A general diuretic and antimicrobial for water retention and mild urinary
- tract infections.
- 6.2 ALKALIZING TEA
- Nettle Leaf 1 part
- Red Clover Tops 1 part
- Alfalfa 1 part
- Horsetail (optional) (1 part)
- Drink the hot or cold tea freely. If under metabolic stress you might even use
- the tea as your main liquid. Good for acid urine, uric acid kidney stones,
- post-op recovery, PMS acidity and as part of an osteoporosis regimen.
- 7.LYMPH/IMMUNE
- 7.1 LYMPH TONIC
- Burdock Root 8 parts
- Red Root 6 parts
- Echinacea Root 6 parts
- Ocotillo 4 parts
- Stillingia Root 2 parts
- Yerba Mansa Root 2 parts
- Aristolochia serpentaria 1 part
- Blue Flag 1 part
- Pike Root 1 part.
- Mix from the individual tinctures, and add 5% glycerin.
- A general tonic for moderate chronic immunosuppression, not for acute conditions.
- 60 drops 4X a day.
- 7.2 IMMUNE STIMULANT #1
- Echinacea Root 4 parts
- Red Root 3 parts
- Osha Root 2 parts
- Myrrh Gum 2 parts
- Ocotillo 2 parts
- Stillingia 1 part
- Aristolochia 1 part
- Baptisia 1 part
- Arnica 1 part
- Capsicum 1 part
- Mix from the separate tinctures. Use 30-60 drops in 2 to 4 ounces of hot water
- every 3 hours during acute infections in adrenalin stress folks or those with a
- tendency to cold hands and feet and who seldom break a sweat when sick. Best
- taken in hot water. Bon a petit!
- 7.3 IMMUNE STIMULANT #2
- Echinacea 4 parts
- Red Root 2 parts
- Osha 2 parts
- Yerba Mansa 2 parts
- Calendula 2 parts
- Capsicum 1 part
- Thuja plicata 1 part
- Mix from the tinctures.
- Use 30-60 drops (1 or 2 squirts) 2 to 4 times a day.
- Used to stimulate resistance to short-term infections in the immune-competant who
- sweat easily, tend to a mesomorph somatotype, anabolic and "yangy".
- 7.4 LYMPH ANTI-EFFECT (for mumps, mono, etc.)
- Ocotillo 3 parts
- Echinacea 3 parts
- Polymnia 2 parts
- Red Root 2 parts
- Poke Root 1 part
- Arnica 1 part
- Make from the individual tinctures, adding 5% glycerin.
- Take 30 drops with warm water every half hour until mild overload symptoms of
- sweating, salivation, irritability and semi-nausea, then back off to one dose 4-5
- times a day.For active lymphatic infections in strong adults.
- 7.5 TONSILITIS FORMULA
- Red Root 4 parts
- Myrrh 2 parts
- Bayberry 2 parts
- Make from the individual tinctures, add 5% glycerin.
- Take 1/2 teaspoon in 2 tablespoons of hot water, gargle well and swallow...every
- 2 hours.
- 7.6 IMMUNE TONIC
- Echinacea 5 parts
- Stillingia 2 parts
- Lomatium dissectum 2 parts
- Baptisia 1 part
- Myrrh 1 part
- Aristolochia 1 part
- Mix from the tinctures, or make 1:5, 65% alcohol.
- Use 30 drops (1 squirt) 2 or 3 times a day For stimulating those with chronic
- immune suppression,associated with chronic depression, slow viruses, mycosis, and
- immune suppression from anti- inflammatories and chemotherapy
- 8.CARDIO-VASCULAR
- 8.1 GREASEBALL HYPERTENSION
- Equisetum 4 parts
- Dandelion Root 4 parts
- Passion Flower 3 parts
- Crataegus 2 parts
- Prickly Ash 2 parts
- Capsicum 1 part
- Aristolochia serpentaria 1 part
- Tincture 1:4 with 50% alcohol, after setting two days moistened. 1/2 teaspoon 2X
- a day, with a blood anti-viscosity agent, such as Red Root, Vit.E or an aspirin.
- 8.2 HYPOTENSION FORMULA (Kidney deficient)
- Kola Nuts 4 parts
- Gotu Kola 3 parts
- Licorice Root 2 parts
- Korean red Ginseng 2 parts
- Lily-of-the-Valley Root 1 part
- Tincture 1:4, 50% alcohol
- 1/2 teaspoon AM and midday.
- 8.3 TACHYCARDIA FORMULA
- Lycopus 3 parts
- Leonurus 3 parts
- Passiflora 2 parts
- Crataegus 2 parts
- Tincture 50%, 1:4
- 30-60 drops, 4X a day
- 8.4 CIRCULATORY STIMULANT
- Prickly Ash Bark 3 parts
- Ginger 2 parts
- Inmortal Root 2 parts
- Osha Root 2 parts
- Capsicum 1 part
- Tincture 60%, 1:4 20-40 drops, 4X a day
- 30 drops before meals as a bitter tonic, 30 drops before retiring.
- 8.5 ARTERIOSCLEROSIS FORMULA (health alright, memory bad)
- Prickly Ash 6 parts
- Bayberry 4 parts
- Aristolochia spp 2 parts
- Selenicereus or relative 1 part
- Red Ginseng (low BP) 1 part
- (White Ginseng (normal or high BP)
- (1 part)
- Make with finished tinctures, add 5% glycerin.
- 9.TOPICAL
- 9.1 PODOPHYLLIN OINTMENT
- 8 ounces Podophyllum Root
- 5 ounces Myrrh Tincture
- 12 ounces Olive Oil
- 10 Rosin (Colophony)
- Some Beeswax
- Percolate the Podophyllum Root in 95% alcohol for a 1:2 strong tincture. Add the
- Myrrh Tincture, and evaporate both slowly over a low heat to 2 fluid of sickening
- goo. Add the olive oil and rosin, heat until all is dispersed, check for "set"
- on a metal surface, and add an ounce or two of beeswax if necessary. Pour into
- tins, and apply happily to your venereal warts or herpes sores.
- 9.2 CHAC SALVE (Calendula, Hypericum, Arnica,Cajeput)
- 2 ounces Calendula Flowers
- 2 ounces Arnica Herb
- 2 ounces ethanol
- 24 ounces Olive Oil
- 6 ounce Hypericum Oil
- 1/2 ounce Cajeput Oil
- 5 ounces Beeswax
- Make a 1:6 steeped oil with the Calendula and Arnica (as usual), add the
- Hypericum Oil (made from the fresh flowers), heat slowly, dissolve the beeswax,
- add the Cajeput (actually Tea Tree Oil, but much cheaper by the older name), and
- pour into tins. Can also be called OSFA Salve (One Size Fits All) or Rescue
- Grease or Limbaugh Leech.
- 9.3 MUSCLE BALM
- Poplar Bud Oil (steeped) 2 ounces
- Arnica Oil (steeped) 2 ounces
- Hypericum Oil (steeped) 2 ounces
- Oil of Wintergreen 30 drops
- Olive Oil 6 ounces
- A Topically applied oil, used as an analgesic, counter-irritant, and anti-
- inflammatory: 30-60 drops rubbed into the area aids dispersal and resolution of
- exudates. It is to strong for a true massage oil.
- 9.4 "TRAUMA TINCTURE"
- Hypericum (fresh plant tincture) 3 parts
- Calendula (fresh flower tincture) 2 parts
- Arnica (fresh plant tincture) 1 part
- Make by mixing tinctures, or if fortunate in timing, from the fresh plants, using
- the volumes of compressed herbs for the parts. Useful in acute conditions, such
- as sprains,contusions, hyperextensions and muscular-skeletal trauma. It should
- be applied topically and taken internally, (10-20 drops) both modalities every
- two hours for three or four rounds. Taken internally it will also help for
- faintness and lightheadedness resulting from parasympathetic or vagus discharge
- caused by physical manipulation or trauma.
- 9.5 ROTGUT LINIMENT
- Tobacco (Bull Durham etc) 1 ounce
- Baneberry Root 1 ounce
- Datura Leaves (or Henbane) 1/2 ounce
- Cayenne Pepper 1/4 ounce
- (OR Ginger Root 1/2 ounce)
- Rubbing Alcohol(70% isopropyl) 16 ounces.
- Grind up the herbs together and soak them in the rubbing alcohol (shaking daily)
- for two weeks. Apply the squeezed-out liniment by hand or with a
- liniment-moistened cloth to sprains, bruises and hyperextensions. Wash your
- hands immediately AND, eventually, the parts the liniment is applied to. Avoid
- touching your eyes, mouth or naught bits until your hands are clean...for obvious
- (cayenne) reasons.
- CLAUSE: Besides the previous, the smell is genially obnoxious and proletariat.
- 9.6 ECHINACEA SALVE
- Echinacea Purpurea Flowerheads 5 ounces
- Alcohol 3 ounces
- Olive Oil 35 ounces
- Beeswax 7 ounces
- Grind and sift the Echinacea Flowers (roots will not work). Mix the alcohol with
- the flowers in a stainless steel bowl with a lid, cover and let stand for at
- least 2-3 hours. Blend the moistened herb with the olive oil in a hearty blender
- (an Oster at high speed or a Vitamix at slow speed) until the sides of the
- container get warm. Filter through muslin, squeezing the marc as well as
- possible, and heat the oil slowly in the top of a double boiler. Chop and add
- the beeswax, continuing the low heat until the beeswax has melted. Pour into
- containers.
- Use freely for hemorrhoids, blisters, cold sores, stings, vaginitis, anal
- fissures and any inflamed swellings
- 9.7 GOLDEN SEAL SALVE
- Golden Seal Herb (no root) 6 ounces
- Alcohol 3 ounces
- Ammonia Water (3-4% solution) 2 tablespoons
- Olive Oil 35 ounces
- Beeswax 7 ounces
- Grind the herb, moisten with the alcohol THEN the ammonia water, cover, and let
- stand for 2-3 hours. Proceed as with Echinacea Salve. The ammonia is necessary
- to stabilize the alkaloids in the Golden Seal. You can omit it if you wish, but
- the end result is somewhat inferior. The herb contains the same constituents as
- the root, although with a shorter shelf-life, and using the leaf spares this
- vanishing plant from further decimation through the digging of wild plants (STILL
- the primary source of roots on the market).
- 10. CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
- 10.1 RELAXING TEA
- Camomile Flowers 3 parts
- Catnip 3 parts
- Passion Flower 3 parts
- Spearmint 2 parts
- Lemon Balm 2 parts
- Hops 2 parts
- Viscum album 1 part
- Drink the simple infusion as needed, particularly in the evenings. If you know
- you will have trouble sleeping, start drinking it BEFORE you can't sleep.
- 10.2 NERVE TONIC
- Valerian 4 parts
- Verbena 4 parts
- Skullcap 4 parts
- Passion Flower 4 parts
- European Mistletoe 2 parts
- Damiana 2 parts
- Siberian Ginseng 2 parts
- Cordydalis 1 part
- 3-6 "00" capsules as needed
- Lower doses help anxieties, larger doses act as an overt sedative.
- (Can be tinctured, 50% alcohol)
- 10.3 SPEED DETOX FORMULA
- Bee Pollen 6 parts
- Fu-tse (Cured Aconite) 4 parts
- Mahonia 3 parts
- 6-12 caps a day, use at least 250 mg. of tyrosine a day, and add the
- water-soluble vitamins such as B complex and C. Used to help someone get through
- the first week of amphetamine or cocaine withdrawal.
- 10.4 V's NERVE TONIC
- Passiflora FE 5 ounces
- Leonurus cardiaca 1 ounce
- Crataegus 1 ounce
- Verbena hastata 1 ounce
- Hypericum (fresh) 1 ounce
- Selenicereus (fresh) 1/2 ounce
- Make from separate tinctures
- Dose 60-90 drops as needed.
- For physical agitation, nervousness, and stress palpitations
- 10.5 B's ANTIDEPRESSANT
- Hypericum (fresh) 6 parts
- Aralia Berries (fresh) 5 parts
- Licorice Root 4 parts
- Oplopanax (fresh) 2 parts
- Panax quinquefolium 1 part
- Mix as tinctures.
- Dose: 60-90 drops up to four times a day.
- For morbid depression with congestion and dry mucosa
- 10.6 K's SYRIAN RUE FORMULA (what an Ayurvedic Medicine friend uses)
- Syrian Rue 58 parts
- Avena fatua (fresh) 58 parts
- Panax (uncured) 58 parts
- Rauwolfia 58 parts
- Lobelia (fresh) 8 parts
- Mix as tinctures
- 1/2 to 1 teaspoon, 3X a day
- Antidepressant for adrenergic individuals
- NOTE: As an Ayurvedic therapist, my friend has access to Rauwolfia serpentina.
- As a once widely used crude drug (the source of reserpine), it is seldom to be
- found in herb commerce...and perhaps is illegal. I personally have seldom
- used the plant, have always considered it, like digitalis, a "True" crude drug
- best left to medicine. With a body of experiential use in Ayurvedic Medicine,
- wherein my friend has learned it, I would trust the use here. I have never
- inquired as to his rather peculiar scheme of proportions. I would have thought
- that the presence of what amounts to nearly a quarter of the tincture of
- Rauwolfia to be an excessive amount. In fact the formula is quite effective,
- and seems relatively safe.
- Since I feel perfectly comfortable using toxic herbs that I know personally
- (I prefer the term "Low Dosage), including such shit as Aconite, Gelsemium and
- Veratrum, herbs that cause fellow herbalists who aren't familiar with their
- safe use to cringe and scurry, I guess my reluctant attitude regarding the
- herbal use of Rauwolfia is similarly the result of only knowing it "by rep"
- and not as a specific entity.
- 10.7 COMPOUND TINCTURE OF CANNABIS (1910)
- Lupulin (Hops resin) 3 parts
- Valerian Root 3 parts
- Cannabis "shake" 2 parts
- Tincture 1:4 in 65% alcohol.
- When finished, add enough fresh Pulsatilla Tincture to bring final strength to a
- 1:5 potency. As a narcotic-analgesic, especially for referred visceral pain.
- Dose 15-45 drops as needed. The Cannabis is, of course, completely illegal to
- possess in ANY form. With the increased use by authorities of the tactic of
- property confiscation, wherein THEY keep YOUR stuff even if you never get to
- court or are even charged with possession (and pigs will fly before they ever
- give it back to you, since local police get to keep most of the money they raise
- from auctioning it off), having this plant is considerably riskier at present.
- (Did I miss something when I learned about the Constitution in Civic's Class??)
- Those of you having a relationship to Cannabis dating from the Old Days, with
- fond memories of youth, more hair, lower gravity and Tie-Dye teeshirts should
- especially bear this in mind. Those involved in the drug business, both those
- that deal and those that chase, are MUCH weirder. And what cost $10 20 years
- ago now costs $100-$200 (and the lid is STILL short). Myself, I have this rather
- strange attitude towards Cannabis. It's just another goddamm plant medicine,
- and I REFUSE to take it all that seriously.
- 10.8 POST-TREATMENT RELAXER
- Skullcap 3 parts
- Betony 3 parts
- Cimicifuga 2 parts
- Hypericum 2 parts
- Gelsemium 1 part
- Mix from the tinctures
- Use 30-60 drops (1 or 2 squirts) 2 or 3 times a day
- To alleviate post-treatment myogenic and neurogenic discomfort from body work,
- and lessen the tendency of the body to immediately revert to patterning
- 10.9 POST-TREATMENT STRENGTHENER
- Nettles 3 parts
- Echinacea 3 parts
- Devil's Claw 2 parts
- Licorice 2 parts
- Larrea 2 parts
- Make from the tinctures or tincture 1:4 with 55% alcohol.
- Use 30-60 drops (1 or 2 squirts) 2 or 3 times a day
- To aid in and shorten the duration of connective tissue, fascia and muscle
- regeneration after injury, infection or surgery; to lessen free-radical damage to
- collagen and elastin from inflammation that degrades into congestion. It also
- aids in recuperation and healing from chronic tendonitis.
- 11.ACUTE DISEASE
- 11.1 EGO CAPSULES
- Echinacea Root 2 parts
- Garlic 2 parts
- Osha Root 2 parts
- Cayenne 1 part
- 2-4 capsules as needed for colds, flu, various viral junk.
- SEE ALSO:7.3 IMMUNE STIMULANT #2
- 12.CHRONIC/METABOLIC
- 12.1 ALTERATIVE SYRUP
- Aralia Root 3 ounces
- Oplopanax 2 ounces
- Xanthoxylum Bark 2 ounces
- Smilax (Sarsaparilla) 2 ounces
- Burdock Root 2 ounces
- Guaiacum or Stillingia 1 ounce
- Sassafras or Sweet Root 1 ounce
- Pipsissewa 1 ounce
- Blue Flag Root 1 ounce
- Tincture 1:3 with 65% alcohol, add 1 part water (15 oz.) and 1 part simple syrup
- or honey (15 oz.) to bring to a final 1:5 strength
- 12.2 DETOX FORMULA
- Oregon Grape Root 3 parts
- Silybum Fluidextract 2 parts
- Larrea 2 parts
- Yellow Dock 2 parts
- Aristolochia watsonii 1 part
- Mix from the fluidextract and tinctures
- Use 30-60 drops (1 or 2 squirts) 3 or 4 times a day
- This is meant to assist cleansing of the blood, liver and lymph system when
- recovering from alcohol, drug abuse, even long-term over medication.
- SEE ALSO: 6.2 ALKALIZING TEA
- SEE ALSO: 7.1 LYMPH TONIC
- 13. FOR PLEASURE OR FUN
- 13.1 FIVE MINT TEA
- Spearmint 2 parts
- Peppermint 2 parts
- Poleo 2 parts
- Lemon Balm 2 parts
- Catnip 1 part
- 13.2 ROOT TEA
- Sassafras 2 parts
- Sarsaparilla 2 parts
- Licorice Root 2 parts
- (Chinese Cinnamon) 1 part
- (Sweet Root) 1 part
- 13.3 FLOWER TEA
- Chamomile 3 parts
- Orange Flowers 3 parts
- Hibiscus Flowers 2 parts
- Rose Buds 2 parts
- Lavender Flowers 2 parts
- American Saffron 1 part
- Calendula Flowers 1 part
- (Cyani flowers 1/2 part)
- (If it doesn't sell, add some essential oil to it and pawn it off as a
- potpourri!)
- 13.4 MESOMARBLES
- Bee Pollen 8 parts
- Guarana 2 parts
- Korean "Red" Ginseng 1 part
- Powder together and take pinches as food, or mix with a little honey and form
- balls.
- 13.5 GUARANA FUDGE (AKA Speed Fudge)
- Mix together:
- 5 cups brown sugar
- 2 1/2 cups milk
- salt
- Add later:
- 1 cube sweet butter
- 6 ounces powdered Guarana Bean
- Various nuts (if desired
- Boil to the soft ball stage. Remove from heat for 10 minutes, add 1 cube sweet
- butter. Mix in 6 ounces of powdered Guarana Bean, and stir constantly until the
- glistening surface starts to look like frosting and stiffens. Add nuts (if
- desired), scrape onto greased surface, cool until set, and cut. WARNING: This
- stuff tastes GREAT, but speeds like a mother. This fudge has no self-redeeming
- qualities...it's just happily perverse.
- Dosage: start with a small square, and wait an hour before overlapping with
- another piece. Guarana is the Queen of caffeine plants (with some hypoxanthines
- thrown in) and will generally (to quote Dr. Donald Culbreth) produce gaiety,
- restlessness, quick perception and wakefulness, while slowing the pulse and
- impairing the appetite. Eating it slows absorption and can extend its effects
- well past the 3-4 hours you might expect from a similar amount of coffee. The
- fudge tastes good, the effects of Guarana are fun, but if you pig out on this
- stuff you can get to a level of pure caffeine jitters that will completely over-
- ride the subtleties that, at a more reasonable amount, make Guarana so nice.
- For several years in the early 70s I manufactured this fudge, packaged and
- labeled it and wholesaled it to truckstops in the L.A. area. One time I made
- up a huge batch to give to my sales reps to take to a Gift Show (I was making
- a line of herbal gift boxes...teas, spice blends, stuff like that). They passed
- it all out, the show ended up lasting until dawn, with vendors, representatives
- and buyers wandering around spending, ordering, chatting, dancing, giggling and
- kvetching long after the doors closed. The reps returned to L.A. only to find
- that they had walked off with someone else's order book, had lost theirs, and
- promptly slept for two days. I did not do this again. Neither should you.
- SIMPLE SYRUP
- 850 grams of WHITE sugar (any other form, such as
- turbinado or dried sugar cane juice will ferment)
- 450 to 475 ml of water
- Blend together, pour into a saucepan, and heat slowly until the sugar is
- completely dissolved. Will make a liter of simple syrup. Store in a cool place,
- but no refrigeration is necessary
- MATERIA MEDICA
- This defines all the specific tinctures and preparation called for in those
- formulas not made from the individual botanicals but by mixing finished products.
- (*) Not appropriate in pregnancy
- AMBROSIA (Ragweed, Bursage, Yerba del Sapo)
- HERB. Standard Infusion, 1-2 ounces. Fresh Tincture [1:2] 20-40 drops,
- both to 4X a day.
- *ANEMONE HIRSUTISSIMA (Pulsatilla ludoviciana, Pasque Flower)
- FRESH PLANT. Tincture [1:2] 3-10 drops, to 4X a day. Use with care.
- ANEMOPSIS (Yerba Mansa, Lizard Tail)
- ROOT. Tincture [Fresh Root, 1:2, Dry Root, 1:5, 60% alcohol] 20-60
- drops to 5X a day. Cold Infusion, 2-4 ounces similarly.
- HERB. Standard or Cold Infusion as needed.
- *ANGELICA SINENSIS (Dong Qua'i, Tang Kwei)
- CURED CHINESE OR KOREAN ROOT. Large slices, 1/16 to 1/8 a day, chewed
- and swallowed.Tincture [1:5, 70% alcohol] 5-20 drops Capsules, #0, 1 to
- 3 a day.
- APIUM (Celery)
- SEED. Simple Infusion, 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of seeds in cup of hot water.
- Tincture [1:5, 50% alcohol] 10-30 drops to 4X a day
- ARCTIUM (Burdock)
- ROOT Cold Infusion, 2-4 ounces. Fluidextract [1:1, 60% alcohol] 15-30
- drops.
- Tincture [Fresh Root, 1:2, Dry Root, 1:5, 60% alcohol] 30-90 drops, all
- 3X a day.
- SEED. Tincture [1:5, 60% alcohol] 10-25 drops.
- *ARISTOLOCHIA CALIFORNICA (California Snakeroot, Cal. Dutchman's Pipe
- WHOLE PLANT. Fresh Plant Tincture [1:2] 5-20 drops to 3X a day.
- *ARISTOLOCHIA SERPENTARIA (Virginia Snakeroot, Serpentaria)
- ROOT and HERB. Tincture [Fresh Plant, 1:2, Dry Root, 1:5, 70% alc.)
- 5-20 drops to 3X a day. For extended use, use only low doses, and
- within a formula.
- *ARISTOLOCHIA WATSONII (Indian Root, Raiz del Indio)
- Same as previous, but safer for extended use, as is A. californica.
- *ARNICA (A. montana, A. cordifolia, A. latiflora, etc.)
- WHOLE PLANT. Fresh plant, flower or root tincture [1:2], dry flowers or
- herb
- tincture, [1:5, 50% alcohol] and dry root tincture [1:5, 60% alcohol].
- EXTERNAL is diluted with one or two parts of water, applied as needed.
- INTERNAL use 3-10 drops. TAKE INTERNALLY WITH CARE
- *ASCLEPIAS ASPERULA (Inmortal, Antelope Horns, Spider Milkweed)
- ROOT. Tincture [1:5, 50% alcohol] 5-30 drops, Capsules, #00, 1-2, to
- 3X a day.
- *ASCLEPIAS TUBEROSA (Pleurisy Root)
- ROOT. Cold Infusion, 2-4 ounces. Tincture [1:5, 50% alcohol] 30-90
- drops. Capsules, #00, 1-3, all to 3X a day.
- AVENA (A. sativa, A. fatua, Oats, Wild Oats.)
- UNRIPE FRESH SEED, w/"Milky" center. Fresh Tincture [1:2], 10-20 drops,
- to 4X a day. STRAW (dry stems). Standard Infusion, 4-8 ounces.
- BAPTISIA (Wild Indigo Root)
- ROOT. Tincture [1:5, 65% alcohol], WHOLE PLANT. Fresh Tincture [1:2],
- both taken 10-25 drops, to 3X a day.
- USE WITH CARE; better long term in formulas
- BAROSMA (Agothasma, Buchu)
- LEAVES. Cold Infusion (rewarmed) 1-3 ounces. Tincture [1:5, 80%
- alcohol], 30-60 drops in water. Both forms to 4X a day.
- Bayberry see Myrica
- BERBERIS VULGARIS (Common Barberry)
- ROOT. Tincture [1:5, 50% alcohol] 10-60 drops. Cold Infusion, 1-3
- ounces. Capsules, #00, 1-3. All to 3X a day. See MAHONIA (Oregon
- Grape) as well.
- Betony see Pedicularis
- Black Cohosh see Cimicifuga
- Blue Cohosh see Caulophyllum
- Blue Flag see Iris
- Bugleweed see Lycopus
- Burdock see Arctium
- CALENDULA OFFICINALIS (European Marigold)
- FLOWERS. Tincture [Fresh Flowers, 1:2, Dry Flowers, 1:5, 70% alcohol]
- 15-30 drops, to 4X a day. Dilute with several parts of water for topical
- use.
- CAPSICUM (Cayenne, African Bird Peppers)
- FRUIT. Tincture [1:5, 95% alcohol] 5-15 drops. Capsules, #0, 1-2
- Catnip see Nepeta
- *CAULOPHYLLUM (Blue Cohosh)
- RHIZOME/ROOT. Tincture [1:5, 60% alcohol] 5-20 drops, usually in formula
- context.
- CEANOTHUS (Red Root, New Jersey Tea)
- ROOT.Cold Infusion, 2-4 ounces. Tincture [Fresh Root, 1:2, Dry Root,
- 1:5, 50% alcohol] 30-90 drops, to 4X a day.
- Celery see Apium
- CEREUS GRANDIFLORUS (Selenicereus, Peniocereus, Night-Blooming Cereus)
- FRESH STEMS. Fresh Tincture [1:2], 5-15 drops (Selenicereus spp.);
- 10-25 drops, (Peniocereus greggii). Either one to 4X a day.
- CHIMAPHILA (Pipsissewa, Prince's Pine)
- HERB. Tincture [Fresh Plant, 1:2, Dry plant, 1:5, 50% alcohol), 20-50
- drops, to 4X a day. Standard Infusion 4-8 ounces.
- CINNAMOMUM (Cinnamon, Canela)
- BARK. Standard Infusion 2-4 ounces. Tincture [1:5, 60% alcohol, 5%
- glycerin] 20-50 drops, both to 4X a day. ESSENTIAL OIL. 2-5 drops in
- capsule.
- COMMIPHORA (Myrrh Gum)
- RESIN. Tincture [ 1:5, 95% alcohol] 5-20 drops. Capsules, #0, 1-2,
- both to 3X a day. Topically, dilute tincture with water as needed.
- Dandelion see Taraxacum
- Devil's Claw see Harpagophytum
- Devil's Club see Oplopanax
- Dong Quai see Angelica sinense
- ERIODICTYON (Yerba Santa)
- LEAVES (from current year's growth). Tincture [Fresh Herb, 1:2, Dry Herb, 1:5,
- 75% alcohol] 20-30 drops, to 5X a day. Standard Infusion, 2-4 ounces
- as needed.
- ERYNGIUM YUCCAFOLIUM (Eryngo, Rattlesnake Master, Button Snakeroot)
- WHOLE PLANT. Fresh Plant Tincture, 1:2, 15-30 drops in warm water.
- ROOT. Weak Decoction, 4-8 ounces. Dry Root Tincture, [1:5, 60%
- alcohol], 20-40 drops, in cup of water. All forms to 4X a day.
- Fennel Seed see Foeniculum
- FOENICULUM (Fennel Seed)
- SEED. Tincture [1:5, 60% alcohol] 30-60 drops in warm water as needed.
- Standard Infusion as needed.
- *FOUQUIERIA SPLENDENS (Ocotillo)
- FRESH BARK. Tincture, [1:2] 10-30 drops, to 4X a day.
- *GELSEMIUM (Yellow Jasmine)
- ROOT. Tincture [Fresh Root 1:2, Dry Root, 1:10, 65% alcohol] 2-10
- drops.
- DANGEROUS IN LARGER DOSES
- Ginseng see Panax
- *GLYCYRRHIZA GLABRA (Licorice)
- ROOT. Tincture [1:5, 50% alcohol] 3-60 drops. Strong Decoction, 1-3
- ounces, either to 3X a day. Can occasion sodium retention.
- HARPAGOPHYTUM PROCUMBENS (Devil's Claw)
- TUBERS. Capsules, #0, 2-4 in evenings. Cold Infusion 4-6 ounces
- similarly. Strong Tincture [1:2, 60% alcohol], 1/2 to 1 teaspoons.
- Some recommend that two weeks on and two weeks off is the best approach
- to Devil's Claw. I have found a month of continuous use is the best
- way to begin.
- Horehound see Marrubium
- *HYDRASTIS (Golden Seal)
- ROOT and LEAF. Fresh Plant Tincture [1:2], 15-30 drops. Dry Root
- Tincture, [1:5, 70% alcohol] 20-50 drops. Dry Herb Tincture [1:5, 60%
- alcohol] 30-75 drops all the above to 4X a day. Dry Root capsules #00,
- 2-4, to 3X a day. Standard Infusion of leaf 1-3 ounces, to 4X a day.
- The root is only partially soluble in water and should not be wasted
- in tea; this old friend is disappearing in the wild.
- Inmortal see Asclepias asperula
- *IRIS VERSICOLOR, I. MISSOURIENSIS (Blue Flag)
- RHIZOME. Tincture [1:5, 80% alcohol], 5-20 drops to 3X a day.
- USE WITH CARE.
- JUNIPERUS (Juniper)
- BERRIES. Tincture [1:5, 75% alcohol], 20-40 drops. Standard Infusion,
- 2-3 oz., to 3X a day. LEAVES: Standard Infusion, 2-4 ounces, or boiled
- for inhalation. For short term use; may irritate the kidneys eventually.
- LARREA (Chaparral, Gobernadora, Creosote Bush)
- LEAFING BRANCHES. Tincture [1:5, 75% alcohol], 20-60 drops. Capsules,
- #00, 2-4 a day. Strong Decoction for topical use.
- *LEONURUS CARDIACA (Motherwort)
- FLOWERING HERB. Tincture [Fresh Plant 1:2, Recent Dry Plant, 1:5, 60%
- alc.] 30-60 drops, to 4X a day. Standard Infusion, 2-4 ounces.
- Licorice see Glycyrrhiza
- LIGUSTICUM PORTERI (Osha, Chuchupate, Mountain Lovage)
- ROOT. Tincture [Fresh Root, 1:2, Dry Root, 1:5, 70% alcohol], 20-60
- drops up to 5X a day. Cold Infusion, 2-6 ounces, as needed.
- LOMATIUM DISSECTUM (Leptotaenia, Biscuit Root)
- ROOT. Tincture [Fresh Root, 1:2, Dry Root, 1:5, 70% alcohol], 10-30
- drops up to 4X a day. Cold Infusion, 2-3 ounces also to 4X a day.
- LYCOPUS (Bugleweed, Water Horehound)
- HERB. Fresh Plant Tincture [1:2] 15-40 drops, to 3X a day. Standard
- Infusion of recent plant, 2-3 ounces, also to 3X a day.
- MAHONIA (Oregon Grape, Algerita)
- SAME as Berberis.
- MARRUBIUM (Horehound)
- FLOWERING HERB. Cold Infusion, 2-4 ounces. Tincture [Fresh Plant, 1:2,
- Dry Plant, 1:5, 50% alcohol], 30-90 drops, both to 4X a day.
- MENYANTHES (Buckbean, Bogbean)
- WHOLE PLANT. Tincture [Fresh Plant, 1:2, Dry Plant, 1:5, 50% alcohol],
- 10-30 drops, to 3X a day. Cold Infusion, 1-2 ounces, also to 3X a day.
- Milk Thistle see Silybum
- Motherwort see Leonurus
- Myrrh see Commiphora
- MYRICA (Bayberry)
- BARK and ROOTBARK. Tincture [Fresh Bark, 1:2, Dry Bark, 1:5, 60% alc.]
- 20-60 drops. Cold Infusion, 2-4 ounces, both to 3X a day. The diluted
- tincture or the infusion for topical use or as a gargle.
- NEPETA CATARIA (Catnip)
- FLOWERING HERB. Tincture [Fresh Herb 1:2, Recent Dry Herb 1:5, 50%
- alc.], 1/4 to 1 teaspoon Standard Infusion, 2-6 ounces, all to 4X a
- day.
- Ocotillo see Fouquieria
- *OPLOPANAX HORRIDUM (Echinopanax, Devil's Club)
- ROOT and ROOTBARK. Tincture [Fresh Root 1:2, Dry Rootbark, 1:5, 60%
- alc.] 10-40 drops. Cold Infusion, 1-3 ounces, all forms to 3X a day.
- Oregon Grape see Mahonia
- Osha see Ligusticum
- OSMORHIZA OCCIDENTALIS (Sweet Root, Western Sweet Cicely)
- ROOT. Tincture [Fresh Root, 1:2, Dry Root, 1:5, 65% alcohol] 45-60
- drops to 3X a day. Strong Decoction, 2-3 ounces to 3X a day.
- *PAEONIA (Peony)
- ROOT. Tincture [Fresh Root 1:2, Dry Root, 1:5, 60% alcohol] 10-25
- drops up to 4X a day. Cold Infusion, 1-2 ounces. Capsules, #00, 2-3
- at a time.
- Pau D'Arco see Tabebuia
- *PANAX QUINQUEFOLIUM (American Ginseng)
- ROOT. Tincture [1:5, 70% alcohol]. WILD ROOTS (morally objectionable),
- 5-10 drops. WOODSGROWN ROOTS. 10-20 drops. CULTIVATED ROOTS. 20-40
- drops. CULTIVATED RED ROOTS (Michigan and Wisconsin cured roots), 15-
- 30 drops. Any other "American Red Ginseng" is a blatant fake. LEAVES.
- 30-60 drops, Cold Infusion, 2-4 ounces. All above forms to 3X a day.
- PASSIFLORA (Passion Flower)
- WHOLE HERB.Tincture [Fresh Plant 1:2, Dry Herb, 1:5, 50% alcohol] 1/2 to
- 1 1/2 teaspoon. Fluidextract [1:1, 45% alcohol], 30-60 drops. Standard
- Infusion of recent herb, 2-6 ounces, all forms to 4X a day.
- PEDICULARIS (Betony, Lousewort, Elephant Head, Parrot's Beak, Indian Warrior)
- HERB in FLOWER.Standard Infusion, 4-8 ounces. Tincture[Fresh Plant, 1:2,
- Dry Plant, 1:5, 50% alcohol] 1-2 teaspoons, all to 3X a day.
- *PEGANUM HARMALA (Syrian Rue)
- SEEDS and ROOT. Tincture [1:5, 60% alcohol] 10-30 drops, to 3X a day.
- LEAVES. Standard Infusion for topical use.
- *PHYTOLACCA (Poke)
- ROOT and BERRIES. Fresh Tincture, (Root or Berries), [1:2], 2-10 drops.
- Dry Root Tincture [1:5, 50% alcohol] 5-15 drops. USE WITH CARE.
- PICRAENA (Picrasma, Quassia)
- WOOD. Cold Infusion, 2-4 ounces. Tincture [1:5, 50% alcohol] 30-60
- drops, to 3X a day. Cold Infusion, 4-8 ounces, as a retained enema,
- once a week for 4-6 weeks for pinworms/threadworms.
- Pleurisy Root see Asclepias tuberosa
- Poke Root see Phytolacca
- *POLYMNIA UVEDALIA (Bearsfoot, Leafcup)
- STEM and ROOT. Tincture [Fresh plant 1:2, Dry Root 1:5, 75% alcohol]
- 10-50 drops, to 3X a day. Small, frequent doses are preferable.
- Prickly Ash see Xanthoxylum
- Red Root see Ceanothus
- RHEUM (Rhubarb, Chinese or Turkey Rhubarb)
- ROOT. Tincture [1:5, 50% alcohol, 10% glycerin] 15-30 drops, to 4X a
- day. Too much too frequently can induce rebound constipation.
- Rhubarb see Rheum
- RUMEX CRISPUS (Yellow Dock)
- ROOT. Tincture [Fresh Root, 1:2, Dry Root, 1:5, 50% alcohol], 30-75
- drops, to 3X a day. Capsules, #00, 1-2 to 2X a day. Use with moderation
- in pregnancy. In all cases it works best in sub-laxative doses.
- Sarsaparilla see Smilax
- SCUTELLARIA (Skullcap)
- HERB. Tincture [Fresh Plant, 1:2, Recent Dry Plant, 1:5, 50% alcohol]
- 20-60 drops. Standard Infusion of recent herb, 2-6 ounces, all to 3X
- a day.
- Selenicereus see Cereus
- SILYBUM MARIANUM (Milk Thistle)
- SEEDS. Capsules, #00, 2 at a time, to 3X a day. Fluidextract [1:1, 60%
- alcohol], 20-40 drops to 5X a day. Strong Tincture [1:3, 70% alcohol],
- 1/2 to 1 teaspoon, to 4X a day.
- Skullcap see Scutellaria
- SMILAX (Sarsaparilla)
- ROOT and RHIZOME. Cold Infusion or Strong Decoction, 1-4 ounces, to 3X
- a day. Tincture [Fresh Root, 1:2, Dry Root, 1:5, 60% alcohol] 30-90
- drops to 3X a day.
- STILLINGIA SYLVATICA (Queen's Root)
- ROOT. Tincture [Fresh root,1:2, Recent Dry Root, 1:5, 50% alcohol] 10-
- 30 drops, preferably in small frequent doses.
- Sweet Root see Osmorrhiza
- TABEBUIA (Lapacho, Pau D'Arco, Ipe Roxo, Amapa)
- TREE BARK. Cold Infusion, 2-4 ounce to 3X a day. Fluidextract [1:1,
- 50% alc.] 15-30 drops to 5X a day.Tincture [1:5, 50% alcohol] 1/2 to 1
- teaspoon to 4X a day
- TARAXACUM (Dandelion)
- ROOT or LEAF. Root Fluidextract [1:1, 45% alcohol] 30-60 drops up to 4X
- a day. Tincture [Fresh Root, 1:2] 1/2 to 1 teaspoon. Strong Decoction,
- 2-4 ounces, to 4X a day. Leaf as Standard Infusion, 3-6 ounces as
- needed.
- *THUJA (Arbor Vitae, Flat, Red or Yellow Cedar)
- HERB. Fresh Plant Tincture [1:2] for topical use; 5-15 drops in water,
- to 4X a day. Cold Infusion, 2-3 ounces, to 3X a day.
- *TRIBULUS (Puncture Vine, Goat's Head)
- HERB and SEEDS. 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of the powdered plant in tea, to 2X
- a day. Tincture [1:5, 60% alcohol] 30-40 drops, 2X a day.
- VERBENA (Blue Vervain)
- FLOWERING HERB. Standard Infusion, 2-5 ounces, to 3X a day. Tincture
- [1:5, 60% alcohol] 30-90 drops, to 4X a day.
- *VITEX AGNUS-CASTUS (Chaste Tree Berries, Monk Peppers)
- SEEDS. Tincture [1:5, 65% alcohol] 30-60 drops. Ground Berries, 1/2 to
- 1 tspn. in tea, both once in the morning. As it strengthens the
- progesterone phase of the estrus cycle, it usually works best the two
- weeks before menses.
- XANTHOXYLUM (Prickly Ash)
- BARK/BERRIES. Tincture [1:5, 65% alcohol] 10-30 drops, before meals.
- Yellow Dock see Rumex crispus
- Yerba Mansa see Anemopsis
- Yerba Santa see Eriodictyon
- The Southwest School of Botanical Medicine
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