Herbs and Healing

How much do you know about herbs? This article will give you a little insight into the healing power of herbs. You probably cook with herbs, but maybe you’ll consider them as a supplement to your vitamins after reading this.
Did you know that wheatgrass gives you the chlorophyll of some 12 or more kilograms of broccoli with just one shot full? Wheatgrass acts as a blood purifier, and liver and kidney cleansing agent. After two weeks of daily use, blood and tissue oxygen levels improve, as does circulation.
Astragalus is a Chinese herb that boosts your immune system. Astragalus is known to stimulate body´s natural production of interferon. It also helps the immune system identify rogue cells. Work with the herb in both cancer and AIDS cases has been encouraging. The MD Anderson Cancer Centre in Texas conducted research showing that taking Astragalus when having radiotherapy doubled survival times.
Turmeric is a spice that has been shown to have significant anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory activity. That alone seems enough for certain hospitals in America to consider using it in the treatment of polyps and colon cancer. However new research shows that it can both shrink cancer tumors and inhibit blood supply growth to tumors. It is a powerful antioxidant with liver protective benefits, and outperformed several anti-inflammatory drugs without side-effects in research.
Echinacea is another known immune system booster that gained a populist reputation in treating colds.  There is research on its helpfulness with brain tumors apart from its abilities to increase the levels of certain immune white cells in the body.
Feverfew is an herb that research from Rochester University in New York showed to be more effective than the drug cytarabine in killing leukemia cells.
Milk Thistle has been known to e helpful to the liver, this herb has now been shown to be capable of protecting the liver during chemotherapy. Research in America showed that leukemia patients who took milk thistle had reduced liver toxicity and chemo side-effects. There is a little evidence that it has its own anti-cancer activity too.