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| type of herb is known as a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory (NSAID). |
| The dose naturopaths recommend is 400 mg three times per day to help with inflammation, pain and muscle soreness. |
| Green Tea |
| For thousands of years, various regions in the Orient have enjoyed the refreshing and health-promoting effects of a beverage brewed from the leaves of Camellia sinensis. In its unfermented form, Camellia sinensis imparts a soft and rich green tone to tea. Over the past 6 years, green tea has been the focus of hundreds of biochemical and epidemiological studies and scientific symposia. Many groups such as The National Cancer Institute have intensively investigated green tea, and its constituent polyphenol catechins, as being anti-cancer, anti-carcinogen and an antioxidant in humans. |
| Green tea, the national beverage of Japan, is made from the unfermented leaves of the tea plant. In preparing the more familiar black tea, leaves are piled up in heaps and ''sweated," a natural fermentation process that darkens the leaves and changes their aroma and flavor. Recently, medical researchers have discovered that the catechins are mostly destroyed in the fermentative conversion to black tea. Oolong tea is somewhere in between. It is briefly sweated, resulting in a color, flavor, and catechin content intermediate between green and black tea. |
| If you are a heavy coffee, black tea or cola drinker you should consider switching to green tea. For it contains theophylline, a close relative to caffeine, but it also offers you immune enhancing and general tonic benefits. |
| Echinacea |
| Echinacea (Echinacea, various species), native to North America, was used by the American Indians for more purposes than any other herb. And echinacea is still one of the most used herbs for fighting infections, colds, flu and a host of other minor and major ailments. |
| Modern scientific research coming out of Europe shows that echinacea, increases the number and activity of the immune system cells in circulation, enhances the body's production of |
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