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herbshield the immune system

 

herbs are known to enhance the immune system

It is important to strengthen your system to fight off imbalances in cellular structure, overactive cellular growth, parasites, microbes, viruses and toxins.

HerbShield your whole body as a preventative or for specific support of your immune system

what HerbS shield the human body?

You need Powerful Herbal Immunostimulants
You need Prescribed Herbs for the Treatment of Abnormal Cell Multiplication

The Purpose of Herb Shielding Medicine
Known herbal immune enhancing extracts are available to the modern herbal practitioner. If there is immune depletion due to over-work or stress, or deficiency due to disease, these herbs have the right balance to help build up a low energy system, and support the body's suppressed immunity during chemo treatment.
Such herbs are also for those recovering from illness, or have completed a course of chemotherapy. They are designed to rebuild, restore and normalize the body’s protective system.

The Herbal Commandos
Most herbs have been through detailed analysis and clinical studies to prove their action and safety as immune system support, and the well-known commando herbs are all in the front line, for example Cleavers (also anti-inflammatory, and for lymphatic disease and psoriasis); Astragalus root (with the added actions of improving vitality, hormonal regulation, and circulation); Cat’s Claw bark (also enhancing phagocytosis having anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory properties and useful for Crohn’s disease, ulcers, arthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome, viral infections, fibromyalgia, adaptogen, anti-oxidant, anti-tumour, reducing the side-effects of radiation and chemotherapy in cancer patients); Echinacea root (also with anti-septic and anti-microbial benefits); Mistletoe leaf (anti-tumour, chorea, hysteria); Pau d’Arco bark (also increases energy and endurance; has lapachol - active against lymphocytic leukaemia; anti-candida, anti-fungal, intestinal parasites) and Sweet Violet leaf (also alterative, anti-neoplastic; coughs and bronchitis, upper respiratory catarrh, cancer notably breast and alimentary canal, naso-pharyngeal catarrh).

Supportive Herbs
Myrrh with its anti-microbial action and white blood cell stimulant; Siberian Ginseng - adaptogen, circulatory stimulant, vasodilator; stress, depletion. Olive Tree leaf - oleuropein has powerful anti-bacterial and anti-viral activity, antioxidant; Blood Root - anti-neoplastic: tumours and sarcomas; Suma root - nerve and glandular restorative, anti-tumour, anti-melanoma, adaptogen - to achieve more perfect endocrine balance - used to strengthen the immune system against the progress of malignancy, restorative after illness (convalescence), to restore acid-alkali balance, thus facilitating blood-flow to cells and neutralising toxins, high blood cholesterol, rich source of vitamins and mineral nutrients, contains Germanium.

Restorative Herbs
There are many other medicinal herbs to help to rebalance and restore the body’s normal function. Nettle root (prostate cancer). Periwinkle tops (anti-haemorrhagic; diabetes; stimulates brain function). Oldenlandia (cancer in the gastrointestinal tract). Turmeric root (lowers cancer risk, especially in smokers and farmers, increases gastric and liver function; heals bleeding in the lungs). Barbat Skullcap (liver disease, detoxification, hepatitis, cirrhosis, ascites, abscesses, ulcers in stomach and lungs, cancer in lungs, stomach and intestines). Schizandra berry (classified as an adaptogen and is hepato-protective - helping the liver cells regenerate).

Secondary Herbs
There are other herbs that act as a HerbShield which are powerful for reproductive organ protection; herbs to help with nausea; herbs to resist or clear warts. Also for heart protection, elimination of all forms of worms and parasites, vitality, lymphatic cleansing, adrenal support, anti-oxidants, e.g. Ginseng, Psoralia (Bu Gu Zhi), Ashwagandha root, Red Clover flowers, Rhubarb root, Liquorice root, Golden Thread root, Bilberry fruit, Wheatgrass.

Such HerbShield herbs can be taken alone for general immune system stimulation, or with Essiac or with other specific herbal prescriptions made by your medical herbalist following a consultation. Ring or email for advice.

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Dear Alan
Medicines arrived today in good order - Thankyou.
Also just to let you know that my son is very impressed with the energy this has given to him that yesterday at the local Marie Curie centre he has recommended your herb shield treatment, so the physiotherapist is going to look into it and recommend it to other people, so you may be getting a whole lot of new patients from Newcastle upon Tyne!
Sincerely
Carolyn


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Dear Alan,
The medicine seems to have given my dad a new lease of life! He has so much more energy and is able to manage without his oxygen mask for much of the time. Thank you so much. We shall certainly be ordering more of the medicines in the next 10 days or so. I'd like to order some of your worm less tonic for myself.
Best wishes,
Patrick

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The following article was published in ICON Magazine, Septermber 2006, now it's on their website (see the original publication at www.canceractive.com)

Herbal Medicine versus Cancer
by Alan N Hopking MA MNIMH MRCHM FINEH

It is reported that as few as five percent of all cancers are inherited. However, all cancers are generic, that is, they develop because something in a cell's genes makes mistakes during the copy of each cell's entire blueprint of the person. This is frequent throughout our lives; however, the mechanisms that repair these mistakes get less efficient with age. It is estimated that within every eighteen months the entire cellular structure of our bodies has been replaced. To help the body repair these generic mistakes there have been some remarkable advances in cancer drugs. For instance, Herceptin has a 52% decrease in breast cancer recurrence; better still, following Glivec treatment the leukaemia of 84% of patients cannot be detected. Meanwhile the Cancer Genome Project at the Sanger Institute near Cambridge, England, has reported it has already identified over 100 gene mutations that may lead specialists to be able to detect cancer, or increased risk of cancer, long before people become ill with the disease. There are also new developments in discovering biomarkers, or clues, which are detectable as traces of protein produced by aberrant genes by testing the blood, urine and saliva which can give early diagnosis of the onset of cancer.

So what part does traditional and modern herbal medicine play alongside these major modern medicoscientific advances? Firstly, let it be clear, whatever the angle, conventional or traditional herbal, the eradication of cancer and all disease is the prime motive. However, we have to understand that not even with these recent impressive pharmaceutical developments such drugs shouldn't be regarded as magic bullets. Furthermore, these new cancer therapies have a serious thorn in their side: there is generic blueprint reversion. This means that the body often and usually develops resistance to such drug treatment, just as bacteria in the body do, says Professor Paul Workman of Cancer Research UK's Centre for Cancer Therapeutics. So despite all the advances in pharmaceutical medical science there is something in our body that has a natural reversion to old type-models. Rather than imposing repair in the blueprint that is not sustainable with drugs, there needs to be a paradigm shift in lifetime health management. This is where both therapeutic holism in general and herbal medicine in particular has a strong voice in the prevention and treatment of disease and cancer.

When chemotherapy is ingested, whilst it attacks the rapidly dividing cancer cells, it also acts in a harmful way upon the structure-function of normal cells, tissues or organ systems of the body. The resultant side-effects are all to familiar - mouth and throat soreness with metallic taste, loss of hair, poor appetite with nausea and weight loss, bowel dysfunction, and so on. This is another major difference between herbal medicine and chemotherapy. While the body acts on herbal medicines, in chemotherapy the chemicals act on the body, causing harm to the body, actively disrupting the vital processes, interfering, interrupting, impairing, in a dynamic manner in contrast to the restorative, curative and yet passive influences of herbal medicine. The one is inherently curative, and the other is inherently destructive. Notwithstanding, both chemotherapy and specific phytotherapeutic herbs can be valuable partners when taken together in the fight against cancer.

Many plants have furnished modern medicine with drugs that are used in cancer therapy as cytotoxic agents, for instance, Taxol, from the Pacific Yew tree, for breast cancer, and the vinca alkaloids from the Madagascar periwinkle. Such compounds, unlike the chemopreventive compounds, are effective as anti-cancer agents by virtue that they disrupt the cell cycle. Poisons are ubiquitous in the environment and food chain, and are detectable in large numbers in our bodies. Many foods can arguably be categorized as poison in terms of their industrial processing, synthetic additives, colourings and preservatives, pesticide residues, and a nutrient composition emphasizing bad fats and simple sugars and lacking in beneficial minerals, vitamins and phytonutrients. At the same time, modern pharmaceutical drugs, have become a major killer and are quite properly defined as poison, and a leading cause of death in the population .

Plant compounds known as antineoplastic and cancer-preventative are active in all the phases of cancer, i.e., tumour initiation, promotion and progression. Botanical medicines are complex natural mixtures of pharmacological multitaskers, simultaneously exerting influence on different levels and via different mechanisms. As dietary or food ingredients, these chemopreventive compounds assist the stabilization, arrest and even reversal of cancer. By contrast, pharmaceutical drugs are classically single synthetic compounds, ideally interfering or disrupting a single specific mechanism, whilst causing collateral damage, viz. side effects.

Chemoprevention was originally defined by Sporn in 1976 to be “the pharmacological enhancement of mechanisms (physiological or pharmacological) whereby progression of preneoplastic lesions can be stabilized, arrested or reversed.” Retinoids were the earliest compounds investigated for their potential to prevent the development of epithelial cancers. Recently, numerous reviews of medicinal plant derived chemopreventive compounds or phytopharmaceuticals have identified their potential role in the treatment of cancer. These herbal cancer-preventive constituents which can also be found in foods like organosulphur compounds in garlic, polyphenols in green tea and curcumin in turmeric which has been found to influence over 60 molecular targets in the cancer process .

Basic science research is confirming that many chemopreventive dietary compounds are active at precisely the molecular targets that drug designers seek to affect with the newer generation targeted drugs, typically the monoclonal antibody (MCA) agents. Yet despite massive investment in time and money, only a handful of such drugs have been licensed to date – such as Herceptin and others mentioned above. Yet chemopreventive plant compounds have been shown to engage the very same molecular targets that have been identified by cancer research scientists attempting to formulate these smart drugs. With an established safety record and a fraction of the cost of conventional chemotherapy, plant compounds for cancer treatment represent an enormous resource that is virtually untapped. Frequently research papers in professional journals conclude by suggesting that chemopreventive plant compounds are potentially the most important therapeutic breakthrough awaiting cancer treatment. It is already understood that such botanic compounds support the treatment of all phases of cancer. Even chemopreventive dietary compounds interact with several of these targets simultaneously and often synergistically. For example, herbal polyphenols can influence signal transduction factors, inhibit COX-2, promote cell cycle arrest, increase apoptosis * and disable multidrug resistance pumps.

Another key role for plant medicines in cancer is immunomodulation. A common misconception among the general public is the oversimplified idea that stimulating the immune system will eradicate a cancer. In fact, cancer evades immune system surveillance because of the low immunogenicity of most tumours. Nonetheless, many patients with advanced malignancy do have lowered levels of innate (Th1) immunity, the branch of the immune system whose cells, such as natural killer (NK) cells, directly combat and destroy tumour cells. A variety of herbal medicines and plant compounds directly stimulate this innate immune response. These same agents can be used to help protect bone marrow against the myelosuppressive effects of conventional chemotherapy. The two most important classes of herbs in this group are the immunomodulating medicinal mushrooms such as Shiitake, and the adaptogens including Korean Ginseng , Astragalus, Pau D'Arco, Cat's Claw, and many others.

The capacity of the mushroom polysaccharides to influence the level of immune function can be regarded as a direct expression of the way in which botanicals enhance the natural protection in the body. Similarly, adaptogenic herbs enhance the capacity to respond to increases in allostatic* load by multiple pathways particularly involving the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. This too is clearly an effect mediated by the body's own intrinsic vital energy as opposed to a drug based anti-disease action. The fact that plant medicines have no equivalent among pharmaceutical drugs is known to both pharmacognocists and medical herbalist practitioners. What's more, botanical adaptogens can have a wide range of beneficial interactions with conventional chemotherapy and radiation. Providing there is accurate clinical knowledge for appropriate care and management of patients, this will both limit any potential adverse reactions and permit the therapeutic exploitation of beneficial interactions. Herbal medicine views each individual as unique, demanding unique holistic treatment, recalling that individual differences in genetic, biochemical, biological and lifestyle demographics contribute enormous variability to drug tolerance and qualitative response.

To date, there is not a single case report in the literature of any harmful interaction between a botanical and conventional antineoplastic treatment. For practitioners of botanical medicine, negative and uninformed secondary articles issuing dire warnings about adverse interactions between herbs and chemotherapy are sadly predictable . For cancer patients, their effect creates unnecessary fear and caution, which often inhibits patients from seeking to use herbal medicines, which are effective integrative strategies that enhance therapeutic outcomes. It is as well to remember that our bodies have co-evolved with plants, both as food and medicine, for millions of years; there is a deep connection between humans and plants at many levels, from the spiritual/intuitive to the subcellular. It is this connection that medical herbalists seek to exploit for the benefit of cancer patients, and it is clear that the many integrative strategies for treatment of cancer must include the benefits of botanical medicines.

Synergistic Action

When a herbal medicine is prescribed for a specific purpose, for instance the immunomodulating, multiherbal HerbShield Tonic, the herbs amalgamate synergistically like tributaries forming one great river. The unified action is greater than the sum of the single herbs. Such synergy augments the defences of the body against the development of abnormal cells. Another well-known multi-herbal medicine used for a similar purpose but with a much simpler synergy is called Essiac ACT. Despite the many types and causes of abnormal cell formation the phytotherapeutic action of such tonics assist the body to counteract such cells by intensifying the normofunctionality of the latent subcellular response apparatus thereby strengthening the unique combination of defences to restrict or eradicate abnormal cells. It is already medicoscientifically recognized that herbal medicines are effectively prescribed to help to protect tissue cells against viruses, toxins, radiation and bacterial invasion. There is a need to protect the body against the triggers (resulting from a long-term intake of all sorts of chemical toxins - in the air, smoke, in foods from pesticides, in drink colourants, taste enhancers, etc) initiated by injured cells which cause mutation of the cells resulting in abnormal cell formation.

It is now imperative that conventional health institutions put hand on heart and publicly admit and promulgate both the nutrient-rich diet and the botanicotherapeutic benefits that can so enhance the body's systems that result in health protection (and disease prevention) that will also bring the strongest resistance to any carcinogenesis stage of angiogenesis, where, if a tumour does develop, it begins forming its own blood vessels. This means a diet rich in anthocyanins found in fresh fruits and vegetables, the taking of herbal teas and medicines, plus regular exercise and good sound sleep. Studies have shown there are certain medicines and foods with specific compounds that activate the watchdog genes that turn off cells that would become abnormal in form and function. In addition, most cells have an address specified by adhesion proteins that glue cells into their proper position. For a cell to spread its abnormal form and function, it must have DNA instructions that allow it to break the bonds of that glue and to make new adhesion proteins before entering other tissues. Research has shown that there are some herbs and foods, like citrus pectin, that provide lectins that compete with this glue and prevent abnormal cell adhesion. The modern use of herbal medicine in abnormal cell formation treatment relies on painstaking research. For example, scientists have identified compounds in herbs that protect the watchdog genes from damage. In the treatment of abnormal cell formation, herbal medicine is best used as part of a holistic regime of health treatment. Herbal treatment can make the taking of harsh but necessary chemotherapy or radiation therapy easier and more effective, as noted above. What's more, it is a clinical fact that herbal medicine treatment like that of HerbShield Tonic can be particularly useful as part of a natural cancer treatment regime.

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* Apoptosis: A form of cell death in which a programmed sequence of events leads to the elimination of cells without releasing harmful substances into the surrounding area. Apoptosis plays a crucial role in developing and maintaining health by eliminating old cells, unnecessary cells, and unhealthy cells. The human body replaces perhaps a million cells a second. Too little or too much apoptosis plays a role in a great many diseases. When programmed cell death does not work right, cells that should be eliminated may hang around and become immortal. For example, in cancer and leukaemia. When apoptosis works overly well, it kills too many cells and inflicts grave tissue damage.

* Allostasis (Greek: allo 'variable' + stasis 'stability') literally 'achieving stability through change' describes the mechanisms which enable the body to withstand challenge. Allostatic systems, particularly the nervous, hormonal and immune complexes, protect the body by adapting to the ever-changing internal and external demands made on it. Allostatic load refers to the price of adaptation; that is, the accumulated wear and tear from chronic over- or underactivity of the allostatic systems.

References

Workman, P. 2006, March. Winning the War on Cancer, Readers Digest, p. 64.

Chen C, Kong AN. Dietary cancer-chemopreventive compounds: from signaling and gene expression to pharmacological effects. Trends Pharmacol Sci 2005;26:318-326.

Lazarou J, Pomeranz BH, Corey PN. Incidence of adverse drug reactions in hospitalized patients: a meta- analysis of prospective studies [see comments]. Jama 1998; 279:1200-1205.

Bagchi D, Preuss H. Phytopharmaceuticals in Cancer Chemoprevention. Boca Raton : CRC Press; 2005.

Sporn MB . Approaches to prevention of epithelial cancer during the preneoplastic period. Cancer Research, 1976; 36:2699-2702.

Bagchi D, Preuss H. Phytopharmaceuticals in Cancer Chemoprevention. Boca Raton : CRC Press; 2005. See also: i) Dorai T, Aggarwal BB. Role of chemopreventive agents in cancer therapy. Cancer Lett 2004; 215:129-140. ii) Conney AH. Enzyme induction and dietary chemicals as approaches to cancer chemoprevention: the Seventh DeWitt S. Goodman Lecture. Cancer Res 2003; 63:7005-7031. iii) Aggarwal BB, Takada Y, Oommen OV. From chemoprevention to chemotherapy: common targets and common goals. Expert Opin Investig Drugs 2004; 13:1327-1338. iv) Chen C, Kong AN. Dietary cancer-chemopreventive compounds: from signaling and gene expression to pharmacological effects. Trends Pharmacol Sci 2005; 26:318-326.

Treasure, J. 2005:10. Food, Medicine, Poison & Molecular Vitalism - Novel Conceptual and Clinical Tools for the Botanical Treatment of Cancer.
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Ibid .

Milner JA. Molecular targets for bioactive food components. J Nutr 2004;134:2492S-2498S. Also, see: Bode AM, Dong Z. Targeting signal transduction pathways by chemopreventive agents. Mutat Res 2004; 555:33-51.

Other examples of adaptogens are Schizandra, Codonopsis, Ashwagandha, Nettle, Siberian Ginseng, Suma root.

Sparreboom A, Cox MC, Acharya MR, Figg WD. Herbal remedies in the United States: potential adverse interactions with anticancer agents. J Clin Oncol 2004;22:2489-2503.

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Anthocyanins is a large water-soluble pigment group found in a large number of fruits, vegetables and flowers. These are the pigments which give plants their brilliant colors ranging from pink through scarlet, purple and blue. Some pharmaceutical effects of anthocyanins have been suggested, for example in treatment of cardiovascular diseases and in ophthalmology. The antioxidant potentials of anthocyanins are high.

Essential summary of herbs included in HerbShield Tonic by godshaer.co.uk Allium sativum (Garlic bulb, Da Suan) - anti-bacterial (amoebic dysentery, typhoid), hypotensive (lowers cholesterol and blood pressure), expectorant, anti-septic, anti-viral (common cold); anthelmintic - worms; TB; asthma, chronic bronchitis./ Alpinia officinalis (Galangal root) - cold & pain of abdomen, nausea and vomiting, dyspepsia, gastralgia. / Arthrospira platensis (Spirulina) - antiviral effects, immune enhancing, hepatoprotective, inhibits some allergic reactions, hypocholesterolemic, nutrisupportive - a rich source of protein. It also contains chlorophyll, carotenoids, minerals, gamma-linolenic acid (GLA) and some unique pigments. These pigments, called phycobilins, include phycocyanin and allophycocyanin. Phycobilins are similar in structure to bile pigments such as bilirubin. / Astragalus membranaceus (Astragalus root, Huang Qi) - immunostimulant, raises yang qi, increases vitality, fatigue, stimulates tissue regeneration oedema, anti-viral, cardiotonic, nephritis; diabetes, lowers blood pressure and blood sugar, improves circulation in skin. / Bupleurum scorzoneraefolium (Thorowax or Hares Ear root, Chai Hu) - anti-pyretic; stagnant liver; bone cancer (enhances production of interferon), kidney disease (proteinurea). / Carthamus tinctorius (Safflower flower) - invigorates circulation of blood and removes blood stasis; analgesic, abdominal pain and tumor; hepatomegaly and splenomegaly. Protects ischemic and anoxic brain injury; effective for ischaemic cerebral diseases. / Codonopsis pilosula (Poor Man's Ginseng, Dang Shen root) - to invigorate the function of spleen and stomach; to replenish the vital energy of spleen and lung; to promote the secretion of body fluids; anaemia, chronic haemorrhage. stimulates the CNS; increases phagocytosis; increases the ability to fight against diseases; inhibits adrenalin; increases the WBC and RBC (used esp. for cancer patients in chemotherapy or radiotherapy), lupus; increases red blood cells and haemoglobin - used for anaemia and chronic bleeding conditions; decreases protein in urine (chronic nephritis). / Commiphora molmol (Myrrh) - anti-microbial, vulnerary, immunostimulant. Increases WBC and defences, infections, analgesic, traumatic pain and swelling; to promote the healing of wounds. anti-bacterial, anti-fungal. / Coptis chinensis (Golden Thread root, Huang Lian) - mouth and tongue inflammation, leukaemia, anti-toxin; anti-bacterial, cholagogue, anti-diuretic. / Curcuma longa (Tumeric root, Jiang Huang) - dissolves clots, thrombosis; lowers cancer risk (smokers, farmers), increased gastric and hepatic function; haemostatic, bleeding in lungs, bladder and nose; curcuminoids act like some steroidal and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, antioxidant, liver protective and bile secreting effects. / Echinacea angustifolia (Purple Cone Flower root) - anti-septic, anti-microbial, alterative; vasodilator (peripheral), bacterial and viral infections, boils, septicaemia. / Eleutherococcus senticosus (Siberian Ginseng) - adaptogen, circulatory stimulant, vasodilator; stress, depletion, (mental and physical), depression, immune stimulant, stress, infection, fatigue, healing, improved performance. / Galium aparine (Cleavers flowering tops) - alterative, anti-inflammatory, anti-neoplastic; lymphatic disease, psoriasis. / Ginkgo biloba (Ginkgo seed or leaf, Bai Guo) - persistent cough, tinnitis, circulation (peripheral vascular disease), intermittent claudication, cerebral insufficiency, ageing, senility, Alzheimer's, vitaligo (pigmentation); improves memory, alertness and general mental function. Antioxidant and anti-allergic. Active constituents: ginkgo flavone glycosides, terpene lactones. / Glycyrrhiza glabra, G. uralensis (Licorice root, Gan Cao) - tonic, adrenal agent, anti-inflammatory, demulcent, anti-spasmodic, adrenocortical insufficiency, Addison = s disease; blood and energy deficiency. / Lentinula edodes (Shitake mushroom) - anti-tumor properties. These studies, the earliest dating back to 1969, have also identified the polysaccharide lentinan, a (1-3) β-D-glucan, as the active compound responsible for the anti-tumor effects. Extracts from shiitake mushrooms have also been researched for many other immunological benefits, ranging from anti-viral properties to possible treatments for severe allergies. Lenthionine , a key flavor compound of shiitake, also inhibits platelet aggregation, so it is a promising treatment for thrombosis. / Linum usitatissimum (Flax; Linseed) - pectoral, anodyne, resolvent; omega 3, 6, 9. / Oldenlandia diffusa (Bai Hua She She Cao, whole herb) - anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory, lymphatitis, acute gastro-enteritis, septicaemia, urinary tract infection, cancer in GIT. / Olea europaea L (Oleaceae) (Olive Tree Leaf) - oleuropein has powerful anti-bacterial and anti-viral activity. Antioxidant. / Panax ginseng (Ginseng root, Ren Shen) - tonic to lungs and spleen, nourishes vital fluids; shock, loss of appetite, diabetes, fatigue. / Pfaffia paniculata (Suma root) - nerve and glandular restorative, anti-tumour, anti-melanoma. Adaptogen endocrine balancer. Used to strengthen the immune system against the progress of malignancy. / Podophyllum peltanum L - (Berberis family, Berberidaceae; American Mandrake, May Apple, root or rhizome) - anti-neoplastic (cancer, esp. ovarian). Ointment for external cancers; dusting powder for malignant ulceration. Cytostatic (prevents growth and proliferation of cells, ie anti-cancer). Particularly effective for ovarian cancer. Also used to treat warts. powerful hepatic and intestinal stimulant. / Propolis resin - bacterial infections; fungal infections; parasitic infections; viral infections; anti-infective effects due to flavonoids; inflammation; enhances the function of the immune system against cancer cells; causes some types of cancer cells to disintegrate; protects the liver from damage by alcohol or environmental toxins. / Psoralea corylifolia (Psoralea fruit, Bu Gu Zhi) -. anti-bacterial, anti-tumour. / Rheum palmatum (Rhubarb root, Da Huang) - invigorate blood circulation and eliminate stasis, detoxification; haematemesis. / Rubus ideus (Raspberry leaf) - stimulate immunity, kill viruses (incl. herpes), diabetes, anti-fungal and anti-viral. / Rumex acetosella (Sheep sorrel herb) - tissue degeneration, astringent, antiseptic, hepatic, unproven folk remedy for cancer in both Europe and America . In the late 1740's, legislation was introduced in Williamsburg , Virginia , that permitted Mrs. Mary Johnson to use this plant as a treatment for cancer. In 1926, the National Cancer Institute received a recipe from Canada citing an old Indian cure for cancer using a paste of this plant made with bread. Historically, Sheep Sorrel has been known to prevent the spread of contagious diseases such as the plague. / Sanguinaria canadensis (Blood root) - anti-septic, cardioactive, circulation - peripheral (feeble), capillary circulation - improves, anti-neoplastic: tumours and sarcomas (cancer). / Schisandra chinensis (Schisandra berry, Wu Wei Zi) - astringent, tonic to kidneys, demulcent, prevent liver damage and stimulate repair and normalise liver function, increases the speed of reflexes, nerve responses and improving mental clarity; adaptogen, hepato-protective, helps liver cells regenerate, antidepressant, hepatitis C. / Scutellaria baicalensis (Huang Qin, Baikal root) - anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic; flavonoids which inhibit the release of histamine and the production of leukotrienes (inflammatory and pain-triggering chemicals), anti-toxin, haemostatic, acute urinary tract infection; pyogenic infection of the skin. / Scutellaria barbata (Barbat Skullcap whole herb, Ban Zhi Lian) - reduces swellings; liver disease, detoxification; hepatitis, cirrhosis, ascites, abscesses, ulcers in stomach and lungs; cancer in lungs, stomach and intestines. / Tabebuia impeteginosa ( Pau D'Arco, Taheebo bark) - anticancer. Increases energy and endurance. Has lapachol (active against lymphocytic leukaemia), anti-candida (thrush), anti-fungal, intestinal parasites. Anti-bacterial. Anti-viral. / Thuja occidentalis (Thuja, Arbor-Vitae leaves and stems) - haemostatic (all forms of haemorrhage), astringent, refrigerant to blood; cancer of uterus. / Trifolium pratense (Red Clover flowers) - alterative, anti-neoplastic. / Triticum sativa (Wheatgrass fresh) - a body cleanser; rebuilds, neutralises toxins; detoxification, can dissolve scars that are formed in the lungs, increases haemoglobin production; anaemia, helps overcome ageing, capillary support; clears toxic metals - lead, cadmium, mercury, aluminium, and excessive amounts of copper; builds up the white blood cells. / Uncaria tormentosa (Cat's Claw, Peru; inner bark) - adaptogen; immunostimulant, enhances phagocytosis. enhance overall immunity while increasing stamina; viral infections; enhance emotional stability - even in the midst of extreme stress, fight infections in AIDS patients and decrease the visible size of some skin tumours and cysts, reduction in the side-effects of radiation and chemotherapy in cancer patients; adaptogen, anti-oxidant, anti-tumour, anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory; powerful cellular reconstructor; cancer. / Urtica dioica rad. (Nettle root) - astringent, anti-haemorrhagic, diuretic, tonic; strengthen and support whole body, general tonic, prostate cancer. / Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry fruit) - Enhances circulation and blood vessel integrity throughout the body. Antioxidant. / Vinca major (Periwinkle tops) - astringent, sedative, anti-haemorrhagic; colitis, enuresis (incontinence), diarrhoea, fibroids. / Viola odorata (Sweet Violet leaves and flowers) - alterative, anti-neoplastic; cancer (breast or alimentary canal). / Viscum album (Mistletoe leafy twigs) - nervine, anti-neoplastic; nerve relaxant, strengthens peripheral capillary walls, anti-tumour, hysteria. / Withania somnifera (Ashwagandha root) - nervine restorative, general debility, adaptogenic.

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• Coeliac
• Colds and Flu
• Colitis
• Colon Cleansing
• Constipation
• Consultation
• Cough
• Cystitis
• Cysts
• Depression
• Detox - Total
• Diabetes
• Endometriosis
• Energy
• Epilepsy
• Essiac
• Eyes
• Fertility
• Fibroids
• Flushes
• Forgetfulness
• Frozen Shoulder
• Fungal Infections
• Gall Stones
• Gout
• Hair Women
• Hair Men
• Hayfever
• Headache
• Head Lice
• Heart
• Heart Burn
• Helicobacter
• Hepetitis C
• Herbal Coffee
• IBS
• Incontinence
• Interstitial Cystitis
• Kidney
• Laxatives
• Leaky Gut
• Leg Ulcer
• Lemon Detox
• Lice
• Liver Detox
• Lumbago
• Lungs
• Lymph Cleanse
• Maleria
• ME
• Menopause
• Mental Acuity
• Migraine
• Morning Sickness
• Mouth
• Muscles
• Nerves
• Pain
• Palpitation
• Pancreas
• Parasites
• Parkinsons
• Pigmentation
• Piles
• PMS
• Potency - Men
• Premature Ejaculation
• Prolapse
• Prostate
• Psoriasis
• Ringworm
• Rosacea
• Scabies
• Sciatica
• Sex Drive
• Shingles
• Sight
• Skin
• Sleep
• Smoking
• Snoring
• Tinnitis
• Spleen
• Sports Help
• Spots
• Stevia - sugar replacement
• Stress
• Sweating
• Synergy
• Thrush
• Thyroid
• Tiredness
• Travel Sickness
  Urticaria
• Varicose Veins
• Warts
• Weight
• Worms
• Worry
• lots more

 

Post

Godshaer Herbal Clinic
Advanced Botanical Centre of Medicine
Ducking Stool Lane
Christchurch
Dorset
BH23 1DS
UK

Telephone

+44 (0) 1202 488122
Freephone UK 0500 90 96 97

Email

alanhopking@godshaer.co.uk

Skype (by arrangement)

alanhopking

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Disclaimer and pledge

As a professional herbal practitioner I am in practice in conformity with the laws of England and the 1968 Medicines Act. The UK legislative provisions for herbal medicine are to be found in the Medicines Act 1968, Section 12, paragraphs 1 & 2, and Section 56, paragraphs 1 & 2.

Section 12:1 specifies exemption for herbal medicines from licensing provided that they are supplied subsequent to private personal consultation. Section 12:2 exempts herbal medicines provided that they are produced according to standard traditional, non-industrial methods. It also specifies that no written claims may be made for the use of the remedy.

Therefore at Godshaer Herbalist no claims about any medical condition regarding the herbal medicines prescribed by Alan Hopking are made. Indeed, be it a doctor, surgeon or herbal practitioner, the successful outcome of our treatments cannot with any certainty be predicted, let alone guaranteed. Further, following UK and EU law, the information on this web site attach no medical claims and no claims concerning the medicinal herbs mentioned relating to any medical conditions listed. All the herbal prescriptions are unlicensed and made by Alan N. Hopking at the address of Godshaer Herbalist for patients of Alan N. Hopking.

I pledge that, I shall do all I can, using my knowledge of herbal medicines and natural treatment, to help you regain your deserved health.
Alan Hopking MA MNIMH MRCHM FINEH

All our herbal medicines are made from the raw herb at our dedicated clinic and dispensary in Ducking Stool Lane. We collect the fresh herbs, or import the dry herb. They are organic if at all possible. We only use whole herbs. We are against the use of standardized extracts, or the concentration of herbs by adding more of the active constituent. We recommend you do not use such products in any form (dry, in capsules or as tincture extracts). To use our herbal tonics you should follow the prescribed dose. Any side effects or problems should be reported to us.