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Herbal Remedy for Strep Throat, Malaria, and Other Hemolytic Infections in Children and Adults

Cinchona officinalis vs. Viburnum opulus This post is a part of a long series about quinine, Cinchona officinalis and Viburnum opulus. Cinchona officinalis is a very broad spectrum herbal remedy for strep throat as well as a very broad range of other infectious diseases, in particular those that cause hemolysis of red blood cells. Cinchona bark was famous as the first remedy for malaria and it is still the most powerful treatment on earth when combined with Artemisia annua despite Big Pharma's efforts to scare people away from Cinchona and its primary medicinal substance, quinine. But in Russia and the Ukraine, another herb, Viburnum opulus became similarly famous because it had some similar medicinal effects that often saved lives and definitely reduced pain and fever naturally. Below...

Green Coffee: Herbal Remedy for Strep, Diphtheria, and Gut Health Issues

The Chlorogenic Acid in Green Coffee: What It Is and How It Supports Gut Health When your kids get sick, you might not think of something like coffee of all things as a possible medicine, but unlike adults, kids often have a paradoxical response to caffeine (this is why kids are given stimulants for ADHD). While adults can become jittery and hyper when they drink coffee, in kids, Coffea arabica, particularly green coffee beans, can reduce hyperactivity naturally while simultaneously treating gut health issues. But during a major illness like a strep infection or diphtheria (also malaria among others), green, unroasted coffee can be used along with Cinchona officinalis to rebuild red blood cells that streptococcal bacteria (and other hemolytic pathogens) destroy during an infection in...

The Anti-Opioid Addiction Diet: Heal Addiction Through Nutrition

Eat to End Addiction: How Food Can Heal the Opioid-Damaged Brain The Anti-Opioid Addiction Diet is based on scientifically proven nutrient deficiencies that are common in individuals who take opioids, as well as on information about the nutrients that addicts need in order to recover effectively from an addiction of any kind. Depending on your individual constituency and preferences, you may or may not choose to follow these dietary guidelines over the long-term, but the dietary principles discussed here can help you rebalance your brain and body more quickly and effectively immediately before, during, and after the opioid withdrawal process. Ideally, this diet should be followed for at least 6 months following quitting opioids so as to give your body enough time to actually start taki...

Cinchona officinalis for Gut Health

Quinic Acid: Its Role in Digestive Health Our focus in this series of posts is about how to treat major childhood illnesses at home, but quinic acid as a substance found in certain plants and foods, is very broad in terms of its medicinal action. Quinic acid is one substance found in Cinchona officinalis, the tree that became famous centuries ago for its ability to treat malaria, but its antimalarial action is due to another medicinal substance: quinine. The Medical Establishment drew attention to quinine for malaria and most people still believe that quinine is only good for malaria, but that it is extremely dangerous. That's not the whole story though. While pharmaceutically-produced quinine might be dangerous, it is less dangerous and more friendly as a medicinal agent when quinine is...

Iron Deficiency Anemia and Dental Problems

Can Iron Deficiency Anemia Cause Dental Problems?  Yes. It definitely can! Though low-level iron deficiency or iron deficiency anemia is not commonly known to be a problem for dental health, it is, in fact, a major issue. Iron deficiency can look like bleeding, swollen gums and periodontitis. Iron deficiency can cause the teeth to be overly sensitive to heat and cold. Through its effects on the blood supply feeding the teeth, iron deficiency also causes tooth deterioration. In fact, if you’ve worked with all of the other treatments that we recommend in our Heal Your Teeth book for remineralizing your teeth and nothing seems to be working, then it’s time to look at iron deficiency anemia and copper deficiency as a possible cause. Iron deficiency anemia or even just very low-lev...

How Histamine Drives Pain—and How Diet Can Restore Balance

The Low Histamine Diet to Reduce Pain Caused by Histamine Imbalance The Low Histamine Diet involves eating only clean, natural foods, just like any other healing diet protocol, and also requires that adherents reduce or eliminate intake of histamine-rich foods. Foods that contain higher levels of histamine can lead to further histamine imbalance in individuals who are sensitive to histamine, which can ultimately lead to symptom flare-ups. This diet can help relieve – and ultimately heal – symptoms like chronic skin and respiratory allergies, regular headaches, fibromyalgia, eczema, anxiety/depression, acid reflux, chronic pain and inflammation, IBS and other digestive disturbances, and more.  One of the nice things about the Low Histamine Diet, in comparison with other diets, is tha...

How to Use Cinchona Bark and Quinine for Strep Throat, Scarlet Fever, and to Repair Gut Health

Cinchona Bark and Quinine: Herbal Remedy for Strep Throat and Gut Health When you’re treating a child (or an adult) who’s sick, you have to consider the medication that you choose to work with in terms of its holistic effect on the body, the environment in which the illness occurs including stress level, the age of the child (or the adults), etc. Every body is different. Young children and the elderly respond differently to medicines than older children and adults. Medication “compliance” can be an issue too in that a patient of any age might refuse a particular type of treatment because it tastes bad or because it is simply too aversive for the patient to “stomach”. Gut health and the effects of that chosen medication on the gut, is also important because the gut contains a huge pr...

How Fly Agaric Relieves Pain: Understanding Muscimol’s Healing Power

Fly Agaric for Fibromyalgia Pain, Neuropathic Pain, Menstural Pain, Arthritis, Migraines, and More... Amanita muscaria, a medicinal mushroom otherwise known as fly agaric, is well-known for its mind-altering effects. But, beyond this, Amanita is also an important and powerful medicine for the treatment of chronic pain, digestive problems, hormone imbalances, and much, much more.  Pregnant/lactating women and children and infants should not take Amanita muscaria.  Therapeutically, the Amanita muscaria mushroom has been used to treat the following pain-related conditions and other health problems:  Pain-related conditions Rheumatism Fibromyalgia Migraine headaches Arthritis Menstrual pain Neuropathic pain Sleep disorders Insomnia Me...

Heal Chronic Pain Naturally with the Ketogenic Diet

Ketones Over Carbs: How the Ketogenic Diet Calms Inflammatory Pain The ketogenic diet is a low-carb, high-fat diet protocol that can be used to treat a specific set of health problems, including not only chronic pain, but also diabetes, PCOS, addictions, cystitis, and much more. This diet aims to switch the body into a state of ketosis, whereby the cells start utilizing ketones – an energy source that comes from fats – instead of glucose as their main source of “fuel”. To achieve this, people following the ketogenic diet have to reduce their carbohydrate intake to between 20-50 grams per day, in addition to increasing fat intake and eating proteins in moderation. The other rules of a healthy diet (e.g. no processed foods, eat only high-quality, organic, grass-fed/free-range animal produ...

Kratom: Herbal Remedy for Teething, Growing Pains, ADHD, Cancer, Diabetes, and Sleep Problems in Older and Younger Children

There are few herbs that can match what acetaminophen, ibuprofen, aspirin, and diclofenac can do in terms of reducing fever, inflammation, and for pain relief. Kratom stands out as one of the most important non-toxic, natural fever-reducing, pain-killing herbs. It is a powerful herb, yet it is relatively safe at the low doses that we recommend here for children. It’s important to recognize that teething is a serious life-stage that can be incredibly challenging for parents as well as babies. Cutting teething is excruciatingly painful for infants. So parents are faced with the dilemma of whether to administer an NSAID, acetaminophen, or paracetamol, or allow their child to suffer in pain. Some children actually have small seizures as a result of the pain of teething so pain control is...

Sacred Medicines Meet Science: How Fly Agaric and Kambo May Work Together for Pain Relief

Fly Agaric and Kambo: Potential Combination Treatment for Pain One animal study done on rats found that a combination therapy of muscimol and endomorphin-1 (an endogenous opioid peptide naturally produced in the body –  “endogenous morphine”) can be effective in relieving neuropathic pain caused by spinal cord injury. This particular study found that injecting a combination of muscimol and endomorphin-1 intrathecally into the spinal canal (so that the injection reaches the spinal fluids directly) was significantly more effective at reducing pain than either muscimol or endomorphin-1 injections alone. This therapy was also found to increase glutathione levels and reduce levels of superoxide dismutase (SOD) and malondialdehyde (MDA) in the spinal cord, which suggests that the combination of...

Cinchona officinalis / Quinine as an Herbal Remedy for Viral Infections

Cinchona officinalis and Quinine as a Bitter That Improves Immune Response in Respiratory Infections Oddly enough, in the human airway, there are both bitter and sweet taste receptors that play a role in the immune systems’ ability to defend itself. These receptors are also present in the nose and in the sinuses. Most people don’t realize that the skin has smell receptors as the airway has taste receptors. We can smell with our skin and taste with our bronchial tubes. It’s true! But this is more than just a fun fact. These receptors play a role in disease and they likely play a role in other aspects of our lives that haven’t been discovered yet.   In patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (runny or stuffy nose and congested sinuses), if one particular type of T2R taste receptor loses...