Holistic Healing: Nature's Cure & Nutritional Harmony

1. Nutrition Folk Healing

2. Objectives • Describe the biochemical basis of nutrition. • Discuss the concepts of starvation, deprivation and hunger at the biochemical level. • Identify and discuss the impact of social learning and culture upon diet. • Describe and discuss various definitions of a healthy diet • Identify the role of herbs in a healthy diet

3. Nature Cures If Given the Opportunity • Three Pathways to Health • Prevention • Correction • Rehabilitation

4. Hippocrates-harmony With Nature • Turn away from magic and superstition • Observe, don’t jump to solutions • Everyone is unique • Both health and Illness follows seasonal patterns

5. Hippocrates, Nutrition • Foods are chemicals used to make new cells • Your entire chemistry is replaced every 2 years. • We (Americans) eat too much • We eat too often or infrequently • We eat food out of season • Foods should be classified • Astringent, laxative, diuretic, • Drying, binding moistening

6. If We Eat Wrongly No Doctor Can Cure Us, If We Eat Correctly No Doctor Is Necessary Rocine-1930 Health Food, Exercise, Rest, Sunshine, Positive Attitude

7. Food Classifications • Vitality producers, brain, nerve foods • Phospholipids, proteins , sulfur proteins • Strength – muscles, ligaments • Nitrogen proteins • Heat – fat • Fats, oils • Carriers or eliminators – secretions, vital fluid • Carbohydrates

8. Rocine’s Laws • Natures products • NO refined sugar, chemical salt • If God had wanted us to eat coffee and doughnuts he would have grown them in the garden of Eden • Alkaline foods for the sick • Coffee is an acid • Salt purifies the cells of the sick • Natural sources of salt, spinach, carrots, strawberries • Natural Sweet • Honey, fruit juice

9. Cooking Food Destroys the Natural Chemicals • Cooking destroys needed chemicals • Calcium is destroyed at 150 degrees • Any thing canned/pasteurized is heated > 150/62 • Steam foods, use the left over water in other dishes

10. Current status of Nutrients in the Food chain • Refined foods have ½ the original “food” value • What's left, sugars (starch), fats • Soils are depleted, • poor management, fertilizers • Corn grown on the Navaho reservation with Navaho techniques had 14x the mineral content • Part of the time You need a vitamin, mineral supplement

11. Water Soluable VITAMIN B1(Thiamin) VITAMIN B2(Riboflavin) VITAMIN B6(Pyridoxine) VITAMIN B12(Cobalamin) FOLIC ACIDVITAMIN C(Ascorbic Acid) Fat Soluble VITAMIN A(Beta Carotene) VITAMIN DVITAMIN EVITAMIN K Vitamins are organic compounds that the human body needs for growth, health and reproduction and to maintain normal body functions.

12. CALCIUM MAGNESIUM IRON IODINE COPPER ZINC MANGANESE CHROMIUM POTASSIUM SELENIUM MOLYBDENUM Dietary omissions are more dangerous than excesses Salts, Metals, Minerals

13. Dr. Bernard Jensen 1908- • Higher up the food chain you eat • The more resources are used per pound of production • the more exposure to toxins • Chemicals have multiple specific duties • Deficiencies/excesses effect function then structures • Potassium = change in heart beat>damage to heart tissue • Excess iodine change in thyroid function >shrinking of thyroid tissue

14. How Did That meat Die? • Hormones • Fear • Chemicals • Mc Donald's, • Only buys meat from humane slaughter house, grading system. • Number of animals killed for meat per hour in U.S.: 500,000

15. You Food Pyramid

16. ADA Food Pyramid

17. Politics and the Food Pyramid What role does politics play in the construction of the pyramid?

18. Food Law Pyramid NOT ADA No sugar, No fat 1 Protein 1 Starch 2 Fruits 6 RAW Vegetables (fiber)

19. Food Laws • Proportions: 6 vegetables,two fruits, one starch, one protein. • 80% alkaline, 20% acid. • 40% cooked, 60% uncooked. • One Gallon of water

20. Why don’t we eat healthy • Convince • Availability • Expense • Culture • Habits

21. Protein • The human body requires approximately 20 amino acids for the synthesis of its proteins. The body can make only 13 of the amino acids; these are known as the nonessential amino acids. • There are 9 essential amino acids that are obtained only from food, and not made in the body. • Beans and rice + 20 amino acids. • All meat and other animal products are sources of complete proteins.

22. Antioxidants. • neutralize free radicals, unstable molecules that that rob other molecules of electrons. This damages DNA in the cells and leads to cancer, heart disease, and s/s of aging

23. Phytochemicals – provide free electrons • Cartenoids = anti cancer, antioxidant • Color in fruit and vegetables • Lycopene, tomatoes, Lutien, spinach • Allic sulfides = immune system, coagulation, antibacterial • Onion family, garlic • Phenolic compounds= flavinoids • Anti oxidant, anti cancer • All fresh vegetables, beans and unrefined grains.Tea, red wine, dark beer

24. Star Herbs and Spices • High in anti oxidants • Rosemary, sage, thyme, oregano, marjoram, basil • Ginger, turmeric, cardamom • Bay leave, cinnamon • Allspice, cloves, cumin and fennel

25. Clustering food Sum of small amounts of vitamins minerals and protective ingredients – protective digestive processes

26. Acid Diet • Meat and potatoes, draws sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium to GI to neutralize depleting organ stores. • Slow GI system allows putrefaction of meat with in the body toxins are left behind. • Have a high fiber vegetable when ingesting meat. • Rhubarb, cranberries, Green plums.

27. Dietary Principles • Whole Foods: fresh unprocessed • WHY do I crave Sugar, salt, fat? • Pure energy sources • Short cut with out digestion • For most of us Food tastes like paper with sugar, fat and salt • Get to know your GUT

28. Sugar: SUCROSE, I love you honey • Effects of white sugar addiction • Low nutrient density, disruption of stable energy system, cultivates yeast, decreases immune response • Increased load on, pancreases, adrenals, liver • Brown sugar, maple syrup • Detoxify: takes time, habit, decrease meat/salt

29. Salt, NACL • Extra cellular, Potassium intracellular, • Processed salt has no trace minerals, Drives away trace minerals

30. Fat, of the land, Cream of the crop • Some butter is good, Butyric acid, interferon, viral growth, anti aging for the brain • Olive, sesame for flavor • Sedentary people need fats to aid digestion • Obesity

31. Know your Gut • Individualize your diet • Energetic and calm • Concentration • Digestion • Wastes

32. Move to Stay Alive • Activity • Increases blood flow • Lubrication if joints and sheaths • Supports the replacement of bone • Breaks up adhesions • Increased the release of endorphins

33. Toxins • Removed from the body thorough • Exhalation • Excretion • Urine/water • Stools/water, fiber • Skin/Sweat/water,oil

34. What Impact does Culture have on Nutrition Nutrition Hurdles Handout

35. Herbal Traditions • Chinese • Ayuvedic • European • Native American

36. Drugs: Very valuable they buy time • Chemical (synthetic) compounds used to alter metabolic processes, reverse. • Usually symptom treatment, disease management • Aspirin-Salicylic acid blocks pain receptors, resets internal thermometer, we see decreased pain and temperature. Not cure of cause. • Treat Acute asthma with aminophyllin not therapy

37. Ancient Botanical Remedies • Each remedy was chosen for its essence • Structure, appearance communicates • Lobelia, sack like flower, asthma • Warty berry – Thuja, for warts, anxiety • Warts disordered explosive growths

38. Herbs Used as Drugs • Active ingredient focus • Compound activity is overwhelmed • Increase in side effects just like drugs

39. Herbal Therapies • Not a substitute for licensed care

40. http://www.herbs.org/ • "The Complete Guide to Herbal Medicines (Springhouse). Authoritative, home reference book by two pharmacists. • "Nutraceuticals (Berkeley). A scientific encyclopedia on 200-plus supplements. • "The Natural Pharmacist. http://www.tnp.com. Consumer-friendly database on nutritional products. • Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database.http://www.naturaldatabase.com.

41. Efficacy Is Established by Western Practice • Prescription • Dose • Amount, strength • Route • Oral, eye, mucus membrane • Application • Liquid, poultice, salt, powder

42. 1. Traditional use. • Literature can reveal the long-term use of a botanical substance and can indicate relative safety and presumed efficacy.

43. 2. Chemical data. • Herbal drugs have been analyzed to determine their chemical composition, especially the main constituents. Knowledge of these chemical constituents can indicate the potential activity and/or toxicity of a botanical, depending on the known range of compounds and their relative quantities.

44. 3. Experimental, pharmacological, and toxicological studies. • Laboratory/experimental (in vitro) and pharmacological/toxicological (in vivo) studies are published worldwide on whole plant extracts or constituents of medicinal plants. These studies provide documentation of the historical or traditional uses of a plant, even though clinical studies may be lacking.

45. 4. Clinical studies. • In many European countries, clinical studies on leading medicinal plants and phytomedicines are conducted routinely, according to strict scientific controls. These studies can suggest and often confirm the safety and efficacy of herbs and their preparations.

46. 5. Field and Epidemiological Studies • . The use of a medicinal plant by a particular population over time is also useful when evaluating safety and efficacy. The Commission reviewed such studies, if they were available.

47. 6. Patient case records submitted from physicians' files. • Case reports from individual patients in clinical practice, although not considered as important as controlled clinical studies, are nevertheless useful in obtaining information from the experiences of attending physicians using herbs and phytomedicines.

48. CAUTION • Just because it comes from the ground doesn’t mean its’ good for you!! • Do not self prescribe with herbs.

49. More Caution :-) • Person with a viral cold w/ fever may look to ginseng root for more energy to fight off the cold… it is a “tonifying herb”, in Chinese med. • During Illness to ginseng root will hold in pathogenic influences.

50. Herbs