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| Reference #: | 212 |
| Submit Date: | 03 Dec 2002 |
| Browse Category: | mental illness |
| Author: | none |
| Email Address: | none |
| Treatment used: | snakeroot |
| You can buy this remedy at: | in india |
| Remedy will cost you: | unknown |
| Country of Remedy: | india |
| Remedy Source: | folklore |
| More Links about this Remedy: | none |
| # Comments posted to this remedy: | 0 |
| Complaints Reported: | 0 |
| # of times remedy read: | 19,392 |
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| Typical Dosage: | unknown |
| Dosage should be related to weight: | unknown |
| Dosages used in clinical trials are significant: | unknown |
| Maximum dosages in relation to side effects and serious side effects: | unknown |
| Other foods/nutrients/medications that can affect absorption or utilization: | unknown |
| Foods that provide the nutrient recommended as a remedy (or reference giving same): | unknown |
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| Average Rating: | 0.00 |
| Effectiveness: | 0.00 |
| No Side Effects: | 0.00 |
| Ease of Use: | 0.00 |
| Effective after long term use: | 0.00 |
| Cost Effectiveness: | 0.00 |
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Indian Avuredic medicine (a tradition of oral medicine passed
on orally for thousands of years before being first written down in 600 B.C.) snake root(rauwolfia serpentina) was used to treat bites by posionus reptiles and insects, insomnia, mental illness, diarrhera, dysentary, fight fever, and to cause contractins of the uterus. Today, villagers in India give it to their chiledren to help them sleep.. It is also used for meditation. Ghandhi is said to have chewed on chewed on snakeroot while meditating. He also drank a tea made from snakeroot before going to bed. The root has 500 alakaolids of which the western science used only one. This is typical of western science. (Hey, you got to cut costs somewhere i guess. You gotta pay those Researchers big bucks) So instead you, isolate the plant down to the one alakaloid and throw out the rest. Ignore the intereactins of the the other chemicals in the plant. Snakeroot was used for treting people with mental illness for thousands of years in India. Wheras, Western Science prefered using the latest technology; Lombotomy, surgical removal of the brain or straight jackets and restriants; They could not believe that a medicine would bring about changes in a patient. So, when western science, back in the 1950's, saw that snakeroot actually worked in treating mental illness they were blown away and invented scores of similar drugs for treating mental illness that we use today. Prior to the use of drugs western science really had no cure for mental illness.. Snakeroot was a revelation... and the start of psychotic drugs. Psychotic drugs do not have the full strength and interaction of all the chemicals found in snakeroot.. The primary alakolid in snakeroot is reperine. it acts on the sympathetic nervous system to reduce vascular resistence and reduce the heart rate. The term "tranquilizer" was used by western scientist to describe it effects on the central nevrous system.. Resperine is still used to treat high blood presure and as a tranquiler. Mahatma Gahdhi chewed snakeroot "The great value of snakeroot lies in its not requiring to be administered in critcal dosages, rare side efects, non-habit forming, without withdrawal symptoms or contraindiction" --James Duke, PHD Interesting, resperine in western medicine is not give to some mental illness as the AMA claims it leads to psychoitic depression and suicide and affects blood pressure. Snakeroot and mongoose myth: The mongooses have been observed to eat sankeroot before fighting with cobras. This is a rummor. The mongose fluffs out its hair while fighting, and the cobra's fangs are short. |
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sleeping aid, reptiles and insects, insomnia, mental illness, diarrhera, dysentary, fight fever, and to cause contractions of the uterus, sleeplessness, sleep |