MUCUNA PRURIENS: CONCERNS ABOUT LONGTERM SIDE EFFECTS FROM OVERUSE AND MISUSE | Karen Kurtak, L.Ac., Dipl. Ac. As an herbalist, I have strong concerns about the growing popularity and widespread use of the ancient herb, Mucuna pruriens, as an herbal and dietary supplement. Mucuna pruriens has an almost magical ability to improve motivation, well being, energy and sex drive along with decreasing the tendency to overeat.
These properties are a result of its contents of natural L-dopa, a direct precursor to the neurotransmitter dopamine. Dopamine is always present in the nervous system. Ultra-low levels (or dysfunction of dopamine receptors) lead to conditions like Parkinson’s. Normal levels maintain proper function of the nervous system, promote normal motivation and sex drive and help to regulate the appetite. We experience a stronger sense of well-being when dopamine is released in response to activities such as engaging in something novel or seeing a beautiful sunset. We release even more if we accomplish a long-term goal or have a profound experience.
By. THE TREATMENT OF HEADACHES WITH HERBAL MEDICINE – Battle Ground Healing Arts. Posted by Jillian Stansbury on Feb 13, 2016 BOTANICAL THERAPIES FOR HEADACHES Copyright Jillian Stansbury NDHEADACHE PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND BOTANICAL TREATMENT Headaches are one of the most common of all medical complaints treated in general clinical practices and a significant public health burden in terms of suffering, disrupted family interactions, and lost work and wages. Headaches can have numerous underlying causes; stress, hormonal, vascular, allergic, dysglycemia, exhaustion, chronic constipation and toxemia, and other reasons. It is the responsibility of the medical clinician to seek out the underlying cause to really cure the condition, and not just provide habitual pain relief. When headaches are due solely to stress and tension, herbal nervines, relaxants, and lifestyle approaches would be among the most effective therapeutic considerations. Tension headaches – are the most common and occur in nearly everyone at least once in their lifetime.
Handbook to Life in the Medieval World, 3-Volume Set - Madeleine Pelner Cosman, Linda Gale Jones - Google Books. The Four Humors: Eating in the Renaissance. Gode Cookery Table of Contents. James Matterer's collection of period receipts redacted for use in the modern kitchen, including soups, sauces, pies, roasts, vegetables, fruits, and sweets. Each dish contains the original period recipe, followed by James' translation and his modern redaction, along with notes, bibliography, and a link to metric, celsius, & gas mark equivalencies for measurements & temperatures. Recipes from several medieval English manuscripts and collections, each in its original language and accompanied with a literal translation, and followed by a modern interpretation of the recipe and its cooking procedures.
These recipes do not contain specific measurements and quantities, but are sufficiently explained that any competent cook will be able to prepare them. The Culinary Recipes from MS Pepys 1047 A 14th c. Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum - A Salernitan Regimen of Health. A Salernitan Regimen of Health The Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum is one of the most popular poems in the history of both medicine and literature. Written sometime during the twelfth or thirteenth centuries, there have been over 100 manuscript versions and approximately 300 printed editions. Although the work claims to be the product of the famous medical school of Salerno, Italy, and written for an anonymous English king, the true author is entirely unknown. The manuscript probably has its origins in an Arabic work, originally entitled Sirr al-asrar (which was by popular tradition associated with Aristotle as a piece written by him for Alexander the Great).
The medical portions of the Arab text were translated into Latin in the twelfth century by John of Spain; this became known as the Secretum secretorum. Then, a solitary poet set to verse passages from this translation, and began the poem by citing the famed Salerno school, in order to advertise his work and give validity to it. Cbmh. The modernity of medieval sexual medicine | Fertility and Sterility Dialog. Authors: Maurizio Bifulco, M.D.
,a Emmanuele A. Jannini, M.D. ,b Vieri Boncinelli, M.D. ,c and Simona Pisanti, Ph.D.d aDepartment of Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnology, University of Naples “Federico II,” Naples; bDepartment of Systems Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome; cCentro Studi Terapia Disturbi Affettivi Sessuali, Firenze; dDepartment of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry ‘Scuola Medica Salernitana’ (SP), University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy Abstract: In the history of sexuality and sexual medicine, the Middle Ages has erroneously been considered by most to be the Dark Ages. Consider This: Contrary to the misconception of many hold of the “Dark Ages,” the medieval period (the 5th to 15th centuries) witnessed great discoveries and advancements, even in the field of medicine.
Medieval sexual medicine in MSS texts The Liber Minor de Coitu The Liber Minor de Coitu is divided into two distinct parts. Recipes from the Liber Minor de Coitu Links to modern sexology Conclusion 1. Wellcome Library | Collection of medical treatises (Miscellanea Medica XI) Collection of medical treatises Written by three contemporary hands, in double column. Hand A (No. 1) Semi-current small script, 50 lines to a column, capitals in alternate red and blue. Hand b (Nos. 1-3) Small rounded gothic hand 55 lines to a column: paragraph marks in red. Hand C (Nos. 4-7) Larger rounded gothic hand, 45 lines to a column: a few capitals in blue and red; paragraph marks in red. Illuminated initial C on fol. 1, and initial Q on fol. 141 in gold and colours.
Below this are two receipts by a later hand for 'Diacassia solutiva'. Contents 1. ff. 1r-121v Galeatii de Sancti Sophia, De febribus, incomplete f. 1r Cum teste G[alieno]. 7o terapeutices ... f. 121v ... quedam ex effimera et putrida composite. 2. f. 122r Receipts by the same hand. f. 122v blank 3. ff. 123r-137v Collection ... 3. ff. 123r-137v Collection of medical receipts f. 123r Capitulum de alopicia et tiria. 4. ff. 137v-138v Notes on astrology, urines, pulses, etc. ff. 139r-140v blank 6. ff. 184r J.
F. 184r A. Introduction Infertility in Medieval and. Cold Wombs and Cold Semen: Explaining Sonlessness in Sixteenth-century China | The Recipes Project. By Yi-Li Wu Throughout imperial China, a family’s well-being and longevity required the birth of sons. [Fig. 1] Sons performed the ancestral rites, inherited land, and were responsible for supporting aged parents. And only men could take the examinations for government office which conferred elite socio-economic status. But at age 40, Liu Xiaoting was still sonless (wu zi). He appealed to the physician Gong Tingxian (15`38-1635), promising him rich recompense if he could help. As Gong recorded in his influential treatise, Curing the Myriad Diseases (Wanbing huichun, preface dated 1587), Liu’s “male member was weak, and his semen was icy cold.”
Furthermore, his pulses were flooding when felt at the first position (cun) at the wrist, but deep and faint at the third position (chi). Depletion from debauchery was a common diagnosis for upper-class men of the time, those who had the means to own concubines and patronize courtesans. Women with cold wombs would simply not produce children. Heat and Women’s Fertility in Medieval Recipes | The Recipes Project. It seems rather ironic to be writing about ‘heat’ in the middle of a heatwave. I’m not sure anyone in Britain at the moment is keen to increase their level of heat any further! However, according to humoral theory, which underpinned many medical recipes throughout the medieval and early modern periods, heat could be a very good thing when men and women wanted to reproduce.
Heat, in the humoral sense, was believed to aid both sexual performance and fertility, and ‘hot’ foods and medicines were recommended as aphrodisiacs and fertility aids in many ancient, medieval and early modern medical texts. Jennifer Evans has set this out very nicely for the early modern period – see her book and her post on the Recipes blog from 2013. But heat wasn’t always a good thing: in some circumstances too much heat could also be a problem for fertility, and in that situation ‘cold’ foods and medicines might be suggested. In a chapter on ‘Impediment of Conception’ it includes recipes for: Anthony Lewis and the Aphrodisiac Remedy | The Recipes Project. By Jennifer Evans Many aphrodisiacs were incorporated into fertility remedies recorded in domestic recipe books, although these texts were rarely as explicit as Dr.
Trigg’s secrets in explaining that these remedies were useful because they encouraged couples to engage in sexual activity that would lead to conception. One plant regularly described by medical authors as an aphrodisiac was Eryngo also known as Sea Holly. The roots were often candied, and recipes for this were recorded in several domestic recipe books including an anonymous seventeenth and eighteenth century collection housed in the Wellcome library (MS 8097).[3] The author of this recipe gave detailed instructions for washing, boiling and candying the roots of this plant.
Despite the frequent appearance of such fertility remedies though, it was rare for manuscript collections to include direct or explicit references to sexual stimulants on their own. ‘A Brotanum mas, foemina. Lady Marquee Dorset, 1606. fol. 31 r. The Trotula | Monica H. Green. The TrotulaAn English Translation of the Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine Edited and translated by Monica H.
Green 248 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 9 illus. Paper 2002 | ISBN 9780812218084 | $24.95s | Outside the Americas £18.99Ebook editions are available from selected online vendorsA volume in the Middle Ages Series "This long-awaited book makes available an English translation of a set of texts which represents the most important collection of material on women's diseases and their treatments for the period from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries.
" The Trotula was the most influential compendium of women's medicine in medieval Europe. Green here presents a complete English translation of the so-called standardized Trotula ensemble, a composite form of the texts that was produced in the midthirteenth century and circulated widely in learned circles. Monica H. . | View your shopping cart | Browse Penn Press titles in Health, Medicine, Caregiving | Join our mailing list. Anthony Lewis and the Aphrodisiac Remedy | The Recipes Project. Aphrodisiacs, Fertility and Medicine in Early Modern England - Boydell and Brewer. Heat and Women’s Fertility in Medieval Recipes | The Recipes Project. The Trotula | Monica H. Green. Tacuinum Sanitatis Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris. In the late Middle Ages, princes and the powerful learnt the health and hygiene rules of rational medicine from the Tacuinum Sanitatis, a treatise on well-being and health widely disseminated in the 14th and 15th centuries.
The treatise was written in Arabic by Ububchasym de Baldach, or Ibn Butlân as he was also known, a Christian physician born in Baghdad and who died in 1068. He sets forth the six elements necessary to maintain daily health and avoid being stressed: food and drink, air and the environment, activity and rest, sleep and wakefulness, secretions and excretions of humours, changes or states of mind (happiness, anger, shame, etc). According to Ibn Butlân, illnesses are the result of changes in the balance of some of these elements, therefore he recommended a life in harmony with nature in order to maintain or recover one’s health. Ibn Butlân also teaches us to enjoy each season of the year, the consequences of each type of climate, wind and snow.
Chronica tacuinum. Medieval recipes, gastronomy and history. Nowadays, may a cook prepare a historical recipe, which is not a modern dish? How do we know the taste of the dishes found in Libre de Sent Sovi (1324) or Maistre Chiquart (1420), or that of Lancelot de Casteau (1585)? Specifically, in all these cookery books we do not know the quantity of ingredients in the recipes nor the precise quantities of spice mixes.
Also, the vegetables we use today no longer taste like those of the past. In the spirit of medieval gastronomy in Europe, using the work of historians and my own modern cooking talents, I have created several gourmet dishes. Sometimes I used a few historical recipes to develop my own interpretation. When a recipe is developed by someone else, the name of the author is given. Copyright: The recipes of medieval cuisine are available to all interested parties for private use only. Beef or chicken broth No industrial broth: they are very perfumed with aromatics and spices! Bread, breadcrumbs No industrial breadcrumbs (too perfumed).
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