Herbal Rituals by Judith Berger

Herbal Rituals weaves elements from disparate myths, religious rituals, Native American traditions, and memories from the author's childhood to create a living, breathing tapestry, situating the reader vividly into each month of nature's yearly cycle. It includes recipes for meals, medicinal infusions, herbal honey, brandies, lotions, soothing baths, and rituals in the spirit of each season.

Herbal Rituals is about connecting with Nature and the plant world in order to keep us near to the ground of our own souls. The book records, month by month, a yearlong journey in to the earth's natural cycle. Month by month readers are given a poetic description of a facet of the earth's temperament, offering us an opportunity to immerse ourselves in Nature's unique expression of birth, growth, fruition, decay, death and regeneration, the primary cycle that weaves a thread of continuance through our lives. Each monthly chapter discusses one or two herbs in detail - what it's like, how it grows, what it does - as well as presenting recipes for teas, lotions and foods, along with rituals appropriate to the season that can bring your life into harmony with the moods of nature. Even in an urban environment, the constant presence of the elemental natural world and the use of herbs can be a touchstone to bring both body and soul back to a natural cadence. For thousands of years, humans have used herbs and trees for just this kind of medicine, in addition to calling on the plants as a source of nutrition, remedy, heating, shelter and magic. These are the old ways.

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About Judith Berger

Judith Berger has been studying and practicing herbal medicine since 1986. She integrates decades of experience as an herbalist with her medical background as a physician assistant to serve clients and patients interested in integrative care. She also teaches yoga, and, when not writing, spends much of her free time in the mountains and fields of New York State, receiving and learning more about the gifts of the plant world. She believes that natural medicine is our birthright and that imbibing herbs in many forms provides vitality and pleasure, the root of all wellbeing.

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Toxic Metals and Antidotes – The Chelation Therapy Handbook (ebook Edition) by Dr. Eleonore Blaurock-Busch PhD

This book is designed to help physicians determine the chelator of choice. It is a diagnostic guide that helps differentiate between acute and chronic metal exposures.

Metals affect the development of a number of diseases. With our changing environment, the role of toxic metals and their influence on health received medical attention after the 1950s.

All chelating agents have a specific metal-binding capacity. EDTA easily binds calcium, iron and lead but is not mercury-specific. DMPS, however, is arsenic, mercury and lead specific but is not very calcium or iron-specific. The DTPAs are not designed to use for the detoxification of these common metals, but are recommended for the treatment of certain radioactive exposures. DMSA, which is considered the antidote with only minor side effects, is used for lead exposure in children. Each chelating agent has its use. Proper administration enhances the treatment success.



This book is designed to help physicians determine the chelator of choice. It is a diagnostic guide that helps differentiate between acute and chronic metal exposures, and provides easy to locate information regarding metal related diseases.

About Dr. Eleonore Blaurock-Busch PhD

E.Blaurock-Busch PhD is research director of Micro Trace Minerals Analytical Laboratory Germany and Trace Mineral International Laboratory of Boulder, Colorado and was Assistant Laboratory Director at King James Medical Laboratory, Cleveland, OH. Her specialty is metal toxicology and human nutrition.



She is a founding member and co-chairman of the International Association of Trace Element Research and Cancer, and organizer of the first East-West World Congress on Trace Element and Cancer, held in Beijing, China in 1996. As scientific advisor to the International Board of Clinical Metal Toxicology (IBCMT) she lectured worldwide at medical meetings and universities. As scientific advisor to the German Medical Association for Clinical Metal Toxicology (Deutsche Ärztegesellschaft für Klinische Metalltoxilogie – KMT), she continues to be involved in teaching toxicology to German physicians.



She is instrumental in environmental and laboratory research projects in metal toxicology, including epidemiological studies that evaluated the toxic burden of people of various countries, including India and Saudi Arabia. In 2005, she received the IBCMT (International Board of Clinical Metal Toxicology) Award for Outstanding Service.



She was a guest speaker at radio and TV shows in the US, Germany and elsewhere.

She published several books in German and English at reputable publishers including Prentice Hall (later Simon and Schuster) and Hugendubel. Her many articles were published in various languages in medical and lay journals around the world.



She is a member of the European Academy for Environmental Medicine and the British Society for Ecological Medicine. She continues independent studies at Exeter College, Oxford University, UK.

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La désintoxication douce – Programme de détoxification naturelle by Dr. Eleonore Blaurock-Busch PhD

L’accumulation progressive des toxines peut provoquer une grande variété d’effets négatifs sur la santé.

Des nutriments comme les antioxydants et les acides aminés ont la capacité de détoxifier un système surchargé.

Les syndromes liés aux métaux toxiques ont été identifiés au cours des dernières décennies. Une surexposition chronique au plomb, au mercure et à d’autres métaux potentiellement toxiques peuvent affecter le corps et le cerveau et provoquer de nombreuses maladies, dont des problèmes de peau et de cœur, contribuer à la maladie d’Alzheimer, le cancer et la dépression. La recherche internationale a accumulé de très nombreuses preuves reliant les maladies chroniques aux problèmes environnementaux ; certaines d’entre elles sont listées ici. Aujourd’hui, les médecins comme les patients sont sensibilisés au diagnostic et au traitement de l’exposition chronique aux métaux ; avec ce livret, nous les aidons à travers la jungle d’informations. Nous expliquons en quoi les tests de diagnostic sont utiles, pourquoi et comment la génétique individuelle prédispose les gens à accumuler des métaux, et où les toxines se cachent.

La médecine utilise des agents synthétiques pour détoxifier les intoxications aiguës et chroniques dues aux métaux. Cependant, un tel traitement chimique peut ne pas convenir à des patients sensibles, comme les très jeunes enfants ou les personnes âgées. La nature nous a dotés d’éléments nutritifs également capables de « chélater » les métaux ; ce livre explique non seulement la toxicité des métaux, les symptômes qu’ils peuvent causer ou les systèmes organiques qu’ils affectent, mais aussi comment la nature offre des alternatives nutritionnelles à la chélation synthétique. Nous expliquons comment les agents de détoxification naturels fonctionnent et fournissons des protocoles d’auto-traitement nutritionnels.

About Dr. Eleonore Blaurock-Busch PhD

E.Blaurock-Busch PhD is research director of Micro Trace Minerals Analytical Laboratory Germany and Trace Mineral International Laboratory of Boulder, Colorado and was Assistant Laboratory Director at King James Medical Laboratory, Cleveland, OH. Her specialty is metal toxicology and human nutrition.



She is a founding member and co-chairman of the International Association of Trace Element Research and Cancer, and organizer of the first East-West World Congress on Trace Element and Cancer, held in Beijing, China in 1996. As scientific advisor to the International Board of Clinical Metal Toxicology (IBCMT) she lectured worldwide at medical meetings and universities. As scientific advisor to the German Medical Association for Clinical Metal Toxicology (Deutsche Ärztegesellschaft für Klinische Metalltoxilogie – KMT), she continues to be involved in teaching toxicology to German physicians.



She is instrumental in environmental and laboratory research projects in metal toxicology, including epidemiological studies that evaluated the toxic burden of people of various countries, including India and Saudi Arabia. In 2005, she received the IBCMT (International Board of Clinical Metal Toxicology) Award for Outstanding Service.



She was a guest speaker at radio and TV shows in the US, Germany and elsewhere.

She published several books in German and English at reputable publishers including Prentice Hall (later Simon and Schuster) and Hugendubel. Her many articles were published in various languages in medical and lay journals around the world.



She is a member of the European Academy for Environmental Medicine and the British Society for Ecological Medicine. She continues independent studies at Exeter College, Oxford University, UK.

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