Bitter herb

With Bitter Herbs They Shall Eat It Chemical Ecology and Origins of Human Diet and Medicine. Tucson, AZ University of Arizona Press. 

In summer or in places with a warm dry climate, pungent, warm and bitter herbs should not be used at high doses because the pores of the body are not tightly closed and so the body fluid can easily be consumed by heat. This precaution relates to herbs that induce sweating, expel wind and cold, disperse the Lung-Qi, dry dampness and increase urination. 

Quite often, after patients finish their course of antibiotics, the infection recurs and even becomes chronic. In this case, a formula should be composed using low doses of cold bitter herbs which have similar functions to the antibiotics but with a broader spectrum, along with herbs that can strengthen the Middle-Jiao, transform the dampness and promote digestion as well as dispersing the constrained Qi and heat. In this way, infections can be cured with minimal side effects from the antibiotics. 

Third, warm and pungent or warm and bitter herbs are selected to promote Qi movement and spread fluid. 

Pregnant women should use the formulas with caution as these formulas contain aromatic, pungent and bitter herbs, which can easily move Qi and blood, and drain dampness. They may bring danger to the pregnancy. 

Synonym Bitter Herb. Snake Head, Turtle Bloom, Turtle Head Habitat Common in North America. 

Rubin HR, Wu AW. The bitter herbs of Seder more on horseradish horrors. JAMA 1988 259(13) 1943. 

Bitter spirits are produced using bitter and aromatic plants and fruit extracts and/or distillates, fmit juices, essential oils, with or without the addition of sugar or glucose syrup. Products of this type are for example Boonekamp, English Bitter, Spanish Bitter or Angostura Bitter (named after a town in Venezuela (today Ciudad Bolivar), it is the most popular cocktail spice made from bitter herbs and other aromatic botanicals) ... 

Example Formula for Italian Bitter Liqueur (38% v/v) Step 1 Italian Bitter Herbs Extract, 40% v/v... 

Treatment of Whitlow. Steam the wbolo baud with bitter herbs for 30 or 40 minutes bathe it frequently in strong hot Jyc W5itAr. Tho Rtonming iniiKt not bn di pen p.d... 

Quarts water down to 3 pints. Sweeten. A os.sort-spoonful 3 or 4 times a day. Steam tho part with bitter herbs, and now and then give a vapor bath tt the whole body. Alter steaming the nffoeied part, rub the limb with tho rheumatic liquid. ( S< f Xo. 4SS4.)... 

So, what was that Supper, if not a very orthodox Judaic ceremony composed firstly of the annual Passover (with the partaking and mandating of a lamb and bitter herbs), and of the Melchizedekian rite to follow, a weekly rite. The "thanksgivings" which the Evangelists tell us were pronounced at the end of the banquet by the Christ, at the moment of the consecration of the Bread and the Cup, were ritual prayers. They still figure in the present day collection used by practicing Jews. 

B.C. "Here man, eat these bitter herbs " (in Arabic, Coptic, Farsi,... 

A.D. 0 "The saviour is borne Faith can heal. Eat these bitter herbs (if faith should fail )."... 

A.D. 1200 "These bitter herbs aren t Christian. Say a prayer when you take those bitters "... 

A.D. 2000 "That bitter antibiotic is artificial, ineffective, and toxic besides all the microbes are resistant, and some even feed on it (even vancomycin). Here, eat these bitter herbs. And pray they will help you (95 percent of Americans, but only 33 percent of psychologists, are reported to pray)."... 

Small amounts of the dextrorotatory parent hydrocarbon of the ten naturally abundant gammaceranes have been extracted from oil slate. 3-Hydroxy-derivatives such as (+)-16-gammacerene-3p-ol are constituents of the roots of bitter herb Picris hieracioides (Asteraceae). 22p-Hydroxy-30-nor-gammaceran-21-one is found in the Japanese fern Adiantum monochlamys. 

Johns, T. A., With Bitter Herbs They Shall Eat It, University of Arizona, Tucson, 1990. 

Uaat CondIment.lQne of the S bitter herbs of the Jewish Passiwerl... 

CommonIvernacular names Bitter herb, common centaury, drug centaurium, European centaury, lesser centaury, minor centaury, red cantarone. 

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