Feverfew [Tanacetum parthenium ][Chrysanthemum parthenium]

Feverfew [Tanacetum parthenium ][Chrysanthemum parthenium]
Today I will write you some very interesting facts-and far more then that- about a remarkable herb,
called feverfew.
you will be able to find a lot about it on the Internet of course, but I want to write you about a few less known aspects such as the remarkable anti-cancer effect of this herb.
let’s start with some history. ( Read more… )England 1978 : Mrs Jenkins cured a life-long migraine headache after 10 months by using 3 leaves of feverfew daily.
this got to the news-media and extensive research started in a London migraine clinic and all over the world ,also in Israel, .
I was so lucky to know Prof.Dan Palevitch -z.l.- personally some 20 years ago who supplied a few “herbal”doctors with the herb for migraine patients and who did research in Israel with feverfew.
In fact it is interesting to notice that there is nothing new under the sun ; Culpepper wrote already in this famous “Complete Herbal” in the 17 th century [in old English]
“It is very effectual for all pains in the head coming of cold cause, the herb being bruised and applied to the crown of the head”
But Culpepper’s observations were forgotten.
feverfew can be very effective in migraine but also may do nothing for certain patients.
a well known herbalist of our days ,Simon Mills observed that people who are helped by heat may benefit from feverfew for migraine whereas if the migraine get some better by cold then feverfew will not work for that patient and it will be better to avoid it.
A most interesting observation, something one often find in homeopathy: the physician may ask :does this or that get better or worse by heat or cold??
according to this he may decide about as certain homeopathic remedy.
I have personally also experience with feverfew in the treatment of delayed / absent menstruation [in non pregnant women].
the main thing ,however, I want to mention today is the new research done with
I quote now some information brought by Ralph Moss ,a well known cancer researcher:
What is particularly exciting is that this feverfew extract is the first agent known to destroy myeloid leukemia at the level of the stem cells. Increasingly, cancer research is homing in on these primordial cells as the source of cancer. An increasing number of scientists believe that unless cancer is attacked at this level it can rarely be controlled, much less cured……………………………………. The scientists studied it against two human breast cancer and one human cervical cancer cell line. “Feverfew…extract inhibited the growth of all three types of cancer cells,” they wrote. Of four feverfew components, parthenolide showed the highest inhibitory effect, although the other compounds work in concert with it in inhibiting cancer.[end quotations]

we have an excellent feverfew formula in Israel, maybe one of the best in the world.

It is produced in k’war ha-nasi under the name of : migralife and available in health food shops and pharmacies.

if you decide to use feverfew for more severe diseases then please consult a doctor who may guide you or give him this article to look at.

be healthy!!

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Rav Moshe Ben Abu-the Sephardic rav of Gilo- a neighborhood in the south of Jerusalem with more then 40000 residents- asked me to help him find via the internet somebody [or even more then one person, if one would not be enough for this purpose] who is willing financially to help build a synagogue [beit knesset] with a beit misdrah [learning/study halls] in Gilo.

This house of prayer /study will be open for 24 hours a day for anybody who wants to be involved in Jewish studies or hear lectures on torah and related topics [and of course for prayers].

The person or persons who are willing to take this upon themselves may have the sole right to have their name[s] connected to this “eternal structure” [the building will be called after him/them or after who ever they choose]

The costs are: one million two hundred thousand U.S dollars.

Who ever blessed to have been given abundant richness by God may want to consider this proposal, knowing that he/she is building a home where for- ever torah wisdom will be transferred from generation to generation which may lead to eternal world peace.

If you wish you may write me or you may contact the rabbi directly ,

his telephone numbers in Jerusalem are: and

May God bless you,

Dr. harold jitschak bueno de mesquita, Family physician in gilo

Rehov ha-teena 8 ,gilo

Jerusalem 93384

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E-mail: bdmesq@gmail.com

I declare hereby not to have any financial interest in this project

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How Animals Can Save Us

FOR ANYBODY INTERESTED IN THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THE BOOK OF MARK J. PLOTKIN: MEDICINE QUEST–IN SEARCH OF NATURE’S HEALING SECRETS.
I WENT ONLY THROUGH A FEW CHAPTERS YET [LACK OF TIME].ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING AND “UNCREDIBLE”
[TRANSLATED ALSO IN DUTCH: NATUUR GENEEST]

SOME OF THE IDEAS ARE USED ALREADY FOR A 200 YEARS IN HOMEOPATHY.
How Animals Can Save Us: Creepy Crawly Healers (Part 2 of 3)
Ivanhoe Newswire — Modern surgeons are rediscovering the benefits of using leeches and maggots. Now, scientists are harnessing the paralyzing power of venom from some snakes, snails and scorpions to treat human disease. From desert predators to ocean creatures, scientists are uncovering unusual sources for new medicines.
Cancer patient Renee Relin says, how did they figure that you go from a sea squirt to a drug that s going to work on this specific, esoteric kind of cancer? She was diagnosed seven years ago with soft tissue sarcoma — a cancer that affects muscles and organs. When doctors discovered a third tumor, she volunteered for a clinical trial testing ET-743, a drug made from the toxins of a sea squirt.
When asked about the study s success rate, Harvard Medical School oncologist Bruce Chabner, M.D., says, about 10 percent of the patients respond, that is, the tumors shrink significantly. For Relin, it offered hope when there was none.
The Israeli yellow scorpion is the inspiration for another cancer drug, TM-601. This synthetic copy of the scorpions venom is helping patients with brain tumors.
There are a variety of compounds in nature which are known to specifically excite cells in very detailed ways, some of them being toxins that come from insects, snakes, things like that, says neurosurgeon Adam Mamelak, M.D., of City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte, Calif.
A Brazilian pit viper s venom is used to make captopril, an FDA-approved drug that lowers blood pressure. ABT 594 is derived from the poisonous skin of a South American frog. It blocks pain 200-times better than morphine and is not addictive.
The poisonous cone snail also helps people with chronic pain. SNX-111 is a very promising drug. It has shown efficacy in patients where nothing else has worked, says Edgar Ross, M.D., an anesthesiologist at Brigham and Womens Hospital Pain Clinic in Boston.
Pharmacist Paul Doering, of University of Florida College of Pharmacy in Gainesville, advises patients considering venom therapy to proceed with extreme caution. He says, If we are talking about snake venom, the margin of safety may be quite narrow, and you may be thinking you are given a therapeutic dose, but it may turn out to be a toxic or deadly dose. It is a matter of balancing the benefits against the risks.
Doering also worries that long-term venom treatments could trigger life-threatening allergies. They are foreign substances to the human body, and the human body s goal is to recognize them as foreign and get them the heck out of the body.
Dr. Chabner, who studies the sea squirt drug, is more optimistic about the future of these therapies. He says, these marine organisms are very, very prolific and a good source of toxins for investigation. There are still huge numbers that could be collected and tested
Relin hopes scientists continue looking under the sea. Thank God for whoever is got the patience to keep trying on stuff, but I think it s phenomenal, she says. Since her first treatment, she has been cancer-free, and credits the sea squirt with giving her extra time with her two sons.
Doctors say the drug from the sea squirt looks most promising for ovarian cancer. This past summer, the FDA granted fast track status to TM-601, the scorpion-derived brain cancer drug. Fast track is designed to speed up the approval process and get breakthrough drugs to the market quickly.
This article was reported by Ivanhoe.com, who offers Medical Alerts by e-mail every day of the week. To subscribe, go to: http://www.ivanhoe.com/newsalert/.
If you would like more information, please contact:
Greg Hughes, Media Relations
City of Hope
ghughes@coh.org

A few medical-pesach issuses

A few medical-pesach issuses.
טובא גריר, פורתא סעיד [ברכות לה ,תעמוד ב]
A large quantity has an appetizing effect; a small quantity sustains.[berachot 35b]
It seems strange but a large quantity of wine will stimulate one’s appetite, whereas a small quantity will
satisfy and keeps hunger away.
Therefore if one drinks wine one on erev Pesach he should drink a larger [not to small] amount] so that he will not suppress his appetite for the seder.
In the journal Science [1982] it was published that an rapid infusion of glucose in the duodenum very much increased the appetite of rabbits and a slow infusion decreased the appetite.
This is may explain the statement of the Talmud.
[Source; insights, a Talmudic treasury by rabbi Saul Weiss]
So for over-eaters: it is clear what to do.
Drink a very little bit of wine before the meal [one or two teaspoons]

[Rambam mishne tora [ chapter 5,halacha 2 ]:
[translation by Rabbi Eliyahu Touger, moznaim publ.corp]
“With regards to these five species of grain: if [flour from these species] is kneaded with fruit juice alone without any water, it will never become leavened.
Even if [flour] is placed in [these] juices the entire day until the dough rises, it is permitted to be eaten [on Pesach], for fruit juice does not cause [dough] to become leavened.
It merely causes [the flour] to decay.
The following are [included in the category] of fruit juice: wine ,milk, honey, olive oil, apple juice, pomegranate juice and all other similar wines ,oils, and beverages.
This applies so long as no water whatsoever is mixed with them.
If any water is mixed with them, they cause [the flour] to become leavened.”

Simply, the smallest amount of added water will cause the mentioned grains to become leavened[to become chametz]
It is fascinating to be able to remark here the halacha brought by the Rambam and to relate this to the fact that in traditional medicine [as well in homeopathy] all water is not just water.
Water in fruits is considered to be totally different
from just plain water [ both of them are H2O in chemistry]
In homeopathy water that is shaken very vigorously has found to be different [from the water before it has been shaken] when examined with atom spectrograpy.
It is as if water has a “memory” [like footprints in the snow, which show-like a memory- that somebody passed there some while ago]

On seder Pesach all of us will remember the leaning on the left side.
[Kitzur shulchan aruch [chapter 71,halacha 5 ]
“It is beneficial to begin one’s sleep while lying on the left side, and afterwards to change to the right side.
This is beneficial to one’s health, since the liver is on one’s right side, and the stomach on one’s left. When one leans to the left, the liver will lie on the stomach and warm it with its heat. This will hasten the digestion of the food. After the food is digested, it is preferable to lean to the right, thus allowing the stomach to rest and the wastes to descend. One should not turn frequently from side to side”
Do you know that I found in only one medical textbook form 1959 that the temperature in the liver veins is above 41 degrees!!
Thus, it becomes understandable that lying on the left side “cooks” the food in the stomach [see above] which means that the speed of digestion is increased significantly!!
Do you know that recently it has been found that people who sleep only one on side have more tendency for kidney stones?
Pesach sameach we-kasher.

BIRDS…….spring……aviv……..nisan………..israel….the stork

BIRDS

No, not about bird’s flu.
Something far more beautiful and fascinating.
This coming shabbath we are starting reading parshat
shemini [at mincha]
I am now quoting [see for the source at the end of the
article]:

In Nissan ,the skies of Eretz Israel are full of
birds.
Because this tiny strip of land is on the main
migration route to and from Africa ,it is the home to
a disproportionately large number of birds each
spring.
They each know “their appointed time……………the time of
their coming.”

Now, the fascinating fact is that the chasida [the
stork] is mentioned twice in the torah, in parshat
Shemini and in parshat Re’eh.
And pele pela-iem [miraculously] most of the time the
chasida flies over Israel [first to the south and then
back to the north] dafka in the 2 weeks that these
parshiot are read [in the spring and in the fall] in
the synagogues.

This fascinating fact and much more can be found in
the beautiful written book:
Seasons of life by [rabbi] Nosson Slifkin [Targum
press]