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WHOLE WORLD OF HERBS
The Whole World Botanicals' Newsletter, From
Viana Muller, Ph.D. #9
/ Fall 2004
Dear Beloved Friends of Herbs:
You haven’t heard from me for many months, but silence in this
case does not mean inactivity! We have been very engaged at Whole
World Botanicals doing original research on the maca root—information
which will be available in my book The Maca Solution: The Effective
Alternative to HRT—and Much More. The
next Newsletter will have ordering information. Meanwhile,
I feel that I owe all of you an especially juicy Whole World
of Herbs Newsletter to make up for the long silence on my
part.
Over the years, I have come to know many of you by phone or email and have had
the opportunity to meet some of you at lectures I have given in different venues
throughout the U.S. Many Whole World Botanicals’ customers know
each other since our reputation for having excellent products that really work
and respecting the native peoples who grow and harvest them has traveled by word
of mouth from person to person across the continent all the way from Alaska extending
to Hawaii.
We have many new customers who are using Certified Organic Royal Maca Extract after
reading about it in an excellent health newsletter called The Lark
Letter, written by the nationally known women's health specialist,
Dr. Susan Lark, M.D. Her high praise for Royal Maca in her
March newsletter is very gratifying and counts for a lot in the holistic health
community. Thank you, Dr. Lark!
I also want to thank the many customers who have taken their bottles of Royal
Maca to their health care practitioners and asked them to evaluate
our product through muscle testing or by using an electrodermal energy machine. Royal
Maca consistently gets the highest rating. As a result, these health
practitioners are adding Royal Maca to their list of “must” supplements
for their clients.
Impressive
Results with Royal Lucraco Plus™ for Men’s PSA Levels
Royal Lucraco
Plus™ has been used in clinical practice since 1990 in Peru
with superb results for helping men maintain a healthy urinary
flow and a healthy frequency in terms of necessity to urinate throughout
the day and night. Since Whole World Botanicals induced
this product two years ago, we have had many reports from health
care professionals and individuals, which repeat this same happy
story in the U.S. Now the reports are beginning to flow in from
both practitioners and individual men about how helpful Royal
Lucraco Plus™ is in helping men to maintain a healthy
PSA level. These reports do not constitute a scientific study,
but they are very encouraging. Since studies have shown that saw
palmetto, the most widely used herb for prostate health, does NOT
help lower PSA level, many men are “between a rock and a
hard place” when trying to maintain or better their prostate
health. This morning I had a call from Ed R., one of our New Jersey
customers, excited to tell me his story. He has been working with
a holistic health care practitioner for more than three years to
try to improve his PSA levels. He had been taking (and is still
taking) African pygeum, saw palmetto, zinc, lycopene, and several
other antioxidants, but his PSA level stayed stubbornly high. Nothing
helped; his PSA (at 5 +) was still in the danger zone. After getting
a “rave review” from his physician about Royal
Lucraco Plus™, he started to take it. Ten days later,
he called me about a dosing question and I urged him to get another
PSA level right away since he had only used the product for a week.
He did and his PSA level was 4.4 – below 5 for the first
time in three years. After one month on Royal Lucraco Plus™,
Ed got another PSA level and it was down to 2.8. That’s why
I got the phone call. He was thrilled and will be continuing to
take Royal Lucraco Plus™ ten days out of
each month, as is recommended.
Royal Maca for Men Capsules and
Royal Lucraco Plus™
Royal Maca for Men contains Certified Organic whole
root maca extract with added zinc aspartate. This product promotes healthy
libido and strong erectile function, healthy mood balance (increases
serotonin level in animal studies), and improved mental focus and physical
energy.
Royal Lucraco Plus™ is a proprietary formula that
promotes healthy urinary tract function, a healthy prostate, and
a healthy immune system. The basic intensive start to taking Royal
Lucraco Plus™ involves using three bottles during the first
month. After the first month, it is recommended to take the product for only
ten consecutive days out of each month.
Special Offer:
Three bottles of Royal Lucraco Plus™ (for first month intensive)
and one bottle of Royal Maca for Men SLS-free Capsules for $75.00.
Regular price for the package: $109.30. That is a saving of $34.90.
Guidelines for Taking Breaks from Maca
Many of the new customers have been calling with questions about when
to take a break from maca. Following is a summary of some basic guidelines
for using Royal Maca most effectively.
If you have just started to use Royal Maca in the last two
or three months, don’t worry about taking a break. This is not a dietary
supplement that could become “toxic” like Echinacea if you take
it for too long. It’s just that if you are using it long term, your body
will be a bit more responsive to it if you use it perhaps six days a week rather
than seven. However, if you have horrendous hot flashes, don’t even think
about taking a break! Just find your right dosage and go right on with it indefinitely.
Also, if you are trying to get pregnant it is best not to take a break. [Note: Whole
World Botanicals makes NO CLAIM about Maca's ability to increase your
fertility although there are numerous animal fertility studies using maca.]
The great thing about maca is that how you feel will let you know when
it’s effective to take a break. If you reach a point where it
doesn’t seem to be as effective as it was before, you know that either
you need to increase your dosage (this would apply especially if you are perimenopausal
going into menopause) or you need to take a short break on a regular basis
from the maca—perhaps one day a week but no longer then two days.
Q & A: Storing and Preparing Royal
Maca
Q: I bought some Royal Maca for hot
flashes, which I experienced for a few days when I was perimenopausal.
Then the hot flashes disappeared and haven’t bothered me again
for two years. I still have most of my jar left of the Royal
Maca. Is it still good? Can I still use this jar?
A: Royal Maca will keep for some time past its expiration
date if stored in a cool (or at least not hot) dry place. Avoid refrigerating
it as some refrigerators tend to have a high humidity, and humidity increases
bacteria & mold content. If you have some Maca that has become humid, you
can put a serving in boiling water for a minute and then drink it as a tea.
Q: I bought the Royal Maca Powder
rather than the capsules because it is so economical. Besides, I like
the idea of taking my maca in food form rather than in supplement form.
What are some good ways to prepare it? Can I heat it?
A: Maca powder can be mixed with any food but some delicious
ways of preparing it include: mixing it with juice, especially apple, cranberry,
pineapple, or any tropical fruit juice and with dairy, soy or rice milk (especially
carob, chocolate, plain or vanilla). My special favorite is to throw a couple
of ice cubes into a blender along with carob rice or soy milk and Royal
Maca Powder and blend until the ice cubes are crushed. Yum!!! You
can also consider mixing it with miso soup or spaghetti sauce—it goes
as well with “salty” foods as with “sweet” foods
and adds another pleasant flavor nuance. Maca stirred into your olive oil
and lemon juice salad dressing gives it a cheesy flavor. Delish! Other favorites:
heat a little olive oil and stir in your Royal Maca Powder. Then drizzle over your steamed
vegetables or baked potato. To die for! O.K., so you can put your Royal
Maca into cookies also, but then it’s getting harder to dose
and if you are sharing the cookies with others, you’ll be giving them
your dose of maca! In most cases, this will not be important one way or the
other, but some young women are very sensitive to small amounts of maca and
if the cookies they ate had a total of even tsp. of maca extract in them,
it might in some cases bring on their menstrual period early. Of course,
you can just make a cup of hot tea with your Royal Maca.
Elegant! It has a subtle and rooty flavor—like ginseng tea but different.
The Longevity Cafe in Santa Fe, New Mexico serves Andean
Delight Tea made from Royal Maca, soy milk, and
nutmeg (sweeten to taste).
Fat Digestion and Wildcrafted Royal
Break-Stone (Chanca
Piedra)
Chanca Piedra (the name given to one of several species of
the Phyllanthus genus which grows in the Amazon rainforest and in the
tropical part of India) has traditionally been used for hundreds if not
thousands of years to improve liver health and to remove stones (gall
bladder and kidney). I was excited to learn that recent research suggests
that Chanca Piedra helps with the digestion of
fats. Since people is our society often tend to overdo the fats, it’s
good to have Royal Break-Stone Tea™ on hand to
drink as a pleasant tasting tea or take as an extract capsule to help
break down the fats in a fatty meal. One health care practitioner we
know uses Royal Break-Stone™ Tea to help detoxify
the liver of her cancer patients (adjuvant liver support). She has them
drink four glasses of the tea in the morning on an empty stomach for
four weeks. A side effect of this detoxification is that they are dropping
between 10 and 15 pounds during this month! (This amount of tea daily
is not recommended for long-term usage.)
Of course, it’s important not to overdo the fats to begin with and to
make special efforts to get enough Omega-3 sources of fat in your diet. These
include fatty fish such as sardines, wild (expensive!) salmon and fish oil
soft gel capsules (Carlson is a good brand). Vegetarians and those avoiding
eating too much fish (because of the toxins in the sea and in farmed fish)
can take ground-up flaxseeds or flaxseed oil.
Traditional Usage of Phyllanthus niruri for Stones verified by Recent Research
Other research with Chanca Piedra backs up what native people have
known for a long time: that Chanca Piedra (which means to “break-expel
stones” in Spanish) is frequently helpful in removing kidney stones.
This information is offered to you for educational purposes only, under the
First Amendment rights in the U.S. Constitution. Royal Break-Stone™ Tea and
capsules are sold as a dietary supplement to help maintain good kidney, gall
bladder and liver health and not as a medicine to treat a problem such as kidney
stones. Medicines require FDA approval and must be registered as pharmaceutical
drugs. It is essential that you consult a doctor if you have kidney stones
and follow the doctor’s advice. The first step your doctor will take
is to give you an ultra-sound diagnosis and tell you if you have stones—or
some other kidney problem—and if so, approximately how many stones you
have and how big they are. This is very important information and will influence
you and your doctor’s choice of treatment. Kidney pain can result from
many conditions—not just kidney stones. To avoid developing a potentially
serious chronic kidney condition, do see a physician and get an accurate diagnosis
of the reason for your kidney pain.
New Royal Break-
Stone™ Capsule products!
We are pleased to offer you the new option of Royal Break-Stone Extract™ in
120 capsule size. We are also proud to offer
you this large size Royal Break-Stone capsules™ in either
the SLS-free gelatin capsules or in vegetarian capsules. The regular price on this new size gives you a 10% saving
per capsule over the 60 cap Royal Break-Stone Extract previously offered.
To introduce these new products
we are offering an even greater savings available until Nov.1st on
our FALL SPECIALS on Royal Camu Capsules and Royal Break-Stone Capsules!
Click
here to see the details
Save an additional
15% on both products when you buy both the new 120 cap wildcrafted
Royal Break-Stone Extract and the new 120 caps size bottle
of the Royal Camu Capsules. Both are available in vegetarian
capsules as well and are offered on special below.
Royal
Break-Stone & Royal Camu Special in new 120 SLS-free gelatin
cap bottles:
Regularly
$32.95 each for a total of $65.90
Our
Special Price: $27.99 each for a total of $55.98.
Royal
Break-Stone & Royal Camu Special in new 120 SLS-free VEGETARIAN capsule
bottles.
Regularly
$33.95 each for a total of $67.90
Our
Special Price: $28.99 each for a total of $57.98.
News About Camu-Camu
The word of mouth on Wildcrafted Royal Camu™ has
been tremendous as people discover its truly amazing super-Vitamin C
effects. Two weeks ago a medical doctor who truly practices integrative
medicine (he uses antibiotics in his practice as well as herbs) called
to tell me that he stopped giving one of his cancer patients intravenous
Vitamin C as adjuvant therapy to strengthen the immune system and
began using one teaspoon of Royal Camu three or four
times a day instead. In his opinion, the results for his patient were
just as favorable and much less time consuming and expensive for doctor
and patient. Of course, one patient does not make a study and please
be aware that I am not talking about reversing the cancer with Camu-Camu.
We are talking about super nutrition and strong immune system support
for people with cancer—and for all other immune-system compromised
people. By the way, Camu-Camu has long been used in Germany by holistic
physicians as adjuvant therapy for their cancer patients.
Feedback
We love to hear feedback from you on how our Whole World Botanicals herbs
are making a difference in your life. So, keep the emails coming and
don’t hesitate to write to us with questions or problems in relation
to using the herbs. We value negative feedback as much as positive feedback
because we learn so much from it and can help others better when we know
the types of issues that people run into. Our email address is contactus@wholeworldbotanicals.com.
Viana's News:
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Whole World Botanicals has
been given an amazing opportunity to make a difference in the health
of native people living in the Peruvian Amazon River Basin region.
We are collaborating with people in the Health Department of Peru
to develop new botanical formulas to be used in the eradication
of parasites among the rainforest people. This is their Number
One health issue. WWB is providing clinical information related
to anti-parasitical South American herbs to the Health Department
and then helping to design studies to test the effectiveness of
different protocols. This is such an interesting and worthwhile
project and we feel privileged to be a part of it. Presently, the
public health hospitals and health stations are using the toxic
anti-fungal drugs, which are so expensive that the doctors' prescriptions
often go unfilled. I will keep you updated as the studies proceed.
There is a growing openness to herbal treatments on the part of
the public authorities in Peru for purely economic reasons. Patients
will literally be able to source their treatment from their own
backyards. This project, which WWB has been privileged to help
design, involves developing an age appropriate school curriculum
to teach children about the healing power of plants, and how to
identify, collect and prepare herbs for therapeutic use. Another
part of the project involves establishing medicinal plant gardens,
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Camu-Camu Berries
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Lucraco Plant
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Camu-Camu Bush in flower
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Chanca-Piedra (Break-Stone)
plant
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Health
Action
WARNING! YOUR ACCESS
TO DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS THREATENED BY
GLOBAL HARMONIZATION VIA CODEX, THE EU FOOD SUPPLEMENT DIRECTIVE & THE
FREE TRADE AREA OF THE AMERICAS (FTAA) AGREEMENT
WHAT YOU MUST DO IMMEDIATELY TO FIGHT BACK:
Jonathan V. Wright, MD, Tom Dorman, MD and other alternative medicine
leaders are calling for urgently needed grass roots support for the Alliance
for Natural Health's lawsuit to overturn the European Union's highly
draconian Food Supplement Directive. Please donate to ANH via www.alliance-natural-health.org.
As goes the EU, so goes the world. The EU is the dominant political force
at CODEX with 25 nations.
Free access to Vitamins and Herbs is being legislated out of existence.
Please consider not voting for anyone from either Party if they support the
FTAA. This regional trade agreement is a dangerous vehicle for harmonizing
American dietary supplement laws to outrageously restrictive emerging international
standards. The UN's Codex Alimentarius Commission, set up to harmonize vitamins,
minerals and foods on a world-wide basis through the World Trade Organization,
is currently at step 7 (on an 8 step continuum) for creating a global trade
standard on vitamins and minerals.
It is imperative that vitamin consumers wishing to preserve their future
access to supplements OPPOSE US Codex Delegate Dr. Barbara O. Schneeman
backing finalization of a standard for vitamins and minerals. Please
demand that Codex CEASE all effort to finalize a Codex vitamin standard,
and at the VERY LEAST push such efforts BACK from step 7 to step 3. We
urge you to send the following form letter (click on link) to US Codex
Delegate Dr. Schneeman at the FDA, and to cc it to your Senators and
Congressman IMMEDIATELY.
See below for sample
letter and contact information.
Codex could finalize a global trade standard for vitamins and minerals
November 1-5th in Germany, then move to ratify it next June (2005) in
Rome, Italy. While there is no direct connection between the EU Food
Supplement Directive, the FTAA agreement and Codex, we need to be concerned
about any and all “harmonizing” standards on vitamins and
herbs, especially given that last summer Health Canada “harmonized” Canada
to outrageously restrictive Australian regulations, and the MERCOSUR
nations in South America (Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay) are
harmonizing to the EU. The US is going to be caught in a pincer movement
via harmonization of our laws unless we take immediate action to fight
back. Many organizations are mobilizing the grassroots vitamin and herb
consumers to publicly oppose this impending Codex legislation. These
groups include the Life Extension Foundation, Citizens for Health, The
American Holistic Health Association, The National Health Freedom Coalition,
the National Health Federation, and the Alliance for Natural Health and
International Alliance for Health Freedom. PLEASE GET INVOLVED.
IT’S MUCH EASIER TO PREVENT THAN TO UNDO LEGISLATION THAT PASSES.
U.S. House of Representatives - Write Your Representative
U.S. Senate - Email
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