Baikal Skullcap
Dear Subscribers,
Recently, the internet has been humming with reports on Baikal
skullcap, an herb that has been used in Chinese medicine for thousands
of years. It is native to Russia, Mongolia, and parts of China and
Korea but is no valued that it is cultivated as a commercial herbal
medicine crop in many parts of the Western world. Recent research from
Heidelberg suggests that the herb, which was one of the ingredients in
the once famous PC-SPES prostate formula, induces cell death of
malignant cells by increasing the uptake of hydrogen peroxide, this
without damaging healthy cells. The effect was attributed to one of
the 26 flavonoids contained in the herb, but for the same reason, the
antioxidant effect of this herb is excellent. Moreover, it is so safe
that it is not even contraindicated during pregnancy. In fact, it is
said to relax the fetus.
Dr. Mercola recently published something on the German research and I
asked our lab if we can supply it. Meanwhile, I did the usual, and
tried it on myself. I have felt very calm, no dramatic reactions,
rather a slow sort of sense of detoxification.
Because of the flavonoids, the herb is highly anti-inflammatory and
this is good for the arteries and hence circulation, but it is also
anti-infective, especially of hepatitis B. This has been determined by
reduction in antigens to the HBV over a period of ten days.
I created a pdf which you are welcome to read:
http://www.sacredmedicinesanctuary.com/pdf/baikal_skullcap.pdf
The herb is available in our store:
http://www.sacredmedicinesanctuary.com
As with many popular herbs that have been in use for a long time,
there are both traditional and modern uses of the herb. The
traditional ones were for upper respiratory infections and dysentery
as well as asthma and allergies such as hayfever and allergic eczema.
The newer applications are, of course, centered on the big killers
such as cancer and heart disease and the baby boomer obsession with
antiaging strategies.
Many blessings,
Ingrid