Showing posts with label echinacea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label echinacea. Show all posts
Saturday, February 03, 2007
Thursday, January 25, 2007
A Podcasting Herbalist
While looking for some information for our (GCHS) herb study about Echinacea, I ran across these podcasts by HerbEd, A.K.A. Ed Smith (link). You can download the .mp3s and listen to them, or download the podcasts. I subscribed to the podcasts (easy, free) and they download automatically.
Here are descriptions of some of the podcasts offered on the webpage.
Visit HerbalEd.org to download additional herbal lectures and interviews with Ed Smith.
Alteratives, Depuratives, and Blood Cleansers (Expo West) - Part 1
Posted: Thu, 20 Apr 2006
In this 2-part presentation at Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim, California, Ed Smith discusses alteratives, depuratives, and blood cleansers.
(41min 24sec)
MEDIA ENCLOSURE: http://www.herbaled.org/media/podcasts/lc14(a).mp3
Alteratives, Depuratives, and Blood Cleansers (Expo West) - Part 2
Posted: Thu, 20 Apr 2006
In this 2-part presentation at Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim, California, Ed Smith discusses alteratives, depuratives, and blood cleansers.
Total time: 41min 24sec [lc14(b)]
MEDIA ENCLOSURE: http://www.herbaled.org/media/podcasts/lc14(b).mp3
(Whilst these lectures are ostensibly the same presentation Ed delivered at the 16th Annual American Herbalist's Guild's Symposium in Portland, his approach to the material is varied, along with the list of the herbs discussed.)
Response To NEJM Echinacea Study
Posted: Fri, 26 Aug 2005
In this brief 10-minute discussion, Shayne Foley talks with Ed Smith about the negative Echinacea study, published in the July 28, 2005 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
(10min 01sec)
MEDIA ENCLOSURE: http://www.herbaled.org/media/podcasts/ech_response.mp3
Echinacea Interview (Part 1)
Posted: Tue, 02 Aug 2005
In this hour long discussion, Shayne Foley talks with Ed Smith about Echinacea, its safe and effective use, how to evaluate the quality of an Echinacea extract, the value and limitations of alcohol-free Echinacea, and how to use specific Echinacea formulas.
(29min)
MEDIA ENCLOSURE: http://www.herbaled.org/media/podcasts/sp1v2(a).mp3
Echinacea Interview (Part 2)
Posted: Tue, 02 Aug 2005
In this hour long discussion, Shayne Foley talks with Ed Smith about Echinacea, its safe and effective use, how to evaluate the quality of an Echinacea extract, the value and limitations of alcohol-free Echinacea, and how to use specific Echinacea formulas.
(29min)
MEDIA ENCLOSURE: http://www.herbaled.org/media/podcasts/sp1v2(b).mp3
Internal And External Cosmetics For The Skin (Part 1)
Posted: Tue, 24 May 2005
The first commercial product Ed Smith created, was Herbal Eds Salve for the skin. Twenty five years later, at the 2004 Natural Products Expo in Washington, DC, he returns to his roots in this entertaining and informative presentation on using herbs for promoting healthy skin, first-aid support, and chronic skin disorders.
Psoriasis, eczema, acne, spider veins, aging and wrinkles, dermatitis, burns and wounds are all addressed by one of North America’s most respected herbalists.
(32min 15sec)
MEDIA ENCLOSURE: http://www.herbaled.org/media/podcasts/lc11(a).mp3
Internal And External Cosmetics For The Skin (Part 2)
Posted: Tue, 24 May 2005
The first commercial product Ed Smith created, was Herbal Eds Salve for the skin. Twenty five years later, at the 2004 Natural Products Expo in Washington, DC, he returns to his roots in this entertaining and informative presentation on using herbs for promoting healthy skin, first-aid support, and chronic skin disorders.
Psoriasis, eczema, acne, spider veins, aging and wrinkles, dermatitis, burns and wounds are all addressed by one of North America’s most respected herbalists.
(32min 28sec)
MEDIA ENCLOSURE: http://www.herbaled.org/media/podcasts/lc11(b).mp3
Herbal Extracts Interview (Part 1)
Posted: Wed, 13 Apr 2005
In this discussion, Shayne Foley talks with Ed Smith about the benefits of liquid herbal extracts, teas, capsules and tablets.
Issues such as bioavailability, dosage flexibility, alcohol content, standardization, taste, and extraction methodology will be discussed in depth. Don't miss this interesting review of how the form of a herbal medicine influences the outcome of its use.
(14min 12sec)
MEDIA ENCLOSURE: http://www.herbaled.org/media/podcasts/lc08(a).mp3
Herbal Extracts Interview (Part 2)
Posted: Wed, 13 Apr 2005
In this discussion, Shayne Foley talks with Ed Smith about the benefits of liquid herbal extracts, teas, capsules and tablets.
Issues such as bioavailability, dosage flexibility, alcohol content, standardization, taste, and extraction methodology will be discussed in depth. Don't miss this interesting review of how the form of a herbal medicine influences the outcome of its use.
(13min 44sec)
MEDIA ENCLOSURE: http://www.herbaled.org/media/podcasts/lc08(b).mp3
SLEEPER HERBS: Great Herbs That Are Not Well Known (Part 1)
Posted: Mon, 21 Mar 2005
Internationally known medical herbalist, Ed Smith, elaborates on various less-popular, slower-selling herbs that deserve more recognition and use as healing herbs.
Herbs discussed: Spilanthes, Culver's Root, Black Haw, Blue Flag, Wild Indigo, Cactus Grandiflorus, Fringe Tree, Jamaican Dogwood, Khella, Scotch Broom, Wood Betony, Yucca, and more.
Recorded March 18th, 2005 at Expo West.
(30min 30sec)
MEDIA ENCLOSURE: http://www.herbaled.org/media/podcasts/lc12(a).mp3
SLEEPER HERBS: Great Herbs That Are Not Well Known (Part 2)
Posted: Mon, 21 Mar 2005
Internationally known medical herbalist, Ed Smith, elaborates on various less-popular, slower-selling herbs that deserve more recognition and use as healing herbs.
Herbs discussed: Spilanthes, Culver's Root, Black Haw, Blue Flag, Wild Indigo, Cactus Grandiflorus, Fringe Tree, Jamaican Dogwood, Khella, Scotch Broom, Wood Betony, Yucca, and more.
Recorded March 18th, 2005 at Expo West.
29min 58sec)
MEDIA ENCLOSURE: http://www.herbaled.org/media/podcasts/lc12(b).mp3
Here are descriptions of some of the podcasts offered on the webpage.
Visit HerbalEd.org to download additional herbal lectures and interviews with Ed Smith.
Alteratives, Depuratives, and Blood Cleansers (Expo West) - Part 1
Posted: Thu, 20 Apr 2006
In this 2-part presentation at Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim, California, Ed Smith discusses alteratives, depuratives, and blood cleansers.
(41min 24sec)
MEDIA ENCLOSURE: http://www.herbaled.org/media/podcasts/lc14(a).mp3
Alteratives, Depuratives, and Blood Cleansers (Expo West) - Part 2
Posted: Thu, 20 Apr 2006
In this 2-part presentation at Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim, California, Ed Smith discusses alteratives, depuratives, and blood cleansers.
Total time: 41min 24sec [lc14(b)]
MEDIA ENCLOSURE: http://www.herbaled.org/media/podcasts/lc14(b).mp3
(Whilst these lectures are ostensibly the same presentation Ed delivered at the 16th Annual American Herbalist's Guild's Symposium in Portland, his approach to the material is varied, along with the list of the herbs discussed.)
Response To NEJM Echinacea Study
Posted: Fri, 26 Aug 2005
In this brief 10-minute discussion, Shayne Foley talks with Ed Smith about the negative Echinacea study, published in the July 28, 2005 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
(10min 01sec)
MEDIA ENCLOSURE: http://www.herbaled.org/media/podcasts/ech_response.mp3
Echinacea Interview (Part 1)
Posted: Tue, 02 Aug 2005
In this hour long discussion, Shayne Foley talks with Ed Smith about Echinacea, its safe and effective use, how to evaluate the quality of an Echinacea extract, the value and limitations of alcohol-free Echinacea, and how to use specific Echinacea formulas.
(29min)
MEDIA ENCLOSURE: http://www.herbaled.org/media/podcasts/sp1v2(a).mp3
Echinacea Interview (Part 2)
Posted: Tue, 02 Aug 2005
In this hour long discussion, Shayne Foley talks with Ed Smith about Echinacea, its safe and effective use, how to evaluate the quality of an Echinacea extract, the value and limitations of alcohol-free Echinacea, and how to use specific Echinacea formulas.
(29min)
MEDIA ENCLOSURE: http://www.herbaled.org/media/podcasts/sp1v2(b).mp3
Internal And External Cosmetics For The Skin (Part 1)
Posted: Tue, 24 May 2005
The first commercial product Ed Smith created, was Herbal Eds Salve for the skin. Twenty five years later, at the 2004 Natural Products Expo in Washington, DC, he returns to his roots in this entertaining and informative presentation on using herbs for promoting healthy skin, first-aid support, and chronic skin disorders.
Psoriasis, eczema, acne, spider veins, aging and wrinkles, dermatitis, burns and wounds are all addressed by one of North America’s most respected herbalists.
(32min 15sec)
MEDIA ENCLOSURE: http://www.herbaled.org/media/podcasts/lc11(a).mp3
Internal And External Cosmetics For The Skin (Part 2)
Posted: Tue, 24 May 2005
The first commercial product Ed Smith created, was Herbal Eds Salve for the skin. Twenty five years later, at the 2004 Natural Products Expo in Washington, DC, he returns to his roots in this entertaining and informative presentation on using herbs for promoting healthy skin, first-aid support, and chronic skin disorders.
Psoriasis, eczema, acne, spider veins, aging and wrinkles, dermatitis, burns and wounds are all addressed by one of North America’s most respected herbalists.
(32min 28sec)
MEDIA ENCLOSURE: http://www.herbaled.org/media/podcasts/lc11(b).mp3
Herbal Extracts Interview (Part 1)
Posted: Wed, 13 Apr 2005
In this discussion, Shayne Foley talks with Ed Smith about the benefits of liquid herbal extracts, teas, capsules and tablets.
Issues such as bioavailability, dosage flexibility, alcohol content, standardization, taste, and extraction methodology will be discussed in depth. Don't miss this interesting review of how the form of a herbal medicine influences the outcome of its use.
(14min 12sec)
MEDIA ENCLOSURE: http://www.herbaled.org/media/podcasts/lc08(a).mp3
Herbal Extracts Interview (Part 2)
Posted: Wed, 13 Apr 2005
In this discussion, Shayne Foley talks with Ed Smith about the benefits of liquid herbal extracts, teas, capsules and tablets.
Issues such as bioavailability, dosage flexibility, alcohol content, standardization, taste, and extraction methodology will be discussed in depth. Don't miss this interesting review of how the form of a herbal medicine influences the outcome of its use.
(13min 44sec)
MEDIA ENCLOSURE: http://www.herbaled.org/media/podcasts/lc08(b).mp3
SLEEPER HERBS: Great Herbs That Are Not Well Known (Part 1)
Posted: Mon, 21 Mar 2005
Internationally known medical herbalist, Ed Smith, elaborates on various less-popular, slower-selling herbs that deserve more recognition and use as healing herbs.
Herbs discussed: Spilanthes, Culver's Root, Black Haw, Blue Flag, Wild Indigo, Cactus Grandiflorus, Fringe Tree, Jamaican Dogwood, Khella, Scotch Broom, Wood Betony, Yucca, and more.
Recorded March 18th, 2005 at Expo West.
(30min 30sec)
MEDIA ENCLOSURE: http://www.herbaled.org/media/podcasts/lc12(a).mp3
SLEEPER HERBS: Great Herbs That Are Not Well Known (Part 2)
Posted: Mon, 21 Mar 2005
Internationally known medical herbalist, Ed Smith, elaborates on various less-popular, slower-selling herbs that deserve more recognition and use as healing herbs.
Herbs discussed: Spilanthes, Culver's Root, Black Haw, Blue Flag, Wild Indigo, Cactus Grandiflorus, Fringe Tree, Jamaican Dogwood, Khella, Scotch Broom, Wood Betony, Yucca, and more.
Recorded March 18th, 2005 at Expo West.
29min 58sec)
MEDIA ENCLOSURE: http://www.herbaled.org/media/podcasts/lc12(b).mp3
Sunday, January 21, 2007
CSI In My Garden
The January Herb Study at the GCHS was Echinacea.
To paraphrase an old television drama "There are a million stories in the" ...garden... "here is one of them..."
A few years ago I began to notice some significant problem with my purple coneflowers. What! Nothing bothers purple coneflowers! Right!?!
BUT, if something is gonna happen in way of a garden disaster large or small, it'll happen to me.
On closer inspection of my blighted flowers, all of the the ruined cones seemed to be damaged in the same way... blackened broken centers. I cut off the worst flowers and brought them indoors and dissected them on my kitchen counter. Eyuck, small wormy creatures had burrowed straight down from the tip of the seedhead right down into the stem. I took some photos with my first generation digital camera and went out to the garden and deadheaded all of my Echinacea. Dejectedly. I love purple coneflowers.
I couldn't find any clue in my books, or the books at the Extension, or
online, or by asking around. Closest I could figure was a hint from several online sources that certain flowers attract the European Corn Borer, the timing was right, and the damage was identical. It fit the profile of a native plant being decimated by an imported pest, especially because the pest was probably under pressure from all of the cornfields that have surrounded my neighborhood being bulldozed for new subdivisions. But I was still unsettled about it. The little larvae I
had didn't look right, I was seeing stripes and the ECB is spotted. I knew from my time working with the Diagnostic team that the distinction was important. All burrowing larvae are not the same.
I even asked flower experts at conferences. Apparently I didn't paint a grim enough portrait of the damage these flowers were suffering. No one knew or cared. Years passed. I deadheaded as needed, dejectedly.
January 2007, the Genesee County Herb Society's herb study will be Echinacea. It's January, time to read with a purpose! Looking through my coneflower photos from years past, the CSI photos sparked my interest in finding the name of that little grub.
I Googled around and came across a paragraph in a paper I downloaded from the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, entitled Perennial Medicinal Herb Trials 1996-1999. On page 7, under Echinacea purpurea L. Moench. is this sentence:
"Echinacea is a member of the aster family, and susceptible to the same insects. Sunflower moth larvae damaged more than 80% of blooms cut in late summer."
Googling furiously, I brought up: "Sunflower Moth" page 3 on a publication from the Maryland Cooperative Extension with a GREAT PHOTO!
Success!
Identification of a pest is the first step in IPM. I feel much better.
Now I have to figure out how to save my purple coneflowers from this particular larvae.
(previously posted in Betsy's Herb Garden)
To paraphrase an old television drama "There are a million stories in the" ...garden... "here is one of them..."
A few years ago I began to notice some significant problem with my purple coneflowers. What! Nothing bothers purple coneflowers! Right!?!
BUT, if something is gonna happen in way of a garden disaster large or small, it'll happen to me.
On closer inspection of my blighted flowers, all of the the ruined cones seemed to be damaged in the same way... blackened broken centers. I cut off the worst flowers and brought them indoors and dissected them on my kitchen counter. Eyuck, small wormy creatures had burrowed straight down from the tip of the seedhead right down into the stem. I took some photos with my first generation digital camera and went out to the garden and deadheaded all of my Echinacea. Dejectedly. I love purple coneflowers.
I couldn't find any clue in my books, or the books at the Extension, or
online, or by asking around. Closest I could figure was a hint from several online sources that certain flowers attract the European Corn Borer, the timing was right, and the damage was identical. It fit the profile of a native plant being decimated by an imported pest, especially because the pest was probably under pressure from all of the cornfields that have surrounded my neighborhood being bulldozed for new subdivisions. But I was still unsettled about it. The little larvae I
had didn't look right, I was seeing stripes and the ECB is spotted. I knew from my time working with the Diagnostic team that the distinction was important. All burrowing larvae are not the same.
I even asked flower experts at conferences. Apparently I didn't paint a grim enough portrait of the damage these flowers were suffering. No one knew or cared. Years passed. I deadheaded as needed, dejectedly.
January 2007, the Genesee County Herb Society's herb study will be Echinacea. It's January, time to read with a purpose! Looking through my coneflower photos from years past, the CSI photos sparked my interest in finding the name of that little grub.
I Googled around and came across a paragraph in a paper I downloaded from the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, entitled Perennial Medicinal Herb Trials 1996-1999. On page 7, under Echinacea purpurea L. Moench. is this sentence:
"Echinacea is a member of the aster family, and susceptible to the same insects. Sunflower moth larvae damaged more than 80% of blooms cut in late summer."
Googling furiously, I brought up: "Sunflower Moth" page 3 on a publication from the Maryland Cooperative Extension with a GREAT PHOTO!
Success!
Identification of a pest is the first step in IPM. I feel much better.
Now I have to figure out how to save my purple coneflowers from this particular larvae.
(previously posted in Betsy's Herb Garden)
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