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Fresh Powdered Kudzu 100% Pure 8 dry ounces of powdered kudzu with 10 Brew-able Extra large t-bags. To serve Place in Boiling Water for 10 minutes. $9.95 per 4 oz as low as $6.97 in larger quantities
Kudzu may be added to soups, stews and beans and as a healthy thickening agent for gravy and cooking. Kudzu is a food with excellent health properties.
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An
Extract of the Chinese Herbal Root Kudzu Reduces Alcohol Drinking by Heavy
Drinkers in a Naturalistic Setting http://www.doctordeluca.com/Library/AddictionMeds/KudzuReducesEtohIntake05.htm
Dosage According to study cited above 2- 500 mg capsules three times a day. Each capsules contained 19% puerarin, 4% daidzin, and 2% daidzen . These three ingredients were extracted and standardized. All these ingredients are contained in the raw herb but in varying degrees of concentrations. Other ingredients typically found in the raw herb are; diacetyl puerarin, beta sitostrrol, and arachidic acid. 2- 500 mg capsules three times a day equals about one spoonful of herb. Since raw herbs are not standardized one may need upwards of one ounce of the raw herb daily. My suggestion would be taking one teaspoonful simply as needed and taken as often as the cravings develop.
KUDZU ROOT the Thirst Quencher It may be
debated who came first the Wine Grower or the Herbalist Kudzu has
almost as long a written history for treating hangovers and alcohol abuse as the
grapes of wrath. Used for centuries to treat stiff neck and sprains and
diarrhea. A very safe all natural herb. ELIMINATE
THE CRAVING FOR ALCOHOL. TCM uses Kudzu to treat alcoholism,
hangovers, allergies, indigestion, diabetes, and
angina as well as stiff neck and shoulder pain, thirst and infant
diarrhea. KUDZU
ROOT also known as Ge Gen or Radix Pueraria
A sweet, acrid herb used to treat stomach and spleen imbalances. It is a
cool and moisturizing and used to
eliminate thirst by generating the body to produce fluids and thus reduce the
cravings for alcohol. A STARCHY FOOD. high in iron, some calcium and phosphorus, and a small amount of sodium. Ge Gen is a natural source of long-lasting energy. Isoflavones found in Kudzu Root are Daidzin and Puerarin. Both have been found to reduce the craving for alcohol.
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NEWS FOR ALCOHOLIC HAMSTERS By Sean
Henahan, Access Excellence BOSTON,
MA- A traditional Chinese herbal treatment for alcohol abuse really does
appear to suppress craving for liquor, at least in alcoholic hamsters, report
Harvard researchers. The
researchers conducted a series of studies with an herb used in traditional
Chinese medicine to reduce alcohol cravings. Unlike most laboratory rodents, the
hamsters will choose alcohol over water when offered a choice, making them a
natural choice for alcoholism studies. Thirty
ethanol-preferring Syrian golden hamsters received either daidzin, the active
ingredient in the herb, or disulfiram, the active ingredient in Antabuse, a drug
used to deter alcohol craving in humans. Nine other hamsters served as
controlled and could drink as much ethanol as they wished. Alcoholic hamsters
receiving the Chinese herb displayed a marked reduction in alcohol craving, in
the same range as those receiving disulfiram. Alcohol intake dropped by 70% in
hamsters receiving daidzin, and 80% in those receiving disulfiram. Daidzin
suppresses alcohol consumption in hamsters without blocking the overall
detoxification of acetaldehyde, the main metabolic product from ethanol, which
has been shown to accumulate during Antabuse treatment and cause a broad
spectrum of disagreeable, toxic, and even deadly effects. The
researchers believe that daidzin may modify alcohol consumption in laboratory
animals by a biochemical pathway other than that catalyzed by mitochondrial
aldehyde dehydrogenase, believed to be primarily responsible for the
detoxification of acetaldehyde. The herb has been used for centuries in China
with no adverse side effects reported, but researchers stress that testing of
synthesized daidzin is exploratory and restricted to laboratory animals. Diadzin
is a glucosylated isoflavone extracted from the kudzo vine (Radix puerariae) The
compound may have potential in humans. It appears to exert it effects by a
metabolic route less toxic than that observed in humans using Antabuse, the
first-and until recently, the only- agent ever approved for treatment of
alcoholism in the United States. Studies involving humans are expected to begin
within a year or so. Another drug called naltrexone was recently approved for
treatment of alcohol craving. For
more info. see: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Sep. 11, 1995,
Vol. 92, pp. 8990-8993, Keung et al.
A
laboratory at the Center for Biochemical and Biophysical Sciences and Medicine
at Harvard demonstrated about 80% repression of alcohol cravings in golden
hamsters given both synthesized diadzin and crude extract of the plant, with a
lower dose dependency for the crude extract in Syrian Golden hamsters
biochemically addicted to alcohol. Collaboration between labs at the Skipper Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies and Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill with the Laboratory of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Research Triangle Institute and Natural Pharmacia International, Research Triangle Park demonstrated that intraperitoneal injections of Chinese herbal preparation NPI-028, made with kudzu, lowered cravings in two types of alcohol preferring rats. In addition injection of puerarin, an isoflavone purified from the NPI-028 gave significant results at lower dosages than that of the crude extract. Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill http://www.med.unc.edu/alcohol/research/kudzu.html
Ed Kasper LAc
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