to mary jo reed yury and i'm a holistic health professional and welcome to stay well with dr mary jo let's talk about herbs herb ology the benefits of herbs unbelievable this next series that we're going to present to you are called herbs for life and this is profound because mom invasive they are popular they are becoming you know fashionable in many cases and no side effects very rare do you find any side effects with herbal medicine herbal health care so we are going to present to you series of herbal education and with our master herbalist who ruled the topless she is part of the institute of holistic health careers faculty and herbal educator with tisha buggy hello and welcome back to staying well with herbs our segment for this bleeding it increases your stomach acid it decreases the mucus in your body your stomach and your intestine that specifically there to stop pain in the tissues coated it can also increase your blood pressure and cause kidney problems so there are definite reasons to avoid it and sense of possible and to try some herbs last week we discussed use alleges herbs like marshmallow and slippery elm which are full of water and they help coat the tissues they also help cool the body and lubricate the body and that definitely helps with pain from things like all in the gastrointestinal tract and no one will talk more about specific herbs for pain  have names for a reason because for that at least the first to you mike recognize the sound of them one of them is related to aspirin and the other is related to anything with which you go into the commercial drugs that there was a warning us about the fact that these are the main ingredients of the original painkillers way back in the beginning of the twentieth century think we've talked about khumri before and we have in a previous video also could you talk just a moment about why in general you don't refer people to use extracts versus the t i don't like a drug because extra when when the pharmaceutical lab or the herbal lab for that matter makes an extract big take one or at maximum two of the chemicals in the plant instead of using the whole plant with some the work very well thank you for listening to this installment of staying well with  oh and welcome back to stay well with herbs today we're going to talk about colds and specifically herbs for colds and the immune system in general and i just want to say that when people get colds all the time or have allergies and other issues that usually because your immune system is compromised a weakened immune system is a problem that definitely needs to be addressed even as well as just the cold etc that result from it and  one very important thing to know is that i earlier was told me that of all the clients he has fifty percent of them could solve all the problems they have by doing five things eating well exercising drinking enough water distressing and sleeping sleeping at least seven to eight nine hours a night that alone those five things can strengthen your immune system and help with the issues that you have so i just want to make sure you knew that and  sugars not your wife children that you know or even your honey and so there because they're complex and conjugated they they really seek out a pack and destroy and familia is also an adrenal support and it helps a lot with stress with going to look at the service in the next segment that we do next week but because there's so much stress in today's modern world being gainsaying helps people along with all the other ways that it helps it helps them review some of the stress and therefore the immune system is going situations and all calls and you can start out with a very high frequency you can take thirty drops every two hours throughout the day even before the call of starts if you've been around people that have had the flu and the c we've enjoyed the next series on herbs for life and stay well with dr mary jo thank you hello and welcome back to our sixth installment of staying well with herbs today which was siberian ginseng and that's one of the best adapted genes we have what it helps us do with it helps us our system adapt to the stress conditions that we're under another thing about adaptive genes it's very very important and adapt adapt to jim's work is ample terex which works when our system is on overdrive to help lower the lower the stress and help relieve our system and then when your symptoms of an overdrive long enough it actually goes really get strong and by you know and therefore in the in the in other kind of way of looking at it it is also supposed to be something that indians like a lot to say and the for busier asleep however you might start waking up in the night in which case you need this war proof plan and this is passion flower and passion flower actually and now the careful just like cops it cannot be combined with other sodas or antidepressants and there is many medicines that it does that are contra indicated with things john for some just check a about the contra indications before you use it and if there aren't any for what you're doing or