this next series that we're going to present to you are called herbs for life and this is profound because noninvasive they are popular they are becoming you know fashionable in many cases no side effects very rare do you find any side effects with herbal medicine an herbal health care so we are going to present to you series of herbal education and with support going to get to talk about herbs for digestion herbs for the liver herbs for the colon issues anti inflammatory colds and immune systems everyone knows oh i'm going to get i could maisha i'm going to get golden c e o but let's talk to the professionals about this herbs for the nervous system so please enjoy the next series herbs for life and stain well with dr mary jo thank you  arthur action or herbals today is about digestives and specifically liver liver herbs and i want to start by telling you what many of you probably already know is that aside from the common cold most of the ailments of humans are associated with your digestion the justice system is powered by the vegas nerve which is part of our parasympathetic nervous system which is part of the nervous system that relaxers us which is why any form of stress interrupts our digestion and causes ailments and imbalances you know i don't think a lot of people know that but there jessica fifth avenue hall has its own nervous system are all serious acid reflux intestinal problems liver and gall bladder problems and that's the liver gallbladder is a lot from too many toxins and too much fat which is definitely part of our culture and the pancreatic insufficiency people have high or low sugar and that's largely also because of our high sugar diet we abuse our pancreatic our pancreas which then causes less digestive enzymes to be produced and then we have the sugar problems duty bitterness is not a taste we in this country every other country in the were bitter except for this country and it's extremely important as we will see for  burdocks seat excuse me is good for skin conditions that are associated with the liver and not being able to detoxify toxins because it's overwork and that's something that her really taught me when i first came here is that was part of my skin conditions which mean for you know the liver yes also i just want to mention dandelion rooty also very good you can buy the root and the cockpit or you can also buy the tea bags i've seen them and i've even heard mother say their children love them because they minerals excellent for the you know adding nutrients to the body so go for those instead of let us for example use these more in your salads i did also want to say as far as the preparations for how to use them bunty and we're going to talk about infusions first to prepare a form pugin it's preparing burial routes of a plant like flowers and leaves and you basically just take a teaspoon to a tablespoon of the urn to a and roots sorry of the roots so what you do is you take the water in that case with the barry roux whatever part is all together with the water and then you bring it to a low boil and you simmer for twenty minutes and that's  yes i think it's actually ok for in small amounts for pregnant women but there are better herbs for pregnant women than changer and when we talk about ginger and the stomach we actually mean that dried watching and listening am dr 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 a unbelievable this next series that we're going to present to you are called herbs for life and this is profound because noninvasive they are popular b are becoming you know fashionable in many cases no side effects very rare do you find any side effects with herbal medicine and herbal health care so we're going to present to you series of herbal education and with professionals about this herbs for the nervous system so please enjoy the next series herbs for life and stain well with dr mary jo thank you and hello again my name  important also as we mentioned in an earlier segment the enteric brain which is the brain that controls the digestion centers in the colon there are actually as many neurotransmitters and nerve cells in the colon as there are in the brain now many of you know already that diseases and conditions like crones irritable bowel syndrome that sort or which originate in the colon or the small intestine are largely due to stress and relieving the stress and coating the tissues is something that's very very important and i would just like to say that i did work with a client who irritable bowel syndrome and she definitely used some of the herbal be talking about but the thing that was best worked best for her was simply real lemon a real lemon squeezed in water in the morning east the inner bark and the bar also if you put it in water for an hour maybe even two hours because it's a bar it will also create