Bruce H. Lipton
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 I think you should seriously ponder this as the need to sell Big Macs leads us to decimate the rain forests; as the staggering numbers of gas-guzzling vehicles foul the air; or as petrochemical industries erode the Earth and pollute the water. We were designed by Nature to fit an environment, but not the environment we are now making.
I learned from cells that we are part of a whole and that we forget this at our peril. But I also recognized that each one of us has a unique, biological identity. Why? What makes each person's cellular community unique? |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
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 SUMA
Common name: Para todo
Botanical names: Pfaffia paniculata, Hebanthe paniculata Parts used and where grown
Suma is a large shrubby vine native to the rain forests of the Amazon and other tropical regions of Latin Amer-ica, including Brazil, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela.1 The root of the plant is used medicinally.
Historical or traditional use (may or may not be supported by scientific studies)
Although suma is claimed as an ancient Brazilian folk remedy, no confirmation of that statement is found in the modern literature on medicinal plants. |
| CAT'S CLAW
Common name: Una de gato Botanical name: Uncaria tomentosa
Parts used and where grown
Cat's claw grows in the rain forests of the Andes Mountains in South America, particularly in Peru. The two species of the plant used most commonly are U. tomentosa, which makes up most of the cat's claw imported to the U.S., and U. guianensis, which is more widely used in Europe. In South America, both species are used interchangeably. The root bark is used as medicine. |
| PAU D'ARCO
Common names: Lapacho, taheebo
Botanical names: Tabebuia avellanedae, Tabebuia impestiginosa
Parts used and where grown
Various related species of pau d'arco trees grow in rain forests throughout Latin America. The bark is used for medical purposes. nausea and gastrointestinal upset.8 Pregnant (page 363) or breast-feeding women should avoid use of pau d'arco.
One case report exists of a 28-year-old man who died of liver failure after taking unspecified amounts of pau d'arco, scullcap, and zinc. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 Another "Cat's Claw" (Uncaria guianensis) species grows in the lowlands of the Peruvian rain forests; similarproperties to Uncaria tomentosa (above), but does not contain the main alkaloid Isopteropodine.
•CAT'S EARS (Vesica piscis/Calochortus tolmei) Lily family; also called Star Tulip. Forthe unfolding of mystical faculties; loneliness; forwhenfeelinglikeonthe threshold of another world. |
Leslie Taylor, ND
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 With the demise of the world's tropical rain forests, such work is compelling before the great chemical diversity, contained within these endangered species, is lost."15
Traditional The therapeutic dosage is reported to be 2 g, three times daily, in capsules or Preparation tablets. A standard infusion (1 cup three times daily) or a 4:1 standard tincture (2-4: ml three times daily) can be substituted if desired.
Contraindications Graviola has demonstrated uterine stimulant activity in an animal study (rats) and should therefore not be used during pregnancy. |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
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| STEVIA
Common name: Sweetleaf Botanical name: Stev/o rebaudiana
Parts used and where grown
The stevia plant originally came from the rain forests of Brazil and Paraguay. It is now grown in those areas, as well as in Japan, Korea, Thailand, and China. It is most widely used as a non-sugar sweetener in food and drink, particularly because it does not appear to have any calories or affect on blood sugar like most natural sweeteners (like sugar or honey). The leaf is used in herbal preparations. |
| Test tube studies have found that certain fractions of hyssop (one being a polysaccharide designated as MAR-10) may inhibit the activity of the human immunodeficiency virus (page 239)
IPECAC
Botanical name: Cephaelis ipecacuanha Parts used and where grown
Ipecac grows in the rain forests of Brazil and other parts of South and Central America. It is also cultivated to a small degree in India and Southeast Asia. Ipecac roots are used as medicine. |
Brian O'Leary
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 Both can come only from a biodiverse environment, mostly in our dwindling rain forests. All this argues even more strongly for preserving our natural heritage for as long as humans can do something about it. Unfortunately, holistic health care, natural medications and organic produce are beyond the financial reach of most of us, and this fact argues for universal medical insurance in which the individual can chose his or her own modality, food and medicine. Opening these choices would be a task for the global green republic. |
Josef A. Brinckmann and Michael P. Lindenmaier
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 A low-growing subshrub, up to 40 cm high, found in the tropical rain forests of South America. The stems are ligneous at the base, with oblong, entire-margined leaves up to 7 cm in length. The bisexual flowers are arranged in hemispherical clusters.
Ph. Eur.: Prepared Ipecacuanha (Ipeca-cuanhae pulvis normatus)
Plant sources: Cephaelis ipecacuanha A. Rich (Rio-, Brazilian ipecacuanha) and Cephaelis acuminata Karsten (Costa Ri-can- or Cartagenan-, Panamanian-, Ni-caraguan-, ipecacuanha), Rubiaceae. |
Mark Blumenthal
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 UG), both native to the South and Central American tropical rain forests. UT and UG have a long history of use by indigenous people of these areas to treat health problems including rheumatism, arthritis, other chronic inflammatory disorders, gastric ulcers, gastrointestinal disorders, tumors, and as a contraceptive. |
| Among them are two climbing, woody vines: Uncaria tomentosa and U guianensis, the two species of Uncaria (there are approximately 60 species) (Obregon, 1995; Cabieses, 1994) native to the South and Central American tropical rain forests that are the subject of this monograph. According to U.S. herb industry policy, the standardized common name "cat's claw" refers to only U tomentosa (McGuffin et ai, 2000), presumably because products containing U. guianensis were not generally available in the U.S. market during most of the 1990s, having been introduced in the past several years. |
| South and Central American tropical rain forests. [editors' note: In this clinical overview, U. tomentosa will be abbreviated as "UT" and U. guianensis as "UG".] Both UT and UG are said to have a long history of use by indigenous people to treat health problems including rheumatism, arthritis, and other chronic inflammatory disorders, gastric ulcers and gastrointestinal disorders, tumors, and as a contraceptive.
UT plants occur naturally as two chemotypes that appear botan-ically identical, but are chemically different. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 This is a prophetic comment in that a current struggle exists around the destruction of the tropical rain forests in which the catde farmers and other forces who want to level the forests have been involved indirectly and directly in shooting people who oppose them. The most infamous of these money-, flesh-, and lust-associated killings was the assassination by cattle ranchers in Brazil of Chico Mendes, a leading environmentalist working to prevent the destruction of the Amazon rain forests. |
Brian O'Leary
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| About sixty per cent of the world's tropical rain forests have been lost already, mostly to slash-and-burn farming, grazing and logging. The rate continues at an alarming half a hectare per second, or one to two per cent of the remaining forests per year—about the size of England. These forests are headed towards extinction well before 2100. |
Philip Yam
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 Dense rain forests coat the surface and are occasionally cut by broad valleys and waterfalls, some of which drop hundreds of feet, and some so hidden they only reveal themselves by their thunderous roar and rising mist. Swamps filled with algae-covered mangroves and reeking black mud rim much of the coast.
Early on, sailors knew little of the inhabitants of New Guinea except to fear them. Spanish and Portuguese explorers of the sixteenth century were the first Europeans to set foot on the island, and they no doubt contributed to the myths surrounding the primitive societies there. |
Dr Bernard Jenson and Mark Anderson
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 The proud maples of New England and eastern Canada are struggling to survive, and one only needs to chart the high price of pure maple syrup to measure the health of the maple forests.
The Rain Forests: Splinter in America's Eye
Many documentaries graphically showing the rain forest annihilation in the Amazon jungle have been aired on network, cable, and public TV. Newspaper and magazine articles regularly appear about Brazil, Costa Rica, Indonesia, and other nations that have cleared or are clearing their rain forests. |
Brian O'Leary
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| Global warming is exacerbated by logging and agricultural land clearing practices which are decimating the tropical rain forests in particular. These activities significantly reduce the effectiveness of plants to absorb the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and to produce as much cooling rainfall.
The "greenhouse skeptics" paid by oil and coal interests would want you to believe otherwise: that this may be just a coincidence and that climate change could be a natural process. We don't have proof yet, they reason, so therefore we can continue to pollute. |
James Trefil
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 A standard argument for preserving the rain forests is that they have in the past served as reservoirs of molecules that can be used as drugs. But if we can design these drugs from scratch, this argument about the value of rain forests becomes less compelling. Perhaps we ought to think about finding another argument.
10. Is There a Theory of Everything, and Can We Afford to Find It? the universe is a pretty complex place, yet for millennia scientists have harbored a seemingly crazy thought. |
Valerie V. Hunt
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 The Gebusi, living in the New Guinea rain forests, are an example. But behind their conviviality lurks a brutal paradox. The Gebusi murder each other at a rate that is among the highest ever reported—about four times the rate in the United States. Their pattern of peaceful living is punctuated by aggression which is unrestrained and frequently homicidal. Four out of five of the Gebusi killings are of someone branded as a sorcerer who allegedly caused the death of another who actually died of diseases or parasites. |
| Proceedings from the Tropical Research Institute of the National Academy of Science disclosed that abundant wave energy allows marine organisms, algae and mussel beds to maintain exceptionally high productivity—even greater than that which occurs in the rain forests. The report concluded that wave action facilitates the flow of light and nutrients, an important contribution to the overall richness of this type of environment. To take a step further, we have known that tumbling water produces negative ion particles and amps up the electromagnetic pool. |
Sandra Ingerman
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 Recently fires burned out of control in the rain forests of South America. Out of desperation, the government called in shamans to make rain. Two days after their arrival, rain came. What resource did these shamans use?
While in the Dutch resistance during World War II, Jack Schwarz was captured by the Gestapo and tortured. But before his torturer's eyes his wounds healed. Later on public TV, he had needles put in him, then healed right in front of the camera. What resource did he use? |
Nontoxic, Natural and EarthwiseDebra Lynn Dadd
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| This is true not only for rain forests, but for all our forests.
Cerro Gordo Forestry Cooperative is one of a handful of groups practicing sustainable forestry in the United States. Using a system called Individual Tree Selection Management, which was pioneered in the 1950s by forester Richard Smith, the cooperative cuts scattered individual trees which releases shaded trees for further growth and allows natural regeneration from seedlings that are already present on the forest floor. |
| About 50 percent of the destruction of the world's rain forests is due to clearing of land for export agriculture, especially cattle ranching. This then pushes peasants to clear more land for firewood and subsistence farming. In the United States, about one-third of our original forest land has been converted to land used to feed animals. For each acre of American forest cleared to make toom fot parking lots, roads, houses, shopping centers, and the like, seven actes of fotests are cleared to raise livestock feed or fot grazing. |
Sandra Ingerman
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| Today, we rely on many plants from the rain forests of South America to cure a variety of diseases. The shamans in these areas identified what plants would cure what illness by observing their shape as well as speaking with them while in an altered state of consciousness.
Besides talking to the spirit in the life forms we can actually see, there are other types of nature spirits that people around the world have communicated with. Some traditions work with devas and fairies, magical beings which inhabit the land where we live. |
Nontoxic, Natural and EarthwiseDebra Lynn Dadd
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| Already we are losing rain forests and turning grasslands into deserts. Untold numbers of species are becoming extinct as we turn their natural habitats into rangelands for cattle or parking lots for another shopping center. Even though we have renewable resources available to us, practices such as sustainable forestry, organic farming, and recycling must become commonplace in order for them to provide a continuous supply of resources.
Most of the products we refer to as natural are made primarily from renewable resources. |
Dr Bernard Jenson and Mark Anderson
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| Newspaper and magazine articles regularly appear about Brazil, Costa Rica, Indonesia, and other nations that have cleared or are clearing their rain forests. Predictably, these have created a public outcry, and congressional panels have journeyed to some of these places to plead with the local governments for restraint and restrictions. Talk about exchanging Third World debt for preserving rain forest wilderness has swirled about the media and environmental coalitions. Ask almost any American in 1989 and he will quickly say, "I am an environmentalist. |
Hemp TodayEd Rosenthal
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| Even though Australia has lush tropical rain forests in the northeast, it is the driest continent on earth. Large scale damming of rivers and sinking bores for irrigation have led to severe salination due to evaporation, concentrating trace amounts of salt present in artesian water. This has been compounded by clearing of tree cover. The most shameful aspect of policy here is to allow the clear-felling of old growth forest to be chipped for Kraft paper.
The roots of Eucalyptus trees reach deep into the subsoil to extract water. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Sarsaparilla is a woody climbing vine found in rain forests around the world and also in temperate zones in Australia and China. Sarsaparilla has broad, oval-shaped leaves, tendrils, and green flowers. The fragrance of the root is considered pleasant, with a spicy sweet taste. The root is dug year-round for use in herbal preparations.
EVIDENCE OF BENEFIT
Since the 1500s, sarsaparilla has been used throughout the world to treat syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases. It has a reputation as a blood purifier and general tonic. |
| The tree grows in low-lying rain forests in India, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and the West Indies. Herbal medicine uses its soft reddish-brown bark and young twigs, both of which are cut and allowed to ferment in the field before being gathered for drying.
EVIDENCE OF BENEFIT
Cinnamon is one of the world's most widely used digestive aids. It is also used as a supplement to fight HIV/ AIDS, to stop uterine bleeding, and to prevent heart attack.
Benefits of cinnamon for specific health conditions include the following:
• Fibroids and menstrual problems. |
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