Word: ginseng
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...Preparations made from herbs--from aloe for regularity to valerian for restful sleep--are the hottest of all, with some 60 million Americans now swallowing doses regularly. And for those who crave a tastier fix, there are new so-called functional foods--concoctions such as fruit juice laced with ginseng, or corn chips with kava, the one claiming to perk you up and the other to calm you down...
This blossoming market for all things herbal has attracted growing interest from everyone from Ann Landers (who recommends herbs as an alternative to Viagra) and Larry King (whose radio ads credit ginseng for his youthful, uh, glow) to professors of medicine and Wall Street investors. Just last week the Journal of the American Medical Association (J.A.M.A.) released an issue devoted entirely to studies of herbs and so-called alternative remedies (see accompanying story). Among the eye-opening findings: Americans today make more visits to nontraditional physicians, including naturopaths who claim expertise in herbs and other natural therapies, than to their...
...Chicago, marathoner Tom Smithburg works out daily and, in place of morning coffee, downs a megadose of ginseng: 1,000 mg, vs. the recommended maximum of 600 mg. "Coffee is a drug," says Smithburg, a public relations representative of the Chicago Bulls. "I hear more people complaining that they have headaches over the weekend from not getting their caffeine...
...University Health Services Monks Library and hear Jackie Neely extol the virtues of Echinacea and St. John's Wort. This lecture series called "Benefits of Complementary Therapies" focuses on the now en vogue subject of herbal remedies. It's all about ginseng, baby. Yeah baby. Yeah. 12 p.m., UHS, Holyoke Center, Monks Library, 2nd Floor, 495-9629. FREE...
...house and pointed out a large rock at the edge of a nearby cliff. "This is where he would come and sit in the evening," said Sim. "When he was depressed he would call me, and I would come sit with him. He drank expensive ginseng tea, and he kept a bottle of Thai whisky, and he would talk about developing the country for the poor people...