Word: herbal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...leaving a party when someone alerted him to the presence of narcotics officers searching exiting partygoers. According to police, when they asked Presley to remove his hands from his pockets as he left the party, he took out a wad of cash, a "a plastic bag containing a green herbal substance" and crack cocaine...
...governments that they stood to gain more in the long run if they preserved their trees and cultures than if they let timber companies strip the land. The knowledge of the shamans--and the secrets that new generations of shamans might uncover--could be worth a fortune, especially since herbal medicine is booming in developed countries. Interest in medicinal plants is "real sweet right now," Plotkin says. "Indians are potentially the best conservationists out there, but only if they understand the value of the forest around them...
...sure to divulge all the drugs you're taking, including over-the-counter medications and herbal remedies. "Lots of people take aspirin these days as a preventive for heart attack," notes Dr. William Owens, president of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. "It's so much a part of their daily routine that they don't even think about it, but a single aspirin can prolong bleeding time significantly." Dietary supplements like DHEA or androstenedione can also interfere with the muscle relaxants that anesthesiologists use to make surgery possible...
...Center's Fact Sheets on Alternative Medicine at cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/rosenthal/factsheets.html the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at altmed.od.nih.gov/nccam/ and the University of Texas Center for Alternative Medicine Research at sph.uth.tmc.edu/utcam/default.htm Finally, the surest sign that alternative medicine has gone mainstream: Herbal Remedies for Dummies (IDG Books; $20) is just hitting the stores...
...Natural foods. United Natural Foods, Twinlab, Horizon Organic and Celestial Seasonings. Twinlab is another 50% grower and has a P/E of just 14. Celestial Seasonings is doing well with herbal teas and other products, and it held up well when the nutritional-supplement group stumbled...