{"id":1092,"date":"2013-12-05T14:10:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T14:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drbarrytaylor.com\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2013-12-10T00:09:43","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T00:09:43","slug":"healing-benefits-herbs-know-poisonous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbarrytaylor.com\/blog\/healing-benefits-herbs-know-poisonous\/","title":{"rendered":"WHICH HERBS CAN CURE YOU OR KILL YOU &#8211; AND DO YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fascinating <a href=\"http:\/\/onpoint.wbur.org\/2013\/12\/04\/poison-american-museum-natural-history-arsenic\" target=\"_blank\">NPR ON POINT presentation<\/a> reminded me of being in some of the 2 years of classes on Herbology in Naturopathic Medical School.<\/p>\n<p>The healing properties of Belladonna and Arsenic and other notable plants that have been used over time were discussed for their benefits and dangerous properties. Literally a drop of Belladonna or Arsenic can be used to stimulate the immune system and yet when I learned how to use those herbs, they were kept in a locked cabinet because making a mistake using them can have extreme and fatal results.<\/p>\n<p>The radio program talks about the history of many herbs and an exhibit at the NYC Museum of Natural History on the same subject.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onpoint.wbur.org\/2013\/12\/04\/poison-american-museum-natural-history-arsenic\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to the link<\/a> for a provocative and very educational review of some well known and not so well know herbs.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"mailto:drbarry@drbarrytaylor.com\" target=\"_blank\">contact me<\/a> if you have any questions. Most herbs that are medicinal need guidance for how much and how one can ingest them before they cause what is known as a &#8220;healing crisis&#8221; when the positive constituents of the herb become too much for the body to integrate and toxic effects can occur. For most herbs, this takes a very very long time to build up. This NPR radio show talks about some herbs when this can happen immediately or within days if a person ingests too much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fascinating NPR ON POINT presentation reminded me of being in some of the 2 years of classes on Herbology in Naturopathic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbarrytaylor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbarrytaylor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbarrytaylor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbarrytaylor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbarrytaylor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/drbarrytaylor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1116,"href":"https:\/\/drbarrytaylor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions\/1116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbarrytaylor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbarrytaylor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbarrytaylor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbarrytaylor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}