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Skullcap (scutellaria)
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Perl Molson - 12 Jun 2004 18:44 GMT Scutellaria (skullcap) does not stimulate the system, but insead acts against the viruses themselves. This makes scutellaria an especially appropriate choice for people who have autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, and who sometimes experience flare-ups after treatment with immune stimulants. It can also protect herpes-damaged skin against secondary infections.
Perl Molson
http://www.herbs2000.com/herbs/herbs_skullcap.htm
Pain Devine - 13 Jun 2004 02:53 GMT Scutellaria is just a fancy word for "Mint plant" so you could chew a stick of gum and get the same thing.
> Scutellaria (skullcap) does not stimulate the system, but insead acts > against [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > http://www.herbs2000.com/herbs/herbs_skullcap.htm Perl Molson - 13 Jun 2004 19:13 GMT Rather is a plant from the Mint (Lamiacea) family, together with other most efficient antiherpes plants, belonging to the same family:
Prunella Vulgaris (self heal) Mellisa Officinales (lemon balm) Mentha Piperita (Peppermint)
http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/ggsrm/hull_plants/lamiacea.htm LAMIACEAE Stachys Ballota Lamium Galeopsis Scutellaria Ajuga Glechoma Prunella Lycopus Mentha
It's a whole variety of such herbs and foods, that impact the herpes, in various ways; some, don't allow the virus to attach themselves to the cells, some will kill the virus directly, some will penetrate the skin cells and kill the virus, etc.
Right not I am trying to understand if the viral traces that supposedly remain in ganglia, are able to independently become functional herpes viruses that will travel along the neuronal axon and reach the skin.
My pressumption is that, once all the herpes viruses will be removed from their assymptomatic areas, neurons( a few viruses will remain there, too, being able to multiply there even) and spinal cord or CNS ( where some can be located too, as you can see in this animation: http://www-ermm.cbcu.cam.ac.uk/99000381h.htm ) then, there would be almost improbable for those traces to become active viruses.
That is my hope, anyway...
Even when going to a dentist, for a cavity work or other such things, the viral traces should not be able to become active viruses. That's what I am trying to find out; that there is an interdependency between the traces of viruses remained in ganglia and other viruses situated in different locations in the body; thus, the signalling from those viruses (there must be some electro-chemical type of signalling), will stimulate the formation of newly born viruses from traces in ganglia.
I am reading now a Physiology book to try to understand the mechanism going on in the neurons.
If my pressumtion will be proven wrong, then my theory of a herpes cure will be proven wrong, too.
If viral traces found in the ganglia, can indipendently become active viruses, there is nothig I can add to it, at this moment in time. Since the traces can form new viruses and some traces will always remain in the ganglia, that's pretty much it.
Another point is, why do you thing most people after going to a dentist for a root canal (as far as I've heared anyway, it might not be the case, I just read some statistics somewhere), they get a cold sore? The answer would be that in this case, due to the deep penetration in the nerve of the stressor factors, the immediat immunity situated by the trigerminal ganglia, will allow the viral traces to overcome this local specific immunity.
I still, hope that this last paragraphs' pattern will happen due to the fact that in most bodies, the asymptomatic viruses or, as I've mentioned above, viruses in the spinal cord or in the neuron, will actually be the one CRUCIAL required to signal the traces in ganglia to form viruses.
I do not know how far I can go into understandig these above situation, maybe, from the lack of technical data available (there was always something, out there, to my reach), I will not be able to even make anymore pressumtions. For now I am learning some of the physiology mechanisms and such.
Perl Molson
> Scutellaria is just a fancy word for "Mint plant" so you could chew a stick > of gum and get the same thing. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > > > http://www.herbs2000.com/herbs/herbs_skullcap.htm Gadge - 13 Jun 2004 23:30 GMT > Rather is a plant from the Mint (Lamiacea) family, together with > other most efficient antiherpes plants, belonging to the same family: [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/ggsrm/hull_plants/lamiacea.htm look at that, it's Hull - my old stomping ground. http://www.hull.ac.uk/hullflora/taxa/120_10_2.htm
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Perl Molson - 13 Jun 2004 19:54 GMT Noun 1. Lamiaceae - the mints: aromatic herbs and shrubs having flowers resembling the lips of a mouth and four-lobed ovaries yielding four one-seeded nutlets and including thyme; sage; rosemary family Labiatae, family Lamiaceae, Labiatae, mint family asterid dicot family - family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs order Polemoniales, Polemoniales - Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales Acinos, genus Acinos - plants closely allied to the genera Satureja and Calamintha Agastache, genus Agastache - giant hyssop; Mexican hyssop Ajuga, genus Ajuga - bugle Ballota, genus Ballota - perennial herbs or subshrubs of especially Mediterranean area: black horehound Blephilia, genus Blephilia - small genus of North American herbs: wood mints Calamintha, genus Calamintha - calamint Clinopodium, genus Clinopodium - wild basil Collinsonia, genus Collinsonia - small genus of perennial erect or spreading aromatic herbs; United States genus Coleus - genus of Old World tropical plants cultivated for their variegated leaves; various plants sometimes placed in genera Plectranthus or Solenostemon Conradina, genus Conradina - small genus of low aromatic shrubs of southeastern United States Dracocephalum, genus Dracocephalum - genus of American herbs and dwarf shrubs of the mind family: dragonheads genus Elsholtzia - genus of Asiatic and African aromatic herbs Galeopsis, genus Galeopsis - erect annual European herbs genus Glechoma, Glechoma - ground ivy genus Hedeoma, Hedeoma - small genus of American herbs (American pennyroyal) genus Hyssopus, Hyssopus - Eurasian genus of perennial herbs or subshrubs genus Lamium, Lamium - genus of Old World herbs: dead nettles; henbits genus Lavandula, Lavandula - lavender genus Leonotis, Leonotis - small genus of tropical herbs and subshrubs of South Africa genus Leonurus, Leonurus - genus of stout Old World herbs having cut-lobed leaves and flowers in whorls genus Lepechinia, genus Sphacele, Lepechinia, Sphacele - a dicotyledonous genus of the family Labiatae genus Lycopus, Lycopus - small genus of herbs of the mint family genus Origanum - a genus of aromatic mints of the family Labiatae genus Majorana, Majorana - small genus of herbs usually included in the genus Origanum genus Marrubium, Marrubium - Old World aromatic herbs: horehound genus Melissa, Melissa - a genus of Old World mints of the family Labiatae genus Mentha, Mentha - mint plants genus Micromeria, Micromeria - large genus of fragrant chiefly Old World herbs genus Molucella, Molucella - small genus of aromatic herbs of Mediterranean regions; widely cultivated genus Monarda - wild bergamot, horsemint, beebalm genus Monardella, Monardella - a genus of fragrant herbs of the family Labiatae in the western United States genus Nepeta, Nepeta - catmint genus Ocimum, Ocimum - basil genus Perilla, Perilla - small genus of Asiatic herbs genus Phlomis - large genus of Old World aromatic herbs or subshrubs or shrubs having often woolly leaves genus Physostegia - genus of North American perennial herbs genus Plectranthus - large genus of ornamental flowering plants; includes some plants often placed in the genus Coleus genus Pogostemon, Pogostemon - genus of Asiatic shrubs or trees whose leaves yield a fragrant oil genus Prunella, Prunella - small genus of perennial mostly Eurasian having terminal spikes of small purplish or white flowers
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Lamiaceae
> Scutellaria is just a fancy word for "Mint plant" so you could chew a stick > of gum and get the same thing. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > > > http://www.herbs2000.com/herbs/herbs_skullcap.htm
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