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"Two examples of such users are the South American Indians and the ancient Israelires. In south america, for example, papaya leaf was used to support digestion and promote healing. Papaya is the source of an enzyme known as papain; it is still widely used today for these same purposes. Moreover, the Bible (2 Kings 20:7) recommends the use of figs for boils to the Israelire nation. The fig contains an enzyme, ficin, which is still used today in some skin gels and dietary supplements." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"The miracle drug of the seventeenth century was "Peruvian bark," also known as "Jesuit bark" because it was imported from south america by the Jesuits. It was harvested from the chincona tree by indigenous South Americans who had been converted both to Catholicism and to the task of harvesting. Chincona was the name of the duchess who was the wife of the Spanish governor of Peru. "Jesuit tea" was an antipyretic, an agent that could reduce the fevers and agues that plagued Europeans. For Western medicine of the day, fever was a disease, as was the agues." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"In one study, Schmidt worked with two participants, an aggressive, extroverted North American woman and a reserved male researcher in parapsychology from south america. In preliminary tests, the North American woman had scored consistently more heads than tails, while the South American man had scored the reverse ?more tails than heads ? even though hed been trying tor a greater number or heads. During a larger test of more than 100 runs apiece, both kept to the same scoring tendencies - the woman got more heads, the man more tails." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"Sold over the counter as a cancer treatment in south america, cat's claw's use as a cancer aid shows promising results in studies conducted throughout the world. The alkaloids, tannins, and other phytochemicals in cat's claw have been shown to boost the immune system, helping the body to fight infection and protecting it against degenerative diseases like cancer. It also has antihypertensive effects and may reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke by supporting healthy blood pressure and cholesterol levels, increasing circulation and reducing heart rate." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"Pau d'arco Pau d'arco (Tabebuia heptophylla) comes from the rain forests of Brazil and other areas of south america. This amazing herb nourishes the body's defense system and helps protect against pathogenic organisms. It has been used for centuries to improve immune function, detoxify, and teduce pain throughout the body—especially in the joints. Research has shown that it contains a natural antibacterial agent, has a healing effect on the entire body, cleanses the blood, and kills viruses." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"She has studied with medical naturopaths in Germany, south america, and the United States, is an international speaker and teacher, and has done extensive pioneering work of her own. The following information is from Dr. Dodd's experience regarding the health of animals and people, especially with respect to electromagnetic force fields: Why do animals get sick? There are as many causes as there are for why people get sick." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Having become involved in this area myself, I was often asked for my opinions on all the excitement, but never more poignantly than in the winter of 2000, when I received the following email from a young man in south america (I have deleted the author's name to protect his privacy): My name is . . . , I live in Cali, Colombia. A few days ago I listened [to a talk] about the placebo effect. My father has cancer, and I believe a placebo can help him. I need to know where I can get the sugars pills or saline injections, and how I must to give them to him." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) "These researchers had shown that laboratory animals temporarily paralysed with curare (a poison traditionally used to coat blow darts in south america) could be trained using operant conditioning techniques (reward and punishment) to alter their visceral physiology in specific target directions. Responding to reinforcers, rats learned to alter their heart rates and even their brain waves; and dogs learned to alter their intestinal activity and salivation levels." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"By 1924, when he retired from the Indian Meteorological Service to become professor of meteorology at Imperial College in London, Walker was publishing charts of the Southern Oscillation in both summer and winter based on data from an enormous network of observation stations between Africa and south america. His charts clearly demonstrated relationships between pressure, temperature, and rainfall in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, between the intensity of monsoons and earlier, changing pressure conditions thousands of kilometers away. Still, Walker could not predict monsoon failure." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "For thousands of years, countless guanay cormorants, gulls, pelicans, and other seabirds had weaved and whirled over the cold inshore waters of the Pacific, where the Humboldt Current (named after our explorer) swept northward along the coast of south america. The birds feasted off teeming shoals of anchovies and other fish, roosting and nesting on small, rocky islands just offshore from the mainland. Their droppings, estimated at forty-five grams per bird a day, accumulated steadily on the craggy rocks." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "As the warm water moves west, colder water from the depths of the ocean flows to the surface near south america to take its place. The eastern Pacific is downright cold, even close inshore. Little moisture evaporates from it, so rain clouds rarely form. The Galapagos Islands and the Peruvian coast receive almost no rain year-round. The Baja Peninsula and the California coast have long dry seasons and even years of almost total drought. Far away in the western Pacific, seas are much warmer. Moist air heated by the warm ocean rises, condenses, and forms massive rain clouds." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "In a vast, self- perpetuating cycle, a two-way convection flows between south america and the southwestern Pacific, keeping the east dry and the west wet and allowing humble sailor folk like me to travel the great ocean like a highway. When Jacob Bjerknes, the first scientist to identify the Walker Circulation that has governed Pacific Ocean weather patterns for thousands of years, published his famous hypothesis in 1969, he pointed out that each ENSO (El Nino-Southern Oscillation) episode has a unique personality: Some are intensely strong, others are weaker and shorter-lived." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"He stayed up at night in his cell, plotting his flight to south america, something that seemed entirely plausible at the time—although he had not the faintest idea how he would escape from the prison. Meanwhile, the crimes he had committed didn't seem "bad" even though he was facing a lengthy jail sentence. He felt "ten feet tall and bulletproof." He felt no remorse while continuing to take the Prozac in jail." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"He kept in touch with me for five years after he returned to south america, and despite the inordinate stress, his arthritis did not return. This was a particularly long-term and severe case, but it underscores a point: stick with your plan until it delivers. Everyone wants the "big hit," and as I've demonstrated through the case histories in this book, many people get it. However, if that is not you, keep going. You will certainly enjoy noticeable incremental improvements in your health. Just work with your tools until they deliver everything you need from them." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"As long as you have frozen cooked beans and rice or quinoa (a wonderful grain from south america that is very easy and fast to cook) on hand, you can add any combination of fresh-cut vegetables and toss everything together. As you experiment, mix and match ingredients. Kids have favorites, so introduce different salads and see what works best for your family. Asian Tofu Salad 1 pound extra-firm tofu, cut into small cubes Vi cup julienned green bell pepper !" - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"Fray Pedro Simon reports, in his Noticias historiales de las conquistes de Tierra Firme en las Indias Occidentales (Cuenca, 1627), that after work had been begun amongst the peoples of Tunja and Sogamozzo in Colombia, south america, "the demon of that place began giving contrary doctrines." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"The buzz around the room is that X-rayed fruits will soon be allowed into America not only from Hawaii, but from Southeast Asia, south america and other tropical destinations. (The first shipments of legally imported, irradiated, Southeast Asian mangosteens were finally allowed in three years later, in 2007). There's a consensus that irradiated fruits are never of the highest quality. To truly know these fruits will still require traveling to their places of origin, as the fruit hunters have always known." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "The lipstick tree of south america produces red nuggets called achiote that were formerly used as body paint. Today, these seeds are used as a dye called annatto that colors everything from butter to salad oils. Red carmine dye, or cochineal, comes from the pulverized corpses of small-scale insects that turn red after eating cactus fruits. Numerous other fruits also produce tannins used in paints, dyes and other coloring agents. Fruits could replace many toxic cleaning products (most of which contain artificial scents like "fresh citrus"). Kaffir limes are used to wash hair in Bali." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Certain cultures have almost 100 percent lactose intolerance, such as Africa, Asia and south america. This disorder is so prevalent that it is not considered an abnormal occurrence. 2. Infections caused by certain microbes such as viruses, bacteria and parasites can cause lactose intolerance. Some common bugs that are culprits are giardia, the Norwalk virus and rotavims. 3. Those who suffer with celiac disease, Crohn's disease, irritable bowel syndrome or gastroenteritis may all have difficulty digesting milk products." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"The consequence, as we are all well aware, is the plundering of the largest remaining forests: the tropical rainforests of south america and Southeast Asia. I remember the first time I flew across the Brazilian forests at night. I looked out the window and saw what looked like the thin red line you see along the edge of a smoldering piece of paper. The only problem was that the line was ten miles long, and it was not paper but forest that was burning. In 1997, we saw the devastating effect of forest fires in Indonesia, exacerbated by the Pacific's El Nino warming effect." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"The International Fragrance Association Founded in 1973, the International Fragrance Association (IFRA) is an organization of over 100 perfume and fragrance manufacturers representing fifteen nations, including the Far East, Australia, U.S., south america, and Europe. Perfumes are very big business, and represent nearly 50 percent of all prestige beauty dollars now spent in the U.S. Fragrances are also extensively used in a wide range of other products." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"This suggests that, until 75 to 65 million years ago, the Seychelles were part of the enormous megacontinent called Gondwana that linked south america, Africa, Madagascar and India. After India started drifting away from Africa, the Seychelles broke off midway and were stranded in the ocean, where they've stayed till this day, full of life-forms that evolved in isolation. Dinosaurs became extinct around the same time the Seychelles got ditched in the Indian Ocean, leading to speculation that these fruits may have once been eaten by brontosauruses. " - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "I think back to the unimpressive fruits at the hotel buffet and imagine them making the journey from a farm in south america or Asia all the way to Hawaii. People aren't eating their local ultraexotics, Love says, because they simply don't realize they exist. His goal at the farmer's market isn't so much to sell fruits, it's to educate people about the vast array of fruits on their doorsteps. When a family arrives at the co-op, he starts telling them all about the different fruits. They purchase a bunch of tropical apricots, mountain apples and Surinam cherries." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"MAX France (2003) [57-60] HOPE & HOPE-TOO Canada, United States, Europe, south america (2005) [91, 92] E3N Prospective Cohort Study France (2006) [49] 29,584 men (5 years) 29,133 male smokers (5-8 years) with up to 19-year follow-up 18,314 male smokers or asbestos exposed (4 years + 6-year follow-up) 2002 atherosclerosis patients -80% males (510 days) 22,071 physicians (12 years) (11% smokers, 39% former smokers) 1312 men and women with dermal basal or squamous cell carcinoma (4.5 years + 6.4-year follow-up) 39,876 female 45+ years old health professionals (2." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"The biggest kiwifruit-consuming markets are in Europe, North and south america, Japan, and Asia. A Serving of Food Lore... The kiwi originated in the Yangtze River Valley of northern China and the Zhejiang province on the coast of eastern China. It has been considered a delicacy since its beginnings. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the gooseberry made its way throughout the world. Missionaries exported the first plants into New Zealand and the United States in the early 1900s." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"The Pacific coast of tropical south america shows clearly the relationship between ocean currents and rainfall. The warm El Nino is a small backcurrent that circulates off tropical America. Water is a marvelous heat trap, and tropical oceans often are warmer than the air over tropical lowlands. If warm, moisture-saturated air crosses cooler land, rain will fall as the air cools. If there are tall mountains, it rains more because the air cools even more as it rises." - Adrian Forsyth and Kenneth Miyata, Tropical Nature: Life and Death in the Rain Forests of Central and South America (Get the book.) "More than a quarter of the almost 700 known species of Ecuadorian reptiles and amphibians have been discovered and named only since 1970, and there are still new species of birds yet to be discovered and described from the forests of south america. Given our profound ignorance of the composition of Neotropical rain forest flora and fauna, any attempt to write generally of processes must involve speculation. Textbooks and popular treatments of science often fail to convey the role of intuition and speculation in the development of a science." - Adrian Forsyth and Kenneth Miyata, Tropical Nature: Life and Death in the Rain Forests of Central and South America (Get the book.) "Besides, regions of tropical rain forest in most of south america are never visited by hurricanes, so wind is probably not much of a factor. However, this is theory based on casual observations, and it seems weak to us. It is misleading to assume that wind is a minor factor in influencing the growth patterns of forest trees. We tend to make assumptions about tropical winds from a narrow perspective. Naturalists in the tropical rain forest generally stay near the ground, a part of the forest that is extremely well buffered from winds." - Adrian Forsyth and Kenneth Miyata, Tropical Nature: Life and Death in the Rain Forests of Central and South America (Get the book.) "About half of the world's lowland tropical forests are in Latin America, the overwhelming majority in south america. The Amazon forest is the largest rain forest in the world. Although this forest does not cover as much area as the boreal forest of the Soviet Union, it is still an awesome expanse of greenery; if its boundaries coincided with a political border, it would be the ninth largest country in the world." - Adrian Forsyth and Kenneth Miyata, Tropical Nature: Life and Death in the Rain Forests of Central and South America (Get the book.)

"A friend of mine who traveled to south america says the locals in the country he visited don't eat the food that has been grown under agribusiness contract and sprayed with costly pesticides. Locals can't afford that produce, as independent growers don't have the money to buy pesticides. The big farming operations use pesticides only on export crops. Ironically, the common populace is saved by poverty: they don't have enough money to buy poisoned food. Thus we rich Americans are "privileged" to eat only the most toxic stuff!" - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

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