NUTRITIONAL

SYMPTOM
CONDITION
SUB-CONDITION
HERB
MALNUTRITION
Appetite poor, nervous, weak
 
Medicago or Trifolium tea with Avena
 
Recuperation from major illness, surgery
 
Medicago, Trifolium, Urtica
 
In mineral deficiencies
 
Fucus
 
Anemia, dyspepsia, anorexia, poor assimilation, functional pelvic irritability
 
Angelica sinensis, Chamaelirium
MALABSORPTION
In the aged and convalescent
 
Gentiana, Menyanthes, Panax (all uncured)
 
 
with faulty starch digestion and dyspepsia
Humulus
 
 
with steatorrhea but no ileo-cecal inflammation, dark feces with bad breath , subcutaneous pre-acne eruptions
Aristolochia serpentaria,
 
 
 
Aristolochia watsonii, Fouquieria
 
In radical dietary changes with sluggish pancreatic and succus entericus response
 
Iris
 
In moderate parathyroid imbalances
 
Equisetum, Medicago, Trifolium, Urtica, all as tea
 
In poor absorption in ileum of bile acids, fat soluble vitamins, intrinsic factor or B12
 
Anemopsis, Rheum, Rumex crispus
 
In conjunction with lipotropic therapies
 
Aristolochia (all), Larrea
 
In poor protein absorption
 
Berberis, Mahonia, Menyanthes

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