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Vacha Herb Powder Wildcrafted - Acorus calamus, 1 lb, (Bazaar of India)
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Vacha Herb Powder Wildcrafted -
Acorus calamus, 1 lb, (Bazaar of India)
According to Ayurvedic tradition, Vacha is a 'sattvic' herb which feeds and transmutes the sexual 'kundalini' energy. Calamus has been called called 'the closest thing to Viagra that nature has to offer.' It is a stimulating nervine antispasmodic, and a general tonic to the mind. As a rejuvenative for the brain and nervous system, it is used to promote cerebral circulation, to stimulate self-expression, and to help manage a wide range of symptoms in the head, including neuralgia, epilepsy, memory loss and shock.
In many cases involving the sinuses or shock, the powdered root is taken nasally. The Cree say that they can take Calamus root and 'travel great distances without touching the ground'. Active constituents: Monoterpene hydrocarbons, sequestrine ketones, (trans- or Alpha) Asarone (2,4,5-trimethoxy-1-propenylbenzene), and Beta-asarone (cis- isomer) contained in the roots essential oils. It is used in the Phillipines for rheumatism and memory problems.
In Korea, it is an ingredient in a type of moonshine called Immortals' Booze. Research in China has shown the essential oil in this rhizome to be sedating and neuroprotectant. Sweet flag, more accurately Acorus gramineus, Japanese Sweet Flag, has been used in Asia for at least the last 2000 years for a number of beneficial reasons. The ancient Chinese used it to lessen swelling and for constipation. The Indian variety is Acorus calamus.
In India, Ayurvedic medicinal practice has used the magical root to cure fevers, for asthma and bronchitis, and as an all around sedative. Acorus calamus root was also used by the ancient Greeks and included in the traditional remedies of many other European cultures. During the middle ages calamus was an admixture in several of the ancient, psychoactive, 'witches flying ointments', often being mixed with solanacious herbs. The root was also well-known in Biblical times and mentioned in Exodus 30: 22-25 as one of the ingredients of the 'holy anointing oil'.
The Cree Indians of Northern Alberta use calamus for a number of medicinal reasons including: as an analgesic for the relief of toothache or headache, for oral hygiene to cleanse and disinfect the teeth, the fight the effects of exhaustion or fatigue, and to help cure/prevent a hangover. Other Native tribes used it to treat a cough, made a decoction as a carminative and as an infusion for cholic.
The Sioux used the whole plant, making aromatic garlands from the leaves and using the root as a tea for bowel pains, or rubbed the chewed root on the skin for a general illness cure. Calamus was also known to many early American settlers and used for a number of folk remedies. Walt Whitman even wrote poetry about his beloved herb in 'Leaves of Grass'. Calamus was also widely used by Canadian trappers working for the Hudson Bay Company, using it as a stimulant, chewing a small piece whenever tired.
The unpeeled, dried rhizome was listed in the U.S. Pharmacopoeia until 1916 and in the National Formulary until 1950, for medicinal use on humans. Today the FDA defines calamus as 'not intended for human consumption.' This is due to the fact that massive doses of isolated beta-Asarone given to lab rats over extended time periods have proven to be carcinogenic.
The real reason appears to be more political. http://www.upb.pitt.edu/and 'Dr. David Soriano, associate professor of chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, is hoping the government takes a closer look at a popular aquatic garden plant. Soriano recently presented a paper at the 50th Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Raleigh , N.C. The paper, titled 'Isolation of beta-Asarone from Acorus gramineus Variegatas and Synthesis via a Phase-Transfer Catalyzed Wittig Reaction,' was drafted with collaboration from four students. 'This aquatic plant (Acorus gramineus), a dwarf variety of Sweet Flag, is available from many American greenhouses and is a popular component of many backyard ponds,' Soriano explains. 'However, this plant metabolite, beta-Asarone, is a powerful central nervous system stimulant.'
A metabolite is simply a biochemical produced by an organism as a result of its natural chemistry, explains Soriano. Most reactions in live forms are produced by enzyme catalysts. For example, cocaine is a metabolite which is formed in coca leaves. If a plant produces cocaine it follows that it must have the enzymes present to produce that substance.
The enzymes are themselves produced by the genes in the organism. 'The actual point of my talk,' says Soriano, 'is that this plant should be considered as a controlled substance like marijuana and opium plants. The plant can be grown and the rhizome chewed on to gain the effects of stimulation.' Grieve's classic 'A Modern Herbal': 'Though now common throughout Europe, there is little doubt that the Sweet Flag [Acorus calamus] is a native of eastern countries, being indigenous to the marshes of the mountains of India.'
'Calamus was formerly much esteemed as an aromatic stimulant and mild tonic. A fluid extract is an official preparation in the United States and some other Pharmacopceias, but it is not now official in the British Pharmacopceia, though it is much used in herbal medicine as an aromatic bitter.' 'On account of the volatile oil which is present, it also acts as a carminative, removing the discomfort caused by flatulence and checking the growth of the bacteria which give rise to it.'
'It is used to increase the appetite and benefit digestion, given as fluid extract, infusion or tincture.' 'Tincture of Calamus, obtained by macerating the finely-cut rhizome in alcohol for seven days and filtering, is used as a stomachic and flavouring agent. It has a brownish-yellow colour and a pungent, spicy taste. 'The essential oil is used as an addition to inhalations.' 'The dried root may be chewed ad libitum to relieve dyspepsia or an infusion of 1 oz. to 1 pint of boiling water may be taken freely in doses of a teacupful.
The dried root is also chewed to clear the voice.' 'Calamus has been found useful in ague and low fever, and was once greatly used by country people in Norfolk, either in infusion, or powdered, as a remedy against the fever prevalent in the Fens. Its use has been attended with great success where Peruvian bark has failed. It is also beneficial as a mild stimulant in typhoid cases.'
'The tonic medicine called Stockton Bitters, formerly in much esteem in some parts of England, is made from the root of this plant and that of Gentiana campestris.' Waller's British Herbal says: 'It is of great service in all nervous complaints, vertigoes, headaches and hypochondriacal affections. Also commended in dysentry and chronic catarrhs. The powdered root may be given, 12 grs. to 1/2 drachm.
In an infusion of 2 drachms to a pint of water or of white wine, it is an agreeable stomachic, even to persons in health, to take a glass about an hour before dinner. When the root is candied with sugar, it is convenient to dyspeptic patients, who may carry it in a small box, in the pocket, and take it as they find occasion.' 'On the Continent the candied rhizome is widely employed.
The Turks use the candied rhizome as a preventive against contagion.' 'The rhizome is largely used in native Oriental medicines for dyspepsia and bronchitis and chewed as a cough lozenge, and from the earliest times has been one of the most popular remedies of the native practitioners of India. The candied root is sold as a favourite medicine in every Indian bazaar.' 'The powdered root is also esteemed in Ceylon and India as a vermifuge and an insecticide, especially in relation to fleas.
Sprinkled round a tree attacked by white ants in Malay (Perak) it was found to destroy those that were near the surface and prevented others from attacking the tree.' 'In powder, Calamus root on account of its spicy flavour serves as a substitute for cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger.' 'It is said also to be used by snuff manufacturers and to scent hair-powders and in tooth-powders, in the same way as orris.' 'The highly aromatic volatile oil is largely used in perfumery.'
'The oil is used by rectifiers to improve the flavour of gin and to give a peculiar taste and fragrance to certain varieties of beer.' 'In the United States, Calamus was also formerly used by country people as an ingredient in making wine bitters.'In Lithuania, the root is preserved with sugar-like angelica.' 'The young and tender inflorescence is often eaten by children for its sweetness.
In Holland, children use the rhizomes as chewing-gum and also make pop-gun projectiles of them.' King's 1898 Dispensatory: 'The root is carminative, slightly tonic, and excitant, and forms a useful adjunct to other tonics and stimulants. It may be used in cases of flatulent colic, atonic dyspepsia, feebleness of the digestive organs, and to aid the action of cinchona or quinine in intermittents.' 'It forms an excellent substitute, in syrup, for Godfrey's cordial.
In flatulent colic of infants it is best combined with magnesia.' 'Externally, it is a valuable application to indolent ulcers, and to keep up the discharges from blistered surfaces and issues.'
SUGGESTED USAGE
'Dose of the infusion made by scalding 4 drachms of the root, coarsely bruised, in 8 fluid ounces of water, from 4 to 6 fluid ounces; of the powdered root, 20 to 40 grains; a tincture may be prepared from 1 part of the root and 5 parts of alcohol. Dose, from 5 to 30 minims.
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Vacha Herb Powder Wildcrafted -
Acorus calamus, 1 lb, (Bazaar of India)
Acorus calamus
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Vacha Herb Powder Wildcrafted -
Acorus calamus, 1 lb, (Bazaar of India)
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Vacha Herb Powder Wildcrafted -
Acorus calamus, 1 lb, (Bazaar of India)
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Vacha Herb Powder Wildcrafted -
Acorus calamus, 1 lb, (Bazaar of India)
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