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Heart and Herbs
SAMET ORHAN 070201043
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HEART
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TOPICS

• Cardiovascular disease
• Risk factor
• What can we do to or reverse heart disease?
• Herbs for cardiovascular health

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CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE

• Heart attact
• Thrombosis
• Arrhythma
• Congestive heart failure
• Heart valve stenosis and regurgitation etc..

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RISK FACTOR

• Heredity
• Age and Gender
• Smoking and Alcohol
• Physical inactivity
• Stress and personality
• Blood pressure
• Diabets

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PREVENTATION

• We can greatly increase our chances of avoiding
  cardiovascular disease, and even reverse much of
  the damage already done, by making the right
  lifestyle choicesparticularly regarding
  exercise, stress management, smoking, weight
  management, blood pressure management, and
  dietincluding nutritional supplementation .

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HERBS FOR CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH

• Herbalists generally rely on six categories of
  herbs to support the heart and circulation. Many
  of these herbs, most notably garlic, ginkgo
  biloba, ginseng and hawthorn, are also receiving
  increasing medical attention, as their
  traditional uses have proven themselves

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The herbs

• To strengthen and stabilize heart function
  hawthorn berries, motherwort, ginkgo biloba and,
  to a lesser extent, linden flowers, passion
  flower, ginger, garlic and lemon balm.
• Circulatory stimulants ginger, garlic, prickly
  ash and cayenne.
• Arterial toners and strengtheners meadowsweet,
  prickly ash, horsetail and rosemary.
• For calming and blood pressure lowering
  hawthorn, motherwort, linden, passionflower and
  lemon balm.
• Antioxidant herbs ginkgo biloba, hawthorn,
  garlic and rosemary.
• Herbs that lower blood fats and prevent blood
  clots hawthorn, garlic, ginkgo biloba, guggul
  and ginger.

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Allium savitum

• In the family of Liliacae
• Works as a antihypertensitive.
• Garlic has been shown to be effective in helping
  normalize high blood pressure. It has also proven
  useful as a "blood thinner," since it inhibits
  blood clotting. Garlic has also been shown to
  help lower cholesterol levels for those who have
  high serum cholesterol

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Hawthorn (Crataegus)

• In the family Rosaceae
• Hawthorn Berries problems, particularly to
  strengthen a weakened heart.
• Hawthorn also dilates blood vessels allowing
  blood to flow more freely and thereby lowers the
  blood pressure. It also acts directly on the
  heart muscle to help heal damaged heart tissue.

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Ginkgo Biloba

• In the family of Ginkgoaceae
• Ginkgo Biloba . Ginkgo contains flavonoid
  glycosides like quercetin.
• Quercetin is the "magic" ingredient in red wine
  that helps protect the from heart disease. It
  helps prevent heart attack by preventing
  cholesterol oxidation.

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Digitalis purperea

• in the family of scrophulariaceae
• Treathmenth of arrhytmia
• Treathmenth of disorder is aimed at converting
  the arrhytmia to normal rhytm or controlling the
  ventricular rate.
• Digitoxin which is slowly absorbed is of little
  use in the management of acute arrhytmia where as
  digoxin and lanatoside C are more rapidly
  absorbed producing more rapid action and faster
  extraction.

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Digitalis lanata

• Digitalis lanata, originally from the
  southeastern part of Europe
• The plant produces Digitalis, a heart stimulant
  that could kill cattle and adversely affect
  humans if the plant is eaten or if bare skin is
  subject to prolonged exposure. 

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Acokanthera schimperi

• In the family Aponaceae
• Plants from this genus produce toxic alkaloids
  and cardiac glycosides g-strophanthin (syn.
  ouabain), k-strophanthin and e-strophanthin. As
  ordinarily administered, the drug acts on the
  heart before influencing any other organ or
  tissue. Often indeed no other action can be
  observed. It is used to produce the drug Ouabain
  which was taken as a cardiac stimulant to treat
  heart failure, and is similar to the drug Digoxin
  produced from Digitalis purpurea.

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• Thanks for listening patiently