00SW04 - Botanical Interventions for Hyperreactive Immune Systems Format:Audio the early use of ceremonial

the early use of ceremonial herbs and the relevance and continuance of shamanism in the "modern" world

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Ocimum sanctum

safety issues and dosages

The materia medica includes a great variety of plants including Jamaican dogwood

00SW04 - Botanical Interventions for Hyperreactive Immune Systems Format:Audio the early use of ceremonialSpeaker: Kenneth Proefrock. Discussion of the complement cascade and its function in immunity: activation of mast cells and phagocytosis. The inability of the immune system to recognize "self" and "non self", and the subsequent over reaction of the system to stimuli, lead to many pathologies. When the immune system response becomes hypersensitive to something in the environment, it will react to agents that are not inherently disease causing as if