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Yakshi's herbal tea for the skin
Formula which will help cleanse your blood and flush out the bad stuff from your kidneys and liver.
First you boil the following roots in a pot of water until the flavor is in the water, when done you can store this mixture in the fridge to add into the 2nd part of the tea.
1 part Licorice Root (for the blood sugar and glands acts as a sweeter)
1 part Sarsprilla Root (for cleansing the lymph glands and nodes)
1/2 part Sassafras (for cleansing the glands if you can get it)
The 2nd part can be brewed like regular tea. Use a tea ball to avoid the spitting out of leaves when drinking.
1 part Red Clover Blossoms (blood cleanser)
1 part Red Raspberry Leaves (blood cleanser)
1 part Strawberry Leaves (blood cleanser)
1 part Elder Flowers (for taste)
Pour some of the 1st mixture into your teacup and then add in the steeped leave mixture. Drink several times a day and be prepared to go to the bathroom a lot as it will make you pee a lot but this is good. Chicken soup always helps when one is feeling weak.

New Lotion Prevents -- and Fixes -- Sun Damage Plankton enzyme repairs genes harmed by UV rays
by Adam Marcus
14 Feb 00 (HealthSCOUT) -- Sunscreen can help protect you from getting skin cancer, but its value lies only in its defensive abilities. If you do get a sunburn, you've been told for years, the damage is permanent.
But maybe it isn't. German scientists say a light-sensitive enzyme in algae offers significant protection against skin cancer by reversing the cell damage caused by ultraviolet radiation.
The finding, coming soon to a drug store near you, appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Ultraviolet radiation can addle DNA, the spiral molecule that forms genes, and create potentially cancerous mutations in skin cells. Adding injury to injury, to repair this damage the body muzzles its immune system, reducing the activity of cells that would normally mop up mutants.
Sunscreen's best purpose is shielding skin from UV rays. Unfortunately, no matter how high its sun protection factor, sunscreen's usefulness is finished once these gene changes have occurred. Nor does it give the immune system a compensating kick to help correct the damage.
"A very elegant approach," says Dr. Jean Krutmann, senior author of the latest study, "would be to remove the DNA damage, because then you would do both things."
Krutmann's work hinges on one of nature's least refined organisms: lowly plankton. These tiny algae spend their lives at the ocean surface, bombarded day in and day out with UV rays without hope of shade. Over the eons, they have developed a molecular shield against harmful light in the form of phytolyase, an enzyme that helps them repair DNA damage.

Half of mutations went away
Krutmann, an internationally noted skin expert, and his colleagues at Heinrich Heine University in Dusseldorf tested a lotion containing photolyase on a group of patients exposed to UVB radiation in the lab. The enzyme was bound up in fatty cavities called liposomes, which are able to penetrate deep within the skin.
The light exposure was strong enough to burn -- mimicking sunburn -- and generated substantial numbers of mutant cells. But when the subjects applied the enzyme-rich lotion to their skin, nearly half the mutations, called dimers, were corrected, the researchers say.
"The best we could do was 45 percent [reduction], but that's enough to completely prevent the immunosuppression," says Krutmann.
Krutmann's group also tested whether the enzyme could prevent sunburn-like skin reactions from occurring in the first place. The researchers found that it could.
Krutmann and his colleagues conducted their study using photolyase from AGI Dermatics, a Freeport, N.Y. based biotechnology firm specializing in skin care. Daniel Jarosh, the company's president, says AGI is already selling the enzyme to the cosmetics industry. It now appears in at least one product, an Avon cream.
While no sunscreen makers offer photolyase yet, he says, it's only a matter of time before the enzyme hits the beach.
What To Do
If you're fond of tanning salons, beware. Even photolyase can't save your skin from the UVA rays those machines spit out, says Krutmann.
To learn more about skin cancer, visit the Skin Cancer Foundation.

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	26 Dec 08 - SpicaBooks.Com/Health_Skin.html
	*Yakshi's herbal tea for the skin* Formula which will help cleanse your blood and flush out the bad stuff from your kidneys and liver. First you boil the following roots in a pot of water until the flavor is in the water, when done you can store this mixture in the fridge to add into the 2nd part of the tea. 1 part Licorice Root (for the blood sugar and glands acts as a sweeter) 1 part Sarsprilla Root (for cleansing the lymph glands and nodes) 1/2 part Sassafras (for cleansing the glands if you can get it) The 2nd part can be brewed like regular tea. Use a tea ball to avoid the spitting out of leaves when drinking. 1 part Red Clover Blossoms (blood cleanser) 1 part Red Raspberry Leaves (blood cleanser) 1 part Strawberry Leaves (blood cleanser) 1 part Elder Flowers (for taste) Pour some of the 1st mixture into your teacup and then add in the steeped leave mixture. Drink several times a day and be prepared to go to the bathroom a lot as it will make you pee a lot but this is good. Chicken soup always helps when one is feeling weak.
	*New Lotion Prevents -- and Fixes -- Sun Damage Plankton enzyme repairs genes harmed by UV rays* by Adam Marcus 14 Feb 00 (HealthSCOUT) -- Sunscreen can help protect you from getting skin cancer, but its value lies only in its defensive abilities. If you do get a sunburn, you've been told for years, the damage is permanent. But maybe it isn't. German scientists say a light-sensitive enzyme in algae offers significant protection against skin cancer by reversing the cell damage caused by ultraviolet radiation. The finding, coming soon to a drug store near you, appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Ultraviolet radiation can addle DNA, the spiral molecule that forms genes, and create potentially cancerous mutations in skin cells. Adding injury to injury, to repair this damage the body muzzles its immune system, reducing the activity of cells that would normally mop up mutants. Sunscreen's best purpose is shielding skin from UV rays. Unfortunately, no matter how high its sun protection factor, sunscreen's usefulness is finished once these gene changes have occurred. Nor does it give the immune system a compensating kick to help correct the damage. "A very elegant approach," says Dr. Jean Krutmann, senior author of the latest study, "would be to remove the DNA damage, because then you would do both things." Krutmann's work hinges on one of nature's least refined organisms: lowly plankton. These tiny algae spend their lives at the ocean surface, bombarded day in and day out with UV rays without hope of shade. Over the eons, they have developed a molecular shield against harmful light in the form of phytolyase, an enzyme that helps them repair DNA damage. Half of mutations went away Krutmann, an internationally noted skin expert, and his colleagues at Heinrich Heine University in Dusseldorf tested a lotion containing photolyase on a group of patients exposed to UVB radiation in the lab. The enzyme was bound up in fatty cavities called liposomes, which are able to penetrate deep within the skin. The light exposure was strong enough to burn -- mimicking sunburn -- and generated substantial numbers of mutant cells. But when the subjects applied the enzyme-rich lotion to their skin, nearly half the mutations, called dimers, were corrected, the researchers say. "The best we could do was 45 percent [reduction], but that's enough to completely prevent the immunosuppression," says Krutmann. Krutmann's group also tested whether the enzyme could prevent sunburn-like skin reactions from occurring in the first place. The researchers found that it could. Krutmann and his colleagues conducted their study using photolyase from AGI Dermatics, a Freeport, N.Y. based biotechnology firm specializing in skin care. Daniel Jarosh, the company's president, says AGI is already selling the enzyme to the cosmetics industry. It now appears in at least one product, an Avon cream. While no sunscreen makers offer photolyase yet, he says, it's only a matter of time before the enzyme hits the beach. *What To Do* If you're fond of tanning salons, beware. Even photolyase can't save your skin from the UVA rays those machines spit out, says Krutmann. To learn more about skin cancer, visit the Skin Cancer Foundation.
	*Back to Health Homer.*