[Latin Name] Griffonia simplicifolia

[Plant Source] Griffonia Seed

[Specifications] 98%; 99% HPLC

[Appearance] White fine powder

Plant Part Used: Seed

[Particle size] 80 Mesh

[Loss on drying] ≤5.0%

[Heavy Metal] ≤10PPM

[Pesticide residue] EC396-2005, USP 34, EP 8.0, FDA

[Storage] Store in cool & dry area, keep away from the direct light and heat.

[Shelf life] 24 Months

[Package] Packed in paper-drums and two plastic-bags inside.

[Net weight] 25kgs/drum

[What is 5-HTP]

5-HTP (5-Hydroxytryptophan) is a chemical by-product of the protein building block L-tryptophan. It is also produced commercially from the seeds of an African plant known as Griffonia simplicifolia 5-HTP is used for sleep disorders such as insomnia, depression, anxiety, migraine and tension-type headaches, fibromyalgia, obesity, premenstrual syndrome (PMS), premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), seizure disorder, and Parkinson’s disease.

 [How does it work?]

5-HTP works in the brain and central nervous system by increasing the production of the chemical serotonin. Serotonin can affect sleep, appetite, temperature, sexual behavior, and pain sensation. Since 5-HTP increases the synthesis of serotonin, it is used for several diseases where serotonin is believed to play an important role including depression, insomnia, obesity, and many other conditions.

[Function]

Depression. Some clinical research shows that taking 5-HTP by mouth improve symptoms of depression in some people. Some clinical research shows that taking 5-HTP by mouth might be as beneficial as certain prescription antidepressant drugs for improving depression symptoms. In most studies, 150-800 mg daily of 5-HTP was taken. In some cases, higher doses have been used.

Down syndrome. Some research shows that giving 5-HTP to infants with Down syndrome might improve muscle and activity. Other research shows that it does not improve muscle or development when taken from infancy until 3-4 years of age. Research also shows that taking 5-HTP along with conventional prescription drugs does improve development, social skills, or language skills.

Anxiety 5-HTP was found to be protective against carbon dioxide-induced panic attacks. One study compared 5-HTP and the prescription medication clomipramine for anxiety. Clomipramine is a tricyclic antidepressant used for treating obsessive-compulsive disorder. 5-HTP was found to be somewhat effective in reducing anxiety symptoms, but not as effective as clomipramine.

Sleep 5-HTP supplements fared a little better for insomnia.5-HTP decreased the time required to get to sleep and decreased the number of nighttime awakenings. Taking 5-HTP along with GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid), a relaxing neurotransmitter, reduced the time it took to fall asleep and increased the duration and quality of sleep. One study found that children with night terrors benefited from 5-HTP.

Lloyd Wright, author of the just released Hepatitis C: A Do-It Yourself Guide for Health, talking about Blueberry Extract, an effective agent for preventing or slowing down the replication of the Hepatitis C Virus. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a major cause of chronic liver disease such as chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma. While searching for new natural anti-HCV agents in agricultural products, we found a potent inhibitor of HCV RNA expression in extracts of blueberry leaves when examined in an HCV subgenomic replicon cell culture system.

This activity was observed in a methanol extract fraction of blueberry leaves and was purified by repeated fractionations in reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography. The final purified fraction showed a 63-fold increase in specific activity compared with the initial methanol extracts and was composed only of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. Liquid chromatography/mass-ion trap-time of flight analysis and butanol-HCl hydrolysis analysis of the purified fraction revealed that the blueberry leaf-derived inhibitor was proanthocyanidin.

Furthermore, structural analysis using acid thiolysis indicated that the mean degree of polymerization of the purified proanthocyanidin was 7.7, consisting predominantly of epicatechin. Proanthocyanidin with a polymerization degree of 8 to 9 showed the greatest potency at inhibiting the expression of subgenomic HCV RNA. Purified proanthocyanidin showed dose-dependent inhibition of expression of the neomycin-resistant gene and the NS-3 protein gene in the HCV subgenome in replicon cells.

While characterizing the mechanism by which proanthocyanidin inhibited HCV subgenome expression, we found that heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein A2/B1 showed affinity to blueberry leaf-derived proanthocyanidin and was indispensable for HCV subgenome expression in replicon cells. These data suggest that proanthocyanidin isolated from blueberry leaves may have potential usefulness as an anti-HCV compound by inhibiting viral replication.

Wright knows about the rigors of life with Hepatitis C, and he knows all about wandering in the dark when doctors have no answers. Wright describes the new book, which follows his international best seller Triumph Over Hepatitis C, as “having all the primary information that everyone infected with Hepatitis C must know about. The 200-million people worldwide, about 5 million of them American, can benefit tremendously from Lloyds personal experience with over 200.000 clients who have hep c, most of them having used interferon and had it fail.

Lloyd Wright’s Hepatitis C book builds on the years of work already undertaken and brings valuable new information about ways to combat the destructive virus, Hepatitis C. Hepatitis C: A Do-It Yourself Guide for Health begins by chronicling Wright’s own personal horror story after a 1979 accident brought Hepatitis into his life through a hospital blood transfusion. Following 15 years of pain, suffering and uncertainty he was accidently diagnosed and basically told to get his affairs in order. He refused to accept the fate prescribed to him by doctors and battled against the odds, and he prevailed. To those facing Hep C, Lloyd Wright offers these words of wisdom: “You can, and must, take responsibility for your health. If you are suffering from hepatitis C, you can reclaim your health, get out of bed, get off the couch, forget about disability, and go back to work.”

A Time of Enlightenment (see Table of Contents below), Wright gives the exact supplement regimen followed in what he calls “my own recovery from Hepatitis C.” The supplements, vitamins and herbs taken were “a treatment strategy” that he lays out in Hepatitis C: A Do-It Yourself Guide for Health. A few of the items used were NatCell Thymus, Non-Pasteurized Aloe and Blueberry leaf extract.

One of the new items, Naringenin currently offered by Wright is described in the book as a “powerful flavonoid” found in grapefruit that “shows promise in helping to combat hepatitis C. Naringenin is currently being used for a Phase 1 trial at UCLA. The hepatitis C virus is bound to a very low intensity lipo-protein (one of the so-called “bad” cholesterols), when it is secreted from liver cells, according to a February 4, 2007, article published in Science Daily. Researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Engineering in Medicine reported that the viral secretion required to pass infection to other cells can be blocked by the common flavonoid Naringenin.”

Lloyd Wright in Chapter Two, Hepatitis and Interferon, describes the nature of Hepatitis and the various forms in which it exists, meaning Hepatitis A, B and C, before offering this warning at the end of the section: “If you have Hepatitis C, your medical doctor will prescribe interferon. Before you proceed, read this book.”

For more about Lloyd Wright go to https://alternativemedicinesolution.com

These are seriously delicious! If you have a lasagna pan, use that instead. I didn’t have one, so I used a casserole dish.
Ingredients
-2 boxes of jumbo shells (you will have some left over, so you can just use one box, or make more filling)

*Filling
-1 can of pumpkin
-1 package of silken tofu
-1/2 cup of daiya cheese
-1/4 tsp of garlic powder
-pinch of salt & pepper
-around 7 leaves of fresh sage

*Sauce
-1 cup of soaked raw cashews (it would work if they weren’t soaked too)
-1 & 1/2 cup of non-dairy milk
-2 Tbsp of nutritional yeast
-2-3 leaves of fresh sage
-1/2 tsp of garlic powder (or 2 cloves of garlic)
-1/4 tsp of salt
-1/4 tsp of pepper

cook pasta shells
drain, let cool
Mix stuffing ingredients in a bowl
Blend sauce ingredients in blender
take a tray or casserole dish and poor in some of the sauce, next stuff shells and put on top of sauce. Cover will foil and bake in a preheated oven @ 375 degrees for around 15 minutes. Serve some shells on a dish, poor over some of the sauce on top. Eat and enjoy.

Top with some pumpkin seeds.