CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, April 16, 1985
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The spice of life
Culinary herbs flavor cures
Photo illustration by Buddy Mangine;KANSAN
By GREG LARSON Staff Reporter
When a child is sick, most parents call a doctor and rely on modern medicine for a cure. But not Hal Sears.
Sears, who works at a natural food store in Lawrence, said last week that he had used a combination of the herbs myrrh and goldenseal to cure an infection his 10-day-old daughter had.
"Herbs appeal to people who like to live in their imagination," Sears said. "The herbs are easier to relate to than a little white pill.
There is a real attraction to herbal medicine, which days of sorcerers and alchemen, but not
Rows of herbs in glass gallon jars line a wall of the Community Mercantile Co-op, 700 Maine St., where Sears works. The store offers many traditional culinary herbs, such as garlic and cayenne pepper, but it also offers dandelion root and catnip.
POINTING TO A red substance in one of the jars, Sears said. "Cayenne pepper can be used for colds. It burns very quickly and after a while it has a soothing feeling.
"Other herbs, like licorice root, are often used for sore throats."
Sears said herbs worked in varying degrees for different people.
Traditionally home remedies have been lauded as cures for just about everything. Ordinary garlic has been tabbed as a cure for tuberculosis, parts of the thistle have been used to help control high blood pressure and avocados are supposed to serve as an aphrodisiac.
"IWOULDN'T advise people to use herbs if they are really sick, but I think they have their place," he said. "I am always very touch with your body through them."
About half of the store's customers, according to Sears, use the herbs for cooking.
Allan Gnag, 1205 New Jersey St. said he regularly bought herbs from the store to help combat his high blood pressure.
"I've cut my hypertension medicine in half since a friend told me about herbs two months ago," he said. "Since taking the herbs, I can sleep better and feel like exercising more."
Ronald McGregor, professor of botany and director of the herbarium in the Botanical Research Complex on West Campus, said he took a dim view of people taking herbs to cure illnesses.
But a KU professor said yesterday that the medicinal value of herbs and their effect on the human body were questionable.
"NOME OF THE herbs work, but
there is no way to determine the
strength and dosage," he said. "I wouldn't take herbs and I know the plants."
Gilbert Theege, resident of Kansa-
s City, Mo., and he studied herbs for
him.
"This is not just something you can go into," he said
By KATHY FLANDERS Staff Reporter
Spring spawns exposure cases
Spring has arrived in Lawrence, and the warmer weather is keeping police busy with indecent exposure cases.
Three cases of indecent exposure have been reported in Lawrence during the past week. Lawrence police said yesterday.
Lt. Mike Hall, crime analyst for the Lawrence police, said, "I can't tell that causes this kind of thing, but that is what it as the weather gets warmer."
One case occurred shortly after 10 p.m. Tuesday in the 2100 block of Kasold Drive. A woman answered a knock on her door and found a man with his jeans down
around his knees and a magazine over his face.
The police report described the man as being about 5-foot-5, medium build, with blond or red hair. He was wearing a long sleeved shirt and blue jeans.
The suspect was described as a white male wearing a blue jacket.
TWO CASES OF indecent exposure were reported Sunday. One occurred at about 8:30 p.m in the 800 block of Michigan Street. The apartment knocked on a student's attention. The student attended. When the student looked out the window, the suspect exposed himself to her, police said.
white mate wearing a blue jacket. The third incident happened at about 9 p.m. Sunday in the 1000 block of Emery Road.
The victim, a student, was walking to her apartment when a
man came up to her and asked her what time it was. She told him that when she got to her apartment she would yell down the exact time to him. Before she could go to her apartment, he exposed himself.
Lt. Jeanne Longaker of the KU police said three to four cases of indecent exposure usually were made in early spring and early fall.
Longaker said it was important that victims reported cases of indecent exposure.
"IF IT HAPPENS any more than that, then it's not being reported. Longer sapper. A lot more concern than by itself. They're not threatened by it."
"If we can get any kind of identifiable information, then we can put together what is apparently a pattern," she said.
City to clarify renewal board's role
By MIKE GREEN
Staff Reporter
The Lawrence City Commission is expected to discuss the powers that have been delegated to the Urban Board at its meeting tonight.
This board was created by the commission in January to help with downtown redevelopment.
In a study session two weeks ago concerning the board, commissioners were confused about what powers the board possessed. The commission agreed that the board had two powers with the two proposed results in Law.
The two projects are Town Center Venture Corporation's proposal to build a mall in the 600 block of Massachusetts Street, and a proposal from a group of Lawrence businessmen to build a mail along the Kansas River just north of City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets. The two projects are not related.
THE COMMISSION also is expected to receive a report from the organizers of the Stewart Avenue block party went. The block party was Friday.
Commissioner David Longhurst requested the report at the April 2 commission meeting, after the commission had voted to close Stewart Avenue for the party. Longhurst said he wanted information about any problems that might have occurred at the event.
Yesterday, city commissioners met for a study session, in which they received information about the services provided by the Bert Nash Mental Health Center and about the center's sources of financing.
The Bert Nash Mental Health Center, 336 Missouri St., is a non-profit corporation that provides a variety of services to Douglas County residents. These services include family therapy, services for sexually abused children and services for divorced families.
The center also does court evaluations for children and adults. Mike Glover, city prosecuter and former chairman of the Bert Nash board of a state commission that he had referred many people to the center for evaluation.
He said these evaluations helped him identify people who could be placed in the program.
Sandra Shaw, the center's executive director, told commission members that she thought financing from the state and federal governments would remain stable for the next two years.
County shelves ambulance plans
Staff Reporter
By MIKE GREEN Staff Reporter
A proposal for Douglas County to provide ambulance services in the event of an accident at the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant was tabled yesterday by the Douglas County Commission. The commission decided that it had too little information to take action.
Kansas Bureau of Emergency Medical Services earlier this month.
The proposal was made by the
The proposal was made in a letter to Ted McFarlane, director of the Douglas County Ambulance Service. McFarlane said the proposal was for Douglas County to provide ambulances and personnel to help treat victims in one of nuclear accident at Wolf Creek, which is near Burlington, a small town about 90 miles southwest of Lawrence.
McFarlane said Douglas County was being asked to participate in this agreement because part of the county was within 50 miles of Wolf Creek.
McParlane said he would call the emergency service to try to get more information. McParlane and commissioners said they had several questions about the proposal that needed to be answered before they could act on the proposal.
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