Garlic*

• Lowers LDL cholesterol levels.¹
• Stimulates cell growth and activity.²
• Is a health-building and disease-preventative herb and dissolves cholesterol in the bloodstream.¹
• Opens up the blood vessels and reduces blood pressure in hypertensive patients.³
• Inhibits blood platelets from sticking together.⁴

During World War I and II, physicians used garlic as an antibiotic to prevent soldiers’ wounds from becoming gangrenous; had fantastic results.

*Based on clinical studies, ESCOP (European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy) recognizes the following indications for garlic: “Prophylaxis of atherosclerosis. Treatment of elevated blood lipid levels insufficiently influenced by diet. Improvement of blood flow in arterial vascular disease.” ESCOP also noted that garlic has been used traditionally for relief of cough, colds, catarrh, and rhinitis, although clinical trials are not as abundant to support such uses.

Hawthorn

• Strengthens the heart muscles when used regularly.⁵
• Has been used in preventing arteriosclerosis and in helping conditions like rapid and feeble heart action, heart valve defects, enlarged heart, angina pectoris and difficult breathing owing to ineffective heart action and lack of oxygen in the blood.⁶
  

Cayenne

• Unequalled for warding off diseases and equalizing blood circulation.⁷
• Increases the heart action but not the blood pressure.⁸
• Said to prevent strokes and heart attacks.⁹
• A catalyst, carrying all other herbs quickly to the part of the body where it is most needed, and increases their effectiveness.¹⁰

Alcohol is a very effective solution in mobilizing the herbal properties that are active within plant cells, and is an excellent preservative.

Recovering alcoholic:

Through our experience, recovering alcoholics do not have any problems during or after taking the Strauss Heartdrops^®. When taking a serving of 15 drops the most alcohol ingested is approximately 6 drops. It takes 160 drops to make a teaspoon.

Removing alcohol:

If you are still concerned about consuming alcohol then there is a very simple solution. Simply add the drops to a little (1/8 oz) hot water and then leave for a minute or two, then drink on an empty stomach. This will make the alcohol evaporate off, while maintaining the benefits of the herbs.

The Strauss family has been aware of the medicinal benefits of herbs for centuries, to assist in validating their beliefs and to supply additional information on herbs we have supplied some historical uses of the individual ingredients comprised from both Traditional and Modern herbal books.

1) Warshafsky, S., et al. "Effect of Garlic on Total Serum Cholesterol''. Annals of InternalMedicine 1993, 119:599 – 605

2) Abdullah et al. (1989) found that Aged Garlic Extract enhanced natural killer cell activity and improved helper/suppressor T cell ratios in AIDS patients. After only six weeks intake, natural killer cell activity was within the normal range for all subjects. Further, patients in this study noted improvements in diarrhea, candidiasis, pansinusitis with recurrent fever and interruption of recurrent cycles of genital herpes

3) Silagy CA, Neil HAW. A meta-analysis of the effect of garlic on blood pressure. Journal of Hypertension, 1994; 12 (4):463-468

4) Kikuchi, N. et al. 1994. Clinical effects of Leopin-five (LE-5) and garlic extract (GE) on peripheral microcirculation. Shinyaku To Rinsho (Jpn. J. New Remedies Clin.) 43(1): 146- 158. Okuhara, T. 1994. Clinical study of garlic extract on peripheral circulation. Jpn. Pharmacol. Therapeut. 22(8): 3695-3701

5 + 6) Schussler M, et al. Myocardial effects of flavonoids from Crataegus species. Arzneim Forsch Drug Res 1995;45:842-5. Holzl J, et al. [Studies of pharmacological mechanism of action of Craetaegus fraction and their analytical characteristics.] Arch Pharm 1988;321:631. Abdul-Ghani AS, et al. Hypotensive effect of Crataegus exyacantha. Int J Crude Drug Res 1987; 25:216

7 - 10) Capsicum. Therapeutic Powerhouse and Herbal Catalyst. Pleasant Grove, UT: Woodland Publishing; 1996