{"id":323,"date":"2012-10-21T19:20:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T19:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/?p=323"},"modified":"2012-10-21T19:22:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T19:22:56","slug":"bilberry-huckleberry-cranberry-blueberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"Bilberry, Huckleberry, Cranberry, Blueberry"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a title=\"Bilberry\" href=\"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/?page_id=317\">Bilberry (slide 47)<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The European species of blueberry.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s big claim to fame is increasing blood circulation throughout the body, especially to the head and eyes.<\/p>\n<p>It became famous for enhancing night vision by increasing blood circulation to the eyes, thus increases the clarity of vision during the night.\u00c2\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t increase acuity (ability to see better\/sharper) but it does enhance the brilliance of the image that you are seeing.<\/p>\n<p>All the research that has been done on this family of plants has been done on bilberry.\u00c2\u00a0 The European Bilberry is closely related to<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>blueberries<\/li>\n<li>huckleberry<\/li>\n<li>cranberry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Because it is known in Europe, they make it high tech and export it for a high price to us.\u00c2\u00a0 My question is whether it is worth the cost.\u00c2\u00a0 You can use blueberries or cranberries, but the scientific studies use bilberries.<\/p>\n<p>Bilberries also help to stiffen up the capillaries so it would be used for varicose veins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bilberry (slide 47) The European species of blueberry.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s big claim to fame is increasing blood circulation throughout the body, especially to the head and eyes. It became famous for enhancing night vision by increasing blood circulation to the eyes, thus increases the clarity of vision during the night.\u00c2\u00a0 It &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15,29,1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-circulatory-system","category-eyes","category-lecture-2","category-module1","category-western-herbs","column","threecol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}