Mushrooms have been valued as both food and medicine throughout the world for thousands of years, but until recently, many in the West associated all mushrooms with poison. The recent surge of Western interest in medicinal mushrooms shows that this...
Mary walked into the acupuncturist's office and surveyed the situation.
She was a little uncertain, this being her first trip to a Chine
James Ryan never thought he would be drinking herbal tea straight from an apple-juice bottle. But a lot of things had changed over the last year. He never thought he would be alive now, either, and here he was talking to me about his incredible...
Losing Addictions Naturally ;Let's meet a few people in the office of Bartlett Insura
Everybody's allergic to something. Cat hair, grass pollen, wheat bread by the slice, cow's milk and eggs. What about work? Often the subject of our reactivity is at first benign; it is only later that the obvious and sometimes very uncomfortable...
The over the Counter (OTC) drugs Aspirin and acetominophin (the main
active ingredient of Tylenol and other analgesics) are two of the w
When European settlers began to arrive in what is now Massachusetts at the beginning of the 17th century, they brought the plants and remedies they knew, along with a few of the famous works on herbal medicine that were consulted by all. For...
Tonics, Bitters and Digestion ;"What does bitter have to do with good digestion?" an Am
Botanical Taxonomy -- A Historical Summary ;The names of the plants, whether scientific or common ar
The following outline covers the therapeutic categories most often recommended in western herbal practice. Some diets include the Live foods (purifying diet), Macrobiotic diet, Protein-shock (mitogen) therapy (Enderlein therapy, Mistletoe, poke...
Christopher Hobbs LAc AHG