Jan KnightThe Promise of Peppers Pungent capsicums offer a wide array of health benefits ;In September and October, it's hard to miss the roadside
Christopher Hobbs LAc AHGJames 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...
It is hard to imagine a food that is in more common use throughout the world than garlic. But if garlic is widely accepted and used as a condiment and food, it is not less so, at least today, as a drug. Thus, garlic is one of the best examples of...
Janet Zand LAc OMDHerbal medicine has a long tradition of use in the treatment and prevention of immune-related disorders. And Echinacea is one of the most commonly prescribed botanicals for the immune system. Echinacea is considered a "blood purifier," primarily due...
Pro-Life Therapy with Probiotics ;The human body is a walking ecosystem. Although we do no
Essiac, a harmless herbal tea, was used by Canadian nurse Rene Caisse to successfully treat thousands of cancer patients from the 1920s until her death in 1978 at the age of ninety. Refusing payment for her services, instead accepting only voluntary...
Skies are blue and the birds are singing. Then it starts. You begin sneezing, your eyes water and your head pounds. Hay fever season has arrived. Most people with hay fever and other airborne allergies wait out their misery with patience and...
David L. Hoffmann BSc Hons MNIMHThis fundamentally important area of human life is not only an expression of mystery and miracle, but impacts directly on the future of life on this planet under the pressure of the population explosion. Before exploring some of the ways in which...
With its focus on preventive medicine, holistic approaches to health can
be most helpful in many of the common problems of childhood. If conditions
are brought under control during childhood they can often be avoided entirely in adult life.
A circumscribed ulceration of the mucous membrane penetrating through the muscularis mucosa and occurring in areas exposed to acid and pe
