Immune System & Immune Disorders

Vitamin C

Vitamin C

Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) is a very important essential nutrient—that is, we must obtain it from diet. It is found only in the fruit and

Childhood Allergies

Childhood Allergies

About one in every six children in the U.S. is allergic to one or more substances ranging from pollen, animal dander, house feathers, mites, chemicals, and a variety of foods. Janet Zand, OMD, LAc looks at both the conventional and alternative...

Common Cold

Common Cold

About 30 million Americans are coughing, sneezing, and blowing their noses while you read this. What's wrong with them? They have the most common illness we know, the common cold. The common cold usually lasts 3 to 7 days and the average person gets...

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A Systems Approach to Wellness

In conventional medicine, the primary function of the physician is diagnosis, i.e., identifying which disease a person is suffering from. This disease-diagnosis orientation leads to the disease-treatment, symptom-relief system that dominates health...

Medicinal Mushrooms II

Medicinal Mushrooms II

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...

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