Ruta graveolens Rutaceae Names: Garden Rue, Herb of Grace, Herbygrass. Habitat: Native to Southern Europe, cultivated in Britain and elsewhere as an ornamental. Collection: The herb should be collected before the flowers open in the summer and dried...
Anemone pulsatilla Ranunculaceae Names: Pulsatilla, Wind Flower, Meadow Anemone. Habitat: Europe and parts of Russia, cultivated elsewhere. Collection: The stalks should be gathered at the time of floweringwhich is in March or April.. Part Used:...
Lavandula officinalis Part Used: Flowers. Constituents: Volatile oil, containing linalyl acetate, with linalool, lavandulyl acetate, borneol, camphor, limonene, cadinene, caryophyllene, 4-butanolide, 5-pentyl-5-pentanolide. Coumarins; Umbelliferone...
Tanacetum parthenium Part Used: Leaves. Constituents: Volatile oil, containing pinene and several pinene derivatives, bornylacetate and angelate, costic acid, b-farnesine and spiroketalenol ethers Sesquiterpene lactones; the major one being...
Chiropractors are health professionals who focus on the relationship between the body's structure (primarily the spine) and its function (coordinated by the nervous system). While the spinal dysfunctions or imbalances that chiropractors call the...
If you suffer from headaches and migraines, you can ease your pain without resorting to prescription drugs or over-the-counter medications that often have side effects. For thousands of years, acupuncture and Chinese Herbal medicines have been used...
Americans are worried. Approximately 20–40 million Americans have some form of diagnosable anxiety disorder, another 40 million have trouble with alcohol or drugs, mostly taken to reduce anxiety, and 47 million smoke. The “worried well” represent a...
Re the letter from the glutamate people (WDDTY vol 14 no 8): I don’t need a scientific study to tell me that I get a specific headache the size of a golf ball in the middle of my forehead if I’m unlucky enough to eat food with MSG in it.
Sex is everything - even if it kills you, it seems.
Take, for example, the inexorable rise of Viagra (sildenafil), the male impotency drug from Pfizer.
Women who have had epidurals during labour and birth are more likely to experience long term problems like backache and headache. ...