Articles: medicine

Mastering the Actions of Herbs

Want to become a master in medicinal herbs? The first step to using these herbs successfully is understanding the actions…

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How to Decipher and Soothe Coughs: A Guide to Getting Through Cold & Flu Season

During cold and flu season, finding an alternative way to soothe coughs could save you an unnecessary trip to the…

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Tips & Tricks for Harvesting and Drying Herbs

Harvesting and drying herbs correctly is a very important part of the process when it comes to making your own…

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Herbal Remedies for Burns, Bites, Stings, and Wounds

There are a number of herbs & herbal treatments that help reduce skin discomfort. Herbal formulas serve as remedies for…

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Herbal Formulas for Migraines and Other Headaches

Suffering from frequent headaches is miserable and immobilizing. If you haven’t had luck treating and preventing your headaches, skip the…

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The Taste of Herbalism: What Your Tongue is Telling You

If you’ve ever cooked with herbs, you know that taste plays a huge role when deciding which ones to use.…

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Changing Oral Medicine

Did you know that many common chronic conditions—including obesity, inflammation, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, and cancer, among others—often have…

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The Low-Tech Medicine Cabinet

The following is an excerpt from When Disaster Strikes (November 2011) by Matthew Stein. It has been adapted for the…

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Putting the Health Back in Health Care

The United States is the sickest nation in the Western world. Despite modern innovations in science, our health care system…

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Plant and Mushroom Medicines for Cancer

Chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery are the main cancer treatments people turn to when diagnosed. These high-risk and chemical-heavy options aren’t…

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The Terrifying Diagnosis: Where Do We Go from Here?

Cancer is a terrifying diagnosis for many people and their loved ones. While the medical community has made immense progress…

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A New Culture in Health Care

In the face of the American healthcare crisis, some companies have acknowledged the system’s effect on employee productivity and made…

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DIY Fecal Transplant – Pretty Close to Miraculous

After suffering from an antibiotic-resistant infection in her bowels, Catherine Duff contracted Clostridium difficile (C. diff). This bacteria can result…

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A Guide to Okra: Ok-RAH-RAH-RAH!

Expert okra enthusiast Chris Smith writes regularly for The Heirloom Gardener, the Mother Earth News blog, and the Farmers’ Almanac…

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Treating Hyperthyroidism: Natural Herbal Formulas

Your thyroid is responsible for controlling many of your body’s functions including metabolism, temperature, and controls some hormones. Hyperthyroidism occurs…

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The Ketogenic Diet, Cancer, Nutrition, and the Mind-Body Link

For decades, the ketogenic diet—which shifts the body’s metabolism from burning glucose to burning fat, lowering blood sugar and insulin…

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Food Pyramids and Medical Literature: Flawed Studies

We’ve all seen multiple iterations of food pyramids highlighting key food groups; read hundreds of articles about the next big…

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Bioregulatory Medicine

Modern Diseases and the Rise of the Allopathic Model

Chronic and degenerative illnesses are largely new to mankind. In fact, diseases such as cancer, diabetes, fibromyalgia, and multiple sclerosis…

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What is Bioregulatory Medicine?

Finding out you have a chronic or degenerative illness can be overwhelming and mind-numbing on its own. Add to that…

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Heart Health: Herbal Formulas and Medicinals

Whether you use them as a precautionary measure or for their restorative properties, there’s no denying the power of herbs…

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Mitochondrial Theory: Setting the Mitochondrial Thermostat

In his new book, naturopathic doctor Lee Know takes a deep dive into how our mitochondrial work and
 the implications…

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Sustainable Medicine: Power to the Patients

In her book Sustainable Medicine, Dr. Sarah Myhill aims to empower people to heal themselves by addressing the underlying causes…

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What is Autoimmunity?

Autoimmunity, the body’s immune system fighting off its own healthy cells and tissue, is concerning to the say the least.…

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Toxic Food, Sick Kids, and the Limits of Medicine: The Perfect Storm

Why is it that approximately 40% of children now have a food allergy? Is the industrial & toxic food system…

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The Art of Herbal Formulas: Asking the Right Questions

The presentations of illnesses can vary greatly across patients, requiring specific alterations to formulas. As Hippocrates said, “It is more important…

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