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Herbs & Herbal Medicine
The following articles
relate to herbal medicine. Some focus on
specific herbs while others focus on an
ailment or practice. Scroll down for an introduction to our featured articles, or
click directly to one of the articles from the list on the right. All
information in these articles is meant
to informative not to be used as
diagnostic or as a prescription. See the
advice of a professional before
embarking on a new healing regime. |
Nature's Pharmacy
 by
Peter Fenton.
Mongol doctors, it is said, use every conceivable plant to make medicines. Once
I heard a Mongol doctor say that all of those flowers on which butterflies sit
are ready medicine for various diseases. And these offer good vitamins, too. |
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Prostate
Health
by Dr. Elson Haas
It appears that common
diseases among men over 50 involve the prostate sex organ.The modern lifestyle of
stress set the stage for chronic, debilitating and degenerative diseases,
including prostate enlargement and prostate
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Herbal Remedies for Alzheimer's
Alzheimer's characterized by a degeneration of nerve terminals in the brain. More specifically, neurofibrils (tiny conductive pathways) become tangled, resulting in incorrect messages being transmitted. When this occurs, it affects a person's memory and one tends to become forgetful.
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Ojibwa Tea:Myth Or Remedy
Ojibwa Tea has a history dating back over
100 years. Believed to have great healing powers, the formula was originally prepared by
the Ojibway Indians of Cobal Ontario, Canada. When an Ojibwa medicine man offered the
herbal drink to a lady suffering from breast cancer, the cancer healing aspect was
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Herbal
Remedies For Acne
by Saho-Mei
Zhang, M.S.(China) L.Ac.
Acne is characterized by skin blemishes or pimples and can
occur at any point throughout one's lifetime. Since it is related to hormonal
imbalance, acne frequently appears at puberty and in women over forty as they
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Harvesting
& Storing Herbs
by
Judy Gilliard
During the 1970s and 1980s, Americans turned away
from the kitchen and headed for fast foods. Now we want to prepare healthful dishes, but we
want to do it without much fuss. It's easy to have an herb
garden -- fresh
parsley can be grown in a pot on a windowsill. Remember, a kitchen garden today
literally means a garden that will grow inside your
kitchen.
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Flower Essences:
by Ricardo Milberg
The early use of flowers as a form of medicine is probably as old as man himself. The first references that we have in a written form can be placed in the 1500's with prominent figures such as Nostradamus and
Paracelsus. The shape, color, taste, smell and other parts of the plant give hints for its use in healing.
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