Coffee Beats Statins In Reducing Diabetes Inflammation
From Harvard: a two years old trial found that diabetic women who drank coffee had 10% less inflammation in their blood vessels, shown by lower CRP levels than controls for each additional cup of...
View ArticleChinese Herbal Medicine Used in Outer Space
The Shenzhou Vll spacecraft successfully lifted off from China carrying traditional Chinese herbal medicine to prevent the astronauts (taikonauts) from getting motion sickness. Taikong Yangxin, or...
View ArticleWhat is Fatty Liver and How Can Chinese Medicine Help?
Fatty liver is now recognized as the most common cause of abnormal liver function tests in the western world. Around one in five persons in the USA has a fatty liver and it is poised to be as big a...
View ArticleRussian Folk Remedies
A fascinating look at Russian herbal folk medicine from the St. Petersburg Times: Mumiyo is the Russian form of Shilajit. I suspect they mean charcoal instead of coal. Garlic, Mustard and Herbs:...
View ArticleThe Herb-Blog Party
Blog Party! The Wonderful and Weedy Ones It’s here! It’s the blog party! We have an amazing collection of writings on all sorts of weedy wonders that herbalists near and far love dearly. Here’s the...
View ArticleNumen, an Extraordinary Film About The Plants
Numen is a film that previewed at the International Herbal Symposium this June. It features prominent herbalists, botanists and ethnobotanists like Rosemary Gladstar, Tierona LowDog, the late Bill...
View ArticleTurmeric, Sweet Turmeric
Turmeric is an extraordinary herb. An orangey-yellow root that looks something like a riotous ginger, turmeric is beloved in Indian culture for its abilities to soothe the GI tract, reduce...
View ArticleThe Sweet Herbal Blog Party
Each month herbalists are encouraged to submit articles to the Herbal Blog Parties, hosted by various herbalists. The August party had as its theme sweet ways to use herbs, including herbal honey’s,...
View ArticleHow to Make A Plantain Spit Poultice
I got a phone call this morning from a woman who had been bitten by an insect and was swelling up. Fortunately I had a picture of broad leaf plantain on my website so was able to tell her how to make...
View ArticleVideo on Making Plantain Poultices
My article on how to make a plantain spit poultice now has a YouTube video to illustrate the technique. Keewaydinoquay's story on plantain is the articles section: Plantain: A Weedy Lifesaver. [...]
View ArticleVitamin D, Statins and Red Yeast Rice
Rosuvastatin was found to increase blood levels of Vitamin D. Red Rice Yeast is a statin but less dangerous. If you cannot raise 20 Hydroxy D levels with Vitamin D3 alone, try Red Rice Yeast [...]
View ArticleDon’t Use Echinacea for This Season’s Flu
A flu that causes a cytokine storm should not be treated with immunostimulants like echinacea. Immunomodulating herbs like forsythia and gardenia are less likely to overstimulate the immune system. [...]
View ArticleHerbs and Hypertension
Hypertension is a silent disease which can be lethal. An estimated 60 million Americans suffer from the disease. It causes strokes, heart attacks,heart failure, kidney disease, arterial aneurysm and...
View ArticleSinusitis and Herbs
This is the time of year when we see a lot of sinusitis. There are several causes, and many things that can get rid of the condition. It helps to understand how sinuses work. The sinuses form a kind of...
View ArticleQuote of the Day
“Blinded by the fruit, we often ignore the full range of a plant’s possibilities. We’re never more than a stone’s throw away from a cup of coffee, yet few of us have ever tasted amertassa or kuti, the...
View ArticlePeople Use Herbalism Because It Works Better
A recent study in Great Britain queried people as to why they went to medical herbalists, a category of herbalists who have training much like Registered Herbalists of the American Herbalists Guild,...
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