Healing requires a multi-pronged approach. When Scott Gill learned he had stage four cancer he decided to forgo chemo and simply live a healthier more balanced lifestyle. He is now cancer-free.
Desperation can make for odd decisions, but for those of us attempting to manage the feelings of overwhelm as we do our best to live our lives with an autistic child, it's a too-familiar feeling.
Green medicine transcends the cookie-cutter model that erroneously believes that most, if not all, persons with the same medical condition should respond to the same treatment.
Desperation is the shared feeling almost all parents of autistic children feel at some point. It may be fleeting, but I have yet to meet a parent who did not feel some degree of it.
Green medicine brings together the best of conventional and alternative resources. It's not about eliminating one in favor of the other, but achieving a balanced approach -- unity and diversity.
Unless one is a scientist, and most parents of autistic children I know are not, how does one choose what will help one's child when all we have to go on is anecdotal evidence?
After finishing my Internship at Baragwaneth Hospital in South Africa almost 30 years ago, I went to apprentice in a busy General Practice in Johannes...
Green medicine seeks to stretch beyond its environmental connotation to include that which is beyond physical medicine. The emotional, energetic and physical become equally important.
Nearly all of the herbal dietary supplements tested in a Congressional investigation contained trace amounts of lead and other contaminants, and some ...
Just because a drug treatment seems to eliminate a specific symptom does not necessarily mean that it is "effective." In fact, getting rid of a specific symptom can be the bad news.
Doctors today assert that they practice "scientific medicine," and patients think the treatments they receive are "scientifically proven." However, this ideal is a clever and profitable marketing ruse, not fact.
Already at 9am, the air is hot and heavy in the workshop tent. Fifty or sixty people are present, most of them quite young, taking notes, wonderfully ...
The Meridian system in Oriental medicine represents the five different elements around us. It has been said that a disruption of the energy flow could...
In Port-au-Prince there are no fewer people living in tents or on the streets, but more of them seem out and about, vertical and animated -- selling and shopping
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Evidence suggesting that antibiotics may make people fat is old. As far back as 1955, research published in a leading nutrition journal showed that weight gain may be linked to prolonged antibiotic usage.
A widespread and silent killer that's worse for your health than alcohol and nicotine is likely lurking in your kitchen cabinets. "It" is MSG, a flavor enhancer that's known widely as an addition to Chinese food.
Multiple published studies have revealed the relationship of small daily doses of environmental toxins to health. In this case, the President's panel was looking directly at cancer risk.
What is so sad about depression is that people are looking for a cure -- where it can never be found. It's like looking for health in fast, fried, nutrition-less food.
You probably haven't spent much time thinking about how much bromine you're absorbing from your car upholstery or your Mountain Dew. But bromine toxicity is a danger, and it can wreak havoc on your health.
I attended "Sages and Scientists: The Merging of a New Future" Symposium 2010 at the Chopra Center. The event proved to inspire, humble, and if I'm honest, even overwhelm me with implications for our future.
Numerous surveys have confirmed that people seeking homeopathic treatment tend to be more educated than those who don't. What isn't known is that it's the leading alternative treatment used by Europeans.
Study after study are taking their place in a growing lineup of scientific research demonstrating that consuming high-fructose corn syrup is the fastest way to trash your health.