Don't Confuse Real Healing With Suppression Of The Disease
When a person experiences relief from any treatment, conventional or alternative, one should not necessarily assume that a real healing has occurred.
When a person experiences relief from any treatment, conventional or alternative, one should not necessarily assume that a real healing has occurred.
Dana Ullman | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living
Our medical thinking has become totally militaristic. It is not just happenstance that doctors proudly assert that they seek to attack illness, combat disease, kill infective agents, and create a war on cancer.
latimes.com | Tammy Worth | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living
It's unlikely that Americans will lose their love affair with complementary medicine, so the best thing to do is to make the practice as safe as possi...
Dana Ullman | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living
Virtually every biography of Charles Darwin refers to his health problems and acknowledges that the one physician who provided an effective treatment for him was Dr. James Manby Gully.
Dana Ullman | Posted 10.30.2009 | Living
We all know people who have children who have benefited from conventional medical care, but sadly, we all also know people whose children have been harmed by it.
Dana Ullman | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living
There is little evidence that flu vaccines are effective in preventing the flu, says one of the world's leading expert on influenza vaccines.
Dana Ullman | Posted 10.01.2009 | Living
A fever enables the body to increase its production of interferon, an important antiviral substance that is critical for fighting infection. Fever also increases white blood cell mobility and activity, which are instrumental factors in fighting infection.
nytimes.com | Anahad O'Connor | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living
For allergies, doctors recommend irrigating the sinus cavity with a mild saline solution. One option is to snort warm salt water from cupped hands, bu...
nytimes.com | The New York Times | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living
There are many new strategies -- especially in alternative medicine -- for dealing with fibromyalgia in a way that helps many patients live with the d...
Dana Ullman | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living
The challenge to physicians, healers, and patients is to determine when to help aid the inner wisdom of the body and when to intervene to make certain that the body does not harm itself.
Huffington Post | Michael Macher | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living
Hangovers happen to the very best of us. We all know the familiar story: the evening starts off innocently enough--you go to a party to unwind after a...
nytimes.com | Anahad O'Connor | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living
Arnica Montana, a plant native to mountainous areas of Europe and North America, has been used for centuries to treat a variety of pain....
Jacob Dickerman | Posted 06.05.2009 | Living
Unfortunately, people looking to help protect themselves and their families are being preyed upon by a group whose theory of medicine goes counter to everything that is known about physiology, physics, chemistry, germ theory, and hydro-dynamics.
Anne Dunev | Posted 03.01.2009 | Living
Studies indicate it is not the cold of winter that causes an increase in flu, but the lowered humidity.
Dana Ullman | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living