Tag: Alternative Medicine

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Acupuncture Gives Hope For PTSD, Surgery & People In Battle

With acupuncture having roots in Chinese medicine going back over thousands of years, it seems silly to choose such a title for this article. However, in the twenty-first century it appears that the United States is only beginning to consider the many benefits that acupuncture has to offer. All too often, the mainstream view of acupuncture is that of a complementary treatment – one which holds an inferior position to chemical drugs and pharmaceutical treatments. Yet most licensed acupuncturists can attest to the fact that their craft is key to maintaining and improving health. Among the many health challenges facing Western medicine, post-traumatic stress disorder (P.T.S.D.) and chronic pain stick out as sad reminders of our failing medical system. Chronic pain is the number one cause of adult disability in […] Read More

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Top Anti-Inflammatory Foods, Herbs, and Spices

Dr. Mercola By Dr. Mercola Herbs and cooking spices contain a wide variety of antioxidants, minerals and vitamins, and help maximize the nutrient density of your meals. Every time you flavor your meals with herbs or spices you are literally “upgrading” your food without adding a single calorie. In fact, on a per gram fresh weight basis, herbs rank even higher in antioxidant activity than fruits and vegetables, which are known to be high in antioxidants. Many studies have also shown that most spices tend to have unique medicinal qualities. In the featured study,1 researchers from three Universities devised an experiment to evaluate the “true world” benefits of herbs and spices, by feeding them to people in quantities that are typically consumed simply by spicing […] Read More

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Marijuana Backed By More Studies Than Most FDA Approved Pharma Drugs

Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society Many pharma drugs have only one clinical trial. Marijuana and its use has been studied over the course of the last few decades more so than even many leading FDA-approved pharmaceutical drugs, with researchers categorizing the effects of marijuana to a much greater degree than many of the pharmaceutical drugs you or your family may currently be taking. In a revelation that really demonstrates our scientific focus in the United States, where marijuana is still considered by federal law to be a dangerous and illegal substance placed in the same class as hard drugs like heroin, even mainstream media publications have begun calling out the strange doctrine of the medical community that pushes pharma drugs on the public at warp speed. This, […] Read More

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5 Myths About Marijuana Debunked

Owen Poindexter, AlterNet Waking Times The more research is released, the more legalization makes sense. Back in the 1930s, the arguments to criminalize cannabis were bizarre and openly racist. The anti-pot crusader Harry Anslinger made all sorts of over-the-top claims, such as, “Marihuana is a short cut to the insane asylum. Smoke marihuana cigarettes for a month and what was once your brain will be nothing but a storehouse of horrid specters.” Nowadays more than 100 million Americans say they’ve smoke pot, millions use cannabis regularly to treat illnesses and it is as legal as alcohol in two U.S. states. However, it remains illegal under federal law largely due to scare tactics ingrained in our society, which date back even prior to Anslinger. Today, pot […] Read More

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How to Stop Procrastination

With Twitter, Facebook, emails, texting, and having access to hundreds of television channels we now have more than a million ways to get distracted. I wouldn’t call myself a procrastinator but I have found that there have been certain situations that I have found a way to put off until the very last moment. Science is now showing that it’s due to a battle in the brain causing you to put things off and not that Mercury was in retrograde. But how does a person who has a lifelong habit of putting things off learn how to stop procrastinating? Why we procrastinate When we are confronted with an activity that we don’t really want to do and put it off we aren’t scoffing responsibility. In […] Read More

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This Phenomenon Could Replace Some Pharmaceutical Medications & Produces Remarkable Results

To demonstrate the true power of our thoughts, let us consider the placebo effect. The Power of Belief and the Placebo Effect The belief that you are getting help, such as a treatment for depression or cancer, can actually cause your condition to improve. It might be easier to see how placebos influence depression with its more direct connection to thoughts, but it is also true that thoughts have an effect on something as concrete as the growth of cancer cells or blood pressure.  A review of relevant literature by Straus and von Ammon Cavanaugh (1996) show how placebo effects are widespread, known  in medication, psychotherapy and even surgery! Interestingly, it is not only the patient’s but also of the physician’s belief that effects how […] Read More

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1999: The Witch Hunt on Alternative Medicine

by Wes Penre August 9, 1999 In the mid 1970’s President James E. Carter signed a Rockefeller document called the “Global 2000 Report”. The basic intention with this report was to reduce the American population to 10% the current level, and the CFR’s [Council on Foreign Relations] insider newsletter has expressed its’ intents to help that process along in the USA to about 45% current population levels. The agenda is very much on its way through immune-whacking vaccines they injected in us when we were children. James E. Carter “Hm … Maybe I shouldn’t have done that…” The media feed us constantly with threats of a World War III, but they don’t tell us that WW III is a “Silent War“(1), and it has already […] Read More

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Yarrow

Latin Name: Achillea millefolium Common Method of Extraction: Steam Distilled Color: Dark Blue Consistency: Medium Perfumery Note: Middle Strength of Initial Aroma: Medium – Strong Aromatic Description: Sharp, woody, herbaceous. Purpose: Yarrow flower essence strengthens the auric field and serves as an energy shield by absorbing negative energies and transforming them into positive energies. Purifies environmental toxins. Yarrow is the perfect remedy for anyone who is experiencing exhaustion or has leaks in their human energy field. Positive Qualities: purifier energy shield balancer Yarrow is not one of the original Bach Flower Remedies Possible Uses: Fever, hair care, hemorrhoids, hypertension, indigestion, insomnia, migraine, scars, stretch marks, varicose veins, wounds. [Julia Lawless, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Essential Oils (Rockport, MA: Element Books, 1995), 56-67.] Constituents: Tri Cyclen, […] Read More

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Herbal First Aide Kit

Below is a list of preparations you will find effective in treating and soothing everyday ailments. Keep them on hand and use them for your First Aid Herbal Approach Lavender Essential Oil Sinus headaches. Rub 2 drops of lavender into the forehead. Mix together – 3 drops of lavender essential oil into 1 tsp. of olive oil. Massage temples and neck to relieve headaches. Honey Draws pus out of wounds. Use as cough reliever. Mix 2 Tbs. lemon juice and 2 Tbs. honey in a small container. Sip slowly. Honey is also a natural antibiotic, and it truly does work to heal minor cuts. Is also good taken plain for sore throats and colds. Aloe Vera Soothes minor burns and sunburn. Garlic Used to rid […] Read More

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Oregano: Nature”s Healer

Dr. Cass Igram Dr. Cass Igram is a physician, educator and author of over 10 books, including his latest, ”The Cure is in The Cupboard. He is considered the world”s leading authority on Down in the Trenches I spent the better part of 1995-1996 investigating the therapeutic values of wild Oregano, and publishing the first book on its health benefits called, The Cure is in The Cupboard. I call wild Oregano nature”s most versatile essential oil. Oregano oil is a power-house for: Fighting yeast, fungus (skin and blood-born) Knocking out allergies, hay fever and sinusitis And stopping infections (cold and flu). I learned about its strength first hand, as I suffered from a  blood-born fungal infection that incapacitated me several years ago. I had to […] Read More