Comparison With Prostatitis and Interstitial Cystitis Jillian Stansbury, ND Interstitial cystitis (IC) is frequently reported to affect women 5 times more often than men; however, these statistics may reflect the fact that men are often labeled as having nonbacterial...
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Physical Culture- How Exercise Can Add Years to Your Life
Nature Cure Clinical Pearls Sussanna Czeranko, ND, BBE Gymnastic exercise is undertaken for the purpose of bringing every part of the human frame into action, thereby regulating and accelerating the circulation of our blood and at the same time hardening the entire...
The “White Plague”
Clinical Pearls Sussanna Czeranko, ND, BBE Like a serpent in the grass or among stones lying in ambush for its prey, consumption often begins to do its destroying work in some part of the system before it shows itself openly. -Father Sebastian Kneipp, 1896, p. 240 A...
Microcirculation: A Foundation of Health
Robin DiPasquale, ND, RH (AHG) Microcirculation is defined as the flow of blood through the smallest blood vessels in the body. This includes capillaries, of course, but also arterioles and venules. Enhancing microcirculation in the body will increase oxygen-carrying...
The Hardening of Our Children: What the Nature Cure Physicians Said
Sussanna Czeranko, ND, BBE Regard water as your medicine chest Kneipp often used to say to his followers and friends and there is no better advice for mothers -Benedict Lust, 1900b, p. 103 I do not know of anything more beneficial than walking in the snow, as this...
The Meaning of Yin in Naturopathic Medicine
Pamela Sky Jeanne, ND Yin and yang are less familiar in Western cultures and Western allopathic medicine but are commonly known in many Eastern philosophies, such as Traditional Chinese Medicine, and represent a beautiful concept of how life flows. In Chinese society,...
Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Some Herbal Considerations
Robin DiPasqualey, ND In 1923, the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded for the discovery of insulin, given to Frederick Grant Banting and John James Rickard, who shared the prize with 2 other members of their research team, James Bartram Collip and Charles Herbert...
Herbal High Road Can Alleviate Pain Precisely: Formulas for Acutely Painful Conditions Aimed at Restoring and Correcting Underlying Pathology
Jillian Stansbury, ND Pain is of course a good way to get our attention that something is wrong in the body. We can ignore less urgent symptoms for months and even years on end, but not pain. Treatment of patients with painful conditions and acute pain often has...
Naturopathic Chakra Medicine: Spinning the Energetic Centers
Robin DiPasquale, ND, RH(AHG) My teacher and friend Bill Mitchell used to speak of the herbs that correlated with each of the 7 chakras. Dr Mitchell’s herb choices represented the energetics of the plants that he perceived matched with the energetics of the chakras...
28 Year Old Woman With Acne Vulgaris: Case Study and Follow Up
Debbie Whittington, ND Acne vulgaris is an incredibly common skin disorder in Western developed nations. More adults than ever before are being seen in physicians’ offices with adult-onset acne. In the past, acne was solely blamed on “puberty,” and teenage boys were...