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Skin-to-Skin Contact: Science Validates Traditional Wisdom

Maternal Instinct is Rooted in Biology and Expressed Through Culture Throughout history, maternal instinct has consistently highlighted the need for mothers to maintain physical closeness with their newborns. Cultural traditions globally, from China's "zuo yuezi" to...

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The Spanish Mantle

The Spanish Mantle

Sussanna Czeranko, ND, BBE Nature Cure Clinical Pearls All the chief pores of the whole body are opened by the Spanish mantle in a very mild way; the dirt and phlegm are excreted. - Benedict Lust, 1900, p.37   Younger persons dip the Spanish mantle into a cold...

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Male Sexual Health: An Ayurvedic Perspective

Virender Sodhi, MD (Ayurved), ND Viagra, Levitra, and Cialis have become household names. While fanfare about the effects of these drugs is compelling, there are major side effects associated with each of these medications. Television reports, magazines, and...

Eryngium, Epilobium, and Fouquieria: Overlooked Men’s Health Herbs

Eric Yarnell, ND, RH(AHG) Most naturopathic physicians are of course familiar with the use of Serenoa repens (saw palmetto) and a handful of other herbs (Prunus africanum [pygeum] and Urtica dioica [nettles] root) in men’s health. Because few naturopathic physicians...

Salicylates in Salix, Populus and Betula

Eric Yarnell, ND, RH(AHG) These three medicinal trees all contain significant quantities of salicylates, on the order of 3%-10% by dry weight in bark and leaves. Many ancient texts, including the Ebers papyrus (approximately 5,100 years old), recommend these and...

Taxus brevifolia (Pacific yew) and Cancer

Eric Yarnell, ND, RD(AHG) In 1963 the National Cancer Institute found that extracts of Taxus brevifolia (Pacific yew) bark were active in vitro against cancer cells. A sample was sent to researcher Monroe Wall, PhD, in North Carolina to follow up. Wall and associates...

Agaricus blazei Murrill: Immune System Ally; Cancer Foe

Ronald Steriti, NMD, PHD For thousands of years, mushrooms have been used as food and medicine. The Greek physician, Hippocrates (460 BC—377 BC), considered the “Father of Medicine,” mentions fungi in his writings for use when treating chronic kidney disease. Although...

A Case of Chronic Mastitis

Margaret Beeson, ND “In May of 1998 I was diagnosed with blood poisoning in my left breast. A red painful line was emanating from the lower left side of my breast and moving toward my underarm area. I was given a treatment of antibiotics and thought that was the end...

Viral Disease and Naturopathic Medicine

Dr. Ancharski Many experts predict that viral disease will be the key focus in medicine in the decades ahead. Much of the population is unaware of the influenza pandemics that devastated this country and others in the first half of the last century. With the advances...

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Contracting Bird Flu Without Contact?

A man with no known contact with a bird flu infected animal nevertheless contracted bird flu. But let’s not panic: “This could still be a one-off case…

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