Returning to Nature Sussanna Czeranko, ND, BBE It is my experience that a mud poultice applied to the head, relieves headache in most cases. I have tried it in hundreds of cases. Headache may be due to several causes, but whatever the cause, as a general rule, an...
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Table of Contents | 2010 | August
Endocrine Therapy in Breast Cancer
Aminah A. Keats, ND, FABNO Ever since oophorectomy was first shown to cause regression of advanced breast cancer more than a century ago, deprivation of estrogenic signaling has been the mainstay of endocrine management of estrogen receptor-positive and progesterone...
HCG: Is it Naturopathic?: And, is it really the “cure-all” it was believed to be in the past?
Heather Aura Wdowin, NMD, CH Patients are swarming into clinics hot for hCG (human chorionic gonadotropin), and it seems as though everyone and their brother in the naturopathic profession are offering hCG protocols during the recession to support themselves: I know...
The Thyroid Web
Cheryl Kasdorf, ND The thyroid is the central gear in the complex web of metabolism and extremely sensitive to minor imbalances in other areas of physiology. An astute clinician should always ask what else is going wrong, as a result and cause, when they identify a...
Iodine’s New Paradigm: More… or Less?
Alan Christianson, NMD Iodine – not too much, not too little. In Arizona, many retirees spend their summers elsewhere. To me, it marks the change of seasons to welcome my 'snowbirds' back in the fall and see them off in the spring. Several years ago I had a kind...
The AANMC: Crossing to the Next Decade
David Schleich, PhD Since 2001 the AANMC has been very busy in the academic corner of naturopathic medicine, both in Canada and in the United States. In the last decade much has been accomplished by many diligent AANMC members from our various colleges and programs....
30-Year “Out of Control” Eczema
Joseph Kellerstein, DC, ND Lillian presented in June 2007. She was 83 years old at the time and like a number of my patients was dragged in “by the heels” owing to the well-meaning efforts of a very enthusiastic patient. This one happened to be a compassionate but...
Insights Into Vitex agnus-castus, Past and Present
Robin DiPasquale, ND, RH(AHG) Found in the Verbenaceae family, Vitex agnus-castus, chaste tree berry, is an herb in our materia medica that can profoundly influence the endocrine system and hormonal balance for both women and men. Vitex can, at first glance, appear to...
Earth Cure
Sussanna Czeranko, ND, BBE It is my experience that a mud poultice applied to the head, relieves headache in most cases. I have tried it in hundreds of cases. Headache may be due to several causes, but whatever the cause, as a general rule, an application of mud...
Epigenetics- Helping to explain positive outcomes
Bradley R. West, ND Dietary supplements, botanicals, counseling, homeopathy, physical medicine and most, if not all, other modalities we use in naturopathic medicine often have an unexplainable component. The mechanism of action, or in ‘reductionist’ thinking, the...
July 2010 | Pain Medicine
IV Therapeutics for Disease and Pain Control Virginia Osborne, ND Looks at specific parenteral nutrients and the conditions they benefit. The Articular Intraosseous Cyst in Osteoarthritis David Tallman, DC, ND Subchondral cyst and traction cyst diagnosis and treatment...
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