Node Smith, ND Perhaps no region of the brain is more fittingly named than the claustrum, taken from the Latin word for “hidden or shut away.” The claustrum is an extremely thin sheet [...]

Tanya Maté, ND In naturopathic medicine, one of our guiding principles is to treat the root cause, and yet we rarely manage to do this. As Dr Paul Epstein says, “Balancing the immune system and [...]

Robin DiPasquale, ND, RH(AHG) The name Salvia is derived from the Latin salvus (safe) or, in terms of health, salvus (well-being). In Italian, salvare is the verb meaning to save; sage is known [...]

Perspective From My Studies in Peru Jillian Stansbury, ND This article is a bit “out of the box.” As some readers may be aware, I have been living in Peru for 6 months a year for the past 5 [...]

Eric Yarnell, ND and Lauren Russel, ND An unfortunate tendency in naturopathic medicine is to react out of fear instead of acting from a place of knowledge when it comes to low-dose herbs. Atropa [...]