Evening Standard Natural remedies are back in vogue: meet the new herbalistsEvening StandardIt was while working as a model in the 1990s that Rachel Landon first discovered the healing power of herbs. As her career took her from London to Paris and then New York, ‘I felt like I was living on my nerves’, she […]

Depression Ups Risk Of Early Death in Women: Herbal Remedies May Help Feel BetterNDTV“Depression is not only the most common women’s mental health problem but may be more persistent in women than men. More research is needed,” WHO. According to a recent study conducted by the experts at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute …and more » […]

Ars Technica Herbal remedies embraced by naturopaths, alt med widely linked to …Ars TechnicaNaturopaths and other gurus of “alternative medicine” love to tout the benefits of traditional herbal medicines. For instance, Aviva Romm—a Yale-educated …A new study shows that liver cancer in Asia is linked to herbal remediesPRIScientists reveal herbal remedies containing aristolochic acid may cause […]

Ars Technica Herbal remedies embraced by naturopaths, alt med widely linked to liver cancersArs TechnicaNaturopaths and other gurus of “alternative medicine” love to tout the benefits of traditional herbal medicines. For instance, Aviva Romm—a Yale-educated doctor who publicly defended Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle site Goop then later called it a …Herbal remedies linked to cases of […]

Of faith and fever: On TN’s dengue epidemicThe HinduBut innumerable other herbal remedies also show such early promise. Sadly, only a tiny handful of these remedies go on to prove their efficacy in large-scale, placebo-controlled human trials, the gold standard of modern medicine. This is because the …and more » Brought to you by Google News. […]

Fox News The dangers of using ‘home remedies‘ for serious illnessesFox NewsPeople use home remedies for a variety of reasons — fighting cancer, losing weight, increasing sex drive, or reducing symptoms of illnesses that have few medical treatments available. Most home remedies or natural therapies, though, haven’t been put … Brought to you by Google News. […]

Republican Journal Herbal & Home RemediesRepublican JournalGrammie Tucker, back when I was little, in the ’30s and ’40s, largely used home remedies. I remember well the mustard plaster for congested lungs! It worked then. It worked for hundreds of years before. It works now. Such is the nature of nature, as it … Brought to […]

Daily Mail Police sergeant, 27, DIES from an herbal supplement overdose, sparking controversy about natural remediesDaily MailThe death of a 27-year-old police sergeant who overdosed on an herbal supplement has called into question the safety of the cure-all remedies. New York State Sergeant Matthew Dana, who spent his time uncovering narcotics dealers, passed away on … […]

Boing Boing 11th-century herbal remedy guide now digitized and onlineBoing BoingThese folios, sometimes called the Old English Illustrated Pharmacopoeia, contain an illustrated Herbal, comprising Latin texts translated into Old English, along with texts called Medicina de quadrupedibus, also translated into Old English. These …and more » Brought to you by Google News. Read the rest of […]

Boing Boing 11th-century herbal remedy guide now digitized and online / Boing …Boing BoingThe British Library has scanned an anthology of herbal remedies published in the 11th century. It was translated to Old English and illustrated throughout from …and more » Brought to you by Google News. Read the rest of the article here.