Tag: natural medicine
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Anti-depressant Microbes In Soil: How Dirt Makes You Happy
from gardeningknowhow.com: Prozac may not be the only way to get rid of your serious blues. Soil microbes have been found to have similar effects on the brain and are without side effects and chemical dependency potential. Learn how to harness the natural antidepressant in soil and make yourself happier and healthier. Read on to…
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Canadian Government Loses Appeal To Stop Medical Marijuana Patients From Growing Pot At Home
from cbc.ca: The federal government has lost its latest attempt to prevent medical marijuana patients from growing pot at home. New rules were introduced earlier this year that prohibited home growing and instead shifted production to commercial operations, but a group of patients is challenging that regime. Those patients won a court injunction earlier this…
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Charlotte’s Web: New Strain of Medical Marijuana Designed For Kids With Epilepsy
from Intellihub.com: Doctors and parents alike are excited about a new strain of medical marijuana called Charlotte’s Web that will not get the patient high, and will serve as a means of medication for children suffering from epilepsy and other seizure type conditions. The custom strain has and ingredient known ascannabidiol which is different from…
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It’s Time to Change American Disease-Management into a Health-Fostering System
from mercola.com: I’ve recently written a couple of articles about the exorbitant cost of medical care in the US, which is incompatible with the poor health outcomes of Americans at large. Americans pay the most for but reap the least amount of benefits from their health care, compared to other industrialized nations. Overcharging and over-treating…
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Doctored: New Documentary Shows Big Pharma’s Cracks
In a new documentary by Jeff Hays, Doctored shows the shortcomings and even the insidious nature of the modern medical and pharmaceutical culture.
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The Benefits of Minimally-Invasive Dentistry
from mercola.com: It’s very difficult to achieve high-level physical health if your dental health isn’t effectively addressed. I’ve been involved with alternatives to regular dentistry for quite some time. I think many people fail to appreciate how important dentistry is to our total health. Most tend to separate these two components, but both need to…
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Medicine Rarely A Slam Dunk, Despite Splashy Studies
Next time a research finding leaves you slack-jawed, thinking it’s too good to be true, you might just be right, according to a massive new analysis tracking the fate of splashy medical studies.
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Court forces chemo on eight-year-old Minnesota girl despite family’s desire to use alternative medicine
from naturalnews.com: Where once it was rare for courts of law to invade the privacy and purview of parents when it came to raising their children, in today’s America the wall between parental rights and the state’s Leviathan is increasingly being dismantled by activists disguised as public servants. Karen Parisian of Minnetonka, Minn., told a…
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Pain Is In Your Brain And How To Fix It
It’s a complex process that’s still being unraveled, but what is known is that your brain, and consequently your thoughts and emotions, play a key role in your experience of pain.
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War On Health: The FDAs Cult Of Tyranny
from therealfoodchannel.com: In the US, the FDA wants to control everything you put in your body. They walk hand-in-hand with Big Pharma to approve drugs that not only don’t work, but are deadly. They shut down small organic farmers. They threaten produce growers who link to medical sites offering peer-reviewed research on the health benefits…
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A Calorie, Is A Calorie, Is A Calorie. Or Is It?
It may not be long before the food industry will be proven wrong about their two favorite messages: All calories are created equal, and it’s all about personal responsibility. Well, it appears that science may be one step closer to proving at least half of that equation wrong and that in fact; all calories are…
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Are We Finally Reawakening to the Profound Healing Properties of Psychedelics?
from alternet.org: Slowly but surely, we may be reaching success in a determined and long-time legal effort to unleash the curative powers of psychedelic drugs in America. There is a tremendous need for alternative approaches to the existing models of drugs and therapy. But for years, scientific inquiry into the curative powers of psychedelic drugs…
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Sweet Victory: When The Science Says The Farm Beats Pharma
from activistpost.com: Some of the most powerful medicines provided to us are actually in our kitchen cupboard, “pretending” to be condiments, spices or foods. Some we are too familiar with to readily recognize them for their astounding health benefits, even though we may be consuming them daily. Honey, for instance, has too many traditional medical…