Cutting Edge Research Made Easy
by Linda Woolven, B.A., Master Herbalist, Acupuncturist and Ted Snider, B.Ed., M.A.
Over 200 health scientists and medical experts have signed an open letter calling for “immediate widespread increased vitamin D intakes” to fight COVID (vitamindforall.org/letter.html). The letter is endoresed in an introductory letter by former US Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona.
Surprisingly, this traditional herb recently emerged as a promising herb for menopause. Now we know it’s as good as drugs for painful periods!
We often eat the fruit and throw away the seeds. If you’re overweight, this seed may be more valuable than the fruit that surrounds it. Even better, you can enjoy the fruit and take the seed in a pill.
There is a long and strange history of antimalarial drugs and pandemics. Could the antimalarial herb wormwood add to that history during the COVID pandemic?
We don’t even know why they thought to try this herb for Multiple Sclerosis. But it’s a good thing they did because it works!
Long before licorice was a candy, licorice root was a herb. Now this herb may be a sweet treatment for COVID.
Who’s feeling any stress these days? Stress can lead to increases in heart rate and blood pressure. It can also impair functioning of your arteries. These harmful effects can increase your risk of cardiovascular events.
Some valuable herbs just haven’t caught on. If you’d heard of this one, you’d remember because it charges your memory.
Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer and the second most common cause of cancer related death in the world. Astragalus is an ancient Chinese herb valuable for deeply toning the immune system. It has long been known to fight cancer by boosting the immune system and possessing antitumour activity. Importantly, it has also…
Echinacea is probably the most popular herb for supporting the immune system. Echinacea enhances your immune system’s response to viral infections. So, could it enhance your response to COVID infections?
The most effective treatment in the world for menopause is the herb black cohosh. But that doesn’t mean that adding another herb couldn’t make it even better.
Fibromyalgia is a common painful condition that affects the lives of millions of people. Those millions of people should know about a bark from a common tree. That bark may lessen fibromyalgia’s bight.