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by Linda Woolven, B.A., Master Herbalist, Acupuncturist and Ted Snider, B.Ed., M.A.
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.
A just published study adds to the evidence that vitamin C may play an important role in fighting COVID-19.
There are more of them in you than there is you in you. And they have an incredible ability to support your immune system and fight off viruses.
The clue is all in the name. “Sage” means to be of profound wisdom. The people of long ago who named it must have known something because modern science is proving that sage does make you wise.
Black seed and fenugreek are two powerful herbs. Fenugreek is a diabetes powerhouse, and black seed, among its many uses, improves weight, cholesterol, liver enzymes and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. So, what would happen if these two herbal superstars teamed up against diabetes and obesity? Let’s see.
This innovative and exciting study explores the possibility of addressing disadvantages caused by poverty nutritionally. What would happen if you gave children at an economic disadvantage a simple supplement of spirulina?
We have previously talked about perhaps the most important study yet of a herb for COVID. That study found that black seed has real promise for treating COVID. Now there may be even more promise.