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Medical Aromatherapy Offers Safe, Patient-Friendly Tools to Treat Memory Impairment
Essential oils of Sage, Lavender, Rosemary and a number of other aromatic medicinal plants contain compounds that have direct stimulatory effects on memory formation, while at the same time helping to reduce stress, a major contributor to memory loss.
Vol. 9, No. 1. Spring, 2008
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Intensive Essential Oil Therapy: Effective Treatment for Common Acute Infections
In the US, most people use aromatic essential oils for relaxation and other forms of aromatherapy. In France, they have a long history of internal use for the prevention and treatment of common infections. Corinne Andrion-Israelsen, who trained in the French tradition, explores the history and clinical application of plant essential oils.
Vol. 7, No. 4. Winter, 2006
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First Sickness
According to Marilyn Youngbird, a Native American healer from North Dakota, fear is the root of most illnesses. Fear, guilt and self-judgment induce chemical changes in the mind and body that result in sickness. She and other Native American medicine people believe that healing the soul pain underneath the physical symptoms is the key to long-lasting health.
Vol. 4, No. 2. April, 2003
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Revitalizing Your Office With Feng Shui
Many medical clinics are drab, joyless environments. But they don't have to be this way. Dr. Barry Sultanoff shows how the principles of Feng Shui, the Chinese art of environmental design, can be easily applied to health care settings, transforming them from sterile and depressing treatment rooms to energized healing spaces.
Vol. 1, No. 1. October 15, 2000
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Tibetan Medicine in America: Ancient Roots, New Soil
Tibetan medicine is one of the world's oldest medical systems, providing insight into the ways consciousness and the physical body are inter-related. It has survived the tests of time, political upheaval, warfare and exile. Can it survive the American health care system?
Vol. 2, No. 1. February 14, 2001
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Eskimos Discover Sat-Fats Grease the Wheels of Disease
Heart disease and diabetes were virtually unheard-of among Alaskan Eskimos, until the 1970s, when they abandoned their hunting and fishing lifestyle, and their marine diet. They began eating a lot of processed foods and saturated fats, and living in more sedentary ways. Thirty years later, these diseases are rampant. Dr. Sven Ebbeson is working with Eskimo communities to reverse these deadly trends.
Vol. 2, No. 1. February 14, 2001
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UCSF Breast Cancer Study Puts Tibetan Medicine on Trial
The University of California, San Francisco recently sponsored the first ever collaboration between allopathic medical oncologists and a traditional Tibetan physician. Dr. Yeshi Dhonden, the Dalai Lama's personal physician, was invited to participate in the treatment of women with advanced breast cancer, as part of an investigation of the efficacy of Tibetan
herbal medicine for cancer.
Vol. 2, No. 2. April 15, 2001
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Hispanic Communities Show Unique Patterns of Herb Use
Use of herbal medicine is widespread in Latin American communities, according to a study by researchers at the University of Texas. People from Hispanic cultures tend to favor herbs in tea and tincture form, rather than as pills or capsules. They are also more likely to use herbal plasters, baths and poultices than members of other ethnic groups.
Vol. 2, No. 3. June 15, 2001
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Tibetan Study Had Roots in Personal Experience
UCSF's landmark study of Tibetan herbal medicine in the treatment of breast cancer had its roots in one woman's personal struggle with the disease. When UCSF cytogeneticist, Helene Smith, was diagnosed with breast cancer, she turned to the services of Yeshi Dhonden, a Tibetan Buddhist physician, and one of the major exponents of
Tibetan medical traditions.
Vol. 2, No. 2. April 15, 2001
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Hispanic Healing Herbs
Latin Americans use a wide range of herbal medicines that are not as common in other cultural communities. Cumin, Sage, Rue, Wormwood, and Chamomile are especially common. Drs. Jose Loera and Victor Sierpina, who have been studying patterns of herbal medicine use in Hispanic communities, are at work on a textbook to educate physicians about the most commonly used herbs in Latin American communities.
Vol. 2, No. 3. June 15, 2001
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Ignorance, Simple-Mindedness Are the True Dangers with Chinese Herbs
The potential dangers associated with traditional Chinese botanical medicine are highly overstated in the media, said Michael Arnold, MD, a physician and Chinese medicine practitioner. When used properly under guidance of a qualified practitioner, TCM herbs are quite safe and effective. Failure to properly understand the complexities of Chinese herbal science, and overt misuse of certain herbs like ephedra, are the real dangers.
Vol. 2, No. 3. June 15, 2001
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Tibetan Medicine Information is Food: Reckoning with the Mental-Emotional Digestive System
The principles of Tibetan traditional medicine hold that just as the physical body has a digestive system for food, the mental-emotional "body" has a digestive system to process information and emotions. This system, known as the Purusa, plays a key role in health and illness, explains Vladimir Badmaev, MD, an expert on Tibetan medicine.
Vol. 3, No. 1. April 15, 2002
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Kampo: Japan's Herbal Tradition Emerges in US
Kampo is a form of Japanese botanical medicine that has its roots in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Kampo formulas are widely used by medical doctors in Japan, and recently, a Japanese herbal medicine company called Honso introduced Sho-Saiko-to, a formula for liver disorders, and a whole series of Kampo formulas, into the US.
Vol. 3, No. 2. June 15, 2002
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Improving the Pancreas-Kidney Marriage: A Yogic View of Diabetes
Ayurvedic medicine and yoga view diabetes as the result of a poor marriage between the kidneys and the pancreas. This, like most illnesses, arises when organ systems are in disharmony. Bikram Choudhury, founder of the popular Bikram style of yoga, sees yoga as a way of entraining greater unity and accord among the organs.
Vol. 4, No. 3. July, 2003
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The Staff of Aesculapius and the Medicine Wheel
Few American communities have been as hard-hit by diabetes as the Native American communities in the Southwest, where Type-2 diabetes affects up to 50% of all adults. Don Warne, MD, an Oglala Lakota physician, approaches the problem with a combination of allopathic medicine and traditional healing practices aimed at addressing the spiritual, cultural and social factors that drive the epidemic.
Vol. 4, No. 3. July, 2003
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