Endometriosis is a condition that occurs most commonly in women ofreproductive age, whereby endometrial tissue appears in abnormallocations.  Because this is also a hormone-related condition, thedietary recommendations, hormone-balancing strategies and lifestylementioned throughout this website ...

Chinese martial artists have known for centuries that herbs can help speed recovery from athletic or traumatic injury. Such herbs were often coveted and sometimes kept secret. Today, most "wounds" I see result from either surgery or motor vehicle accidents. I can’t tell you how many ...

Dysmenorrhea is the medical term for pain and cramping associated withmenstruation.  The pain and cramping usually appears with theonset of menstruation.  Biochemically speaking, excessiveproduction of prostaglandins by the myometrium and endometrium are thecause of uterine contractions, p ...

Currently, more than 4 million people in the United States suffer fromAlzheimer’s disease (AD) or other dementias. AD affects 47% of peopleover the age of 85. In AD, in addition to degenerative changes andatrophy, individual brain cells begin to produce a sticky proteinoussubstances which swell the ...

Gallstone formation (cholelithiasis) is another disease with a very low incidence in primitive societies, yet in modern society it affects more than 20% of women and 8% of men over the age of 40 (Gracie 1982). Each year hundreds of thousands of gallbladders are surgically removed, at great cost.&nbs ...

I first heard about the work of the Dr. Eli Jones while listening to a lecture by David Winston, one of the few living herbalists who is fully trained in the Eclectic medicine traditions. Dr. Jones treated thousands of cancer patients at the end of the last century, and was so respected in the fiel ...

"If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche - The close link between the mind and the brain took a long time for ushumans to discover.  The ancient Chinese believed the heart wasthe true seat of the mind, while the brain was just excess bonemarrow ...