Chinese Scientist Looks to the Past to Save Lives

Chinese Scientist Tu Youyou received a Nobel Prize for her work in developing the most effective anti-malaria drug to date. Her research team delved through volumes of ancient Chinese Medicine texts in the 1970s to “discover” Qing Hao (Artemesia annua), a plant that has been used for thousands of years to treat malaria. Tu Youyou perfected the extraction process by …

Effective Herbal Helpers for the Cold and Flu Season

With the changing of the seasons comes the wretched cold and flu virus.  Luckily, we’ve got some great resources to help us both prevent and combat an attack by this troublesome tag-along.  One of the many great things that alternative medicine has to offer includes solutions for the common cold and flu that can be much more efficient or practical …

Seeking Relief for Irregularity? Try Revamping your Routine!

I once heard an instructor at school declare: “If you aren’t having a bowel movement every day, you might as well be smoking a pack of cigarettes a day!”. An overly dramatic statement to be sure, and there is always argument to what the “perfect regularity” might be, but what he was trying to convey was the extreme importance of …