Toxic metals can be found in Ayurvedic medicines sold online, according to a JAMA article, “Lead, Mercury, and Arsenic in US- and Indian-Manufactured Ayurvedic Medicines Sold via the Internet. Lead, mercury, and arsenic have been detected in a substantial proportion of Indian-manufactured traditional Ayurvedic medicines. Metals may be present due to the practice of rasa [...]
TAT2, used in Chinese herbal therapy, prolongs killer T-cells’ ability to divide. This can be a new breakthrough in HIV treatment research. Like other kinds of cells, immune cells lose the ability to divide as they age because a part of their chromosomes known as a telomere becomes progressively shorter with cell division. As a [...]
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) affects as many as one in five people. Are the new medications the answer? Not necessarily, according to the results of a study conducted for the American College of Gastroenterology was published online November 13, 2008 in the British Medical Journal. The study found that fiber, antispasmodics and peppermint oil are [...]
Cinnamon For most of us, cinnamon is associated with baked goods or hot apple cider. Few realize this spice, from a small evergreen tree native to Sri Lanka and Southern India, dates back to biblical times. Fewer still are aware that both common and cassia cinnamon have been observed to have pharmacological and clinical effects. [...]
Men Herbal Extracts Health Canada is advising consumers not to use Top Gun for Men Herbal because it contains a substance similar to tadalafil. Tadalafil is a prescription drug used for the treatment of erectile dysfunction that should only be taken under the guidance of a health professional.Possible Side Effects Consumers who use Top Gun [...]
Curing cancer with herbal remedies – a case for shamans and herb women? Not at all, for many chemotherapies to fight cancer applied in modern medicine are natural products or were developed on the basis of natural substances. Thus, taxanes used in prostate and breast cancer treatment are made from yew trees. The popular periwinkle [...]
