Homeopathy's new frontiers
Kim Ridley | Jan/Feb 2006 issue Homeopaths have developed remedies over the past 200 years using everything from table salt to snake venom. Their catalogue of healing substances is vast and still growing. Expanding the frontiers of the field is Dutch homeopath Jan Scholten, who many say is Read More...
Great outdoors
Being connected to nature boosts our physical and mental health--especially for kids. Jay Walljasper | December 2005 issue Has this ever happened to you? You’re having a bad day—everything’s going wrong and you become grumpier and grumpier. Finally, in desperation, you head out the door to Read More...
One last thing...
"You don't need eye glasses" Tijn Touber | Jan/Feb 2006 issue Everyone knows glasses are the only way to improve eyesight, right? Jacob Liberman: “Not true! That’s what every doctor is being taught in school, but I have a direct experience. I always had trouble reading as a child—I thought I Read More...
Magical mystery tour
A therapist reconsiders his profession after a few lessons in healing from a remarkable shaman healer in Africa's Kalahari desert Editors | December 2004 issue We were as far away from anything resembling civilization as you can get and still be on this planet. Along with psychology professor Jon Read More...
Using homeopathy to treat cancer
Kim Ridley | Jan/Feb 2006 issue In the mid 1980s, A. U. Ramakrishnan, a homeopath based in Madras, India, started seeing more cancer patients filling his waiting room. That only made him more determined to find homeopathic treatments for the disease, which had claimed the lives of his two older Read More...
Fighting the flu
Homeopathy may be more effective than flu shots. In the deadly flu outbreak of 1918, patients treated with homeopathy had much higher survival rates. Tijn Touber and Kim Ridley | Jan/Feb 2006 issue Not only is the avian flu front-page news, but clinics and doctors are warning us about the Read More...
Healing by design
The hospital of the future may not look like a hospital at all Kim Ridley | July/Aug 2006 issue As if getting sick weren’t bad enough, landing in the hospital can make you feel even worse. There’s little privacy. Noise from roommates and hallways disturbs sleep. Isolation from family and Read More...
How to get into the health habit
Editors | Jan/Feb 2009 issue Integrative medicine begins with the basics: what you eat, what you do and how you think. Here are three tips for staying healthy from Victoria Maizes, executive director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine. Eat a healthy diet. “The Mediterranean Read More...
Healthy thinking: Meditation.
A simple practice in meditation. | June 2003 issue In the following meditation, the emphasis is on breathing, but the underlying aim is to achieve a calm, non-judgemental awareness whereby your thoughts, feelings and sensations come and go without getting caught up in them. Sit in a relaxed Read More...
In the dark
What we don't know about clinical drug trials can hurt us Ian Chalmers | June 2004 issue At a time when consumers still can’t trust their food labels, it is no surprise that patients remain poorly informed in our modern-day healthcare system. New Scientist, an established source for scientists Read More...