There are many reasons that people have turned to herbal and homeopathic remedies over the years. Whether it is because they cannot afford medical insurance—or if they can, the copayments and prescription costs are too high—or they’ve grown to distrust traditional Western medicine through the years, or simply that they wish to use the healthiest and most natural ways to care for themselves, the masses are looking to treat their common ailments with herbs. Continue Reading »
HealthNews Dozen: 12 Most Frequently Recommended Herbal Remedies

As if you need one more reason to jam that grocery cart full of fresh produce, another study produces results that just reinforce what mama always told us: veggies are good for you. Not only are those vegetables cold and crispy and perfect for a summer day, indulging in what is known as “vegetable proteins” can help to stave off heart disease and lower your blood pressure. Continue Reading »
Lower Your Blood Pressure with Vegetable Proteins

Having researched a lot of medical conditions for HealthNews and having dealt with an innumerable amount amongst my family members and loved ones, I had never heard of a case of whooping cough until yesterday. When my doctor suggested I run a course of antibiotics for my whooping cough, I almost laughed. Whooping cough? The name alone makes me think of an archaic affliction like typhoid or the plague. However, my ongoing “death rattle” cough obliges me to seek out natural help for my apparent diagnosis Continue Reading »
Natural Remedies for Whooping Cough

Imagine enjoying a regular day’s routine full of dog walking, carpooling, and playing with your kids until you are suddenly crippled with pain. Now imagine not knowing when this can happen and that it can affect major joints required for walking and doing normal activities. This is a day in the life of someone who suffers from a disease called gout. This is a disease that concentrates arthritic attacks in specific parts of the body—and it is like living with the unknown, and require staing away from certain trigger foods and beverages, and adopting a lifestyle change. Continue Reading »
Get Rid of Gout Naturally

American consumers spent an estimated $34 billion on alternative medicine in 2007. In fact, alternative medicine accounts for over 11 percent of out-of-pocket spending on health care in the United States. This surprising information comes from the first national estimate of dollars spent on alternative medicine in over ten years. The last government estimate of spending on alternative medicine was reported based on a 1997 survey that found spending to be at about $27 billion. Continue Reading »
American Spending on Alternative Medicine Continues to Skyrocket

During the summer when kids would rather chase the ice cream man down the street than eat the GoGurt (portable squeezable yogurt) that they may be used to in their lunch bags, there may be a new reason to keep yogurt on the menu…even during the summer months. It seems that probiotics—the healthy bacteria found in food and dairy products like yogurt—may be able to prevent the flu. Continue Reading »
Probiotics: Can Yoplait Chase the Flu Away?

Almost every breakfast I have ever had outside my kitchen comes with a clump of parsley—although I have never seen anyone eat the lonely sprig, I have long wondered if it was one of the original “green” recycled items in many eateries—but this is not how we should think of herbs. Continue Reading »
Delicious & Healthy Herbs

Medical astrology—the practice of an astrological sign ruling over a specific body part—may be keeping you healthy. Adapted from the book by Stephanie Gailing, Planetary Apothecary: An Astrological Approach to Health and Wellness, check out which regions of the body are taken over by your sign and which foods will support your health: Continue Reading »
Medical Astrology: Health by Your Zodiac Sign

Free radicals have been in the news the last few years. These tiny cells float around your body and fuse with healthy cells, eventually killing them as well as decreasing our energy, damaging systems of cells, and possibly to decrease the brain’s mental abilities. With energy drinks, supplements, and pills all designed to get your energy to stay at its peak when you need it the most; a company in California has a new idea to fuse energy with a positive spin on free radicals. Continue Reading »
Magic Quercetin—Radical New Energy Booster?

Stress seems to be the number one complaint among adults nowadays trying to juggle too many things at once: job, marriage, kids, relatives, and various social responsibilities. Continue Reading »
Natural Health Bo-Tau: Breathe Your Way to Calm