The spices of life
People around the world have been using spice cures for centuries, but now scientists are proving that spices can ease inflammation, activate the immune system, kill bacteria and viruses and even kill cancer cells. Some research suggests that compounds in spices might help fight everything from Read More...
Hands-on healing
Craniosacral therapy, a form of light massage, may be controversial, but many patients are convinced of its benefits. Ana Karadarevic and Jessica Wapner | July/August 2010 issue We need more than multinationals to achieve economic Read More...
Doctatorship: Military thinking in medicine
Military thinking has invaded medical thinking. It’s time to replace shock and awe with health and peace. Dana Ullman | May 2009 issue Our military thinking and our medical thinking have a surprising amount in common. It isn’t just happenstance that doctors proudly assert that they seek to Read More...
The controversial cure
Is homeopathy a healing idea whose time has come--again?Kim Ridley | Jan/Feb 2006 issue Valerie Ohanian was a graduate student at the University of Minnesota in the late 1970s when severe fatigue descended out of nowhere. Suddenly, she couldn’t stay up for more than 15 minutes at a time Read More...
Cancer's Achilles' heel
An old, once-abandoned theory about cancer is revived, offering hope for a raft of new non-toxic treatments. Tony Edwards| June 2008 issue Medical progress is invariably considered futuristic, but one bit of buzz in the world of cancer research surrounds a man who did most of his work in the 1930s. Read More...
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...
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...
Our natural instinct to heal
No more Freud. No more Prozac. French psychiatrist David Servan-Schreiber shows how the body can heal stress, anxiety and depression. Tijn Touber | July/Aug 2006 issue “Look,” says David Servan-Schreiber, as he pulls a tin of sardines from the shelf of a Parisian supermarket, “the label Read More...