PILL PARADOX: STUDENTS INVESTIGATE SCIENCE OF SUPPLEMENTS

Dietary supplements crowd the shelves of supermarkets, drug stores and medicine cabinets in just about every home. The federal Food & Drug Administration (FDA) regulates prescription and over-the-counter medicine, complete with laboratory ...

From Tradition to Science: Herbs and Your Immune System

As we’ve learned throughout this editorial series on immune health, there are many ways we may become vulnerable to illness and many ways we may fortify our bodies against it. Herbs have a long history of use in a variety of cultures, the ...

Keep Colds at Bay and Stay Well This Winter

Autumn is the driest season of the year, and dry cold winds appear. According to the Chinese medicine perspective, this is the time when we gather energy inwards to protect our vital organs and functions, leaving our exterior defences (fundamental ...

Traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Indian medicine for Type 2 diabetes mellitus - review

Editor's note: Although doctors say there is no cure for type 2 diabetes mellitus, patients have many options of which quite some are effective. This is an excellent review on Traditional Chinese ...

Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine strongly protect us from colds and flu

Cold and flu season is upon us. Traditional Chinese Medicine has effective time-tested techniques which boost immunity and protect us from colds or the flu. Points can be needled and herbal formulas can be given to balance ...

Herbal Treatment of Inflammation, Part 1

By Jeanne D'Brant, DC, DACBN, CTN, RH

Medicinal herbs contain polyphenols and thousands of other chemical constituents which influence metabolic pathways and gene expression. The largest categories include triterpenes (30,000-plus) and alkaloids (16,000 ...

Recent Chinese Medicine Research Medline Extracts

Dietary soy and tea mitigate chronic inflammation and prostate cancer

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May;22(5):502-10. Dept of Nutrition and Exercise Sciences, Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA. ...

Anaemia – acupuncture and Chinese medicine

ANAEMIA STUDIES

In anemia, body tissues are deprived of oxygen due to a reduction in the number of circulating red blood cells.ÂÂ

There are more than 400 forms of anemia. Symptoms include weakness, fatigue, and a general feeling of malaise ...

Traditional Herb Formulas for Treatment of Shen Disorders

by Subhuti Dharmananda, Ph.D., Director, Institute for Traditional Medicine, Portland, Oregon

There are hundreds of herbal formulas useful for shen disorders among the vast collection of Chinese medical literature. However, a relatively ...

TREATMENT OF VITILIGO WITH CHINESE HERBS

by Subhuti Dharmananda, Ph.D., Director, Institute for Traditional Medicine, Portland, Oregon

Vitiligo is a skin condition characterized by white patches (hence, its alternative name, leukoderma; leuko = white; derma = skin). These skin patches are ...

ZIZYPHUS

Suan Zao Ren

by Subhuti Dharmananda, Ph.D., Director, Institute for Traditional Medicine, Portland, Oregon

Zizyphus refers to the seed of Zizyphus jujuba, var. spinosa, often labeled simply as Zizyphus spinosa (see Figure 1). The Chinese name for the herb is suanzaoren [suan = sour ...

HE SHOU WU

WHAT'S IN AN HERB NAME?

by Subhuti Dharmananda, Ph.D., Director, Institute for Traditional Medicine, Portland, Oregon

He Shou Wu (pinyin: heshouwu) is derived from the roots of Polygonum multiflorum. The herb was first recorded (1,2,16) in the Ri Huazi Bencao (Tang Dynasty, 713 A.D ...