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09/02/2018 / By Tracey Watson

Time for a second serving: Garlic and onions reduce the effects of a high-fat diet

For thousands of years, cultures around the world have recognized and utilized the amazing healing benefits of garlic and onions. As far back as 1500 B.C., the Egyptians prescribed garlic to treat a multitude of ailments, including everything from abnormal growths and parasitic infections, to a general feeling of being mentally or physically unwell. The […]

05/23/2018 / By Derek Henry

The unmatched health benefits of black seed oil

As more and more natural remedies come along, it becomes glaringly obvious that nature has the remedy to nearly everything that ails us. Whether we use these remedies properly in conjunction with a healthy and holistic lifestyle is up to us, but there is very little debate that plants have been healing mankind for thousands […]

03/25/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

Native people around the world have used a class of plants called bryophytes for a variety of medicinal remedies

Bryophytes are a group of plants that consist of mosses, liverworts, and hornworts. To you, they may be nothing more than garden decorations. But to a multitude of tribal communities all over the world, bryophytes are plants prized for their powerful medicinal properties. According to a team of investigators from the Govind Ballabh Pant University […]

03/21/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

Bryophytes offer a plethora of medicinal uses for tribal peoples around the world: Review

Researchers from the Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology have put together a compilation of the medicinal benefits of different bryophytes species. This was done in response to the absence of such a list prior to the efforts of the study authors. The researchers gathered the necessary information on bryophytes by perusing through […]

04/06/2017 / By Russel Davis

Chinese medicine herb discovered to prevent tuberculosis infections

A recent study reveals that artemisinin, a compound found in sweet wormwood, shows potential in tuberculosis treatment. This Chinese herbal medicine is previously known for its efficacy in treating malaria. Researchers at the Michigan State University have discovered that the compound prevents Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a tuberculosis-causing bacteria, from becoming dormant. Dormancy was associated with antibiotic resistance in patients. Lead researcher Dr. Robert […]

03/31/2017 / By Gregory Van Dyke

HONEY: Is this ancient medicinal food the key to fighting deadly drug-resistant infections?

Exotic honey can be used as a powerful alternative when treating one of the deadliest infections in the U.S. today. A report published in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents confirms that exotic honey can battle antibiotic-resistant infections, like Clostridium difficile. Interestingly, C.difficile is caused by an overdose of antibiotics. Two researchers from Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital’s Department of Gastroenterology […]

03/10/2017 / By Amy Goodrich

Discovery reveals plant based aspirin medicine was used 50,000 years ago

Neanderthals are our closest extinct relatives. They left Africa some 200,000 years ago to venture into Eurasia long before humans did. It is believed that, for a while, Neanderthals and our early human ancestors lived alongside each other in Europe. While Neanderthals looked quite similar to us, they are often thought of as our dumber, […]

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