Treating Cold with Naturopathy
... Cold/Flu Naturopathy for Cold Immediately after contracting cold, increase the Vitamin C intake. At the early stages of cold, take very high doses of a Vitamin C supplement, up to 2,000 mg. This may s...

Treating Flu with Naturopathy
... Cold/Flu Naturopathy for Flu Hot Bath Add 30-60 ml (2-4 tbsp) of Epsom Salts to hot water and take a hot bath. After the bath go straight to bed. Vitamins As soon as the symptoms of flu start, take hi...

Treating Infertility Female with Naturopathy
... INFERTILITY Alternative Medicine and Therapies - Female A healthy, balanced diet; regular, moderate exercise; and a positive attitude are essential for general health and fertility. A naturopathic pra...

Treating Infertility Male with Naturopathy
... INFERTILITY Alternative Medicine and Therapies - Men A naturopath may suggest the following as treatment for infertility: improving the nutrition of both partners; hot and cold water splashes on the g...

Treating Stress with Naturopathy
... Naturopathy Naturopathy is excellent for treating stress, including psychotherapy, relaxation techniques, herbal and homeopathic support, and osteopathic soft tissue treatments where appropriate. Supp...

Addictions
... In this land of plenty, a conservative estimate calls 4 out of 10 Americans "addicts." Abused substances include sugar, caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, prescription drugs and street drugs including pot. ...

Anti Aging: Let Food by Thy Medicine
... Old age is a consequence of civilization; it is seen seldom in primitive societies and very rarely seen in wild animals. Although in this century the average life span of women and men has increased b...

The Five Myths of Aging
... If you were an alien visiting our planet, you might think Earthlings never age. Even as awareness about aging rises, most major magazines and television stations still fail to display vital, older peo...

To a Long and Healthy Life
... The good news is age doesn''t have to mean forgetful days, heart attacks and brittle bones. As middle aged baby boomers approach the senior years, geriatric research is gaining momentum. We''re learni...

Fasting for Health and as an Anti-Aging Strategy
... Fasting is arguably the most natural and effective health enhancing measure available - or at least it was. Lengthy fasts, up to 100 days, used to be carried out regularly with spectacular results and...

Longevity: What are the Chances of Life Extension
... Few of us would deny wishing we could live longer, especially if this could be achieved in reasonable physical and mental health. If on the other hand life were to just be longer, but in a state of de...

Allergy Relief
... ''tis the season to be sneezing. Is there ANYTHING I can do about my pollen allergies? In general, the best way to escape the miserable effects of ''hay fever'' and other reactions to airborne allerge...

Help For Your Hayfever
... Skies are blue and the birds are singing. Then it starts. You begin sneezing, your eyes water and your head pounds. Hay fever season has arrived. Most people with hay fever and other airborne allergie...

Modern Allergies?
... Allergic conditions are increasing dramatically, especially amongst children, in all industrialised countries. Allergic conditions such as asthma have increased by many hundreds of percent over the pa...

Food Allergies: Case History
... Betty told me she was tired of scratching her face and neck. For the last ten years she had gone from dermatologist to allergist to dermatologist looking for relief from this constant intolerable itc...

Alzheimer''s Disease
... General Dietary Concerns: 1) Dementia patients need to eat well balanced meals at least 3x''s a day. 2) Blood work, stool samples, urine tests and hair tests should be preformed upon diagnosis to dete...

Intestinal Dysbiosis and the Causes of Disease
... ABSTRACT: With the advent of biochemical and microbial stool analysis panels, an increasing number of physicians are seeking a clearer understanding of the relationship between the ecology of the dige...

Asthma Part 2
... How Can Homeopathy Help Asthma? Like with Traditional Chinese Medicine, each individual is analyzed for their specific symptoms and an appropriate therapy is chosen, not for the disease, but for the p...

Asthma
... Please note: This is a two part article because of the length. The link to the second part is at the end of this article. Asthma is a frightening condition. It is a hypersensitivity reaction causing b...

The Back and Its Problems
... Postural muscles become short when stressed (overused, misused or abused) and require gentle, safe stretching methods as a rule (yoga type) to normalise them plus reeducation as to elimination of caus...

Body Odor: Recent Research Shows it Can be a Serious Problem
... Recent medical research has shown that some people with body odour (B.O.) suffer from severe problems in their personal and social relationships, as well as wrecked promotion prospects at work, educat...

Enzymes: The Difference Between Raw and Cooked Foods
... Enzymes: The tiny and enormous difference between raw and cooked foods Virtually all chronic degenerative diseases are caused or aggravated by digestive problems. After the most extensive study on nut...

Women, You Can Prevent Cancer
... A look at the cancer statistics published by the American Cancer Society reveals good news and bad. First, the bad news: in the past 30 years, women have broken all previous records for deaths due to...

Preventing Breast Cancer
... If I asked you to name the one disease that most women fear these days, you would probably reply "breast cancer". And you''d be right! The media are deluging women with menacing statistics about the l...

Linus Pauling and Vitamin C Therapy for Breast Cancer
... Linus Pauling and Vitamin C Therapy Several vitamins and minerals called antioxidants protect the body against a form of cellular damage linked with cancer. Each of these vitamin and mineral antioxida...

Coffee, America''s Favorite Drug
... America''s Favorite Drug America''s favorite drug is grown right here on the Kona coast. In fact, this is the only place in the U.S. where it is grown. So it''s not pakalolo, alcohol or tobacco. You m...

Environmental Factors - Air, Water, and Electromagnetism
... Mounting evidence suggests that our environment contains many carcinogens. The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the power lines that supply us with energy may pose threats to your health. It is...

Cancer
... Cancer Issue Prevention is the most important step in any health care plan, and preventing cancer is 99% possible with a sensible sleep/work/play regime plus a low calorie, diet. A favorite bumper-sti...

Antioxidants, Diet and Cancer
... Cancer is on the rise. In 1988, the Surgeon General estimated that an American born in 1985 has a 30 percent chance of dying from this disease. This figure doesn''t take into account the individuals w...

Natural Treatments for Abnormal Pap Smears
... As women, we know that we''re supposed to have a PAP smear every year.If we remember and we''re organized enough, we may actually even do it! It''snever been more critical, since new research indicat...

Cholesterol
... High Cholesterol The standard definition of high cholesterol is having an excess of cholesterol in the blood, usually more than 200 mg/dl, although many doctors are now citing 180 mg/dl as the maximum...

Keep Your Kids Healthy This Season
... Parents take heart. Contrary to popular belief, there is plenty you can do when your child gets a cold or the flu. Treatment for both illnesses typically consists of drugs to decrease symptoms, bed re...

Head Colds
... Q: I have this head cold that has been around all winter. What should I do? Do I need antibiotics? A: As a general rule of thumb, if your secretions (snot, and that stuff you cough up in the morning) ...

Colds & Flu, That Fun Time of the Year!
... The cold and flu season is upon us or rather a part of us, if we are unfortunate enough to becomeone of the millions of Americans affected each year. When a cold or flu begins its assault certain peop...

Will We Ever Find A Cure For The Common Cold?
... From Labor Day weekend to the first signs of spring, Americans are inundated with advertising reminding us that the cold and flu season has arrived. Invariably the advertisements are coupled with warn...

Adult Onset Diabetes
... Diabetes - Adult-Onset Diabetes Mellitus (Type II) The name of this set of symptoms comes from the Greek; diabetes means "passing through" and mellitus means "honey." In other words, "honey passing th...

What Every Woman Needs to Know About Her Flow!
... Have you ever wondered whether your period is normal? Is it hard to know, when you spot, or skip a period, or bleed unusually heavily if you''re okay or there''s something really wrong with you? I se...

Otitis Media: Fact Sheet
... Number of office visits per year for ear infections in the U.S. : 30 million, for a cost of over $1 billion yearly Estimated number of antibiotic prescriptions given to children for ear infections al...

Get To Know Your Endocrine System
... The endocrine system is like a symphony with several glands working both alone and together to orchestrate bodily functions. Each endocrine gland--thyroid, pancreas, pineal, thymus, ovaries, testes, a...

Computer Eye Strain
... Helping Your Eyes Last A Lifetime Can you imagine your world not being able to read, or appreciate the scenery, or see what your family members look like? Many people with good eyesight take this bles...

The Many Phases of Fertility
... It is possible to be perfectly fertile and not be able to get pregnant for years, especially if you haven''t learned how important it is to time conception. Because of this couples have been falsely l...

Three Ways to Increase Fertility
... However, these technological advances are accompanied by high costs to the couple. For some, the simpler and less expensive naturopathic approach to infertility, which includes the following considera...

Want a Healthy Baby? Moms and Dads get a Head Start
... We all know that caring for a child''s health begins before birth. Prenatal health care has become standard protocol in the field of preventive medicine. Some experts and advocacy groups, however, are...

Fever As Healer
... It was Western history''s first great physician, Hippocrates who said "give me fever and I will cure all disease". A shocking statement perhaps to some, as we are constantly reminded by advertisements...

Food Allergies
... Allergies is a word we hear a lot these days; everybody seems to have them, especially kids. Atopic children -- those prone to allergies -- have chronic runny noses, red itchy eyes and a little crease...

Food Allergy Prevention: Introduction of Solid Food for Infants
... A large number of patients in my practice present with allergy related problems: eczema, hay fever, sinusitis, ear infections, asthma, arthritis, headaches, and various digestive problems. Many of th...

Healing Headaches without Aspirin
... Headaches are so common we tend to dismiss them as an annoyance, rather than a condition that needs serious treatment. However, a headache, like any pain, is the body''s way of telling you something''...

Migraines
... Migraines This frequently debilitating, recurring problem, more common in women, can often be helped by complementary health care approaches. The prognosis for migraine headaches is favorable if your ...

Herbs To Ease The Heart
... Next time you feel anxious or can''t sleep, you don''t need to take drugs. Herbs are a safe and effective alternative to tranquilizers and sleeping pills. Proof of this came from a four week study con...

Nourish Your Heart
... Over the years doctors and researchers have noted that heart disease is more prominent in bald men (1), people with creases in their earlobes (2) and those who are left-handed (3). Obviously these tra...

Hypertension
... Hypertension Hypertension is defined as a repeated blood pressure (BP) reading of greater than 150/90 mm Hg (mercury). There are two types of hypertension: primary (aka essential or idiopathic, which ...

Immunity
... Natural immunity is something we''ve all heard of, and want to know more about. It''s a major buzz-word of the health awareness movement because it represents an alternative to chemotherapies, radiati...

Coping with Male Infertility
... Most people take it for granted that they''ll have children one day. In fact, most people are so confident they can conceive, they use birth control until they''re ready for parenthood. Yet 10 to 15 p...

Summer Bugs and Bites
... Along with summer time activities comes exposure to the many types of insects which are also enjoying summer time activities. This often results in a clashing of lifestyles so to speak as the insect w...

Insomnia
... For starters, here is a handy list which could be called the "Ten Commandments for Sleepers:" Go to bed and get up at the same time every day. Make sure your sleep environment is as comfortable as pos...

The Facts about Brain-Boosting Nutrients
... The B vitamins should be called the thinking and feeling nutrients because they nourish the nervous system. Frank deficiencies result in serious neurological conditions such as Wernicke''s encephalopa...

Menopause
... Q: I''m 50 and starting the "change of life." I''m very upset that I can''t make a decision about whether or not to take hormones. If I don''t take hormones maybe my bones will all shatter. But if I d...

Graceful Transition: Managing Menopause
... "Weakness in woman." This is how 17 "leading medical specialists" categorized menopause in a 1943 health book. Attitudes and health care for menopause have improved over the decades, but are women get...

Menopause
... The transitions in a woman''s life are marked by several events. The first event is the menarche which occurs in puberty and is the start of the menses or menstrual periods. It is truly a time of joy ...

Full Cycle: Taking the Mystery out of Menstruation
... A woman menstruates approximately 500 times in her lifetime. Yet, how much do most women know about their cycle? Throughout history, women have been told they are unclean during this time. Doctors hav...

Multiple Sclerosis and Alternative Medicine
... Naturopathic physicians view multiple sclerosis (MS) as they do other disease processes, that is, from a wholistic perspective. The illness is seen as a combination of physical, mental/emotional and i...

Obesity
... Figuring Out the Right Diet Very few modern humans, particularly women, have escaped the notion, at one time or another, that they could "lose a few pounds." Weight, weight loss, looking good, making ...

Weight Loss
... Curbing Carbohydrate Cravings There are many approaches to weight loss; it is a multimillion dollar industry in our land of plenty. The bottom line is to eat fewer calories than you expend daily, but ...

The Wai''anae Diet Program
... The Wai''anae Book of Hawaiian Health is an extremely impressive little manual about the Wai''anae Diet. While it is ostensibly written for Native Hawaiians, the principles espoused are just as appli...

Osteoporosis
... Osteoporosis, which means "porous bone," is a bone-thinning disease that has affected over 200 million people worldwide. It has been called the "silent disease" because it comes on with few or no warn...

Lead in Children
... Is Your Child Leaded or Unleaded? Your child''s next physical should include heavy metal testing. Did you know that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) now recommends that all children under age 6 b...

Maternity Medicine
... Pregnancy is a special time for both mother and baby. This relationship is so close that almost everything the mother consumes, be it drugs, alcohol or food, is shared with baby across the placental b...

Nausea in Pregnancy
... First Trimester Nausea... Yikes! First, a tried and true quotation heard many times during my adolescence from my father... "this too will pass." You''re thrilled, all your relatives are thrilled, yo...

The Nursed Infant
... The human infant is actually born twice! The first time is the physical birth when the baby is separated from the mother and many physiological functions begin to work. The infant''s consciousness is ...

Prostate Problems
... Prostate problems are very common in men in the U.S. and generally present in one of three forms. These are separate conditions called "Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy," "Prostatitis," and "Prostate Canc...

Prostatic Disease
... By the age of 50, about 30% of all men will experience difficulties with urination that is related to enlargement of the prostate gland. This rises to about 50% at age 60. Increases in the number of t...

Protecting from Poison Oak
... Every spring and summer thousands of gardeners, hikers and campersexperience the severe, itching rash of poison oak. It can be recognized by itsthree leaflets, shaped similar to an oak leaf and slight...

Sports Injuries
... Q: Is it dangerous to basically just exercise on the weekend? I don''t have time to workout during the week. A: Weekend athletes can run into problems. Boring as it sounds, you well know that regular ...

6 Steps for Handling Stress
... You''re fed up. The kids are bugging you, your job is demanding and the housework never ends. Tired, irritable and unable to sleep at night, you want relief. This is stress. Stress starts when your bo...

Stroke
... Strokes are brief episodes involving a lack of oxygenated blood flowing to the brain (90% are ischemic infarctions), or a sudden bleed within the brain tissue (10% are hemorrhagic) which causes perman...

Food for Thought: Nutrition and the Brain
... We have artificially separated our brains from our bodies. We talk about psychosomatic illness, and the body-mind connection as if our mental and physical selves are two separate entities. In reality ...

Weighty Thoughts about Slimming Down
... Many of us try to lose weight at various points in our lives. Perhaps over indulgence on a vacation or during the holidays has added a few pounds to your waistline. Maybe you''ve just had a baby. Or i...

Healthy Breasts
... An important aspect of wellness and radiant health, which of course includes healthy breasts, is POSITIVE ATTITUDE. Some women have said to me, "I don''t want to check my breasts for lumps every month...