Archive for December, 2006


Happy Holidays!

Just wanted to take this opportunity to wish all Herbal News Magazine readers a very Happy, Healthy Holiday.  I hope next year will be a great new year, filled with exciting news on alternative medicine and therapies, as well as news in the exciting arena of longevity and natural supplements and foods.  Happy Holidays!  Related [...]

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Psychedelic Mushroom Derivative for OCD?

We’ve all heard about psychedelic mushrooms, heck we’ve probably even tried them (some of us).  These little mushrooms, when dried, could be eaten to experience a sort of high that was actually compared to an acid trip, and have been used as a recreational hallucinogenic drug for years, and probably many many years before we [...]

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Echinacea Potentially Damaging to Colon?

Well, let’s not jump the gun here, but a preliminary study headed by a professor in Arkansas, in about 15 healthy adult patients seems to show that taking echinacea is linked to an increase in bacteria in the colon.  And they are not talking about “good bacteria” unfortunately, but rather destructive bacteria that has been [...]

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Medical HRT Getting Bad Press

Medically administered HRT, or Hormone Replacement Therapy is taking quite a beating in the press lately, due to a huge inferred link to breast cancer in women.  HRT became popular in the eighties for women who were suffering symptoms from menopause.  HRT attempted to replace the estrogen and other female hormones that typically are lost [...]

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Hypnosis the New Anesthesia?

I read a really interesting article about how hypnosis has actually been used with great success in place of anesthesia for certain surgeries.  Why, you ask, would someone want to take the risk that hypnosis may not work as an anasthetic when they are getting a highly invasive surgery done? Well, some people, like the [...]

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