It is a common practitioner’s dilemma: many women show up in our clinics for fertility support, but getting male partners to come for treatment can be a challenge. The American Society of Reproductive Medicine reports that … Read More
These days, chicken soup has exploded far beyond its historic confines of folk medicine and Grandma’s version of natural healing. Entire genres of self-help books promote themselves as supplying chicken soup-quality wisdom for virtually any topic … Read More
Liquid extracts or granules? Now that many Chinese herbalists are moving away from using raw, bulk herbs when prescribing for their patients, the question often arises as to what other forms of herb administration are available … Read More
English: barberry Botanical name: Berberis vulgaris L. Pharmaceutical name: Berberidis cortex Part: driedroot and/or stem bark Mandarin: sa1n ke1 zhe1n is the stem or root bark from Berberis species Family: … Read More
There is much concern about the possibility of an H1N1 flu pandemic this winter. Though many key clinical and epidemiological questions remain, overall, we know more now than we did in the spring of 2009 about … Read More
Herbal or botanical medicine is the oldest modality of healing known to humanity. All cultures have employed it and modern pharmacology could not have progressed without the knowledge of plant chemistry. In the year 1900, medicine … Read More