Entries Categorized as 'Alternative Healing'

A Wealth of Health

Date June 25, 2008

Libido and Health has a really interesting post up – it’s The Canival of Health and it includes links to a lot of health related blogs, with articles ranging from a Reiki tutorial to info on herniated disks to tea tree oil to … well, you get the idea. Pretty cool. Here’s a clip: Health [...]

How Much Money Does Your Stress Cost You?

Date June 24, 2008

From the PsychSense blog – Here’s a good article on just what our stress costs us. Doctors and Shrinks have been telling us for a very long time that excessive stress is damaging to our health, and the Alternative Healers tell us the same thing. Stress also comes with a lot of costs that aren’t [...]

Energy Tuning – A Natural Therapy

Date May 28, 2008

This post is from an interview of Gerdi Altman regarding her Energy Tuning therapy. A link to the whole article is at the bottom of this post. — On the natural path to physical and emotional wholeness, there are bound to be a few bumps and bruises along the way. With every treatment or remedy, [...]

Ritalin, ADHD, Kids and Natural Alternatives

Date May 18, 2008

One of the issues facing kids, parents, and schools these days is ADHD. It’s becoming a pretty common diagnosis and the easy solution is to diagnose ADHD in an active kid and drug him (and it’s usually a him) up with Ritalin or the equivalent. Personally, I think that other than excess sugar consumption and [...]

Cam and the FDA and CODEX

Date April 27, 2007

The title of this post looks like something I’d type into google… Anyway… Connie took the time to make an interesting comment to my last post on this FDA and CAM issue. Go and read it, I’ll wait…. Ok, one last time – in my opinion this thing the FDA is doing is not significant [...]

CAM and the FDA – Part 3

Date April 26, 2007

Ok, it’s official. I am now no longer worried or concerned about the FDA proposals regarding Complimentary and Alternative Medicine. An attorney at USANA, a nutritional supplements company (whose products I’ve been using for years) has analyzed the FDA proposals, in detail, and come to these conclusions: —snip— …. We’ve researched the information from the [...]

More on the FDA and Alternative Medicine

Date April 18, 2007

A few days ago I sent a note to the gems4friends newsletter (and posted here) regarding an proposal by the FDA regarding complimentary and alternative medicine. As it turns out the proposal is in regards to complimentary and alternative medicine products. So far it doesn’t look like CAM practice is in the pipeline, though I’m [...]

Alternative Medicine and the FDA

Date April 16, 2007

Earlier today I received a note in my inbox about an idea the FDA is discussing, regarding the regulation of complimentary and alternative medicine. The libertarian in me thinks that we have WAY more than enough government interference in our lives and in business. My nanny state friends will argue that the FDA protects us [...]

Food and Drugs and Opinions

Date March 3, 2007

I just read a couple of articles while in search of another topic (something along the lines of “ten G rated things to do with herbs…”) for the herbs section of this site. First, here are the articles: So you think you live in a free society? http://www.newstarget.com/001681.html Top 10 Things the Food Co’s Don’t [...]

About Those Health Studies

Date January 24, 2007

Have you seen Steve Pavlina’s Self Development blog? You should. He has a nice article on all those health studies that we hear about in the news. Controversy sells. Or gets good press, anyway. If you produce a health product, or any product, it’s in your interest to push the benefits of that product and [...]