Tag: Herbs & Plants

Homeopathy (also spelled homoeopathy or homœopathy) is a form of alternative medicine, first proposed by German physician Samuel Hahnemann in 1796, that attempts to...

Herbal Medicine or herbalism is a traditional medicinal or folk medicine practice based on the use of plants and plant extracts. Herbalism is also...

Bach flower remedies are dilutions of flower material developed by Edward Bach, an English physician and homeopath, in the 1930s. The remedies are intended primarily...

Sage is said to be commonly used as a culinary herb but there certainly is nothing ‘common’ about its medicinal powers! To start with,...

Coriander is an aromatic herb that has been used as a flavouring agent and medicinal plant since ancient times in Ayurveda, Chinese medicine and...

As a naturopath people tell me all the time about what vitamins, herbs or supplements they are taking. I find people nowadays are very...

Ayurveda means “The Science of Life” and therefore the science of herbal energetics. This is an ancient system used to determine the qualities and...

Everybody at some time or another succumbs to the common cold. If we are generally healthy we can resume our lives after a week...

Diabetes mellitus is a group of autoimmune diseases characterized by defects in insulin secretion resulting in hyperglycemia (an abnormally high concentration of glucose in...

"A compound found in cannabis may stop breast cancer spreading throughout the body, US scientists believe." The California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute team...