Preventing Infection – Prevention is the Best Medicine 1. Wash your hands! – making kids wash their hands 4x per day in school cut absences due to illness in half; adding hand sanitizer use made this even more effective 2. Manage stress – Smith NEJM 325:606, 1991 – psychological stress was a better predictor [...]
Keeping the Blues at Bay A Holistic Approach to Maintaining a Positive Mood in Dark Times What is Depression? – A Spectrum Disorder Minor Depression, Major Depression, Recurrent Brief Depression, Dysthymia, Adjustment Disorder with Depressed Mood. These are fluid distinctions, and people often move from one subtype to another in their clinical course. Symptoms: Low [...]
Combination of herbs that: • Inhibits the COX-2 enzyme and reduces inflammation* • Promotes healthy joint function* • Promotes normal cell growth* • Contains organic herbal anti-aging constituents that inactivate free-radicals* Per the company; New Chapter has extensively researched the herbal pharmacopoeia and international medical databases and discovered that the following time-tested herbs, properly extracted [...]
Tagged cancer, inflammation, turmericNames: Vitex, Chasteberry, Monks’ pepper.Collection: The very dark berries should be picked when ripe, which is between October and November. They may be dried in sun or shade. Part Used: The fruit. Constituents: Iridoid glycosides which include aucbin and agnoside Flavonoids including casticin, isovitexin and orientin Essential oil. Actions: Uterine Tonic Indications: Chasteberry has the [...]
Tagged fertility, menstrual, vitexSupplements, not Substitutes The goal is for fresh fruits and vegetables to form a major portion of the diet, to be the main course rather than a side dish. The benefits from fruits and veggies are not derived solely from the vitamins; they can therefore not be obtained from the use of multivitamin pills as [...]
Back when the practice was founded, in 1999, I wrote the State Board of Equalization. It had come to my attention that prescription medications are not charged sales tax. I told them I would be prescribing dietary supplements and herbs to treat and prevent diseases and suggested I did not want to charge sales tax [...]