

HERBAL MEDICINE: A GROWING FIELD WITH A LONG TRADITION Traditional medicine is “the knowledge, skills and practices based on the theories, beliefs and experiences indigenous to different cultures, used in the maintenance of health and in the prevention, diagnosis, improvement or treatment of physical and mental illness” (World Health Organization) There are many different systems…
Some info on ANDROGRAPHIS, part of our 6 week Lyme protocol! “The herbs Andrographis paniculata, Polygonum cuspidatum (resveratrol extract), Stephania tetranda root, and Smilax rotundifolia (common greenbriar) all have strong scientific backing in patients with ongoing symptoms and inflammation, Dr. Horowitz said.” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3351864/ “Native to India, andrographis has antibacterial, antiviral, and antiparasitic properties to defend…
Two years ago, immunologist and medical-publishing entrepreneur Leslie Norins offered to award US$1 million of his own money to any scientist who could prove that Alzheimer’s disease was caused by a germ. The theory that an infection might cause this form of dementia has been rumbling for decades on the fringes of neuroscience research. The…
Modern Chinese Medicine Treatments for Rheumatoid Arthritis Rheumatoid Arthritis RA is an autoimmune related chronic progressive inflammatory disorder of joints. Around 1.3 million people in the United States have RA, representing 0.6 to 1% of the population. Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common form of arthritis, affecting over 32.5 million people in the U.S. The Arthritis…
Lyme disease is a tick-borne multisystemic disease caused by Borrelia burgdorferi. Administering antibiotics is the primary treatment for this disease; however, relapse often occurs when antibiotic treatment is discontinued. The reason for relapse remains unknown, but recent studies suggested the possibilities of the presence of antibiotic resistant Borrelia persister cells and biofilms. In this study, we evaluated the…
In a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Medicine, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with colleagues at the California Center for Functional Medicine and Focus Health, surveyed the power of 14 plant-based extracts to kill Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme diseases, compared to the currently used…
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