The Two Traditions of Medicine When we think of health, it is might be worthwhile to point out that historically there are essentially two dominant conceptions of the body. While they are not mutually exclusive, in some respects complementing...
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Skeptical of the Skeptics: Unreason in the name of Reason Sometime ago I happened to hear vocal health skeptic Timothy Caulfield spreading his disdain for natural medicine on a Canadian broadcast morning show. He had authored an essay...
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The Quality of Natural Products In the U.S., reports emerge periodically indicating that herbal products are not to be trusted. When products have been tested from American chain drug stores, such as CVS, they are sometimes found to contain far...
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Taking a Sledgehammer to Heartburn You may be surprised to learn that medicine is subject to trends, one could even call them fads. For example, I’ve been astonished at the dramatic increase of patients that are taking proton pump inhibitors, a...
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Choice, Fate and Aging It’s a wry fact that many of those who have been most vocal about best health practices have suffered the indignity of a relatively early death from seemingly preventable causes, sometimes the very diseases they said you...
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Making Herbal Medicines, My New Vocation Plant medicines in the form of herbal tinctures have gradually become an important part of my naturopathic practice that always and still centres on homeopathy. It is truly incredible the amount of...
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Creating quality herbal extracts for botanical medicine: My Ongoing Adventures in Botanical Medicine I wrote a blog post a while back about my explorations in making quality herbal extracts. I wrote that post almost sixteen months ago, and so...
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Penetrating the Illusion of Separation The following article was written six or seven years ago as the afterword to a small book, essentially done but I’ve still been dithering over for years titled Five Key Principles for Better Health and...
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