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Help for Psoriasis Psoriasis is one of the most intractable conditions to treat for both conventional and alternative medicine. However, recent research indicates that Pycnogenol® a standardized extract from French
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The Benefits of Meditation What does meditation have to do with naturopathic medicine? If we understand health as a state of the person as a whole, it is easy to
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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,
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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
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