Mike Barr

No City for Old Zen: Elizabeth Street sculpture garden next for the wrecking ball

Real Salt Is Friend Not Foe

EtOH: Cause and solution of all life’s problems?

Might some types of depression, inflammation, metabolic syndrome, and even heart disease be mediated by the “vagabond” nerve?

Call me crazy, but I’ll never forget how thrilled I was the day I discovered I could crack my own back.

Acupuncture is more likely to provide relief for chronic knee pain due to osteoarthritis than any other modality.

There’s no better time than the chilly fall and winter seasons to lovingly prepare a hearty soup.

Lieque (Broken Sequence) and Zusanli (Leg Three Mile)

Seems the FDA doesn’t know about the Norwegian AcuFlash studies or the efficacy of Chinese herbal formulas like Er Xian Tang

Omega threes are all the rage. But how to figure out if you’re getting the ’ideal’ mix of 3’s and 6’s and 9’s, EPA vs. DHA?

And why do we have to learn these things on the street? (Or via Russian emigres.)

Many well-traveled, well-read folks (with credible proof of benefit going back as far as 1997) say... enteric-coated peppermint oil.

From what I have seen, acupuncture can be a useful adjunct to Western medicine--but it should not replace it.

“Cupping” comes in for its close-up. Is it really any different (more fraught with risk?) than a good deep-tissue massage though?

When food fads come along, I either run the other way or just batten down until the media storm passes. But this chia seed thing got me.

If others out there have beat me to the punch in experimenting, successfully one hopes, with herbology, please share your experiences.