#complementary and alternative medicine

FDA warns that drinking Miracle Mineral Solution and similar products is potentially life-threatening.

Chinese herbal formulas for developed centuries ago remain popular today and are used regularly by health conscious individuals worldwide.

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.

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

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

The first book of its kind to tackle the broad field of what has come to be labeled complementary and alternative medicine

Of the three friends who volunteered to serve as TCM study guinea pigs with me, the first got his 4-month blood results yesterday.

Don’t allergies typically subside as we age, rather than getting worse or appearing anew out of the blue?

In his POZ Blog entry “Alice Down the Rabbit Hole” (February 12), Mike Barr shared how he uses alternative medicine to help manage his HIV.

For folks co-infected, I suspect the TCM formula choice might be a bit trickier or even non-existent entirely.

I also have rethunk my initial hesitancy to help readers of this blog act on their own accord to try these qi tonifying formulas.

The professional, responsible, answer is, of course, to find an acupuncturist trained in herbs or an herbalist, and work with her or him.

More effective in serum loss of hepatitis B viral markers and in improving liver function than antiviral drugs alone.