Posted in Nuts and Bolts on January 29th, 2010 No Comments »
Our daughter got her driver’s license yesterday. As she completed the requisite forms, she checked the box that designated her as an organ donor. But it wasn’t just a matter of ticking the square and moving on. In our state, a resident can opt to donate any needed body part or limit donation to specific […]
Posted in Nuts and Bolts on January 21st, 2010 No Comments »
In one form or another, tea tree oil (Melaleuca alternifolia) has been used for its medicinal benefits for thousands of years. The Bundjalung aborigines of Australia revered a lagoon near present-day New South Wales – where Melaleuca leaves fell into the water and decayed for generations – as a site with phenomenal healing powers.
In 1930, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 16th, 2010 No Comments »
If we want to understand the myriad and mysterious ways of our immune systems, sometimes we have to connect the dots. For practitioners of Western medicine, that occasionally means throwing off the shackles of dogma and embracing a new concept.
Way back in the 1990s, while performing autopsies on individuals who died following heart attacks, scientists […]
Posted in Nuts and Bolts on January 7th, 2010 No Comments »
As we enter the height of cold and flu season, lots of folks are casting about for alternative treatments for the aches, fevers, coughs, and sniffles that accompany these viral illnesses. Probably just as many people are looking for ways to prevent those bugs from ever getting a foothold in the first place.
Purveyors of herbal remedies […]