Category Archives: Alternative Medicine
Hidden Ingredients of Chinese Medicine: Are They Safe?
Genetic audit uncovers hidden ingredients of Chinese medicine DNA sequencing tests on 15 popular traditional Chinese medicines seized by Australian border officials reveals a variety of potential toxins, allergens — and even traces of endangered animals. For desperate people suffering from diseases that are debilitating or still incurable, traditional Chinese medicines are often the “courts [...]
LSD Treatment for Alcohol Abuse: Krebs-Johansen Study
LSD to treat alcoholism? Review of six studies says yes You may not have noticed it, but there’s an ongoing ‘renaissance’ of research interest in the use of powerful hallucinogens to treat intractable addictions and other psychiatric disorders. In the 1950s, psychiatrists began to promote using psychedelics by to treat schizophrenia and other conditions, and [...]
Medical Marijuana for Multiple Sclerosis Patients
Sweden approves medical ‘marijuana’. Following the lead of drug regulators in Germany, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Spain and four other European countries, Sweden’s Medical Products Agency (Läkemedelsverket) approved a cannabis-based mouth spray for the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) on Feb. 12. Apart from the eight European countries, the cannabis spray is also available in [...]
Electric Shock Therapy for Alzheimers?
Study says memory can be boosted by electric shocks. We take it for granted, but practically all of our daily activities depend on having a memory. Talking, reading, understanding, socializing—these all depend on having learned and stored information about our environments. It’s our memory that allows us to retrieve events from moments ago or from [...]
Thermobalancing Therapy for Kidney Stones: Scam, Hoax, or Effective Cure?
A device that promises to reduce pain from kidney stones dramatically —and then dissolve the kidney stones themselves totally, both without affecting the organ appears to be a hoax, Health Care Zone determined. On Feb. 5, Yahoo News and San Francisco Gate, the website of the San Francisco Chronicle, picked up a press release from [...]
