May All Your Medicines Be Green Written by Tracy Kolenchuk Hippocrates - the father of medicine - said, "Let your food be your medicine, and let your medicine be your food." Medicines are a subset of foods, according to Hippocrates. I like that. What are medicines today? What are foods?

Magnesium Puts Psychiatric Drugs to Shame for Depression Written by Sayer Ji, Founder A powerful clinical study shows that pennies worth of magnesium a day provides an effective, safe, affordable alternative to dangerous and relatively ineffective pharmaceutical antidepressants.

Grape Seed Extract Superior to Blockbuster Diabetes Drug, Preclinical Study Finds Written by Sayer Ji, Founder An extract of grape seeds was recently compared to the best-selling diabetes drug Metformin and was found to be superior in correcting adverse physiological responses induced by a high-fat, high-fructose diet

Turmeric Heals Spinal Cord Injuries Better Than Drugs/Surgery, Review Suggests Written by Sayer Ji, Founder Spinal cord injury can have devastating, and often irreversibly debilitating effects. Conventional treatment relies on steroid drugs and surgery with lackluster results. What if an extract of turmeric works better and is safer?

Sugarcane Extract Superior to Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs? Written by Sayer Ji, Founder There is a little known natural extract of plant waxes known as policosanol, extractable from sugar cane, yams, and beeswax, which has been giving some of the more profitable drugs on the market a biomedical beating since it was first investigated in clinical trials by the Cubans in the 1990's.

The Modern Physician: A Glorified Applied Phamacologist? Written by Sayer Ji, Founder Ok, so we have billions of pounds of synthetic chemicals consumed every year as patented drugs, with an army of degreed, licensed and doctored foot soldiers prescribing them recklessly under the once great banner of "medicine," in an ongoing war against the body's virtually infinite potential to generate symptoms, most of which are – ironically – a means to heal from acute or chronic exposure to synthetic chemicals.

Natural Ear Infection Alternatives to Antibiotics Proven Safer and More Effective Written by Eleni Roumeliotou According to existing scientific evidence, choosing natural, side effect-free herbal formulas to treat acute ear infection and pain over synthetic antibiotics with questionable therapeutic efficacy is a reasonable and well-founded option.

Grapefruit Seeds Treat Antibiotic-Resistant UTIs Written by Sayer Ji, Founder Antibiotic resistant urinary tract infections are increasingly common, leaving many looking for natural alternatives. Grapefruit seed extract may be an effective treatment that is safe, affordable and easily accessible

Science Confirms Turmeric As Effective As 14 Drugs Written by Sayer Ji, Founder If ever there were an herb that puts existential fear into the bottom line of pharmaceutical companies, its turmeric. Here are a few thousand reasons why...

Eating Sesame Seeds Superior To Tylenol for Knee Arthritis Written by Sayer Ji, Founder A remarkable new study published in the International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases confirms that food is not only medicine, but sometimes superior to it.

Honey Plus Coffee Beats Steroid For Treating Cough Written by Sayer Ji, Founder One of modern medicine's most celebrated 'miracle drugs' are steroids, but a double-blind, randomized clinical trial found that honey plus coffee outperformed prednisolone in treating symptoms of post-infectious, persistent cough.