There Is No Nature. We Are the Land.
A recent article in one of our local periodicals brought me up short. It was a lovely piece about a local woman and her devoted volunteer work to restore a precious Native prairie in this area. In discussing the history of this prairie the author mentioned how the federal government bought the land from the Potawatomi. Now I know that the truth of how that land transfer came down is not...
Read MoreStandardization of Herbal Remedies?
I read a lot in the health care literature about the need to standardize herbal remedies. This means making sure that each capsule of herbal medicine contains a standard amount of some constituent of the plant. For instance, St. Johnswort capsules are often standardized to deliver a specific dose of hypericin, one of the components of the plant’s medicine that we know to be active....
Read MoreReal Food, Real Choices and the Human Genome Project
Many years ago when the $3 billion Human Genome Project was begun it was promoted as a key to healing the ubiquitous chronic diseases that plague the people of industrialized societies. It was thought at the time that understanding the genetic code of our species would allow us to develop more perfect "magic bullets" to rid us of these troublesome chronic disorders. At this...
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