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What Is Medical Intuition?
April 22, 2022
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Excerpted from Essentials of Medical Intuition: A Visionary Path to Wellness (Watkins/Penguin-Random House, 2022) In 2005, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) convened a committee of ...
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Two New Sleep Studies Show Damage from Lack of Sleep and Mindfulness Training as a Solution
July 6, 2021
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Two new studies out recently provide insight into the importance of sleep for mental health and how the practice of mindfulness training provides an alternative ...
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Elderberry (Sambucus nigra): Setting the Record Straight
April 29, 2021
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By Jessie Hawkins, PhD/ Elderberries–dark purple berries from the Sambucus nigra plant–have become a universal natural remedy for respiratory complaints such as the common cold ...
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Ashwagandha and Saffron: Key Tools for a New Era of Living
April 19, 2021
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With Clinical Data for Mood, Stress, and Sexual Health, the Many Reasons to Consider Ashwaganda and Saffron Each year, stress pretty much hits us all ...
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Lab Research Explores the Potency of Five Botanicals Against Tick-borne Babesiosis Disease
March 23, 2021
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Could specific botanicals play a role in addressing the parasitic disease babesiosis? Early experimental research from the Bay Area Lyme Foundation in Portola Valley, California ...
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Integrative Medicine’s Most Intentional Intersection: SIO and ASCO to Produce 3 New Oncology Guidelines
December 1, 2020
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The early “integrative medicine” period clearly was one of “non-integrated integration.” The hospital or insurer wanted to throw the consumer an integrative bone in the ...
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The VA’s Fast Track for Integrative Health from Evidence to Implementation: Reflections on a Special Issue of Medical Care
October 5, 2020
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Tracking the inclusion of integrative strategies inside the Veteran’s Administration (VA) is an exception to the saying that a watched pot never boils. Integrative health ...
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Evolving Incomes, Services and Clinical Foci of Naturopathic Practices: Musings on the Graduate Success and Compensation Study
September 9, 2020
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Virtually every corner of the medical industry houses an entangling drama between mission and money. There is the service, the need to make a living, ...
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FTC’s Crackdown on COVID Claims: Insights on Novel Regulation from the Integrative Canaries in the Coal Mine
June 22, 2020
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News feeds for the natural products and integrative health practitioner fields have in recent weeks included a drumbeat of alerts on actions of the Food ...
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Integration of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Treatment and Support against the Coronavirus
May 5, 2020
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In this editorial by Geoff D’Arcy Lic. Ac., DOM, he describes the history of treatment for COVID-19 in China using a combination of conventional medicine ...
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