Natural Health

As summer slowly turns to fall and on into winter, I can’t help but looking glumly into the eye of cold and flu season. I thought...

A few weeks ago I was asked by your editor to write an article about asthma. Having seen the premier of the television series Revolution, she...

Bronchitis is defined as a swelling of the bronchial tubes due to viruses or obstructions in the tubes that result in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Temporary...

The heat and sunshine of summer may still be lingering in most parts of the northern hemisphere, but fall is on the way. Along with shorter...

As I sat down to write this—no lie!—I actually got a headache. Well, I get them all the time, as mine can be related to weather,...

You probably associate the name echinacea with a medicinal herb. It enjoyed much attention several years ago as an ingredient in cold remedies and preventions and...

Scientists have been working with strands of the avian flu (also known as the bird flu and H5N1) to try and develop a vaccine. At first...

I first became interested in herbs when I was pregnant with my third child. My first two pregnancies were highly medicalized affairs that left me feeling...

Ever since their inception just a couple hundred years ago, vaccines have always been a subject of heated debate.  You have those who are completely against,...

We’ve all seen those commercials for various cleaning products that claim to kill up to 99 percent of household germs. If you are a new parent...