Your Daily Detox, Vol1 number 3

Castor oil packs are a classic Naturopathic tool to increase circulation and lymphatic flow, while decreasing congestion in organs and tissue.  To promote liver detoxification and bowel function use a castor oil pack over your entire abdomen nightly for at least 30 minutes.  Pour 2 Tblsp of organic castor oil on a clean folded square [...]

Your Daily Detox, Vol1 Number2

In our western culture, we eat primarily sweet and salty foods.  For millenia, Chinese medicine has recommended balancing all of the tastes – sweet, salty, pungent, sour and bitter.   Eating bitter or sour foods causes a completely different digestive enzyme response than does eating sweet or salty foods.   In particular, bitter foods  cause a digestive [...]

Your Daily Detox

We’re launching a series of health tips that will teach you how to promote detoxification on a daily basis. Click on the Daily Detox tag at “What’s Inside the Website” on the main page for the link to the Daily Detox articles. Here’s the first one: Drink 1 cup of  hot water mixed with the [...]

What you need to know about Vitamin D

Vitamin D is in the headlines frequently these days. Research over the last few decades has uncovered the critical role this vitamin plays in the prevention and treatment of many illnesses. From autism to depression, osteoporosis to cancer, vitamin D has created more interest in the scientific world than any vitamin in recent history. “The [...]

Vitamin D and your children

We recently posted a poll asking you how many IUs of Vitamin D a child under 12 should be taking daily. Several of your guessed the correct answer (as can be seen below), which is 400 IU per day.   Children between the ages of 2 and 12 can safely take 400 IU per day. Vitamin [...]

Headaches and dehydration

The next time that you get a mild headache, drink 8 ounces of water, without an analgesic, close your eyes, relax and take a break for about 20 minutes. You’ll start to understand the importance of drinking water when your headache goes away and you didn’t take a pain killer.

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