The book evaluates the scientific evidence for acupuncture, homeopathy, herbal medicine, and chiropractic, and briefly covers 36 other treatments. It finds that the scientific evidence for these alternative treatments is generally lacking. Homeopathy is concluded to be completely ineffective: “It’s nothing but a placebo, despite what homeopaths say”. Although the book presents evidence that acupuncture, [...]
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Zenaida Darunday (popularly known as Zen or Jen Darunday)is a Philippine environmental activist, pathologist, organic farmer, biodynamic practitioner and photographer. Darunday born to Cirilo and Abundia Darunday, Darunday finished her bachelors in agriculture at University of the Philippines-Los Banos and Masters in Plant Pathology at University of Wisconsin, U.S.A. She spent 20 years in New [...]
Ethnoveterinary medicine (EVM) considers that traditional practices of veterinary medicine are legitimate and seeks to validate them (Köhler-Rollefson and Bräunig, 1998). Many non-Western traditions of veterinary medicine exist, such as acupuncture and herbal medicine in China, Tibetan veterinary medicine, Ayurveda in India, etc. These traditions have written records that go back thousands of years, for [...]
Culinary use The fruits of the species ”Crataegus pinnatifida” (Chinese Hawthorn) are tart, bright red, and resemble small crabapple fruits. They are used to make many kinds of Chinese snacks, including haw flakes and ”tanghulu” (糖葫芦). The fruits, which are called ”shānzhā” (山楂) in Chinese, are also used to produce jams, jellies, juices, alcoholic beverages, [...]
Colquhoun has been an outspoken critic of pseudoscience and scientific fraud for many years. He has written extensively on the topic, including articles in ”Nature” and ”The Guardian”. He is particularly critical of alternative medicine, and of the decision of a number of UK universities to offer science degrees incorporating courses in complementary and alternative [...]
In recent times, there have been enormous improvements in the medical practices used to treat allergic conditions. With respect to anaphylaxis and hypersensitivity reactions to foods, drugs, and insects and in allergic skin diseases, advances have included the identification of food proteins to which IgE binding is associated with severe reactions and development of low-allergen [...]
”Matricaria” is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family (Asteraceae). Some of the species have the common name of “mayweed,” but this name also refers to plants not in this genus. Most are very common in the temperate regions of Europe, Asia, and America, as well as in northern and southern Africa, and [...]
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Susun Weed began investigating the benefits of herbal medicine in 1965 when she was pregnant with her daughter, Justine Adelaide Swede, and living in Manhattan. She has no official diplomas; she left high school in her junior year to pursue studies in mathematics and artificial intelligence at UCLA and subsequently left UCLA during her junior [...]
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