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Over the last three decades David Winston has lectured widely in classes and conferences including the American Herbalists Guild Conference, Medicines from the Earth, The Southwest Conference of Botanical Medicine, the International Herb Symposium, United Plant Savers, the Green Nations’ Gathering, the Natural Products Expo, the Blue Ridge School, and the New York Open Center [...]

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Johann Heinrich Lahmann (March 30, 1860 – June 1, 1905) was a German physician who was a pioneer of naturopathic medicine. He was a native of Bremen, Germany. He earned his medical doctorate at the University of Heidelberg, and after graduation became a general practitioner in Stuttgart. On January 1, 1888 he opened a sanatorium [...]

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The original formulation now varies slightly according to the country of manufacture. In many countries including the US, alcohol and sucrose have been replaced with other ingredients. However, the mainstays of gripe water, dill or fennel and sodium bicarbonate continue to be the primary active ingredients. While evidence of gripe water’s effectiveness has been limited [...]

Although there is extensive scientific evidence to the contrary, Alive & Well AIDS Alternatives promotes the viewpoint that HIV is not the cause of AIDS. The organization also espouses the viewpoints that: * HIV tests are inaccurate. * AIDS is not a major problem in Africa. * Pregnant women should not take antiretroviral medication to [...]

”Fit for Life” (FFL) is a diet and lifestyle stemming from the principles of natural hygiene, an offshoot of naturopathic medicine. It is promoted mainly by the American writers Harvey and Marilyn Diamond. As the title of the 1985 book suggests, ”Fit for Life” claims that one can lose excess body weight and maintain good [...]

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”S”-Methylmethionine, or ”S”-methyl-L-methionine, is a derivative of methionine with chemical formula C6H15NO2S. In plants, it is produced from methionine by the enzyme methionine S-methyltransferase. ”S”-Methylmethionine is sometimes called vitamin U in naturopathic medicine, but it is not recognized as a vitamin by mainstream nutrition science. Methionine in itself has not been demonstrated as effective for [...]

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ApothéCure has been implicated in the March and April, 2007, deaths of three patients from the Pacific Northwest. The patients were each given intravenous colchicine, a toxic substance commonly used in naturopathic medicine, for treatment of back pain. The colchicine, however, was labeled incorrectly and was ten times more concentrated than listed on the vials, [...]

Bastyr University was established as the John Bastyr College of Naturopathic Medicine in 1978 in Seattle, Washington (USA) by Sheila Quinn, Joseph Pizzorno, ND, LM; William Mitchell, ND; and Les Griffith, ND, LM. It is named after John Bastyr, a pioneering naturopathic physician and chiropractor in the Seattle area who was instrumental in keeping interest [...]

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Hirschfeld was born in Kolberg (modern Kołobrzeg) in a Jewish family, the son of a highly regarded physician and ‘Medizinalrat’ Hermann Hirschfeld. In 1887-1888 he studied philosophy and philology in Breslau, then from 1888-1892 medicine in Strasbourg, Munich, Heidelberg, and Berlin. In 1892 he took his doctoral degree. After his studies, he traveled through the [...]

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An American cottage industry in the late 20th century, the evolving megavitamin therapy are integrated with orthomolecular and naturopathic medicine. Although megavitamin therapy still largely remains outside of the structure of evidence-based medicine, they are increasingly used by patients, with or without the approval of their treating physicians. In the 21st century, proposed megavitamin therapies [...]

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