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  • Mesotherapy Medicine: Effective Cellulite Treatment or Snake Oil?

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    Mesotherapy involves the use of medication compounds injected right into localized areas of the skin for fast absorbsion into the dermis layer. This fairly new procedure has rapidly become the latest trend for eliminating localized fat deposits and cellulite. Some new studies suggest it may also have some anti-aging benefits.Read more…
  • Essential Oils How To Use - Aromatherapy Medicine

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    First, please remember that essential oils should never be applied neat (undiluted) to your skin. There are absolutely NO exceptions to this! This includes the soles of your feet or palms of your hands.Read more…
  • A Question of Balance & Oriental Medicine

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    At BIOM, we encourage ourselves and our visitors to become aware of, and act from, that special ‘place’ inside oneself that is the wellspring of health and wellbeing. With that in mind, we invite you to explore with us an Oriental medicine approach to balanced eating that provides the energy for living the life you want to live."The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.Read more…
  • The Argument for Alternative Medicine: Unconventional Thinking is Critical to Your Well-being

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    "Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken." –Bertrand RussellA form of Streptococcus bacteria killed as many as 25% of 19th Century women who delivered babies in the hospitals of Europe and the United States. In the 1840’s, Dr.Read more…
  • Folk Medicine - The Natural Solution

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    Long before orthodox medicine took center stage in the health care practices around the world people who were sick used to visit different kind of doctors. These doctors were not the steth-wielding, tech-savvy, white-coated medical geniuses of today. Mostly, they were bearded, wizened and gnarled humans looking less like physicians and more like witches or wizards.Read more…
  • Tibetan Medicine Defying Time

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    Tibetan medicine is a centuries-old hallowed traditional medical system. This is a fairly complex approach to diagnosis and utilizes behavior and dietary modification, natural medicines and physical therapies to treat illnesses. Since Tibet is a border country, Tibetan medicine is a synthesis of the Indian (Ayurveda), Persian (Unani), Chinese, Greek and Tibetan medical systems.Read more…
  • Alternative Medicine: Pressure Remedies that Heal You

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    Alternative medicine is a recent term to something that has been a part of human existence from old. From the times of early man to the present day instinct and reason has taught humans many thing. The best advice for anyone wanting to adopt alternate medicine is• Understand the rationale and limitations of the type of alternate medicine you choose.Read more…
  • What is Alternative Medicine?

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    What is alternative medicine? This is a term used to describe the different forms of medicine other than conventional methods. Alternative medicine includes a wide variety of medical practices including non-European (non-Western) medical practices and will include some new approaches to medicine.Read more…
  • Gout Treated with Alternative Medicine

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    The name of the disease is not what concerns the person who treats the patient holistically, for they are looking at the die-ease in the patient, not the gout. Gout is a manifestation of the dis-ease in the patient, treating the presenting symptoms with drugs for the inflammation and pain may well relieve the symptoms temporarily, but it's not treating the cause of the condition.So what is the cause of gout?Read more…
  • Chinese Herbal Medicine - A Natural Alternative

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    Chinese herbal medicine is a health care system which has been around since ancient times. It is also known by the acronym CHM. As the causes of illness that afflict mankind have evolved in time, CHM has also undergone developments continuously.Read more…
  • The Universe of Chinese Medicine

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    China has a rich and venerable medical culture; in fact, it was one of the first countries to seriously take up medicine. While Chinese medicine runs a diagonally opposite course from that adopted by Western medicine, their 5,000 plus years of experience has given them immense knowledge in medical science, diagnostic methods, cures and prescriptions.Chinese medicine operates on one basic principle – that of Yin and Yang.Read more…
  • Using Your Fresh Herbs In Infusions, Herbal Teas, or Decoctions As An Herbal Medicine

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    Recently it has been shown that high herbal tea and quality teas have many health benefits, especially Black and Green Tea. With all the news on Black and Green Tea lately, you may be considering adding it to your daily diet regime. If that is so, only use the best quality and freshest tea available for the maximum health benefits.Read more…
  • Rheumatoid Arthritis Treated with Alternative Medicine

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    If you have rheumatoid arthritis you may have often thought about seeking an alternative health practitioner, but have not known how to approach the matter. You may be considering alternative medicine now for your arthritis, because you have been treated unsuccessfully for years by conventional medicine.Having been treated for rheumatoid arthritis over a lengthy period your condition may be rather advanced, that is not to say that alternative medicine would be unable to treat it, but rather the treatment would be slow and steady in order to avoid any aggravation of your arthritis.Read more…
  • Aloe-Vera - An Effective Medicine?

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    Aloe vera is a very useful plant. It is very often used as a medicine to treat skin conditions such as burns and eczema, where it can help to stop the pain and reduce swelling. It is also very pleasant and soothing in its smell, which is likely why you will have heard of it: it is very often used in soaps, shampoos, and similar products.Read more…
  • Alternative Medicine Re-defined

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    The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defined healthcare as the prevention, treatment and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well-being through the services offered by the medical and allied health professions. If we follow this definition of medical care, then alternative medicine would be seen as the use of other means, either as a complement or in place of conventional orthodox medical care. This nomenclature and definition have relegated natural medicine to a second class status and unfortunately, this has been accepted by almost everybody involved.Read more…
  • Eliminate Fever Blisters or Cold Sores Without Medicine

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    A fever blister or cold sore is a fluid-filled, painful blister.The infection from the virus erupts as small painful blisters on the usually on the outside of your lips, or the mouth area.Fever Blisters can form on other parts of your body such as on your fingers.Read more…
  • Medicine and Hypnosis. Hypnotherapy - Healing Emotionally and Physically from the Inside Out

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    More and more doctors now realize that hypnosis is powerful medicine. Why this is and how it happens is still something of a mystery, but science is proving that hypnosis can improve your health in amazing ways. It can help relieve pain, make breathing easier for people with respiratory illnesses, aid with gastrointestinal ailments and relieve depression just to name a few.Read more…
  • Alternative Health - Warning - Using Some Medicine May Be Harmful to Your Body

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    You need to know it's never been more critical to make a fully informed choice when selecting your medication for any condition. Once you've got the information to make a quality choice you should be mindful that staying on your medication for too long could damage your physical and mental health.Be encouraged in the knowledge that a number of medicines are less of a challenge.Read more…
  • Are Alternative, Complimentary, Natural and Holistic Medicine All the Same?

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    There is such a vast amount of information out there in the public domain that it is sometimes very hard for us to make sense of it all or even to make a choice about our health treatments. I am a layperson that got interested in “other” treatments when I left my general practitioner’s office unconvinced by his theories about my ailing health. I did not want to be tired any more, but suspected that I first had to get to the bottom of the despondency that I seemed to drown in.Read more…
  • Preventive Medicine

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    When I come across people with several medical conditions, I feel sorry that these people were not aware of what they could do to help themselves avoid such a situation in the first place. Sometimes there's a complex combination of conditions that one condition, as long as it is unresolved or unresponsive to treatment, prevents another serious condition from being addressed. This is because the life of the patient can be endangered if an attempt is made to resolve the second condition while the first is still unresolved.Read more…

Most Recent Articles in Medicine category

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    People usually turn to medication when faced with a condition like sinusitis. And why not, if medicine can provide relief from bothersome and painful symptoms that can ruin your daily routine?
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    Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) often known as CD289 (cluster of differentiation 289), is a member of the Toll-like receptor family that recognizes pathogen-associated molecular pattern.
  • TLR7- cluster of differentiation 287 - By: Stephen Jones
    Toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7), is an immune gene possessed by humans, other mammals and additionally in avian species playing a significant role in initiating antiviral immune responses.
  • TLR8- cluster of differentiation 288 - By: Stephen Jones
    Toll-like receptor 8 (TLR8) often designated as CD288 (cluster of differentiation 288) is a member of evolutionarily conserved Toll-like receptor family which are critical parts of the evolutionarily conserved innate immune system.
  • TLR4- cluster of differentiation 284 - By: Stephen Jones
    Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) often designated as CD284 (cluster of differentiation 284) is a class I transmembrane receptor belonging to the large homologous family of Toll like receptors.
  • TLR5- cluster of differentiation 285 - By: Stephen Jones
    Toll-like receptor 5 (TLR5), a member of the evolutionarily conserved Toll-like receptor family, has evolved to permit mammals specifically to detect flagellated bacterial pathogens.
  • TLR6- cluster of differentiation 286 - By: Stephen Jones
    Toll-like receptor 6 (TLR6) often designated as CD286 (cluster of differentiation 286), is a member of the Toll-like receptor family, a highly conserved series of ancient innate immune pattern recognition receptors.
  • TLR3- cluster of differentiation 283 - By: Stephen Jones
    Toll-like receptor 3 (TLR3) often designated as CD283 (cluster of differentiation 283) is a type I transmembrane receptor protein. It belongs to a family of evolutionary conserved innate immune recognition molecules and recognizes double-stranded RNA, a molecular pattern associated with viral infections.
  • TLR1- cluster of differentiation 281 - By: Stephen Jones
    Toll-like receptor 1 (TLR1) often designated as CD281 (cluster of differentiation 281), a member of the Toll-like receptor family recognizes pathogen-associated molecular pattern with specificity for gram-positive bacteria.
  • TLR2- cluster of differentiation 282 - By: Stephen Jones
    Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2), often designated as CD282 (cluster of differentiation 282) is a type I transmembrane protein belonging to the large homologous family of Toll like receptors.