Chinese Herbal Remedies to Combat Back Pain

Chinese medicine counts three major causes of low back pain: overuse, an invasion of Wind, Cold, and Damp, or weakness in your Kidney organ system, which governs your bones.

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Remedies for Constipation

The commercials call it “irregularity,” or “feeling sluggish,” or “out of sorts.” Euphemisms aside, if you feel constipated, you have plenty of company. From time to time, everyone has trouble going, and for more than 4 million Americans, constipation is a chronic problem. No wonder laxative sales approach $500 million a year.

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Hepatitis: Overview, Symptoms and Treatment

The liver is the largest internal organ, and one of the most complex. It regulates the amount of sugar, fat, and protein that circulate in your blood. It makes cholesterol, vitamin A, clotting factors, and about a quart of bile a day, which helps digest fats. And it detoxifies your blood, removing drugs, alcohol, and […]

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Fibromyalgia Treatments and Remedies

Persons with fibromyalgia typically experience long-lasting or chronic pain, as well as muscle stiffness and tenderness. Fibromyalgia affects about 3 million to 6 million people in the United States each year. The disorder mostly affects women and typically develops in early-to-middle adulthood. There is no test for the diagnosis of fibromyalgia. Doctors make a diagnosis […]

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Diabetes Information Overview

Diabetes mellitus is a group of diseases characterized by high levels of blood glucose resulting from defects in insulin production, insulin action, or both. Diabetes can be associated with serious complications and premature death, but people with diabetes can take steps to control the disease and lower the risk of complications.

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Lyme Disease: Overview

Lyme disease is caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi and is transmitted to humans by the bite of infected blacklegged ticks. Typical symptoms include fever, headache, fatigue, and a characteristic skin rash called erythema migrans. If left untreated, infection can spread to joints, the heart, and the nervous system. Lyme disease is diagnosed based on […]

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Risk Factors for Heart Disease

The stereotype is that heart disease—mostly heart attack—is a man’s disease. Actually, it’s the leading cause of death for both men and women. Heart attack, medically known as myocardial infarction or MI, is almost as lethal as all cancers combined. Heart attacks strike Americans once every 29 seconds, and kill once a minute. The American […]

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Enlarged Prostate (BPH) Overview

The prostate is a walnut-sized, donut-shaped gland located below a man’s bladder. It produces most of the fluid in semen. It also has a tube running through it, the man’s urethra, which carries urine and semen out of his body. Unless it gets infected, a man’s prostate remains so unnoticed that many men hardly know […]

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Back Pain and Chiropractic

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) assembled a panel of experts (21 M.D.s and 2 chiropractors) to review the research on back care. The panel’s report, “Guidelines for Acute Lower Back Pain,” included a ringing endorsement of chiropractic.

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Depression Overview

Everyone gets “the blues” when disappointed. And everyone gets depressed over job lay-offs, divorce, the death of a loved one, or other major losses. Sadness is a normal part of life. But when sadness never returns to gladness, it becomes what the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) calls the nation’s leading mental health problem, […]

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