When my friends and I were in our teens, we thought that sun care meant smearing on baby oil and baking for hours with foil reflectors tucked under our chins.But I was born with pale skin—I burn after only twenty unprotected minutes in the sun. When I added baby oil, I reduced my burn ...
Sunburn SoakThis soothing combination will help take the sting out of your sunburn and speed healing.• 1/4 cup each of the following dried herbs: calendula, plantain, raspberry leaf, green tea• 1/2 cup witch hazel• 1 to 2 drops lavender essential oil• 1 quart boiling water• 1/2 ...
Magic Zoom BallsThis alternative to caffeine drinks and other “uppers” may help your college student stay healthfully alert. The guarana powder is high in caffeine but has only one alkaloid compared with the thirteen alkaloids in coffee, says herbalist Rosemary Gladstar. MAKES SIXTEEN ...
Keeping damage at bayWhen my friends and I were in our teens, we thought that sun care meant smearing on baby oil and baking for hours with foil reflectors tucked under our chins.But I was born with pale skin—I burn after only twenty unprotected minutes in the sun. When I added baby oil, I ...
Dangerous herbs. Poor quality control. Toxic supplements.If you read the newspaper or watch television, you’ll encounter these and similar phrases that have fueled understandable worry among many consumers.At Helios Health Center, a holistic medical practice in Boulder, Colorado, several ...
If you’ve been trying to conceive with no success, you may want to consider alternative treatments—they’re working remarkably well with some forms of infertility. Could healthy babies be as simple as better nutrition and herbal remedies? When she was trying to get pregnant, ...
Pull Out & SaveChances are you didn’t know how to pronounce echinacea a couple of years ago. But today, it’s a household word. The purple coneflower—Echinacea spp. to scientists—accounted for nearly 10 percent of all herbal supplement sales in 1998, according to a Whole Foods ...
All you want to do is to look better. But when you decide to try products whose names imply that they’ll help you slim down, bulk up, or look younger, you get frustrated. You don’t understand the terms, and the labels tell you very little. Do you choose blindly? Do you use the products at ...
Larry Benton was scared. He had read that Asian ginseng might counteract a prescription drug that helps prevent blood clots, and he had been taking precisely that combination for months. But his doctor wouldn’t talk to him about herbs, and his insurance plan didn’t allow for switching ...
Horse Chestnuts—also known by the colorful name “conkers”—have a long history of folk use for healing. While modern minds may find conkers an unlikely source of medicine, scientific researchers suggest the idea may not be so far-fetched—except it’s probably better to take your ...
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