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...prefect expounded on the palliative effects of Echinacea, and suggested taking three little green meanies any time we even thought that a little tickle might be forming at the back of our throat. At the time, being of sound mind and body, I scoffed at this quaint notion. Taking herbal supplements sounded more like witchcraft than modern medicine. If this stuff did anything, I reasoned, researchers would have found out about it, analyzed it, extracted the active ingredients, and marketed the remedy to consumers. I felt saved and superior in my tower of Panglossian reasoning...
...guiding hand behind these gentle cures is Low Dog - whose name reflects her Native American heritage. In her teens, she studied herbal cures with traditional healers and learned the power of curative plants. But botanicals, she decided, weren't the whole answer. Wellness meant stress management too. It also meant being willing to use the powerful if hard-edged tool of Western medicine. So she returned to school, earned her M.D. at the University of New Mexico, and now practices a rich mix of healing arts. Her clinic is a place where pain may be treated just as easily with...
...soon to tell just yet. There's another study going on right now comparing St. John's Wort with Zoloft, and those results aren't out yet. But I do think overall that the public mood regarding herbal supplements is coming back to center. We're seeing a new era of caution; over the past couple of years we've seen that these "all natural" supplements can interact with traditional drugs and have very real side effects. So at this point, a little caution is definitely a good thing...
...seeing the beginning of the end of the herbal...
...necessarily. The key for consumers is figuring out where herbal or alternative treatments fit into the traditional scale. Are they meant to replace traditional medicines? In the case of serious or potentially serious illness, probably...