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AGADEZ, Niger—My great-grandfather Emmott O’Keefe was a doctor. He made house-calls in Northern North Dakota on a dogsled and carried with him a small black leather bag. Inside, Emmott kept various combinations of useless herbal remedies and semi-potent painkillers—not a single drug capable of prolonging someone’s life. His cooing bedside manner was the only weapon against his patients’ ailments.This was a century ago. Today’s hospitals, on the other hand, boast prescription prowess, the hallmark of modern medicine. Hundreds of drugs...
...phytochemicals, they fall into two classes: carotenoids, found mostly in orange-colored vegetables (beta carotene is the best known of the more than 600 carotenoids); and flavonoids--some 4,000 of them, found in, among other things, onions, broccoli, red wine and tea (green, black and oolong, but not herbal...
Harnett’s Homeopathy and Body Care on Brattle Street will close its doors at the end of the month, according to a sign posted on the store’s glass entrance. The store features natural health and beauty products and homeopathic medicines, including vitamin and herbal remedies. “It’s kind of nice to have natural ingredients in the center of town,” said Deborah Ruiz, who says she comes to Cambridge to shop “a lot.” “Now I’ll have...
...with striking views from its seven-meter-high steel-and-glass tower. Equally dramatic are the raw-boned interiors of the adjacent Giessereihalle, another of the area's ex-factories. Browse its pr?t-?-porter boutiques, like DUETT, tel: (41-43) 818 2814, before taking herbal tea at the newly opened TEEPUNKT, tel: (41-43) 540 4233. Giessereihalle also features a state-of-the-art spa in SKIN, tel: (41-43) 818 4343. For gastronomic rejuvenation, head to the ZUPPAMUNDIAL RESTAURANT, tel: (41-43) 818 2391?designer soups are the specialty and the wine list is one of the city...
Susan Kurz believesthe skin is like a plant. "The epidermis is the root, the dermis is the stem and leaf, and the subcutaneous is the seed and flower," explains the president of Dr. Hauschka Skin Care, which combines pharmaceutical technology and traditional herbal preparations with a holistic approach to healing the skin by supporting its natural functions...