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...more energy and leave you completely lucid." Giuseppe Rotilio, a professor of nutritional science at Rome's Tor Vergata University, says little research has been done on the substances sold at smart shops, though many of the pills and elixirs have long been sold in different forms at herbalist shops. "There is an ongoing debate about what is and what isn't a drug," he says. "You have to treat each product on a case-by-case basis...
...increasingly prominent - and provocative - parts of the U.S. medical landscape. An estimated 50% of all Americans turn to some type of alternative therapy; three-quarters of U.S. medical schools offer courses in the subject; and even flinty-eyed health insurers are starting to pay for visits to your local herbalist or naturopath...
...increasingly prominent--and provocative--parts of the U.S. medical landscape. An estimated 50% of all Americans turn to some type of alternative therapy; three-quarters of U.S. medical schools offer courses in the subject; and even flinty-eyed health insurers are starting to pay for visits to your local herbalist or naturopath...
...latter included doing laundry and mending for her father, as well as providing him with medicinal compounds. Maria Celeste was the convent's herbalist and, judging from her elegantly phrased appeals to her well-connected father, also the impoverished order's chief fund raiser. She was a shrewd manager of the convent's money and kept an eye on her father's house and vineyard. One busy...
Doctors in Sydney recruited 116 patients who had not responded well to Western treatments. They divided them into three groups and sent each group to a Chinese herbalist, who wrote each patient an individualized prescription based on his or her complaints. Each prescription was then filled at a different location, where patients were randomly given pills that contained either a placebo of flavored compounds that tasted like herbs but had no medicinal effects, a standardized extract of 20 herbs designed to support bowel function in general, or the individually prescribed herbs. After 16 weeks of treatment, the two groups that...