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The self-care research is lopsided — and the gaps are not small
33 studies mapped how TCAM-based self-care shows up in chronic neck and shoulder pain — and the review says the important stuff is still getting skipped.
Yoga, tai chi, and the evidence gap
24 trials and 743 patients put yoga on sturdier ground than most wellness buzz.
Herbal remedies are getting the evidence-based treatment
1,000 evidence-based monographs is a lot of shelf space for one label, but NatMed says that’s what it contains.
Summer heat has Jan Elisabeth reaching for cooling herbs.
The overview explains that integrative medicine and health, complementary medicine, alternative medicine, and CAM are related but not identical terms. It a
WHO puts TCIM on the global health systems map
20 December 2025: the World Health Organization says traditional, complementary and integrative medicine is deeply embedded in health-care traditions acros
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Herbalism gets called out for being sold back as luxury
$45 for 30 servings is the kind of tea math that can make a herb lover spit out their “rest and digest” blend.
Ayurveda, Unani, and Homeopathy share the holistic spotlight
India's alternative medicine tradition groups Ayurveda, Unani, and Homeopathy together — contrasting all three with allopathic medicine and spotlighting th
TCM, metabolic health, and the anti-hack, pro-basics message
50 and a five-year medical program are the backbone of today’s most concrete wellness story: a TCM practitioner who says she’s stronger and more vibrant no
Herbs, then and now
One source leans hard into the old ways: herbs were “more than adequate” from the ancient Greeks through the late Renaissance, and the piece argues for nat
Traditional medicine, by another name
1 form of medicine here is explicitly framed as outside conventional Western medicine.
A food-first “superfood blueprint” built from plants, fruit, algae, sea vegetables, and a marine oil companion
2025 is the date stamped on the CAM cancer therapies piece, and 2010 is when the food-first superfood blueprint research dive began.
Herbal Medicine: Benefits and Risks
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GreenMedInfo's "natural substances vs. drugs" index keeps quietly getting bigger
108,000 study abstracts sit across GreenMedInfo's databases, with new research added daily.
Sunshine, herbal formulas, and the “just use chamomile” energy
There’s a specific thrill in building your own herbal formula: you pull down the jars, measure out the herbs you’ve been reading about for weeks, watch the
Peppermint isn’t just for tea time
$20,000 buys a lot of supplements — and, in one case, a post-treatment PET scan that showed no evidence of active cancer anywhere in the body.
The 12 Remedies They Can't Patent
This essay works in two registers: one for patent law, drug-trial economics, and the pharmaceutical industry’s own admissions, and another for what substan
Malaysia Took Traditional Medicine From "Maybe" to Mandatory
Malaysia's Traditional and Complementary Medicine Act passed in 2016 and moved to mandatory practitioner registration by 2021. By 2025, sixteen Ministry of
Supplements won't fix a broken foundation
Monique Boland, co-founder of Nuzest, lives with Multiple Sclerosis. Her verdict on what actually moved the needle is blunt: nutrition and lifestyle, not a
TCM keeps the whole map in view
Traditional Chinese Medicine is built on four foundational pillars: acupuncture, Chinese herbs, Tui Na Massage, and Qi Gong. The system takes a holistic ap
TCM keeps showing up wherever holistic care lives
A 2025 PubMed review frames Traditional Chinese Medicine as a holistic approach that weaves ancient philosophy into diverse therapeutic practice. The syste
Integrative medicine: when “alternative” becomes “with, not instead of”
Complementary and alternative medicine is a name for healthcare practices that are not part of mainstream medicine, also called conventional Western medici
Mind-body medicine is not "just breathing"
Mind-body medicine rests on a simple but powerful idea: mental and emotional factors can influence physical health. Behavioral, psychological, social, and
Mind-body medicine has quietly moved from the yoga mat to the front of the store
Mind-body techniques rest on the theory that mental and emotional factors can influence physical health. The toolkit includes biofeedback, guided imagery,
The “food in a capsule” argument gets a full-throated side-eye
From Medicine Girl’s Substack, the piece argues that the vitamin-pharmaceutical pipeline keeps following the same pattern: researchers notice disease or sy
Dream Weavers Turn to Ancient African Root for Lucid Nights
Imagine a root that could literally guide your dreams, turning them vivid and even lucid from the very first night.
That Poppy Growing in Your Garden? Identify It Before You Brew Anything
"Can I make tea from these seeds?" asked one gardener about their poppy plants — and the answer from experienced herbalists was an unambiguous no.
Herbalist With a Decade of Lyme Disease Shares a Post-Bite Tincture Protocol
A herbalist who has spent over a decade fighting Lyme disease just shared a small-batch spagyric tincture — built from Japanese Knotweed, Andrographis, min
Are You Reading Your Dosha — or Just Your Stress?
A homemade herb-and-oil ointment is reportedly reducing a post-surgical keloid scar that has persisted for years — and the herbalism community is paying cl
Your Chamomile Tea Is Quietly Acting as a Blood Thinner
Drinking chamomile tea in large quantities may interfere with blood thinners and, according to community herbalists, potentially reduce the effectiveness o