Energy Medicine

Stories in the mainstream press about sub-Saharan Africa tend to follow a pretty grim litany of poverty, corruption, violence and despair. (The photos are often even worse.) So I hereby submit for your perusal An African Miracle, which is a...

For 4,000 years, Asians have regarded green tea as more than just a beverage. It was used as herbal medicine and treatment for everything from headaches to depressions and even to weight loss. Researches have been conducted over the last few years to identify what compound present in green tea makes it a potent health [...]

Apologies for the lack of posts in recent weeks. I'm just settling into India and will start posting from here more regularly. First, though, a couple of last things from Africa. If you haven't seen Christine's piece An African Miracle...

Though they may not be magic elixirs, the hard data on the benefit of loose teas-black, green and white-developed and published by medical organizations, research institutes and laboratories, certainly suggests that the consumption of these products may indeed have wide-ranging medical benefits. In recent years a number of major clinical and laboratory studies in the United [...]

It's easy to forget, but the first country to report avian cases of H5N1 avian flu during the serious winter 2003 outbreak was not Vietnam or China or Thailand, but modern South Korea. Unlike many of their regional neighbors, who...