You never know what life is going to throw at you. One moment you may be trekking through the mountains, while seconds later you could be fighting for your life as the wilderness takes over. Whether you are lost in the wild or bugging out, knowing your plants might show a crucial skill in times […]

Australia’s most famous panacea, tea tree oil, is extracted from Melaleuca alternifolia leaves, a shrub-like bush native to the coastal regions of New South Wales and Queensland. While Australian Aborigines have used tea tree oil remedies for centuries, it is becoming more and more popular in many households around the world. Today, tea tree oil […]

Over a century ago, fake news about medicine began in America. Though there was no television and no internet, there were plenty of poser medical journals, including JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association. Way back in July of 1883, the first edition of JAMA was published, but it wasn’t until the early 1900s […]

Have you ever wondered how “Big Pharma” attained the power it now has over our system of medicine? Or why our food, water and air – our most precious resources – are all now polluted by deadly chemicals that are completely unnecessary for our existence and that never should have been approved for use in […]

Multiple sclerosis? Check. Epilepsy? Check. The properties of the humble marijuana plant have been helpful in treating a wide variety of health conditions like those, and it has now been confirmed that cannabinoid (CBD) compounds in marijuana can treat bone fractures and assist with organ transplants. CBDs are non-psychotropic parts of the plant, and medicinal […]

After decades of attempts to find a cure for cancer and billions of dollars spent on cancer research, we are still fighting the war on this disease. While heart disease remains the number one killer of Americans, cancer is rapidly catching up. With so much money and time having gone into cancer research, one may ask […]

It sounds almost cruel to call someone uneducated, but for most people it’s not their own fault that they are, given the fact that most school curricula (fodder), college “cannons,” television shows, newspaper columns and online mass media “news” publications push toxic information that not only controls the minds of consumers, but influences their purchase and consumption […]

The pain-relieving properties of cannabis are becoming more widely recognized as more than half of U.S. states have now legalized medical marijuana. Hundreds of new products are being marketed by a rapidly growing number of “cannabusinesses” throughout the country, and the evidence indicates that cannabis painkillers are beginning to replace opioid painkillers, thereby reducing the […]

In America, thousands of people check into hospitals every day for routine surgery, diagnostic testing, or emergency service, never to check out again. Some doctors use dirty instruments, other perform unnecessary surgery, while some do everything by the book, but still, infections invade patient’s bodies and take over.  It seems we’ve reached a time in […]

The hot toddy is heavily rooted in Scottish tradition, and has been touted as a cold cure for quite some time. Many people swear by them as the ultimate way to clear your sinuses and boost your spirits when you’re feeling under the weather, while others may turn their noses up at the thought of a […]

Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr may have helped open up a dialogue regarding the use of medicinal marijuana in the NBA and other sports leagues, after speaking out about his own experiences with cannabis, which he used twice in an attempt to relieve his chronic back pain. During a December 2 CSN Bay Area […]

Abby Muszynski, the 5-year-old daughter of Rich and Kim Muszynski, suffers from grand mal seizures. Her parents say that they can always tell when a seizure is about to start; her pupils enlarge, and she’ll seem to fixate on something in the distance that only she can see. And then her extremities will start to shake, […]

The word Ananda translates from Hindu to English as perfect bliss. It is also the name of a recent juice product from the Portland Juice Company contains only 6 ingredients. Ginger, grapes, Jacobsen sea salt, lime, pear — and hemp leaves. Company owner Liz Nolan speaks about the beverage and it’s benefits, along with the […]

While the medical marijuana  industry may have its engines fired,  government regulations are keeping the industry stuck in first gear . A new study, however, provides us with data that may help prompt the feds to up-shift and decriminalize cannabis. It found that cannabinoid receptors are naturally present in our bodies and that children depend […]

A molecular biologist from Compultense University in Madrid, Christina Sanchez, has been studying the molecular activity of cannabinoids for over a decade. Through her studies, she and colleagues found that tetrahydrocannabinol, (THC) which is the main psychoactive part of cannabis, kills tumerous cells while allowing healthy cells to be. It was an unexpected discovery when […]