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03/25/2019 / By Amy Goodrich

Is your aloe vera gel fake? Here’s how to tell

Touted as the “plant of immortality” by ancient Egyptians and used by Cleopatra as her favorite royal beauty secret, very few natural products have such versatile applications as pure aloe vera gel. One of the world’s most popular and useful healing herbs can be used to moisturize your skin, improve skin conditions such as psoriasis or eczema, […]

03/03/2019 / By Amy Goodrich

Milk thistle fights OCD, hepatitis C, cancer, rosacea, inflammation, and more

Milk thistle, or Silybum marianum, is a purple flowering prickly herb you often see growing along highways, in open pastures, crop fields, and undisturbed roadsides. In some states, such as California and Washington, milk thistle has been deemed a noxious weed. The use of milk thistle as a herbal medicine has a history dating back […]

03/14/2017 / By Amy Goodrich

Are walnuts the key to fighting prostate cancer? Researchers think so

Next to non-melanoma skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most prevalent cancer among men in America, according to the latest statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In 2013, 176,450 new cases of prostate cancer were diagnosed, and about 27,681 American men died from this largely preventable disease. The prostate is a […]

02/19/2017 / By Amy Goodrich

How to grow garlic from a single clove

Often described as the stinking rose, garlic’s culinary and medicinal uses date back to ancient times. In fact, the father of Western medicine, the Greek physician Hippocrates, once described it as a cure for a variety of medical conditions. And right he was. Over the years, modern science has backed up many of his ancient […]

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