Garlic is a species in the onion genus, Allium. Its close relatives include the onion, shallot, leek, chive, and Chinese onion. The garlic plant’s bulb is the most commonly used part of the plant. With the exception of the single clove types, garlic bulbs are normally divided into numerous fleshy sections called cloves. Garlic cloves are used for consumption (raw or cooked) […]
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Ayurvedic Herbalism and Mental Health
Ayurveda is a comprehensive natural health care system that originated in India more than 5,000 years ago. The earliest literature on Indian medical practice appeared during the Vedic period in India (mid-second millennium BCE). Over the following centuries, ayurvedic practitioners developed a number of medicinal preparations and surgical procedures for the treatment of various ailments, […]
Rational Fasting
Arnold Ehret, a German-born health educator who came to the United States in 1914, was an advocate of fasting. Ehret’s interest in fasting began in 1907, when he visited Monte Verità, a health retreat in Ascona, Italy where people went to fast in the early 1900s. In 1909, Ehret fasted for 51 days at Kastans […]