Topic: Health & Healing

Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition characterized by widespread pain in muscles, ligaments and tendons, as well as fatigue and multiple tender points.

Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition characterized by widespread pain in muscles, ligaments and tendons, as well as fatigue and multiple tender points.

To help you understand the efficacy of natural healing with homeopathy, you can receive a free weekly e-letter to learn how to use homeopathy safely in your own home.

With people becoming more aware of the dangers linked to taking prescribed drugs, attention is turning to safer, natural therapies. Homoeopathy is a little known but highly effective form of natural health care. Because it is not widely known by the general public, Madeleine Innocent, a consultant homeopath in Western Australia, writes a free weekly e-zine to help increase people's awareness of homeopathy.

Dr. Brian Walsh's book "Unleashing Your Brilliance: Tools and Techniques to Achieve Personal, Professional and Academic Success" examines the effects an individual's self-esteem can have on cognition and reasoning.

Clear thinking is crucial for carrying on a conversation, making decisions, and practically everything people do. Thinking can be clouded by a host of conditions including stress, dehydration, and poor nutrition. Now, studies reveal that rejection and criticism also have a significant influence on how well a person thinks.

Researchers at UCSD School of Medicine are studying whether the brain hormone released with touches, hugs, or when a mother and her newborn baby bond might help patients with schizophrenia, social anxiety and a variety of other disorders.

Gazing into your lover’s eyes isn’t only romantic; it may also mimic early attachments that forever alter your brain and body.

With a growing use of complementary and alternative medicine by Americans, a nonprofit advocacy group applauds TV for showing positive portrayals of alternative medicine practitioners.

There has been much discussion in the media and on blogs and message boards about the pilot episode of Eli Stone and its fictional legal case focusing on the link between autism and vaccinations.

What has not been discussed is the recurring character of an "alternative medicine" practitioner - actually an acupuncturist - who is portrayed in a positive light.

A 10-day intensive training program helps people to take control of their health and lives. This program has been successful in guiding individuals to relieve symptoms of fibromyalgia, sometimes leading to complete recovery.

Fibromyalgia afflicts 600,000 Americans, 90% of whom are women. This disorder involves chronic widespread pain, extreme tactile sensitivity, fatigue, and often problems with sleep, bowel function, emotions and cognition. From a medical point of view, fibromyalgia's cause is not well understood, and no universally accepted cure exists. However, some doctors have successfully treated it as stress-related condition.

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Before you get all upset and decide throw away your stash, be aware that tobacco smoking causes even worse damage.

Regular use of marijuana in young adulthood is associated with periodontal (gum) disease, according to a study in the February 6 issue of JAMA.

Niall "Jock" McLaren, M.D. takes the scattered, flawed and outdated theories of psychiatry to task in his ground-breaking book "Humanizing Madness: Psychiatry and the Cognitive Neurosciences, an Application of the Philosophy of Science to Psychiatry."

As anyone who has ever taken even the most basic, entry-level psychiatry course knows, the field of psychiatry is characterized by several contrary theories, running the gamut from biological to behavioral psychology. As a student, Niall "Jock" McLaren, M.D. was disturbed that one correct scientific model did not exist: each major theory of psychiatry was taught independently, as if all the others were irrelevant.

Dr. Barbara Sinor guides readers through inner child therapy with her self-help workbook "Gifts from the Child Within: Self-discovery and Self-recovery Through Re-Creation Therapy."

With the help of Dr. Barbara Sinor's recovery workbook, Gifts from the Child Within: Self-discovery and Self-recovery Through Re-Creation Therapy, individuals have the opportunity to successfully heal from childhood trauma using a proven therapy method.

You probably spend a lot of time in your living room. Here's ten Feng Shui tips to help you maximize this room to create harmony and a more healthful environment.

As any practitioner of Feng Shui can tell you, the single most important thing you can do to get the most out of your home is by paying attention to color. Color is the single biggest determining factor in attracting love and romance to your bedroom, education and peace to the room of your children and health and harmony to your living room.