BY GRACIE JIN Lei gong teng, or the thunder god vine. Source: Wikimedia Commons. In September, a team of researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine discovered that the addition of glucose, a simple sugar, could transform a plant extract into a drug with potentially anti-cancer effects. To put it another way, Mary Poppin’s … Continue reading A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Medicine Fight Cancer
BY DAN KLUGER For millions of years, humans have healed themselves using the flora and fauna around them, guided by their own intuitive sense about health. In recent years, humans have vastly increased their survival rates, using Western medicine (also known as allopathic medicine) to treat and cure disease while sometimes dismissing the natural … Continue reading Integrating Modern and Ancient Healing Practices
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