Category Archives: Natural Healing

Water Eases Birth For Moms and Babies.

The practice of giving birth in water has been around for hundreds of years, and wisdom about it abounds in the midwifery community. But more formal research on the topic seems to be relatively new. An article in The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, which showed that use of a birthing […]

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Presidents and Queens in Hot Water

In the summer of 1921, President Franklin D. Roosevelt came down with polio, a disease that left him paralyzed from the waist down. But after traveling to Warm Springs, Georgia in 1924 he experienced great relief from daily soaks in the mineral-rich hot springs there. An Atlanta Journal article from that year quotes Roosevelt: “see […]

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Hot tub cures my cold.. the gout?

A few weeks ago I set off for the Mount Hood region of Oregon, where a bunch of old college friends and I had rented a cabin for a relaxing weekend reunion. Unfortunately for me, a week of mild congestion and an itchy throat had turned into a full-blown head cold by the time we […]

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