It is a challenge to mindfully administer herbal medicines and vitamin supplements. And if you’re establishing yourself as the family’s healer, you must ask yourself: “Am I giving this remedy based on wisdom and good experience, or am I blindly chasing the illusion that I can control my family’s health?” For my family, I’ve been…

Could we take our eyes off Camilla Parker Bowles’s borrowed tiara for a moment, and see that Prince Charles (currently on tour in the U.S.) is not such a loathesome guy? As I learn more of his passion for the environment, his dream of a sustainable argriculture, and his fondness for the writings of Rudolf…

On October 31st, I gave my nine-year-old Chattering a teaspoon of Sambucol Black Elderberry Immune System Syrup with his breakfast. I didn’t think my son was getting a cold. Halloween was preoccupying me and, since my mind is often chattering, I thought it would be a smart to give my son’s immune system some support.…

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