Is spring fever a real illness or just a quaint way to excuse the atypical behavior we find ourselves doing in April or May? While...
Jamison Starbuck, ND
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Beat the Mid-Winter Blues
If winter finds you a bit down in the dumps, you are not alone. Studies show that more than 5 percent of the U.S. population...
Battling Bunions
A slightly goofy word that connotes pain and deformity, bunion is derived from the Greek word for turnip. It’s a bony bump growing out from...
Diverticular Disease
If you are over 60, there’s a good chance you have pouches in the walls of your intestines (called diverticula). These pouches develop where the...
Poison Ivy
At age 5, I first learned about poison ivy while sitting in my grandmother’s kitchen sink having my little legs scrubbed with brown soap. I...
Bug Bites: Prevention and Treatment
When summer rolls around, many of my patients ask how to prevent bug bites. Some folks claim that eating a lot of garlic, taking high...
The Natural Way
Antibiotic Resistance Antibiotic resistance is a problem for everyone. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is one of several bacteria that cause more than 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant...
Natural Medicine Travel Kit
I love my natural medicine travel kit and firmly believe that no family should be without one. Use it to augment your conventional first-aid travel...
Back to School Safety Across Generations
Every year, I put together a back-to-school protocol to help children and their families succeed with the exciting, yet always stressful, health challenge that returning...
Medicine Made by Bees! How Honey, Pollen and Propolis Can Help You Heal
Bee products such as honey, pollen and propolis are good medicine. Here’s how to use them to treat coughs, sore throats, allergies, wounds and more…