Category Archives: Asian Medicine and Acupuncture

Ancient Chinese Herb Effective Against Swine Flu

I found this article on line recently and thought it was very interesting! Scientists at the Kaohsiung Medial University in Taiwan have discovere that the roots of a plant used in 1918 to fight the Spanish influenza pandemic produces natural antiviral compounds that kill the swine flu virus, H1N1. Ferula asafetida is commonly known as…

Protect Yourself Against Swine Flu this Fall and Winter!

Recently, both the White House and the WHO gave reports predicting an “explosion” of the Swine Flu during the rest of 2009.  They warn of a possible 2 million hospitalizations and around 90,000 deaths from the flu.  The philosopher Confucius has been quoted as saying, around 551 BC,  “A man who does not think and…