Intermittent Fasting
Eating within a window instead of all day long is one of the most talked-about wellness habits of the decade. Here's what the main styles look like, what the big trials found, and who should skip it.
Eating within a window instead of all day long is one of the most talked-about wellness habits of the decade. Here's what the main styles look like, what the big trials found, and who should skip it.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
A take on the morning tonic: not a full detox, just a warm, bright cup to wake up digestion and get fluid moving before the day starts. Here's how to make it and why people keep it in their routine.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
A flowering orchid tree whose bark is the heart of Kanchanar guggulu, one of Ayurveda's best-known formulas for swellings and glands. Here's what tradition says about it.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
Before black pepper took over, long pepper was the pepper of the ancient world — and in Ayurveda it never lost its place. Here's why Pippali is the warming spice of Trikatu, and what to know about its piperine.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
Sesame is the seed behind tahini, halva and the warm oil of Ayurvedic massage. Here's what traditions have used it for, what research is looking at in its lignans, and the allergy facts every member should know.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
Long before it was a pizza herb, oregano was one of the most-used medicinal plants of ancient Greece, written up in more than sixty Hippocratic texts. Here's the herb's story, what people still brew it for, and how the gentle leaf differs from the strong oil.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
A small, very bitter cup sipped before dinner is one of Europe's oldest kitchen traditions for a slow appetite and a heavy, sluggish stomach. Here's how to brew Clif's liver-and-gallbladder bitters tonic, and why the bitter taste is the whole point.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
That 3 pm pull toward the cookie jar, or the sweet you can't stop thinking about after dinner, is one of the most common things people want help with. Here are the herbs, foods, habits and traditions people turn to, and what each one is believed to do.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
Spearmint is the gentle, sweet mint of Moroccan tea and the herb garden — and it has become the tea women with PMOS talk about. Members can read what it's traditionally used for, the hormone research, and how to drink it well.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
Sheng Ma is a classic Chinese herb used inside formulas to "lift" what has sunk and to clear heat from the mouth and throat. It's also the plant most often found in black cohosh bottles that aren't what they say. Members can read both stories here.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.