St. John’s Wort is a mild extract of a yellow flower, taken by many to treat depression, often without prior doctor consultation. Companies who sell it say it promotes a positive mood and emotional well-being.
The extract has been used for centuries to treat mental disorders and nerve pain, St. John’s wort has also been used [...]
Entries from February 2009
February 24, 2009
A herbal medicine that could treat mild depression
February 11, 2009
Finally, a real reason to not smoke pot?
According to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, men who began using marijuana as adolescents or who smoked pot at least once a week were twice as likely as those who never tired the drug to develop testicular cancer.
“Researchers interviewed 371 men aged 18 to 44 who had been diagnosed with testicular [...]
February 3, 2009
Should we shed a tear?
How healthy is it to cry anyways?
I remember that for two years of my life I decided not to cry. It was my personal, childish way of protesting my parent’s divorce, as if a lack of tears stood next in sacrifice to a hunger strike. I have always wondered if it would have done me [...]
