Articles by Cheryl Myers
Ancient Ayurveda, Modern Medicine
While the Egyptians can claim the oldest surviving medical text in the world, the Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus from 1800 BCE (making it almost 4,000 years old), most historians agree that the oldest surviving system of medicine is ayurveda, originating in India. The word “ayurveda” contains the Sanskrit words ayur (life) and veda (science or knowledge). ...
The First Herbal Extract? Prehistoric Tea
Popular medicinal teas for modern health.Tea, Camellia sinenesis, is the most popular beverage in the world (excluding water), and most likely, some form of tea was the world’s first herbal extract.1 Soaking dried camellia plants in hot water releases compounds that can have systemic effects, from stimulating caffeine, to cancer preventing polyphenols, to the calming ...
The River of Inflammation
There is no doubt about it, inflammation can be a pain. But surprisingly, sometimes it is not a pain at all, hiding away in our body, silent but damaging. Regardless, unchecked inflammation is a force with lethal potential.There are two types of inflammation. Acute inflammation is a quickly resolved, normal reaction to disease or trauma. ...
In the (Healthy) Mood
When medical colleagues discuss physical illness and mental illness, they are always surprised when I say that in my opinion, there is actually no such thing as mental illness. The truth is that the disorders we identify as depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, and bipolar, to name only a few, are all rooted in brain physiology. It ...
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