AHG Silver Jubilee Events
The American Herbalists Guild Invites You to Celebrate 25 Years of Herbal Community!  The shared vision of an herbalist guild was first verbalized in the mountains of Breitenbush, Oregon, where each year a large group of professional herbalists from all parts of the nation gathered to teach, walk together in ancient forests, soak in mineral-rich hot springs and discuss issues important to herbalism... Read more about our history here. In celebration of our 25 year anniversary we will be hosting a series of Silver Jubilee weekend events at our beautiful event space at our National Headquarters in Asheville, NC.  Celebrate...
Source: American Herbalists Guild - An Association of Herbal Practitioners - February 20, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Mimi Hernandez Source Type: news

Vitamins: stop taking the pills
This article was corrected on 7 June 2013. During editing, a line in the fifth from last paragraph, beginning 'Another example is St John's wort…' was accidentally transposed, leading to the suggestion that serotonin was a medicine rather than a brain chemical.Alternative medicineHealth & wellbeingHealthCancerCancerMedical researchPharmaceuticals industryDepressionguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds     (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 7, 2013 Category: Science Tags: The Guardian Depression Pharmaceuticals industry Health Medical research & wellbeing Society Extracts Features Cancer Life and style Alternative medicine Science Source Type: news

Kava Successfully Treats Anxiety In World First Clinical Trial
A world-first completed clinical study by an Australian team has found Kava, a medicinal South Pacific plant, significantly reduced the symptoms of people suffering anxiety... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - May 15, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Anxiety / Stress Source Type: news

World first clinical trial supports use of Kava to treat anxiety
(University of Melbourne) A world-first completed clinical study by an Australian team has found Kava, a medicinal South Pacific plant, significantly reduced the symptoms of people suffering anxiety. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - May 11, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Does a medicinal dose of kava impair driving? A randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind study - Sarris J, Laporte E, Scholey A, King R, Pipingas A, Schweitzer I, Stough C.
Overview: Increasing concerns over the potentially impairing effects of prescriptive sedative drugs such as benzodiazepines on driving have been raised. However, other alternatives such as natural medicines may also carry similar risks with respect to driv... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - January 2, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news