Medical Cannabis a Much Safer Alternative to Painkillers
Marco Torres – Many pain experts are now advising that physicians recommend cannabis therapy in in lieu of opiate medications…
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9 Reasons to Think Twice Before Taking Antibiotics Ever Again
Paul Fassa, Natural Society Waking Times A study published by Mayo Clinic found that almost 70% of Americans are on at least one pharmaceutical; antibiotics top the list, followed by antidepressants, and opioid pain killers. This is a problem in of itself, as it the United States has transformed into a pill-popping, medication-dependent nation. What’s worse …
Under The Iboga Tree A Therapeutic Revolution Begins
Bart Hawkins – “Native cultures have considered trees as the great philosophers of our planet… The iboga tree can offer re-connection, and a renewed sense of purpose…”
Opiates, Iboga and the Roots of Self-Destruction
Dylan Charles & Jeff Cook Waking Times “Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. Whatever the substance you are addicted to – alcohol, food, legal or illegal drugs, or a person – you are using something or somebody …
Why Cannnabis Is the Future of Medicine
Sayer Ji, GreenMedInfo Waking Times The future of medicine rests on the the fundamental right we all have to use things that spring from the Earth naturally as healing agents. Why should cannabis, used for at least 10000 years by humankind to alleviate suffering, be excluded from this inexorable mandate? The politics of cannabis are …
Prescriptions or Plants: Time for a New Medicinal Mindset?
E. Dahl, Prevent Disease Waking Times A word is a thought expressed, and it has been said that our thoughts speak louder than our words. The power of the mind is still virtually unknown. A light switch turns on and off and the differences are apparent, and the same holds true for our perception and …
Iboga – Sacred Healing Root of Africa
Terence Newton, Staff Writer Waking Times The recent interest in psychoactive plants as medicines has changed the dynamic of how the Western world views ‘drugs,’ and Cannabis is finally being legalized and appreciated for its legitimate healing properties. New research is pointing out the psychological benefits of psilocybin containing mushrooms, as the psychedelic mushroom experience …
The Epidemic Abuse of ADHD Meds, Anxiety Pills & Painkillers in America
Dr. Mercola Waking Times Far from being recognized for their potential health hazards, ADHD drugs have gained a reputation as “cognition enhancers” among students and young professionals. Narcotic painkillers, anti-anxiety drugs, and antidepressants are also notoriously overprescribed, which I’ll address below. According to data from IMS Health,1 a whopping 48.4 million prescriptions for ADHD stimulants were …
Cannabis Less Addictive Than High Fructose Corn Syrup & 6 Other Things They Don’t Want You to Know
Marco Torres, Prevent Disease Waking Times There are so many addictive substances in our society that we humans love to portray as evil. We label them as such because of our tendencies and repetition towards anything that is considered to have negative consequences. We are never to be accountable for our actions or behavior–it’s always …
How Wheat Literally Decimates Your Health
Sayer Ji, Green Med Info Waking Times Decimate is an interesting word, as far as wheat and gluten toxicity goes. First of all, many who have been fortunate enough to have identified wheat’s adverse health effects at the root of their often misdiagnosed health problems, know intimately that it is capable of decimating the health …
Big Sugar Tips Balance of Scale
Dr. Mercola Waking Times There is no shortage of research linking excessive sugar consumption with obesity, and the intake of sugar-sweetened beverages appears to have a particularly strong link. It was five years ago when UCLA researchers found that adults who drank at least one sugar-sweetened beverage a day are 27 percent more likely to …
Government Report Offers More Evidence Cannabis is a Wonder Drug for Cancer and Good Health
Alex Pietrowski, Staff Writer Waking Times As the world’s most beloved herb, Cannabis, continues to be liberated from the persecution of the government and the pharmaceutical-industrial complex, research continues to validate the many health benefits of Cannabis. This time, The National Cancer Institute, a government-funded organization has released a report indicating that cannabis and cannabinoids …
The Metabolic Power of Pleasure
Marc David, Green Med Info Waking Times “Losing weight by limiting pleasure is like trying to stop smoking by not breathing.” ~Marc David Vitamin P – Pleasure – is a vital element that makes our meals nutritionally complete and makes life worth living. Like all organisms on the planet, we humans are genetically programmed to seek pleasure and …
Kratom: The Miracle Healing Leaf
Dustin P., Metaphysical Source Waking Times Kratom, derived from a Thai word for a species of tree known as Mitragyna speciosa, is a large tree in the Rubiaceae family that grows native in Southeast Asia. In the wild, the trees can grow higher than 60 feet and wider than 15 feet. The leaves can have …
The 7 Most Prescribed Drugs in the World and Their Natural Counterparts
Dave Mihalovic – We don’t have to live in a medicated world, but we certainly choose to.
Do Hidden Opiates In Our Food Explain Food Addictions?
Food addictions are not strictly “psychological” problems, but have a hard-wired, organic component. Many of the most commonly consumed foods in Western culture actually contain narcotic properties associated with the presence of psychoactive chemicals that bind to opioid receptors in the nervous system.
The Rush to Prohibit Kratom
Kratom was first documented as an opiate substitute—a kind of herbal methadone—in Asia in the early 1800s. It’s often used by people who want an alternative to opiates, either because they’re trying to break an addiction or because they want some way to manage chronic pain without opiate-based drugs.