The tongue is an amazing body part. It helps you speak, eat and keeps your mouth and lips moist. But did you know your tongue could reveal surprising secrets about you, from anemia, to autoimmune diseases, to food allergies and more…

Herbology is, in a nutshell, the study of the properties of herbs, their collection, preparation, benefits and how to use them. Chinese herbs have been used for the treatment of illness and disease in Chinese medicine for thousands of years.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), the most effective painkiller is the opium plant, the same plant that inspired modern painkillers. But there are a few problems with opiates… they’re extremely sedating and highly addictive. That’s why it’s time to look to TCM’s second most effective painkiller.

Over the past decade, a powerful bioflavonid found naturally in plants, herbs, and vegetables known as luteolin, has been gaining ground in research studies as a potential “big gun” in the treatment and prevention of diseases like cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes and others.

Constipation is a serious matter. When you’re constipated, your body is bogged down with extra wastes it should be releasing. And that puts you at risk for health problems like hemorrhoids, incontinence, rectal prolapse, diverticulosis and colon cancer. But for some it’s a chronic problem…

Given that arthritis is the oldest disease known to man, it only makes sense that the Chinese have been diagnosing and treating it for thousands of years. Yet doctors of Traditional Chinese Medicine do not look at it as a disease, at least not in the way mainstream medicine does.

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a painful syndrome, especially when it affects the knees as these help hold and move the load of the body, affecting movement and mobility. The CDC offer up two harrowing statistics…

Your doctor may be doing all he can with the tools he’s been given. But besides giving up the worst offending lifestyle factors that make you a prime target, there are some surprising tools at your disposal to protect your heart.

When a stroke hits, the victim has only a short time before brain cells die that can cause physical disabilities including loss of motor skills, sensory perception, language and visual issues and memory loss. Time is of the essence — and if a supplement were on hand…

When it comes to diagnosing an illness, a label can have far-reaching effects on not only the treatment you receive, but also on how you live the rest of your life. You are not your illness.

“The immune system.” Is there a more boring phrase in health? But when the immune system fights something, that’s when things get interesting. How about fighting excess fat? That would be pretty exciting, wouldn’t it?

Traditional Chinese Medicine aims to get to the root of disease. And researchers are finally unlocking the scientific secrets to how it does that. Recently, they’ve honed in on a cancer-killing treatment that’s being used to eradicate tumors left and right.