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Breakthrough Dietary Supplement Offers Prostate Lifeline

Prostate health has long been associated with herbal remedies. There is adequate evidence that herbs such as saw palmetto (serenoa repens), pygeum and plant sterols such as beta-sitosterol in combination with antioxidants such as vitamin D3, grape seed extract, resveratrol and lycopene, the substance that is responsible for the red color in tomatoes, are effective in the treatment of urinary and ...

Saving the healing herbs of the bayou

Much of the land of the native Houma people is now underwater, and after the oil spill, one healer's great-grandson fears that the traditional plants once used to save the ill will soon be lost too. Jason Pitre grew up hearing stories of how his great-grandfather healed babies on the cusp of death using herbs and plants found along Louisiana's bayous. The tribal healer, or traiteur , was known ...

Prostate woes

Phytotherapy and hydrotherapy (Sitz bath) for relieving the symptoms of an enlarged prostate.