The cures in your kitchen: for cheap, easy healing, these foods and herbs are naturals

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Some useful home remedies include using ginger root for nausea, chamomile for nervousness and honey to heal cuts and scrapes. Milk can relieve minor skin irritations, and eating yogurt can help yeast infections.

Author: Colino, Stacey
Methods, Diet therapy, Herbal medicine, Folk medicine, Traditional medicine, Medicine, Botanic

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Mind over medicine

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Worrying or entertaining negative health expectations can trigger what epidemiologists term as the nocebo effect. This phenomenon is believed to cause illness and skin irritations even without a physical cause.

Author: Colino, Stacey
Health aspects, Analysis, Mind and body, Psychophysiologic disorders, Psychosomatic disorders

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How competitive are you?

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A 12-question test for evaluating motivation and competitive drive is presented. A scoring system and advice for each range of scores are included.

Author: Colino, Stacey
Testing, Personality, Competition (Psychology), Personality (Psychology)

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