Cool Herbs For Spring

These herbs may thrive in cooler temperatures, but some seeds, such as those of parsley, can take up to a month to germinate, especially in cold spring soils. Soaking the seeds overnight and covering newly seeded beds with clear plastic help speed germination of direct-sown seeds.

Get your tomato plants off to a healthy start with these smart suggestions. Buy a tomato plant’s stem and the stem will sprout a slew of new roots that help the plant.

One of the best ways to control pests in your garden is to encourage their natural enemies. Planting pollen and nectar plants, and providing protection for these beneficial insects, is a basic tenet of organic gardening, and a way to further increase the ecological diversity of your yard. We’ve listed the most common beneficial insects along with tips on attracting them to your yard.

Oregano is usually thought of as a culinary herb, but its medicinal properties have been understood and used for thousands of years. But beware: The related herbs thyme and marjoram sold in most North American supermarkets are often mislabeled as oregano and do not possess wild oregano’s miraculous healing properties.

A Public Health Warning and Political Essay by a Harvard-trained Author of Fifteen Books Including the American bestseller, Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola-Nature, Accident or Intentional?

Influenza as a bioweapon does not sound like a particularly grave threat. But flu viruses can be devastating. In 1918 and 1919, the so-called “Spanish flu” killed an estimated 20-40 million people worldwide and, since then, the highly changeable flu virus has resurfaced in a variety of particularly virulent forms.

The resurrection of 1918 influenza has plunged the world closer to a flu pandemic and to a biodefense race scarcely separable from an offensive one, according to the Sunshine Project, a biological weapons watchdog.

Seemingly every day we hear about the deadly Bird Flu that will supposedly cause the next world-wide epidemic. This kind of hype causes anxiety and fear among the people about a particular infectious organism (H5N1 virus) and usually precedes the announcement that a new vaccine is being developed to wipe out the organism.

Magnesium levels were tested in a total of 457 patients suffering either persistent primary depression or constant pain with depression. The magnesium tolerance test is considerably more reliable than serum, red blood cell, whole blood, or white blood cell magnesium levels. Almost all considerably depressed patients are deficient in magnesium. Clinicians should take into account the potential of therapeutic benefit from magnesium replacement therapy in chronic depression. Although magnesium deficiency has been conveyed in depression, this association is not widely recognized

The FDA announced the support of updated labeling for two topical eczema drugs, Elidel Cream and Protopic Ointment. The labeling will be updated with a boxed warning about a potential risk of cancer and a Medication Guide will be circulated to help guarantee that patients using these prescription medicines are aware of this matter.