OBAT HERBAL KURANG CESPLENG?..BENARKAH?

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID,JAKARTA--Mendengar kata herbal, apa yang terlintas di benak Anda? Kendati masyarakat telah turun-temurun memanfaatkannya dalam pengobatan, herbal tetap saja lebih inferior ketimbang obat konvensional. Betulkah ia kurang cespleng?Menjawab pertanyaan tersebut, ahli herbal, Dr dr Amarullah H Siregar FBIHom DIHom DNMed menyodorkan sejumlah argumentasi ilmiah. Belajar naturopati di Inggris dan Amerika, ia mendapati banyak sekali daun,...

Sweet Potatoes

We can debate the nutritional qualities of a food until we're blue in the face, but in the end, we still may not have a very accurate prediction of the health effects of that food. The question we need to answer is this one: has this food sustained healthy traditional cultures?I'm currently reading a great book edited by Drs. Hugh Trowell and Denis Burkitt, titled Western Diseases: Their Emergence and Prevention. It's a compilation of chapters...

three.

yesterday, my little girl turned 3! it's hard to believe how quickly she has grown up...part of me wants her to stay young forever and part of me gets so excited watching the little personality she is turning into. we celebrated with a pool party. it was her first b'day party w/ friends and she loved it (and it only rained half on the time). on her real b'day, i decided that i would make a second...