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The Science of Breath »

Taken from, The Science of Breath, by Yogi Ramacharaka, 1904.
Breath is life! Life is absolutely dependent upon the act of breathing.
To breathe is to live, and without breath there is no life. Not only are the higher animals dependent upon breath for life and health, but even the lower forms of animal life must breathe [...]

The Power of Mind and the Promise of Placebo »

For decades, the gold standard of medical research has been the double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial.  You give one group of patients a medicine you want to test, and another group a dummy pill that has no active ingredients.  Neither the patients nor doctors know who is getting which.
Placebo trials are used to tell researchers whether [...]

Let There Be Light; The Healing Art of Spectro-Chrome (Dinshah Ghadiali) »

The effects of color and light on the human system are subjects of continuous scientific investigation. The research and experiments of the late Dinshah Ghadiali proved that the body could be tuned or adjusted from disease to health by systematically exposing it to colored light. An example of this effect is found in the medical [...]

G-Strophanthin - A “New” Approach for Heart Disease »

Coronary artery disease is currently the leading cause of death in the United States.  Despite the increasing sophistication of surgical techniques, the introduction of new techniques such as balloon angioplasty, and a number of new drugs (e.g. beta blockers, calcium antagonists), it is estimated that over 1 million heart attacks will occur this year, resulting [...]