Ginseng (Panax ginseng) is an unassuming—and controversial—Asian groundcover whose medicinal root has been revered for centuries in China, Korea, and Japan. For almost as long, Western medicine has dismissed it as largely worthless. But that…
What do ginseng, chocolate, oysters, coffee, alcohol, powdered rhinoceros tusk, a ground up Mediterranean beetle, and the bark of a certain West African tree all have in common? They are just a few of the…
These days, I write primarily about sexuality. But from the 1970s until 2005, sex writing was just one element of my career as a health journalist. I also wrote a great deal about alternative therapies,…
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