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My journey into the world of anti-inflammatory herbs and foods began over two decades ago when I was diagnosed with cancer. As a survivor, I’ve navigated the challenges of lymphedema resulting from cancer surgery, and later, a diagnosis of lipedema following forced menopause because of that surgery. These experiences led me down an unexpected path…
The Book of Noah in Jubilees 10 answers 1 Enoch’s charge that the Watchers taught root-cutting, and the Carolingian monks kept that answer bed by bed.
Medieval spices and Galen belong in the same sentence, and once you see why, a fourteenth-century recipe stops looking strange. I have spent this week with the Viandier of Taillevent, the cookbook attached to Guillaume Tirel, cook to Charles V of France. Every page asks for ginger, cinnamon, cloves, saffron and grains of paradise, worked…
Carolingian garden plants from three ninth-century sources, compared side by side: the Capitulare de Villis, the Plan of St Gall and Walahfrid’s Hortulus.
Skeletons and army records show Charlemagne’s Franks stood tall, Louis XIV’s France shrank, and American farm boys outgrew the French gentry. Here is why.
Why At Charlemagne’s Behest [ACB] Cites Liger, Estienne & Liébault, Culpeper, Dodoens, and Bauhin, and What I Actually Do With Them Every plant that reaches an ACB post has been checked against at least two of five old books before I write a sentence about it. This is the discipline the work requires if “recovering…
Reading the Tongue from Galen to the Last Eclectics Before the stethoscope, before the microscope, before a blood panel could tell a physician anything at all, the body still spoke. It spoke through the pulse, through the color of the skin, through urine held up to the light, and through the tongue, offered up at…
Light, sleep, and what it meant to live by the season For most of human history, the day ended when the light did, and the body still keeps the old clock. There was firelight, and there was the moon, and there was a great deal of dark. Nobody had to decide to “wind down” in…
On bellis, yarrow, and the long memory of a plant soldiers carried into the field At a functional practice conference this year, two clinicians who work with special-operations veterans described a concept they call Personal Protective Nutrition and Personal Protective Lifestyle — PPN and PPL for short. The idea is simple: a service member faces…
How Galenic constitutional medicine and modern immunology converge on the body’s need for the living earth Beneath the south-east quadrant of the parcel designated D478 in Clugnat, Creuse, at approximately eighty centimetres depth, lie the remnants of a Roman hypocaust system — the underfloor heating of a structure long since absorbed by the village’s geology….
