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The wines and herbs in the land of Pan A survey of ancient Greek sources reveals the surprising properties of certain wines that continue to provoke the curiosity of scholars today A parody of Circe offering Odysseus wine that contains a magical herb that will make him behave like an animal. Hermes has given the ancient Greek hero another herb called moly so that Odysseus is not seduced by Circe. Medical historian Sevasti Karahaliou says moly must have been an anti-aphrodisiac. (From an early 4th century BC Boeotian cup, Ashmolean Museum.) By Stavroula Kourakou (1) In early December, the interdisciplinary...

For those interested in your continuing freedom to choose when it comes to supplements, please read the following and visit the site listed: Dietary Supplement and Nonprescription Drug Consumer Protection Act This bill will create similar requirements for foods, vitamins, minerals and other nutrients as are required for drugs. This will cause foods, vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients to be considered the same as drugs, and will give the Federal Drug Administration the right to regulate them.

A herb that makes you hallucinate is perfectly legal in Texas. The drug is sold without a prescription, and medical experts say it's dangerous. At the Gas Pipe in Austin, Purple Sticky Salvia is sold for $20, along with a list of safety instructions on how to smoke it. However, some argue that the list is not enough — the product should be banned by state and federal governments. Purple Sticky Salvia is an all-natural hallucinogen, made from native plants used in landscaping. In Mexico, it has been used in religious ceremonies for centuries. "It is something that I think...

What is Savage going to talk about today? < read to yourself in Jacky Mason tone > Hate Rush? Hate Hannity? Hate O'Reilly? Why other Talk Show Hosts don't talk about important issues? Bringing Dogs to Work? Book Deal? How to make money off website? Marinara Sauces? Shining statues as a kid?

Gettin' ready!!!!

Hilary Karnda, a holistic healer and herbalist, told her friend Nov. 2 she was going to a send-off at Wildcat Mountain State Park and she needed a ride. She didn't tell her friend she was going away to die. Pagan symbols found with her were the only clues investigators had to who she was when hunters found her body in the woods off Highway 131, in the park but not along a trail, on Thanksgiving Day. Karnda, 64, died of exposure to the Wisconsin November cold, Vernon County Sheriff Gene Cary said Friday. "There was no indication of fatal illness,...

You might have heard rumors about the international rulemaking process known as Codex Alimentarius, or "Food Code". This July, food safety regulators from all over the world will meet in Rome to decide upon global guidelines for the vitamin and mineral trade. Support world health. Support access to dietary supplements Codex is a little-discussed process -- but one that is establishing the world's regulatory model for vitamins, minerals, and eventually all dietary supplements. TAKE ACTION! Promote health choice worldwide. Tell the U.S. Codex delegation and Congress to make our law, the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA), the international...

Herbal alternatives are under attack. Download and print flyers. The flyers urge consumers to tell their congressmen and senators to attend the JUNE 17th Herbal Alternatives Congressional Briefing to learn the truth about herbs & health. It is critical that Congress attends this briefing because: HERBAL ALTERNATIVES ARE UNDER ATTACK. News headlines misinform and mislead decision makers. Products you depend on for your health could soon be banned. MANY CAPITOL HILL STAFFERS AND POLICY MAKERS DO NOT UNDERSTAND NATURAL HEALTH INDUSTRY ISSUES. Since DSHEA was passed in 1994, about 50% of Congressmen and Senators and 80% of Congressional aides have...

Last February, Mark McClellan, the head of the Food and Drug Administration, conceded that "serious adverse events from ephedra appear to be infrequent." Yet at the end of December, he announced that the FDA planned to ban all dietary supplements containing the herbal stimulant, saying they pose "an unreasonable risk." Casual observers could be forgiven for assuming that McClellan had changed his mind in light of new evidence. But nothing has happened during the last 10 months to indicate that his initial assessment of ephedra's hazards was off the mark. In fact, even as the FDA insists that "consumers should...

'Hillarycare' Approach to Nutritional and Health Supplements Spells Trouble for Consumers, Says Project: FANS 8/13/03 8:00:00 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Joe Giganti, 703-928-9695, Joe@VeritasMediaGroup.info, for Project: FANS WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is a statement of Project: Freedom of Access to Nutritional Supplements on the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2003: "Instead of the Senate adding yet another new law to the books, creating more government bureaucracy, and increasing American's tax burden as a result, they should fully enforce the current law," stated Beth Clay, director of Project: FANS. "To do that properly we need...

A unique web-based resource about herbs, botanicals, and other products has been launched to provide medical practitioners, as well as the general public, access to comprehensive information about these products. "Use of herbs and related agents has grown tremendously in popularity, but until now there was no easy access to current, comprehensive information about these agents," says Barrie Cassileth, PhD, Chief of Integrative Medicine at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Information on this site explains the effects, side effects, drug interactions, and other details of each product listed as well as links to scientific research. "Vitamins, herbs and other products are...