Review: CAM for ADHD
Complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) are frequently given to children and adolescents for reputed benefits for hyperkinetic and concentration disorders...
Review of herbals to treat asthma
Today is Worlds Asthma Day. So, researchers from the UK and China reviewed the evidence supporting the use of herbs...
No effect of pine bark extract on cardiovascular disease risk
Pine bark extract is a dietary antioxidant supplement. In this study, researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine, in California,...
Benefits of Pycnogenol in early diabetic retinopathy
Most often, diabetic retinopathy causes no symptoms until the eye damage becomes severe. In this study, researchers from G D’Annunzio...
Pycnogenol to treat acute hemorrhoids
Researchers from G D’Annunzio University, in Italy tell us Pycnogenol, both in oral and in topical form, is effective.
Effects of Pycnogenol on vision in diabetic patients
Diabetes affects the eyes and can lead to retinopathy (non-inflammatory damage to the retina of the eye) leading to gradual...
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Herbals for arthritis and other musculoskeletal conditions
Ms. Meenakshi Khatta is a nurse practitioner and associate professor at the University of Maryland in Baltimore. Nurse Khatta has...
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Treating ADHD with supplements
Researchers from the University of Canterbury, at Christchurch, New Zealand reviewed the evidence supporting the use of nutritional and herbal...
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CAM and diabetes: An update of recent studies
The World Health Organization has predicted a 39% rise in the worldwide prevalence of diabetes by 2030. And an article...
Treating osteoarthritis with pycnogenol
Pycnogenol is a scavenger of oxygen free radicals. Here’s the latest in a series of positive studies.
Peri-menopausal symptoms treated with pycnogenol
This is apparently the first study of pycnogenol (French maritime pine bark extract) to treat peri-menopausal symptoms.
Pycnogenol reduces pain of endometriosis
Long-term treatment with French maritime pine bark extract (pycnogenol) reduced symptoms of endometriosis, such as pelvic pain and dysmenorrhea, in...
Pycnogenol treatment of venous insufficiency
In the past year, several studies on this topic have appeared. The results are positive. So, let’s review.
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Prevalence of diabetes in the US in 2006
The Centers for Disease Control has just published the latest data on the prevalence of diabetes in the US. 11%...
Improvement in diabetic ulcers with pycnogenol
One of the major complications of diabetes mellitus is the change in small blood vessels called microangiopathy. It’s associated with...
Positive effects of pycnogenol in children with ADHD
Here are the results from two studies that support the role of pycnogenol (pronounced pick-nah-geh-nol) to treat ADHD (attention deficit/hyperactivity...
Pycnogenol: pine bark discord
Six years ago I wrote an article about pycnogenol. It was a story about a man (Dr. Jacques Masquelier), his...