The Remedae Journal.
Health, the way the whole world understands it. For curious minds.
What the world already knew about women's health
Ayurveda, Kampo and Unani have kept notes on periods, pregnancy and menopause for centuries. Some of it has now been tested and holds up. A lot of it is still waiting for its first proper trial.
Your grandmother was onto something. Here's the science behind why.
Across thirteen traditions, the same quiet kitchen remedies keep reappearing: warm water, bitter greens, a walk after dinner. We went looking for what modern research actually says about the things your nan swore by.
Kampo, in English. Why Japan still writes its own prescriptions.
Japan is the only country in the world where a doctor can prescribe you a 1,800-year-old herbal formula and your national health insurance will pay for it. Here is how that came to be, and what the formularies actually contain.
The evening you can't rush. What every tradition agrees on for sleep.
There is a small set of instructions for sleep that every tradition writes down, more or less identically. None of them are new. Most of them are boring. All of them work better than any single pill.
Reading the tongue. What a two-second glance tells three traditions.
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, in Ayurveda, and in Unani, the first thing a practitioner does is ask you to open your mouth. Modern medicine does the same thing, for a slightly different reason. All four are reading the same organ.
Curious minds, every tradition.
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