In every culture, people have found that certain foods, herbs and treatments improve their health overall or reduce specific unwanted symptoms. Every culture brings as much knowledge as possible to ...

Australians have long been some of the highest users of herbal and nutritional supplements that claim to boost mood or ease depression. These include omega-3s (found in fish oil), St John's wort, ...

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common gastrointestinal disorder that causes gas, bloating, abdominal pain and cramping, and changes in bowel movement frequency. Since IBS is a chronic condition, ...

Herbal medicine has been with us since the dawn of human civilization and yet we know far less about its effects than we do about conventional synthetic medicines. In the Western world particularly, ...

For generations, certain members of American communities have acquired centuries-old knowledge of the use of plants in medicine. We’ll travel to the woods with Darryl Patton and his apprentice as he ...

Laura Leavitt is a personal finance and wellness writer for CNET. Her work has been published at NextAdvisor, Bankrate, The Simple Dollar, MoneyGeek, Business Insider and more. In every culture, ...