tag > Nature
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Nature-deficit disorder - the idea that human beings, especially children, are spending less time outdoors, and the belief that this change results in a wide range of behavioral problems.
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The Foundations of Chinese Medicine
Chinese medicine is huge in scope and requires years of study. However, the primary prescription for health is quite simple: abide by the cycles of nature and maintain peace within the body, mind, and spirit.
In the Yellow Emperor’s Classic, the earliest surviving medical text written over 2300 years ago, Huang Di was told that in ancient times man lived a simple life in accord with nature, but “Nowadays people are not like this ... they adopt recklessness as usual behavior.” What would Huang Di think of today’s lifestyle? Perhaps, it is time to listen to the Yellow Emperor.
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Money is a horrible abstraction of value that detaches people from nature. Digital money worsens it
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The real pandemic: The average American child spends just 4 to 7 minutes in unstructured outdoor play each day, and more than seven hours each day in front of an electronic screen.
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Peruvian shamans join forces to call on Pachamama to end pandemic
A group of Peruvian shamans and healers joined forces on Wednesday in a mystic and traditional ritual, including an offering to “Pachamama” (Mother Earth), asking the forces of nature to make 2022 the year in which the Covid-19 pandemic ends. On San Cristobal hill, the most sacred promontory in Lima in pre-Hispanic times, the shamans and healers gathered, coming from the country’s coastal areas, the Andean sierra and the Amazon jungle with their different methods of calling for prosperity in the coming year.
“It’s going to be a very favorable year for all countries. There’s going to be a very good advance in health and the conflicts are going to diminish. There is going to be peace and tranquility, and good health for everyone,” healer Andres De los Santos predicted for EFE.
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Plants 'talk to' each other through their roots
Plants use their roots to “listen in” on their neighbours, according to research that adds to evidence that plants have their own unique forms of communication. The study found that plants in a crowded environment secrete chemicals into the soil that prompt their neighbours to grow more aggressively, presumably to avoid being left in the shade.
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Herbal Therapy Is Equivalent to Rifaximin for the Treatment of Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth
Conclusion: SIBO is widely prevalent in a tertiary referral gastroenterology practice. Herbal therapies are at least as effective as rifaximin for resolution of SIBO by LBT. Herbals also appear to be as effective as triple antibiotic therapy for SIBO rescue therapy for rifaximin non-responders. Further, prospective studies are needed to validate these findings and explore additional alternative therapies in patients with refractory SIBO.
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Experiments suggests archerfish can differentiate between numbers
The researchers placed the fish in a tank of water and then placed a pair of disks over the top of it. The disks were marked with different numbers of dots. The researchers taught the fish to spit a stream of water at disks with a certain number of dots on them, such as six. They then showed the fish a series of disk pairs with different numbers of dots on them. They found that the fish would only spit at the disks with the number of dots that they had been trained to recognize. The researchers also tried changing the number of dots the fish had to choose from and found that the fish were still able to target the right disk.
