Arnica is an herb with a “strange history”, as herbalist Rudolf Weiss comments. “It used to be very popular, being used internally as well as externally. It is said that the German writer, poet and scientist Goethe would ask for…

One of the most challenging concepts in herbal medicine is the paradoxical effects of the so-called phyto-estrogens. How can a herb both promote estrogen responses in bone or brain or skin, and at the same time inhibit estrogen influence in…