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allergies

1% Thursday: Get A New One. It’s IMPORTANT.

by James on 17 March 2011

This week, just do it.  Buy a new pillow. I know, I know – it wasn’t at the top of your to-do list.  Let me see if I can help. How many hours a day do you use that pillow?  Need I say more? All right then, how long is your head in contact with [...]

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Study on hay fever and migraine

by James on 4 September 2006

A recent study seems to show a pretty solid link between migraine and allergies.  We’re talking specifically about pollinosis, hay fever, nasal allergies, seasonal allergic rhinitis, those nasty sneezy things that hit a lot of people when the grass starts growing and the flowers start blooming. The study simply took about 300 children and adults, [...]

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Butterbur becomes respectable

by James on 8 January 2005

A herb for migraine is gaining new respect in the scientific world, thanks to a recent study.  That herb is an extract of petasites hybridus root, commonly known as butterbur.  Butterbur has been around for a while, but the research for migraine has been weak.  Dr Richard B. Lipton from the Einstein College of Medicine [...]

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