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Natural Standard - Rowan’s newest resource for Complementary and Alternative Medicines

By: Bachant, Aileen
October 28, 2011

Natural Standard, an evidence-based and peer-reviewed collection of international research on natural supplements and therapies, is a valuable new addition to Rowan University’s list of database subscriptions. This unique database collection offers full-text access to journal articles and research, clinical trials and their criticisms, comparative charts with disease treatment options, and much more.

Doctors and medical professionals are exploring natural supplements, often referred to as Complementary and Alternative Medicines [CAM], to both cut health care costs and to find new ways to make those suffering from chronic pain and illness more comfortable. Natural Standard also offers evidence-based research to validate the effectiveness of alternative therapies such as yoga and acupuncture.

Use Natural Standard to discover:
• Adverse reactions to alternative medicines/therapies
• Clinical trials and reported effects
• Critiques
• Articles on disease and pain management
• Nutrition and wellness
• Natural Standard’s symptom checker
• Drug interaction checking tool
• Herbs and supplements used as complementary treatments

To begin exploring with full-text access, please find Natural Standard under “N” in our databases and indexes.

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User: scottm86

Herbs and the Minerals they Carry

Mon, 04/23/2012 - 10:47am

Most diseases and sicknesses that people get in life are from the deficiency of minerals in our bodies that occur after bad diets and rigorous schedules that we have to keep up with in our lives. When we have those deficiencies, in certain areas, our bodies become vulnerable to being attacked by cancerous cells and/or mucous. On this earth, we have herbs to supply us with all the minerals that we need to keep our bodies in tact. The problem is that we rely so much on doctors, that we overlook every other solution other than what the doctor may recommend for you. Many times, the medicine that people take give them a side effect in another area of the body where they had no issue before, and it becomes a snowball effect with their health. Herbs do not carry those side effects if taken correctly and carefully.