Ayurveda, the traditional medicine of India, is full of natural remedies for both health woes and beauty needs. One of the many versatile Ayurvedic herbs is haritaki. Technically the fruit of the ...

At the botánica Los Siete Arcángeles 2 in the Bronx, New York, visitors browse aisles offering herbs for a variety of ailments, aerosols that promise to ward off evil spirits and “Come to me!” votive ...

Halloween 2025 will be much more than a day of costumes and glowing pumpkins — it will be a true spiritual portal, a moment ...

Inspirational books, aside from sacred texts: "Something Beautiful for God" by Malcolm Muggeridge, "Till We Have Faces" by C.S. Lewis and the writings of David Ray Griffin. "The No. 1 book that ...

I do hope my husband never discloses what I was watching every night on television for the past nine weeks. I like being in bed around seven o’clock. However, recently around 11 p.m. I got up to watch ...

Hundreds of traditional healers in Ecuador provide spiritual cleansings. But these aren't for the thin-skinned: among other options, they can involve a rub-down with stinging nettles. In the back room ...

In the past, our forefathers used certain plants and herbs for food and to cure diseases that they suffered. Unorthodox as it may have been, it seemed to have worked for them. Many of them attribute ...