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Article: Breathe easy: herbalist Kelly Bowers offers a breath of fresh air.(herbal healing)
- Article from:
- New Life Journal
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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Each day, we inhale 25,000 times, receiving and sharing that air with all life on our planet. Fortunately, the very plants that provide us with oxygen can also provide us with much-needed relief when our breathing is stressed by illness and pollution.
Here are a few of our local plant friends who can help us to breathe easy.
A popular European cough remedy, Coltsfoot's (Tussilago farfara) yellow flowers are the first blossoms to appear in the Northeast in spring. Coltsfoot is superb at resolving asthmatic wheezing and shortness of breath, and has been smoked since ancient times to sedate coughs. A cup of coltsfoot tea before rising helps with emphysema ...
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Article: Work-force churn spins laid-off workers around.(Business ...
The Washington Times;
March 1, 1999 ;
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... ... his job, the churn is just the price you have to pay for the excitement and money to be made in the high-tech industry. Kelly Bowers, 38, a technical writer also laid off, is weary of getting tossed from one job to the next in such a volatile market ...
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