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Welcome to Earth Clinic's treasure chest of home remedies! Our readers have been testing and developing these remedies, with contributors from every part of the world, since 1999. We've been sent some of the most exciting remedies to date – dozens of restorative remedies, plus natural cures for cancer, fibromyalgia, back pain and better than 350 other diseases and conditions!
** Earth Clinic is now ranked among the Top 10 Alternative Health Sites on the Internet! **
Our popular REMEDIES section is stocked with home remedies from around the world. Earth Clinic is unique in that our readers have written in with reports (yea or nay) about each remedy.
Earth Clinic's CURES section is an extensive database of holistic cures using home remedies, folk remedies and supplements.
Asked a QUESTION lately? Check out our new QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS section. Our genius contributor Ted from Bangkok, Thailand responds to many of the questions here.
Our PETS category is growing rapidly. Find a fantastic homeopathic or folk remedy for your cat or dog.
Our BEST OF section lets you know which remedies, in our opinion, are the most important or interesting.
Our LATEST POSTS section is a first-look at all the feedback coming in from around the world.
Our PRAYER/MEDITATION section focuses on weekly and monthly Sunday sessions that tackle some of the world's most pressing problems. We currently have over 2,000 people in our monthly group and over 1,000 people in our weekly group from around the world participating in these groups.
Our MIND/BODY section offers a database of qualified HEALERS from around the USA. Additionally, our healer-recommended reading list has links to books on healing, health and esoteric subject matters. You can also check out our favorite links in the resources section.
Please CONTACT US with your comments, feedback or suggestions.
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SEVERAL NOTES TO REMEMBER AS YOU PERUSE THIS SITE:
1. EARTH CLINIC RECEIVES EMAILS FROM MANUFACTURERS TRYING TO GET THEIR PRODUCTS LISTED ON OUR SITE FOR FREE
As EarthClinic.com gains readership, we are receiving more emailed Reader Testimonials from certain manufacturers. These emails are quite hilarious at times. We have included a few below for your viewing pleasure.
Another marketing ploy consists of sending testimonials that don't mention a product name but contain certain keywords in the email. The manufacturer wants our readers to plug these keywords into a search engine and voila! that company’s ad or website will pop up at the top.
Examples:
"...I bought a book called _______ that I have been using to solve a few of my ailments. I use the recommended dosage that is suggested in the book, but I can't remember what it is."
or
"...I just got the free book ________ which tells you all the natural remedies to cure acid reflux. It is free, you just have to pay $18.00 for shipping and handling! Get the book at: [www.total - nonsense.com].
or
"...Please make sure you use the ______ brand ACV with THE MOTHER, because the store brand really was ineffective... "
or
"My Dr. (at a very well known medical organization), asked that I not tell anyone that he told me to try this instead of the prescription he could have given. Apparently the prescription stuff takes just as long to work, approx. 3 mos., and cost a lot more and has bad side effects on other organs in your body. The ________ every night before bed rubbed on toes, covered with socks and WOW! What a find... Renewed my faith in my doctor as well."
Needless to say, PLEASE DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH regarding these products! Have a healthy skepticism any time a particular product is mentioned in one of the posts. If you can, test different products/brands and decide for yourself which one is the best.
4/15/2007 Update: We are now requesting on our Contact Us Page to please NOT mention product names or books in emails. We want this site to remain neutral. As such we have begun to remove certain brand names from posts unless it is a difficult to find or unique remedy.
If you discover an obvious plug for a particular product on this site, please contact us. We will delete the posting.
For more information about this subject, please read the following article:
http://www.stronghealthmag.com/columns/protect_yourself_from_internet_scams_and_quacks
2: EARTH CLINIC RECEIVES EMAILS FROM SUSPECT ORGANIZATIONS
Examples:
An email reporting an adverse side effect from a totally harmless remedy, aimed to be posted in our NAY section. (See the bloodroot page.)
or
An email which states, "I am a toxicologist" or "I am a medical doctor" at the beginning and then goes on to give a negative opinion about one of the remedies on the site. (See the bloodroot page.)
or
An email from a supposed holistically-minded individual who suggests that the FDA will shut our site down if we don't start removing the word "cure" from these pages.
or
A scientifically complex but nonsensical email about the terrible side-effects one might suffer from a particular remedy. Hydrogen Peroxide is one remedy they typically go after.
3. FREQUENTLY PONDERED QUESTIONS NOBODY EVER ASKS
WHAT'S THE STORY WITH YOUR HIGGLEDY-PIGGLEDY DATING SYSTEM? SOME EMAILS HAVE DATES, OTHERS DO NOT!
Even though we have been "live" since 1999, we only started to date emails a couple of years ago. Oops! You see, we never thought the site would grow this big OR this popular. Suffice it to say, anytime you see a post that has no date, assume it arrived prior to September 2005. Yeah, that's right, sometime between 1999 and 2005. Not too big of a stretch in the big scheme of things...
WHEN DID THE POSTING OF E-MAIL ADDRESSES BEGIN?
We added this option mid-February 2007. Before that we were mostly concerned with reader privacy and did not post anyone's email address unless they specifically asked (which never happened). However, after we received a handful of emails asking for various posters’ email addresses, we wisely decided we would let people choose whether or not they wanted to display their email addresses.
WHY DO SOME OF THE EMAIL ADDRESSES LOOK STRANGE?
We recommend on our Contact Us page that people slightly alter their email addresses to thwart automated robots searching the site for spam targets. The alteration of email addresses is also useful for privacy when it comes to search engine publication as well.
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