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Spooky season is upon us — and this year it will be a little bit spookier.  A rare Halloween Full Moon, 76 years in the making, is visible across most of the planet in 2020.

Fixed Star Algol, at 26 degrees 10 minutes TAURUS has the rep for being the baddest star in the sky from a latter Greek patriarchal mythology.

Al Ghoul is the Arabic root word for this star which is also the etymology for ghouls or spirits, and spooky things, perfect for Halloween season. Also it’s the root word for alcohol/spirits. Devout muslims are forbidden to drink Alcohol.

Medusa was once a beautiful and fierce Amazon warrior goddess from Libya who wore her hair in dreadlocks which were seen as snakes. She was mythologized as a hideous powerful feared monster needing to be defeated by the patriarchs. She was slain by Perseus who used a mirror to avoid looking into her deadly eyes which could turn any man to stone. Clearly a symbol of men’s fear of powerful women and a brainwashing story about the defeat of independent strong women.

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“Nutraceutical” is an umbrella term, often used interchangeably with “functional food”. Nutraceuticals are foods, food ingredients, or dietary supplements (DSs) with benefits beyond basic nutrition. They include functional and fortified foods, fiber products, herbs that are not primarily medicinal, amino acids, vitamins, and minerals. Regulated differently in different countries, they have varying routes to approval and histories of use. In traditional medical systems, foods are often used medicinally, and medicinal herbs or vegetables are often used in foods. There is an overall lack of regulation globally. Often, there is conflicting evidence for claimed benefits of nutraceuticals, with a paucity of clinical trials. Sales of botanicals vary from annually depending on many factors. Some may have new reports of efficacy; for others, popularity has other roots. Sales data, lacking for many areas, are unreliable where available due to varying definitions and range of outlets.

Extracts from a 2018 report list 2017’s…

On October 25, 2020, the scientific journal Medicinal Research Reviews published a review entitled “Evolution of the adaptogenic concept from traditional use to medical systems: Pharmacology of stress‐ and aging‐related diseases.”¹ This paper, written by 11 medicinal plant experts, comes at a time when herbal adaptogens are becoming more widely used by proactive health consumers to deal with increasing mental and physical stress.

The concept of adaptogenic herbs was established in the years after World War II in Russia, but has gained acceptance around the world as evidenced by the market success of many adaptogens such as ashwagandha (Withania somnifera), Asian ginseng (Panax ginseng), eleuthero (Eleutherococcus senticosus), and rhodiola (Rhodiola rosea).

The publication is 74-pages long and cites 628 references. Adaptogens are introduced by providing definitions from various authors over 60 years. This is an important aspect of the paper, since…