Integrative & Alternative

Treating mild ailments with homeopathic medicine is becoming more mainstream in U.S. healthcare. Learn how it works, and how to make it part of your own healthcare toolkit.

Herbs like basil, thyme, fennel, mint, and more can be used in cooking — and in herbal medicine.

This antiseptic and antifungal essential oil has several applications. Discover a few ideas for your home and body.

This plant can ease anxiety and insomnia — especially sleeplessness related to nervous tension.

Here's how nature supports our mind and mood — and how to get more of it.

Cutting back on caffeine, eating magnesium-rich foods, and more can help support you while you are healing from chronic stress.

Getting a massage, chanting, breathing deeply, and taking a cold shower can all help stimulate your vagus nerve.

No one is exactly sure how eye movement desensitization and reprocessing helps treat trauma, but here are three working theories.

Here’s how a lack of social interaction and fear of COVID contagion affects your vagus nerve.

The vagus nerve, also known as the gut–brain axis, plays a critical role in stress regulation and overall health. Learn how you can take care of yours.

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing is a trauma treatment that often produces results when nothing else will. But what is it, and how does it work?

Massage can lower cortisol levels and enhance dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin, all of which helps with pain relief.

Stimulating the peripheral nerves with massage can switch the nervous system into rest-and-relaxation mode.

From acupressure to myofascial release to trigger-point therapy, here are various forms of massage — and what they are good for.

Shiatsu-style massage and craniosacral therapy can help with chronic headaches.

Massage can help with pain relief, digestion, and even immunity.

Learn how going outdoors can help ease depression and hypertension and improve resiliency and immunity.

This holistic-healing technique uses the body’s acupressure points to lower stress and reset your mind.

"Biotherapy" involves using animals such as dogs, horses, and even worms to help healing.

Essential oils and aromatherapy can support mental and emotional health in many ways, says our columnist Henry Emmons, MD.