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Aromatherapy at Home: Keep Kids Healthy from Seasonal Cold and Flu
It’s cold and flu season. Keep your children healthy! When your child gets a cold or the flu, everybody’s miserable. You want to do something to help them, but what? Holistic health remedies, including aromatherapy, can be a great support!
Holistic Nutrition: Eat this Herb – Cayenne
With its intense heat and a name that literally means “to bite,” you might not expect cayenne (Capsicum annuum) to have potent pain-relieving properties. Plus, cayenne is high in vitamins C and A, and helps stimulate healthy digestion, assimilation, and elimination.
Holistic Nutrition: Eat this Herb – Rosemary
Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) smells great when cooking and is said to help relieve headaches (which can come in handy during the holidays!). Its piquant flavor is somewhat reminiscent of pine. Use springs or strip rosemary from the stem and add to vinegars, meat dishes, or breads.
A Holistic Thanksgiving: What Are You Thankful For?
For those of us in the U.S., Thanksgiving is this Thursday, November 22. Thanksgiving is a day to celebrate with friends and family and to give thanks for the things that bring you comfort and joy. Here are some of the things our ACHS staff is thankful for. We invite you to post a comment […]
Congratulations Recent ACHS Graduates! We can’t wait to hear about all your future successes!
Congratulations, American College graduates! Hats off to you! We are very proud of your accomplishments and look forward to hearing all about your future successes. Join us in celebrating our latest ACHS grads, including: • Allison Sarkar, Certificate in Holistic Nutrition Consulting (Honors) • Amy Palena, Holistic Health Practice • Aparna Chidambaram, Certificate in Natural […]
How to W.R.I.T.E. Stellar Holistic Health Essays, Articles, & Blogs
BY DW Wood (Instructional Technologist) & Lauren Shapiro (Writing Instructor)
How to Select Herbal Supplements
We read the newspaper most mornings, looking for developing research and holistic health news that might be of interest to you. Today our review turned up something of special interest. Did you see the syndicated article by Drs. Oz and Roizen, “Be wary picking herbal cures,” in your local paper?
ACHS Approved to Participate in Title IV Federal Student Aid Programs
Great news … ACHS has been approved by the US Department of Education to offer Title IV federal financial aid to qualified students in ACHS’s online Associate of Applied Science in Complementary Alternative Medicine degree program. This includes Pell Grants, the American Opportunity Credit, the Lifetime Learning Credit and eligibility for student loan deferment, which […]
5 Essential Oils in 5 Minutes: Fall Picks
If you could only pick five essential oils to use for the rest of your life, which would they be? Don’t worry … we can’t answer that question either!
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5 Essential Tips To Know When Using Hydrosols
BY ACHS President Dorene Petersen, BA, Dip.NT, Dip.Acu, RH (AHG) Throughout your aromatherapy studies, you will have come across reference to aromatic waters, hydrosols, hydrolats, and floral waters. Essentially, these are all the same thing: the alluring aromatic waters that result from the cooling of the steam process during the distillation of essential oils. I […]
