Ancient Nutrition and Medicine

The Prickly Truth: Finding the Real Maror in the Field

Every year as Passover approaches I see the same frantic energy. We scrub our kitchens and we obsess over menus. Then at the very last minute we re...

Temperaments and Humours – Nutritional Medicine

During the crusades in the 12th century, an envoy arrived at the court of a local ruler in Syria and requested that a physician be sent to a Crusad...

The Six Natural Forces

It is an often stated truth that medicine is one of the world's oldest professions, but medical theory and practice have gone through significant c...

“A Covenant of Salt”: On Minerals and the Striking of Eternal Bonds

Throughout human history, salt has been consumed in various ways and doses. Even before we possessed the chemical knowledge to understand its essen...

More is (Sometimes) Less

We often hear the claim that modern science already knows almost everything there is to know about the world. As scientific fields become increasi...

A Brief Reflection on the “Soul” in the Writings of Maimonides

While the 19th-century figure Sigmund Freud is widely regarded as the father of psychology as a formal science, the study of the human mind—and its...