Call it what you may —  whortleberry, bilberry, huckleberry, starberry, hurtleberry, buckleberry, or blaeberry. A card-carrying member of the Vaccinium family, with all its cousins. Whatever the Native Americans or the early American settlers called blueberries, today the health media calls them Superfruit. Full of vitamin C and vitamin K, scientists are just now confirming what wise women and shamans have known for centuries: Blueberries really do pack a powerful wallop against certain medical conditions. Some traditional medicinal uses for […]

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