References February 2013

Healing Power of Love

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Chocolate

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Magnesium

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Ginseng (Panax ginseng)

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• Mills, Simon, and Kerry Bone. 2000. Principles and practice of phytotherapy: modern herbal medicine. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.

Hug Therapy

• Ditzen, Beate, Christiane Hoppmann, and Petra Klumb. 2008. "Positive Couple Interactions and Daily Cortisol: On the Stress-Protecting Role of Intimacy" Psychosomatic Medicine (70) 8: 883-889.
• Light, Kathleen, Karen M. Grewen, and Janet A. Amico. 2005. More frequent partner hugs and higher oxytocin levels are linked to lower blood pressure and heart rate in premenopausal women. Biological Psychology (69) 1: 5-21.
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