You may think of your belly button as just a scar from your umbilical cord, but it's actually a bustling hub for bacteria. A ...

For generations, applying pure ghee on the navel before bed has been a common bedtime ritual. But today, it’s being revisited ...

Navel stones are not harmful, and they usually don’t cause pain. Your doctor can likely remove it in their office. You can prevent them from coming back by keeping your navel clean.

As for the assertions about gastrointestinal issues, navel pulling isn’t going to be of any help there either. When castor oil is ingested, however, it’s a slightly different story – taken ...

A navel stone is sometimes called an omphalolith or umbolith. It is a condition where substances like sebum, or skin oil, hair, dead skin cells, and dirt can accumulate and form a hardball.

Summer is the season to celebrate citrus—bright, juicy, and bursting with flavor. Right now, fresh lemons, mandarins, and ...

The navel, a.k.a. the belly button (or, more clinically, the umbilicus) is really just a scar that marks the spot where the umbilical cord was attached. Everyone has one in the same spot — and ...

In other words, navel gazing is hard-wired into the human libido. Americans are just now finally coming around. Take the U.S. Naval Observatory--ever wonder what really goes on there?

While navel oranges themselves might be pretty standard, their history is anything but: The first person to successfully grow a navel orange tree in the United States was Eliza Tibbets, a ...

It is a semi-dwarf, meaning that a bud from a navel orange tree was grafted onto a rootstock of a species known as hardy orange (Poncirus trifoliata). It’s a rootstock that controls the growth ...