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Issue 41 June 1999

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Clearing Emotional Baggage by Clive Digby-Jones and Dr Eileen Watkins Seymour Does the glass of your life seem half-empty, or is it three-quarters full to overflowing? Do you have the sense that there is something missing in your life, or is your life permanently ‘in transit’, or never seeming to arrive? Alternatively, is there too much going on in your life and do you wish you could find more balance, and break some habitual customs or habits?

Neonatal Sensitisation to Latex by Jennifer Worth Babies born in delivery rooms of hospitals are exposed to latex through skin and mucous membrane contact with pre-powdered latex gloves worn by midwives and doctors, and through the inhalation of latex bound starch powder in the air of the delivery room.
 

Shiatsu and Massage in Pregnancy and Childbirth by Suzanne Yates In our technological societies, massage has come to be seen as more of a “luxury”, both by the mother and those who care for her. Antenatal care consists more and more of screening and diagnostic tests of increasing cost and dubious effectiveness. Routine scanning, for example, has been shown to be of no benefit to either mother or baby,¹ yet the number of scans continues to increase, supposedly due to the fact that this is what women want.

Massage Techniques for Childbirth by Linda Kimber The 1970s were a time of increased technological intervention in maternity care, with induction of labour, epidural anaesthesia and operative delivery becoming commonplace.¹ Over the next 20 years attitudes began to change, giving more control to expectant parents.² Touch, in the form of a positive massage during labour, was an area I wanted to explore to determine whether it is a useful way of shifting the focus of active support away from the midwife and towards the birthing partner.

Harry Oldfield: Inventor of Electro-Scanning and Polycontrast Interference Photography Interview by Jane Solomon Over the last 20 years, biologist Harry Oldfield has developed innovative systems that measure and treat the subtle fields of energy around living things. Jane Solomon talks to him about his ideas, inventions and techniques.

Electro-Crystal Therapy by Mark G Lester “Our main work is energy restructuring. We are like a general energy-medicine practice and we can help anything that affects the mind-body inter-relationship”. This was how Harry Oldfield described his work as the inventor of Electro-Crystal Therapy in the recently published book Harry Oldfield’s Invisible Universe.

Naturopathy for Self Healing by Joseph Goodman The purpose of this article is to show that Naturopathy is a well-defined concept of health care, that Natural Therapeutics is Naturopathy in action where patients are treated in a variety of non-suppressive ways in order to remove as many obstructions to self-healing as possible. It will stress the important role of Naturopathy in health maintenance and the avoidance of ill health.

Reflexology reaches out to Bosnia by Adrian Seager We were in Sarajevo as representatives of the International Institute of Reflexology (IIR). The purpose was to provide basic practitioner training, with qualification by the IIR standard examinations, to a team of physiotherapists – this would enable them to be self-sufficient in treating the widespread trauma cases caused during the Bosnian war years.

Regular contributors and listings

Editorial by Sandra Goodman, Ph.D.

Headaches by Sheldon Litt, Ph.D.

Different Approaches to Urinary Tract Infection by Dr Angela Jones

Are You Qualified to Practise? by Mark Kane

The Importance of the Liver by June Butlin

The Beauty Factor by Joël Carbonnel

Regular contributors and listings

Research Database Updates – Alternative Medicine; Cancer; Pain; Women's Health

Letters to the Editor

Training Colleges, Schools and Centres

Complementary Practitioner Listing

Diary/Calendar of Events