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Cancer Detoxification Approaches

by Dr Graeme Munro-Hall and Dr Lilian Munro-Hall

Drs Graeme and Lilian Munro-Hall advocate a program to support cancer patients consisting of physical, psychological and spiritual elements. They recommend Gerson Therapy and both ...

Case Study Issue 128: Detoxification via Aqua Detox and Reflexology

by Lila Kirkland ND

This column looks at a specific case study – a thirtysomething who received reflexology treatments to help her (successfully) get pregnant, despite being diagnosed with polycystic ...

Case Study Issue 146: 10-Day Detoxification Program Including Colon Hydrotherapy

by Katherine Ung

This case study is of a 30-year old lady who presented with a variety of symptoms. Over six months she had gained ten pounds, she was stressed, had irritable bowel syndrome, abdomi...

Components of a Personalized Detox Programme

by Amanda Griggs

The author focuses on the pressures and demands on our lives today and the effect it is having on our lifestyle and in turn our health, based on the clients she sees at her wellbei...

Detoxification

by Nicki Woodward

With the advent of the detox diet, the author says we have lost sight of the true potential of cleansing as a naturopathic tool and looks at what this involves and if there is a ri...

Detoxification - Deep Cleanse for a Radiant Smile

by Mandy Eugeniou

Detoxification is a necessary act of internal purification in today's highly polluted environment, unless one has been living a macrobiotics lifestyle in the higher plains of Tibet...

Detoxification and Emotional Balancing for Optimum Health

by Sandra Hallawi

The author describes ways to achieve physical detoxification, using enzyme-rich juices and raw foods and herbs. Healing may occur from either physical or emotional blockage removal...

Detoxifying the Body with Naturopathy Diet, Hydrotherapy and Herbs

by Sharmala Bandaranaike

Naturopathy is a system of medicine that is based on the utilisation of the healing power of nature. This underpins nearly all the therapeutic techniques in alternative medicine.

Detoxifying with the Lemon Diet

by Janine Leach

The Lemon Diet is one of the easiest fasts the author has used in her career as a naturopath. It is a liquid diet regime based on a totally natural drink made from a special organi...

Energy Credit-Crunch?

by Vivienne Bradshaw-Black

Good health in terms of what we take into our body depends upon dealing with dehydration, malnutrition and toxicity.  Dealing with the last first, we need to eliminate toxins suc...

Massage for Detoxification

by Mario-Paul Cassar

This article describes what toxins are, the different types that exist, where they originate, and how different body functions work to get rid of them. The latter part of the art...

Nutritional Approaches to Liver Detoxification

by Helen Kimber

The liver is the most hard-working organ in the human body. It performs many functions that are vital to life. It plays an important role in digestion (breaking nutrients down) and...

Perspectives And Perceptions: Am I the Real Me? (Part 1 of 2)

by Vivienne Bradshaw-Black

Our perspectives are formed partly by through experience and partly through inheritance, at an early age.  Our perspectives can be the determining factor in sickness or in health. ...

Psychocreative Fasting and The Art of Inner Medicine

by Patrick Lee-Howard

It isn’t everyone who will prescribe a fast for a person with PMT, diabetes, a bad heart, or cancer, still less perhaps someone with an eating disorder. Most people will tend to th...

Recovery from Colon Cancer - Diet, Herbs, Detoxification and Cellular Regeneration

by Teresa Tsalaky

Teresa Tsalaky looks at the story of David Walker, who recovered from colon cancer having been told that he only had three to five years to live. Walker began chemotherapy but suff...

Regenerate and Revitalise

by June Butlin

Summer is a wonderful time of the year when nature flourishes and life seems brighter, more colourful, and full of vitality. A newness evolves and we naturally focus on our surroun...

The 'G' Factor - The Benefits of a Gluten-free Diet

by Linda Lazarides BA

Detox diets are trendy. They avoid gluten like the allergenic protein it is. Found in wheat, rye, spelt, barley, oats, even in so-called gluten-free maize, it can cause headaches, ...

The Importance of the Liver

by June Butlin

The liver is the largest gland in the body and weighs on average 3lbs. Its most important role is to detoxify foreign substances such as metabolic waste products, drugs, pesticides...

The Practicalities of the Gerson Therapy

by June Butlin

After attending the Gerson therapy training day I realised that the practicalities of the therapy were far from simplistic and it could well be the most intense and extreme nutri...

The Ways of Detox

by Sally Mathrick

The principle organ in our body for detoxification, separating nutrients from waste or toxic products, is our liver.  When our liver is over-stressed, or our various means of exc...