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Reflexology: What Is Its True Potential?

Listed in reflexology

Reflexology is a powerful therapy that can have far-reaching effects on health and well-being. Introduced to the UK in the early 1960s, it should by now have earned a place alongsid...

Dysfunctional Hormones

Listed in women's health

Hormones are minute chemical messengers that circulate in the bloodstream. A tiny alteration can affect us physically and emotionally. Environmental chemicals can cause hormonal dis...

Mistletoe Therapy

Listed in cancer

Although Iscador is contraindicated for some types of cancer, the author herself was given Iscador injections prior to cancer surgery. With the additional help of a homeopathic reme...

Back Conditions and Holism

Listed in back pain

In this article, Mary Martin, reflexologist, illustrates how reflexology can be used to alleviate back pain by working holistically through the body energetic communication system.<...

Reflexology and Trauma

Listed in reflexology

Using case examples, Mary Martin illustrates how reflexology can assist in post-operative care by speeding up recovery, healing scar tissue and alleviating long-standing post-operat...

The Vital Link

Listed in reflexology

By examining the scientific evidence of quantum physics and the findings of research into energy fields, this article provides support for the basic principles of reflexology and it...

Juvenile Chronic Arthritis

Listed in arthritis

In this article, Mary Martin, who runs her own School of Reflexology and founded the Association of Reflexologists, describes the success of reflexology in treating a young girl wit...

The Human Factor

Listed in complementary medicine

Reflexologist Mary Martin focuses on how modern medicine has disregarded the psychological and emotional levels of health, how science has disconnected itself from the patient. Heal...

Problems Affecting Muscles and Joints

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Mary Martin demonstrates how Reflexology can be used to treat problems affecting muscles and joints.

The Heart and the Emotions

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In her regular column Mary Martin examines the connection between heart problems and the emotions. She believes the condition of our heart reflects lifestyle and mental attitude. Th...

Touch as a Therapeutic Tool

Listed in cancer

Mary Martin discusses the value of touch as a therapeutic tool in cancer treatment. Western medicine is highly dependent on technology and has become a far less touching profession....

Facilitating Positive Changes

Listed in immune function

The author presents two cases which demonstrate the power of the mind in the context of Reflexology. The average GP, she says, has no time to talk patients through their problems an...

Empowering The Placebo

Listed in immune function

This article looks at the power of the placebo effect, which a House of Lords Science and Technology report in 2000 states -is not just an imagined experience but can positively imp...

Relief from Migraine

Listed in headaches

In this article on Reflexology and its positive effect on Migraines, the author says migraine affects about 10% of the UK population, and that there are two types: common migraine a...

How Reflexology Evolved

Listed in reflexology

This article traces the history of Reflexology which evolved (and is still evolving) from the ancient technique of acupressure introduced to the Chinese. The surviving source of all...

Tinnitus

Listed in reflexology

This column focuses on the positive effect of Reflexology in treating tinnitus - a condition that can prevent one in 200 sufferers from living normal lives, while one in five is occ...

Relief from Chronic Illness

Listed in reflexology

In this column, the author provides cases studies on the effects of reflexology on certain chronic illnesses, and adds that where illness cannot be reversed, patients still experien...

Fear and the Stress Response

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This column provides a holistic perspective, through reflexology, to help a particular case study to overcome her chronic head pains, tinnitus, hypertension and sinusitis, due to fe...

Optimizing the Healing Potential

Listed in complementary medicine

This column discusses the placebo effect which, the author says, can override psychological and physical conditions, and is the strongest, most comprehensive and most proven medicin...

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Listed in women's health

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is a complex condition that affects about one in 10 women in the UK. Symptoms include irregular or absent periods, ovulation problems and infertilit...

Reflexology as a Diagnostic Tool

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According to the author, who also helped found the Association of Reflexologists in 1984, many patients consult her because other methods of treatment have proved unsatisfactory. Sh...

Coping With Stress

Listed in reflexology

This column focuses on the benefits of Reflexology as a non-invasive way of coping with stress and why many people are opting for this therapy.