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  1. Trees for Health: Winter Trees

    Celtic legends and myths permeate the very soil and the soul of their peoples. Throughout these tales, there are many references to trees and their healing powers.more

  2. Trends in Virtual Exercise: The Fitness Industry After Coronavirus

    Staying active and fit has always been crucial to maintaining good health. But more people feel that going to the gym should be a regular part of their routine as a result of the su...more

  3. Tribute to Heidi Rossanne Keep

    Heidi was my woman: my lover, my partner, business partner in Aquarius, mother to my daughter, Rhiannon and son, Reubyn. And she was much more as well. A multi-faceted woman who sp...more

  4. Tribute to Vivienne Silver-Leigh

    On June 14 Vivienne Silver-Leigh, our mother and regular contributor to Positive Health passed peacefully and gracefully into spirit. Vivienne meant so much to so many people, and ...more

  5. Trigger Point Therapy

    The author explains what triggers a trigger point (a type of muscle stiffness), why they cause trouble, how to recognize if you have trigger points and how long it takes before y...more

  6. Troubled Adolescents: Working Therapeutically using a Schema Focused Approach

    As a Clinical Psychologist who specializes in working with adolescents who have experienced multiple forms of physical and emotional trauma, I am always excited by therapeutic appro...more

  7. True Healthcare - Helping the Body to Heal Itself

    “Eventually medicine and humanity must come to terms with the fact that healing comes from within, and the true role of a practitioner is to facilitate that healing within.” Dr. Gas...more

  8. Trump’s Smart at Mesmerising Metaphors

    Linguistically Donald Trump leads the field with his power of persuasion and he uses metaphors to do it. Language such as “America is sitting in a bubble about to explode” enhances...more

  9. Truth will out

    In 1988 I coauthored (with investigative journalist Simon Martin) a book with the title World Without AIDS (Thorsons) and in 1994 my other book on this topic You Don’t Have to Die ...more

  10. Tuina: A complete holistic healing system from China

    Tried and tested over 4,000 years and still regularly used by over one fifth of the world’s population, Tuina is still little known in the West. Maria, who is an established teache...more

  11. Tulsi - Incomparable Queen Of Herbs

    The author discusses the benefits of Tulsi (basil leaves) which he says is a safe and sure cure for all our diseases. The leaves have properties similar to the currently available ...more

  12. Tumour Treating Fields - Adding Deta Elis to One’s Cancer Program

    Tumour Treating Fields is the name given to low-intensity electrical fields emitted by a range of new medical devices. The FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) has approved subtle ...more

  13. Tuning Forks for Healing Therapy

    The human body is sustained by life force energy which is referred to as Chi in Chinese medicine and Prana in Indian Medicine. This energy which has electro-magnetic characteristic...more

  14. Tuning Up Your Body With Sound Vibrational MOT

    There is a beautiful un-evasive therapy guided by universal, angelic energy and frequencies that help you achieve the balance in your daily life that we are all living as part of li...more

  15. Turmeric - Potent Antioxidant, Anti-inflammatory, Anti-microbial and Anticancer Spice

    Turmeric - Curcuma longa is a perennial plant of the ginger family, Zingiberaceae, native to the Indian Subcontinent. It grows wild in South and Southeast Asia. The plant is cultiva...more

  16. Turmeric - An Amazing Healer

    Often regarded simply as a spice for flavouring and colouring curry, Anne McIntyre highlights the vast number of therapeutic properties attributed to turmeric. Usually obtained in ...more

  17. Turmeric - From Tradition To Research

    Turmeric has always been integral part of Indian kitchen with varied uses - as a condiment to medicine. In this article, the journey of Turmeric from ancient times to present has be...more

  18. Turmeric Extract Strikes To The Root Cause of Cancer Malignancy

    A new turmeric study published in Cancer Letters is paving the way for a revolution in the way that we both understand and treat cancer. Titled, Targeting cancer stem cells by curc...more

  19. Turning Massage from a Yang Therapy into a Yin Therapy

    I describe myself as an eclectic holistic practitioner. Having had issues with my back in my early 20s, I have always been keen to seek relief where possible. Wearing my suit of bod...more

  20. Twisted Life Forms

    Nature, as a rule, does not like straight lines but rather favours curves, and has a marked preference for that most beautiful of curves – the spiral.more

  21. Twisting Foot and Musculoskeletal Pain: Root's Biomechanical Model vs Rothbart's Neurophysiological Model

    There are two distinct theoretical models that describe the pathomechanics, in a step by step fashion, that link a twisting foot to the development of chronic musculoskeletal pain: ...more

  22. Two Catarrhal Tales

    I have always thought of catarrh as being extremely unglamorous, as well as somewhat boring, from the medical point-of-view. As a general practitioner, there is not a lot that one ...more

  23. Two Intractable Complaints

    I have just heard about the death of one of my patients. Even homeopathy cannot prevent this inevitable event. Sarah was seventy-five, alert and active. She suffered a massive hear...more

  24. Two Nutrients that Stop your Brain Shrinking

    New research shows that the combination of B vitamins and omega-3 are a dynamic duo against dementia, stopping the brain shrinkage that is the hallmark of Alzheimer’s.more

  25. Two Realities, One Healing Practice: Politics as a Spiritual Advancement Tool

    In the weeks following the November 2024 US election, I found myself working with two clients who, despite their differing political views, shared a commonality in their emotional e...more

  26. Two Voices, One Story - Overcoming Infertility and Choosing Adoption

    I am nothing if not an enigma and a seeming contradiction: I am infertile, but I have been pregnant; I have been pregnant but I have never given birth; I have never given birth yet ...more

  27. UK Government Urged to Use Vitamin D to Combat COVID

    Since the start of the pandemic in early 2020, the race to find an effective treatment for the coronavirus has been a priority. Since then, effective vaccines have been created in r...more

  28. Ultraviolet - the true story

    For too many people, the dermatologists' message comes across as "the sun is bad for you". It's not true: the sun is good for you.more

  29. Unblocking a Nasal Allergy with Homoeopathy

    Susan always had a tendency to a blocked nose. It had become worse recently and was more obviously aggravated by exposure to house dust. Indeed, skin tests performed at the local h...more

  30. Understanding Dry Mouth at Night: Causes, Symptoms, and Prevention!

    Imagine waking up in the morning feeling parched and unable to swallow without difficulty. You are not alone if you feel the uncomfortable sensation of dry mouth at night, often kno...more

  31. Understanding Flower Essences

    This article takes both a scientific and more spiritual look at the use of flower essences, which are neither essential oils extracted from the plants nor homeopathic, but rather v...more

  32. Understanding Gluten Enteropathies

    Wheat and other gluten containing grains including rye and barley have become a major part of the human diet ever since they were first cultivated by our ancestors about 10,000 year...more

  33. Understanding NLP Thinking Styles

    Our thinking patterns affect how we respond to situations in the world. Yet often we run thinking patterns, called ‘metaprogrammes’ that are outside our awareness. Understanding th...more

  34. Understanding Nutrition in Chinese Medicine

    This article helps us understand nutrition through the history of Chinese medicine, which believes that the seasons have a profound cyclical effect on human growth and wellbeing in...more

  35. Understanding Ourselves: Do You Deserve a Treat?

    Fancy a cream cake? Could you buy one without feeling guilty? Should you have to establish first whether you deserve one? In this article, Dorothy Rowe relates our shiver of guilt ...more

  36. Understanding Pancreatic Cancer Causes and Treatments

    “The pancreas is the first organ to develop inhibited function from varied stresses,”[1] writes Dr William Philpott and Dr Dwight K Kalita in their book Brain Allergies. Recent stu...more

  37. Understanding Relationship

    This article is about understanding relationships and can benefit individuals looking for a partner, people in a relationship where they feel stuck, distant or dead, and those in c...more

  38. Understanding Spino Cerebellar Ataxia (SCA)

    I am a dental surgeon, trained at the University of London and based in London. The welfare of my patients, many of whom have been in my care for general dentistry for decades is pa...more

  39. Understanding the Music you Listen to can Enhance your Meditation

    Listening to music while practising yoga is more of a controversial idea than you might expect. For some people, it just seems to work; for others, it’s a distraction. What’s most i...more

  40. Understanding the Root Causes of Dyslipidaemia in Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease

    A paradigm shift from the cholesterol-centric focus on symptom management to addressing the root causes of ASCVD has demonstrated potential for prevention and reversal, as shown by ...more

  41. Understanding Wisdom Teeth: What You Need to Know

    Wisdom teeth, also known as third molars, are the last set of teeth to develop in your mouth, usually appearing between the ages of 17 and 25. While they are a natural part of denta...more

  42. Universal Application of Polarity Therapy The Application of Universal Principles of Energy and Healing

    Polarity therapy, founded by Randolph Stone, draws on the universal principles of energy set out in the Ayurvedic healing tradition. It is a hands-on therapy and works on the basis...more

  43. Universal Harmonic Healing

    This article looks at Universal Harmonic Healing (UHH), which is a rebalancing of universal energies both within and around us in our aura. Our bodies want to be in a state of bala...more

  44. Universal Truths of Tai Chi

    This article focuses on Tai Chi which is now practised throughout the West because of the many renowned practitioners from China living here. Many of these practitioners have also ...more

  45. Unleash Your Mind Power to be in Control of Your Life

    Here the author examines the power of the mind, and states that in order to have the outcome we desire in life one must tap into mind power to achieve our goals and dreams. The min...more

  46. Unlock Weight Management Secrets with New Zealand Blackcurrants

    Struggled with Lockdown Weight Gain? Has your Fitness Slipped? Want to Take Control of your Weight Loss and Fitness Goals Fast? more

  47. Unlocking Your Hidden Abilities – the Easy Way

    Geoff Merrigan explores ways in which we can easily release our hidden healing abilities. He himself shifted from a conventional scientific background to discovering and then teach...more

  48. Unlocking Your Potential: Mental and Physical Exercise Essentials

    The economy is reopening. Workers are returning to the office after a year of remote working and furlough, reigniting our normal schedules and getting careers back on track. However...more

  49. Unravelling GI Problems – Stress

    I believe in working to achieve real healing. A client’s level of health is a direct result of their lifestyle, so when a part of that lifestyle does not support health it must be c...more

  50. Unravelling Superhumans Thinking Strategies

    Many of the people we hail as genius are simply clever people who have developed strategies for doing things incredibly well. Human beings have limited brainpower; there is only so ...more

  51. Unravelling the Mysteries of Hormones

    Hormones are very tiny, very sensitive chemical messengers that were evolved to manage our reproductive, stress and metabolic responses. In an ideal world, out hormones would ebb an...more

  52. Unshackle Yourself from Limiting Beliefs

    A belief is a strategy that lets you know you can or cannot do something. If you believe you can, or you believe you can’t you are probably right. A belief is the strategy, the s...more

  53. Untangling the Tangled Web

    The key tenet of osteopathy and craniosacral therapy is that ‘structure governs function’. If structure is compromised, then function is altered. When assessing patients, the prac...more

  54. Untreated Hearing Loss – Effects Upon Depression, Memory Loss and Dementia

    Hearing is a crucial part of the human experience. This is not to say that those without hearing are damaged or incomplete – rather we mean that when you spend your life with the ab...more

  55. Unwind and Relax

    Using examples of a student with acute psoriasis and her own problems with chronic back pain, regular columnist, yoga teacher Ruth White, describes how yoga was used to completely ...more

  56. Use Essential Oils to Change Your Mood and Make the Most of Every Minute

    In this, Barbara Payne’s final Expert Column prior to her retirement from PH, she finds powerful, yet tangible ways in which we can search for balance in our busy lives. Essential ...more

  57. Use It or Lose It

    This article discusses the pelvic floor muscles and tissues, how they are designed to work as a complete unit and the benefits of Pilates on these muscles. According to the author ...more

  58. Use of Collagen Medical Devices in Musculoskeletal Healing

    I have been using Homoeopathic Mesotherapy or Biopuncture since 2009. I have found it useful as an adjunctive therapy to my osteopathic work. Patients with arthritis, frozen shoulde...more

  59. Use The Dark Days To Lighten Up

    Barbara Payne points out how outside influences and emotional ups and downs create chemical changes within, which in turn affect the way we feel and ultimately define our health st...more

  60. Using Herbal Medicine

    The long history of traditional use of herbal medicines to safely treat common family illness needs to be more widely recognized and understood.more

  61. Using Hyaluronic Acid for Knee Pain

    Painful, swollen knees that barely bend? We can help! Issues in the knees can affect anyone - old or young. Depending upon the severity, knee problems can impact almost every aspec...more

  62. Using Hypnosis for Self-Understanding and Change

    My clients often surprise me, which I see as one of the benefits to me of my work as a therapist.more

  63. Using pH as a measure of Digestive Physiology

    Proper digestion is a prerequisite for optimum health. Ascertaining the degree to which digestion has become dysfunctional is critical, as abnormal digestive physiology adversely a...more

  64. Using Rational Emotional Behaviour Therapy (REBT) – for Managing Internal Stress

    Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy (REBT) is one of the cognitive behaviour therapies under the CBT umbrella. It is a trans-diagnostic, evidence based, and philosophical therapy d...more

  65. Using Remedial Massage with Neuroskeletal Re-Alignment Therapy

    As a massage therapist the author got into Neuroskeletal Re-Alignment Therapy (NSRT) in 1997 (a technique which she has written about in an earlier issue of PH) because she found r...more

  66. Using the Harp for Healing

    This article focuses on harp therapy. A breakthrough experience is just one example of how therapy has become so effective in hospitals, hospices, birthing centres, rehabilitation ...more

  67. Using the Mind to Release Your Body's Potential

    The author describes the mental techniques which are used by our most successful athletes, and which anyone wishing to reach their peak performance can benefit from. These include ...more

  68. Using Water as Medicine

    Water is both widely and cheaply available, it also is essential for life. Water is important in curing disease, basically because ‘it is the blood that heals’.  Blood circulation...more

  69. Vaccination Controversy: Safety and Side Effects

    Dr Sharma, a medically qualified homeopathic doctor, addresses the argument, supported by a growing body of evidence, that vaccines are unsafe and ineffective. There is no evidence...more

  70. Vaccination Damage and Homeopathy

    The patient, an eight-year-old girl, had been diagnosed with epilepsy following a meningitis C vaccination. During her first consultation with Dr Slade, a homeopath, she had five f...more

  71. Vaccine Technology: Types of Vaccines, How Vaccines are Produced, mRNA Technology

    Ever since the development of the first vaccine in 1796, the technology behind vaccinology has progressed beyond the scope of the ordinance. The right to get vaccinated and live a ...more

  72. VDUs and the Computer Posture

    In working at a computer for long periods of time the arms are held up and in front of the body. This causes an increase in the tone of the anterior muscles and an imbalance betw...more

  73. Vegan Kids – How to Make Sure their Diet is Nourishing

    Commonly questioned is whether a vegan diet is ‘safe’ for children and there are concerns that they will lack the right nutrition if they follow a vegan diet.more

  74. Vegans and Protein – Myth-Busting

    Ask any vegan the most common question they get asked, and it’s more than likely that they will tell you top of the list is: ‘where do you get your protein from?’ This has been an a...more

  75. Vegetarianism - Our Gift to the Planet

    In this feature the author makes an excellent case for becoming a vegetarian or at least reducing our consumption of meat products. She drives the point home by detailing how going...more

  76. Veracity of Vicious Disease - Malaria

    Malaria is one of the world’s most serious health problems, and is far from being eliminated. The parasite which causes it spend part of its life cycle in the gut of the anopheles ...more

  77. Vertical Reflex Therapy (VRT) for Sports Injuries

    The author has developed the practice of Reflexology to include work done while the feet (and hands) are in a weight-bearing position. Newer research has concentrated on Hand VRT, ...more

  78. Vertical Reflexology

    Vertical Reflexology, or Vertical Reflex Therapy (VRT) was developed by Lynne Booth six years ago when working with chronically ill residents at the St Monica Trust nursing home in...more

  79. Vertical Reflexology for Hands and Feet: Do not neglect the beneficial role of hand reflexology

    The author gives an account of the basis for reflexology.  She then explains the concept of vertical reflex therapy (VRT), which involves standing up so that the dorsal areas of we...more

  80. Vibration-Oscillation Diagnosing and Healing Therapy

    Several existing new technologies of diagnosing and healing, based upon the latest accomplishments of quantum physics, engineering and biophysical sciences are reviewed in this det...more

  81. Vibrational Healing - Harmonising

    The premise of Vibrational Healing is that everything vibrates on a certain frequency. All objects, even wooden tables, are made up of molecules which vibrate to create their mass....more

  82. Vibromuscular Harmonisation

    The Vibromuscular Harmonisation Technique (VHT) is a new bodywork technique developed by Jock Ruddock and inspired by such disciplines as Aikido, Bowen Technique, Tai Chi, Cranio-S...more

  83. Vibromuscular Harmonisation

    The Vibromuscular Harmonisation Technique (VHT) is a new bodywork technique developed by Jock Ruddock and inspired by such disciplines as Aikido, Bowen Technique, Tai Chi, Cranio-S...more

  84. Violane - The Hidden Healer

    The crystal kingdom is so vast, and although hundreds of books have been published, including pictures, chemical compositions, origin, etc., it is doubtful that all known crystals ...more

  85. Violence Against Women

    “. . . if my mother, at any point during the ages of five and twelve, picked up a knife or any other weapon against my father, I would have held her hand as she did it. I would have...more

  86. Virtual Personal Trainer Unveils How to Get Fit the RIGHT Way

    Not everyone can afford a full-time personal trainer, so how can you tell if your exercise routine is helping you achieve your fitness goals - or potentially doing more harm than go...more

  87. Virtual Scanning - Beyond Biomedicine

    This article focuses on Virtual Scanning, its benefits and how it is used. At the same time, the authors also illustrate how the understanding of natural phenomena of light and col...more

  88. Virtue of the Heart

    This column looks at what our world honours and values in this day and age and questions why, unlike mental intelligence, physical intelligence, spiritual intelligence, emotional i...more

  89. Viruses Mutate more Readily in Selenium-Deficient Surroundings

    Even though selenium is critically important for good human health, its value is not widely known. It is important both for the prevention of selenium-related deficiency diseases an...more

  90. Vision as a Metaphor - the Relationship Between Eyesight and Consciousness

    The author believes that eyesight affects and is affected by emotional and mental states of Being linked to personality. Each vision impairment correlates with a specific personali...more

  91. Vitamin A - Are you Getting Enough?

    Vitamin A is not a vitamin that currently gets much publicity. This is because deficiency in developed countries is considered rare. The same thinking used to apply to Vitamin D, bu...more

  92. Vitamin B12 – Are You Deficient?

    Severe B12 deficiency is known to cause pernicious anaemia, an illness which has clearly diagnosable symptoms. However, there are a plethora of other symptoms which can be related...more

  93. Vitamin C - Essential for Year-Round, Whole Body Protection

    In this article, Dr Phillips Brown discusses the multiple benefits of vitamin C including its ability to strengthen the immune system, maintain healthy joints, improve vision, and ...more

  94. Vitamin C and Cancer - Storm of Controversy

    According to The World Health Organization, there will be more than ten million documented new cases of cancer next year. Since 1971 over $1 trillion has been spent on conventional...more

  95. Vitamin D and Cancer

    Vitamin D has long since been recognised as crucially important to health and its first association was with Ricketts, in that supplementation with Vitamin D in children with Ricke...more

  96. Vitamin D: Why We Need More Of The Sunshine Vitamin

    It used to be thought that vitamin D deficiency was rare, and limited to the elderly, pregnant and people from cultures where the skin is traditionally kept covered. Now it is es...more

  97. Vitamin E, Are We Getting Enough?

    Vitamin E is not actually a single vitamin, but a group of fat soluble vitamins known as tocopherols and tocotrienols. There are eight naturally occurring forms of vitamin E, which ...more

  98. Vitamins and Minerals - Discussion on the Benefits of Natural Food State Supplements

    This very detailed article sets out research dating from early in the last century and continuing to the present which indicates that foods are becoming more and more depleted of n...more

  99. Vitex agnus castus: A review

    The species name Agnus castus originates from the Greek agnos castus, meaning chaste, as the Greeks thought the plant calmed sexual passion. Its common name of caste berry and monk...more

  100. Vitiligo - Treatment Approaches and Consequences

    This is a personal account of this condition, its social and psychological consequences, and the current state of treatment. In vitiligo, the immune system attacks the melanocytes ...more

  101. Vocal Toning and Energy Alignment

    The author gives an extensive account of the basis of energy theory in Eastern traditions, reinforced by modern scientific research.  She then describes the development of her own ...more

  102. Voice - the forgotten fitness factor

    From a very early age I loved anything to do with music, singing, playing the piano and dancing, so when at 17 I gained a place at a music college where I would be trained as a sin...more

  103. Voice Movement Therapy - Healing Mind and Body with Sound and Song

    Healing Mind and Body with Sound and Song by Paul Newham Fifteen years ago I founded a form of therapy now known as Voice Movement Therapy.more

  104. Voluntary Self-regulation of Complementary Therapies

    This article discusses the issue of multi-disciplinary establishments that have sprung up over the past few years to cater to the concerns of multi-disciplinary therapists about ha...more

  105. Wake Up and Kick the Caffeine Habit for Good

    Petrene Soames, a leading authority on healing and self-awareness, cuts straight to the chase by pointing out that many of us are addicted to caffeine, a legal stimulant that actua...more

  106. Walk the Soulful Talk from Deep Within

    All of us - whatever our roots, profession, or purpose - have a natural, innate, or cultivated ability to express our feelings, or resolve our angst, while releasing ourselves from...more

  107. Walking - The Good Way

    Psychologists claimed that communication among human beings is 7% verbal, 30% toe and 55% body language. Whether these figures are correct or not, it's plain that we speak with our...more

  108. Walking and the Mind

    Joel Carbonnel looks at the benefits of walking for the mind. Walking has been shown to slow the rate of memory loss and keep the mind sharp.more

  109. Walking Around the Cotton Reel - Using NLP to Teach Drawing

    This article focuses on how NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) can help us to access our ability to draw, and shares the author’s approach to generating interest and self-belief in...more

  110. Walking to Work Through the Parks

    Since my nurse advised me to do more daily exercise, I have been walking to work from Kensington Gardens through Hyde Park, to Park Lane. I also return home through the parks; it's...more

  111. Walking with your Iliopsoas Muscle

    The author explains the importance of maintaining a supple, well-functioning iliopsoas muscle, and has written a book on the subject.more

  112. Wander-Full, Wonder-Filled Thinking

    The author starts enthusiastically by discussing the different passions that people have from golf and fishing to crochet and knitting. Yet, how often does one take time to think a...more

  113. Warm Up: Extract from Real Yoga; A Pure and Simple Journey

    I was very privileged to meet as a child the greatest masters of wisdom. As my family was and still is the honorary consulates of India in Hawaii, I was introduced to Swami Mukhtana...more

  114. Warts and All

    There are few things more irritating than a wart. Though seemingly trivial, they are unsightly and embarrassing. Conventional medicine has little to offer the sufferer - he can c...more

  115. Water

    Timothy Freer – who has researched nutritional products, water purification methods and tools for energy health for the last seven years.more

  116. Water - of Vital Importance

    About 25% of the human body is composed of solids (solute). About 75% of the human body is water (solvent). About 85% of the brain is water.more

  117. Water – Wild, Weird and Wonderful

    I woke in the night so thirsty that my throat was on fire. Stumbling out of bed, I felt like the little mermaid in Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy tales - as though I were walking o...more

  118. Water Fluoridation - Therapy or Fallacy?

    Water fluoridation – is this really a way to improve dental health, or is it another nail in our coffins, causing hip fractures, dental fluorosis, immune system problems and, possi...more

  119. Water Fluoridation: A Divisive Subject

    The fluoridation of our water supply is about as contentious an issue as you can conceive. Should we remove fluoride from our water or not? Although half a century has elapsed since...more

  120. Water for Life and Optimum Health

    This article provides six helpful hints for understanding the 'extraordinary world of water' through examples and quotes from author Masaru Emoto's books on The Hidden Messages in ...more

  121. Watercress - The ‘Forgotten Super Food’

    If you haven’t ever tried it, you need to try it. If you aren’t regularly including it in your weekly menu, you should, so get yourself off to the supermarket or local store and rea...more

  122. Wave Genetics as Developed by the Late Professor Peter Gariaev

    Few scientists have contributed so much to a single field as Professor Peter Gariaev PhD has done to revolutionize our understanding of DNA. He is maybe best known for his discovery...more

  123. Ways Everyone can Benefit from Therapy

    Therapy is a powerful tool for personal growth, mental health, and overall well-being, often surrounded by misconceptions and stigma. While many believe therapy is only for those ex...more

  124. Ways to Help Low Mood and Depression in the Menopause

    I was recently listening to a medical doctor describing what happened when she went to see her own doctor. She was in the peri menopause and suffering with very low mood. Her doctor...more

  125. Ways to Protect ourselves and the animals in our care from BSE-like diseases

    Dr Fullerton discusses and puts forward her views and ways to protect ourselves and the animals in our care from BSE-like diseases.more

  126. We Are All Coeliac

    Gluten intolerance is not always recognized because the symptoms can be mild or delayed and can be wrongly blamed upon other common intestinal issues. Some symptoms come from inflam...more

  127. We Chose Health Inequality: Decades of Discussion, Why are We Still Here?

    Health inequalities are not inevitable; they are the consequence of deliberate choices made by society, healthcare systems, and policymakers. This is the resounding message from an ...more

  128. We have to educate to integrate

    Integration is the new buzz-word: the argument being that non-conventional therapies are here to stay, so why not put them to work in the mainstream?more

  129. We Heal What We Need to Learn: The Ups and Downs of Grief, Joy and Happiness. Part I

    The first thing you notice when someone passes is how shocked you feel when learning of their transition.more

  130. We Heal What We Need to Learn: The Ups and Downs of Grief, Joy and Happiness. Part II

    In Part I, I wrote about how grief could take us to new levels of awareness in terms of how we remember the passing of a loved one. In this article I am going to look at what it tak...more

  131. We Hunter-Gatherers Are Now In A Bad Way

    Our Homo genus predecessors emerged some two million years ago (species variously labelled handy, busy, erect), and we ourselves about a quarter million.  Middle Africa, from which ...more

  132. Wealth Creation For The Better Good - The Significance of Money - Is Money a Curse or a Blessing?

    I doubt if anyone who would dispute the fact that money is the most important commodity in any person’s life. It is right up there with gravity, light and water as necessities for s...more

  133. Weight Loss - Can Hypnotherapy Help?

    Most people associate hypnosis with weight loss and stopping smoking, but can hypnotherapy really help? Well, the answer is ‘yes’, but there a lot of considerations to take on board...more

  134. Weight Loss Facts Vs Fads – Swallowable Weight Loss Balloon

    According to research, women will embark on 130 diets in a lifetime[1] and almost half of Brits (48%), have tried to lose weight in the last year.[2] When we're looking to lose weig...more

  135. Weight Loss Through Well-Being

    The bare facts about dieting are well known – only around one in twenty attempts to lose weight will succeed. Yet this doesn't stop millions of people trying over and again to reac...more

  136. Weight Loss Using Chinese Medicine

    This article focuses on how Chinese remedies and therapies, such as Herbal medicine and Acupuncture help with weight loss, and offers some advice on diet and exercises such as fast...more

  137. Weight Loss Winners and Dieting Downfalls: Hormonally Speaking

    Weight loss and dieting can be a battle of will; an exercise in restraint; and, even a losing wicket. Did you know that you can trigger a hormone hijack with your weight loss regi...more

  138. Weight Management Problems? There's an Epidemic of Undiagnosed Disease

    This column warns of the risks of being overweight, namely that of contracting diabetes. According to the author more than 2½ million people in the UK are diabetic and that a maj...more

  139. Welcoming the Water-Carrier

    We are about to enter ‘the age of Aquarius’, the water bearer. The author notes that in astrology, he is an Air sign, but is seen pouring water onto the parched earth, both being...more

  140. Western Herbal Medicine and The Menopause

    Many plants have medicinal properties that reduce menopausal symptoms. In Germany, 70% of physicians prescribe herbal remedies, which are covered by insurance.more

  141. Westerners Learning Complementary Therapies in China

    The decision to travel to the East to participate in learning about traditional Chinese methods of health care, is not just a geographical journey but rather an expansion of onesel...more

  142. What a Headache!

    Fiona had finally had enough of her headaches. She had suffered with them for years and years and always took her maximum daily allowance of 8 co-codamol tablets. She described the...more

  143. What are the Benefits of Raw Neem Honey?

    Healing Properties of Neem Everything from the neem tree is medicinal: bark, cake, extract, flowers, fruit, gum, honey, leaves (also used as tea and powder), oil (from kernels of th...more

  144. What are the Best Exercises for Different Age Groups, without Injuring Yourself

    Along with sleep and eating a balanced diet, exercise is essential for maintaining good health and wellbeing. While you can’t outrun a bad diet, you can support your metabolism with...more

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