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The Influence of the Weather upon our Health
The author concludes that if we are balanced and healthy we are ready to face the world whatever the weather. This can be achieved through complementary therapies such as acupunctu...more
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The Limbic System, Disease and Homeopathy – How Emotional Stress Affects our Health
Science has now established that it is a crucial player in neuroendocrinology.[2,3] As somebody who is interested in complementary therapies, you no doubt will understand and subscr...more
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In relation to health the concept of holism requires one to take into account not only the symptoms expressed by the individual but the affect on the individual of his whole life s...more
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The Medical Establishment View: The Menopause is a Deficiency Disease
Good morning. HRT: Hormone Replacement Therapy. The very name suggests a therapy that is designed to treat a deficiency. It is Hormone Replacement Therapy, so that suggests that the...more
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The child’s symptoms were persistent fits that hospital staff attributed to mitochondrial disease.[3] The mainstream and private orthodox medical sources agreed that there was no p...more
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Hypnosis is effective for the treatment of dermatological conditions in three specific ways. Firstly, treatment of the root cause; secondly, remission of the symptom, and finally...more
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The Naturopath in the Field of Health
The 'Naturopath' is concerned with fasting, nutrition, diet, water and exercise and sees each patient as a holistic unit of mind, body and spirit. He looks at each patient's living...more
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The Practicalities of the Gerson Therapy
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...more
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Ground-breaking UK scientific research could enable practitioners to provide precautionary lifestyle advice that simply involves regularly drinking a unique mineral water.more
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The Proving of Homoeopathic Remedies
Homeopathy is a system of medicine based on the principle that like cures like; that the remedy which will cure the patient is the one that has the same effect on people as does th...more
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The Quintessence Above the Tangible and the Mundane
If you are taken blindfolded into two different kinds of building facilities, you will almost automatically pick up the atmosphere and the ethos belonging to each. If say, the fir...more
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The Risks to Health from Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR)
In this article the author shares her experience with heavy metal toxicity, treatments that help and how she uses her Electrosmog Detector to scan her home, and that of her clients...more
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The Role of Homeopathy in Grief
This Column begins by saying that we all will be faced with loss and grief at some time in our lives, whether suddenly, or expected. In either case, the grief can be overwhelming, ...more
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The Science of Flower Essence Therapy
Richard Katz, founder and associate director of the Flower Essence Society in California, explains how flower essence therapy works, based on the Society's research findings, the m...more
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The Scientific Evidence for the Efficacy of Homoeopathy
In an editorial in The Townsend Letter[1] Dr Gaby looked at the question of the effectiveness of homoeopathy from a basically sceptical point of view.more
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Osteopathy was established in 1874 in the rural United States by Andrew Taylor Still. Still was fascinated by the mechanics of the body but also had a Native American background and...more
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The Suppression of a Natural Cancer Cure
Just three miles from the US border, there is a successful alternative cancer clinic in Tijuana, Mexico. Called the BioMedical Center, it was established there in 1963. According to...more
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The UK National Health Services should Engage with Complementary and Alternative Medicine
The NHS England Consultation (updated on 1st December 2017) titled: Items which should not be routinely prescribed in primary care: A Consultation on Guidance for CCGs has confirmed...more
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The Use of Homeopathy in a Case of Cancer
When Harriet attended the author's clinic, she was 35 years old and had been suffering from Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL) for eighteen months. The primary tumour was growing round a...more
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Integrating Astrology, Homeopathy and Changed Beliefs by Donna Taylor Laurence Le Shan sums it up nicely when he says that "a disease from the viewpoint of holistic medicine is a s...more
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Integrating Astrology, Homeopathy and Changed Beliefs by Donna Taylor Laurence Le Shan sums it up nicely when he says that "a disease from the viewpoint of holistic medicine is a s...more
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Hair loss is one of the most distressing symptoms a patient can have, not because of its life-threatening nature, but because the fear of baldness, and its accompanying social st...more
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Treating Pregnant Clients: Complementary Therapists' Appreciation Of Risk
The article reports the results of a survey undertaken by the author to determine whether complementary practitioners who treat pregnant women are adequately trained to understand ...more
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Treating Verrucas - to Burn or Not to Burn?
The author presents a homeopathic approach to treating the viral condition of verrucas, or plantar warts, as an alternative to conventional treatment with freezing, burning, cuttin...more
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Treatment Approaches to Premenstrual Syndrome
This article examines the effects of conventional treatments, complementary therapies and lifestyle adjustments both on the physical and the emotional symptoms of premenstrual synd...more
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Treatment Options for Cancer Patients
The author, a Cancer Nurse Specialist with 15 years' experience, provides an overview of cancer treatment choices, both orthodox and alternative, so that cancer sufferers are more ...more
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Many people in North America are not familiar what herbalism is all about since we are living in society asking for the ‘quick-fix’ when health problems arise. Therefore I would li...more
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In my last article I focused on homeopathy and mental health. I would like to further explore how homeopathy can help those people who are caring for others whether it be those with...more
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The author uses the word 'wholistic' to provide a single alternative to the many meanings of holistic and integrative care. He settles for the treatment of body, mind and spirit in...more
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Why develop degrees in Complementary Therapies?
By September 1998 at least ten Universities in the UK were enrolling students in degrees on Complementary Therapies. Some of the universities were offering places on up to six diff...more
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Winter Coughs and Influenza – a Homeopathic Approach
I trust that all of you reading this article will have enjoyed the Christmas and New Year festivities. However, I do know that at this time of year with the unpredictable changes th...more
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Working With the Healing Properties of Inflammation
I have worked with an osteopathic approach to treating patients for the best part of 40 years. In the last 25 I have used homotoxicology alongside osteopathy. This has added a new d...more