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5 Ways to Decrease your Risk of Catching a Cold or ‘Flu’

by Penny Crowther

It’s that time of year again when dodging flu and cold germs becomes a priority. And if you take steps to protect yourself, you are less likely to succumb to illness.

A Case of Otitis Media

by June Butlin

Otitis media, inflammation and infection of the middle ear, is common in young children. Its many possible causes, including food allergies and lack of breast-feeding as babies, ar...

A Case Study of Tuberculosis - Addison’s Disease And Hypoglycaemia

by Claudia Louch

A Vaccine may be Here - But Where Now for Vitamin D and Covid 19 Research?

by Michael Wakeman

With the arrival of multiple Covid 19 vaccines, it is worthwhile speculating the fate of research into the effects that vitamin D might have on the virus, not just in terms of it co...

Antibiotic Treatment - Protection and Recovery

by Nicki Woodward

In this column the author says that although as holistic practitioners in the modern world, we often have to accept that antibiotics play an unavoidable but often valuable role in ...

Antiviral and Antimicrobial Properties of Essential Oils

by Dominique Baudoux

During the 1960s, Dr Jean Valnet gave rise to the rebirth of aromatherapy, which split up into several schools, allowing thousands of doctors to get familiar with an anti-infectiou...

Can Complementary & Alternative Medicine Help Fight Covid-19?

by Rajgopal Nidamboor

It goes without saying that new, stunningly virulent and resurgent illnesses have been escalating around the globe, with alarming intensity, and advancing more rapidly than ever bef...

Case Study Issue 110: Recovery from Life-Threatening Meningitis

by Maria D\'Silva

This is the author’s personal account of her encounter with a strain of bacterial meningitis, a condition she nearly died of. All she remembers, before she blanked out for a few da...

Case Study: Recovery from Severe Illness with Zeolite and Glyconutrients

by Innesah York

The author describes suffering from a recurrent, severe bacterial urinary infection, initially treated by Ciprofloxacin (Cipro). Under advice from Sweet Cures of York, she treated ...

Colloidal Silver - Antimicrobial, Antifungal and Antiviral Mechanisms with Clinical Actions

by Dr Lyn Hanshew

Silver has been widely and effectively used in the science and art of healing since ancient times. Dr Eric Rentz thoroughly describes the historical stepping stones of the developme...

Colloidal Silver – Master Antimicrobial, Antifungal and Antiviral Agent

by David E Marsh

We are slowly emerging into a new era of treating disease with minerals rather than the antibiotics which have been so over-used that many bacteria have evolved strategies for rende...

Conventional vs. Herbal Antibiotics - What Is The Difference?

by Klaus Ferlow

One of the hottest topics today is the overuse of conventional antibiotics and the loss of their effectiveness. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States (...

Covid-19 - Serious Mishandling Causing so Many Deaths?

by M Amir

For the last 40 years, I have observed and had come to the conclusion that all viral infections rapidly lead to secondary bacterial infections. Indeed many of my patients will be aw...

Different Approach to Urinary Tract Infection

by Dr Angela Jones

Melanie was a chronic cystitis sufferer. In previous years, she had always found Cantharis 6c very effective. She had chosen this with the help of a complementary self help guide o...

Effective Antimicrobial Essential Oils for Protection against Dangerous Infection

by Maggie Tisserand

MRSA is an acronym for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and refers to strains of this bacterium that are resistant to the antibiotic methicillin, and to other classes of...

Grapefruit Seed Extract - The Ultimate Antimicrobial?

by Dorothy Cronin

Grapefruit has been known in this country since the 17th century when it was identified by botanists on the island of Barbados. The anti-oxidant effect of citrus has been known for...

How we can Best Prepare for and Cope with Norovirus

by Hitesh Dodhia

Norovirus. It’s a word that dominates the headlines every winter and drives fear into people across the country. The illness - literally and metaphorically-– makes people sick to th...

Infectious Diseases - Nomenclature and Causation

by Dr Patrick Quanten

To an ordinary person, that is you and me, it looks like magic how doctors know what the name of the disease is we are suffering from and what has caused it. If we take infectious d...

Is Blood Viscosity the Test that can Save the World?

by Steve Walton

2020 has been a strange year all round. An unknown virus, probably in a bat colony in central China mutated to allow it to infect humans too...It is just a matter of degree whether ...

Lyme Disease Tracking and Treatment

by Jonathan Orchard

Chronic Lyme disease is becoming a hot new topic and with it all the classic drama we are so used to with many medical issues. Denial by much of the mainstream that Lyme disease can...