Positive Health Online

Induction of Labour - The Dilemma for Complementary Therapists Working with Pregnant Clients

by Denise Tiran

This article carefully spells out the professional boundaries and possibilities involved in the question of induction. Pregnant women can be helped in many ways by various complemen...

Infertility

by Penny Crowther

In this article the author refers to a case study (Fiona) with polycystic ovaries, whom she wrote about a few years ago, and explains how she was able to remedy her infertility thr...

IVF Treatment - Roller Coaster Ride

by Kate Arnold

Having been sterilised in January 1998, I had been told that my more likely chance of having a baby, 8 years later, would be IVF. As I already had children from a previous relation...

Learning Emotional and Nutritional Nurture through the Lifecycle

by Simon H House

The author’s central concern is to explain the nutritional and emotional needs of the unborn child. He discusses the evolution of the human brain, in the context of the earliest hu...

Making the Best of Breast Feeding

by Nicki Woodward

This column focuses on the vital role of good nutrition in the quality and quantity of milk production for breastfeeding. Breast milk provides complete food for a baby in its fir...

Menopause - Natural Approaches

by Eileen Inge Herzberg and Sandra Goodman PhD

Natural approaches using a variety of complementary therapies to alleviate menopausal symptoms are known and can be exceedingly effective for both constitutional and symptomatic cl...

Menopause the Natural Way

by Celia Wright

There are few women who would turn down the chance to look and feel younger if a magic pill were offered. But is HRT really such an elixir, or could it actually shorten life? New...

Miscarriage A Life and Death Experience

by Mary Nonde

Today, five out of six women miscarry – an alarming statistic which is worth taking seriously. I would like to share my recent, personal experience in order to give support to othe...

Natural Approaches to Fertility

by Tanya Leung BSc

Tanya Leung explores some self-help methods for fertility that are, in many cases, simply adopting a lifestyle that is going to nourish both mother and baby.

Natural Childbirth: Maternal Expectations Versus The Reality

by Denise Tiran

This well researched article outlines the features of a normal birth, discusses the expectations of mothers about birth, especially the expectations of mothers committed to a ‘natu...

Natural HRT: Herbal and Ayurveda Approach

by Nancy Lonsdorf

Dr Nancy Lonsdorf MD looks at the way in which Ayurveda acknowledges menopause as a natural transition – a concept that has only been recently considered by the medical community. ...

Nature’s Healer: 5 Ways That Going Vegan Could Help with Managing Menopause Symptoms

by Free Soul

With plant-based diets now being linked to reduced menopausal symptoms, nutrition experts Free Soul have analysed the most unexpected ways that going vegan could support women exper...

Nourishing Women through Menopause and Beyond

by Susun S Weed

The Wise Woman tradition of healing is not new, and is based on nourishing and tonifying women through the menopause rather than aiming to fix them, balance them, affect their horm...

Nutritional and Environmental Approaches to Infertility

by Jaqueline Johnson

As a practitioner with a special interest in pre-conceptual care, I know that, given the right information, infertile men and women, or couples who experience birth defect, stillbi...

Oestrogen Dominance

by Penny Crowther

This column focuses on the dominance of oestrogen in females which, the author explains, in relation to progesterone in a woman’s cycle overall is too high. Conditions associated w...

Parenting through peer support

by Walter Barker

The Child Development Program, developed in the late 1970s was initially based on specially trained health visitors. This program was planned to help and empower parents not to i...

Partnership in Pregnancy and Childbirth - A Specific Massage Programme

by Anne Haines and Linda Kimber

The author explains the aims and benefits of this programme on complementary therapy technique LK Massage Programme within the maternity setting,  adding that it allows the partner...

Pelvic Organ Prolapse: Help and Hope

by Sherrie Palm

Women in every country around the world experience symptoms of POP yet have little idea what is occurring in their bodies because they are too embarrassed to discuss it with anyone....

Photic Stimulation - Novel Light Treatment Proves Very Effective

by David Noton, Ph.D.

Fifteen minutes a day of home treatment with flickering light has been shown to be remarkably effective for PMS, migraine, and a variety of other stubborn disorders.

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

by Mary Martin

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 inferti...