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Hypnotherapy and the Menopause - A Change for the Better?
Many of the difficulties of menopause are caused by the way we think about getting older, losing reproductive functioning, losing our sense of our usefulness in society. Hypnother...more
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Erickson is my starting point in hypnotherapy, and a constant reference point as well, but I am not he, and have developed induction techniques and psychotherapeutic approaches tha...more
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Hypnotherapy Intervention Format For Cancer Sufferers
Hypnotherapy is a valuable intervention for individuals who have been diagnosed with cancer. Not only can hypnosis be utilized to counteract the side effects of conventional treatm...more
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Hypnotherapy is a non-invasive therapy which is utilized to help bring about behavioural change in a gentle way using suggestion therapy and, where necessary, analysis. Some people ...more
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Hypothesis: Cancer Causes and Mechanisms
In this article the author proposes that cancer is caused by environmental carcinogens, such as radiation and chemicals, plus an imbalance of the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS).more
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Hypothyroidism and its Link to Depression, Fatigue and Poor Health
The author argues that the thyroid gland, which regulates metabolism-growth, temperature control, energy production and carbohydrate and fat metabolism, is at the heart of much of ...more
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I Am Everyone (Or How To Live Together Peacefully)
At the time of writing, the world had just witnessed the awful massacre of the editorial staff at the Charlie Hebdo magazine. News of the murders was greeted with shock and fear, b...more
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I Ching - Timeless Wisdom For Our Modern World
The I Ching is a traditional source of wisdom dating back 5,000 years and remaining unchanged since its origin. It embodies the Chinese beliefs in the law of Yin and Yang and the f...more
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There are an enormous number of therapies available for bad backs and a corresponding number of therapists offering their services. Yet in spite of this onslaught back pain continu...more
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Jennie Trisnan shares her life transforming experience with breast cancer which started in 1996 with an itch on her thigh and breast. After several mammograms and biopsies she was ...more
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Giants in the trauma resolution field all point to the same truth – that trauma is stored in the body not the mind. If you are a bodyworker with sophisticated touch skills, you are ...more
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I'm Not Mad, Doctor, It's the Rest of the World
The article has examples of common sense sayings giving good advice for the everyday situations we may encounter. It will be your true friend who tells you the hard truths. more
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Sylvia originally came to see me seeking help with a diagnosis of high cholesterol. With a family history of cardiovascular disease on her paternal side and cancer on both sides of ...more
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IBS and the Ultimate Low FODMAP Food Guide
Food is very much an integral part of our daily lives, not only to keep ourselves in tip top condition and on the go, but to enjoy ourselves too. We often find ourselves dining out ...more
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Icelandic Flower Essences - Raising our Awareness
This author shares the power of the flower essences found in Iceland's unique unpolluted and unspoiled nature.more
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IDD Therapy – A New Way to help Unresolved Back Pain and Sciatica
When people suffer with back pain or sciatica for a long time, it can feel like having their own personal rain cloud following them around all day, even when the sun is shining. For...more
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The author identifies that stressful situations like moving house or exams make one more likely to pick up every flu bug or cold. Research undertaken into the efficient functioning...more
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Identity Crisis? Let us consider what we talking about here? And in particular how this information will be truly useful to you – or for someone who you really care about?more
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This latest article from regular contributor, Sheldon Litt, discusses the issue of Existentialism in Psychotherapy and how such an approach can be of great value in the consulting ...more
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If at first you don't succeed...a case of hypertension and headache
Marilyn came to see me with a two year history of raised blood pressure which had been successfully managed with a mild diuretic tablet. However, over the past six weeks she had be...more
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Iliopsoas - The Flee/Fight Muscle for Survival
Liz Koch continues her lifelong study of the voluntary Iliopsoas muscle. Understanding the muscle to be part of our survival response provides both therapists and clients a fresh p...more
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Personal transformation is the process of individual change that results from an increased level of perceptive awareness.more
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Charts from a cancer seminar given by Sandra Goodman in 2009more
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To understand immune deficiency, we must first appreciate immune efficiency. With this as the author’s starting point, the article describes the immune system and discusses both fa...more
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Immunity and the Mind: Finding our Way Through Challenge and Crisis
Immunity is the body's defence against illness and disease. When under attack it seeks to provide resistance to all manner of pathogens that harm the body's natural state of balance...more
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Immunotherapy Treatments for Cancer
This article, extensively referenced to published research, points out the enormous increase in the rates of cancer between 1975 and 2004. It also describes how current treatments...more
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Impact of Bach Flower Remedies on Stress Among Emergency and Health Service Workers
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Implications of Molecules in Emotion
In nearly three decades of working in the area of wellness I have never found one health discipline that has all the answers for healing. The reason is that there are so many ind...more
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Importance of Obstetric Knowledge for Complementary Practitioners
This article focuses on complementary therapies and remedies for a more natural approach to pregnancy and childbirth. Studies show that about 55% of mothers-to-be use herbal medici...more
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Importance of our Internal Environment
In this article, the author explains the importance of pH balance and blood cells on the health of the body and their function.more
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Important Questions / Meaningful Answers From a Professional Optimist
In a world that seems so full of despair, or as the Buddhist puts it, when all life is suffering, is it possible to maintain a healthy and Optimistic world view?more
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Imprisoned by Lies – Only the Truth will Set You Free
We are so disconnected from the truth that we are unable to recognize the lies that underpin our society. It is absolutely true that when you repeat a lie often enough that we belie...more
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In Ayurveda, Blood is Considered Life Itself
If you suspect you have anaemia, go to the mirror and pull every so carefully, slightly and gently down in one of your lower eye lids. Then look at the mucous membrane at the lower ...more
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In Defence of Positive Thinking
As many have discovered from reading Vera's book Positive Thinking, adopting this attitude can help us to overcome problems and deal with difficult life situations in a more constr...more
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In Loving memory of Julie, 13 May 1960 to 26 April 1998, Metastatic Breast Cancermore
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Curiosity: from Latin curiosus. meaning inquisitive or assiduous. It is a great gift of mankind, driving creativity and inventiveness, art and science. “What if....”, leading us...more
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According to the author, risk-taking is part of the inner journey and a life without risks lacks colour, zest, adventure and eventually results in an overdose of boredom. Without r...more
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In pursuit of well-being - an experience in Polarity Therapy
Before coming to Polarity I was a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor with a long standing interest in Yoga and bodywork therapies. I was attracted to Polarity because the framework was m...more
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What is your idea of human beauty? Do you fancy giraffesque necks or chipped teeth? Or do you prefer huge and bulky buttocks and droopy breasts? If scarred and tattooed skin, stret...more
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In Search Of Solace - Finding Comfort through Counselling
In this Expert Column, Kay Zega writes that in the current climate of uncertainty as the 'credit crunch' bites and the 'economic downturn' impacts in varying degrees throughout soc...more
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In Search of the Elusive Core Healing - Unlocking the Assemblage Point with the Theragem
A single light flickered in the small hut. It had been another long night in ceremony. My stomach muscles ached from hours of purging all the ‘emotional yuck’ that had resided insid...more
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The author was impressed by an article about a 91-year-old massage therapist, who has been massaging for sixty years and has just had her license renewed. But evidently, she may no...more
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In the last column I went into the theoretical aspect of Morphopsychology. Now I am going to give you hints on how to decipher faces. Faces are everywhere, so you have plenty of op...more
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Incorporating Different Modalities into a Homeopathic Practice
As alternative practitioners, we need to reach for our potential within all aspects of life, not only as people but also as healers. We need to expand our belief systems and practi...more
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Increasing our Power to Heal and Cure Cancer
Through the last ten years, as I have developed Natural Allopathic Medicine, I have introduced new principles and practices to treat cancer and other diseases. I have constantly so...more
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Whenever people feel constrained by their environment, a power to break free is generated, whether it is breaking free from a government, from an authority or even from parents and ...more
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Physiotherapists utilise a growing number of complementary forms of medicine and treatment methods such as massage, manipulation, acupuncture, reflex therapy, cranio-sacral therapy...more
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Induction of Labour - The Dilemma for Complementary Therapists Working with Pregnant Clients
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...more
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Infectious Diseases - Nomenclature and Causation
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...more
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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...more
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Inflammation on the Brain: How to Calm Inflammation with Essential Oils
As you may know, inflammation is an immune response that is meant to be a short-term healing, protective measure. It triggers certain chemical reactions in your body that you may e...more
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Inflammation the Modern Day Epidemic
Inflammation underlies so many chronic health conditions. From heart disease to dementia, type 2 diabetes to asthma, allergies, skin conditions, arthritis and auto immune disease, e...more
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Inflammation, Heart Disease and Marine Oil
This article describes the research indicating that it is inflammation which seems to be the culprit in heart attack. No longer thought of as a ‘plumbing problem’, it has been ob...more
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Inflammatory Process in Alzheimer's Disease
The author a Naturopath, describes Alzheimer's disease (AD) as a progressive degenerative disorder characterized by memory loss, intellectual decline and definitive cognitive impair...more
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Influence of Screen Time on Children’s Sleep Patterns
In the evening, modern teenagers now face a host of challenges: balancing ever-increasing amounts of homework, real life and online social demands, which is all on top of their nat...more
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Influence of the Placebo Effect upon the Healing Process
In this article the author attempts to dispel the negative connotations associated with the term placebo effect (the power to please) and, using comprehensive evidence from recent ...more
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Influencing With Integrity When Your Child ‘Has Been Sick For Too Long’
You have a child with ME/CFS. She has now been judged to have ‘been sick for too long’, and you are involved with the education system, the medical system, and possibly with social...more
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This article illustrates how an inherent weakness to stress can cause a multitude of seemingly unrelated symptoms. It relates how a teacher in her twenties had suffered from practi...more
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Injuries in Yoga - Framing the Conversation
There is absolutely nothing wrong with talking about injuries in yoga. I have this conversation regularly. I’ve been writing about some of the most common injuries for a number of y...more
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Injury Prevention for Massage Practitioners
The author relates her own experiences of injuries caused during her massage training, which prevented her from pursuing a career as a massage therapist, and supports the article...more
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Statistics estimate that about 1.2 million working people suffer from musculo-skeletal disorders and everyday about six workers give up their jobs because of RSI (Repetitive Strain...more
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The author points out the inner voice in our heads, which seems to run a non-stop tape of injunctions, criticisms, directives, sometimes loudly, sometimes like a background hum whi...more
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Inner Voices: Embracing all the Parts of our Personality
The author touches on the Voices of our Personality; our Primary Self which is one of vulnerability and our essential needs which can be summarized as Attention, Approval, Affect...more
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InnerTalk - Bypassing our Negative Dialogue
Subliminal communication is a most powerful technology. It can literally rescript the pre-conscious mind, stripping away negative expectations and self doubt, and replacing these d...more
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Innovations in Homeopathic Case-taking and Prescribing
In the last two decades the process of case-taking and the methods of selecting the appropriate remedy have undergone something of a revolution. This is largely due to the influenc...more
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Intuition is an area which fascinates many in the health care world. To some – the academically orientated in particular – it is an area to be disparaged and discouraged, whereas t...more
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This month I am more, or less thinking aloud . . . and am unlikely to come to any final conclusions. Put simply I am wrestling with why the same phenomena observed by different peo...more
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Tackling the problem of insomnia from the perspective of Chinese medicine, which states that problems associated with sleeplessness are due to imbalances in 'The Three Treaures': C...more
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Insomnia and Sleep Disturbances: Homeopathic Approaches
At the end of a busy day we get ready for bed knowing that a good night's sleep will refresh us and that when we waken we will be bright and ready to face the day's activities. But ...more
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Insomnia as a Path to Awakening the Highly Sensitive Person
Sleep difficulties lead to challenges with: memory; concentration; productivity; and general health and vitality. And a large percentage of Empaths and Highly Sensitive Persons (HSP...more
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Inspired Teaching: Tool for Transformation and Healing
Teachers and practitioners, like great healers, tarot readers or personal development experts, need to know their subject in enough depth and have the confidence to share it with...more
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Insulin: The Hormone That Makes You Fat
Dr Robert Atkins' article is an extract from his book New Diet Revolution (Vermilion 1999) in which he discusses the hormone insulin and the role it plays in energy production, wei...more
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Insurance for Therapy Practitioners
In the current compensation culture, this article warns of the risks and hidden pitfalls of complementary practitioners having inadequate insurance cover.more
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Insurance Issues Vital to Complementary Practitioners
Insurance is an important aspect of professionalism. Whilst there are a number of legal and ethical principles involved in conducting a practice, the simple fact is that as a healt...more
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Integrated Energy Therapy® (IET) - Channelled Energy from the Angelic Realms
The author describes her own experience of traumas leading to anxiety and depression as well as lower back pain and long-standing IBS. She came across Integrated Energy Therapy (...more
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We are making a quantum leap into the next century. We have witnessed and are enjoying the fruits of incredible research done in every field of life. Medical research is a major ar...more
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Integrated Medicine - An Approach to Optimum Health; Removing Divisions in Health Care
We must remember that originally medicine used in healing and treatment by the evolving human species was entirely ‘natural therapy’. This included herbal/botanical medicine that de...more
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Integrated Medicine - Philosophy and Clinical Practice
This article focuses on Integrated Medicine, which the author says, is the Medicine of the New Millennium that is here to stay, but still not easy to define as there is no univers...more
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Integrated Natural Therapies Where we are to-day
"Our most fervent desire as aromatherapists is to get aromatherapy recognised and used as a serious alternative to traditional medicine." Reading these words in a recently written ...more
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Integrated Treatment Approach for Emotional and Behavioural Problems
The author, a qualified homeopath, describes the work of the Crossroads Centre, part of the City of London and Hackney Alcohol Service, for whom he offers homeopathic services and ...more
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Integrating Approaches To Bodywork: The Polarity Therapy Experience
The article begins with an account of Dr. Randolph Stone’s development of the theory and practice of polarity therapy. Polarity therapy is based on the idea that using touch in two...more
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Integrating Colour with Reflexology
Reflexology and colour therapy have their roots in the distant past. As individual therapies, they have tremendous therapeutic value. When used in conjunction with each other, they...more
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Integrating Complementary Therapies into Mainstream Education
Over the past decade approximately ten universities in the UK have become involved in developing degree courses in complementary therapies.more
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The world has not changed - it is not a more dangerous place - however many of the people who inhabit it are thinking more irrationally, and this can impact on us all.more
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Integration of Traditional Chinese Medicine for Coronavirus COVID-19
The Coronavirus (COVID 19) was born late December 2019 into humans, during the cold damp Winter of Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei province China. This nasty, new-born cousin of th...more
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According to Leon Chaitow there are two opposing views of the process of the integration of conventional and complementary medicine.more
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Integrative Bodywork - Art and Science: Complexity in Bodywork
Over the next few issues Leon Chaitow will be looking at how breathing patterns can affect health. He starts by citing that there are few cases of direct cause and effect situation...more
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Integrative Bodywork Techniques
In his article, the author sets out an argument for integration of bodywork 'modalities', working with the similarities, dealing with 'professional stubbornness' and the diversity ...more
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Integrative Healing - Practical Guide to Professionalism
In an effort to establish some common ground this are the working definitions for the term: Alternative, Complementary and Integrative. Please understand that these are broad genera...more
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Integrative Medicine for Colon Cancer - Part 1
In the first of this three-part feature, Nicholas Calvino looks at conventional treatments for cancer, particularly colon cancer, and questions whether such treatments are as succe...more
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Integrative Medicine for Colon Cancer - Part II
In 1902, John Beard (an embryologist at a Scottish medical school) wrote several texts and published many papers. His premise was that cancer cells are much like the trophoblasts o...more
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Integrative Medicine for Colon Cancer Part III: Nutrients and Anti-Oxidants
In the third part of Dr Calvino's ground-breaking series about treatments for Colon Cancer, the author discusses the use of anti-oxidants and nutrition in cancer therapy. Research ...more
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One of the most frequently asked, and debated questions is: how do we know that the essential oil is 'pure'? One would think it is a simple process to establish whether an essentia...more
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Intense Stress Leading to Accumulation of Lactate in Brain Ischemia
The present paper introduces a new hypothesis postulating that acute stress, chronic stress overload and other risk factors with intense sympathetic nervous system activity may indu...more
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This is what we all want to do. Heal. When we decide to enter into this marvellous business of healing we begin a lifetime vocation. We want to help. Pure and simple. So here we are...more
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Intentionality in Alternative Medicine
Representatives of Western medicine consider ethnomedicine (i.e., alternative medicine) to be anecdotal and unproven which gives the words ‘anecdotal’ and ‘unproven’ a new meanin...more
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Interactive Life Guide - Improve Resistance to the Common Poisons of Life
For most of my life I felt like I was on a rollercoaster. My mood went up and down, up and down. I experienced what most people experience; that things often do not always go as pla...more
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Interdisciplinary Bodywork for Best Results
Approximately one year ago I was teaching a group of physiotherapists the basics of osteopathic soft tissue manipulation, demonstrating a version of positional release technique (P...more
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Intermittent Fasting: A Woman's Diet Guide to Fat Loss
Intermittent fasting is popular among people who want to lose some body fat. Intermittent fasting is not synonymous to ‘diet’, but rather, it’s a dieting pattern. Intermittent fasti...more
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Intervertebral Disk Decompression Cured my Back Pain
After many years of working as an osteopath, Sally Lansdale was suffering from so much back pain herself, she thought her career had come to an end. A combination of day-to-day ben...more
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Interview with Indian Yoga Teacher Sukumar Shetty
Interviewed by Marjolein Wolf Sukumar Shetty is 40 years old and lives in Samse, a small village in Karnataka, South-India. He was educated at the Vivekenanda Kendra, which is loca...more
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An Interview with Leslie Kenton about the menopause, progesterone and other health problems of interest to women.more
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Interview with Martin J. Walker
This interview with Martin Walker discusses the relationship between natural medicine and the large pharmaceutical companies and government. He talks about the current attack on vi...more
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Born in Lvov, Ukraine, in 1954, Meir Schneider emigrated to Israel with his parents in 1959. He underwent five cataract operations without success and at seven was declared legally...more
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Interview with Yoga and Vedanta Teacher Shastri
Interviewed by Marjolein Wolf Vedanta is a philosophical tendency based on the Vedas. These books are the last part of the Upanishads, the holy scriptures of Hinduism.more
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Intestinal permeability, or leaky gut syndrome is receiving increasing attention as the hard-to-deal factor in patients being treated for food intolerances. Hyperpermeability is al...more
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Although very important to general health, the environment of the intestinal tract has not received the attention it deserves from investigators. This is probably because althoug...more
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Introducing...Neuroskeletal Dynamics - For accident trauma, sports injuries and general back pain
Neuroskeletal Dynamics was devised by Diana Hunter in Adelaide, South Australia about 17 years ago. It was discovered that by accessing the body's electrical system, a way could be...more
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Introduction – A Mindfulness Guide for Survival
If anyone had told us a few weeks before March 2020 that most of the world would be unable to leave their homes because a virus was going on a rampage, we would have said it was a b...more
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The Author developed the Aqua Tai-Chi system of exercises in 1986, which combines Tai-Chi with other Chi Kung/Taoist exercises, after recognizing the importance of the feeling of b...more
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Introduction to Micro-immunotherapy
Micro-immunotherapy is an innovative unique healthcare approach which uses molecules specific to the immune system to regulate immune responses, in order to optimize its function an...more
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Introduction to the Menopause Symposium
Welcome to the Natural Approaches to the Menopause Symposium. It is a pleasure to see you all here today, and I hope that we will all benefit personally and achieve a cross-fertili...more
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Intuition and Sound Reflexology
Helen Perkins, a professional reflexologist, trainer and Bowen technique therapist, describes how she expanded her knowledge of reflexology to develop intuition and sound reflexolo...more
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This article focuses on intuition, which can be complementary, providing leaps of imagination, gut feelings or flashes of insight into strategies and timing of actions. The author ...more
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These days, we are often distracted by and overloaded with stimuli from our environment, thus neglecting our inner voice, or intuition. Yet a combination of logic and intuition can...more
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Invention - A Natural Approach to Hay Fever and Rhinitis
This article recounts the dramatic story of how Adrian Soper was inspired to find a way to improve the lives of Hay Fever sufferers. One hot and sunny day in 1997, at a village pub...more
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Iodine - The Forgotten Mineral
The article lists symptoms of thyroid deficiency, which range from depression to chronic sinus infections. Iodine deficiency is now recognised by the World Health Organisation as ...more
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Iodine: The Forgotten Nutrient
The article continues with full explanations and references to relevant research to describe the benefits of iodine, from its help in athletic performance, and help to maintain diet...more
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Iridology can help you understand what 'optimum health' means for an individual person. The iris (the coloured part of the eye) displays a unique insight into our health potential ...more
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Iridology and the Use of Tissue Salts
Have you ever wondered why people have different coloured eyes? No doubt there is some evolutionary theory that could explain this, but to practitioners of iridology it is of great...more
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It is difficult to be sure whether irritable bowel syndrome is becoming more common or whether it is simply becoming more readily recognised by both the medical fraternity and pa...more
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a common condition in which the large intestine fails to function correctly. In fact, it is so common that it represents 30-50% of all referrals t...more
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS): Holistic Treatment Approach
It is estimated that nearly a quarter of the UK population suffer from irritable bowel syndrome (also known as irritable colon syndrome or spastic colon), but nobody really knows b...more
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Hypnosis
IBS, also known as spastic colon, colitis, spastic colitis or nervous stomach, are a baffling and complex set of gastro-intestinal symptoms that affect 15% to 20% of the population...more
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Is Adding Fluoride to our Public Water Supply Health Enhancement or Disease Enhancing?
One of the current hot topics when it comes to our public water supply is the Government’s intention to fluoridate all the UK water supply. Currently about 15% of the water supply h...more
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Is Arching Good For Your Back?
Whether the lower back should be flexed (bent forwards) or extended (arched) is the latest controversy. Both approaches may be right or wrong depending on the patient specific prob...more
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Is Blood Viscosity the Test that can Save the World?
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 ...more
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Is Cancer Contraindicated for Holistic and Beauty Treatments?
I came to holistic and beauty therapies late. After working in science and hard facts for a long time, coaching at all levels within large organizations, it was time for a change an...more
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Is Choice of Healthcare a Human Right?
This article is intended to stimulate discussion about how the remit of the Human Rights Act 1998 may or may not apply to the activities of the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA)...more
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Is Early Orthodontic Treatment Necessary?
You are right in worrying so as early orthodontic treatment is important as this is the time when your children’s jaws are still growing. The early orthodontic treatment allows your...more
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Is it a Man’s World? Can Homeopathy help with Erectile Dysfunction?
Due to the anatomy of a woman’s body and the fact that throughout her life (barring any unforeseen or unusual circumstances) her female hormones will come into play as she passes th...more
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Is It Possible to Avoid Developing Dementia
The word dementia describes a cluster of symptoms that are caused by a number of different conditions. People outside the health profession often incorrectly use the terms Alzheimer...more
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Is It Practical to Target for Impossible Task?
We all raise our hands whenever there is a struggling situation and we need to perform impossible targets. Many a time, some task which may be difficult for you to achieve, but mayb...more
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Is Laughter Really the Best Medicine?
Laughter yoga was invented by Dr Madan Kataria. As he was writing his article Laughter the best medicine for a health magazine he decided to try out the techniques inspired by Norma...more
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Is Placebo the Untapped Future of Pain Relief?
Vikki Rimmer, writer, NLP coach and hypnotherapist speaks with Dr Phil Parker PhD, Professor Irving Kirsch and Dr David Hamilton PhD about how the power of belief is integral to eff...more
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Is Resistance Futile? - Conventional vs. Integrative, CAM, and Cancer Protocols
In December 2012 I helped the Daily Express with an article, Do Cancer Alternatives Really Work? It was a topic of interest to the media at that time because the young mother ran ...more
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Is San Pedro A 'Miracle Healer'?
San Pedro (huachuma), like the better-known ayahuasca, is a Peruvian visionary healing plant. It is taken in the form of a cold tea made by boiling sections of the mescaline cactus...more
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Is Sleep a Dormant State of Mind?
This article looks in-depth at sleep and how important it is. The author tells us that it is one of life's essentials and that a good night's sleep leaves us feeling refreshed, inv...more
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Is Slouching Good For Your Back?
According to John Gorman, a chiropractor and former mechanical engineer, slouching and slumping are good for the back.more
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Is Stress the Reason behind your Weight Gain
Could stress be the reason you can’t see results? Does your job, personal life or just minor things in general leave you feeling stressed out? If so, it’s time for you to chill. Bec...more
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Is this Common but Frequently Undiagnosed Bug Causing Your Health Problems?
There are many things that can cause or contribute to the above symptoms and obviously each person’s experience, situation and symptomology is different and needs to be assessed ind...more
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Is Your Jaw Causing 'Labyrinthitis' and Other Ear Problems?
The labyrinth - An infection of this organ would be the most serious problem that anyone could possibly encounter and would possibly need immediate hospital treatment. Thankfully th...more
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It’s easy to look around and think that life is falling apart. And for many, it is. And for some, it’s coming together… by falling apart. Not to minimize people’s very real pain, tr...more
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Ishta Spinal Touch - Core Alignment
This article focuses on the Ishta Spinal Touch – Core Alignment method used to assess the level of postural distortion in the spine, pelvis and other parts of the body, and how thi...more
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Isopathic Treatment of Rhinitis
This regular column by Dr Angela Jones describes the homeopathic treatment prescribed for a teenage boy with persistent rhinitis, which caused chronic nasal obstruction, bouts of s...more
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By relieving pressure above the top of your spinal column, your brain-body connection will readily de-stress and go to parasympathetic status.more
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Kinesiologist Vera Peiffer highlights the devastating effect that alopecia can have on sufferers, particularly in terms of fear, lack of self-confidence and feeling self-conscious,...more
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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
In this column the author focuses on how all our inner knowingness gets influenced by external suggestions, as well as our ego. He also looks at how we can achieve a more authentic...more
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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
Wherever we turn today, we find a financial guru, spiritual teacher, inspirational life coach, religious leader, scientific author, media expert or academic professor, etc., who is ...more