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There have been many advocates of raw food diets dating back from the Essenes, a monastic sect at the time of Christ to Dr Max Gerson, founder of the Gerson Institute, and Leslie...more
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Re-integrate Patterns of Overwhelm, Trauma and Emotional Holding
Following on from my last article Trauma, Emotion and Energy, I want to explore how to assist a client to feel resourced in order to facilitate the emergence and re-integration of p...more
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Reading and Misreading the Body
Therapists, whether they focus on the physical mental or spiritual can only be readily certain about the physical aspects of their clients; the body never lies.more
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Reading and Misreading the Body (part 2)
In my previous column I suggested there are too many pitfalls (at least for me) to make informed judgements about a client's psychological condition or spiritual state from their p...more
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Reading the Body’s Energy Field for Back Pain: Your Built-in Scanner You Hardly Use
I've only realized in recent years that I've spent the past 30 years as an alternative practitioner working with one hand tied behind my back! I'm talking about the ability of the ...more
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Real Food For Real Health and How ‘Stress’ Affects Both
Some people consider real food to be the best quality produce that can be bought from a supermarket, small food outlet / local farm, grown organically, grown in the garden or even ...more
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Realaxation® - Method Created by Leon Eeman, Revisited
We often hear people saying “Just relax!” Quite right! Of course you know that you should relax, but has anyone ever told you how to do so, or even why? Probably not!more
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Reaping the Bounties of Autumn
In this Expert Column the author offers some comforting solutions from garden blooms of fruits and herbs to please the senses as the days get shorter and cooler. She says those wit...more
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Rebalancing: The Art of Transforming a Successful Yoga Instructor's Life and Career
Rachel Krentzman, had a thriving Yoga and Physical Therapy practice in a light filled studio located in the lovely Bird Rock section of La Jolla California. Rachel had met every go...more
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Rebirthing is a healing process that engages with the mind, the body and the spirit to cleanse away toxic patterns of being and facilitate new, healthy and fulfilling goals and cho...more
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Rebirthing/Self Transformational Breathing
Rebirthing is a powerful therapy that creates a deep sense of renewal within us by allowing us get in touch with our inner child through breath work. The technique involves concent...more
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Recipes For Health And Beauty Using Essential Oils
Edited extract from The Aromatherapy Kitchen by Nicola Jenkins. This feature shows you how to make a wide selection of stimulating and soothing products for cleansing, toning and m...more
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Recognizing Ageing as a Disease
Imagine a world where no one aged by default, except for in rare instances. Standing out in a crowd of the eternally young and healthy is an unfortunate soul; shuffling along with a...more
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Recognizing Thinking Styles: George Soros 'Big Pic'
Recognizing someone’s successful thinking style allows you to take that person’s habitual thinking patterns and make them your own. If you are stuck, or need bigger or better solut...more
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Reconnecting with the Earth's Healing Heart-Beat
Take off your shoes and dance barefoot on the earth. Recent studies show that doing this for as little as 30 minutes a day can radically improve your health. Look at these two ima...more
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Reconnecting with the Pelvis. Advice from the Ancestors
I believe that a paradigm shift to an holistic world view is taking place. This may be hard to reconcile with the actions to contain SARS Co-V-2 that seems to reprise the battle aga...more
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This is a story of profound healing. I left home on a bright, sunny, summer's day to return home two weeks later. In that time I had been paralysed, injured, shocked, traumatized, ...more
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Recovery from a Broken Neck - Update
This article is an update of Marie's account of a car accident in which she broke her neck and spinal cord. Her story was published in Positive Health in 2000 with the title "'Reco...more
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Recovery from Arthritis with the Margaret Hills' Diet
The author describes her suffering as she began to have symptoms of arthritis – swollen and painful joints – following a winter of frequent bouts of bronchitis. Gout was diagnosed...more
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The author begins with an overview of the rushed pace of life she used to lead - running her own business, involved in Green politics and studying for a Masters Degree. "It was all...more
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Recovery from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)
The author describes a ‘devastating’ illness, which began with recurrent ear infections, vertigo, and pain in her jaw. She began to have eye problems, then severe pains running fro...more
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Recovery from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Fibromyalgia
The following data demonstrates how patient, Hannah Gay, eliminated almost 100% of her symptoms associated with ME/CFS with only 7 months of treatment. Hannah was lucky that she dis...more
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Recovery from Colon Cancer - Diet, Herbs, Detoxification and Cellular Regeneration
Teresa Tsalaky looks at the story of David Walker, who recovered from colon cancer having been told that he only had three to five years to live. Walker began chemotherapy but suff...more
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Recovery from Fibromyalgia; CFS, Fibromyalgia & Arthritis Patient Update
For the last 13 months, I have been a patient of Dr Amir. I have a retrognathic jaw, which he has been working to improve. I contacted him because I thought he could help me with my...more
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Recovery from ME, Fibromyalgia and Depression with the Lightning Process
The author describes her descent into despair as a result of all the losses incurred as her ME/Fibromyalgia relapses meant leaving work, diminishing finances, strain on her marriage...more
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Rediscovering Your Own Unique Reality
In this article, Regan Duggan shows us how to put aside the worldview created for us by the experiences of our parents, teachers, partners, etc., and recreate our own unique realit...more
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Reflection from the Soul... Only A Visitor
Let me ask you a question ... If you go on vacation to a small exotic island, reclining in a deck chair, on a crystalline white beach, would you be feeling contended and happy. Sill...more
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Reflections on Meditation - Personal Thoughts on an Enigmatic Subject
Over the course of the last fifty years or so the term ‘meditation’ has come to mean two distinct things. On the one hand there is the traditional concept of meditation being an exe...more
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Reflective Practice - A Magic Mirror on Life
This article was inspired by a fortune cookie of all things, in which it said, “reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting”. Now I have always been a huge advocate ...more
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Reflex Reactions - Our Body's Rapid Defence Mechanism
This article draws our attention away from consideration of such things as immune system functioning, genetics, nutrition, and the effects of stress, inviting us to think about the...more
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This second look at reflexology follows the article in issue 9 of Positive Health and aims to enlarge upon the theory and practical application of reflexology.more
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Reflexology - Caring for Older People
Reflexology is suitable for older people, as it helps circulation, normalizes bodily functions and can aid detoxification. It is easily accessible, as only the shoes need to be rem...more
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Reflexology and Breathing Techniques for Respiratory Issues
During the winter months many people will succumb to coughs and colds and, although the initial acute symptoms may disappear quite quickly, a person can be left with a residual tic...more
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Reflexology and Mental Illness
Awareness of mental health issues has increased greatly over the recent years, which means that those suffering in silence have an increasing support system, gradually reducing the ...more
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Reflexology and Shoulder Issues
Shoulder problems are some of the most common conditions that people present to complementary practitioners and medical doctors. Many people complain of muscular tightness around th...more
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Using case examples, Mary Martin illustrates how reflexology can assist in post-operative care by speeding up recovery, healing scar tissue and alleviating long-standing post-opera...more
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An expert's roundup of international reflexology practices, by the chairperson of the Reflexologists Society and president of the International Council of Reflexologists.more
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Reflexology as a Diagnostic Tool
According to the author, who also helped found the Association of Reflexologists in 1984, many patients consult her because other methods of treatment have proved unsatisfactory....more
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Reflexology can Help Sleep Issues
Reflexology has always been considered to be a particularly relaxing and pleasant therapy as well as being very therapeutic in supporting specific conditions. Many reflexologists of...more
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Reflexology for a stress-free Christmas
Reflexology is a gentle, non-invasive therapy, deeply relaxing and restoring and a great way to reduce stress and tension.more
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Reflexology for Children and Babies
Many parents seek out complementary therapies to help their children when they suffer minor ailments; reflexology is particularly helpful, as it is gentle and non-invasive as only t...more
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Reflexology for skin disorders
The skin problems that a reflexologist may come into contact with include: eczema, dermatitis, psoriasis, acne, urticaria, seborrhoea, shingles, erythema and ringworm.more
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Stroke is a major cause of disability and death in the UK, and this article describes the positive role that reflexology treatment can play in the recovery process. Qualified refle...more
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Reflexology from the Grassroots Up
Candice Caradoc describes the career of established reflexologist Lynn Hatswell who from small beginnings became involved in developing the practice of reflexology in Australia and...more
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Reflexology Practice - Moving into the New Millennium
This article looks at the history and practice of Reflexology over the past two decades. In recent years, reflexology has come to be recognized more as a 'complementary' rather tha...more
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Reflexology reaches out to Bosnia
Adrian Seager is a busy reflexologist and trainer who made three visits to Sarajevo in 1998 to assist in the training and qualification of a group of physiotherapists in reflexol...more
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Reflexology to Help Stress and Anxiety
Reflexology can work very specifically to help the body heal itself and clients will often seek a reflexologist for help with common ailments such musculo-skeletal pain, insomnia, h...more
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Reflexology, Fertility and IVF
Recently there has been much negative press over IVF. This is such a shame because for some people it will be the only way they can achieve pregnancy. So much as I am always incline...more
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Reflexology: Helping to Alleviate Migraines and Headaches
The author lists possible precipitating factors for headaches, and more specifically migraines, and explain that hand reflexology can be used to address the various areas relating ...more
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Reflexology: the Feet are an Underestimated Part of the Body
This article examines an extraordinary technique, very similar to reflexology, that brought fame and fortune to a Canadian physician in the 1930s, and also highlights areas in ther...more
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Reflexology: What Is Its True Potential?
Reflexology is a powerful therapy that can have far-reaching effects on health and well-being. Introduced to the UK in the early 1960s, it should by now have earned a place alongsi...more
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Reflexology: Working Corresponding Limbs to Ease Cramp, Restless Legs and Painful Elbow
The therapy of Reflexology has mapped areas of sensitivity on the feet which are connected to all parts of the bodymore
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Reflexology's Supporting Role for Complex Combat Injuries
When complementary therapist Zoe Warner’s husband was injured in a roadside explosion and later medically discharged, she used complementary therapies including reflexology alongsid...more
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Reflexology’s Role in Cancer Care and Support
Almost everyone knows someone who has developed cancer; reflexology is a gentle, supporting, non-invasive complementary therapy that is used widely to support people who are living ...more
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Refractory Multiple Myeloma – New FDA Approved Treatment 2022
Multiple myeloma is one of the rarest cancers. In 2022, an estimated 34,470 cases of multiple myeloma were recorded in the United States. The death toll went up to 12,640 in the Uni...more
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Reframing AlphaGo - When Failure is not an Option!
The belief that ‘failure is not an option’ is often used to spur people on to greater achievement; but it can also destroy them. Perfectionist traits can stir dysfunctional unhealth...more
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Summer is a wonderful time of the year when nature flourishes and life seems brighter, more colourful, and full of vitality. A newness evolves and we naturally focus on our surroun...more
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Regenerative Homeopathy© To Whole Health Satisfaction
By showing facts of recoveries from a variety of health concerns is the only way to bring hope to lives of millions viewers and update the experts, and crystallize the sceptic mind ...more
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Regrowing Frog Limbs: What Does This Mean For Humankind?
Did you know that salamanders are able to regrow limbs? They can do so thanks to blastema cells, which allow for the almost instant mass formation of stem cells. It’s a relatively u...more
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Regulation of Group 2 Complementary Therapies
Carol Preen tackles the regulation of three Group 2 therapies which she practises, Aromatherapy, Massage and Reflexology, and how they will affect the business of these therapists....more
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Reiki - Hands-on Healing for Body, Mind and Spirit
The author's involvement with Reiki began eight years ago while she was having a cut and blow dry and her hairdresser said she'd just had one of the best weekends of her life. Lear...more
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Reiki - Healing and Harmony Through the Hands
The author is a Reiki Master-teacher, healer, lecturer, author and seminar leader, who found that Reiki healing provided the answers to her long journey of self-exploration.more
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A full Reiki treatment covers all the major organs, endocrine system, acupuncture meridians and chakra energy centres, and it can be used very effectively on a self-treatment bas...more
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Reiki - Personal Journeys in Healing
Today, there are probably more than a million people around the world who have Reiki. Perhaps you are wondering, as many people are at the moment, if you would benefit from havin...more
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Roslyn Aston is a practising homeopath. In a road accident her right leg was severely crushed and had to be amputated above the knee. After the surgery she experienced phantom pa...more
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The authors of this article are both trained reiki practitioners and they talk about Active Reiki - the form of Reiki that was developed by Mikao Usui. Active Reiki allows practiti...more
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Reiki Attunements - A Personal Journey
Stanley Giles, a nurse for 25 years, is also a Kinesiologist and Touch for Health Instructor, and a founder member of the Scottish Holistic Health Association, which teaches nurs...more
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One of the wonderful things with Reiki is that whilst you are giving it, you are also receiving it yourself, which means that in emergency situations, it is enabling you to stay ca...more
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Reiki Reflexology for Mental Health Conditions
The author, a complementary therapist at a mental health drop-in charity, based in Feltham, focuses on the value of combining Reiki and Reflexology for Mental Health Conditions. Fo...more
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In the west, Reiki developed as a healing practice, in which the practitioner intention must be towards the well-being of the client. In the absence of contact with Japan, many heal...more
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The technique is an ancient Japanese hands-on, hands-off method of healing that can be learnt by anyone. It is simple, powerful, harmless and complements other complementary therap...more
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Reiki: A tool for personal and global transformation
The story of Dr Usui's rediscovery of the ancient hands-on healing system has now become familiar knowledge and its successes in the physical domain are well documented. It is prov...more
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Relationship between Anxiety, Mental Health, and Quality of Sleep
Anxiety comes in many forms, from the general worry that comes from everyday life to the intense fear caused by major psychiatric disorders. As debilitating as anxiety can be to our...more
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Release the Animal in Your Soul or How to Lose Your Anxiety
The problem with anxiety is that it’s part of us. That might sound too obvious to be worth saying, but look again… it’s part of us, not part of what is actually out there in the out...more
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Living your creative dream need not be wishful thinking. It is simply a matter of following a few simple steps that will open the doors of possibility wider than you could ever ima...more
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Releasing Trauma Through Bodywork The Power of Awareness
In Polarity Therapy we recognize that the harmonious flow of energy within and around the body is the essential prerequisite for health. For Polarity Therapists, the safe release o...more
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Reliable Testing for Candida Overgrowth
Candida is a type of yeast that if found in large quantities in the gastrointestinal tract can lead to a combination of symptoms including fatigue, brain fog, bloating constipation...more
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In this column, the author provides cases studies on the effects of reflexology on certain chronic illnesses, and adds that where illness cannot be reversed, patients still exper...more
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In this article on Reflexology and its positive effect on Migraines, the author says migraine affects about 10% of the UK population, and that there are two types: common migraine ...more
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Remarkable Recoveries - Individual Potential for Healing
Dr Blasi considers the significance of double-blind randomized control trials (RCT) and the way they provide an empirical basis for testing pharmacological, surgical, psychotherape...more
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May 1996 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Dr Ida P Rolf, one of the leading contributors to body therapy in the 20th century, who was born in May 1896. Although Dr Rolf ...more
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Remission from Breast Cancer: Diet, Mistletoe, Carctol and Park Attwood
In this column the author shares her experience with Breast Cancer and treatment with mistletoe therapy at the Park Atwood Clinic.more
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Remission in a Case of Rectal Cancer Treated with Herbal Medicines
This article discusses a case study diagnosed with rectal cancer who refused conventional radiotherapy and chemotherapy on recurrence of the tumour and opted for alternative therap...more
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Infertility, sub-fertility and delayed conception are increasingly common issues experienced by approximately 1 in 6 couples in the UK. And this statistic appears to be replicated ...more
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Reprogramming your Mind for the Resolution of Chronic Pain and Debilitating Conditions
Have you ever wondered if you have supernatural powers? The first time many of us considered the possibility of having supernatural powers was probably when we were children, playi...more
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Requirements for Proper Absorption
Although the gastro-intestinal tract is not the only way that materials have of entering our body, it is the most usual and direct route for our nutritional requirements to be sati...more
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I studied for my reflexology diploma nearly 25 years and in those days I spent a lot of time explaining to people what reflexology actually was. There were few articles about it and...more
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I recently re-discovered on my hard drive the Consensus Statement document - attached - published in 1994 of which I was the lead author - Nutrition and Life-Style Guidelines for Pe...more
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Research Shines Light on Blackcurrants for their ‘Unprecedented’ Fat Burning Properties
The ‘super’ nutritional benefits of berries are nothing new, however there’s one area of berry-specific interest that is gaining scientific momentum for it potential in athletes, t...more
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Research Shows Modern Humans’ Brain Size has Shrunk by 20%
Both brain size and IQ are falling in modern humans, coinciding with a big increase in mental illness. What we eat is to blame, says Professor Michael Crawford, author of his latest...more
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Research Study Arthritis and Homoeopathy
Dr Michel van Wassenhoven recently published (British Homoeopathic Journal 85: 198-204, Oct 1996) the details of a retrospective study of rheumatological patients from his private ...more
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Research: Ginger Selectively Kills Breast Cancer Cells
New research published in the Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology found that "ginger may be a promising candidate for the treatment of breast carcinomas."[i] This is a timely...more
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Research: Light Treatment and Biorhythm
This review summarizes some of the landmark developments presented at the 2006 Conference of The Society for Light Treatment and Biorhythm Research held in Quebec in July 2006.more
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Researching Cancer on the World Wide Web
If you have access to a computer and the WWW then you have the ability to find a seemingly endless number of web sites that offer advice and information about all forms of cancer. ...more
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New Year’s resolutions, the yearly event that sends us all into the gym on January and causes us to abandon it by February, may be changing. We at bodynutrition.org/ conducted a s...more
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Resolving Colds to Advanced COVID with Methylene Blue
Linus Pauling first coined the word "orthomolecular" in an article he wrote in the journal Science in 1968. Quite simply, ortho means correct or right, and molecular refers to the s...more
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Resolving Depression with Emotional Freedom Techniques
The Emotional Freedom Technique, evolved from Acupuncture, Kinesiology and Clinical Psychology, involves tapping particular points while the client is experiencing feeling attached...more
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This week I attended a post-graduation party at the University of Westminster. Candidates from the first intake of the MA in Therapeutic Bodywork had, with all due ceremony, receiv...more
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I suppose all complementary health care disciplines and systems agree that the body/mind complex is self-healing. That given the opportunity the self-regulating mechanisms will a...more
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Depression is what happens when we have sad experiences (genuine, or as in watching a film, in imagination) and do not let the sadness be experienced. Anti-depressants will suppres...more
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Restoration to Health after Mercury Poisoning from Amalgam Poisoning
This article by Vivienne Bradshaw-Black continues from Mercury Poisoning in issue 8, where an amalgam removal protocol was outlined.more
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Retrospective Study Comparing Surgery for Scoliosis against the Non-Surgical ASMI Treatment
The aim of this study was to investigate what the impact of surgery for scoliosis on the reduction of the curve is compared to the non-Surgical ASMI treatment (ASMI – Advanced Spina...more
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Return to Wellness: Traumatic Consequences of Inadequate Self-Care
This article is a very frank and open account of how a therapist and healer took her own health and well-being too much for granted. She tells the reader how she over-worked and ov...more
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Reverie is a short, consciously guided daydream. Day-dreams, like the dreams of sleep, give us a taste of the meditative experience. They feel quite real, and we can think, sense...more
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Reversing Diabetes - A Hypothesis!
In this provocative article the author discusses Diabetes and adds that statistics in 2004 in the UK reveal that 1.8 million people have been diagnosed and are suffering from this ...more
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If you have never put anything on your head apart from the occasional hat, hood, helmet, cap, headscarf, headphone or even beret, you haven't lived yet. Carrying any weight on your...more
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Rheumatoid Arthritis and its Relationship to Gastric Illnesses
"Drugs - when taken as prescribed - kill more than 106,000 Americans each year and the death toll from overdosing on painkillers is now greater than both car accidents and death fr...more
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Rheumatoid Arthritis: 4 Alternative Treatments (Evidence-Based)
Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a chronic degenerative disease in which the body’s immune system attacks the joints. This creates inflammation which not only affects joints, but tendon...more
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Rheumatoid Arthritis: Case Study
it is hard to believe that only a short while ago Mrs Jaye Rambaran was crippled with rheumatoid arthritis and faced with the prospect of a wheel chair in order to achieve any sor...more
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Rhythm in Movement and its Potential Role in Rehabilitation
In everyday life, what is it that you witness each time you observe people move? You may see the external actions of running, jumping, hopping, waving and nodding. What you do not s...more
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Darien Pritchard has been practising massage for 25 years, and describes how he developed the Rhythm-Mobility technique, having noticed how clients' often resist massage and are un...more
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Riding The Cosmic Unicycle – Staying In The Saddle During Times of Great Change
I hope that this short article will show you how to empower yourself, ground and relax yourself and come back down-to-earth. During my career I have found that most people are ‘fre...more
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Rise in Private Healthcare, in Part Driven by Covid
After 19 months of stress, uncertainty and seemingly endless restrictions, the world is gradually opening up again. Lockdown rules, such as caps on indoor gatherings and mandatory m...more
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Road Rage, Hate and Disconnection
The author, a psychotherapist and victim of road rage, analyses the reasons for hate in many forms, on the road, between races, religions and cultures, its variations from country ...more
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Roadmap to Happiness - Ten Happy Habits
We all have the ability to be happy; if we don't feel it then we need to get into the happy habit. It may not be possible to be happy all the time; however if we take a more positiv...more
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Role of Meditation in Stress Control
Human mind moves with fastest speed, thinking about one or the other thing all the time except when one is in sound sleep. During the course of his dialogue with Arjuna, Lord Krishn...more
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Rolfing: Transformative Method of Structural Integration
This article focuses on Rolfing, originally named Postural Integration and later Structural Integration, a comprehensive system of hands-on connective tissue manipulation which rel...more
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Root Canal - Roots of Disease!
The use of dental amalgams brought dentistry out of the Barbers shop to the highly technical discipline it is today. We are now investigating and recognising the effects that the m...more
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Root Cause Healing - A New Healing Paradigm
The article looks into Root Cause Healing, a therapy that helps to unlock the subconscious mind where limiting beliefs and experiences, including our past pain from our womb to the...more
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Rosa Mosqueta Seed Oil from Chile - Gift from Mother Nature
Women around the world want smooth, young looking, velvety, silky soft, glowing wrinkle-free skin and Mother Nature is providing them a wonderful rosehip seed oil, called Rosa Mosqu...more
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Enlivening your cuisine with the distinctive flavour of rosemary, which not only scintillates the taste buds but also provides a wealth of medicinal benefits to nurture the body and...more
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"Pull back your shoulders!" This must be the most common and popular piece of postural advice ever given. This must also be one of the most misguided.more
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Royal Jelly Healing Formulation – Adaptogenic, Anti-Ageing, Immune and Energy Enhancing Properties
Back in the early 18th century there was an Indian legend doing the rounds of Puerto Rico that a magical Fountain of Youth existed somewhere in the environs, whose curative powers w...more
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Rugby Players, Homeopathy and a Painful Coccyx
This article focuses on homeopathic treatment for a painful coccyx sustained by a fall on concrete steps.more
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Runes and Rainbows: Runes, Chakras and Universal Energies
Runes and Rainbows is the integrated method of reading the runes, chakras and universal energies I have developed.more
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Running Coaching and Injury Prevention
Running is a widely participated in activity and is accessible for any age group and level of fitness. Because of its accessibility it is practiced by a wide spectrum of people, fro...more
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Rusty Nail or Hypodermic Needle - Prick and Choose
In the bacterial world, the Clostridium family is a very large one comprising about a hundred species but only Clostridium tetani (Nicolaier’s bacillus) can cause tetanus, although ...more
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Ruth White - Iyengar Yoga Teacher
Back in the Seventies, freelance photographer Ruth White was suffering from a lot of back pain. Years of bad posture and carrying heavy photographic equipment had taken their toll ...more
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Sacred Sound Therapy for Healing, Spiritual Growth and Meditation
Rachel Kelly looks at sound and the way that sounds can alter our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual bodies, both positively and negatively. She provides practical ways to m...more
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Sacred Sound/Healing: Interview with Jonathan Goldman
Homeopathy, light therapy and colour therapy, all seek to restore balance to the systems of the human body. People can begin to understand that sound is an energy form and that it ...more
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The history of Geopathic Stress is a long one. The unhealthy spirals which dowsers detect above subterranean water have probably always been with us and the energy leys are believe...more
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Safeguarding Children's Eye Health
Analysis of data by Optical Express shows six is the mean age for diagnosing conditions like lazy eye and colour deficiency in children, but it is essential that parents start to ge...more
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Saffron - A Natural and Effective Treatment for Depression
New research in the field of food science (Nutriceutical), has potentially opened up a natural way to help us manage some of the most debilitating conditions of this century - anxi...more
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Sai Shakti Healing - An Interview with Dr. Nityaananda
Dr Clint Thomson MD known as Nityaananda, is an alternative healer. He got his undergraduate degree at Michigan State University in 1983; and then his MD from the Texas Medical Cen...more
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Salt - Its Many Therapeutic Wonders
Although salt has been “medically long prized as a stimulant, antiseptic and much else, salt has lost out to the pharmaceutical industry, I would suggest at our peril”. Dr Amir has...more
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Salt - Healthy Eating Friend or Foe?
Salt is often considered the baddie when it comes to healthy eating - but is it really as simple as that? Is making sure there’s some salt in the diet actually beneficial? Is there ...more
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Sarah's Story of High Blood Pressure
A diagnosis of high blood pressure should be taken seriously as it can lead to coronary heart disease, the commonest cause of death, in the western world. The specific consequenc...more
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Saturated Fats and the Virtues of Coconut Oil
Of course, over consumption of any substance will make a person fat, but we can safely conclude that relative to other sources of energy, saturated fats do not cause the body harm....more
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Save Your Wisdom Teeth - The Risks of Dental Extraction
Wisdom teeth are the third molars situated at the back of the dental arch and are the last adult teeth to develop. They often protrude only partially with some of their surface bei...more
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In this fast-paced world and economically distressed time, trying to budget out a portion of your income for a hefty gym fee is certainly not the best option. However, serious healt...more
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ScarWork Treatment - Holistic Approach to Integrating Scar Tissue
A new holistic therapy has reached the UK for treating scars caused by accidents or surgery. This therapy, called ScarWork can be used on both new and very old scar tissue with grea...more
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Schizophrenia is a psychotic condition that affects 1% of people from every culture, and the lifetime severity is worse in developed countries.more
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Schizophrenia is Incurable – Myth Blighting Patients
While any mental illness needs to be treated and taken seriously, schizophrenia commands extra attention as it is ridden with several myths and an utter lack of awareness among the ...more
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Sciatic Pain Relief and Post Microdisceptomy Rehabilitation Using Pilates
In hindsight, knowing what I know now, I should have paid attention to my core strength, correct posture for bending and lifting and keeping flexible by exercising or taking up Pila...more
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Every part of our lives is construed around what we have come to accept as science. The word is used to, so called, underpin all aspects of life, which means that you and I are not ...more
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Science is the New Church – God Forbid
Editor’s Note: Please note that the publishers of PH Online do not necessarily agree with all the content of the following editorial feature, but publish this as an alternative exp...more
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Science Loves a Pretty Face: How Close is Theory to the Truth?
In addition to the art of decorating and sculpting the human form – many of which have a clear, aesthetic rationale – most societies have developed a vast range of art forms for mov...more
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Science-Backed Tips for the Perfect Nap
Although nothing can wholly compensate for a full night’s sleep, napping during the day has been shown to reduce some side effects of sleep deprivation, as well as provide benefits ...more
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Scientist turned Personal Trainer Combines Medical Knowledge with Exercise for Patient Fitness
WITH more GPs urging patients with chronic illness to help their symptoms via exercise, a biomedical scientist turned personal trainer is advising on the best way to exercise while ...more