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Case Study Issue 120: Natural Fertility
In this article the author, a practising Naturopath, focuses on natural methods to fertility, which many couples are now opting for via alternative route due to the long waiting li...more
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Case Study Issue 121: The Case for Traditional Naturopathy
The author puts forward a cogent and authoritative argument for using Naturopathy for healthcare. He talks about how Naturopathy can offer a solution to solve a health issue rather...more
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Case Study Issue 122: Successful Use of PDT for Vascular Tumour
The author David Longman is father to Louise Longman - a girl whose first 21 years of life have been blighted by a vascular tumour. In this article he tells about the dramatic new ...more
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Case Study Issue 123: Colonic Hydrotherapy for Intestinal Cleansing
Emma Lear, Founder of The Clifton Experience Colonic Hydrotherapy centre in Bristol describes how Colon hydrotherapy, colonics, or colon irrigation is an alternative health practic...more
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Case Study Issue 124: Chronic Fatigue - A Healing Story
In this article the author provides a personal account of her experience with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and how she was healed from it.more
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Case Study Issue 125: Reversal of Brain Tumours
In this Case Study the author shares his sister Bernice’s remarkable survival of four rounds of cancer. About a year ago four tumours were discovered around Bernice’s brain stem wi...more
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Case Study Issue 126: Versatility of Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) Applications
This column focuses on the effectiveness of EFT which falls under a group of therapies known as Meridian Energy Therapies (MET) which is sometimes also known as Energy Psychology...more
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Case Study Issue 127: Reflexology for HIV and Kidney Stones
This article details two HIV-infected case studies who used the services of a north of England charity that provides a wide range of complementary therapies to people with Aids and...more
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Case Study Issue 128: Detoxification via Aqua Detox and Reflexology
This column looks at a specific case study – a thirtysomething who received reflexology treatments to help her (successfully) get pregnant, despite being diagnosed with polycystic ...more
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Case Study Issue 137: Nutritional Preconception Care - John and Tracy
The author presents the case of a couple (John in his late 40s and Tracy in her late 30s) who opted for nutritional remedies after several failed attempts of trying to conceive thr...more
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Case Study Issue 142: Learning to let Go
In this article the author presents her personal account and experience with yoga and its effect on her pregnancy. An avid practitioner, the author says she taught herself through ...more
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Case Study Issue 146: 10-Day Detoxification Program Including Colon Hydrotherapy
This case study is of a 30-year old lady who presented with a variety of symptoms. Over six months she had gained ten pounds, she was stressed, had irritable bowel syndrome, abdomi...more
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Case Study Issue 150: Naturopathic Approaches to IBS: Two Case Histories
In this article which focuses on Irritable Bowel Syndrome, the author says that of all the chronic illnesses with unpleasant symptoms, IBS more often than not gets treated less e...more
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Case Study Issue 64: Nutritional Therapy - Inability to Conceive
Jane’s main reason for coming to see me was failure to conceive. She and her partner had been trying for a baby for two and a half years. She became pregnant once in that period of...more
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Case Study Issue 65: Scenar Therapy
As published in Issues 44 and 60 of Positive Health, a Russian Radio-Engineering Institute worked on a device during the mid 1960s which was developed over the next twenty years. ...more
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Case Study Issue 66: Patient Cancer Study
This article is written in the form of a case history of the author's personal experiences of diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer.more
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Case Study Issue 67: Reflexology for Psoriasis and Arthritis
This case study illustrates the successful treatment of a psoriasis sufferer with reflexology.more
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Case Study Issue 68: Nutritional Therapy - Success With Stabilising Cancer
Pat Reeves, a practitioner of nutritional medicine, tells her personal story of how she combated cancer, firstly in the form of a brain tumour diagnosed in 1984, then a knee tumour...more
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Case Study Issue 69: Reflexology for ME/Chronic Fatigue
This article describes the successful treatment with reflexology of a seven-year-old boy suffering from ME/chronic fatigue/post-viral syndrome, a condition often difficult to treat...more
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Case Study Issue 70: Integrative Massage Therapy
This article tracks the progress of a young woman suffering from stress and depression, manifesting physically in chronic backaches and a rigid, armoured body, as she was treated w...more
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Case Study Issue 71: Patient Case Study - Acid Reflux
Paul McAuliffe describes how he took positive action to restore his health and turned to alternative medicine to assist his acid reflux, a condition in which stomach acid travels u...more
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Case Study Issue 72: Holistic Treatment of Hair Loss
Jolanta Basnyet, well-known qualified osteopath, aromatherapist, reflexology and trained in Indian head massage, has been in practice for over 20 years, and describes how a combina...more
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Case Study Issue 73 - Hypnotherapy for Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Research conducted over the last few years has shown hypnotherapy to be particularly effective in treating conditions of the digestive system such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)...more
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Case Study Issue 74: Homeopathy and Multiple Sclerosis
Mike Bridger describes how a 28-year-old woman diagnosed with multiple sclerosis was treated successfully with homeopathy at a free clinic run by the Contemporary College of Homoeo...more
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Case Study Issue 75: Deep Lymphatic Therapy
Angela Heath, who practises deep lymphatic therapy, remedial massage, aromatherapy and Reiki, presents a case study of a 50-year-old woman with a large tumour in her left breast, w...more
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Case Study Issue 76: Crystal Healing
This case study, written by a practitioner in reflexology, spiritual and crystal healing, vortex healing, space clearing, aura protection and stress management, describes the cours...more
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Case Study Issue 77: Gerson Therapy
This article gives a first-hand account of Rachel Matthew’s experiences of developing malignant melanoma, treated with surgical removal of the lymph nodes in the leg and groin, whi...more
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Case Study Issue 78: Howling Wolf, Crying Eagle
The author presents a detailed case study to illustrate the effectiveness of the innovative techniques of Integrative Massage Therapy (IMT), which combines bodywork, hypnotherapy a...more
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Case Study Issue 79: Naji Malak - Acupuncture Maestro
Showbusiness personality Alan Pillay gives a witty account of his experiences of acupuncture in which he sings the praises of acupuncturist and Chinese herbal medicine practitioner...more
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Case Study Issue 80: Bosiger Energy Alignment Method (BEAM) for Psoriasis and Back Pain
The Bosiger Energy Alignment Method (BEAM™) is an energy healing therapy, which makes diagnoses by examining the feet to reveal which meridians and which of the five elements (per ...more
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Case Study Issue 81: Spiritual Healing for Severe Eczema
This case study describes the spiritual healing performed on a 70-year-old man who had been diagnosed with eczema by his GP, having presented with a severe rash all over his body. ...more
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Case Study Issue 82: The Metamorphic Technique - The Life Force at Work
Hazel Russo’s case study describes the experiences of Lynne, who became disabled after a simple insect bite, but whose condition has been improved profoundly by treatment with the ...more
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Case Study Issue 83: Energy Field Therapy for ME
Vincent MacNally’s case study tells the story of the leaps and bounds recently made by ‘Gemma’, a woman suffering badly from ME, after treatment with Energy Field Therapy (EFT).more
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Case Study Issue 84: Reflexology for Aggravated Colitis
Reflexologist Kath Morrell describes the case of a patient who had severe backache and inflamed left buttock muscles, which had been going on for nine years. More recently, he suff...more
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Case Study Issue 85: 'Good' Grief - A Session with EmoTrance™
EmoTrance™ is a gentle therapy that deals with our present sensations without needing to dig around in our subconscious to discover how and where our feelings have come from. EmoTr...more
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Case Study Issue 86: Tomatis Listening Therapy
Ella Williams, Director of the Listening (Voice, Music and Language) Centre in London, describes the results of using Tomatis Listening Therapy (previously described in detail in I...more
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Case Study Issue 87: Allopathic Medicine is Killing my Parents
Catherine Crawford, is qualified in aromatherapy and nutrition, and is currently studying Australian Bush Flower Essences. She describes the case of her elderly parents who are bot...more
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Case Study Issue 88: Metabolic Typing for Thyroid and Infertility
Nutrition and metabolic typing consultant gives the case of a 31-year-old woman suffering from Grave’s Disease, an autoimmune disease of the thyroid that causes overproduction of t...more
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Case Study Issue 89: Holistic Dentistry for Allergies, Skin Problems and Snoring
This Case Study relates to a 14-year girl Claire suffering from rhinitis, sneezing, coughing, wheezy symptoms, lethargy, as well as acne which had scarred her skin.more
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Case Study Issue 91: Recovery from Motorcycle Accident Using Magnotherapy
Nigel Iles discusses his experiences with magnotherapy, following a motorcycle accident.more
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Case Study Issue 94: Scenar: Treatment in Stroke Rehabilitation
It is generally still accepted by the medical profession that beyond six months after a stroke any clinical change in the patient is extremely unlikely. When I commenced this work ...more
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Case Study Issue 95: Shiatsu Treatment for Insomnia
Katherine Hall, a Shiatsu practitioner, looks at the case of Rosemary. Rosemary is 57 and suffered from low energy due to lack of sleep, getting only about two hours of sleep a nig...more
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Case Study Issue 96: ACMOS Quantum Medicine
In this article Naheed Brooking describes the success of ACMOS Quantum Medicine on Susan, a young woman patient. The ACMOS method was invented by a French engineer, Dr Rene Naccach...more
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Case Study Issue 97: Caffeine Allergy, Masked Cerebral Allergy
This is a case study of a young woman who developed caffeine allergy. Her symptoms, similar to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), were memory impairment, loss of focu...more
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Case Study Issue 98: Ultrasound 3D for Treating Dental Cavitations
This Case Study discusses the little-known problem of cavitations. These are chronic infections in the jawbones. They can be painful as Neuralgia Inducing Cavitational Osteonecrosi...more
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Case Study Issue 99: Manual Lymphatic Drainage for Congestion, Oedema and Stress
In this study Nina Pearson cites the case of Joanna, a fifty-year-old client, who was a self-employed accountant. She was suffering from tiredness and stress and was getting very l...more
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Case Study re: Herbal Medicine for Liver Disorder
The author describes her patient, his symptoms, the result of blood tests and X-rays, and the theoretical background for the treatment regime she recommended. Having suffered ‘bi...more
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Case Study: A Shoulder/Hand Mystery Solved with the Bowen Technique
This column focuses on the Bowen Technique. The author demonstrates the positive effects of this treatment on a 55-year-old man suffering pain in his right hand and lacking movemen...more
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Case Study: Atlas Re-Alignment: Possible Simple Approach for Scoliosis and Migraines
This article presents a detailed case study of a woman with scoliosis who also suffers migraines, and how she benefited from the simple approach of Atlas Re-Alignment. It also expl...more
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Case Study: Bach Flower Remedies for Pain Relief
In this Case Study, the author discusses the findings of the possible therapeutic and psychological value of Bach Flower Remedies in pain relief as conducted at the Bach Centre in ...more
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Case Study: Counselling, Psychotherapy and Spiritual Healing
In 1993, William West formed the PsychoSpiritual Initiative (PSI) in the belief that counselling and psychotherapy methods could benefit from the inclusion of spiritual healing.more
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Case Study: Dental Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis
Mary Maguire was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 1984. After severe head pains in 1994, her GP suggested her symptoms were caused by stress and recommended rest. After no impr...more
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Case Study: Detoxification Relieved 25 Years of Headaches
I am often asked by people enquiring about our retreats “if a week is long enough?” It’s a hard question to answer, because the answer is so individual to the questioner. A week lon...more
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Case Study: Eliminating Schizophrenic Voices by Healing Prenatal Trauma
This article describes, in brief, the radical new psychological treatment that eliminates the most common type of ‘voices’ that many schizophrenics suffer from. Known as Silent Mi...more
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Case Study: Family Experience of Living with Alzheimer's Disease
This article describes Alzheimer's Disease and the statistics concerning this illness - there are currently 800,000 people living with dementia, and this figure is on the rise.more
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Case Study: Herbal Medicine for Menopausal Issues
This Case Study is a detailed account of treatment of a patient for menopausal symptoms over a period of over a year. It concludes with a statement from the patient that after two ...more
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Case Study: Homotoxicology for Migraine Relief
Homotoxicology is the study of substances which are toxic to human beings, and their treatment by homeopathic methods. These toxins can occur internally or externally, but in mo...more
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Case Study: How I Came To Yoga
The author gives an account of encountering yoga at school but, finding it more meditation than exercise, did not continue. She apparently had a continuing battle with her weight, ...more
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Case Study: How to Cope and Live with Psoriasis
Dan has suffered for 17 years with psoriasis when he found Elena’s Nature Collection via a friend, and his life changed forever.more
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Case Study: Hypnotherapy for Psoriasis
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Case Study: Hypnotherapy for Weight Control Problems
The author presents her case study of a 53 year-old woman who had problems controlling her weight…. first going on liquid diets for months to try and lose weight and then overeatin...more
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Case Study: Hypnotherapy to Banish Blushing
In this article the author explains how hypnotherapy helps with erythrophobia, the fear of blushing, a common condition which is said to affect one in ten people.more
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Case Study: Infertility - A Nutritionist's Personal View
In this Case Study about infertility, the author shares her own journey and treatment programme to fertility which included correcting her nutrient levels; taking several differen...more
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Case Study: Infertility and Reiki Healing
This article concerns the successful treatment of infertility due to Polycystic Ovary Syndrome with Reiki healing.more
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Case Study: Joey Bull Recovery from Knee Injury
Joey Bull was set to achieve her dream of becoming a professional dancer, but a ski accident resulted in a horrifying knee injury, major surgery and a complete re-appraisal of her ...more
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Case Study: My Journey of Self-Healing - Back from ME to Me
In this column the author presents her journey back to her heart and the heart of nature from ME / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. She provides some insight into how this condition affec...more
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Case Study: Natural Skincare Approaches for Chronic Atopic Eczema
This article focuses on atopic eczema, its causes, effect and the solutions. Said to be one of the most common skin problems today, the condition can be demoralizing because the it...more
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Case Study: Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)
In the UK it is estimated that one in ten women have polycystic ovaries (PCOS) which is the number one cause of infertility in non-menopausal women. Because so many women suffer...more
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Case Study: Reconnective Healing
In this article the author shares his personal experience with Reconnective Healing and how Dr Eric Pearl, the man behind this technique, helped to change his life forever, after h...more
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Case Study: Recovery from Severe Illness with Zeolite and Glyconutrients
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 ...more
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Case Study: Reducing Symptoms of Arthritis in the Feet Using Massage with Essential Oil Blend
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an auto-immune disease characterised by inflammation of the synovial tissues resulting in joint pain, swelling and stiffness. There is no cure for the c...more
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Case Study: Reflexology to Help Sub-Fertility
In this article the author, who specializes in clinical and maternity reflexology, presents a case study of a client who had been for many years experiencing irregular periods and ...more
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Case Study: Reishi Mushroom as a Hayfever Remedy
In this column the author presents the case of a 23 year-old suffering from hayfever since the age of eight, and how he was able to remedy her condition with Reishi Mushroom (Ganod...more
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Case Study: Rhythmical Massage Therapy for Crohn's Disease
In this article on Crohn’s Disease, a condition affecting between 30,000-60,000 people in the UK, with over 3,000 new sufferers diagnosed every year, the author presents her case h...more
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Case Study: Silver Toxins: the Acne Connection
This column reveals the importance of teeth in relation to the rest of the body and its connection on acne through a case study.more
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Case Study: Soul Harmony Creams can Reduce Pain and Balance the Chakras
My client was feeling very drained and tired, had a cough, and was suffering acute abdominal pain over the gall bladder and liver area (mainly at night, often waking her). She su...more
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Case Study: Three Generations of Breast Cancer Survivors
This is a history of three generations in a family now known to have the BRCA2 gene, with an 85 percent lifetime chance of developing breast cancer. Both Susan’s grandmother (at ag...more
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Case Study: Unravelling A Tight Psoas Mystery
The author states that it is possible to unravel complex symptoms if one understands the psoas as ‘messenger of the central nervous system’. The case study involves complex difficu...more
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Castaways - Complications of No Therapy Following Cast Removal
The needs of children are completely overlooked when it comes to injury rehabilitation and the ability to cope with the physical stress of daily life.more
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Cat's Claw: Healing Vine of Peru
A botanical plant, a massive woody vine known in Spanish as una de gato in English as Cat's Claw, its latin name is Uncarica Tomentosa, is being called by many Miracle Herb from the...more
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Cataracts - When a ‘Miracle’ of Modern Surgery wasn’t Needed
When it comes to medical treatment, we generally regard surgery as a ‘last resort’. So when it comes to cataracts, why should it be the ‘first and only resort’? Most people think ...more
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Causal Healing: Freedom from the Bondage of Trauma, Beliefs and Emotions
The author begins by pointing out that we are aware that there is ‘something’ unique to us which we are here to understand and fulfil. But our senses can create a sense of separ...more
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Causal Healing: The Resolution of Harmful Beliefs by Theta Healing
The author refers to a previous article in which he explained that “any trauma will give rise to a disturbing emotion and a limiting belief.” This article concerns the use of Thet...more
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The obscenity of feeding gentle vegetarian ruminants with minced up bits of other animals has resulted, not at all surprisingly – in ecological disaster, with the worst of it bei...more
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Cave Men Didn't Eat Cornflakes
We are still genetically programmed for the hunter-gatherer diet. What was good for us thousands of years ago is still good for us now. Taste buds were the only guide to the foods ...more
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First things first: an elderly woman in China, who became seriously ill after getting infected with the COVID-19 virus, made an uneventful recovery following stem cell therapy. Simi...more
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Cervical Cancer – Symptoms, Signs and Treatments
Cervical Cancer Prevention Week initiative took place from the 23rd to the 29th of January 2023. The aim is to ‘work towards a future where cervical cancer is a thing of the past’. ...more
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Cervical Spondylosis/Spondylitis - Causes and Treatment
Conventionally, the terms Cervical Spondylitis and Cervical Spondylosis (CS) are attributed to degenerative changes in the cervical spine. They are thought to be caused by natural p...more
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Chakra Perspectives: Chakra 101
In this, his regular column on Chakras, the author draws from his 31 years experience of working with the body’s energy centres to offer some basics on such energy systems.more
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Challenges Facing CAM Education Providers in the New Decade
Education in Complementary and Alternatives Medicine faces challenges as Further and Higher Education Colleges, and universities face funding cuts. Private educational institutio...more
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Chamomilla recutita - German Chamomile: Western and Ayurvedic Perspectives
Delicately fragrant chamomile, with its familiar daisy-like flowers, has long been popular as a bedtime tisane to induce sleep; its sedative and mood enhancing properties as well as...more
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Changes in Self-Reported Pain Scores Following a Single EMMETT Technique Treatment
The EMMETT Technique is a unique complementary therapy that works to relax the body and mind, to ease discomfort and increase ranges of movement. It was created by Ross Emmett who i...more
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Changing Minds about Medical Cannabis
Despite the legaliaation of medical cannabis in November 2018, only a small proportion of the people who could benefit from the drug have been able to receive it. Here Ramya Sriram,...more
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Science has yet to define the meaning of wisdom in scientific terminology. I guess they require some type of clever or mathematical proof wisdom exists? Perhaps clever humans may no...more
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Judith Price, a nutritional therapist, describes how nutritional therapy was able to help a man with long-term, painful digestive problems diagnosed as irritable bowel syndrome (IB...more
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Chelation Research Merits Priority Attention
The statistics regarding Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) and Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) make grim reading. In the UK, CHD affects 24% of all men and 25% of all women – with 150,000 ...more
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Chemical Fragrances: Effects on the Autonomic Nervous System
This article focuses on the adverse effects of chemical fragrances, such as commercial detergents, fabric conditioners, air fresheners, fragrant candles, personal toiletries, house...more
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Chemo or Cannabis to Treat Cancer? Interview with Len Richmond
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Chi Exercises for Health and Rejuvenation
Peter Chin has been practicing Tai-Chi and Chi Kung for the past 25 years and is a Chi Healer at The Hale Clinic. The Chi exercises were about the practice of harmonising Nature's ...more
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Chi Kung and New Meridian Energies Synergy
Meridian Energy Therapies provide Chi Kung with a new context and practical relevance. This article focuses on the association between Chi Kung and Meridian Energy Therapies (whi...more
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Chi Nei Tsang, a branch of Taoist medicine, was introduced to the West by the Taoist Master Mantak Chia. It is a method for releasing the toxic winds of emotional energy, which can...more
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Chi-Neng Qigong - 21st Century Health Practice
Jeremy Leach relates his experience of the profound practice of Chi-Neng Qigong – the mind/body practice that can improve health, promote mental and emotional well-being and promis...more
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This article looks into the world of make believe. According to the author imagination can be a child's best friend or worst enemy. From imaginary playmates to scary night-time mon...more
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Childhood Obesity and Food Advertisements†
Worldwide, over 22 million children under five are severely overweight. In the UK there are around 1 million obese children under 16 years of age. These soaring rates in obesity ha...more
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In the west, our choice of foods is frequently driven by taste alone. However, a look at Chinese dietary principles can lead us back to a clearer focus of how we can use foods to b...more
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Chinese Face Reading for Health
The ancient art of face reading has been used since the time of Confucius by Chinese doctors as an aid to diagnosis and a way of helping their patients. Close observation of the fa...more
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This column touches on the current state of Chinese healthcare…Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), such as Herbal Medicine and Diet, Qi gong and Tai Chi, including Acupuncture and ...more
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Chinese Herbal Medicine for Common Childhood Ailments
This article focuses on the practice of Traditional Chinese Medicine to treat illnesses suffered by children. According to the author, with regard to children's health, Chinese med...more
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Chinese Herbal Medicine in the West
Chinese Herbal Medicine (CHM) is a relative newcomer in the West compared to acupuncture, which has had a significant profile since Nixon's trip to China in the seventies.more
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Chinese Herbal Remedies for Depression, Anxiety, Insomnia, and Psychosis
The author believes that TCM can not just help alleviate mental health problems, but actually cure them. In any case, they can be used as an adjunct to other treatments, and are ‘...more
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Chinese Herbal Sports Medicine
This article focuses on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and why and how Chinese herbal medicine, in particular, is one of the best treatments for sports injuries.more
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Chinese Medicine - An Art of Balance
Chinese medicine is about the balance, including the balance of Yin and Yang inside human body, the balance of energy and substances, and the balance of internal and external enviro...more
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Chinese Medicine for the Treatment of Menopausal Problems
In this Expert Column, Maria Mercati looks at Chinese medicine, and in particular Tuina and Acupuncture. She tells us that Tuina is a powerful, energizing form of massage, manipula...more
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Chinese Nutrition - The Energetics Of Food
Our western view of food and nutrition seems to focus upon chemical constituents and calories. However, according to the principles of Chinese medicine all foods can be categorized...more
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Chinese Tuina for Acute Lumbar Strain
This article looks at the Oriental bodywork therapy of Tuina. This therapy is used to promote healing and relieve pain by increasing the circulation of Qi and blood. It can be like...more
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This article focuses on Chirokinetic Therapy (CKT) which the author describes as a relatively new cutting-edge therapy that can cause a dramatic change in bodily functions and he...more
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Chironic Healing - The Cranio-Spinal-Sacral Mechanism and Physical Etheric Interface
The basis of Chironic Healing is that each of us has an etheric energy pattern, or 'blueprint', that underlies the physical body that we can see and touch. It is a conductor of vit...more
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Chiropractic arose as a separate profession to that of medicine in the United States in the 1890s. In this era of heroic medicine many alternative disciplines emerged, chiropractic...more
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Chiropractic From the Feet Up – How Your Feet Impact Your Whole Body
Your feet are the cornerstone of your entire body. They support you all day, every day, and take quite a beating while doing so! Our feet are a part of our body that rarely gets the...more
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Chiropractic Treatment Offers More Benefits than what Catches the Eyes
Bonus and incentives are common marketing techniques to attract customers, and chiropractors offer the same to their patients. No, they do not offer any monetary benefits to patient...more
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Chlorella - Single-Celled Green Algae
Chlorella is a single-celled species of green algae that grows in fresh-water. It is one of the earliest forms of life, with scientists believing it to be approximately 2 billion ye...more
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Chocoholism: To Binge, Or Not To?
A brace of squares at lunch time, or dinner. Or, a steaming cup before bedtime. Just think of a simile – “Wouldn’t it be ‘loverly?’” as Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) crooned, wit...more
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He looks into the history of both the chocolate and cocoa bean, tracing it back to ancient central American civilizations, and discusses the benefits of this confection. Neurologi...more
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Choi Kwang-Do - Complete Martial Art and Fitness Program
...named after its founder, Grandmaster Kwang Jo Choi, is one of the youngest martial arts in the world. Started just over 16 years ago, it is a testimony to how modern science can...more
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Cholesterol a Symptom, not the Disease
The author firstly sets out to refute the popular assumption that cholesterol is the major factor causing cardiovascular disease, and that lowering cholesterol, through the use of ...more
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Choosing a Good Hypnotherapy Training Course – No Walk in the Park
I was lucky. I believe I could not have had a better training at that time, certainly in Scotland and probably most of the rest of the country. Indeed the course I undertook was dee...more
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Choosing Authentic Spirituality as Your Healer
I think it’s fair to say that most of us have either turned toward or dove deeper into some form(s) of spirituality with the intention of attaining greater peace of mind, more joy, ...more
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Choosing Health - Preventing and Reversing Cellular Malfunction
The author states that the next major advance in health will be determined by what people are willing to do for themselves. The rest of the article spells out what he believes we...more
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Choosing Oils to Balance the Chakras and Auras
Dr Rogerson is a practising therapist who has written a course on Chinese Medical Theory, encompassing its history, elements, diagnosis and treatments including Chinese herbs, arom...more
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This article focuses on the importance of the present moment and listening – how or when do we listen, and to what we are listening. It also looks at why, when we are in a state of...more
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When I was in my mid-twenties, in the nineteen seventies, like many others I followed a guru and was a member of a cult. My teacher gave me a sense of direction and brought a sense ...more
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Chronic Fatigue Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Mark came to me in sheer despair. He was suffering from severe tiredness, a racing heartbeat and continuous noises in his head. The doctors and specialists had treated him for t...more
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome aka Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)
There are approximately 250,000 people diagnosed with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) in the UK. It is a disease that crosses the boundaries of all age groups, racial / ethnic groups...more
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Immune Modulation with Coriolus Versicolor†
The author describes the symptoms and signs of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, (within which she includes myalgic encephalomyelitis, chronic viral syndrome and post-viral fatigue syndrom...more
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and NADH
Just as Tim was initially in denial of his illness, many doctors suffer from the same problem. They refuse to recognise the condition because they can't find anything physically wr...more
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Chronic Illness, Food Allergies and Low Body Temperature
In this article, the author Alan Hunter documents his long journey of discovery as he searched for a solution to a illness labelled 'fatigue' which began in the late 1960s and whic...more
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There are many names for diseases of chronic inflammation. Regular columnist and Nutritional Therapist Linda Lazarides lists 18 including allergies, hepatitis and rheumatoid arthri...more
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The therapeutic qualities of the rose are esoteric, in the same way its esoteric qualities are therapeutic. Any explanation contains an undeniable mystery, as much as the mystery o...more
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Cinema Couch Therapy for Emotional Blockages
…in Cinema Couch, patients are asked to name the film or films that they love and never tire of watching. These films will reveal a paralyzing paradigm that creates an emotional bl...more
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Cinema Therapy - Unique Psychotherapy Technique
Franklin Seal discusses the use of film in psychotherapy treatments. He takes the case of a woman, Terry, who, coached by a therapist, used film to change her behavioural pattern o...more
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Classical Homeopathy - the Re-Emergence of Holism within Homeopathy
Brian Kaplan is a qualified medical practitioner who has been practising homeopathy for 20 years. He also lectures to doctors and co-founded the Homeopathic Physicians Teaching Gro...more
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Classical Homeopathy in a Child with Primary Immunodeficiency
The author has been a Registered Homeopath for 15 years. She supervises homeopathic students, is doing research at Exeter University in child development and learning difficulties....more
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This column looks into positive and negative thoughts and the need to empty the mind of all thoughts for clearer thinking.more
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Does the glass of your life seem half-empty, or is it three-quarters full to overflowing? Do you have the sense that there is something missing in your life, or is your life perman...more
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Clinical Benefits of Peak States Therapy
In this article the author shows us how we can fully accept and reconcile alternative therapies with what we know to be true, based on what he and his colleagues stumbled upon by a...more
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Clinical Ecology: Stratagem for a Poisoned World
Over the last twenty years, a major schism has developed between those doctors who are willing to accept only food intolerance as a classic cause of allergy, and those who have d...more
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Clinical Experiences of a Bowen Therapist
It was the mid-fifties in Victoria, Australia and a research pharmacist had an idea. Given the right resources, the human body had the innate capacity to repair itself – without in...more
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Clinical Experiences of Live and Dry Layered Blood Analysis
This article focuses on the importance of pure blood in our body and looks into live and dry layered blood evaluation methods, procedures of these two types of analysis and include...more
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Clinical Hypnotherapy for Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Research conducted over the last few years has shown hypnotherapy to be particularly effective in treating conditions of the digestive system such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)...more
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Clinical Impovements in CFS/ME: The Role of Fatty Acids
In this article the author, Consultant/Professor at Hammersmith Hospital and Imperial College, shares his views on why he believes ME has an infectious cause and is more a physical...more