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Pelvic Integrity - Centering the Core
Liz Koch has made a lifelong study of the psoas muscle and sees the pelvis as the keystone of our structural system. It is not only the base of support for the upper body, but tran...more
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Pelvic Organ Prolapse: Help and Hope
Women in every country around the world experience symptoms of POP yet have little idea what is occurring in their bodies because they are too embarrassed to discuss it with anyone....more
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It is a great privilege that we Homo-sapiens have been endowed with an Osseous Foundation by the ‘Powers That Be’ in that the bony frame, the skeleton, has been given a Base (pelvis...more
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My health, your health and the health of all of us is more important than to leave it in the hands of medical experts alone. People know that. More and more often they come togeth...more
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Perception – A Homeopathic View
Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of Homeopathy penned a multitude of books during his lifetime, one of which was entitled The Organon.[1] I have found this book to be invaluable when ...more
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Perceptual Enhancement Programme by Inside-Out Learning
This article describes the idea behind the perceptual learning programme developed by Inside-Out Learning, the key features of the programme and the benefits achievable.more
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Perfect Nutrition – Perfect Medicine – Liquefied Seeds
The Budwig Center says, “Seeds may be tiny, but they’re packed with nutrients like protein, fibre, iron, vitamins and omega-3 fatty acids. They truly provide ‘energy bursting with ...more
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Perseverance and Endurance in Nutritional Therapy
One of the fundamental principles of optimum nutrition is a time delay in the healing process. Nutrients in the form of foods, supplements and herbs do not produce an instant overn...more
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In 1985 I got involved with a personal development seminar company called Insight, which has become a very important part of my life. So much so that I now travel around the world ...more
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Personal Transformation to Healing
Transformative healing is a form of energy healing, based on the understanding that there is an energy interplay between the mind, body and soul, a form of power, which needs to be...more
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Personality, Types and the Energygram
This article is a detailed account of personality types, based on the idea that very early in life we choose what kind of a person to be.more
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Personalized Nutrition Changing Lives?
New research into health trends has confirmed that intuitive and mindful eating can assist in the management of a number of chronic health conditions. The discovery, made by researc...more
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Personalized Nutrition Getting Easily Accessible and Simplified for Everyone
Research conducted by Kilo Health has confirmed that mindful eating can help manage chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. As a result, it's clear that a personalized, ...more
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Personology - Connections between Physical Structure and Personality
Personology is the knowledge of the personality or character of man. It is both an ancient and modern method dealing with interpersonal communication, and is based on scientific emp...more
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Perspectives And Perceptions: Am I the Real Me? (Part 1 of 2)
Our perspectives are formed partly by through experience and partly through inheritance, at an early age. Our perspectives can be the determining factor in sickness or in health. ...more
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Peruvian Natural Resources to Benefit European Markets
Did you know that Peru's endemic plant species offer vast applications of natural ingredients for the European food, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries?more
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"Eating an organic apple every day is 100,000 times more likely to give you cancer than eating food contaminated with residues of the pesticide lindane". This statement is meaningl...more
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Past and current use of organochlorine pesticides has led to the pollution of the entire globe, with detectable levels in the body fat of nearly everyone in the world. Could pestic...more
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Pesticides and Chemicals Update
Following on from her article on the Health Risk of Pesticides in Issue 127, the author (winner of the prestigious Andrew Lees Memorial Award at the 2006 Environment and Media Awar...more
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Peter Hall’s Weight Loss Using the ‘Get Slim Guaranteed’ Programme
Most people know what they need to do to lose weight …. eat less, eat healthily and exercise more. All weight loss articles, except this one, tend to be variations on this theme. I...more
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Pets as Therapy: The Ultimate Guide
Animals have been bringing smiles to our faces for years, but that’s just scratching the surface of what they’re capable of. Animal-assisted therapy (often shortened to AAT) has so...more
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PFAS – The Unfolding Chemical Disaster
We are being bombarded by human-made chemicals every day. There is increasing evidence that this chemical burden is overwhelming our internal biotransformation and detoxification ca...more
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Pharmaceutical Quality Lavender Oil Significantly Improves Anxiety Induced Insomnia
Pharmaceutical quality lavender oil has a significant anxiolytic (anxiety relieving) effect and improves insomnia when taken orally as a daily capsule, new data shows.[1]more
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Pharmacological Activity and Benefits Of Anonna Squamosa Linn for Human Health
Annona Squamosa are generally known as Annona squamosa in the language of the United Kingdom. Some pharmacological activity such as anti-malaria, anti-tumour, anti-diabetic, anti-in...more
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In his column Sheldon Litt looks at fears and phobias, the reasons for them, their treatment and the hidden issues that may lie behind them.more
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Photic Stimulation - Novel Light Treatment Proves Very Effective
Fifteen minutes a day of home treatment with flickering light has been shown to be remarkably effective for PMS, migraine, and a variety of other stubborn disorders.more
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Photodynamic Therapy for Cancer
This article focuses on the use of PhotoDynamic Therapy (PDT) for illnesses and diseases. This treatment by light, unlike ultraviolet, infrared and the highly concentrated light of...more
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When weighing up the risk of cancer from food, it's not only what you put into your body that matters, although the type and quantity of food certainly contribute to cancer risk. H...more
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The lack of physical activity is one of the less desirable consequences of our transport system. The dominance of the motor vehicle is not the only cause of our increasing lack of ...more
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Physical and Emotional Holding as a Result of Injury, Stress and Trauma
By addressing the physiology we can begin to change habitual physical and emotional holding patterns, and with skilful application of fascial techniques, bound down tissues soften a...more
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Physical and Spiritual Transformation - Principles of Aikido
This article provides a detailed account of Aikido; its history, principles and purpose, which is summed up in the statement ‘To injure your opponent is to injure yourself’, and ...more
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Physical Fitness, Energy and Vitality
In this article the authors focus on a few exclusive herbal formulations for regaining vitality, physical fitness and energy. They also include brief comments by young professional...more
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The following series of case studies were all carried out by members of Physiofirst (the Organisation of Chartered Physiotherapists in Private Practice).more
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Physiotherapy today is defined as: "A systematic method of assessing musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, respiratory and neurological disorders of function including pain and those of...more
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Phytobiophysics - A New Philosophy
Phytobiophysics is a new and relevant scientific approach to the problems of mankind that incorporates modern knowledge, traditional therapies and ancient wisdom. Above all it is a...more
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Phytoestrogens are plant compounds that are able to mimic the action of steroidal oestrogen in the body, the dominant form in the human diet being flavonoids, which can be divided ...more
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Phytomedical Treatment of Eczema
The word eczema comes from the Greek word “ekzein” which means “to boil.” Eczema is a dry skin condition and highly individual in terms that it varies from person to person and come...more
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Pictures Show How Colour Blind People See the World
Colour blindness affects approximately 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women across the world. This means that there are almost 3 million citizens who are colour blind in the UK. In colla...more
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With over 20 years experience, having taught Pilates around the world, working in London, Parrot Cay, Turks and Caicos and the USA... passionate Pilates Instructor and Founder of Pu...more
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Pilates For Optimum Health and Fitness
Pilates is a form of body conditioning with exercises that systematically work the major muscle groups of the body with attention focused on correct breathing, alignment, controlle...more
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Pilates for Optimum Health and Fitness
Good health and wellbeing are not to be regarded as something of a luxury or some kind of self-indulgence - both are an essential part of a successful, forward thinking and fulfill...more
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Pilates looks after the basics of posture, the cardiovascular system, breathing and reduces stress to make it, according to the author, the most suitable method to counterbalance o...more
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A referred posterior leg pain condition described as a compression or irritation of the sciatic nerve by a contracted or stretched piriformis muscle. The syndrome is six times more ...more
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Planetary Herbal Wisdom Interview with Michael Tierra
Michael Tierra, a leading herbalist from the US, speaks to Helen Morris about his commitment to using the wisdom of many traditions of herbal medicine, and his concerns about “the ...more
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Planning for your GP Trip: Six Steps to Understanding your Pain
It’s one thing to go and see your doctor. It’s quite another to be able to accurately describe your pain. After all, we all have different pain thresholds, so describing the intensi...more
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Plant Medicines and Shamanic Healing
This article focuses on the medicinal use of plants by the Shamans of the Amazon and how they help us with our deepest spiritual experiences and development of consciousness. The a...more
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Plant Sterols/Sterolins for Optimum Immunity
This article will be of interest to readers seeking help with immune-system related challenges, and to practitioners working with such individuals.more
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Plantar fasciitis is an inflammation of the plantar fascia, the ligament that attaches the heel bone to muscle. When the ligament is overused through excessive running, jumping et...more
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Regular columnist Vivienne Silver-Leigh reminds us of the importance of play. She quotes Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler on the theme of playing, that: "Playing keeps us yo...more
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Play, Learn, Grow: Why Playgrounds are Vital to Childhood Development
Although public-use playgrounds have suffered as a result of budgetary concerns, outdoor play remains vitally important to childhood development. This kind of play informs children...more
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Podiatry - Importance of the Foot
This features look in depth at the way your feet can affect other areas of your body. Podiatry is the profession which specializes in the treatment, diagnosis and prevention of foo...more
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After a heart quadruple bypass operation in 1999, for poet and novelist Steve Jaffes, something magical started happening one day as he was writing the journal in which he vented a...more
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This article, by one of our regular feature writers, examines the case of Ann, who had been plagued by psoriasis for twenty years. Her body was marked by large, scaly patches of th...more
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We live in a perpetual healthcare hurricane, a marketing storm whipped up continuously with tidings of pharmacological breakthroughs and admonitions to submit to preventive screenin...more
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Poisoned - Side Effects of Mercury Amalgam Fillings
The author relates his personal experience of the effects that mercury amalgam fillings have had on his life – of his resulting ill health and subsequent recovery.more
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Polarity Therapy was developed by Dr Randolph Stone in the USA from 1945 to 1973. He integrated his knowledge of osteopathy, chiropractic and naturopathy with an understanding of e...more
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In Part II of a two part series the author talks about fascia and the energy flows. more
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Polarity Therapy - Touch with Awareness
This article will be of interest to clients seeking healing through touch, and to practitioners who may wish to enhance their work with healing through Therapeutic Touch, Reiki, Sh...more
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Polarity Therapy: Linking Ancient Knowledge and Modern Physics
What is Polarity Therapy? Polarity therapy is a system of holistic healthcare based on an understanding of the flow of life energy. Life energy must flow correctly to maintain opti...more
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Polycystic Ovaries: Conception following Nutritional Programme
Despite the remarkable breakthrough that IVF (in-vitro fertilization) has made in the treatment of infertility, Penny Crowther points out that there are other more natural and less...more
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Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is a complex condition that affects about one in 10 women in the UK. Symptoms include irregular or absent periods, ovulation problems and inferti...more
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Polymyalgia Rheumatica - Is it a Dental Problem?
It was interesting to come across a patient who had been diagnosed with Polymyalgia Rheumatica. This is a self-completed list of the symptoms that the patient presented with:more
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Polymyalgia rheumatica succumbs again!
Susan came to me eight months ago, more or less in despair. She had been diagnosed as suffering from polymyalgia rheumatica eighteen months beforehand. Her story started three ye...more
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With so many financial scandals effecting peoples health is may be time for us to put things in prospective before our health suffers.more
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Portrait of Natural Health Clinic
In this article on the portrait of Natural Health Clinic, the author provides a summary of this clinic which he runs, and also shares his views on when people do seek alternative t...more
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Positive Emotions - The Secret to Positive Health?
Traditional stress management techniques usually deal with stress after the fact, hours after your body has been subjected to heavy tides of adrenaline and pulses of cortisol. ...<...more
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Positive Health of Mind and Body
The author illustrates what she calls the “universal natural law that whatever we do in this life will eventually come back in exactly the same proportions” by relating the story o...more
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Post Treatment Re-Action following the Application of Alternative Medicine
Many 'alternative' therapies engender a re-action as a result of administering their remedies first time round for a given ailment. These re-actions usually do not exceed beyond the...more
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Post Viral Syndrome / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
In my early twenties I suffered with a nasty virus that left me feeling so debilitated that I was unable to work for a while. I recall falling asleep during a conversation taking p...more
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Both of the terms posture and balance seem to speak of stillness, but it is rather that they are continually with us, most noticed when the flurry of activity ceases. And every mov...more
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Potential of Mushroom Supplementation to Inhibit Progression of Alzheimer´s Disease
The World Health Organization reports that 47.5 million people are affected by dementia worldwide. With aging populations and 7.7 million new cases each year, the burden of illness ...more
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Power Assisted Micro-Manipulation
Power Assisted Micro-Manipulation by Irene Phillips the first osteopath to be using Power-Assisted Micro-Manipulation. The treatment is carried out working on all levels of the spi...more
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The word rune means 'a mystery' and it is also believed to come from a root, meaning 'to whisper' and 'a secret'. This is how the runes were passed on. The knowledge was a secret, ...more
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Practical Advice for Reflexologists and Complementary Therapists
In this article the author offers advice on how Reflexologists and Complementary Therapists can improve the quality of their service to keep and attract more clients.more
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Practical Ayurveda - Sattvic Qualities for a Healthy Mind and Body
Ayurveda, the Indian traditional medicine and 'science of life' is becoming more widely known outside of India and recognized as a truly holistic means of health care.more
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Meditation has been used for thousands of years, in many different ways and in cultures across the globe. It is thought primarily to be an Eastern practice as a means to finding sp...more
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Practical NLP: Negotiating Being Fat
The author gives an account of her personal history of having been told by her doctor to lose ten pounds, when she was fourteen, and weighed eight stone nine pounds. She did this s...more
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Practical NLP: Separation and Separateness
The author offers some keys to healthier relationships, particularly with our partners. She also explains the difference between separation and separateness, and how men and wo...more
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Practical Protection for Practitioners
This column is aimed to help practitioners practise in a professional manner which protects them and their clients. The author shares her views on what a Professional Practice is...more
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Practical Uses of NLP, and What Is It About Wheelchairs?
Just a quick refresher about metaprogrammes, first!more
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Practical Ways You can help Someone with a Cancer Diagnosis
A cancer diagnosis touches everyone, friends, family, colleagues and of course the person who has cancer. It’s is not often recognized that those surrounding a cancer patient have...more
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Practitioners Must State The Case For Complementary and Alternative Medicine
This is an urgent call to all practitioners to state the case for complementary and alternative medicine. The view accepted and promoted by the media is that because CAM lacks the...more
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The concept that everything in nature is permeated by energy, was fundamental to the philosophies of ancient civilisations such as China, Japan and India, and remains so today. The...more
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Prana for Health - No Touch Energy Healing
In this article the authors discuss the benefits of pranic healing, a no drug, no touch therapy, which is easy to learn and open to everyone. It resulted from over thirty years of ...more
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Pratima - Female Spiritual Teacher
Pratima was born as Michele Mumford in Liverpool in 1952 to two University Professors. She was brought up in England and received her B.A. Hons. in Philosophy and Comparative Relig...more
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Preeclampsia - Nutritional Factors
I wrote these thoughts on preeclampsia for a South African doctor; this information should be public knowledge.more
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Clinical nutritionist Kate Neil presents a case study of a 25-year-old woman, who appeared to be suffering from premature menopause, having not had a period for five years.more
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Prenatal and Birth Therapy - Healing our Earliest Wounds from Conception to Birth
Prenatal and birth therapy was developed by Dr Raymond Castellino as a powerful method of working with babies and their families in order to resolve traumatic imprinting that origi...more
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Primary prevention of infection can be assisted by taking certain herbs and spices. To enhance our immunity, the author suggests including spices such as ginger, cinnamon, cardam...more
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Choosing a homeopathic medicine on the basis of a single keynote symptom is neither recommended nor reliable. However, there are instances when a keynote symptom can be an importan...more
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Pressure Plate Analysis of Rothbarts Foot and the PreClinical Clubfoot Deformity
Standing barefooted, surface area (X) and media pressure (Y) readings were recorded on 11 PreClinical Clubfoot Patients and 6 Rothbarts Foot subjects using the Podolab 2000 pressure...more
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Preventing Coronary Heart Disease and Strokes
Are you at risk of coronary heart disease or strokes? It is possible to minimize that risk by your own actions? In the author's experience, when people really understand what is go...more
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Preventing Female Heart Disease
In the thick of the covid pandemic, there has been a lot of attention on supporting the immune system. Whilst this is a good idea, it’s only part of the picture. In this article, I...more
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Preventing Plane Pain - Looking After your Joints when Travelling
When you’re off relaxing or enjoying yourself at the beach or in the countryside, surely you’re looking after your health by taking time out? Whilst this is certainly true for easi...more
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Preventing Prostate Cancer Through Diet
Prostate gland problems affects 30% of men aged 20-40, 50% of men by 60, rising to 80% by 80, and prostate cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in men in the UK. ...more
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Prevention Of Ageing With Ayurveda
This is a very detailed account of the Ayurvedic approach to ageing, including recommendations about nutrition, life-style and attitudes, and specific Ayurvedic remedies.more
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House dust mites are found in most houses. Their numbers have increased dramatically in recent years, and there is evidence that this has led to a corresponding rise in the number ...more
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It is staggering to think that back pain will affect so many adults. Back pain in its various forms will affect 80% of people at some stage during their adult lives. This is the gr...more
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Prevention of Injury Through Strength Training
Anyone who is active will tell you that the most annoying barrier to continuing his or her sport or activity of choice is injury. It comes without warning, it is always inconvenient...more
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Prevention or Cure: Are all Fish Oils Equal? Part II
In the second part of David Taylor's Expert Column about fish oils, he looks at how we should take fish oils, whether they contain any contaminants and finally how well they work...more
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Prevention or Cure: What's the Problem with Milk?
The author looks at milk and why, like other white dietary products – salt, sugar, white flour, white rice, and white pasta – it should be excluded from our diet. He explains that ...more
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Primary Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
Kate Neil looks at the causes, symptoms and nutritional treatment of primary polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), a common hormonal problem affecting menstruating women, using the s...more
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Primordial Sound Meditation is a mantra meditation that was developed by Dr Deepak Chopra from an ancient tradition.more
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Probiotic Power: Are you Getting the Right Bugs?
This article focuses on probiotics, the beneficial lactic acid producing bacteria which inhabit our intestines. Milk, for one provides a good example, 'coz when soured it turns int...more
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Probiotics - What they are and what they do
The term "probiotic" covers microbial food supplements whose primary aim is to improve the health and well being of the consumer.more
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Sleep disorders are a major public health concern in the world, affecting millions of individuals and contributing to a wide range of health problems. Sleep is crucial for physical ...more
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Probiotics and the Immune System
Probiotics are live microorganisms that confer health benefits when consumed in adequate amounts. They are found in various foods and dietary supplements, including yogurt, kefir, a...more
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Probiotics:The missing link between health and disease
Intestinal dysbiosis – unbalanced intestinal bacterial flora – may be the link between food and lifestyle and its impact upon health and disease.more
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Problems Affecting Muscles and Joints
Mary Martin demonstrates how Reflexology can be used to treat problems affecting muscles and joints.more
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Procrastination: An NLP Strategy for ‘Doing it Now!’
When you find simple strategies for doing things that work well, do you collect and incorporate them into your everyday life or simply forget them? Learn how you can collect other ...more
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Professional Acronyms Alphabet Soup
...he came in for a session and while discussing the course material he thanked me for taking the time during the class to continually explain the multitude of acronyms...A few thou...more
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Professional Advice for Complementary Practitioners
In the light of increasing scrutiny of alternative and complementary medicine by the general public, the legal and medical professions, and the media, this article offers practical...more
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Profound Effect of Macrobiotic Diet upon Psoriasis and Stress-Related Skin Conditions
This Case Study by Philippa Brook shows how following a macrobiotic diet can have dramatic effects on the body, both internally and externally.more
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Progressive Yoga: Practice Tailored to the Individual.
The point of yoga, according to the author, is to work with one's own body, with the awareness that you are an individual with different needs from the next person....and that ev...more
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Francoise Mezieres was fond of saying "what is beautiful functions well". Good shape is not only a beauty asset; it is also an important factor of health.more
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Promising Cancer Treatments that Target Our Immune System - Part 1
The ‘War on Cancer’ commonly includes radical surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, procedures which often lead to the death of patients. Advances in out-of-the-box medical procedure...more
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Promoting Healthy Posture for Wheelchair Users
The provision of an appropriate and supportive wheelchair will enable good posture with head, spinal and trunk support and pelvic alignment. This is essential for regular or permane...more
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Properties and Uses of Carrier Oils
The importance of carrier oils beyond their role as dilutants is often overlooked, maintains Doreen Wallace. Many of them, she says, are full of valuable nutrients.more
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Properties of Good Quality Essential Oils
The author offers useful advice on how to choose a good quality, unadulterated oil by examining the Latin names given, specific components listed, country of origin, part of the pl...more
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Proprioception - Our Body Position Sense
In medical schools and textbooks, proprioception is defined as 'body position sense' - the ability to know where our body is at all times. The ultimate purpose of proprioception i...more
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Prostate Cancer - Natural Prevention Strategies and Information for Females
Men tend to ignore health problems until it is too late. Women are far more likely to visit a doctor when they are sick, whilst men wait and hope that their symptoms disappear. Thi...more
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Prostate Problems and Elevated Oestrogen
This article looks at prostate problems and the release of the hormone oestrogen, which is produced in small quantities in men, as a by-product of the testosterone conversion proce...more
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This article warns of the potential damage that inappropriate energy work can cause to our energy body, through the inexperience, ignorance or selfish motives of healers and energy...more
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Protecting the Integrity of the Metamorphic Technique®
When the caterpillar form dies as the caterpillar, energy is released, this energy, this power is also consciousness; there is then communication between what has been released and...more
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Prunella vulgaris: Self-heal - Eastern and Western Perspectives
Self-heal is a pretty member of the Lamiaceae family which grows all over Britain and Europe in pastures, woods and clearings and is loved by beesmore
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One of the cruelest things about the skin condition, psoriasis, is that it can go on to cause a particularly destructive form of arthritis, known as "psoriatic arthropathy".more
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Psoriasis and Neem My Own Personal Story
My own experience with Neem has been nothing short of miraculous. Growing up in Northern part of Germany ‘country style’ I quickly developed a love for the bounty of Mother Nature, ...more
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Without LIGHT, there would be no life as we know it today. Light contains information, energy, frequency, vibration, colour, sound and matter. We transmit light waves, and we rece...more
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Psychocreative Fasting and The Art of Inner Medicine
It isn’t everyone who will prescribe a fast for a person with PMT, diabetes, a bad heart, or cancer, still less perhaps someone with an eating disorder. Most people will tend to th...more
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Dolly the smiling sheep has her fetching photo on the front page of almost every newspaper I have seen recently, and the usual media pundits are discussing cloning everywhere I loo...more
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The author explains the required paradigm shift that is needed to bridge the divide between science/allopathic medicine and the holistic, mind-body approach to health, highlighti...more
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Psychophonetics - Psychotherapy as In-depth Coaching for Personal Transformation
This article focuses on Psychophonetics, a combination developed from coaching and psychotherapy – in-depth coaching for personal transformation and change. The author shares his j...more
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Psychosomatic Disorders and Hypnotherapy
At age eighteen I left school and joined The Manchester Royal Infirmary to train as a nurse. I wanted to be involved in curing suffering. Observing many horrific illnesses in the wa...more
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Psychosomatic Illness (Somatoform Disorders)
The term ‘psychosomatic’ is often misunderstood to convey an ‘it’s all in the mind’ pejorative slant. This overlooks the fact that whatever the illness, the symptoms are real and ma...more
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This month's column will be a special one, written by me and a friend and colleague who works in the related field of psychotherapy – Dr Sheldon Litt. Dr Litt trained with the foun...more
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Psychotherapy as a Humane Discipline (A paradigm for therapists)
Many psychotherapists are uncertain about their values and confused about the general values of psychotherapy.more
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PTSD, Shock and Trauma - The Role of Flower Essences
Post-traumatic Stress disorder, is by it very nature insidious and is usually the result of the after effects of shock and stress, traumatic which can if left unchecked have a deva...more
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The human body is mostly made of water and your body absolutely relies on water to function properly. Yet, how many of us are as discerning of the ‘natural’ quality of the water we ...more
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This column focuses on correct posture and the ‘forward head’ problem which the author describes as the 21st century posture phenomena, due to the inordinate amount of time spent a...more
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Pycnogenol - Nature's Most Powerful Antioxidant
This column discusses free radicals and the super antioxidant Pycnogenol, a natural extract from the bark of French maritime pine trees, which is scientifically proven to have a pr...more
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Pyrroluria - Vitamin B6 and Zinc Deficiency
Paula had had three miscarriages, very widely spaced periods, felt depressed, was nauseous in the mornings and suffered indigestion and bloating. She had also suffered from anore...more
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Pythagoras' musical - therapeutical treatment
Music and sound in the ancient Indian system of Ayurveda are essential for balancing the functioning of the doshas (representing the principles of creation, preservation and destru...more
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This column focuses on Ubiquinone Q10, a naturally occurring substance and a necessary part of the cells’ energy metabolism, without which the cells cannot produce the energy that ...more
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Rosey Grandage is an experienced practitioner of Chinese medicine who specialises in Qi Gong and Tui Na. Wrio Russell asks her to demystify this element of Chinese medicine and to ...more
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The author explains that Qigong therapy has been proven to cure disease and preserve health. However, there is no unified standard definition of the practice and is still a content...more
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Anne Wharton was only 43 years old, but she felt as if she was dying, conventional medicine had failed to diagnose the symptoms of intense neck pain, numbness and blackouts, suffer...more
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Goodman: It has been a pleasure to hear that everyone is individual and there isn't a magic formula that is going to work for everyone, and I hope we all take this away with us. Ann...more
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Goodman: There are a few things that I would like to know; perhaps it will be expanded at the last one at the end of the day. This is the whole definition of oestrogenic and progest...more
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Question & Answer: Dr John Lee, Dr Shirley Bond, Dr David Smallbone, Dr Judy Griffin, Beth MacEoin and Leslie Kenton field questions from the audience in this, the final questi...more