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Biolumanetics and Classical Homoeopathy
...within two weeks, this patient's bowel movements corrected themselves, and she has been on the same remedy for over six months in a very low dosage. In the words of the patient ...more
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Homeopath Kieran Linnane relates how she and colleague Charles Wansbrough have been using Biolumanetics in their homeopathic practice for the last four years in order to make a mor...more
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Martin Haines has trained 5 Olympic gold medallists, McLaren Formula 1 racing drivers, premiership footballers as well as international rugby players and golfers. He has also biomec...more
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Bioptron® Light Therapy: Polarized, Incoherent, Polychromatic and Low Energy Light
This article recalls the history of light therapy, dating back to 1400 BC, including the awarding of one of the earliest Nobel prizes to a doctor practising light therapy. Bioptron...more
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Bioresonance - Fact or Fallacy? An Evidence-Based Approach
In this article which reviews the facts and fallacy of bioresonance, the author traces evidence relating to emissions of electromagnetic radiations – the motion of electrons and it...more
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Bioresonance Part II: Practical Approaches to Treatment
This second of a two-part article on bioresonance concludes with Roger Coghill examining practical ways in which it is being applied in complementary therapy today. Although still ...more
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Biosensing to Counter Geopathic Stress
How often do patients get 'successfully' treated by conventional medicine, or alternative healing, to find that the success is not long-lasting? How often is the lack of long-term ...more
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Biosynthesis - A Body Psychotherapy
Biosynthesis is a body-psychotherapy developed by David Boadella in the early 1970s. His approach grew out of many years experience with Reichian therapy.more
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Bipolar Disorder - My Personal Description
In Professor Aaron Beck’s Forward to Professor Richard Bentall’s book Madness Explained, who teaches at Liverpool University, he states that “Incomprehensible symptoms of the mental...more
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Birth Anxiety and the Overdue Baby
This Expert Column describes the successful homeopathic treatment of a woman having a normal pregnancy but extreme anxiety due to a previous difficult birth experience.more
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All things are birthed, from a new product to a new life. Even a new thought goes through a birthing process. And each birth requires the stages of conception/fertilization, gestati...more
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This month’s column is bound to irritate some readers, and anger others, but as I have recently been both irritated and angered myself, this possibility seems to me worth while in ...more
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Black Hole Principles, Biology and Belief
The article goes on to explain the connections between black holes and our chakras, and introduces the reader to other important concepts – fractal elements of the cosmos, dark mat...more
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This article is a comprehensive consideration of bloating, its effects, its causes, and a useful and non-doctrinaire set of recommendations about diagnosis and potentially helpful ...more
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Blossom Oils For Blooming Summer
With summer almost upon us, the author focuses on sweet summer fragrances such as rose blooms in the garden and aromatherapy oils. She says that through the sense of smell we can a...more
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Blueprint to Healthy Eating, Fuelling and Exercising
Eating a healthy and balanced diet is key to improving the quality of your life, especially when coupled with regular physical activity and due attention to your emotional health, r...more
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Body Alignment Technique and Vortex Technology
Body alignment technique uses vibrational energy to heal others and ourselves. Negative emotional experiences become subconsciously locked into our body at a cellular level. This u...more
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Body Control Pilates is a complete body conditioning programme based on the method developed over seventy years ago by German-born Joseph Pilates.more
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Body Harmony is a form of hands-on bodywork, based on listening to, and being guided by, a client's body responses. By combining careful observation with good listening skills and ...more
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Body Harmony is a hands-on form of body work, that acknowledges the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual as one. It is an experience in personal empowerment, that allows us to...more
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Body Image, Culture and Sexuality
In today's society, body image has become an increasingly hot topic of discussion; whether it be chatter in the school playground or coverage in the tabloids, it has become very dif...more
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Body Massage Treatment - A Holiday Treat
A truly relaxing holiday for me is a holiday with body massage or any other form of natural treatments (not necessarily tactile).more
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Where two or more bones join we have a joint, and a joint is a place which generally allows movement. There is, however, a trade-off between joint movement and invulnerability. T...more
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Body Rhythm Cycles Around the Clock
All those of us who have experienced times of instability will confirm that when our routines are no longer there to support and ground us through the day we can feel off balance.more
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The article discusses how Body Stress Release (BSR) began as the idea of retired American chiropractor Dr Richard van Rumpt, that the body is limited in its ability to respond to s...more
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Body Therapy, Ethics and Quantum Mechanics
A few months ago, I was having tea near St. James Park in London with friends who were far more knowledgeable about the politics of body therapy and alternative medicine. I'm certa...more
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As a race we are excellent at compensating. From surviving in harsh environments, overcoming illness and disease to dealing with daily stresses. We learn to adapt and adjust in orde...more
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I have a good friend named Donna (not her true name) who started studying body therapies about twenty years ago. The first therapy she learnt was a form of structural bodywork, an ...more
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Bodywork for Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood
This article focuses on body support for women during pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood. The author touches on the different forms of bodywork, adding that most forms, from Arom...more
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Bodywork Matters: Neuroskeletal Re-alignment Therapy
As reported in previous issues, this therapy is light touch, non-invasive and extremely effective for many musculo-skeletal problems and certain neurological disorders.more
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Bodywork Matters: Neuroskeletal Re-alignment Therapy Case Study
In this column the author presents an amazing case study of a client with an agonizing bulging disc who, following neuroskeletal realignment therapy, was relieved of the pain for...more
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Bodywork: The Relevance of Subclavius
This article touches on the importance of small muscles in the body such as the pectoralis minor, sternocleidomastoid, omohyoid, etc., and focuses on the subclavius, a small, long,...more
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Bolles Sensory Learning Method
The Bolles Sensory Learning Method™ is an innovative non-cognitive approach to developmental learning that utilizes enhanced natural sensory stimulation for remediation of an indiv...more
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Bone Building Nutrition - Calcium Not the Only Key
Bones are truly amazing structures that mend and rebuild themselves by the actions of two cells types – osteoblasts that form bone and osteoclasts that resorb (destroy) bone. This ...more
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Boron: Major Cause and Cure for Arthritis
Forty years ago, Dr Rex Newnham developed arthritis, and orthodox medicine did not help. His analysis of the differences between the fertility of clay soil and sandy soil (sandy so...more
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Botox – Everyone’s Doing It and It’s safe!!
I was recently talking with a lady in her late twenties – she looked vibrant and young, however she had a list of health problems that she wanted my help with resolving. When I aske...more
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I've found a new word that delights me: callipygian. It is an adjective combining the Greek kallos, beauty (as in calligraphy: beautiful writing), with pyge, buttocks. Hence, a cal...more
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This column looks into the shape and language of legs. The author provides a simple tip on how to check if you have bow legs, knock-knees or lock-knees, flat or hollow feet, hallux...more
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Bowen has multiple applications on both a physical and emotional level, and its successful use in pre- and post-natal care and in treating frozen shoulder and eczema and in relea...more
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Bowen Technique for Back Pain and Other Conditions
The author concludes that many of her clients who have presented with long-standing complaints find great relief after just a small number of treatments. It is, she adds, a therapy...more
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Bowen Working on Physical and Energy Levels
Bowen is a simple and gentle therapy in which skin slack is drawn back with the fingers and thumbs to the edge of a muscle, tendon or ligament at a particular point on the body unt...more
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This column focuses on brain nutrient deficiencies and what steps we can take to achieve and maintain optimum brain health.more
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Brain-Waves and Altered States of Consciousness
The author provides a highly technical and detailed account of the 5 types of brain-wave (Delta, Theta, Alpha, Beta and Gamma), and the states of consciousness with which they are ...more
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This article starts off describing the standard breakfast of cereal and milk, most often, these days, packaged, highly processed cereals, often sugar coated. This high-carb, high s...more
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Breakfast - The Best Way to Start the Day
The word ‘breakfast’ originated from the 15th century to describe the first meal of the day, eaten in the morning, and which will break the fast of the previous night.[1] Whilst bre...more
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Breakup, Breakdown, Breakthrough, Breakdance
Break ups…. Almost everyone have had to deal with one or more in their lives. I have had quite a good and peaceful childhood, excelled at school without really having had to do anyt...more
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Breast Cancer - Detection or Deception?
Sherill Sellman writes a hard-hitting article about the treatment of breast cancer in the USA, exposing the dangers of some cancer detection procedures and treatments and the hidde...more
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Breast Cancer - Naturopathic Approaches
The author looks at the issue of complementary health care for breast cancer from the perspectives of naturopathy and kinesiology. Naturopathy is a non-invasive therapy that invest...more
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Breast Cancer: The Epidemic that Won't Go Awaymore
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Breast Cancer: Current Trends and Future Hopes
Breast cancer is the third most common cancer in the world, creating a burden of disease comparable with that of colorectal cancer.more
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Breast Cancer: Helping the Healer to Heal Herself
In this article nutritionist Judith Price describes how a colleague diagnosed with breast cancer planned her own course of treatment, firstly using self-hypnosis and the Emotional ...more
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Breast Cancer: There Must Be Another Way!
This article presents an interview with a young woman whose breast cancer has been in remission for twelve years. The context is research the author has been doing with individuals...more
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Breath and the River: Say Yes To The River
Breath is the essence of life – Physiologically we know breath as that which provides oxygen to the lungs which in turn oxygenates the blood. However, we can literally buy oxygen, ...more
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I would like to open up a debate about breathing with this article, which I hope will lead to a deeper understanding, and a more fruitful application of breathing techniques. I als...more
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What is your favourite kind of breathing? Do you prefer upper thoracic or abdominal breathing? Costal or diaphragmatic? Rhythmic or yogic? Buteyko breathing or re-birthing breathin...more
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Breath Testing for Development Disorders?
Regular contributor David Taylor discusses dyspraxia, a childhood neuro-developmental disorder that is thought by some to affect around 5% of the population. The disorder is charac...more
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This article focuses on the importance of voice and speech and ways in which we can improve how we sound. Counselling helps people to find what they really mean and sometimes it i...more
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Breathing in a Circle - Transforming Consciousness Through Breathing
On the last Tuesday of every month, around the world, small groups of people gather themselves into circles. They come together not to debate an issue, form a committee or follow a ...more
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Breema Essence of Harmonious Life
Through deep receptivity to the body, and a rhythmic connection to the Earth, Breema can help us become available to the instinctive wisdom of the body. By allowing that wisdom to ...more
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Bridging The Gap Between The Law Of Attraction and Inspired Action
If you really want to bridge the gap between The Law of Attraction and Inspired Acton - then it is time for you to focus your life in one area only - focus your thoughts, your expe...more
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Bringing Sleep Clinic Quality to the Bedroom
Sleep influences how well we live our lives in myriad ways - from our physical and mental health and performance to our productivity at work, mood and cognitive abilities. Sleep is ...more
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Bruxism, TMJD and Migraines - The Terrible Triad
The temporomandibular joint (TMJ) is the hinge that connects the lower jawbone (mandible) to the rest of the skull. This joint is connected to different parts of the body including ...more
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Buddhism is all about being happy and it works well. Everybody, everyday has the wish to be happy and free from suffering. However, very few people fulfil this fundamental wish. Ma...more
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Mention chakra disturbances, spirit intervention or karma to most people and they may ask what planet you live on! Whichever planet, Buddhist healing works with all such forces, an...more
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Science has proven that fats play an important role in the functioning of the entire body. To function efficiently, cells require true polyunsaturated, live electron-rich lipids, p...more
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Build Up Your Defences For Winter
The Germ is Nothing, the Terrain is everything. The famous nineteenth century bacteriologist, Louis Pasteur uttered the previous sentence towards the end of his days. Having spent ...more
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Beata Bishop uses two powerful examples to demonstrate how we all need to establish our autonomy and ensure that we march to our own drumbeat rather than being overwhelmed by the i...more
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Building a Thriving Complementary Practice
...if your practice isn't thriving in the way you would like, it's time to take a look at steps you could be taking to attract more clients with ease.more
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Bulimia nervosa, a psychiatric eating disorder according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM5)[1] is a mental health condition that mani...more
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Buqi - Chinese Energy Therapy to Restore Balance
Buqi (pronounced boo chi) translates as Chinese healing with vital forces and was developed by Dr Shen Hongxun, drawing on Chinese and Western medicines, Tai Chi, acupuncture, Budd...more
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BUQI: An introduction to a new Chinese healing system
Buqi is an old Chinese word – to indicate healing – during the Han dynasty. In historic books one can find records about people curing diseases without touching but nowhere is th...more
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Bust Allergies Naturally: GP’s Five Plant Hack Answers Borne Out Of Nature
If you struggle with allergies, then you’re certainly not alone. The UK actually has some of the highest allergy rates. In fact, over 20% of the UK population are affected by one or...more
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Breathing is one of our most important functions and plays a large part in the patterns of disease and health. Most doctors and health care practitioners know little about how peop...more
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C1 and C2 Vertebrae Misalignment Symptoms
The C1 and C2 vertebrae are the first two vertebrae located directly under the skull. They allow us to move our heads as we do hundreds of times a day. A misalignment of those verte...more
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Caffeine is a naturally occurring chemical found in plant sources such as coffee, cocoa beans and tea leaves. It is also extracted and added to food, drink and some medicines. If yo...more
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Callanetics(r) - Superb Exercise Programme based upon Ballet and Yoga
This article focuses on Callanetics exercises, developed in the 1980s by ex-ballerina Callan Pinckney. The author explains how the exercises work and can change the body from head ...more
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Calories, the Good and the Bad
When it comes to dieting most people focus on calorie restriction. The understanding is that to successfully lose unwanted weight, one must ensure that more calories are burnt than ...more
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Self esteem and good marketing are key elements in a successful business in CAM; however the words 'business' and 'marketing' are often shunned by health practitioners and considere...more
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CAM Practitioners – A Modern Insight into Today’s Practices
CAM offers the body the push it needs to activate its self-healing mechanisms. Because of this, it works on a phenomenal range of illnesses and symptoms of both the mind and body. I...more
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Can Allergies Make You Tired? Top Tips For Managing Allergy Fatigue
If you’re one of the many people who experience allergies, you may have suffered through common symptoms like itchy eyes and skin, nasal congestion, and/or watery eyes. You may have...more
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Can Beliefs Impact The Immune System?
In Disney’s portrayal of the Jungle Book,[1] Mowgli’s belief was that the python Kaa was friendly! In Mowgli’s case this belief was based upon ignorance and would have resulted in ...more
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Can Complementary & Alternative Medicine Help Fight Covid-19?
It goes without saying that new, stunningly virulent and resurgent illnesses have been escalating around the globe, with alarming intensity, and advancing more rapidly than ever bef...more
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Can Depression Be Fatal and How Can It Be Cured?
Depression is more than just feeling sad. It's a serious health concern that can sometimes be life-threatening. The mood swings you get, or the constant feeling of sadness might tak...more
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It might sound like something from a science fiction novel but there is now strong scientific evidence to show that our dogs can actually detect human cancers. This fantastic abili...more
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“Can I be hypnotized?” is a question which I’ve been asked countless times over the past 30 years. The question is often followed with: “I can’t be hypnotized, I’ve tried it….”more
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Can Massage And Bodymind Learning Ease Inflammation In The Body Politic?
A few days after the US presidential election – which, no matter which side one was on, issued in a tumultuous time – one of my local therapist friends said what was needed was ‘a ...more
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Can the Brain Really be Re-Wired?
This article looks at how the brain can be re-wired and whether it can be done without the person having to work out how, why or when, through RaphaYad Bioenergy Healing treatments...more
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Can Water Greatly Enhance Quality of Health?
When did you ever go to your doctor and receive the diagnosis that you were dehydrated? When did your doctor ever tell you to increase the volume of water you drink? For most people...more
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Can You Take Fat Supplements If You Miss Working Out For A Day?
In the modern world, obesity is a major condition that is affected a large percentage of the population. Many people lead a sedentary life which results in worsening the condition....more
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Cancer and Complementary Medicine: A Roundup
Richard Eaton explores the contribution by practitioners of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) to the provision of cancer healthcare in the United Kingdom (UK). Although t...more
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Cancer is a western medicine disease whereas Master Acupuncturists practise oriental medicine, so how is it going to be possible to reconcile these two entities - the western medic...more
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Since the 1970s, red meat has been suspected of increasing the risk of cancer. Recently the World Cancer Research Fund published its monumental review of the evidence on nutrition,...more
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Cancer and the Environment - Perception in Perspective
How do we assess the risks of cancer from the various hazards we are exposed to in our environment? Estimates of 75 to 90% of all cancers are believed to be caused by agents in the...more
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Cancer Case Treated with Ayurvedic Medicine Herbal Therapy
A Recurrent Case of Retromolor Triangle Oral cavity, Post standard treatment, Patient Treated with Herbal Therapy - A complete cure shown by Histopathology examinationmore
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Cancer Chemosensitivity Testing
When a patient has an infection, doctors often send a sample of infected blood or tissue to a lab where they can grow the bacteria and see which antibiotics are most effective (cal...more
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Cancer Control through Pathology-Based Homeopathic Medicine
Homeopathy is a system of medical therapy that uses information of a biophysical nature and/or very small (infinitesimal) doses of medicines or remedies that are hardly traced even ...more
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Cancer Detoxification Approaches
Drs Graeme and Lilian Munro-Hall advocate a program to support cancer patients consisting of physical, psychological and spiritual elements. They recommend Gerson Therapy and both ...more
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Cancer is a word used to describe a wide range of disorders that result from the growth and spread of abnormal cells throughout many different parts of the body. Cancer was origina...more
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Cancer Killing Medicinal Mushrooms
Cancer can be a brutal disease and its treatment can be as brutal as the disease itself!more
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Cancer Prevention, Detection and Treatment – The Way Forward
Even if you don’t have cancer, or are not particularly interested in reading about cancer, please read the following articles which contain important information about environmenta...more
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Cancer Target - Cellular Respiration
Mitochondria are the cellular energy generators that supply virtually all the power your body requires for a healthy life span. Energy-intensive organs like the heart and brain are...more
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Cancer-Preventing Properties of Essential Oil Monoterpenes D-Limonene and Perillyl Alcohol
When people first hear the word monoterpene (MT), typically the 'terpene' portion conjures up images of some sort of cleaning fluid such as turpentine. Associated with this image i...more
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Cancer, Atherosclerosis and Sympathetic Dominance
I have read with interest the article Hypothesis: Cancer causes and mechanisms by John Spottiswoode, published in Positive Health PH Online in Issue 110 - April 2005,[1] where he pr...more
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I've been on an extraordinary journey. It's not been an easy one and as I travelled I became aware that many others have travelled down the same road....The journey starts the day ...more
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Candida: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approaches
This article discusses the history of candida, what candida is, who gets it, how it can be diagnosed, and which therapeutic approaches may be beneficial in its treatment.more
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Capricious Charlie Chamomilla - Matricaria chamomilla
In this article the author demonstrates the effects of Chamomile, on an angry, demanding baby named Charlie. A baby prone to middle ear infections, hypersensitive to pain, and also...more
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Cardamom: Elettaria Cardamomum
Regular contributor Anne McIntyre looks at cardamom. Cardamom pods have long been esteemed for their ability to lift the spirits, reduce pain, restore vitality and induce a calm, m...more
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“Although there is not total agreement on the nature and clinical significance of the effects of digitalis on the autonomic nervous system, the following points seem well establishe...more
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Cardiovascular Health: New Nutrition Strategies Part I
The article discusses research which challenges the supposed link between high cholesterol levels and the risk of heart attack. There is a new theory that cholesterol is used as ...more
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Cardiovascular Health: New Nutrition Strategies Part II
Despite decades of health advice to reduce saturated fat and cholesterol, heart disease is still the number one killer in the UK and a leading cause of death worldwide. Prefacing h...more
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Cardiovascular Health: New Nutrition Strategies Part III
In this part, the author discusses the role of the optimum fats in cardiovascular health, and explores the emotional aspect of heart problems in the context of Chinese medicine and...more
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Cardiovascular Risk Assessment
In this Expert Regular Column, Kate Neil looks at the risk of cardiovascular disease and what can be done to reduce such risk. She gives the case study of a 45 year old man with a ...more
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Caring for Yourself and Your Elderly Loved One
Are you a carer for your elderly loved one? Do you feel exhausted, worn out, and sometimes frustrated? Or are you at the beginning stages of care and worried about your future as yo...more
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Attacks on Freudian psychoanalysis the past decade have started to erode support for the old Viennese master, but Jung has been relatively immune from this new scepticism in the ...more
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In the last two issues of Positive Health, we discussed some of the primary ideas of Carl Jung, one of the early pioneers of the psychoanalytic movement, who broke with Freud to em...more
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Carob is a Fantastic Chocolate Substitute
Carob, a very old food, and a member of the pulse family, is very similar in taste and consistency to chocolate. The article cites nutritional studies concerning it: a lower GI tha...more
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In Greek mythology, the Titan Atlas, having angered Zeus, was forced to hold up the sky – a Herculean task if ever there was one. As the heavens were at that time thought to be sph...more
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I have had asthma since I was 12, as a result of being allergic to grasses, tree spores, and most animals. In 1992 (aged 32) I went on holiday to New Zealand with my husband and I ...more
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Case Studies kindly sent in by Theo Gimbel of the Hygeia Studios
Two case studies: The Migraine Case and The Colostomy Case, both treated and cured using colour therapy.more
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Case Studies on Eczema, Acne and Dull, Lifeless Skin
This article follows on from discussion about the skin, which featured in the previous issue (no. 63) of Positive Health, and presents three case studies illustrating the effective...more
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Case Studies on Homeopathy - Four Cases of Eczema
Eczema is the external or skin manifestation of allergy and, as such, can often be influenced by dietary manipulation. This approach is fraught with difficulties and frustrations a...more
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Case Studies on the Eat Right for Your Blood Type Diet
In this column, June Butlin expands on Peter D'Adamo's Eat Right for Your Blood Type Diet. This diet identifies the foods which are most suitable for the four blood groups O, A, B ...more
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Case Studies: Holistic Effects of Thai Massage
Thai massage is performed using rhythmic thumb, palm and elbow pressure, muscle compressions and stretching along these energy lines.more
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Case Study - Remarkable Aromatherapy
In this column the author presents a case study on the use and remedial benefits of aromatherapy on a 50 year-old male client suffering muscle tone weakness, loss of movement and s...more
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Following on from last month's column that looked at the role nutrition has to play in dealing with stress, this month June Butlin looks at a case of severe stress that caused a ra...more
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Case Study - Spirit Release benefits Asperger's Syndrome
This case is indeed inspiring. The authors write that Spirit release is not a new concept. Culturally throughout the world there are references to 'spirits' who return to this worl...more
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Case Study 145: Psychosomatic Eye Disorders
Through the use of two case studies the author explains to us that in some cases eye disorders may have their roots in psychosocial situations, as opposed to medical problems. The ...more
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Case Study 147 The Power of Crystal Therapy
This column focuses on the power and positive effects of crystals used for healing. The author presents the case of a 59-year old woman with lower back pain. Despite being on the...more
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A case study for cystitis, diabetes, frozen sholder, irritable bowel syndrome and laryngitis.more
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Case Study Crohn's Disease - My Inspiring Life following Surgery
Unusually, in a journal devoted to alternative and complementary approaches to health, this article is an enthusiastic account of the benefits of surgery for this very debilitating...more
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Case Study Issue 100: Overcoming Advanced Invasive Breast Cancer
This case study is Hazel Scade's personal testimony on how she recovered from advanced cancer of the breast. She was first diagnosed in April 2000 and told she should have immediat...more
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Case Study Issue 101: Healing for Second World War Trauma
A full time healer, Michaela often works with terminal patients and the very elderly. One such was an 82-year old ex-serviceman who had suffered from night terrors since he returne...more
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Case Study Issue 102: The Tale of Two Left Feet
This case history features a husband and wife, both in their seventies, both amputees for different reasons, both successes for reflexology practised by the author. Eva, the wife, ...more
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Case Study Issue 103: Bi-Aura Therapy for Osteoarthritis
The author reports the case of a 68-year-old woman, Anne, who was so crippled with osteoarthritis that she became housebound. She had suffered a progressive deterioration of the co...more
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Case Study Issue 104: Buteyko Treatment for Asthma
Buteyko treatment was developed in 1950s Russia by Dr Konstantin Buteyko Thirty years later, its benefits were recognized by the Russian authorities who approved it for use in asth...more
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Case Study Issue 105: Overcoming Breast Cancer Through Macrobiotics
This is a personal odyssey by a cancer victim who had first overcome bone cancer and then, at the age of 40, discovered a malignant lump in her right breast and recovered from that...more
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Case Study Issue 106: Tribute to Mrs Ann Warren Davis
The author suffered a massive haemorrhage three months after giving birth. She required a hysterectomy after which she went on to HRT. Her depression grew and her GP put her on Am...more
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Case Study Issue 107: Recovery from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) or ME
This case study is Mary O’Dowd’s personal experience and gradual recovery, over the past ten years, from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS or ME), a condition many people, especially i...more
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Case Study Issue 108: Breaking the Migraine Pattern with The Bowen Technique
About two years ago, Nikke Ariff, a Bowen practitioner and member of the Bowen Therapists’ European Register, carried out a research programme into the effectiveness of the Bowen T...more
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Case Study Issue 109: Fibromyalgia - My Experience
This case study is Angela Mathis’ personal experience with fibromyalgia (FM), a condition she discovered she had on experiencing bouts of memory loss and headaches, dizziness, fati...more
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Case Study Issue 110: Recovery from Life-Threatening Meningitis
This is the author’s personal account of her encounter with a strain of bacterial meningitis, a condition she nearly died of. All she remembers, before she blanked out for a few da...more
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Case Study Issue 111: Yoga Therapy for Attention Deficit Disorder
The author, a registered nurse, author and yoga instructress shares the effectiveness of yoga therapy on a highly emotionally and physically fatigued mother and her eight year old ...more
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Case Study Issue 112: How Our Emotions Are Connected To Our Muscles
According to the author, we live our lives in and through our physical body, and that how we stand, hold ourselves and so on, expresses our view of ourselves, or what we wish other...more
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Case Study Issue 113: Cat Allergy Alleviated with Reishi
In this article, the author presents the positive effect of Reishi on his 54 year-old brother who was suffering from cat allergy since his 20s. His symptoms included prickly eyes t...more
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Case Study Issue 114: Alexander Technique - Lessons for Life
In this article the author gives a case study of a fourteen year old girl named Jenny suffering from a condition known as Hypermobility Syndrome, where even the most basic of activ...more
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Case Study Issue 115: The Human Energy Field (HEF) and Chakras
This article focuses on the human energy field and Polycontrast Interference Photography (PIP), a new scanning system that is already internationally recognised as an effective 'En...more
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Case Study Issue 116: Deep Tissue Sports Massage
This article is a case study of a dance enthusiast whose osteopath recommended she go in for deep tissue sports massage to better her musculature.more
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Case Study Issue 117: How Three Miscarriages Have Affected Me
In this article on miscarriages, the author provides some first hand insight into how her miscarriages (three in all) affected her emotionally and how she coped.more
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Case Study Issue 118: Benefits of Shiatsu and Positive Thinking
In this article, the author supports the benefits of shiatsu and positive thinking with a case study of a client predisposed to being negative about himself, his health and life in...more
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Case Study Issue 119: Continuing Success with Stabilizing Cancer
The author provides an update of her success with stabilizing the cancer in her, through a naturopathic and living-food therapeutic lifestyle, comprising live and virtually raw foo...more