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  1. Understanding Ourselves: Do You Deserve a Treat?

    Fancy a cream cake? Could you buy one without feeling guilty? Should you have to establish first whether you deserve one? In this article, Dorothy Rowe relates our shiver of guilt ...more

  2. Understanding Pancreatic Cancer Causes and Treatments

    “The pancreas is the first organ to develop inhibited function from varied stresses,”[1] writes Dr William Philpott and Dr Dwight K Kalita in their book Brain Allergies. Recent stu...more

  3. Understanding Relationship

    This article is about understanding relationships and can benefit individuals looking for a partner, people in a relationship where they feel stuck, distant or dead, and those in c...more

  4. Understanding Spino Cerebellar Ataxia (SCA)

    I am a dental surgeon, trained at the University of London and based in London. The welfare of my patients, many of whom have been in my care for general dentistry for decades is pa...more

  5. Understanding the Music you Listen to can Enhance your Meditation

    Listening to music while practising yoga is more of a controversial idea than you might expect. For some people, it just seems to work; for others, it’s a distraction. What’s most i...more

  6. Universal Application of Polarity Therapy The Application of Universal Principles of Energy and Healing

    Polarity therapy, founded by Randolph Stone, draws on the universal principles of energy set out in the Ayurvedic healing tradition. It is a hands-on therapy and works on the basis...more

  7. Universal Harmonic Healing

    This article looks at Universal Harmonic Healing (UHH), which is a rebalancing of universal energies both within and around us in our aura. Our bodies want to be in a state of bala...more

  8. Universal Truths of Tai Chi

    This article focuses on Tai Chi which is now practised throughout the West because of the many renowned practitioners from China living here. Many of these practitioners have also ...more

  9. Unleash Your Mind Power to be in Control of Your Life

    Here the author examines the power of the mind, and states that in order to have the outcome we desire in life one must tap into mind power to achieve our goals and dreams. The min...more

  10. Unlock Weight Management Secrets with New Zealand Blackcurrants

    Struggled with Lockdown Weight Gain? Has your Fitness Slipped? Want to Take Control of your Weight Loss and Fitness Goals Fast? more

  11. Unlocking Your Hidden Abilities – the Easy Way

    Geoff Merrigan explores ways in which we can easily release our hidden healing abilities. He himself shifted from a conventional scientific background to discovering and then teach...more

  12. Unlocking Your Potential: Mental and Physical Exercise Essentials

    The economy is reopening. Workers are returning to the office after a year of remote working and furlough, reigniting our normal schedules and getting careers back on track. However...more

  13. Unravelling GI Problems – Stress

    I believe in working to achieve real healing. A client’s level of health is a direct result of their lifestyle, so when a part of that lifestyle does not support health it must be c...more

  14. Unravelling Superhumans Thinking Strategies

    Many of the people we hail as genius are simply clever people who have developed strategies for doing things incredibly well. Human beings have limited brainpower; there is only so ...more

  15. Unravelling the Mysteries of Hormones

    Hormones are very tiny, very sensitive chemical messengers that were evolved to manage our reproductive, stress and metabolic responses. In an ideal world, out hormones would ebb an...more

  16. Unshackle Yourself from Limiting Beliefs

    A belief is a strategy that lets you know you can or cannot do something. If you believe you can, or you believe you can’t you are probably right. A belief is the strategy, the s...more

  17. Untangling the Tangled Web

    The key tenet of osteopathy and craniosacral therapy is that ‘structure governs function’. If structure is compromised, then function is altered. When assessing patients, the prac...more

  18. Untreated Hearing Loss – Effects Upon Depression, Memory Loss and Dementia

    Hearing is a crucial part of the human experience. This is not to say that those without hearing are damaged or incomplete – rather we mean that when you spend your life with the ab...more

  19. Unwind and Relax

    Using examples of a student with acute psoriasis and her own problems with chronic back pain, regular columnist, yoga teacher Ruth White, describes how yoga was used to completely ...more

  20. Use Essential Oils to Change Your Mood and Make the Most of Every Minute

    In this, Barbara Payne’s final Expert Column prior to her retirement from PH, she finds powerful, yet tangible ways in which we can search for balance in our busy lives. Essential ...more

  21. Use It or Lose It

    This article discusses the pelvic floor muscles and tissues, how they are designed to work as a complete unit and the benefits of Pilates on these muscles. According to the author ...more

  22. Use The Dark Days To Lighten Up

    Barbara Payne points out how outside influences and emotional ups and downs create chemical changes within, which in turn affect the way we feel and ultimately define our health st...more

  23. Using Herbal Medicine

    The long history of traditional use of herbal medicines to safely treat common family illness needs to be more widely recognized and understood.more

  24. Using Hyaluronic Acid for Knee Pain

    Painful, swollen knees that barely bend? We can help! Issues in the knees can affect anyone - old or young. Depending upon the severity, knee problems can impact almost every aspec...more

  25. Using Hypnosis for Self-Understanding and Change

    My clients often surprise me, which I see as one of the benefits to me of my work as a therapist.more

  26. Using pH as a measure of Digestive Physiology

    Proper digestion is a prerequisite for optimum health. Ascertaining the degree to which digestion has become dysfunctional is critical, as abnormal digestive physiology adversely a...more

  27. Using Rational Emotional Behaviour Therapy (REBT) – for Managing Internal Stress

    Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy (REBT) is one of the cognitive behaviour therapies under the CBT umbrella. It is a trans-diagnostic, evidence based, and philosophical therapy d...more

  28. Using Remedial Massage with Neuroskeletal Re-Alignment Therapy

    As a massage therapist the author got into Neuroskeletal Re-Alignment Therapy (NSRT) in 1997 (a technique which she has written about in an earlier issue of PH) because she found r...more

  29. Using the Harp for Healing

    This article focuses on harp therapy. A breakthrough experience is just one example of how therapy has become so effective in hospitals, hospices, birthing centres, rehabilitation ...more

  30. Using the Mind to Release Your Body's Potential

    The author describes the mental techniques which are used by our most successful athletes, and which anyone wishing to reach their peak performance can benefit from. These include ...more

  31. Using Water as Medicine

    Water is both widely and cheaply available, it also is essential for life. Water is important in curing disease, basically because ‘it is the blood that heals’.  Blood circulation...more

  32. Vaccination Controversy: Safety and Side Effects

    Dr Sharma, a medically qualified homeopathic doctor, addresses the argument, supported by a growing body of evidence, that vaccines are unsafe and ineffective. There is no evidence...more

  33. Vaccination Damage and Homeopathy

    The patient, an eight-year-old girl, had been diagnosed with epilepsy following a meningitis C vaccination. During her first consultation with Dr Slade, a homeopath, she had five f...more

  34. Vaccine Technology: Types of Vaccines, How Vaccines are Produced, mRNA Technology

    Ever since the development of the first vaccine in 1796, the technology behind vaccinology has progressed beyond the scope of the ordinance. The right to get vaccinated and live a ...more

  35. VDUs and the Computer Posture

    In working at a computer for long periods of time the arms are held up and in front of the body. This causes an increase in the tone of the anterior muscles and an imbalance betw...more

  36. Vegan Kids – How to Make Sure their Diet is Nourishing

    Commonly questioned is whether a vegan diet is ‘safe’ for children and there are concerns that they will lack the right nutrition if they follow a vegan diet.more

  37. Vegans and Protein – Myth-Busting

    Ask any vegan the most common question they get asked, and it’s more than likely that they will tell you top of the list is: ‘where do you get your protein from?’ This has been an a...more

  38. Vegetarianism - Our Gift to the Planet

    In this feature the author makes an excellent case for becoming a vegetarian or at least reducing our consumption of meat products. She drives the point home by detailing how going...more

  39. Veracity of Vicious Disease - Malaria

    Malaria is one of the world’s most serious health problems, and is far from being eliminated. The parasite which causes it spend part of its life cycle in the gut of the anopheles ...more

  40. Vertical Reflex Therapy (VRT) for Sports Injuries

    The author has developed the practice of Reflexology to include work done while the feet (and hands) are in a weight-bearing position. Newer research has concentrated on Hand VRT, ...more

  41. Vertical Reflexology

    Vertical Reflexology, or Vertical Reflex Therapy (VRT) was developed by Lynne Booth six years ago when working with chronically ill residents at the St Monica Trust nursing home in...more

  42. Vertical Reflexology for Hands and Feet: Do not neglect the beneficial role of hand reflexology

    The author gives an account of the basis for reflexology.  She then explains the concept of vertical reflex therapy (VRT), which involves standing up so that the dorsal areas of we...more

  43. Vibration-Oscillation Diagnosing and Healing Therapy

    Several existing new technologies of diagnosing and healing, based upon the latest accomplishments of quantum physics, engineering and biophysical sciences are reviewed in this det...more

  44. Vibrational Healing - Harmonising

    The premise of Vibrational Healing is that everything vibrates on a certain frequency. All objects, even wooden tables, are made up of molecules which vibrate to create their mass....more

  45. Vibromuscular Harmonisation

    The Vibromuscular Harmonisation Technique (VHT) is a new bodywork technique developed by Jock Ruddock and inspired by such disciplines as Aikido, Bowen Technique, Tai Chi, Cranio-S...more

  46. Vibromuscular Harmonisation

    The Vibromuscular Harmonisation Technique (VHT) is a new bodywork technique developed by Jock Ruddock and inspired by such disciplines as Aikido, Bowen Technique, Tai Chi, Cranio-S...more

  47. Violane - The Hidden Healer

    The crystal kingdom is so vast, and although hundreds of books have been published, including pictures, chemical compositions, origin, etc., it is doubtful that all known crystals ...more

  48. Violence Against Women

    “. . . if my mother, at any point during the ages of five and twelve, picked up a knife or any other weapon against my father, I would have held her hand as she did it. I would have...more

  49. Virtual Personal Trainer Unveils How to Get Fit the RIGHT Way

    Not everyone can afford a full-time personal trainer, so how can you tell if your exercise routine is helping you achieve your fitness goals - or potentially doing more harm than go...more

  50. Virtual Scanning - Beyond Biomedicine

    This article focuses on Virtual Scanning, its benefits and how it is used. At the same time, the authors also illustrate how the understanding of natural phenomena of light and col...more

  51. Virtue of the Heart

    This column looks at what our world honours and values in this day and age and questions why, unlike mental intelligence, physical intelligence, spiritual intelligence, emotional i...more

  52. Viruses Mutate more Readily in Selenium-Deficient Surroundings

    Even though selenium is critically important for good human health, its value is not widely known. It is important both for the prevention of selenium-related deficiency diseases an...more

  53. Vision as a Metaphor - the Relationship Between Eyesight and Consciousness

    The author believes that eyesight affects and is affected by emotional and mental states of Being linked to personality. Each vision impairment correlates with a specific personali...more

  54. Vitamin A - Are you Getting Enough?

    Vitamin A is not a vitamin that currently gets much publicity. This is because deficiency in developed countries is considered rare. The same thinking used to apply to Vitamin D, bu...more

  55. Vitamin B12 – Are You Deficient?

    Severe B12 deficiency is known to cause pernicious anaemia, an illness which has clearly diagnosable symptoms. However, there are a plethora of other symptoms which can be related...more

  56. Vitamin C - Essential for Year-Round, Whole Body Protection

    In this article, Dr Phillips Brown discusses the multiple benefits of vitamin C including its ability to strengthen the immune system, maintain healthy joints, improve vision, and ...more

  57. Vitamin C and Cancer - Storm of Controversy

    According to The World Health Organization, there will be more than ten million documented new cases of cancer next year. Since 1971 over $1 trillion has been spent on conventional...more

  58. Vitamin D and Cancer

    Vitamin D has long since been recognised as crucially important to health and its first association was with Ricketts, in that supplementation with Vitamin D in children with Ricke...more

  59. Vitamin D: Why We Need More Of The Sunshine Vitamin

    It used to be thought that vitamin D deficiency was rare, and limited to the elderly, pregnant and people from cultures where the skin is traditionally kept covered. Now it is es...more

  60. Vitamin E, Are We Getting Enough?

    Vitamin E is not actually a single vitamin, but a group of fat soluble vitamins known as tocopherols and tocotrienols. There are eight naturally occurring forms of vitamin E, which ...more

  61. Vitamins and Minerals - Discussion on the Benefits of Natural Food State Supplements

    This very detailed article sets out research dating from early in the last century and continuing to the present which indicates that foods are becoming more and more depleted of n...more

  62. Vitex agnus castus: A review

    The species name Agnus castus originates from the Greek agnos castus, meaning chaste, as the Greeks thought the plant calmed sexual passion. Its common name of caste berry and monk...more

  63. Vitiligo - Treatment Approaches and Consequences

    This is a personal account of this condition, its social and psychological consequences, and the current state of treatment. In vitiligo, the immune system attacks the melanocytes ...more

  64. Vocal Toning and Energy Alignment

    The author gives an extensive account of the basis of energy theory in Eastern traditions, reinforced by modern scientific research.  She then describes the development of her own ...more

  65. Voice - the forgotten fitness factor

    From a very early age I loved anything to do with music, singing, playing the piano and dancing, so when at 17 I gained a place at a music college where I would be trained as a sin...more

  66. Voice Movement Therapy - Healing Mind and Body with Sound and Song

    Healing Mind and Body with Sound and Song by Paul Newham Fifteen years ago I founded a form of therapy now known as Voice Movement Therapy.more

  67. Voluntary Self-regulation of Complementary Therapies

    This article discusses the issue of multi-disciplinary establishments that have sprung up over the past few years to cater to the concerns of multi-disciplinary therapists about ha...more

  68. Wake Up and Kick the Caffeine Habit for Good

    Petrene Soames, a leading authority on healing and self-awareness, cuts straight to the chase by pointing out that many of us are addicted to caffeine, a legal stimulant that actua...more

  69. Walk the Soulful Talk from Deep Within

    All of us - whatever our roots, profession, or purpose - have a natural, innate, or cultivated ability to express our feelings, or resolve our angst, while releasing ourselves from...more

  70. Walking - The Good Way

    Psychologists claimed that communication among human beings is 7% verbal, 30% toe and 55% body language. Whether these figures are correct or not, it's plain that we speak with our...more

  71. Walking and the Mind

    Joel Carbonnel looks at the benefits of walking for the mind. Walking has been shown to slow the rate of memory loss and keep the mind sharp.more

  72. Walking Around the Cotton Reel - Using NLP to Teach Drawing

    This article focuses on how NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) can help us to access our ability to draw, and shares the author’s approach to generating interest and self-belief in...more

  73. Walking to Work Through the Parks

    Since my nurse advised me to do more daily exercise, I have been walking to work from Kensington Gardens through Hyde Park, to Park Lane. I also return home through the parks; it's...more

  74. Walking with your Iliopsoas Muscle

    The author explains the importance of maintaining a supple, well-functioning iliopsoas muscle, and has written a book on the subject.more

  75. Wander-Full, Wonder-Filled Thinking

    The author starts enthusiastically by discussing the different passions that people have from golf and fishing to crochet and knitting. Yet, how often does one take time to think a...more

  76. Warm Up: Extract from Real Yoga; A Pure and Simple Journey

    I was very privileged to meet as a child the greatest masters of wisdom. As my family was and still is the honorary consulates of India in Hawaii, I was introduced to Swami Mukhtana...more

  77. Warts and All

    There are few things more irritating than a wart. Though seemingly trivial, they are unsightly and embarrassing. Conventional medicine has little to offer the sufferer - he can c...more

  78. Water

    Timothy Freer – who has researched nutritional products, water purification methods and tools for energy health for the last seven years.more

  79. Water - of Vital Importance

    About 25% of the human body is composed of solids (solute). About 75% of the human body is water (solvent). About 85% of the brain is water.more

  80. Water – Wild, Weird and Wonderful

    I woke in the night so thirsty that my throat was on fire. Stumbling out of bed, I felt like the little mermaid in Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy tales - as though I were walking o...more

  81. Water Fluoridation - Therapy or Fallacy?

    Water fluoridation – is this really a way to improve dental health, or is it another nail in our coffins, causing hip fractures, dental fluorosis, immune system problems and, possi...more

  82. Water for Life and Optimum Health

    This article provides six helpful hints for understanding the 'extraordinary world of water' through examples and quotes from author Masaru Emoto's books on The Hidden Messages in ...more

  83. Watercress - The ‘Forgotten Super Food’

    If you haven’t ever tried it, you need to try it. If you aren’t regularly including it in your weekly menu, you should, so get yourself off to the supermarket or local store and rea...more

  84. Wave Genetics as Developed by the Late Professor Peter Gariaev

    Few scientists have contributed so much to a single field as Professor Peter Gariaev PhD has done to revolutionize our understanding of DNA. He is maybe best known for his discovery...more

  85. Ways Everyone can Benefit from Therapy

    Therapy is a powerful tool for personal growth, mental health, and overall well-being, often surrounded by misconceptions and stigma. While many believe therapy is only for those ex...more

  86. Ways to Help Low Mood and Depression in the Menopause

    I was recently listening to a medical doctor describing what happened when she went to see her own doctor. She was in the peri menopause and suffering with very low mood. Her doctor...more

  87. Ways to Protect ourselves and the animals in our care from BSE-like diseases

    Dr Fullerton discusses and puts forward her views and ways to protect ourselves and the animals in our care from BSE-like diseases.more

  88. We Are All Coeliac

    Gluten intolerance is not always recognized because the symptoms can be mild or delayed and can be wrongly blamed upon other common intestinal issues. Some symptoms come from inflam...more

  89. We have to educate to integrate

    Integration is the new buzz-word: the argument being that non-conventional therapies are here to stay, so why not put them to work in the mainstream?more

  90. We Heal What We Need to Learn: The Ups and Downs of Grief, Joy and Happiness. Part I

    The first thing you notice when someone passes is how shocked you feel when learning of their transition.more

  91. We Heal What We Need to Learn: The Ups and Downs of Grief, Joy and Happiness. Part II

    In Part I, I wrote about how grief could take us to new levels of awareness in terms of how we remember the passing of a loved one. In this article I am going to look at what it tak...more

  92. We Hunter-Gatherers Are Now In A Bad Way

    Our Homo genus predecessors emerged some two million years ago (species variously labelled handy, busy, erect), and we ourselves about a quarter million.  Middle Africa, from which ...more

  93. Wealth Creation For The Better Good - The Significance of Money - Is Money a Curse or a Blessing?

    I doubt if anyone who would dispute the fact that money is the most important commodity in any person’s life. It is right up there with gravity, light and water as necessities for s...more

  94. Weight Loss - Can Hypnotherapy Help?

    Most people associate hypnosis with weight loss and stopping smoking, but can hypnotherapy really help? Well, the answer is ‘yes’, but there a lot of considerations to take on board...more

  95. Weight Loss Facts Vs Fads – Swallowable Weight Loss Balloon

    According to research, women will embark on 130 diets in a lifetime[1] and almost half of Brits (48%), have tried to lose weight in the last year.[2] When we're looking to lose weig...more

  96. Weight Loss Through Well-Being

    The bare facts about dieting are well known – only around one in twenty attempts to lose weight will succeed. Yet this doesn't stop millions of people trying over and again to reac...more

  97. Weight Loss Using Chinese Medicine

    This article focuses on how Chinese remedies and therapies, such as Herbal medicine and Acupuncture help with weight loss, and offers some advice on diet and exercises such as fast...more

  98. Weight Loss Winners and Dieting Downfalls: Hormonally Speaking

    Weight loss and dieting can be a battle of will; an exercise in restraint; and, even a losing wicket. Did you know that you can trigger a hormone hijack with your weight loss regi...more

  99. Weight Management Problems? There's an Epidemic of Undiagnosed Disease

    This column warns of the risks of being overweight, namely that of contracting diabetes. According to the author more than 2½ million people in the UK are diabetic and that a maj...more

  100. Welcoming the Water-Carrier

    We are about to enter ‘the age of Aquarius’, the water bearer. The author notes that in astrology, he is an Air sign, but is seen pouring water onto the parched earth, both being...more

  101. Western Herbal Medicine and The Menopause

    Many plants have medicinal properties that reduce menopausal symptoms. In Germany, 70% of physicians prescribe herbal remedies, which are covered by insurance.more

  102. Westerners Learning Complementary Therapies in China

    The decision to travel to the East to participate in learning about traditional Chinese methods of health care, is not just a geographical journey but rather an expansion of onesel...more

  103. What a Headache!

    Fiona had finally had enough of her headaches. She had suffered with them for years and years and always took her maximum daily allowance of 8 co-codamol tablets. She described the...more

  104. What are the Benefits of Raw Neem Honey?

    Healing Properties of Neem Everything from the neem tree is medicinal: bark, cake, extract, flowers, fruit, gum, honey, leaves (also used as tea and powder), oil (from kernels of th...more

  105. What are the Best Exercises for Different Age Groups, without Injuring Yourself

    Along with sleep and eating a balanced diet, exercise is essential for maintaining good health and wellbeing. While you can’t outrun a bad diet, you can support your metabolism with...more

  106. What Are the Effects of Hippotherapy on Children?

    Hippotherapy is a therapeutic technique that involves supervised interactions between children and horses. It has evolved from its historical origins to become a vital component of ...more

  107. What Can I tell You About ……

    Establishing the cause of death is a doctor’s prerogative. Only a qualified doctor is allowed to fill in the form, which officially makes his statement the true cause of death for ...more

  108. What Can We Expect from the Current Review of NICE Guideline CG53

    Cultural, political and economic factors create pressure to keep ME/CFS classified as a mental health disorder. Anything written about ME/CFS can attract immediate skepticism, ...more

  109. What can we Learn from Tennis and Sports to Achieve Performance at Work

    If you’ve attended a talk from an inspirational sports personality, you may well have found it motivating but also hard to work out what to actually do with what you’ve heard. That’...more

  110. What Constitutes A Healthy Vegetarian Diet?

    Traditionally eating was, and still remains, a means to survival. Everything we ingest has an effect upon our health. What we eat determines the quality of our blood, which in turn...more

  111. What do Shiatsu Practitioners Treat?

    Shiatsu is usually found to be deeply relaxing and invigorating for the mind and body. The medical diagnoses given by shiatsu clients when they first came for shiatsu include mus...more

  112. What Every Woman Ought to Know about the Menopause

    Not so long ago ‘The Change’ was a taboo subject. Your Doctor suggested that you put up with it and your family tolerated your erratic moods with a mixture of embarrassment and bewi...more

  113. What Happens to the Human Body when it Goes into Ketosis

    From a young age we’re taught that eating three meals a day, plus snacks, is healthy and necessary for the human body to function normally, and this rhetoric still dominates North A...more

  114. What Hormone Tests are Available and Why Women Could Need Them

    Hormones work to the ‘Goldilocks principle’ – not too much, not too little, but just right. This is why the ‘one size fits all’ standard medical approach doesn’t work for everyone, ...more

  115. What if Depression were a REM Sleep Disorder?

    This article, in presenting a particular approach to depression, also provides useful information about the way that the Human Givens philosophy and practice work, and why they are...more

  116. What Impact Does Stress Really Have on Fertility?

    If you and your partner have been trying to get pregnant for a while then you’ll no doubt have had the stock response from family and friends telling you to “just relax and it will ...more

  117. What is 'gestalt' about Gestalt Therapy?

    My article on Fritz Perls and Gestalt Therapy (P.H. 34, Nov. '98) raised questions from readers who wanted to know more about the origins of gestalt therapy and its relation to the...more

  118. What is a Healthy Balance Diet Anyway?

    Penny Crowther discusses the need for nutritional advice and dispels the myth that it is only for those who rarely eat fruit and vegetables. She gives two relevant case studies.more

  119. What is a Sprain?

    A Sprain is when the Ligament(s) at a joint (any joint) are injured. The Ligament’s job in the body is to support the internal organs and join Bone to other Bone. They restrict mo...more

  120. What is an Allergy?

    First things first: let's be clear about what food intolerance is, or rather, what it is not. It is not food allergy (and it does no one any good to confuse the two conditions).more

  121. What Is Chiropractic Massage Therapy?

    Understanding what massage therapy refers to will depend somewhat on what part of the world in which you are discussing care. The concept of promoting wellness in the body through m...more

  122. What is Healthy Living about these Days..?

    New remarkable diet can change your life! No need for pain and exercise! New amazing fruit that will burn all the unwanted fat and magically turn you into beautiful and successful w...more

  123. What Is Herbalism?

    Many people in North America are not familiar what herbalism is all about since we are living in society asking for the ‘quick-fix’ when health problems arise. Therefore I would li...more

  124. What Is Hypnotherapy - How does it Work - and why do we Need It....?

    The real origin and essence of the hypnotic condition is the induction of a habit of abstraction or mental concentration, in which, as in reverie or spontaneous abstraction, the pow...more

  125. What is Inflammation of the Lungs, its Causes and Treatment

    Inflammation of the lungs occurs because of lung diseases where the body tries to fight an irritant, resulting in swelling and redness of the lung tissue, shortness of breath, chest...more

  126. What is Laminine - History, Development and Health Benefits

    As far back as 1929, a medical doctor in Canada discovered a way to extract the ‘life-essence’ of a nine day old fertilized avian egg. He found that on exactly the ninth day, all th...more

  127. What is Meant By, "It's Meant to Be"?

    If what currently exists weren’t meant to be, it wouldn’t currently exist. Therefore, whatever IS, is exactly what is meant to be. But that doesn’t mean that WHAT IS – and is mean...more

  128. What is Menopause Doing to my Spine?

    Scoliosis is not just a teenage issue.  Menopause can also play havoc with our spines.  Caroline Freedman, a Personal Trainer and author of The Scoliosis Handbook discusses how scol...more

  129. What is Naturopathic Physical Medicine?

    In this first of a series of articles on integrated treatment approaches in relation to Naturopathic Physical Medicine, the author focuses on the relative decline in interest in re...more

  130. What is Naturopathy?

    This article looks at naturopathy – system of medicine which attempts to awaken and nurture a person's potential for health rather than treat the disease or illness – what it invol...more

  131. What is Power?

    …the ego is never really satisfied. It is the ego that is never grateful since it is run by greed. Ah yes, greed! Greed's hunger is so voracious that nothing can satiate its deepes...more

  132. What Is Social Anxiety, Anyway?

    The question of what is social anxiety is a simple one to answer, yet the answer raises a great many new questions. At its core, social anxiety is a type of anxiety related to socia...more

  133. What is Tennis Elbow?

    Tennis Elbow is an overuse condition/injury which is generally located on the outside of the elbow joint. The medical name for this condition is Lateral Epicondylitis.more

  134. What is Thai Yoga Massage?

    This article is an account of the history, philosophy, and technique of Thai Yoga Massage.  This practice is helpful for a range of physical complaints, as it works through releasi...more

  135. What is the Difference between Beauty and Complementary Therapy Qualifications in the Same Subjects?

    As the registrar for Complementary Health Professionals (CHP), one of the UKs leading professional associations, we are reviewing qualifications every day. Not only do we check qual...more

  136. What is the Link between Healthy Fats and Better Eye Health?

    In the pursuit of better health, most people try to cut out fatty foods from their diets, which is a good move. However, it’s important to remember that not all fats are bad for us...more

  137. What Is Yogic Massage? How Yogic Massage Found Me

    The technique was invented by Brigette Hass, a tutor of the MTI who also teaches holistic massage, energy awareness, dance and movement and meditation. Yogic massage is a form of h...more

  138. What is Your Food Personality?

    Nutritionist Expert Regular Wilma Kirsten poses a quiz to determine which of three types of personality we are. The Media Personality; The Rebel Personality; The Proactive Personali...more

  139. What Makes a Good Work-Life Balance?

    Getting the balance right between work and family time can be difficult. And in today’s busy society, it can be difficult to take the time to reassess lifestyles.more

  140. What Neuroscience Teaches Us About Nurturing You and Your Brain as You Age

    I’ve spent the last three decades as a brain scientist on the front lines of revolutionary work in understanding what happens to the brain as an organ as it faces ageing and other v...more

  141. What The Neck!

    This article focuses on the neck, its structure, function and treatment. Our neck, the author explains, is a relatively stiff but fidgety structure: it moves about 600 times an hou...more

  142. What Therapists Need from a Professional Association - An Aromatherapy Perspective

    It is really important that therapists understand what they should get in return for their hard-earned subscriptions and, in turn, how they can influence the professional associati...more

  143. What to Do if You Think You've been Misdiagnosed

    For many of us, we trust our doctor to make the right call. After all, that is what they are trained to do. But what happens if a mistake is made?more

  144. What to Expect from a Hearing Test

    You may have been to a couple dozen medical professionals throughout your years – whether it’s for your eyes, bones, stomach, etc. As familiar as you might be with these procedures,...more

  145. What to Say and Not to Say to People who have Cancer

    Finding out that someone you know has cancer can be upsetting and sometimes a shock to the system and it is often hard to know how to react. From the cancer patients point of view...more

  146. What We Fear The Most

    Clinical psychologist Dorothy Rowe, well known for her work on depression and her many books on the subject, explores our fears about ill health and dying.more

  147. What will it be like Returning to Work after Lockdown?

    Covid-19 has had a devastating effect on the complementary therapy industry and it is particularly hard when you are a self-employed sole trader. As a result, the question all compl...more

  148. What You Need to Know about Physiotherapy and Sports Physiotherapy

    Do you know someone who had lost the use of their arms and legs after they have suffered from a stroke? Or someone whose limbs or other parts of the body had been injured so that th...more

  149. What You Should Know About Eczema

    Eczema is besides acne and psoriasis one of the leading skin disease and is a non-contagious skin condition that can be present in several different forms, but most common forms in...more

  150. What You Should Know About Neem Oil

    The legendary miraculous medicinal Neem tree in India has grown with the human settlement all over the country and has been an integral part of the Indian way of life for centuries....more

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