alternative medicine
Getting a Bowen treatment
What is the Bowen technique? The Bowen technique is primarily a truly holistic remedial therapy. It differs from many other therapies in that it does not attempt to inflict the will of the therapist, or a specific outcome, onto the client. Instead, it encou...read more
Green tea as a natural remedy for acne
Natural remedies have become very popular in recent years. People have stopped looking at the expensive medications and creams to cure various conditions, and have started looking at remedies found closer to home. This is, in part, because they are less expensive, but they...read more
Hay fever treatment: acupuncture
Hay fever is very common in Cheltenham (where I work) and each year I see a lot of people suffering from this complaint. People usually come because they know of someone who benefited from acupuncture treatment, or as a last resort after having tried everyth...read more
Health benefits of massage
Massage isn't capable of curing any serious or life-threatening medical disorders - but it can provide welcome relief from the symptoms of anxiety, tension, depression, insomia, and stress, as well as back pain, headache, muscle pain and some forms of chro...read more
Herbal medication vs quackery
By 1930, "Dr." John R. Brinkley of Arkansas, Kansas had transplanted over 16,000 goat testicles into men who wanted to relive their youth. At $750 per procedure, he became a wealthy man. Needless to say, we would call his practice quackery at best. The thing most p...read more
Homeopathic remedies: aloe vera
Aloe Vera has become a familiar word in the world of homeopathic remedies; it is an ingredient added to many skin-care products due to its wound-healing properties. Aloe is a popular perennial houseplant that grows naturally in the East and South Africa; from its whitish gr...read more
Homeopathy explained
Homeopathic remedies (medicines) are prescribed by practitioners, such as myself, and normally given only after careful analysis and thought. Homeopathy is not a toy nor modern fashion to be tried once and then discarded when you feel a slight improvement. Nor is it to be d...read more
How does energy healing work ?
Energy healing, a wonderful advancement on alternative therapy, is used to reduce stress and boost confidence and spiritual happiness. It is all associated with the magnetic channels of energies that surround our bodies. Energy healing regulates them and the...read more
How homeopatyh may help you with your weight problems
People are overweight for many different reasons. For some people changes in diet and exercise pattern can make a big difference but for others what is really needed first is to look at the reasons for the problem and do something to correct those. This is where hom...read more
How osteopathy can help
Osteopathy is a method of healing founded about 100 years ago by an American doctor Andrew Taylor Still. Since then Osteopathy has spread worldwide and there are training courses in UK, USA and many other countries. Osteopathy treats musculo-skeletal disorde...read more
How reiki works
Reiki is a simple hands-on art of energy renewal. The results of Reiki include an all-pervading sense of inner calm and relief from stress and fatigue. There are reports of Reiki in the healing of wounds including cuts, burns and bruis...read more
How to cope withe morning sickness?
Morning sickness ranges from 'unpleasant' to life threatening due to severe dehydration. It is very common during the first trimester of pregnancy and often settles down. For some women morning sickness can be a real problem and make pregnancy a right ordeal...read more
How to support your life force energy and why
What is Reiki? Reiki (pronounced Ray-Key) is a system of natural hands-on healing. It is a simple but powerful healing technique that is easily given and received by anyone. To benefit from Reiki you only need to be open and willing to receive the e...read more
Hypnosis and food intolerance
In recent years the field of mind body medicine (known as psycho-neuro-immunology or PNI) has been gaining wider recognition. Clinicians are now realising that the Cartesian dualist viewpoint with regard to medicine and healing (that the mind and body are separate entities t...read more
Hypnosis as a treatment for insomnia
People differ in their need for sleep, and everyone has the occasional night of disturbed sleep. Almost a quarter of the population frequently experience sleeping difficulties, and it becomes more common with age, 29% of men and 37% of women are affected over the age of 65.<...read more
Hypnotherapy for weight control
Most people tried numerous diets or slimming programs with little in the way of lasting results. More and more people are realising that there may be another solution to help with weight loss. Hypnotherapy is proving an inva...read more
Hypnotherapy to treat sexual dysfunctions
Sexual Dysfunctions Hypnotherapy is a totally safe and non-invasive to treat cases of Sexual Dysfunction. It uses your own natural resources to identify the root cause of the problem and so initiate the healing process. Hypno therapy has proven to be an eff...read more
Hypnotherapy treatments
Hypnotherapy is a clean modern way to treat emotional, psychological or nervous conditions, those issues inside you, which give rise to problematic symptoms over which you have no conscious control over.Hypnotherapy uses the advanced relaxed state known as <...read more
Infectious animal faces
Children love pets and animals are great for helping children form attachments and improve their social skills. But you should follow a few simple health and safety guidelines to keep everyone happy. Hygiene Toxoplasmosis and salmonella ar...read more
Integration for stress and well being
To attempt to scientifically evaluate an abstract concept such as reflexology is very difficult. To evaluate the effects of that treatment of reflexology may be much easier. As in many other forms of natural healing, reflexology works by encouraging the body’s natural ...read more
Is aloe vera an effective medicine ?
Aloe vera is a very useful plant. It is very often used as a medicine to treat skin conditions such as burns and eczema, where it can help to stop the pain and reduce swelling. It is also very pleasant and soothing in its smell, which is likely why you will ...read more
Losing weight & tai chi
Do I need to follow some sort of tai chi diet? No. It is up to you what you eat. However, to get the best out of tai chi it is important to consider eating sensibly. Fasting and diets are not really favoured by taoism. Eating a balanced range of food is regarded as being m...read more
Macrobiotics in practice
I have seen many people change their way of living - their dietary practices - to what we call a macrobiotic practice. What strikes us as interesting is that most people are delighted by the sheer simplicity of what they find. We are living in a very complex, artificial, mod...read more
Male infertility: can acupuncture help?
There are many causes of male infertility. Within the theory of Chinese medicine, male infertility is most often associated with dysfunction within the Kidney, Liver and Spleen organs. The Kidneys have prime importance since they govern birth, growth, reproduction and develo...read more
Meditation: be aware
Meditation The word 'meditation' is widely used to mean a variety of things. Many people imagine that meditation means sitting in a crossed-legged position and listening to your breath. Such practices or methods are not meditation. They serve to encourage meditation. Medita...read more
