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Homeopathy: Healing Inherited Trauma
How much do you know about your parents and grandparents, and their life experiences? If you visit a homeopath, you will be asked to find out. Because what the field of epigenetics is just discovering, has long been known to homeopaths: That the experiences of our forebears can affect our physical and mental health, generations…
Read MoreTake the Pain out of Periods with Homeopathy
If you suffer with bad period pain, you don’t need me to tell you how seriously it affects the quality of your life. And if you don’t, and perhaps wonder what all the fuss is about, then let me tell you, I have met women who have screamed, vomited, rolled on the floor or fainted with…
Read MoreHomeopathy for Cystitis
Tanya, who had come to me for homeopathy to treat her cystitis, had been having recurring bouts for 7 years. She had had numerous courses of antibiotics. The trigger for a new bout was always sexual intercourse. When I dug deeper, looking for an underlying emotional cause, I found a pattern in her relationships of…
Read MoreHomeopathy for Winter Blues
“The world is half empty. I get negative and irritable …with the cat, with myself, with my husband.”. Marilyn, who came to me for homeopathy, found the winters really difficult. The snow, ice and freezing temperatures made it hard for her to get out and walk. And without the sunshine and exercise, she got depressed.…
Read MoreNatural Stress Management with Homeopathy
According to the Mental Health Foundation, nearly half of all adults feel stressed every day. Worryingly, 18% are reaching for the bottle, and 10% the cigarettes to alleviate stress. Of course the survey doesn’t ask how many are self-medicating with sugar and caffeine. What’s interesting though, is only 6% are going to their GP about…
Read MoreThe Hidden Causes of Stress
Who hasn’t complained of feeling stressed? It’s such a common complaint, a badge of honour almost, to the extent that saying you are stressed has all but lost its impact. The hidden causes of stress are many. And the hidden effects can be clearly seen in stats from the Faculty of Public Health, which found that, 43% of…
Read MoreHomeopathy for Coughs
Aah, seasons of mist and mellow fruitfulness…and snotty noses and hacking coughs. In our neck of the woods anyway, the sudden drop in temperature, and definite move into autumn weather has brought on the expected coughs and colds. And while these infections usually only make us feel under the weather for a week or so,…
Read MoreHomeopathy and Ebola: Exploring Alternatives
We are hearing a lot about Ebola in the news at the moment. And rightly so. With WHO (World Health Organisation) quoting a fatality rate of up to 90%, and the disease spreading rapidly, it is certainly newsworthy, and a serious cause for concern. Besides its very unpleasant symptoms (vomiting, diarrhoea, internal and external bleeding),…
Read MoreHomeopathy and the Mind-Body Connection
In the US, more people die on Monday at 9 am of cardiovascular accidents than at any other time. And according to another study, depression has the same effect on life expectancy as smoking. It is hard to dispute the connection between mind and body in the face of statistics like these. Yet our…
Read MoreHomeopathic Remedies for Travelling
Are you looking forward to your summer holiday? Are you having visions of soaking up the sun, swimming, balmy nights? Yes, me too. However, I bet what you are not thinking about is jet-lag, sunburn, mosquito bites, treading on sea urchins, jelly-fish stings, or getting a tummy bug. Yet these are all too common. And…
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