The Natural Medicine Practice offers you, the reader, an opportunity to experience thought provoking and original natural medicine and health related articles. These ‘bite-size’ written pieces have been created in an infomative and easy to follow style, that just about anyone can understand. Many have either been published and are in print, or they have appeared online in natural health websites. Their purpose is to assist with generating insight and to stimulate more completely informed health choices that are within the reach of everyone. Perhaps after their careful and deeper consideration, many of the natural medicine approaches mentoned, may form part of you and your families health choice repertoire and lead to contacting me directly, so that you can experience first hand the many wonders and benefits of incorporating these natural health practices.
Cancer: Genetic predispositions, food factors and lifestyle habits that both trigger and fuel it
Just hearing the word ‘cancer’ can strike dread into the heart and mind, especially when on the receiving end of an official cancer diagnosis. It is difficult even to consider cancer in neutral terms, the word ‘cancer’ is so loaded with negative connotations, and the many negative ‘thought-forms’ associated with it. (In essence, ‘thought-forms’ are […]
Allergies – achieving synergy with your immune system and understanding its potential for greater Self-regulation
My aim in writing this article was to compile available current knowledge about natural options for contending with allergies, to help my readers’ understanding of this growing problem. The information that follows is presented in a novel format, so that the issue of allergies may be perceived in a holistic pattern that allows what is […]
Staying calm amidst infectious diseases
It makes sense to ask the question, ‘what can I do to maximise use of what I am already in possession of?’ Each one of us, has access to something called ‘innate-immunity’. The issue arising then, is, how does one tap into this, so that this in-born defence system is enhanced and works more effectively […]
Re-evaluating our approach to childhood fevers
The pressures on A&E Departments this summer are comparable with those usually expected only in winter, and a significant proportion is due to parents bringing in young children with mild fevers that could be cared for effectively at home. Recent findings from the three Royal Colleges of Medicine show that parents who have not previously […]
New Interest in the Healing Powers of Mushrooms
Scientists estimate that there are over five million species of fungi and we have only discovered one percent of them. It is now believed that it was fungi breaking down rocks into earth that eventually created the soil, allowing the evolution of plant life. A mushroom’s outer form or ‘fruiting body’ merely crowns what is […]
A golden encounter, resplendent with meaning
Around the Taoist and Buddhist temples in the East, the golden foliage of the Gingko Biloba tree in autumn/fall is a marvel to experience. The countless generations of people living near such trees have considered them their ‘world-tree’ – it takes three human generations to mature, hence its name “Grandfather-Grandchild Tree”. As the Greek proverb […]
A Healthier Life after Covid-19
One of the many issues concerning people in these strange days is how to treat what has become known as Long Covid, continuing symptoms suffered by those who appeared to recover from the virus but who have not got back to what they describe as ‘normal’. These symptoms can be varying levels of fatigue, breathlessness, […]