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Acupuncture: An Introduction to Acupoints
Many doctors and nurses throughout the UK recognise acupuncture as an effective complimentary practice, and it is one of the fastest growing...
Adjusting your Posture with Rolfing
Rolfing, also known as structural integration, was developed by Dr. Ida P. Rolf in the mid 1950's. According to Dr. Rolf, connective tissue can become tightly bound up...
Alleviating Insomnia with Progressive Relaxation
Insomnia is a complex but common problem for more people than most realise. br>
Statistics suggest that as many as one in three people in the UK...
Alternative Medicines for Cancer
Milk Thistle
Milk thistle is an herb that has been used for centuries to treat liver and gallbladder disorders. The active substance in milk thistle, silymarin, is...
Alternative Therapies for Pain Relief
What is Pain?
There are two basic types of pain; acute pain and chronic pain. Acute pain, most usually, is a result of disease, inflammation, or...
Ancient Indian Ayurvedic Medicine
Are you looking for an approach to health that can incorporate your mind, body and the environment you live in? Do you feel that your attitudes to life can significantly...
Art Therapy to Overcome Emotional Problems
Art therapy is a unique way to help people with varied emotional difficulties, combining psycho-therapeutic techniques with methods of making...
Biofeedback: Controlling Your Body
Biofeedback is based on the premise that we all have the innate potential to control our bodily functions through focus of the mind. Biofeedback has been shown to be...
Bowen Therapy to Manage Pain
Also known as the Bowen Technique, Bowen Therapy is a hands-on healing system that works to provide pain relief to anyone, from newborn babies to pensioners....
Can Applied Kinesiology Help Treat Disease?
Kinesiology is, in a nutshell, the study of human movement. Applied kinesiology, however, is a bit different. A controversial form of alternative...
Chiropractic Art of Bone Manipulation
The History of Chiropractic
Chiropractic, as we know it, was developed in 1895 by Daniel David Palmer. In truth, spinal manipulation has been an...
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Natural Remedies
Chronic fatigue syndrome, (CFS), or Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), is a chronic and debilitating disorder known for symptoms of chronic exhaustion...
Colour Therapy
Holistic and alternative medicines are as popular as ever, and one of the most therapeutic and least invasive of all of these types of treatments is colour...
Crystal Healing to Strengthen the Body
Crystals have long been used to relieve stress and help heal the body. So it's no surprise that some people opt for crystal healing, a n...
Does Complementary Therapy Really Work?
As more and more doctors who practice conventional medicine learn about complementary therapies, they are realising that a significant number of...
Does Leech Therapy Really Work?
Dating back more than 5,000 years ago to ancient Egypt, leech therapy has been used the world over to cure ailments ranging from headaches to fevers to flatulence....
Flax Seed and Arthritis
Arthritis is a chronic joint condition. It can be either inflammatory or sometimes more degenerative. Around 387,000 people in the UK have rheumatoid arthritis - roughly...
Food, Mood and Concentration
Do you have days when your mind feels foggy; when you can't seem to think straight or concentrate on anything no matter how hard you try? If your answer is yes, then it...
Hatha Yoga for Optimum Health
Hatha yoga is the style that is most well known in the west. These days it is practiced mainly for god health and to improve vitality.
The word Hatha is a...
Healing with Magnetic Therapy
Magnetic therapy has been used for centuries to improve health and well-being. According to Egyptian legend, Cleopatra herself wore magnetic bracelets and necklaces for...
Healing with Remedial Massage
Remedial massage is a holistic treatment. That is to say, it works for the whole body and to improve total health, not just for the part being treated. A remedial...
Herbs for Baldness and Hair loss
The average rate of hair growth for a healthy person is 0.30 mm a day; however, slower growth occurs in older people and in people with a serious illness. The hair on...
Homeopathy: What the Ancients Knew
The German physician, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann who was born in 1755 and was the first to write about and discuss homeopathy. He began his own practice as soon as he had...
Hopi Ear Candling: Help or Hoax?
Human beings have suffered with ear problems for thousands of years, and often the way to relieve pressure or waxy-build-up involved sticking something in the ear...
Hot Stone Therapy: La Stone Massage
LaStone or hot stone massage therapy, has been rapidly gaining popularity over the last ten years. Most spas have members of staff trained in the technique, and if you...
Hydrothermal Therapy: Health Benefits
The benefits of hydrotherapy, or water healing, have been utilized for centuries. As long ago as the 4th century BC., the Greek physician Hippocrates...
Iridology as a Diagnostic Tool
Some people believe that the eyes really are a reflection of not only the soul, but the entire physical body. By looking into the iris of one’s eyes, they say, a...
Keeping your Liver Young and Healthy
The liver has as more than 500 vital functions, though not all of them are fully understood. Its primary function is the detoxification of the whole body. Everything...
Meditation for Health and Creativity
How aware are you of your breathing? Is it shallow or deep? Do you inhale and exhale for the same length of time? How long is each breath? Are your breaths irregular? Do...
Music Therapy and Mood
Music therapy consists of the use of music, in a therapeutic setting, to promote healing, relaxation, and create a general sense of health and well-being. Music...
Natural Healing with Aloe
Aloe (aloe vera) is a succulent plant originating from tropical Africa, where related species are used as an antidote for poison arrow wounds. Historical documentation...
Natural Healing with Echinacea
Echinacea (Echinacea augustifolia) is also known as Black Sampson, Coneflower and Purple Coneflower. It is native to North America and grows from Saskatchewan south to...
Natural Healing with Feverfew
Clinical research has shown that feverfew can reduce the severity and frequency of recurrent headaches, including migraine. It also contains the active principles...
Osteoporosis: Keeping the Bone Thief at Bay
It could happen suddenly, at any time, all it takes is a slip on the bathroom floor. You might think it wasn't too bad but painful enough to have it...
Prolotherapy; an Alternative for Healing Injuries
Tendon Strain
Tendons attach a muscle to the bone and are involved in movement of the joint.
Tendons may become irritated and inflamed for a...
Reducing Stress at Work
Stress has physical and emotional effects on us and can create positive or negative results. As a benefit, stress can help urge us into action; it can result in a new...
Seasonal Affective Disorder and Light Therapy
Human beings have a natural reaction to the changing season. During the winter we are all used to the shortened hours of daylight and most people...
Soothing Tension with Craniosacral Therapy
Craniosacral therapy involves the manipulation areas of the head and neck to relieve discomfort and cure illness. The therapy was invented by an...
The Cleansing Effects of Wheatgrass Juice
Wheat grass, a variety of grass akin to barley and oats and is grown outdoors whereas wheatgrass is grown indoors, from wheat berries, in trays for...
What is Huna Healing?
When most people in the United Kingdom think of Hawaii, they probably conjure up an image of a beautiful dark-haired woman dancing the hula on a sun-kissed beach,...
