We all know that stress is not good for our health. I recently came across a survery of 2,050 adults (reported in Natural Health magazine; August 2015, P104 -105) that found twenty per cent of them had taken time off work for stress and ten per cent had sought professional help. As well as reducing… Continue reading →

There is much current debate about how healthy eating fruit actually is. Fructose in fruit is a sugar, and most western diets are not exactly short of sugar.

Perhaps more significant than the amount of fruit we eat is how we eat it. Some detox and quick-fix diets talk up the power of juicing. However,… Continue reading →

Each adenal actually contains two glands, the medulla and the cortex. The medulla is inside the cortex, and they derive from completely different embryonic tissue. The medulla derives from nervous tissue, and it secretes adrenaline and noradrenaline. It rarely malfunctions, except in the very rare case of a benign tumour, which will lead to excess… Continue reading →

The pituitary gland is only peanut-sized but produces nine different hormones. Disorders of the pituitary involve over or under secretion of one or more of these hormones.

Hypopituitaryism, or Simmond’s Disease, involves a loss of secretions of the anterior pituitary usually resulting from head injury or from post-partum haemorrhage. This leads to a loss… Continue reading →

I recently read a piece in a national newspaper in which seventies pop star, Leo Sayer, spoke about treatment he had been receiving for chronic digestive problems. This was the first time I had heard of this therapy. It is called BICOM therapy and apparently is administered mostly by acupuncturists. The aim of the treatment… Continue reading →

This is a type of massage that is percussive in nature. Tapotment acts principally on nerve trunks, conveying a series of shocks to the nerous system. The aim of the treatment is to stimulate the muscles and to make them contract – which is pretty much the oppposite of what you are trying to do… Continue reading →

Taoist Tai Chi arts are specifically designed to improve health. The turning and stretching in each of the movements contributes to better balance and posture, increased strength and flexibility, and calmness and peace of mind.

The movements exercise the whole physiology, including tendons, joints, connective tissue and internal organs. At the mental and spiritual level,… Continue reading →

The amount of manuka honey consumed in the UK makes for a very interesting statistic. 1,800 tons of it are consumed in the UK annually. However, only 1,700 tons of the honey are produced annually! So, not even considering the cosumption of mauka honey elsewhere in the world, the UK alone eats more than is… Continue reading →

The British Acupuncture Council was formed twenty years ago in 1995. It resulted from the merger of five previously established registers, which were themselves all tied to an individual acupuncture college in this country. These organisations were the Register of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Traditional Acupuncture Society (whose members gave me my first acupuncture treatments),… Continue reading →

New muscle cells can be produced from the stroma or from the parenchyma. Cells produced from the parenchyma provide perfect or near-perfect tissue reconstruction. However, stromal fibroblasts produce replacement tissue that will be scar/fibrous tissue (fibrosis), not specialised to perform the function of the surrounding parenchymal tissue with impairment resulting.

Therefore, the ability… Continue reading →