Having a baby is a life changing experience and for me there are always two births – your baby and the birth of you as a Mother! The early days of being a new mother can be wonderful – full of joy, happiness and love as you gently adjust to your new life being responsible […]
The majority of my Clients are women and a high percentage of these women come to me with PMT or some kind of menstrual disorder, and this can range from debilitating and disabling, to inconvenient and uncomfortable and everything in between. An increasing number of women I meet are unaware of their natural cycle and […]
Not so very long ago, I would probably have been burnt at the stake, (and there are those who would still like to do that to Healers like me ……… or maybe it’s just me??!!haha). These days we are just given a verbal ‘roasting’ from time to time by Skeptics, Fear Mongers and Bigots who base their criticism largely in ignorance, Blind Faith (in Pharmaceutical Medicine) and pure Malice. But are we – Modern day Healers – in fact, treated any differently from the Wise Women (and Men), Shamens, Herbalists and Healers of days of yore who stood in the way of larger enterprises touting ‘Modern’, ‘Scientifically proven’ methods of Healthcare, often from highly toxic materials but with expensive and well marketed campaigns behind them? Why has the very term ‘Healer’ become synonymous with ‘Charleton’ or ‘Quackery’ instead of its true literal meaning – why is it that ‘Healing’ or being ‘Cured’ is seldom used in association with Pharmaceutical Medicine? Have we just accepted that if we are ill we do not ever get cured or healed, simply managed for the rest of our days with drugs??
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Every spring/early summer – & all year round – I treat lots of people with Hayfever and other allergies that they attribute to pollens, grass seeds and other outside irritants. Symptoms can vary hugely not only in their detail but in their intensity and frequency, from being mildly irritating to completely debilitating. In the majority of cases Homeopathic remedies can provide significant relief to existing symptoms, but the most effective treatment of Hayfever and other Allergies is to to look deeper than the top layer and establish why people are sensitive in the first place.Treating on 2 levels is essential – eg using Homeopathic Remedies during the season/times when symptoms are present, but also andjust as importantly undergoing deeper acting Homeopathic treatment in the seasons/times when symptoms are not present. This means that the underlying vunerability of each person can be addressed, treated and strengthened whilst the system is able to focus and use healing energy efficiently, so that any symptoms then get less and less invasive and debilitating season by season. In my experience this usually takes an average of 2 or 5 years before each person no longer suffers from Hayfever, with noticeable improvements with each passing season. It has the added advantage of enabling improvements to general health since addressing gut issues and immune responses is ofcourse not confined to a single area of a persons health. This positive track record is echoed amongst Homeopathic Practitioners world wide and, along with Pregnancy, Hayfever is probably the most common reason for people to seek out help from a Homeopath. The Pharmaceutical approach is mostly varying degrees of Anti-histamine use, ie turning off the immune response that is being triggered by the irritant, which can make for drowsiness, and over time can damage our kidneys. There are specialist clinics investigating testing for the exact irritants with a view to you then eliminating them from your lives – not always practical. There are also various protocols of de-sensitising people with the use of injections of small amounts of the allergen, with mixed results. Interestingly a large study several years ago found that rather than injecting these allergens, putting them in water under the tongue seemed to work just as well!
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Although I help people on a daily basis to manage and conquer various forms of pain, it’s not something I’ve personally experienced on a prolonged basis – that is until recently. When I refer to pain, I’m not talking about emotional pain – although emotions definitely come into it – I’m talking about prolonged, constant, unrelenting physical pain.
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