Non Toxic Head Lice Treatment

Traditional head lice treatment generally means a visit to your GP or pharmacist, purchasing a toxic chemical killer and applying this noxious substance to your cherished child’s head. With unknown consequences to the absorbed toxins.

Frequently, the lice remain.

Great. Now you’ve wasted your time, wasted your money, increased your child’s load of toxins and you’re back where you started.

Other kids at the school, don’t seem to be getting very much further either. So, of course, they all re-infect each other. It seems an endless cycle.

How can you effectively deal with your child’s problem without using a harsh chemical? Is it even possible?

The homeopathic medicine Staphysagria is a great and effective way to eliminate lice. Naturally. Without side effects. Without increasing their toxic load.

The medicine is taken orally (in the mouth). This alters your child’s skin, to become unattractive to head lice. This means they leave in their droves. It also means that your child will not be re-infected by contact with other children who are still affected.

Depending on the potency (strength) of the medicine, which is indicated by the number which follows the name, several doses will be needed. Instructions will be on the bottle, but as a general guide, dose once or two a day for about a week.

One or two repetitions may be necessary at subsequent times, but that should be the end of your worries. At least for this condition.

Head lice treatment using homeopathic medicines is safe, non toxic and effective. Whilst Staphysagria is the most common medicine for effectively dealing with head lice, it isn’t the only one.

Chronic Fatigue That Developed After the Flu

There are as many reasons for chronic fatigue as there are people suffering from it. How it started in you is unique to you. It may have started after you recovered from an acute disease. It may have started after a medical procedure, such as an operation or a vaccination. It may have started after you suffered a bad shock, after an accident or after a fright.

One of the most common scenarios for chronic fatigue is after you have recovered from a bad dose of a virus, particularly the flu. It is reckoned that over half chronic fatigue sufferers come from this.

It’s bad enough that you had a bad dose of the flu, without complications afterwards. Especially complications that seem to drag on and on.

You can be so debilitated that you have to give up hobbies and pastimes or even work. Your social and family life suffers as a result. Your partner may not be very sympathetic, thinking you’re putting it on to get those extra hours in bed.

You miss out on your children’s activities because you have no energy either to take an interest in them or to muster up the energy to take them out.

The good news is that there is highly effective and totally natural help at hand.

In the form of homeopathic remedies.

Which you can buy over the counter inexpensively and treat yourself.

The homeopathic remedy Gelsemium is a great candidate for resolving your chronic fatigue if it started after a bad dose of the flu. But your symptoms do have to match those of the remedy to affect a healing.

So lets look at some of the most important keynote symptoms you might have or had during the flu for Gelsemium to work for you.

• never well since the flu or flu vaccination
• a great heaviness, even your head, eyelids and/or tongue feel heavy
• trembling of your arms or legs especially after slight exertion
• chills down your back or heat alternating with chills
• you have no desire to drink at all
• headache which is better after you have urinated
• dizziness
• dullness

For any homeopathic remedy to work, you only need three keynote symptoms. Bearing in mind you already have one, the first one, you only have to pick out another two.

Another symptom you probably have is the heaviness or dullness so typical in chronic fatigue.

If you find you’re also dizzy or thirstless, there’s your third keynote symptom.

You can buy some common homeopathic remedies from health shops, homeopaths and homeopathic pharmacies.

For home prescribing, you are limited to the potency (or strength) of the remedies you can purchase. So you should only be able to purchase low potencies, such as a 6c or a 30c. 30c is more powerful than 6c.

Directions will be on the bottle, so follow them. As a general rule, take the 6c twice a day or the 30c once every day or every other day.

Within about a week, you should be noticing some change, if only small. The changes may be subtle, but you should be noticing that you have a bit more energy. If this is the case, carry on. Stop when you have reached your old level of energy.

However, if you don’t see any changes after about a week to 10 days, then you probably didn’t get the symptoms right and Gelsemium is not for you. In which case you should discontinue with the remedy. It won’t help every case of chronic fatigue that developed after a virus. But it will help many.

Flu Fatigue and How to Overcome It

Flu fatigue, along with fever and body aches, is the primary symptom indicating the flu. It means it can be very hard to operate normally as all you want to do is to lie in bed.

Your family might think you’re making it up, and give you no sympathy. But flu fatigue is very real and very debilitating.

I remember waking up one morning, with utter prostration. It took me all my strength to get myself together to get out of bed. There were some things I had to attend to, before returning to bed, but I had to sit down and recover every few minutes.

The trouble with fatigue is that no-one else can see it. It you had a large wound, or a broken bone, people could see that and would make allowances for you. But fatigue, like pain, is unseen.

But very real.

There are several homeopathic remedies which will melt away the fatigue as if you had never had it. But you might need some help in working out which one.

If you are already seeing a homeopath, then they are likely to help you out over the phone, as the last thing you’ll want to do (or should do) is drive to their clinic.

If you are not already consulting a homeopath, one may help you over the phone, but most like to see you, at least for one consultation before prescribing for you.

Although I loosely put my malady down to flu fatigue, I didn’t have any other flu symptoms. Actually the malady label doesn’t make one jot of difference with homeopathy. Your unique and individual symptoms are much more important.

Feeling so drained, even though homeopathy is my profession, it still took me a few hours to work out what I needed. That gives you some idea of just how fatigued flu can make you.

Once I had taken a dose, I fell asleep. This is always an excellent sign in any energetic treatment, as it means your body has relaxed - it’s no longer trying to fight the problem. Something else has come in to the rescue.

When I woke up, I took another dose.

I started to move around and do simple tasks. A couple of hours later, I took another dose, all the while my energy returning. By the evening I was back to normal, with no other symptoms.

That was pretty impressive to experience.

You can have the same result if you use homeopathic remedies for your flu fatigue, or any other problem. You can consult with a professional homeopath and/or use some common home prescribing remedies. Either way your health will benefit in leaps and bounds.

Swine Flu Prevention - Affordable and Natural

Swine flu prevention can be easy and inexpensive, both in monetary terms and in terms of time off work because of the flu.

The swine flu is simply a slight variation of normal seasonal flu. But all seasonal flus vary. So there’s is really no difference between swine flu and ordinary flu. With no difference in death rates, either.

I don’t know about you, but I love the winter. Maybe that’s because I’ve spent a few winters in the UK. You know all about cold in Scotland - the horizontal snow blizzards, toes you can’t feel, frozen car locks and windscreens, only a few hours of daylight and even then there’s no warmth in the sun.

No, give me southern Australian winters any day. The nights are cold enough to enjoy a fire, the days are often sunny and we only lose a couple of hours or so day light.

But even here, we tend to suffer from winter ailments. Apart from coughing and sneezing all over our loved ones, we can feel terrible from body aches and fatigue,

And time off work is great if you have an understanding boss, but mums cannot take time off child care and we know that not all bosses are understanding.

If you been looking for swine flu prevention that is natural, effective and doesn’t cost the earth you’re in the right place.

You may never have heard of homeopathy.
That is absolutely OK.

You may think homeopathy doesn’t work.
You don’t have to believe in it, for it to work.

You may have tried homeopathy in the past and it didn’t work for you, so why would you try it another time?
Do things in life always work for you?

They don’t for me. When things don’t work for me, I figure I have just got to find out a bit more.
Which is what I’m now doing for you, so you don’t have to go searching.

No, I’m not going to bore you with diet (although that is extremely important and you should make sure you eat lots of fresh fruit and veggies....and cut out the junk food......and drink plenty.....no, NOT canned or soft drinks....and keep the sugar down.....and.....).

I’m not even going to bore you with exercise and sunlight (although these are just as essential to swine flu prevention). You might not be too impressed if I suggested you go for a half hour jog, when you feel like death warmed up.

Just make sure you do get outside doing some form of exercise every day during the winter (and summer, come to that).

You may recall all the media attention on bird flu, that flus originate from birds, so it is no surprise to find that....

Many years ago, French homeopaths developed a homoeopathic remedy called Anas barb made from the internal organs of the Barberry duck. It’s also called Oscillococcinum, or Oscillo for short.

Unusual for homeopathy, it’s only available in a 200c potency (or strength).

Dosage size is one pillule (very small pills). Instruction on the bottle may say more, which is fine.

Dosage frequency is once a fortnight as winter approaches and all through the winter.

And if you feel a cold coming on, take it more often. How often? Well that depends on the severity of the symptoms and your susceptibility to colds. The golden rule, is to dose when you feel you’re going down and stop when you’re coming up. And that can be hours or days apart.

However, don’t keep taking it if you don’t feel any benefit after a few doses.

In the unlikely event that it does you no good, neither will it do you harm.

You can obtain it from any homoeopathic pharmacy or health shop or pharmacist who sell a range of homoeopathic remedies. Alternatively, you can purchase it from many homeopaths.

Using this swine flu prevention, you’ll not run the potential of side effects, neurological damage or even a mild dose of the flu.

Non Invasive Appendicitis Treatment is Best!

Appendicitis is the inflammation of the appendix. The normal medical treatment is to remove the appendix. But there are other options available that are not only effective, but non invasive.

Let’s look at a much better option than surgery, in my opinion.

Homeopathy is a wonderful deep and gentle natural modality that focuses on the cause of disease, rather the the effects. It works by improving your immune system so that you can cure you. This is at the heart of all ill health. You can’t cure you.

But that’s what your immune system is for. So that you can cure you. The only reason it can’t is because it’s compromised in some way. The only way homeopathy works, is by improving your immune system. Not by curing you. But by removing the blockages that stop you curing you.

Whilst it can’t be argued that removing your appendix will deal with the problem, it’s not getting at the cause of the inflammation. If you can address that, then the symptoms will disappear as if by magic. They just melt away.

There is one particular homeopathic medicine that will probably effectively deal with about 70% of cases of appendicitis, according to Roger Morrison, MD, an eminent American homeopath.

And that’s the medicine called Bryonia.

As with all homeopathic medicines, you need to be able to see the symptom picture of the medicine and match your own, to it. If they don’t match for three or more keynote symptoms, then the medicine is unlikely to do you any good.

The keynote symptoms of Bryonia include:

• pain worse for the slightest motion
• pain worse around 9 pm
• pain better for pressure, such as lying on the painful side
• a dryness of your mucous membranes
• an enormous thirst but at infrequent intervals
• irritable on being disturbed, prefers to be left alone and quiet

If three or more of the above symptoms fit your appendicitis pain, then the medicine Bryonia is likely to not only resolve the pain on an acute level, but also prevent it occurring again.

Chronic Fatigue Can Cause Addison's Disease

Chronic fatigue can develop after a particularly stressful time. This takes a huge toll on your body. If you’re not very healthy to start with, and you don’t address the exhaustion, you can slip into Addison’s Disease.

One of the results of chronic fatigue is your adrenal glands stop working, or work in overdrive. Your adrenal glands are situated on your kidneys and are responsible for a host of healthy bodily functions, including your hormones.

So although it’s a good idea to see your preferred health professional, to get expert advice on how to start treating your chronic fatigue, there are quite a few things you can do yourself.

One of the most important things you can do is to address your diet. Eat lots of fresh fruit and veggies, as much raw as you can. Limit you animal flesh to once or twice a week. Limit all kinds of dairy. And cut out or limit processed food such as sugar, flour, packets and junk food.

This doesn’t mean you can’t have anything sweet, just not processed sugar. Natural sweet foods include fruit, honey, dates, currents, raisins or sultanas.

To naturally supplement your health, it’s a good idea to take a superfood supplement, one that has all the main minerals and vitamins in a natural food based combination, which is easy for your body to absorb and utilise. One such as Crystal Sweet Algae.

Now the next thing most important you need to do is to start to work on that chronic fatigue.

If you are seeing a homoeopath, then that’s wonderful news. So you can skip this bit. If you’re not consulting a homeopath, then you might like to consider taking this remedy. But it’s a good idea to tell your practitioner what you’re doing.

The homeopathic remedy Arsenicum album is found in all home prescribing kits. But for it to work for you, you need to have at least three keynote symptoms.

So here are the keynote symptoms:

• great exhaustion
• restlessness, can’t keep still
• worse time is around midnight to about 2 am
• you have a thirst, but can only sip liquids
• great anxiety, even panic attacks
• desire for company, hates being alone
• cold, better for warmth
• there’s often a digestive disorder, with vomiting or/and diarrhoea or a history of
• symptoms are burning in nature

These symptoms can cover a multitude of conditions, which is why homeopaths don’t get involved in disease labels.

If you struggle to find any of the symptoms beyond your exhaustion or fatigue, this remedy is unlikely to help you. But if you can easily see at least two more symptoms in your condition, this remedy is likely to do wonderful things for you.

And the final step in resolving your chronic fatigue is to ensure you get exercise. Do something you enjoy. And do it on a regular basis. If you don’t enjoy it, you won’t stay with it. An outdoor activity is better than an indoor one, as then you also benefit from fresh air. But the important thing is whatever you do, you look forward to it.

Seven Ways to Avoid the Flu

The symptoms of flu, or influenza, that sets it apart from an ordinary cold are fever and body aches. You can also have the normal cold symptoms of discharge, headaches, cough, and sore throat as these can relate to any upper respiratory tract problem. You also might have gastrointestinal problems.

Most people suffer from the occasional cold during autumn, winter or spring. And this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Discharges can be a toxic clearing, so should never be suppressed.

However, most people would prefer to avoid the debilitating types of flu. Here are seven ways that you can start now, to remain healthy next season.

1. Make sure you eat well. This means lots of fresh fruit and vegetables that should make up at least 50% of your diet. Raw is best. Eat lots of green, leafy vegetables. Avoid or limit processed food (white sugar, artificial sweeteners, white flour, white rice). Limit dairy and meat.
2. Get plenty of sun. These days, the sun has an unfounded bad reputation. If you’re not getting enough sun, it’s likely you’ll never be well. How much is enough sun? That depends on you, your location and the season. But I suggest one hour is the minimum daily exposure (not necessarily in the middle of the summer, in the middle of the day).
3. Make sure you keep your liquids up. Drink when you’re thirsty. Avoid or limit soft drinks.
4. Adequate rest is essential to keeping your body healthy. If you are burning the candle at both ends, don’t expect to avoid any illness.
5. Taking a whole food (as opposed to the common synthetic) supplement can be hugely beneficial in topping up any nutritional deficiencies that may be caused either by your diet or by the way food is produced. Blue green algae are the best whole food supplements.
6. Be a happy, optimistic person. If you’re not that sort of person, work on it, or get professional help. Optimistic people are much healthier than pessimistic ones.
7. Take the homeopathic flu preventer, Oscillococcinum, also called Anas barb. This is available from homeopathic pharmacies, online,  and from some homeopaths, naturopaths, pharmacies, health shops.

These measures are going to do you a great deal more good than remaining in bad living habits and relying on medication or vaccination to provide you with protection against the flu, or a particular strain.

All medication does is to suppress the symptoms, not cure the flu. All vaccination does is to prevent that particular strain, at best. But they can cause neurological damage, or even kill you, at worst.

And the vaccination doesn’t prevent the sequelae, or the spin off. These symptoms go undetected by everyone except the patient and homeopaths.

All Natural Health - Helping You Achieve Your Dream

Trying to convert yourself to an all natural lifestyle is fraught with hazards, but trying to convert your family as well, can be daunting, particularly if they are dragging their feet.

Where do you start? How important is an all natural diet? Whatever is it, anyway?

Supplements come in all shapes and sizes. How do you work out which ones are the best value for money?

What are the effective alternatives to medical treatment?

If these are some of the questions that you’re asking yourself, you’ve come to the right place!

One of the best ways of getting more and quality information is to sign up for an ezine, which is a newsletter sent by email.

As you plough through the sea of information available on all natural health, you might like to consider the following points to ensure you’re getting quality information.

• is the ezine free?
• is the ezine regular, preferably weekly?
• does the ezine content contain useful and free tips?
• has the author tried the items he/she is promoting?
• does the content teach you anything?
• does the author explain his/her reasons for putting forward an argument?
• do the reasons sound sensible or plausible?
• do you look forward to receiving the ezine and enjoy reading it?

Some ezines can be just a platform for an author to voice his/her personal opinions, which may not teach you anything.

Some ezines are all about persuading you to buy, without giving you any useful information.

It’s worth mentioning that most companies are well aware that putting ‘natural’, ‘all natural’, ‘all natural ingredients’ on their packets of highly processed food is quite legal, even though misguiding. They are well aware of the pull the word ‘natural’ has, as people strive for better health.

So you need to be able to decipher what is genuine and what isn’t.

Instead of looking at the pretty packet cover and convincing words, ask yourself, how far removed from the original food growing, are the contents of this packet?

Check out the ingredients.

For instance, a packet of food may list a lot of E numbers (normally synthetic colours, preservatives,) which is best to avoid. Or it may list the isolated nutrients it has added, such as calcium, selenium, etc. This is also best to avoid as synthetic nutrients aren’t absorbed easily, so you’re buying expnsive urine.

Some packets will list just the food in the ingredients. Although this doesn’t tell you if the food has been heat treated, it does ensure you know what went into it.

For instance a packet of dried apricots is likely to contain sulphur dioxide - a preservative that can have a serious impact on some people.

An all natural packet of dried apricots will only contain apricots. Nothing else.

Another example is a multi vitamin or mineral supplement. Check the ingredients. If they list minerals or vitamins, chances are this has come out of a laboratory. In my opinion, that’s where they should be returned. If the ingredients list plants, then that is a nutritious supplement, one you can easily digest and utilise as you evolved to gain your nutrients from plants.

Always look deeper, always take a peep behind the scenes. Don’t trust anyone. Go by how you feel about something, not what you’re told. And when you do your research, don’t be put off by the negative comments. Nobody agrees with everything. Instead look at the content of the positive comments. Is it purely a sales pitch? Or is there some quality information available that doesn’t benefit the author?

The rewards of an all natural lifestype can be enormous and highly satisfying. Don’t be put off by the trials and tribulations along the way. The goal is worth the effort.

Treat Flu at Home

For most people, flu comes a few times in your life. You go to bed for a few days, sleep if off and you’re back at work. It’s inconvenient. But if you have reasonable health, it’s not going to be serious.

If you can treat flu at home, this time off becomes shorter. And it’s so much nicer staying at home, in the comfort of your own bed, with your loved ones looking after you.

To treat your own flu, you probably need a bit of help. Obviously, if it’s serious you need professional help.

But if you just feel run down, have a bit of a fever and body aches, chances are that bed rest and a bit of help is all you’ll need to affect a complete recovery.

Homeopathic medicines, ones which are chosen based on their similarity to your unique symptoms, can totally reverse the flu in a matter of hours, if it’s not far advanced and you have a strong immune system.

I well remember being totally wiped out with the flu once. So much so that it took me several hours before I could work out which medicine to take. But once I did, I was back to more or less normal in a few hours. And totally recovered by the next day.

The key here is that I treated it early one and I have a good immune system. This is indicated by the speed with which you recover from an illness. Not that you don’t get ill.

A good strong immune system is likely to create a violent fever. It can because you can cope with it. And a violent fever is more likely to get rid of the pathogen fast, than a mild one. And that’s the object of your body’s symptoms.

By purchasing a homeopathic home prescribing kit, or a few medicines which are particularly good at resolving flus and virus’, you can treat flu at home. Add to that a good diet, and your immune system will improve immeasurably.

Looking for an Alternative Health Magazine But Feel Confused by the Array?

People in their droves are turning their backs on the manipulative medical and pharmaceutical markets and are starting to take control of their own health. It’s a turning point for the world. As you take control of your own health, so you influence the greater world.

With the booming of the natural and alternative health market, you could be forgiven for being confused. There seem to be so many modalities. Some do this, some do that. Some are hands on (and so could be worrying for the nervous), some are hands off.

There’s homeopathy, massage, naturopathy, kinesiology, herbalism, flower essences, acupuncture, Chinese medicine, Bowan therapy, chiropractic, hypnotherapy, the list is endless.

You may never have heard of many of them. And some of them cross over.

By subscribing to an alternative health magazine, even if it does specialise, will mean that you’ll get a better understanding of what that modality can do and if you are attracted to it.

Knowledge is power! You can’t make up your mind about where to go with your health care, without knowing something about the various options.

So what should you look for in an informative alternative health magazine? Apart from the modality speciality of the author, wider areas should also be discussed, such as diet. And the emerging truth about some of the risks with conventional medical tests and treatments.

With medicine and drugs dominating the western health care system for decades, you have never been given options to explore. They ruled with an iron hand.

Now things are changing. It’s a new century, a new age, a new awareness. People are demanding to know the truth. And to their right to choose.

When you’re looking for an alternative health magazine which specialises, check out it also covers other areas of natural health, such as diet. It should sometimes bring in experts to discuss various options and what to avoid.

I have heard that some doctors don’t believe diet has a direct impact on health. Don’t, for one moment, believe them! Diet is all important. For example, Westin A. Price (1870-1948), a Cleveland dentist looked for the causes of dental decay and physical degeneration that he observed in his dental practice. He went searching for people with fine teeth and good health. He found them the world over in isolated human groups, including villages in Switzerland, Gaelic communities in the Outer Hebrides, Eskimos and Indians of North America, and other remote locations.

A good alternative health magazine will explore some of the common areas of conventional health care, particularly the controversial ones, such as vaccination. And will often give their speciality slant on them.

Many alternative health magazines are free to subscribe to and appear regularly. Regular magazines are a good idea, as it helps to keep you on track. With the best will in the world, you’ll be influenced by the media, your family, friends and colleagues, who may not yet have started to explore their health rights and options.

When you’re new to exploring something, you’re in a vulnerable position and can be easily influenced. Stay true to your feelings and keep looking and learning!

Lower Back Pain Management

Pain is incredibly debilitating. It takes over your whole life.

But back pain seems to be the worst, especially lower back pain. Perhaps that’s because your back supports you in everything you do, so pain there permeates everywhere.

Whatever the reason, you need to do something to manage life on a day to day basis.

Analgaesics and pain killers may (or may not) help with the pain, but they don’t do your liver a lot of good.

So what are the alternatives?

Surgery sounds risky and expensive.

Let’s look at what you’re not being told. Put your belief system on hold for a moment, while you explore a possibility.

One of the symptoms that occur for a lot of back pain sufferers is the pain on the slightest movement. Lying down in bed, absolutely motionless, provides the most relief.

Lying on your back, and so putting pressure on it, also affords you some relief.

But you can’t live like that.

The origin of your pain may have been over straining your back, or even an injury.

But one thing for sure is that the pain makes you irritable, if not down right angry.

This is not uncommon. Pain tends to shorten your fuse. But you find your family avoid you like the plague, which is just as you want it.

If any of this seems to fit what you have, then you’re in luck.

As I say, suspend your belief system. If you get relief, who cares where it comes from, as long as it was ethically obtained?

The homeopathic remedy Bryonia has an affinity with any pain which is much worse for the slightest movement of the offending part. Lower back pain seems to fit it to a T, although any back pain, with the same symptoms, is likely to get relief.

So, to recap, for Bryonia to be suitable for your lower back pain, you need to have the following symptoms:

• pain which is much worse for any movement
• the pain is better while motionless
• the pain is easier with pressure applied
• the pain makes you irritable, even angry

Another, less important symptom for Bryonia to work for your lower back pain, is that you don’t like heat on it, the pain is better with cold applied, rather than heat.

Homoeopathic remedies can be obtained from most health shops, many pharmacies, practicing homeopaths and homeopathic pharmacies.

Depending on how long you have had your lower back pain will determine how long you need to take the remedy. But you should see an improvement with only a few doses. That will guide you.

It is possible, that this remedy will go a long way to resolve your pain, but not all the way.

This is when you need to consult with a homeopath.

Are You Having Difficulty Managing Your Back Pain?

Back pain can be terribly debilitating. Your back tends to take a hammering from daily life, from bad posture to old beds, from sitting in a vehicle too long to lifting heavy items inappropriately.

Backs come in for a lot of grief. It’s a human tendency to abuse something until it fails, then you wish you hadn’t!

But of all your body parts, managing everyday life with a painful back must rank among the most troublesome.

The key to looking after your back, and so prevent back pain, is to listen to your body. If you’re doing some manual labour which involves a lot of lifting, you need to stop when your body tells you it’s had enough, regardless of whether the job is finished or not.

If you listen to your body, you’ll rarely comes to any harm. Trouble is, you have probably got out of the habit of doing this. Instead you listen to the clock or getting something finished.

That’s great advice, but isn’t it a bit like closing the stable door after the horse has bolted?

Yes and no. If you’re aware of why something has happened, at least you’ll know not to do it, next time.

So lets get back to your current back pain.

The vast majority of back pain is caused by some form of injury to the soft tissue (muscles or tendons). When you sit in a car or vehicle too long, you overstrain your back muscles, as it tries to support you in an unnatural position.

If you do too much lifting, you can see you have injured your supporting back muscles.

Injury is not necessarily something that happened suddenly.

If you don’t address this problem, in an energetic way, by healing it on a deep level, it becomes compounded over the years.

Whilst living off pain killers can help you function, they do nothing for your liver or for your back pain in the long run.

One of the main symptoms of back pain is actually stiffness. Especially on rising from sitting or lying for some time, such as first thing in the morning. But once you get over that initial painfully stiff first few steps, you work a bit looser and feel better.

For a while.

But then the pain starts again and you have to sit or lie down and the cycle repeats itself.

This is known as the rusty gate syndrome. A rusty gate hinge is very stiff to get moving, but will generally get better on continued movement.

If this seems to fit you to a T, do another couple of checks before I let you in on an amazing (and totally natural) remedy.

Everyone is different about how they respond to heat and cold. Some find putting a cold pack on an injury helps the pain a lot. I’m not talking about ice here, which tends to numb the pain for virtually anyone. I’m talking about your personal preference.

Other people prefer heat, or a hot pack, which relieves the pain a bit. Hot showers can be heaven.

So the checklist goes like this

• you’ve injured or strained your back in some way, possibly years ago
• without pain killers, your back is predominantly stiff, with some improvement on initial movement
• generally, heat improves the pain

If this sounds like you, the homeopathic remedy Rhus tox is likely to help your back a great deal. It may even cure it.

At the very least, you will probably be able to come off your analgaesics, much to your livers relief.

As it has no side effects, and it will do no harm if you try it out for a short period, it’s worth trying, isn’t it?

Using Some Common Home Remedies Could Save Your Life!

I love those self help books which tell you how to easily remove stains and odours, be more efficient and various other useful tips, just by using some common sense and normal household cleaning products, such as vinegar and bicarbonate of soda.

Do you know that practically all cleaning can be done efficiently and quickly using these two amazing, totally safe and non-toxic ordinary household items?

I’m not going into this here, because this article is all about using some really common homeopathic remedies at home. But I encourage you to check them out. Just imagine, no more toxic fumes or dangers for small children or pets. Or you, for that matter.

Back to home remedies.

Just imagine your small daughter falls and cuts herself badly. She’s screaming, you’re panicking and you’ve got a flat tyre on your car. Your neighbours are away on holiday on one side, and at work on the other. The bus drivers are on strike. Your family live miles away. And you’re a single parent.

Well, you could panic some more.

Or you could ring for a taxi, which will probably take a while to come.

You might try ringing your friend, but she could be out of town. Or, at the very least, a few minutes drive away.

You drive to the local hospital.

And then you wait...

Don’t you just love the wait?

You could be dying, for all most hospitals seem to care. They seem to be more interested in your private insurance cover, or your next of kin - great feeling of confidence.

Now supposing you had a small kit of common homeopathic home remedies, with an instruction sheet.

You could quickly get that out, run through the ailments section and pick the appropriate remedy for the wound.

That might take a couple of minutes.

Almost like magic, your daughter stops screaming. With peace descending, you wash and dress the wound. By the time your friend or the taxi arrives, the worst is over. Your daughter wants to get back to playing.

You’re left wondering why you were in such a panic. But you know it was real. There’s a wound to prove it.

Homeopathic home remedies work so fast, as soon as they hit your tongue they’re working, provided you have selected the correct one.

Learning something new, like using the most appropriate home remedies in emergencies, is something so valuable for us all, if should be taken very seriously.

So, where do you look for help?

My suggestion is to find a good, regular (at least weekly) natural health or homeopathic ezine (internet magazine) to subscribe to. This way, learning becomes almost effortless. Learning which common home remedies do what, could stand you in good stead later in life.

Choosing A Natural Health Magazine Which is Unbiased

Natural health magazines abound, often giving you conflicting advice. Who should you believe?

I believe any good natural health magazine, like any good magazine, shouldn’t so much give you advice, rather they should give unbiased important pros and cons and leave you to work out the best solution for you.

After all you are unique. What is helpful to the magazine editor may be harmful to you. Only you can decide.

Being unbiased is hugely important. We’re all reading in the news how doctors have been paid to create unsubstantiated ‘scientific’ papers supporting some drug or other.

Natural health magazine editors are people too. Some good, some bad, some indifferent. If the editor only advocates items they receive a royalty form, they aren’t unbiased.

Sure, we all need to make our daily crust, but it’s best to be open about what we profit from.

A good natural health magazine should look at all aspects of health, not just focus on physical ailments. For example, diet is critical to good health.

I recently read of six people, all suffering with type 2 diabetes, on insulin and all obese. Within one week of a change of diet, most were off their insulin. Within one month, they all were.

Isn’t that awesome?

I find it extraordinary that doctors receive no nutritional training whatsoever.

Yet I doubt there is a natural health therapist who doesn’t understand the importance of diet.

Natural health covers every aspect of who you are. You aren’t just your body. You aren’t just your mind. You are a unique and complex unit. Your feelings and emotions are as important (actually more so) as your thoughts and creations.

So any natural health magazine worth its salt will cover aspects of your emotional health, as well as your physical health. When you ignore your emotional health, sooner or later you’ll suffer physical ill health.

Everyone knows that stress causes anxiety and that anxiety causes higher blood pressure and faster heart rate. While that’s fine for a short period, if you continually have these ‘anxiety attacks’, your physical health will deteriorate.

But you don’t have to resort to drugs. There are many effective, natural alternatives. And homeopathy can actually get to the cause of why you are suffering these attacks in the first place.

And fix it.

And lastly, your magazine should have a readers question area. Whilst the answer may not be specifically helpful for your ailment, they should be able to point you in the right direction. They should know what areas each natural health modality excels in and which has limited ability.

For example, you wouldn’t go to a masseuse if you had incontinence. And you probably wouldn’t go to a chiropractor if you had a torn ligament. It’s doubtful you’d see an acupuncturist if you had been abused as a child.

Yet all these health issues can be resolved using homeopathy.

Natural Cures with Homeopathy

When you start looking, natural cures abound. From the rapid resolution of a simple insect bite, to the healing of a chronic, disabling, wasting and fatal disease. All can be healed naturally.

The key is in finding the cause.

Some causes are easy to see. For instance, if you regularly eat doughnuts for breakfast, burgers for lunch and microwave a packet for dinner, you know your health won’t, can’t, last.

It can be that easy.

So, armed with your brand new homeopathic first aid kit, you want to magically bring about some natural cures for you and your family.

Let’s say your young daughter has been bitten by a bee. The site swells up, becomes red and tight to feel. She complains of a stinging or burning pain. She may or may not be allergic to bees, but if she is, there is a very real possibility of her going into anaphylactic shock.

Deciding on first trying the natural cures approach, you rapidly read through the instructions in your kit. Apis seems to be the appropriate remedy, given the cause and the resultant symptoms, as well as the past history.

You give her a dose. Ten minutes you give her another dose. The whining reduces a little. You give another dose ten minutes later.

You didn’t imagine it, the whining has almost completely abated.

Twenty minutes later, it starts again.

Another dose.

She races off playing.

A couple of hours later, she asks for another dose. By which time the site has improved a great deal and you’re feeling pretty pleased with yourself.

Your cat comes home one day, feeling rather sorry for himself. On closer inspection, you see some marks on his leg that look like a bite mark. You know he tends to play with baby snakes that are common where you live. So you fear the worse.

Although this is pretty serious stuff, you are encouraged by your past successes, so you opt for the natural cures approach again. Digging out your homeopathic first aid kit you look up bites from poisonous animals.

It tells you to give Aconite first for the shock, then Ledum for the bite. Then to alternate them every ten minutes. Your cat doesn’t seem to mind this at all. You feel he knows you’re trying to help. After a couple of hours, you begin to see he is noticeably relaxing and trying to sleep. You leave him, checking on him regularly.

That evening, he wakes up, demanding his dinner as normal.

Now you’re really getting into your stride.

Sceptical to the last, your partner comes down with a fever after swimming in cold water on a hot day. His face looks red, you can see his carotids pounding at his throat. He’s burning up with a fever.

You’ve heard that fever is a good reaction of the body to stop invading pathogens taking a hold. But you’re a bit alarmed as his fever is surging through 38 degrees C and rising.

Your, by now trusty homeopathic first aid kit, comes out again. You quickly scan the instructions and decide on Belladonna.

Putting a pillule (small pill) in half a glass of water, you spoon a little water into your partner’s mouth, every few minutes. It’s not long before you see him relax and fall asleep.

An hour or so later he wakes, takes another sip and falls back to sleep. Typical of his gender, although completely recovered in just a few hours, he puts it down to fluke, coincidence, not a very bad attack.

You nursed him. You know different.

So when shouldn’t you try to achieve natural cures with your home remedy kit?

Well, firstly, when you have a serious condition and the selected remedies don’t seem to be having any effect.

Secondly, when the remedy kit doesn’t seem to cover the eventuality.

Thirdly with any serious or chronic disease. Serious disease often has more than one cause and many factors need to be considered. For instance, I’m often contacted with how someone can help themselves with the pain of cancer.

This is way beyond the scope of a home prescriber. Seek the services of a professional homeopath or your preferred therapist in these circumstances. You need to know a lot more than a kit can give you.

A chronic disease is one which lasts a long time, often the rest of your life (but not with homeopathy!).

A home prescribing homeopathic first aid kit generally covers acute conditions - which can look alarming, but are usually resolved within a few days or weeks. And this is where you can do most good, this is where your natural cures will become a regular occurrence.

So learn to know what you can and can’t treat, know that you will make mistakes and you won’t always get it right, and be empowered by those magical natural cures that will soon become commonplace.

Natural Health Products - Where, What, Why and How

If you’re new to natural health, you may be wondering what products to buy and where to purchase them, for the best quality and value. You’ll also probably like to know what they can do for your health and how to take them.

If you’re a seasoned natural health products user, you may be wondering how to extend your knowledge.

One of the best ways of getting your head around a new concept AND extending your knowledge is to subscribe to a good, regular ezine (online newsletter) which discusses various ailments, a multitude of the natural health products which will help resolve these symptoms, and the whereabouts of where you can purchase these, wherever you are in the world.

One of the best range of natural health products are homeopathic remedies. These are highly effective, low cost and easy to use. You can use the services of a professional homeopath to help deal with deep seated issues. And you can use some common remedies in the comfort of your own home, dealing with any ailments from a cold to a burn.

Homeopathy is a new concept to most people. You may not know what it is or how it works.

Learning anything new takes time. The best way is to learn a little at a time. This way, it becomes a part of live.

When I run classes on how to home prescribe, I encourage participants to practice on their families, in between classes. The following class always starts off with the excited chatter of how successful their efforts have been.

There’s nothing quite as exciting as having your own personal success!

There are already more than 4,000 homeopathic remedies available and this is added to daily as more remedies become known about. As a home prescriber, only about 40 are available to you, but that’s still a lot to get your head around when you don’t know much!

Of all the natural health products available, from herbs to food, homeopathy is probably the most difficult for a newbie, as the concepts are so different from mainstream thinking.

So it’s good to have a mentor, to help guide you through the maze.

Challenges are a great way to stretch your mind, but they can be overwhelming when you get stuck and don’t know where to go for help.

Of all the natural health products about, I know of no other than homeopathy which can do so much good when you select the correct remedy, and do no harm if you get it wrong.

That’s a mighty claim.

I just want to repeat it as it really is profound.

Do so much good...

... and do no harm.

What other natural health products can make that claim?

I know very little about herbs, aromatherapy, chiropractic (for example), other than they can be wonderful, and also harmful in the wrong hands.

What other health products can make that claim?

I know very little about medicine (and don’t want to), other than it is mostly suppressive and works against your body’s own innate healing powers. This means it comes at a price - twice.

Once as a high monetary cost, once in the harmful effect on your overall, long term health.

In my opinion, nothing comes close to homeopathy in the way it can resolve deep seated issues and long standing symptoms. The most difficult part is getting started. Once you’ve created that momentum, things click into place naturally.

Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine

Just because the media doesn’t think favourably about alternative therapies in health and medicine (why would they, they depend enormously on revenue gained from drug advertisements), doesn’t mean to say that they are not hugely successful in the areas they treat.

Take homeopathy. Did you know that homeopathy can heal poisonous snake bites? And cataracts? And cancer?

Well, to be strictly honest, homeopathy doesn’t do the healing. It frees those blockages within you, so that you can heal yourself. It does this by treating you, not the disease you have. This is unique in health and medicine, let alone alternative therapies in health and medicine.

Few people are aware of the enormous scope homeopathy has. It’s kept well hidden by vicious media attacks. This is totally understandable when you realise that homeopathy is low cost. That anyone can do a lot of good using a few common remedies at home, without knowing very much.

This is a huge threat to the lucrative profits of the big pharmaceutical industry.

But does it help you?

Let’s look at a few examples.

A woman was suffering from a cerebral stroke and in a coma. After a month of futile treatments, doctors declared her case as hopeless.

Luckily for her, a homeopath was brought in.

Her unique symptoms before and during the stroke were taken.

She was given a common homeopathic remedy, one which is found in all first aid kits for home prescribing, regularly. Within two days she was moving her eyes, blinking and made efforts to speak. After one week she talking, moving her neck and asking for food. Within one month she walking with support. Shortly after, she recovered of all her mental functions.
Ref Homeopathy 4 Everyone May 2009

Let’s look at another case.

A newly trained hospital doctor was given the job of overseeing the hopeless cases of hepatitis C. With little to do and an open mind, he began searching for something outside the scope of medicine, something perhaps within the scope of alternative therapies in health and medicine.

He discovered that alpha lipoic acid (an antioxidant) was a great healer for toxic livers. After giving his patients this supplement, they all recovered.

Sadly his colleagues couldn’t afford this to come out, as it threatened their careers and their reputations.
Ref Dr. Berskson’s book ‘The Alpha Lipoic Acid Breakthrough’

Yet another case showing how thorough practitioners have to be when using alternative therapies in health and medicine.

A young medical student was taken seriously ill suddenly. She visited doctor after doctor. She was prescribed everything from antibiotics to antidepressants and everything in between. Not one doctor asked her what had changed in her life just prior to becoming sick.

Eventually she worked it out for herself. Since starting at university, her diet had changed from good home cooking to eating hot dogs on the run. Once she eliminated the hot dogs and their sodium nitrate preservative from her diet, she fully regained her health.

Take control of your own health. Look beyond your comfort zone for health care and nutrition. Have an open mind. You’ll be amazed at how healthy you can become.

How Effective is Natural Healing?

You may not be aware of it, but your body has a tremendous capacity to heal you.

From anything.

So why doesn’t it?

Because you’re out of balance!

Once you’re back in natural balance, true natural healing is possible.

So what does out of balance mean, and how do you put yourself back into balance?

You only have to look as far as nature to see what natural balance is. Living the stressful life that is the mainstay of modern day human existence is probably the main contributing factor for your lack of balance.

I’m not necessarily promoting the idea that you give up your job and live in the bush. You can do anything and remain in natural balance.

It’s how you handle things that shows up your balance, or lack of.

Most people don’t handle things very well. You might get angry or defensive when someone criticises you. You don’t take enough ‘you’ time, time to relax or reflect. You may not be eating well. You may be partying and drinking too much.

Natural healing can only come about when you consider you as an entire entity. Your thoughts, your physical challenges, your feelings are all connected. If you have been taken physically ill, it’s more than likely because you didn’t listen to your inner self, which was telling you to slow down, or get another job, or get out of your current relationship.

When you don’t listen, something takes over and MAKES you listen. A spell in hospital may be the only way you will reflect on your life. That doesn’t sound very much like natural healing, I hear you say. And no it isn’t. But if the time and experience there makes you take stock and turn your life around, then it has been beneficial.

Natural healing can’t come about if you’re putting garbage food into your body on a regular basis.

Garbage in, garbage out.

Healthy food, natural supplements regular light exercise, lots of time to relax, listening to your inner voice for major, and minor, life decisions are the best ways to allow your body to get into the natural healing mode it knows so well and does so efficiently.

It’s doubtful there is a human alive who doesn’t have some issues or life experience that is holding them back, keeping them in a rut or preventing them from moving forward in the way they really want to.

This is because these issues haven’t been properly resolved. You may think you’ve got over the death of your whoever, or the abuse you suffered as a child. But if you either don’t want to think/talk about it or cry or feel emotional when you do, you know you haven’t resolved it.

And you can’t move forward until you do. Once you have truly resolved it, your body’s innate natural healing powers come into their own, and away you go.

One of the best ways, if not the best way, of helping you resolve these deep issues is homeopathy. Homeopathy has the unique capacity to quickly put you back into balance, so your natural healing powers can once more resume their efficient task.

You can tell what problems are upper most in your life, by the physical ails you succumb to.

The liver is where anger is stored. Ever heard of the phrase ‘he’s a bit liverish today’, meaning he’s angry. So if you’re regularly angry or irritable, it’s likely your liver is struggling. It may not show up on a blood test. Yet. But it will, if you don’t take steps to resolve it.

The kidneys are where fear is stored. Are you getting lots of urinary tract infections? Check out what you’re fearful of. That can be a bit challenging on your own, and you may need the help of a therapist, such as a homoeopath.

The lungs are the seat of grief. Displaced people/immigrants often succumb to tuberculosis. TB is all about the lungs. Displaced people are often fleeing from their country out of necessity rather than choice, leaving their family behind.

So if you want to have a magical life, one where things just keep going right, feed your body well, respect it, listen to it, make sure you have daily relaxation and get professional help with your deep seated problems.

Balance your yin (female) and yang (male) energy.

Healing you does more to heal the world than anything else.

Seven Reasons Why Natural Health Remedies are Regaining Their Previous Popularity

Natural health is enjoying a huge increase in popularity, at the moment. Why do you think this is? Here are a few of my thoughts.

1. Natural health takes into consideration the whole person. After all, your mind and your little toe are all important aspects of you. (Main stream health care isolates parts of the body, as if they aren’t connected.)
2. Natural health works on very basic and universal laws, which are violated at your peril! This means everything is considered important including your diet, your stress levels, your living conditions, your self-confidence, your exposure to harmful substances, your lack of exposure to healthy conditions, the physical or emotional traumas you have had.
3. Your body is constantly trying to keep you as healthy as possible. Natural health remedies work by supporting your body in this aim, rather than opposing your body as happens with pharmaceutical drugs.
4. Natural health remedies give you the power to heal yourself - you are always in charge. (Compare that with the medical point of view that the doctor is in charge of your health.)
5. There are no side effects when using natural health remedies. We’ve all heard of people who have experienced worse symptoms from the side effects of drugs, than that of the original complaint.
6. You can often prescribe yourself natural health supplements - you don’t need expert advice.
7. Natural health remedies are timeless because they work within universal laws. They will never be dated. New ones may become available. But they will never drop out of popularity because of their ineffectiveness. Rather, as has happened, they are pushed out of popularity for that very reason - they are powerfully effective.

I love the concept that every part of our bodies are dependant on each other, all parts make up the whole - from your emotions, to your physical aches.

And to take it further, that every person is part of the whole planet. So by improving your health naturally, you’re contributing to a healthier planet.

I also love the idea that you are in charge of your health. No one can do anything for you (or to you for that matter) without your permission. Taking control of your own health naturally, is a rewarding journey.

Natural health can be anything from massaging a sore muscle to working on your negative thoughts, and everything in between. The important thing to remember is that you matter, you have control. You’re in the driver’s seat as far as your health is concerned.

Natural health remedies are normally in the form of homeopathic, herbal, flower, colour or ‘energy’ remedies. You normally take them orally, but sometimes you can just put them on your skin.

Typically the results that you obtain from them is subtle. Negativity or ailments tend to melt away without any song and dance. So much so that you can think they’re not working. It’s only by diligently recording all your issues prior to starting your treatment, that you’ll know if you’re making any headway. An industrious practitioner will always take copious notes of your current ailments.

My preference within the natural health remedies available lie with homeopathic remedies. From experience, I’ve learned how powerful they are. They can go back a lifetime, to the traumas you suffered as an infant, even in utero, whatever age you are now. These traumas all have an impact on who you are now and the type of ailments you’re suffering. By addressing these issues, you can drop those burdens you’ve been carrying.

Using Natural Home Remedies, in Particular Homeopathy, Effectively

There’s nothing more empowering than using natural home remedies effectively. It has enormous WOW factor. Why? Well for a start, using natural remedies, you know you can’t do any harm as they’re gentle, non-invasive and work in harmony with your body. But the real WOW factor comes when you do good! It can be so exciting, that you can do so much good, in the comfort of your own home, without knowing much.

There are a variety of natural home remedies that you can safely use yourself, without knowing very much. There are some herbs (although many need more in depth information), there’s flower essences, there’s aromatherapy, there’s good nutrition, there’s kitchen home remedies and then there’s homeopathy.

Perhaps, out of all of them, homeopathy has the potential for doing the most good. All of the commonly available homeopathic remedies have a wide scope of use. For instance, the homeopathic remedy Arnica, the king of injury remedies can resolve the following conditions:

• any ailment which stems from an injury, however far back including concussion, surgery, dental extractions, sprains, strains
• jet lag
• shift work fatigue
• labour
• arthritis, rheumatism
• sepsis, infections
• colds, flus
• skin eruptions
• malaria
• whooping cough
• pneumonia
• gout
• meningitis

Whilst I’m not proposing that you, as a home prescriber, attempt to treat such serious ailments as meningitis or pneumonia, I am suggesting that, with a bit of knowledge and a sharp eye, you have the potential of nipping these conditions in the bud.

Using natural home remedies does mean that you have to be a bt of a detective. You need to notice things about you or the family member you’re trying to help. For instance, you need to know their normal habits and traits, so you know when they have deviated from them. Someone who needs the homeopathic remedy Arnica is often averse to the approach of others. It’s logical when you look at it. As Arnica is the king of injury remedies, those needing it have been hurt. If they’ve been hurt once, the approach of someone may raise fears that you may further hurt them.

This isn’t a normal behaviour. So if your dog is suddenly apprehensive of your approach, he may have been injured.

I remember hearing of someone who had suffered severe gastritis for years. He’d been to see doctor after doctor, to no avail. Finally, he saw a homeopath. Homeopaths always ask about what happened to cause the problem. This was easy - a kick in the stomach from a donkey. Arnica was prescribed, and the gastritis disappeared completely.

Now if that had happened to you, with your homeopathic kit of natural home remedies, you could have prevented something like that from developing.

Lets dip into the mix and see what other examples of natural home remedies there are. Tomatoes are a popular food and can be easily grown in many climates. Tomatoes are full of a nutrient called lycopine. Lycopine is a natural sun screen. If you know some basic nutritional knowledge like this, you can eat your sunscreen - a much healthier option than the topical one.

What do you do if you’ve been stung by a plant or insect which packs a punch, and you’re in the middle of nowhere, with help miles and hours away? If you know your natural home remedies well, you’d know that if you urinate on the area, all will be quickly resolved.

Isn’t it fun!

Is Natural Medicine or Natural Health Expensive?

In countries where basic health care is a right, and supplied free by the government (paid for by your taxes), natural health may appear to come at a price. But only if you compare it against the cost (or lack) of the consultation plus the prescription.

If you have to pay for your health care consultations and full price for your prescriptions, most if not all natural medicine is highly cost effective.

But you can’t just compare the cost of the consultations plus the prescriptions. For a truly accurate assessment of cost comparison, you must also take into consideration the overall efficiency of the consultation - ie how good or effective is the prescription.

As a body, natural health practitioners tend to look at your overall health care, including diet, relationship issues, work environment as well as individualising you as a person, to find those ‘specially for you’ remedies. So the consultation tends to be quite long - usually upwards of half an hour, depending on the modality.

Straight away you can see what value you’re receiving. The practitioner is truly interested in you and wants to find out your particular ‘achilles heel’. Rarely will a natural medicine therapist treat you dismissively, giving you just a few minutes to hear your story. After all, how can you pour out a life into a few minutes?

Natural medicine tends to work far better when the cause is addressed. It’s no good treating the effect, as that tends to make it worse, with more furious attacks later. Take anaphylactic shock, which can occur from a variety of causes. Lets take an allergy to bee stings to illustrate my point.

Those allergic to bee stings can suffer seriously, with swelling going far beyond the sting site, possibly even to your throat making breathing difficult, taking days or even weeks to reduce the swelling and pain. If you’re used to taking antihistamine, you know full well, that each time you have a sting, the condition worsens.

If, on the other hand, you treat the bee sting with a homeopathic remedy such as Ledum or Apis, you will not only resolve the problem more easily and quickly, but each time you are bitten, the reaction will lessen, until it becomes what is considered normal.

So when you are weighing up the cost of natural health versus western medicine, take into consideration the long term view.

As a natural medicine practitioner, I know I don’t get the right remedy 100% of the time. That used to bother me. I used to be concerned that I was wasting my patient’s hard earned cash if I didn’t deliver.

Now I realise that it’s not just me at fault. Apart from the fact I’m human and so do make mistakes, if the patient isn’t forthcoming, I can’t do much.

But what I really admire about natural medicine is that when I do make a mistake, it doesn’t have any real impact on you, the patient. I didn’t take the wrong kidney out, or give you too large a dose of a dangerous drug which pushed you close to or over the edge.

And when you consider the cost of surgery, you can have many, many natural medicine consultations to the same value. Somewhere within them, one natural health practitioner or another will be able to help you.

Seven Advantages of Alternative Medicine

There are so many advantages of alternative medicine over modern medicine, that I want to spend a few moments looking at possible reasons why these are kept so well hidden, at least from the public eye.

If you were to listen to the media of the so called ‘free’ (western) world, you could be forgiven in thinking that there is no scientific evidence for, let alone advantages of alternative medicine. You would be convinced that modern medicine was the way to go.

But, according to Reporters Without Borders (for press freedom), the so called ‘free’ world doesn’t have free press. Britain only rates 23rd.,Australia ranks lower at 28th and America trails at a miserable 36th for the 2008 figures.

So can you believe all you read?

Reporters Without Borders say “It is not economic prosperity, but peace that guarantees press freedom.”

So economic prosperity actually makes us less free. How? Well, one example is if a prosperous company spends millions of dollars advertising in say, a newspaper, the editors are going to be very reluctant to print anything controversial about said company.

Next time you open your newspaper or switch on a radio or TV channel with advertising, check out the biggest advertisers.

That may give you some idea why alternative medicine is not as popular as one would expect from the documented results.

There’s a saying that all truth goes through three phases.

1. It is ridiculed.
2. It is violently opposed.
3. It is accepted as being self evident.

Judging by the media publications in 2008 at least in some parts of Europe, I think the west has now advanced to stage two!

So lets look at some of the advantages of alternative medicine. As my expertise lies with homoeopathy, I’m going to be focussing on this, but some of the reasons will apply to other alternative therapies too.

1. There are no side effects. This is because alternative medicine works WITH the body, not in suppressing symptoms, as modern medicine does.
2. Medicines are cost effective. This means they are generally affordable by even the most financially compromised families.
3. Alternative medicines are generally ‘green’. By that I mean that they use natural substances processed simply. No high tech manufacturing processes which use hazardous and polluting chemicals or carbon polluting energy.
4. Substances or ingredients of ‘complexes’ are readily available, so you can even grow some of your own medicines, allowing you to keep control of the whole process. No secrecy or patents here!
5. Alternative medicines don’t just heal ailments. In the process, they allow for growth. In homoeopathy we see children putting on a growth spurt after they recover from a naturally treated disease. This doesn’t happen with a medically treated disease. Rather, it appears to hold the child back.
6. Alternative medicine recognises the true nature of disease and sickness. That it is necessary for a growing child to experience as only this experience allows the immune system to develop into a healthy one by adulthood. It’s a bit like learning to ride a bicycle. You need to practice before you can ride properly.
7. Alternative medicine recognises that physical symptoms only develop when you ignore the mental and emotional signs and symptoms. Which allows you the freedom to deal with these problems as they arise, and so never develop physical symptoms.

When you can fully grasp the advantages of alternative medicine, it truly blows your socks off. No longer are you kept in a state of fear by what might happen. Instead, you know your healthy immune system will work well for you, and that when it struggles, you will know.

No more scare mongering of impending pandemics for you! Because you are now in control of your life and your health, and as you are fully aware of the advantages of alternative medicine, you can be at peace with the world.

Homeopathy is Powerful, Effective, Low Cost and Above All, Easy to Use at Home

Did you know, that apart from consulting with a professional homeopath, you can also use homeopathy in the comfort of your own home?

Some of the more common homeopathic remedies cover such a broad scope of ailments, you can use them successfully at home, without having to know very much about homeopathy or how it works.

Arm yourself with a kit of remedies, a good beginner’s book and a helpful and regular ezine or magazine and you’re away.

Homeopathy is a natural and complete health modality. You can use it to heal minor ailments such as a cold or ant bite. Or you can use it to treat major things like anaphylactic shock or broken bones. Although in the latter situation, I highly recommend you also use the medical services to have the bone set!

And as a beginner I don’t suggest you try to tackle anaphylactic shock, as it’s quite a serious issue.

But the potential is there for you.

I can tell you that success goes to your head! You can get quite euphoric when you’ve successfully treated an ailment, whether your own or a family members. It spurs you on to greater things.

But you’ll also experience failures, where, despite your best intentions, you didn’t manage to change anything. But, you know what I find so amazing, is that even though you didn’t manage to do any good, neither did you do any harm.

Homeopathy is very gentle and very forgiving. No-one is going to get worse for your administrations and you can do a lot of good.

The one trouble I think homeopathy suffers from is that the ailment doesn’t disappear with bells and whistles, announcing it’s departure.

It’s not uncommon for homeopaths to hear from their returning patient that nothing has happened. However, on closer inspection;
Q - “Do you still get those daily headaches?”
A - “No, they went just after I saw you.”
Q - “What about your sore knee. You were having trouble with it giving way suddenly.’
A - “That’s almost completely gone now. I don’t think about it very much.”
Q - “When you were here a month ago, you said your energy was really low, you had to drag yourself out of bed in the morning and went to bed early. How’s that doing?”
A - “Well, I’m not exactly bouncing out of bed now, but I’m not dragging myself out either. And I find I’m not falling asleep in front of the television, in the evening either.”
Q - “Did you say nothing had happened?”
A - “You’ve reminded me what I was like a month ago. I’ve moved on. Things just slipped noiselessly away. I didn’t notice them go.”

Isn’t homeopathy great? It’s so effective, you just don’t notice ailments disappearing, as they go so easily. So it’s a good idea to make notes and quite detailed ones at that. Then you can go back and see how you’ve moved on.

Homeopathic Remedies - What You Need to Know For Home Prescribing

You’re probably well aware just how wonderful, deep, thorough, gentle, powerful (I could go on) homeopathy is, but did you know that not only can you receive wonderfully effective treatment from a professional homeopath, you can also use homeopathic remedies in the comfort of your own home?

Home prescribing is, naturally, limited to the less complicated ailments. But there’s a tremendous amount you can do at home.

Lets look at what some of the common homeopathic remedies can do, those that you’ll find in most first aid or common ailment kits.

• pain management - forget analgaesics
• injury - achieve fast healing with no discomfort
• fever - cure it naturally, without suppression
• food poisoning - quickly allays the purging with no side effects
• burns - treated quickly will ensure blisters and pain don’t develop
• colds, flus - nip them in the bud or prevent them altogether
• insect bites or worse - no infection can develop
• hangovers - never have another one
• abscess, boils, carbuncles - no need for antibiotics here
• regular nose bleeds? - not any more!

Isn’t that an impressive list? And it’s by no means exhaustive. Imagine the satisfaction of being able to treat a painful ear in the middle of the night. No one wants to be dragged out of bed for an endless wait in hospital, only to be given a drug which may knock you out, but leaves you feeling drugged in the morning and hasn’t resolved the cause, anyway.

Homeopathic remedies only work if you have selected the right one for the job. If you have selected the wrong one, nothing happens. You can’t do yourself any harm.

Isn’t that just a fabulous concept? If you get the wrong remedy nothing happens, if you select the right remedy, the problem just melts away. It’s as if it was never there. Newbies to homeopathy can be forgiven for feeling that - did I really have that pain? - because there are no after effects.

So how do you know which remedy to select for which problem?

Well, apart from the instructions which come with every kit, there are books you can purchase. I love books and learn a lot from them. But sometimes it’s nice to have a person to chat to, or a personal view, or an anecdote to relate to.

Subscribing to a regular eletter will keep you plugged in to thinking in the way you need to. Believe me, using homeopathic remedies is not like using typical over-the-counter drugs. You do need to know a bit.

And I can guarantee you won’t always make the right choice, you won’t always be able to make a difference. But the feeling of elation when you do is worth all the waiting,

I well remember my first success story. It was when I was a homeopathic student. One of my cats became ill and stopped eating. A veterinarian diagnosed kidney failure and gave her, in effect, a death sentence.

I dug out my newly purchased box of homeopathic remedies and a book I’d recently bought. It only took me about five minutes to reach a conclusion. I’ll never forget what happened after I gave her just one dose. She walked into the kitchen, demanding food! Was that sweet or what?

She lived another three, healthy years after that.

Natural Health is All About You Being in Control

Natural health is timeless. It will never date. It will always be relevant, despite what the media tells you about ‘new’, ‘improved’, ‘scientific’ and all the other gimmicky words that are only employed to impress you enough to buy something.

And, happily, natural health is currently enjoying the comeback it deserves.

To enjoy it, there are at least three really important aspects to address.

The first is your diet. There’s a saying that a quarter of what you eat keeps you alive. Three quarters of what you eat keeps your doctor alive. So if you eat a typical western diet of fast foods, canned drinks and sweets or chocolate, you know you’re heading for disaster.

A natural diet consists of lots of fresh fruit and vegetables, preferably raw. Raw isn’t essential, but will take you that extra mile. As long as at least 30% is raw, you’ll do all right. By raw I mean unpasteurised, unheated in any way, un-radiated, unadulterated. Just fresh produce recently harvested.

So fresh produce should be the bulk of your diet. If you can’t see yourself eating a lot of fresh produce, then I suggest you invest in a food dehydrator. That dries fresh food without losing the nutrients in them. Have you ever tried dried strawberries? They are absolutely delicious.

I’m sure you’ll enjoy making your own un-sundried tomatoes, too.

And try foods you haven’t tried before. My neighbour has never tried avocado and yet they could grow in her back yard. Be adventurous!

The next biggest food group is the nuts, seeds, rice, oats and yoghurt

Then come eggs, bread, wheat, cereal, fish, chicken, chocolate.

Then comes the red meat.

Lastly comes artificial sweeteners. My suggestion is to avoid these altogether.

This diet follows the 80/20 principle. Eat 80% alkalising foods (fruit, veggies, whole foods) and only 20% acid food (meat, sugar, processed foods such as white bread, white pasta, white rice, sweets).

If you maintain this diet, it’s amazing what ailments won’t affect you. Make sure 100% of what you eat goes into keeping you healthy, not just alive. And let the doctors starve!

Another really important aspect of natural health is your health care modality. Obviously that’s going to be a natural one. Which you choose is a very personal matter. But I suggest you remain open and honour your feelings. Your feelings will always take you in the right direction. I have long since learnt the folly of following my head over my feelings. It never works!

With evidence now suggesting a link between taking antibiotics and cancer, your choice of a natural health care system will ensure as healthy a body as you can get. All drugs and medication have a knock-on effect with your health. That’s why it becomes a slippery slope - you suddenly find you’re on a myriad of drugs, with one countering another’s side effects.

The last important point of natural health, is keeping your environment healthy. This will almost guarantee you a healthy body. This means your home really is your castle, your sanctuary. Make sure you create a peaceful and happy home. Work on areas that aren’t. Don’t put up with them. It may be your upbringing that makes you a negative person. It may be you are living with people who don’t support you. List those things that aren’t nurturing you and decide what to do about them.

Time spent with animals is invariably calming, as is time spent in nature. Visit the park regularly. Walk on the beach. Watch a thunderstorm. Make sure you have, even if short, time for yourself every day. And use it to recharge your batteries - whether it’s gardening, sun-bathing or walking your dog. Just make sure it benefits you. That without it, you’re more volatile, have less energy or just don’t cope as well.

Many people think they can’t have time out for themselves as they have too much to do. This is not how it works. The more you stress, the less you accomplish. The less you stress, the more you accomplish and in less time.

Natural health is really all about you being in control of you. You create your life. So why not make it as fun, as joyful as possible? You are important. If you’re joyful, it will rub off on others.

Maybe subscribe to a natural health magazine as that will not only help keep you on track, but will also provide you with useful hints and tips.

And lastly, don’t forget that people will readily mock you, with your new found natural health care, because you’ll be showing them up. Don’t let them dissuade you.

Discover How to Treat Cat Bites and Scratches Without Risk of Infection

I think I’m a rescue freak. I can’t bear to see an animal in need. I don’t care what animal it is, I’ll help them all. However, cats seem to have their own way of finding me. Once two stray cats turned up on my doorstep, the day after I had moved in.

I think they have good bush telegraph.

Or maybe I was a cat in a past life...

Catching abandoned animals can be tricky, though.

Some years ago, I adopted a very frightened young cat. Before she had properly settled in, she managed to escape from the house and luckily, ran up a nearby tree.

I HAD to retrieve her as otherwise she would run feral, not knowing where home was.

I knew I was in for a hard time. Happily the tree wasn’t very high and a short step ladder was sufficient to get myself to her level. Then the fun started. She kept backing herself further and further down a narrow branch, until she could go no further. By now, she was really frightened.

I made a grab for her.

She fought and bit and scratched, but I managed to hang on. Somehow we made it back to the house and she bolted to hide under a bed. Well, she was safe, if traumatised. I’ll deal with her later. How about me?

My arms and hands were covered in deep scratches and bite marks which were beginning to become sore and swell up.

I found my bottle of homoeopathic Ledum and started dosing myself. Within a couple of doses a few minutes apart, I could feel the pain ebbing away.

A few more doses and there was really only the marks left, the swelling having gone down. A few days later and they were gone too.

How I wished I had known of this remedy some years earlier when I was in a similar situation. Then, my hands and arms were swollen and very sore for over two weeks.

The most obvious problem in such a situation, apart from the pain and swelling, is the risk of infection. Because the remedy had worked quickly on the immediate symptoms (the pain and swelling), I knew it would prevent any infection, and it did.

Ledum is a great acute remedy for any puncture wound. This can be from a cat bite (or any other animal), a splinter, a shard of glass, a vaccination, a rusty nail, a poisonous spider or snake bite. They’re all puncture wounds. I routinely give parents and pet owners Ledum to take before and after they have their child or pet vaccinated. This helps with any swelling and limits the harm.

If Ledum is given quickly after a bite, it will prevent an abscess. Abscesses are common in cats who fight other cats, or in cats who hunt.

A quirky keynote of Ledum is that they are cold, but feel better for cold applications. Heat aggravates the situation. So if the area of the bite feels relief from cold applications (we’re not talking about the numbing effect of ice here), Ledum is the first remedy to use.

If the remedy doesn’t help the acute symptoms (pain and swelling), then infection could set in. If relief is obtained from the remedy, it will also stop infection, even tetanus. So it’s important to keep an eye on this.

The homeopathic remedy Ledum is available from homeopaths, homeopathic pharmacies, health shops and now even some chemists. It is in any homoeopathic first aid kit.

Are You Looking for Natural Remedies to Use in the Comfort of Your Own Home?

There are a host of natural remedies on the market, but before you start trying them, it’s an idea to know what they do and what they are capable of doing.

Don’t think, for one moment, that just because the remedy is natural, that it is also harmless. Most natural remedies are powerful. You do need to know what you’re dealing with. Granted, they don’t have the severe side effects of drugs. But they’re not pussy cats either!

I’m no herbalist, but I do know that you shouldn’t use the herb pennyroyal around pregnant women, as it encourages miscarriages.

The effects of aromatherapy oils can be huge, both good and not so good, if you don’t know what you’re doing.

I know some people have suffered quite badly at the hands of chiropractors. They may have been heading that way anyway, but it does show you, you need to be aware of just how natural remedies work.

On the whole, natural remedies are healthy, do far more good than harm, can cure deep seated issues, and you can sometimes find what you’re looking for yourself. I love that aspect. I love empowering people. Learning to do it yourself may have its limits, but boy, does it make you feel good when you achieve something!

Out of all the natural remedies that I know off, I consider the flower remedies, or essences, and homeopathy to be both the most effective and with the least potential for causing harm if you don’t know what you’re doing.

I don’t use flower essences much, as their effect can take a while to happen and I’m impatient! I like to see results quickly. But then, flower essences were designed to be used by the lay person, with little knowledge. So they are brilliant in that aspect.

My all time favourite natural remedy modality is homeopathy. You can buy a kit which contains 10 - 40 home prescribing remedies and armed with the information leaflet that accompanies the kit, you can do some spectacularly good work.

The remedies in a homeopathic home prescribing kit are generally of low potency. So if you get the wrong remedy, no harm is done. Just nothing happens.

Once you’ve had a few successes, it can go to your head! You then want to do more, to learn more. One of the easiest ways of learning more is subscribing to a magazine which specialises in what you’re trying to learn. Magazines normally make things light and easy to understand, with anecdotes that tend to stick in your mind.

Much easier than labouring through a manual on natural remedies, which may be dry and uphill reading. That can come later, when you know enough to make it interesting and if you want to go still further in your knowledge.

To give you some tasters of what you can do with natural remedies:-

A mother, who had recently bought one of my homeopathic home prescribing kits, rang me up to say her daughter had a throbbing headache and was hot and feverish. I suggested she give her daughter Belladonna. A few doses and a couple of hours later, and her daughter was back to normal, eating heartily and racing around as usual.

One of my patients who had recently bought a kit, told me about when her cat had returned home one day, a bit worse for wear. It looked as if she had been bitten. A few doses of Ledum from the kit and the cat slept. When she awoke, she was back to normal, eating well. No infection resulted.

I hear stories like this all the time. And I love to hear them. I love knowing that people are taking control of their own lives and are finding out what can help them and their families.

How to Treat Any Injury For Rapid Resolution

Some years ago, in my pre-homoeopathic era, a horse bit me on my bum. And I mean hard, she meant it! The bruising was impressive, over a large area up my back and down my leg and the pain made it uncomfortable to sit down. The discomfort lasted a good two weeks. A different picture from this bite....

Imagine, for a moment, the picture of an angry horse about to attack - head up, neck stretched out, ears flat, mouth open, teeth bared and lunging forward, about to strike.

That’s how my mare Pippa normally behaves towards a horse I look after. She really doesn’t like her and lets her know. The other horse easily gets out of the way. She’s used to it.

I, on the other hand, am not used to such treatment! But, that’s what I experienced this weekend! Well, I know I wasn’t really the target of Pippa’s attack, I just got in the way.

And when there’s food involved, Pippa is really aggressive towards the other horse.

For some reason I decided to clean out the pantry. (I’m not noted for my eagerness for housework). I found a couple of packets of bread sticks, which had gone stale.

Now horses love bread and wheat products, and I hate waste, so out I went into the paddock. Give the horses a treat I thought, not realising it would be me in for the treat...

I fed Pippa first then went over to the other mare, not realising Pippa was following me. Before I could feed the horse, my right elbow was clamped! And how! I yelled out, more in shock than pain and my arm was released.

It took me a few moments to realise what had happened. I’d like to say that I hurried back to the house and my bottle of Arnica, but I didn’t. I know from experience that it’s a good thing to treat such injuries quickly, but I also know from experience that the remedies work.

There was no real pain (pain takes a while to develop after shock), just a slight grazed and bruised feeling in my arm and a weird sensation in my hand.

I took a dose straight away and waited to see what would develop. Nothing did. The weird sensation went away as did the bruised and grazed feelings. Another dose followed after about 10 minutes. I repeated the dose a couple of hours later when I felt the grazed feeling return. And I took another dose before bed, just in case. Four doses altogether.

No bruises developed, I never experienced any pain, and I wasn’t even mad at Pippa....

As a practitioner I have access to high potencies (or strengths) and I chose a high potency for the extreme situation. You can’t buy potencies higher than 30c easily, over the counter. But that just means more doses would be required. Probably every five minutes for four or so doses for the horse bite, then less frequent.

Here are a few other tales about Arnica-

A man with dyspepsia had so lost his strength he had to give up work. Years and many drugs later he visited a homoeopath who wanted to know when the dyspepsia had started. On being told that it had come on after a kick in the stomach from a horse, he was given Arnica. It wasn’t long before he was back at work, with no dyspepsia.

A woman with depression and chorea consulted a homoeopath who found this had started after she had been knocked off her bicycle and was unconscious for 24 hours. A few doses of Arnica rid her of the hangover from the concussion.

A woman had taken Arnica for a fairly minor physical injury and this had healed up nicely. Then an old scar on her hand flared up, and pus oozed out. The scar was from a bad cut from broken glass she had sustained at a party 18 years ago. So she squeezed the pus and out popped a small piece of glass... that had been there 18 years....

A ten year old boy in hospital after a head injury was still in a coma ten days later. After receiving a dose of Arnica he came out of the coma the following day.

A ten year old girl had broken her arm after falling off her pony. Since then, she remained fearful of being hurt, not daring into the playground. A year later she was diagnosed with appendicitis (severe abdominal pain and a high white blood cell count). After a few doses of Arnica, the pain stopped completely, her white blood cells returned to normal and she kept her appendix. Her behaviour returned too, to how it was before the fall.

This lovely poem was written by Phyllis Speight, who wrote a little book called Arnica.


ARNICA MONTANA
Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water
Jack fell down and broke his crown
And Jill had a bruised hindquarter

They both had pains inside their head
And suffered much from shock
And both their little noses bled -
They’d taken quite a knock

But now they’ve both, I’m pleased to tell
Established their “Mens Sana”
And what do you think has made them well?
Why! Arnica Montana.

Arnica is made from the plant Arnica Montana also known as Leopard’s Bane or Fallkraut. It is a member of the Compositae family.

Keynotes for using Arnica are;-

• any injury minor or serious, including concussion (cause)
• overwork, over tired, over use of muscles
• bruised feeling
• fears being approached
• post operative pains, post dental extraction
• can’t get comfortable, even a soft bed feels hard
• mothers in labour and post birth
• jet lag
• shift workers who can’t sleep
• first sign of a cold

I strongly suggest you immediately purchase one (or two or three) bottles of Arnica, if you don’t already have some.