If you suffer from being clumsy or off-balance at period time, you may find, to your cost, that your home is an extremely dangerous place. The trouble is that the hazards are so familiar that we don’t notice until it’s too late. And there’s no Safety Officer for women at home. You have to learn [...]

This emotion is an indication that you feel powerless to change or avert something in your life. You look for someone else to blame for your state. In actual fact, if you can accept responsibility for your life and try to work things out for yourself, your power will filter back to you. At times [...]

You may find this surprising, but acupuncture treats everything from mental tiredness to foggy thinking, from tears to grief. As it is a transfer of energy, it can be pulled or pushed to where it should be. It can create relaxation in one part of you and improve vitality generally. If you’re crying as you [...]

Spinal flexion exercises (forward bending) are dangerous and are contra-indicated when there is a history of lower back pain. Some modifications may be performed with the patient lying on the back. • Place a small pillow or rolled towel under the lower back, at the waist. • Perform a partial sit-up, elevating the trunk to [...]

The skin is not only a covering for our body, it controls temperature – by perspiring or shivering – and is an indicator of health. It is also an organ of elimination. It takes the overflow from the other three organs which have to clean up after digestion and ingestion. These are the lungs (which [...]

What good news that researchers have isolated the weak gene that causes asthma. Homoeopaths have always known that the disease of our forebears, tuberculosis, was passed down through the genes to make us susceptible to asthma. My story-Having been born with asthma, I understood the feeling of gasping for air, the fear that you just [...]

Probably the most common fear of patients with prolonged or severe headaches is that they have a tumour. Thankfully, the answer they hardly ever do, although rarely headaches can be a symptom of a growth in the brain or skull. However, it is very uncommon for a headache to be the first indication of a [...]

Concussion is a severe, non-specific upset in the functioning of the brain following a blow; to cause concussion, the blow usually has to be severe enough to knock the patient out. The brain is soft and delicate, and needs protecting from direct blows by the solid walls of the skull, which completely enclose it. liven [...]

The headache associated with stroke usually comes on suddenly, at the time of the paralysis. The pain can be really severe and is often bursting in nature. Headaches can also occur after a stroke, because of the generalised damage to the brain. Usually these disappear with the passage of time. What else could it he? [...]

Treatment of contacts In bacterial meningitis, it is usual to give special antibiotics such as Rifampicin to those people who are close contacts of the patient; in practice, this usually means just those who are living in the same house. These antibiotics hopefully will kill off any of the organisms in these exposed people. It [...]