Natural Health
Winter Hooch
Make this up every autumn and through the winter until spring is here. You will need fresh garlic, onions, ginger and red hot chilli – organic if possible especially the onions and garlic. If you can find some, Horseradish can also be included. Chop it all up roughly – be careful with the chilli I…
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Kitchen Remedies (Herbs & Spices)
Once upon a time herbs and spices were added to everyday cooking as medicine and kitchen remedies. The best of these have stood the test of time and are probably already in your kitchen, growing in your flower bed or found at your local super-market. Flavour and taste are as much about health as they…
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Natural Winter Health MOT
Autumn is the perfect time to think about your winter health. None of us want to experience the coughs, colds and bugs of winter, and even worse the ongoing low-mood and fatigue that follow for many weeks. A natural approach has a lot to offer winter health. Many herbs are anti-viral which means they help…
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Your Annual Invitation
Hello welcome to your annual assessment invitation. I am offering everyone who has not seen me for 12 months a simple reminder. Why do I need to come back? Most people understand that an annual dental check-up is important and essential for the sake of their teeth and gums. Or that their yearly car service…
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Is Sugar a problem for me?
Most people are aware that too much sugar is not good for us from dental health, weight gain to more serious diseases such as IBS, arthritis, diabetes, heart conditions and cancer to anxiety and depression. So we switch to ‘healthy’, ‘diet’, low-calorie’ and ‘low-sugar’ meals but many people still wonder ‘Is sugar a problem for…
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Forest Bathing
There is something about walking amongst trees. Sometimes it feels like I have entered the special peace and energy of a towering natural cathedral or giant hall. There is something about the cooling green dappled light, that distinct mossy aroma of being in the woods. For me it is this combination of hushed peace and…
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Sugar Cravings
I’ve written this little guide to help my clients who struggle either with constant sugar cravings or Sugar yo-yo; where you give up sugar for a short while but then it sneaks back in! As a chocolate addict myself I am not here to judge anyone. What I do know, as an herbalist, is the…
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Matcha Green Tea Recipes
I often suggest my clients try Matcha green tea. Matcha has all the benefits of green tea but is more potent and can often help when we need to replace the buzz of coffee with something more subtle. I tend to suggest Matcha to my Resilient and Self-protective Iridology constitution clients who may be in love…
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Sunflower Seed Sprout Secrets
Sunflower seeds have a lot to offer us when it comes to natural health and are tasty and easy to use in your everyday meals. Sunflower seeds are beneficial for just about everyone. When it comes to your Iridology health constitutions we find Sunflower seeds helpful for; Responsive (Immunity/Lymph) Creative (hormones), Resilient & Self-Protective (nervous…
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Reflex Touch Therapy
Reflex Touch Therapy is a subtle-energy form of conventional reflexology working on and around the feet and using a similar map that relates points in the feet with organs in the body Clients describe it as a synergy between reflexology and Reiki; but feeling quite different to either. Certainly to receive benefits all you have…
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How to change your diet – some tips
Sometimes to compensate for eating a certain food (or drink) that causes a symptom, people will be on two or three different medications and suffer all sorts of niggly health issues…for years. Your personal summary report includes changes to your everyday foods that just on their own can improve your health. In clinic I narrow…
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Apple Cider Vinegar
Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV) benefits could fill a book (and has done already!). I first came across ACV from the old-time healers such as Dr Christopher whose work I studied as a student herbalist. Mother makes all the difference The fermented ACV with mother is the one that has the benefits…yes it can sometimes look…
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