Natural Health

Why are some people, who appear to lead very healthy lifestyles, just as susceptible to illness as those who live on a cocktail of junk food, stress and sedentary pursuits? Genetic inheritance may play a part but according to Ayurveda – an ancient Indian holistic system of medicine – ill health is rooted in a lack of self-knowledge which disrupts the flow of prana (energy, or life force). Ayurveda (Sanskrit for knowledge, or science, of life) not only helps us develop self-knowledge, but also offers a unique system of cleansing and regeneration to aid healing and maintain good health. Read the rest of this entry »

Polarity therapy was developed in the late 1940s by an Austrian osteopath, chiropractor and naturopath called Dr Randolph Stone, who ran a healing practice in Chicago.

Dr Stone studied many Eastern health systems, such as traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurveda and yoga, all of which work with the body’s energy. But he wanted to know what stimulated the flow of energy.

Consequently, he formulated his theory of positive and negative poles within the body which he likened to a living magnet:

• the head and right side of the body being positive
• the feet and left side of the body being negative
• the center of the body being neutral

For life to flow, he reasoned, there must be poles for it to flow between, just as the Earth needs its North and South Pole. He also believed that the body’s electromagnetic currents flowed around the outside of the body, as well as internally. Read the rest of this entry »

“Two years ago I started to get recurrent cystitis,” says Melanie. “Every two or three weeks it would come on and last for about a week. It was painful and depressing, and it was wearing me down. I talked about it to a colleague who recommended an acupuncturist. After the first session I felt like the cystitis was starting again, but it just went away. I had another two treatments to make sure the improvement was lasting, and I have never had cystitis since.” Read the rest of this entry »

When Glen Hoddle admitted that most of the England football had been consulting a spiritual healer the newspapers had a field day. Anyone would have thought that it was a trendy new fad. In fact, spiritual healing (sometimes called ‘natural healing’ or ‘faith healing‘) is arguably the oldest type of healing known to man. In various forms it has been practiced around the world for thousands of years. In common with many other age-old practices, it has been neglected in the West over the past century or so. Only recently has it been rediscovered. Read the rest of this entry »

The man who started chiropractic in the 1890s was Daniel David Palmer, a student of Andrew Taylor Still – the founder of osteopathy. Palmer devised his own approach, putting much more emphasis on the local mechanics of the spine rather than on the overall posture, bones and muscles. Palmer’s first patient was a caretaker with a stooping posture who had lost his hearing. Palmer found a bone apparently out of position in the man’s back, manipulated it into place and his hearing returned. The word chiropractic is derived from the Greek words ‘cheiro’ (hand) and ‘praktos’ (action). Read the rest of this entry »