Grace, aged sixty-seven, was prescribed Tranxene six years ago because she was ‘run down’ after nursing her husband through a long illness. She had always been a strong outward-looking woman who spent a lot of her time helping the young mothers and the elderly in her area. She saw her doctor because she was becoming [...]
This is not just a set of silly exercises to fill in the afternoon. Muscles that are shouting for a chemical that you have stopped taking have to be re-trained. If you tie a tight band around your arm, what happens to your hand? You will certainly get pain, swelling, loss of movement and an [...]
This is often thought of as fear of open spaces, but it is a great deal more wide-ranging. A man who can happily drive to work may be paralysed with fear if he has to travel by public transport. Even going to the local shop can be an impossible task for the agoraphobic. Many people [...]
Calls come in saying ‘How is it that I am having difficulty doing simple things I have done all my life?’ One said ‘It has taken me two hours to fit a plug onto a kettle’. Many women have said that they could not understand the simplest recipe or knitting pattern. There is some confusion [...]
There are various causes for vasculitis and purpura. Infections can precipitate an attack, as can certain drugs. A shortage of platelets, the tiny particles in the blood that promote clotting, can also lead to purpura – such a shortage occurs in some autoimmune diseases, where the body attacks its own tissues. If all these possibilities [...]
Experiments have shown that pollen has a strong action on the human sex glands and, through them, on all the endocrine glands. People who always feel tired and weary are able to get rid of this tiredness by taking a teaspoon of pollen in the morning with their breakfast. Pollen is excellent for low blood [...]
Old potatoes should have their sprouts carefully removed because they contain a poisonous substance called solanin. These sprouts should neither be fed to animals nor used as food or as a remedy. If you prepare juice from fresh potatoes, or from old ones after removing the sprouts very carefully, do not be afraid that the [...]
The puzzling question was ‘How do this and similar rivers get their strange colour?’ The answer is quite simple: there is either red or yellow clay dissolved in the water, thus colouring the water accordingly, or they contain marshy soil and are black as a result. I can well imagine that Sebastian Kneipp would have [...]
This fine remedy is valued in biochemistry as much as it is in homoeopathy, and I will try to describe its most important uses as briefly as possible. Silicea is used for suppuration of every kind, but only when it has established itself properly or is already dispersing. In the early stage Hepar sulph. 4x [...]
Along the shores of the Mediterranean, more specifically the blue waters of Greece by the Peloponnesian peninsula, an extraordinary plant is found. It shoots up out of the dry ground on a stem more than a metre (3 feet) high and is crowned with a dense spike of small white flowers. The stem has no [...]