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Mental health, the body and the breath
I think that there is often a misconception in our society about what ‘mental health’ is. We can often associate it with serious mental disorder or illness but I believe that as well as those very serious conditions, it is...
Surviving the sabre toothed tigers
FEELING WOUND UP? STRESSED? ANXIOUS? States of mind that large numbers of us are very familiar with in our busy, full-on, hectic lives. Also feelings that so many of our young people are struggling with, as I see in...
I’m not ashamed to say I’ve had anxiety
Last Friday was like any other day at Botanica; the unexpected can happen. We have a gentleman in his 80’s who comes to us on a regular basis to collect a tonic for a chronic lung condition. He also happens...
TB, the Devils Bit Scabious and Immunity
Our picture shows a bee heavy with pollen on the flower of the Devil’s Bit Scabious late on in September. Nicolas Culpepper (1616 – 54) the famed London herbalist and astrologer thought most highly of the medicinal properties of the...
The magnificent Harvest Moon of last Friday hung low in the dark sky and was a reminder of a change in the seasons and the effect of light on our hormones. The following Monday, newspapers reported that men should expose...
The most important aspects of health care in my 20 plus years of working in medicine goes like this – PREVENTION LOVING CARE TREATING A PERSON AS A WHOLE BEING AND NOT JUST A SYMPTOM In all health care professions...
Industrial air pollution causing a toxic brain
Groundbreaking news from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences links toxic pollutants in the air to Alzheimer’s Disease. They report ‘millions of particles of magnetite per gram of brain matter’ and suggest that these toxins enters the body...
On every trip away I come back with something new, not just physically as the collection of dried carob and almonds spilled out of my suitcase on our return from Soller in Mallorca. This time my dad was with us...
Proof that the best things in life really are free
“Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.” —Thomas à Kempis I often, sometimes 3 times a week, visit my local organic farm shop. There I meet people who like...