Something new I am trying. Ginger shots. I read an article reposted from Glamour Magazine (not my usual read, obvs), that described the journalist’s journey into Ginger Shots, taken every morning. She was buying them from her local supermarket in tiny 60ml bottles which housed one shot. These were to be taken every day. The […]
Category Archives: Herbal Medicine
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Mar
Mar
And prevent them coming back… I know that you probably won’t have encountered head lice unless you have school age kids, or teach kids, or are a regular babysitter. Recently I saw a post on a Mum’s forum that reminded me of those dark days, when you had to check your kids hair every single day during […]
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Feb
Feb
Everyone needs a break. My husband and I are in Norway at the moment, doing nothing much at all. When I get home later this week I will have some exams to mark, a CV to write, a couple of new patients to see, and some documents from an accrediting body to sort through. Although […]
23
Feb
Feb
Something I need to know more about… So, I’ve registered for something new. I will tell you the what and the why. I teach Herbal Therapeutics and Clinical Medicine at The School of Herbal Medicine. My idea in joining these two modules together over 6 years was in order to go through the pathophysiology of […]
16
Feb
Feb
Soon be that time again… If you have dabbled in herbal medicine you may recognise this picture for what it is. Not a bowl filled with blood from a cut hand, but of elderberry juice wrung manually from a cheesecloth filled with the ripe berries. For it is nearly that time of year, my friend. […]
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Feb
Feb
I always meant to do this but never got round to it… I have been in practice for nearly 15 years as a medical herbalist, and I have been teaching herbal therapeutics for seven years. In that time I found that I got into a rut, both of thinking and of teaching. I have developed […]
07
Feb
Feb
Hide it from me! Sometimes I treat family and friends. The main disadvantage of this is that I can see when they don’t keep taking the tinctures or teas that I have mixed up for them. I went to one home and saw all their tincture bottles shoved at the back of the cupboard when […]
05
Feb
Feb
Surprise! Now I have got a little blood glucose testing kit in my bag, I have become a blood-sugar-radical. I am prone to whip out my little black back as soon as a friend says, ‘I think I might be insulin resistant…’ One such friend sat at my kitchen table a few days ago looking […]
02
Feb
Feb
It’s not what you do, it’s how often you do it… As Paul Merson once said; ‘If you want to be successful, you need consistency and if you don’t have it, you’ve got no chance.’ I have patients who struggle with the necessity of taking 5mls of tincture three times a day. I have thought […]
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Jan
Jan
Each step increases the distance… So, I think I caught my blood sugar in time. I’ve already spoken about some of the things I did to get my blood sugar out of the diabetic range in previous posts. I drank Mulberry leaf tea, and I gave the reasons why. I took fenugreek capsules everyday after […]