Alternative & Complementary Healthcare
I was looking for a really good nourishing cream the other day for a skin patient. I wanted no preservatives and plenty of active ingredients in sufficient strength to actually help. Many products I come across sound right but don't always have what I would call a therapeutic strength to really help solve a skin …
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Little tip for you today I saw from Colabs Silk pillowcases. A little touch of luxury, silk is a wonderfully cool material for summer and is great for those with skin complaints, especially for those suffering with any kind of itching. Silk helps the skin retain more moisture and is less abrasive than other materials. …
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Great, and moving, post from our friend, Ruth, at What Allergy for you today and the top ten things that REALLY helped her skin. Thanks for sharing, Ruth - and what a difference, go girl! Top 10 things that REALLY helped my eczema skin If you are suffering with eczema, atopic dermatitis or even topical …
Clinic News to start with... TECH TRIALS: ORAL HEALTH, MIGRAINE. Remember I said I was going to try some new health tech - a water flosser, sonic toothbrush and the Cefaly Dual for migraine? Well, it didn't go that well, unfortunately. I had to send both the toothbrush and flosser back. The toothbrush was great, …
I don't often come across much about kidney health and I always felt we didn't do enough on this important organ during training. So, I was pleased to see a special edition of the Townsend Newsletter recently on kidney and liver health. One of the articles that stood out for me was encouraging people to …
OK, so here is Gut Tip #4 for you if you are following the series. Many people take probiotics to help their bacteria balance, to establish a good 'microbiome', in the gut. However, sometimes I see that, even when someone has taken billions of bacteria daily for weeks or months, the bacteria balance is still …
This is one of my favourite ranges of all time - so much so we sold it in the dispensary and used it in the natural facials in the clinic. As part of my mission to encourage non-toxic toiletries use as always, I have added the Borlind range to the shop for you in the …
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I'm always on the look-out for things that help repair the body barriers such as leaky gut, leaky blood-brain barrier, leaky skin (think allergic dermatitis, eczema etc). So, I was interested to see this early research on Vitamin D for sunburn. High doses apparently helped lower inflammation, which the researchers expected, but they were surprised …
Yay, I love this list when it comes out. Of course, I am biased as a former judge! Some really excellent and worthy winners and shortlisters this year - and it was won by a humble lip balm, which does look lovely! Now, if we can only get people off the ruddy petroleum-lip-drying vaseline type …
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 It's the Psoriasis Association's Awareness campaign this week, I note, so here is a link to my Psoriasis factsheet for you. On that, I have put several links for you to follow up - including a few success stories and approaches that have worked well for people. There are several factors normally involved in …