Tissue salts are low potency homeopathics, which can be useful during pregnancy as they support development, enhance assimilation and help with uptake of food and nutrients in both mum and bub. They work by balancing the system rather than supplementing through diet or other products. During pregnancy both mother and baby will require support for…
Conventional & Homeopathic Advice for Managing a Fever A raised temperature is usually an indication of increased activity by the body’s immune system. This is frequently in response to infection of some kind and is a good sign, showing the ability of the individual’s immune system to do its job and indicates that the self-healing…
There are many conditions of the musculoskeletal system – joints, muscles and bones – that respond well to homeopathy. At home, you can treat acute problems which may arise after accident or injury, growing pains, and in the short term, flare ups of arthritis and nerve-type pain. As always, it’s important to be assessed…
Many people want to know about using homeopathy with their animals, whether domestic pets or livestock. While there are quite strict veterinary regulations in Australia around what a homeopath is allowed to dispense remedies for and what you can treat at home, there are many situations where homeopathy can change outcomes and save lives, even when…
Potency is a little understood but important aspect of homeopathy and in recent weeks has come under scrutiny in the media, with a certain lack of understanding displayed by the journalist in question. Some of you will have seen the item in the media about “children dying after taking homeopathic remedies”. The product in question…
The past few months have been steeped in grief and loss on so many levels for so many people. While there has been heartbreak of an acute nature – the loss of a child, a parent or a friend, or the loss of a child yet to arrive with us – there has been a…
Tasmania seems to be the world centre for camping and bushwalking and of course it happens not just here, but all over the country and all over the world! Every holidays, come rain or shine, families go away camping and walking and of course many tourists arrive who love to do the same thing. Every…
Contingency Planning I started this blog sitting in the dark, luckily with a fully charged tablet, in the midst of a power outage. Fortunately, the weather has not been as torrid as in other parts of the country but it does provide time to reflect on life. We’re used to power outages in Southern Tasmania.…
I’m going to start out with a conspiracy theory. Fear is a great control mechanism. It stops us thinking clearly, it takes away our freedom of thought and action and it keeps us in our place. Fear can make us do many things that we wouldn’t agree to if we were in a rational space.…
Control is something that we have all had to learn. Bladder control is an automatic function and necessary for life. We don’t have it in the beginning and we often don’t have it in the end. The control that we try to exert or want to exert over life is also learned and frequently is…