I get a lot of questions about warts so I’ve created a resource of all the information I’ve collected over my many years in practice around this very common ailment. This article does not cover genital warts as these should always be referred to your GP for assessment and managed by a registered and experienced homeopath. Homeopathy…
Some years back I wrote a series of newsletter articles addressing the psychology behind some of the physical symptoms we may experience in our lives. I thought these may be interesting to review in the context of our discussions on the life path. Let’s start by looking at one of the commonest and most basic…
What the term ‘parasite’ means to naturopaths is that the gut health is poor and the immune system is under par. What this means homeopathically is that the patient has gut problems as a symptom of a bigger issue and the whole person needs a tune up if the symptoms are ongoing. In practice this…
Many of us will experience periods of deep sadness or depression in our lives, maybe around the ending of a marriage, a death or a job loss. A Dark Night of the Soul is an altogether different experience and while it may arise from one of the events above, it actually relates to our life…
When I did my training in the UK in the early 90’s I actually didn’t realise that remedies came in anything other than a dry dose! They came in a huge range of sizes and forms: what we call pilules in Australia (little sugar balls), poppy seeds (even smaller sugar balls), tablets and powders. Pilules…
While taking remedies orally is generally the accepted and best way of using homeopathics, I thought I’d share some ideas for other ways you might consider using your remedies. This actually came about more than 25 years ago when I was just starting out with using homeopathy. I didn’t have children but I had a…
Many users of homeopathy forget about or aren’t even aware of the Tissue Salts. The basic twelve salts are remedies I use frequently in daily practice, and you’ll understand why as you read this article, but the time I find them most useful is when I get the following phone call or text: Caller: I’ve…
While 25% of the population may be at risk of copper deficiency, by far the biggest issue with copper is toxicity. I have written about copper toxicity in the past, but as time goes on and I see a wider and wider range of presentations in the clinic and understand more it becomes evident that…
We shouldn’t ask “What does a person need to be able to do in order to fit into the existing social order today?” Instead we should ask “what lives in each human being and what can be developed in him or her?” – Rudolf Steiner Over the last five to ten years the number of…
Attachment parenting is now a common way to raise children and has been shown in studies of indigenous populations to produce well-adjusted children with lower levels of depression and better self-esteem. Many of the traditional societies on which this philosophy is based share a leisurely childhood where infants are constantly held by their mothers or…