An excellent example of the utility of Bach Flower Rescue Remedy was provided by one of my clients this morning and I have included her question and my response to demonstrate the value of this amazing homeopathic treatment. Sandy Wrote: I have an 11year old thoroughbred gelding that gets colic if he touches the electric fence accidentally. He gets panicked and if not caught will gallop about in great distress. The colic is spasmodic and I am usually able to ca...
In our species it is normal to contract respiratory system infections in the first few years of our lives. When we are born, we have fully developed resistance to things which we may ingest or which may infect us through damage to our skin. However we dont take our first breath until we leave the womb, and although we are initially protected by piggy backing on our mothers immunity through breast milk, this only lasts for 6 months. At this time this protection switches off and...
My Experience: Over 20 years as a professional herbalist I have had many hundreds of patients start a consultation with me by saying "I want to lose some weight!" Most of these patients are serious and responsible people and most of them have made reasonably serious efforts to lose weight using many of the standard (and some of the more frivolous) recommendations about diet and exercise. My patients tend not to be diet junkies or pill poppers and I don't know whether that is b...
200 ml. Bottle. Dose 20 drops twice daily mixed in water: $82. 00(At this dose rate, a bottle will last 4 months) I have many patients who have found out, sometimes years later that they had contracted Hep C through transfusions or bad habits when they were younger. Many of them manage to be symptom free most of the time and many are searching for ways to maintain optimim liver health to ensure that they do not suffer symptoms or long term repercussions at all. I regularl...
This morning I had an inquiry, reproduced below, from a client for whom I had provided a support program for her dog's cancer last year. She wrote;Dear RobertBTW - my two-year-old grand daughter will shortly undergo surgery for two dislocated hips - which, no doubt, occurred at or within months of birth. Unfortunately, various heal...
Liver and gall health depends on the liver operating normally with bile being produced in accordance with the demands of particular persons dietary habits and stored in the gall bladder to be emptied into the duodenum in the appropriate quantities to deal with the fat content of that diet. Bile is a strong chemical substance that is alkaline (which is really the opposite to acid) and it is secreted by the Gall Bladder to break down fatty substances so they may be digested. Therefore t...
Reiki is the art of hands on healing. Reiki has been used for centuries in eastern cultures, and more recently in western cultures as a tool to facilitate a state of health and wellbeing. The benefits of modalities like Reiki and techniques like meditation are now becoming well documented, with many health professionals recommending these to assist in the management of stress. What is stress? Stress is caused by a number of factors. Usually personal relationship difficulties,...
Osteosarcoma is becoming the most common life threatening complaint directed to me by companion dog owners worldwide. In almost all cases you will have consulted your Vet and you will probably end up combining some of their recommendations with my treatments. This article is aimed at supporting your understanding of these treatments and also at providing you with some reference material to provide your Vet if they are interested. EXPLAINING MY OSTEOSARCOMA TREATMENT TO YOUR VE...
Alternative medicine is very much do-it- yourself medicine much as was practiced by all those in charge of stock for the past several thousand years. It is only recently that we have been encouraged to leave most of our stock care medical treatments to professionals of one sort or another. There are many things we can do for ourselves in cases of accident or injury suffered by our animals to provide immediate assistance and to minimise the distress of the incident. I have put...
The following dialogue is extracted from email files and traces Kristin's first experience with Herbal Medicine after finding reference to Kennel Cough on his website. (Robert's site comes up #1 in Google for the search words "Kennel Cough Herbal")Sept 4 2002 - Kirstin: My dog has had kennel cough for 3 months now and is now on his 6th...
On Monday, March 3, 2003, Nancy Morrison emailed Robert: I have been having recurring sinus infections for several years and headaches to go with the infections. I have been to several doctors over the years without much help. Antibiotics have not done much to help. Nose is stuffed up often all night long. I also have recurring nose bleeds. Nasal steriod percription sprays help but I cannot tolerate them because of nose bleeds. Any suggestions? Robert replied: Dear...
Robert's reply: There are several distinctly different reasons behind migraine and the first thing is to establish which of these are involved. This is the sort of thing I do in my face to face consultations and I divide migraine into the following three categories when considering a particular; Dehydration Migraine: Most commonly involving habitually not drinking enough fluid of any sort. Many people will go all day and it really doesn't occur to them to drink...
Metabolic harmony depends on all the organs supporting the digestive system functioning in harmony and the gut itself functioning calmly and moving food along through the various stages of digestion until it is converted into a normal stool in the descending colon and discharged. An irritable bowel is a system which has become irritated from any number of causes and thenceforth habitually either sends material through the digestive system too quickly or too slowly or worse still, alte...
Our Kidneys and Liver are the two hardest working systems of our body involved in cleaning the blood and eliminating toxins. The whole of our blood passes through these two organs many times every hour and they can cope with an enormous workload if only we treat them kindly. Our kidneys are so important and critical that we have been provided with two, one for a backup. They are located one on either side of our back just under the rib cage close to the spine. We all know that some pe...
Uterine prolapse is a common enough condition after birthing even nowadays with smaller families. It was probably more common in past times where the average size of families was so much larger although with women doing much more manual labor and breast feeding in traditional societies, maybe not. The sort of inquiry I get from patients looking for help with this problem is contained in this letter from a lady last week: "After my second child, my doctor discovered that my ute...
How your stomach works and how ulcers develop: Gastro Intestinal Tract (GIT) health depends on all the organs supporting the digestive system performing in harmony and the gut itself functioning calmly and moving food along through the various stages of digestion until it is converted into a normal stool in the descending colon and discharged. It is very common for people to unconsciously interfere with the harmony of the digestive system as a result of their efforts to deal w...
In the modern racing world of syndicated horses I am always amazed how powerless the syndicate members are, and how cynical, is everyone else involved. There are changes in the air however but the situation is a long way from being ideal for the horse or for the syndicate member. Typically, a group of hopeful punters put up a heap of money on a prospect having very little real information on it. That prospect may have been carefully bred and raised with all the care and passio...