Health
How to embarrass your GP
Wow – Talk about empowering patients! Now there is going to be an NHS website where you can rate your GP. This fantastic and innovative idea should certainly keep doctors on their toes. They should introduce this in cricket too. The crowd, rather than the TV umpire/referees sitting in their ivory towers sipping sherry, should [...] Read more »
Health Matters: A Modern Approach
Health Matters: A Modern Approach The face of medical care is changing. At the very time modern medical technology is making the most incredible advances, more and more people are choosing ‘Alternatives’ rather than Orthodox medicine. The swing has been so significant that alternative medicine has been said to be the second most successful new [...] Read more »
Relaxation and healing with homeopathy: Insomnia
Insomnia, inability to sleep and poor quality sleep are common and very debilitating problems both physically and psychologically. Few would disagree with the view that a chemical solution with ‘sleeping tablets’ is at best unsatisfactory and at worst dangerously addictive. An holistic view of insomnia sees deep sleep (non-rapid eye movement = nREM), dreaming (REM) [...] Read more »
Relaxation and healing with homeopathy: Premenstrual Syndrome/Premenstrual Tension/PMS
What is PMS? Whenever the word syndrome is used in a diagnosis we can expect the condition described to comprise a large number of symptoms often affecting different parts of the body. PMS is defined as a condition characterised by nervousness, irritability, emotional instability, depression and possibly headaches, oedema and mastalgia; it occurs during the [...] Read more »
Humour & Health
Kaplan’s Mnemonic Laughter may not be the best medicine, especially if you have appendicitis, but medicine it certainly is. Hundreds of scientific studies have proved the therapeutic benefits of laughter. Here are some of the ways laughter is good for you. I have used the mnemonic SMILE to remember them all. S STRESS hormones reduced [...] Read more »
Hypocrisy of attacks on homeopathy to be exposed soon
Followers of this blog are familiar with my position with regard to the relentless attacks on homeopathy by the likes of Prof. Edzard Ernst and others who use evidence based medicine as a club with which to attempt to batter homeopaths into submission. Over and over they repeat that there is no valid evidence to [...] Read more »
Medical Debate Tonight
Tonight (June 26, 2008) there will be a debate on the ‘Best of Medicine’ at the Welcome Collection. Homeopathy, initially nominated for the ‘Worst of Medicine’ debate scheduled for 17th July has been nominated for tonight’s debate and Dr Sara Eames of the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital will speak in favour. Should be interesting… I [...] Read more »
Evidence-based Medicine: To be applied across the board or just used as a stick with which to beat homeopathy and CAM?
Okay, so far no reply to my challenge of a duel of words with Professor Ernst. There has also been no reply to my alternative suggestion that he withdraw his accusation that homeopaths lie to their patients. If he is unaware of my challenge then hopefully it will not escape his attention for long. If [...] Read more »
Democracy, Homeopathy and the Placebo Effect
Okay, let’s get a few things straight about so called ‘alternative’ holistic medical approaches that are now being vilified because scientific trials have apparently finally shown that they are no better than placebo. The first therapy seemingly chosen to be wiped out for the good of the public in the killing fields of apparently rational [...] Read more »
Alternative Therapies: Meditation
Last night Kathy Sykes explored the ‘alternative therapy’ meditation. Just to categorise this ancient psychological and physiological techniqe as ‘alternative’ seem somewhat ridiculous to me. Still, Kathy Sykes, somewhat straitjacketed by her self-applied label as ‘scientist’ admitted that regularly sitting quietly and doing nothing except observe her breathing benefited her whole day including her capacity [...] Read more »
