Most people who use herbal medicine of any kind will be aware that amongst the many other areas of our daily life in which they dabble, the EU regulators have also been interesting themselves in herbal medicines. Depending on which side of the fence you sit, their desire to …
Alternative/Complementary Health
Confessions of a frustrated pharmacist
I regularly get news releases and articles from the Orthomolecular News Service, the news wing of Orthomolecular.org, proponents of 'Therapeutic nutrition based on biochemical individuality'. To quote themselves: Orthomolecular is a term that comes from ortho, which is Greek …
Kefir on offer!
Of all the subjects that people search for on this blog (according, anyhow, to its very nice little stats programme) the two that come up most frequently are PPD in hair dye – and kefir. For those who are interested in hair dye, I have been doing a bit of research and will …
Smells……..
As any regular reader of this blog will know - I am besotted with coconut oil. I spread it on my bread, I cook with it, I use it to clean my face – and of course, I use it to ward off Alzheimer's disease. (For those of you who do not know about the link between medium chain …
Big Business moves into freefrom
Whenever I am asked where I think 'freefrom' is going – my answer is that it is, over the next few years, going to move into the mainstream. That it is, indeed, going to become mainstream. So rarely have I felt smugger than when I heard, a couple of weeks ago, that Heinz was …