Following on from the lovely ME story I just posted....... I have been meaning to write this post ever since a friend asked me, a few weeks ago, whether I had any suggestions for her daughter who was really struggling with what appeared to be chronic fatigue and did not seem …
Alternative/Complementary Health
Cineraria for cataracts and onions for flu….
Some weeks ago I got an email from Pat Schooling, director of the allergy charity, Action Against Allergy, of which I am a trustee, asking whether I had ever heard of raw onions being used to guard against flu? As it happened, I had – well, I had heard (and even experimented) …
Xanthan gum
Ingrid Greenfield has always been on the far left of the healthy food movement. Her husband, Tom, is an osteopath, naturopath and craniosacral therapist and works with the D'Adamo blood group theories. (The D'Adamo theory says that your ideal diet can be worked out from your …
Cut government red tape…
As many of you will probably know, the natural health industry (makers of herbal, homeopathic, Ayurvedic and Chinese medicines, nutritional supplements etc) have been fighting a bruising and often unsuccessful battle with Brussels for some years over the the regulation of natural …
Allergy versus intolerance – again…
Today's excellent coverage of 'freefrom food' – a fab, in depth investigation on Radio 4's Food Programme (you can 'listen again' or download a podcast here) and a short item on BBC 1's Breakfast this morning – were, on the whole, pretty balanced, but they have caused the usual …