What Doctors Don't Tell YouQ Having congratulated myself on sailing through the menopause with no hot flushes, I now find myself struck down with vaginal atrophy.
Strained tendons of the wrist Q I strained the tendons in my left wrist a year ago and my doctor diagnosed de Quervain’s stenosing tenovaginitis. I wear one of those elastic wrist supports with a metal strip to keep it rigid but, as I live alone, I...
Inevitably, families on holiday encounter small and large emergencies, and often don't have the health professionals on hand to help. Here's an A to Z of common emergencies plus simple remedies wh ...
I made a house visit to a patient with mastitis whose baby was six days old. Her GP had just been and told her she needed antibiotics. She asked him whether she might try homeopathic treatment as ...
What’s a girl to do? Five recent studies have shown that soy is worthless for treating the symptoms of menopause.
Reader's Corner
* Eat the right foods. Eating foods rich in phytoestrogens can allieviate menopausal symptoms. All pulses, tofu and whole soy products (avoid soy protein isolates), nuts, flaxseed and other seeds, grains (rice, oats, wheat, barley, rye),
Modern medicine has only its singleminded one-size-fits-all treatment for all types of tumours - with very little evidence of success. However, alternative medicine provides a number of other possibilities
General
* Check female hormone levels (by a simple lab test) as these conditions are all hormone-related. The key is to stabilise the hormonal situation causing the cyclic upset
One of the most effective treatments for hay fever is to first identify which plants you react to most and then either avoid going near them or obtain an "isopathic" remedy (a dilution of the plan ...
