Hamamelis virginiana Hamameliadaceae Habitat: Indigenous to N. America and Canada. Collection: The leaves can be gathered throughout the summer and driedquickly to ensure that they do not become discoloured. The bark is gathered inthe spring after...
I have taken vitamin E supplements every day for about 30 years, mainly for my varicose veins - and I look 20 years younger than I am. When I had meningococcal septicaemia, I was not expected to survive. I was told that I had very serious blood...
Varicose veins are always put down to being overweight or too tall, and are considered an exclusively female problem. But men suffer just as much as women, and weight has nothing to do with it inc ...
Following your Special Report on diabetes in the March issue, I must enquire whether you are familiar with the classic work of T.L. Cleave - The Saccharine Disease?
People who have operations to strip their varicose veins are at risk from suffering venous thromboembolism (vein blockage by a clot) after surgery, Swiss doctors warn. ...
Women with problem veins can be helped by horse chestnut seed extract, researchers have discovered. It may be one of the best non drug approaches to the problem, and is certainly as good as using ...
Aside from being unsightly, varicose and spider veins can cause medical problems if left untreated.
Q Can you suggest a natural alternative to stripping varicose veins? - RW, Henley-on-Thames
Psychiatrists are beginning to question the use of the drug lithium in treating manic-depressives. The drug had passed clinical trials with flying colours and has been in frequent use since the 1960s
Elongated, dilated, tortuous superficial veins whose valves are congenitally absent or scant or have become incompetent; this condition
David L. Hoffmann BSc Hons MNIMH
What Doctors Don't Tell You