Reflexology and Pain Relief – Research

PORTSMOUTH, 2011 – A PhD thesis at the University of Portsmouth has revealed that manually applied reflexology can increases both pain treshold and pain tolerance in healthy volunteer subjects!

Reflexology, one of the many complementary medicine modalities available, may be a suitable adjunct to pain management by helping to reduce the number of medications and associated side-effects from continued drug use. Continue reading “Reflexology and Pain Relief – Research”

Are cherries unapproved drugs?

In the UK and European Union (EU), the European Parliament is about to pass a law that will see all supplements and alternative remedies with un-approved health claims disappear from health food store shelves within 6 months… especially if they are added to the EU’s register of rejected claims.

Crazy isn’t it?

Yet, concoctions like Flora Cuisine — the liquid margarine-buttery-looking cooking oil is allowed to make the health claim that it can provide better frying, roasting and cooking for heart health!

Anyone with a bit of common sense will tell you that the relentless global campaign against alternative medicine is simply ridiculous… not to mention the clampdown on ordinary food products!

Continue reading “Are cherries unapproved drugs?”

Dog saving a life

This is an amazing video of a dog risking it’s life saving another injured dog on a very busy highway..

You have to watch this to believe it!! Take a look..

Homeopathy has a ‘clinically relevant’ effect way beyond placebo

Critics have always dismissed homeopathy as offering nothing more than a placebo effect – you just think it’s making you better.  A new study has proved them wrong.  Classical homeopathy has clear benefits to cancer patients that are “clinically relevant and statistically significant”, say researchers. Continue reading “Homeopathy has a ‘clinically relevant’ effect way beyond placebo”