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5 Tips To Boost Your Immune System In Autumn
In Autumn, as the weather fluctuates between warm and cold or windy, it is important to support your immune system. Heading towards the cooler months is a great time to review and make adjustments to strengthen your health. Our Naturopath offers 5 simple ways to give your body a boost to thrive in Autumn. Rest…
Functional Pathology Gut Tests
Digestive Health It’s not just what you eat, it’s what you digest, absorb and eliminate. Digestive health has always been recognised in Naturopathic medicine as the foundation of overall health and now research is finally catching up! Evidence supports that digestive health and the gut microbiome affects just about every body system directly or indirectly…
Saffron – the sunshine spice for balanced mood
Vis medicatrix naturae- ’The Healing Power of Nature’ This naturopathic principle refers to the body’s innate ability to heal itself beginning at a cellular level, where the body undergoes continuous processes of regeneration and repair. Naturopathic therapies support and enhance the healing power of the body through medicinal constituents of plant derivatives. Saffron (Crocus stavis)…
Acupuncture for posture, pain and movement
How acupuncture may help with posture, pain and movement? Muscles should be limber or flaccid when not active and should only tense up when activated. If this doesn’t happen then you can consider it as some form of muscular dysfunction. When different areas start to tighten up it can cause dysfunctional movement of the areas…
The Importance of Scars in Acupuncture
When treating the body with acupuncture, we look at where the physical problems arise and then at the meridian it affects. There are twelve major meridians in the body, which are considered energy pathways. Each meridian not only relates to an organ, but also to emotions. If the meridian has a blockage, or an injury…