Year: 2008

Hydrotherapy is a major aspect of naturopathic medicine, and the news this week that a Russian spa (Mashuk Akva-Term Sanatorium, in the town of Zheleznovodsk, Russian Caucasus Mountains region) had unveiled a monument to the enema ("bronze monument of three cherubs...

Informational flyer for the 2009 CongressPhotos (by Robert Schleip) show:Myself with Peter Huijing PhD and Peter Hollander PhD, who are scientific director and administrative directors, respectively, of the 2nd International Fascia Congress.The main auditorium at the...

Images are of the great French microbiologist and rival of Pasteur, Antoine Bechamp; the 'microscope' developed by Rife and a slide of the ‘CD form’ of B. licheniformis which superficially appears to be a fungus, but under the scanning electron microscope is seen to...

Henry Allingham at 112, and the flypast in his honour.First World War veteran, Henry Allingham, was 112 last week, on the 6th of June.The first modern Olympics were hosted by Athens, Puccini's La Bohème premiered in Turin and Queen Victoria became the longest reigning...

This diagram depicts some of the physical and physiologic factors that affect the thermoreceptor (TR) discharge rate and consequently the temperature sensed in an examiner's skin in contact with a patient's skin. The temperature and its rate of change of the...

Easter crowds waiting for the pot smashing ceremony..... and the midnight fireworks show over the main square.Corfu's Easter celebrations are famous, attracting as they do tens of thousands of tourists, from all over Greece, and beyondThere are processions and brass...

natural or synthetic - your choice!This is a short posting - I've a lot of editing etc to complete, but this cannot be let go.You may have seen on the news, or in a paper, the blitz of propaganda against vitamin supplements?Don't swallow the hype......don't believe...

Corfu Garden - springtime 2008I tried to focus on just one subject for this posting, but the multitude of topics swirling through my mind make it pretty well impossible to select just one, so I won't. Instead I'll try to sort out what I really really think about a...

Sometime in the early 1980s I became aware of patients with problems that could be associated with yeast overgrowth (candida) in their intestinal tracts.These were people who often suffered from a variety of apparently unrelated symptoms, including chronic fatigue,...

These photo show Dumbo with Sasha, with me in Corfu Town (Liston), and on his own in our meadow under the olive trees.When I was very young - well around 11 - my Mother, Irene, acquired a pet miniature dachshund.A brief explanation is called for here. My brother and I...

Last weekend I was in Dublin, at the National Training Center where I periodically teach on an advanced Neuromuscular Therapy training course.I love Dublin for many reasons, and Guiness is one of them. No matter what anyone says, the local brew, in its' native land,...