Year: 2008

Jiddu KrishnamurtiThe 50s were every bit as exciting - at least to me - as the 60s. OK, the scene was drabber than during the somewhat frenetic Beatles decade, and London Inside and outside the Troubador now....much gentrified, but still there!was still smog-bound and...

The Problem ?Let’s start with a clinical trend I have become aware of, but have been unable to explain until recently. Over the past five to ten years, more and more of my younger, mainly but not exclusively, female patients have reported symptoms ranging from...

Gillray's satirical cartoon dates from before immunisation methods were 'safe'..... but are they ever really 'safe'?Today's BBC news leads with the 'clear statement that research 'proves' that MMR 'does not trigger reaction', i.e that there is no link between the...

If someone believes a form of treatment will relieve pain, it will do so far more effectively than if the belief is that the treatment cannot help.Today's posting is a brief skip through the potency and power of placebo - in a future posting I'll discuss it's opposite...

Look at the image of the glorious creature, now departed (lifted from the BBC News website with thanks).I have to ask myself why news of the extinction of yet another natural marvel (whether of creation or evolution is irrelevent in this context) fills me with such...

This posting is based on a column written a year or two back for publication in Naturopathy Digest and Massage Today. These two monthly on-line (and paper) practitioner/therapist publications are based in the USA, and I write for them periodically.Note: The image on...

Fourth Ventricular compression as used in cranial osteopathy - mentioned in the text below Recent research has offered new insights into some of the changes that occur biochemically when we receive any form of manual therapy - whether this involves being pressed,...

We adapt to life from cradle to grave, and if our perspective is wide enough we can accurately say that illness, degeneration and dysfunction, are all adaptive responses to internal and external stressors. So what are we adapting to?..... to an ever changing...

Brian Inglis who coined the phrase 'fringe medicine' If only words meant what they said. I'm old enough to remember when naturopathic and osteopathic medicine were dubbed quackery, which is not to say that in some quarters they are not still disparaged in this way. In...