Leon Chaitow
New Article: Treating Candida Naturally in “Conscious Lifestyle”
Treating Candida Naturally: The Top 17 Most Powerful Natural Antifungal Supplements and Herbs for Ridding the Body of...
New article on Fibromyalgia Pain and Breathing in Massage & Bodywork Journal
I have compiled a new article for a special – Fibromyalgia-focused issue of the January/February 2017 issue of MASSAGE & BODYWORK. Entitled “How Breath Can Impact Your Client’s Fibromyalgia Pain,” here is a brief sample:
Recycling Corfu Memories
It's August, and for reasons too boring to explain I'm in London instead of Corfu........... although not for much longer I hope!So what did I find to do in London in August?Well for one thing a long-delayed spring cleaning of piles of papers, magazines, journals,...
The Estriol Conspiracy
The line in the graph shows the decreases in a fibromyalgia patient's pain distribution during treatment. The pain distribution is the percentage of 36 body divisions containing pain, indicated by her onher pain drawing. Her pain distribution decreased during...
Primitive diet & primitive thinking – the evolution of ideas
Way back in the 1980's (1987 to be precise) Optima published a small book - that I had coauthored with my wife Alkmini (who focused her attention on food preparation issues in the book) - entitled "Stone Age Diet". If you're really interested in this I note that...
Russian monument to the humble enema – believe it or not?
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...
Fascia Congress 2009 – early notice
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...
Pleomorphism – a truly revolutionary concept
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...
The Essence of Palpation: How Do You Feel?
Originally published in Massage Today June, 2008, Vol. 08, Issue 06 Palpation lies at the heart of much that we do in manual medicine and bodywork in general, and massage in particular. But how accurate and reliable is it? What we do therapeutically commonly is...
The real secrets of longevity
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...
The essence of palpation: ‘how do you feel?’
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...
Corfu Easter – local traditions with a dark history
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...
The Anti-Vitamin Scandal
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...
Politics, people and pictures
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...