Leon Chaitow

There's been a slight hiatus in blog postings as I transferred from Corfu to London.The process was less than pleasant due to many hours of delay at Athens airport while the backlog of fog-delayed flights into London gradually cleared.The delay induced the strong...

Sisyphus (Σίσυφος) was clearly the theme of the dream that woke me this morning.This mythological Greek King was - for complex reasons you can discover yourself by plunging into Greek mythology - condemned by the Gods to perpetually roll a huge rock up-hill, only to...

See the picture, two young indian boys playing on the beach in Goa around 100 years ago, as a lone Englishman - Charles Leadbetter - approaches and speaks to them. Today, what images flash into the mind? And what if the individual was in factK born 1895 -1986was...

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...

The very name 'blog' has a heavy, clunking, and somewhat negative feel to me.For that, as much as for a lack of a sense of just why I should divert from the time-pressured editing and writing that fills my days, I have resisted joining in the phenomenon. But as is...

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,...

I noticed a headline the other day: 'Probiotics can kill you', that I just could not believe..... and that's just as well because it turns out that it was distorted and inaccurate.The background is as follows:Two hundred and ninety-six patients with acute pancreatitis...