Echinacea as an ‘alterative’

by | Sep 13, 2024 | Blog | 0 comments

extract from …a short version of Echinacea the Plant by H W Felter MD issued by Lloyd Brothers, Pharmacists Inc Cincinnati, Ohio. … ‘Echinacea is a remedy for auto-infection, where the blood stream becomes slowly infected either from within or...

The Cracked Pot

by | Jun 21, 2018 | Blog | 0 comments

Illustration painted by the lovely & talented Amelia Rowe & sent to us as a gift for Positive Medicine because she loves the tale of the cracked pot as much as we do. In a faraway land there once lived a water-carrier who carried two water-pots across her...

Inspiration out of the blue

by | Mar 3, 2017 | Blog | 0 comments

Our most creative inspiration eureka thoughts appear out of the blue. The most outrageous scientific breakthroughs appeared out of the minds in altered states of consciousness – sleepiness, dreams, theta states, let-go states. It seems that logical ration...

Dandelion

by | Nov 15, 2016 | Blog | 0 comments

Dandelion leaves and roots are both used extensively as medicine and food. The dandelion plant is exceedingly rich in the mineral potassium. Even though the leaf has such a considerable diuretic effect for it to have earned the nick-name piss-a-bed, it leaves the body...

☆Homoeopathy and Herbs☆

by | Oct 18, 2016 | Blog | 0 comments

  Herbal medicine is probably the oldest form of medicinal treatment and must have evolved from a combination of instinct, intuition, trial and error all combined with nutrition and observation of the effects of different food stuffs, leaves and berries.  Herbal...

Hawthorn

by | Oct 8, 2015 | Blog, Positive Health | 0 comments

‘And every shepherd tells his tale, under the hawthorn in the dale’ John Milton, Allegro. Hawthorn is a thorny shrub, a member of the rosaceae family of the genus crataegus which has hundreds of varieties. The species usually used in medicine is oxyacantha, synonym...