Mulled wine – packing a healthy punch
Read Time: 8 min This traditional winter warmer contains many polyphenol-rich ingredients with health promoting credentials. We look into the research around this festive herbal brew.
Herbal medicine
Herbs have been used as medicines for tens of thousands, if not millions of years. Used skilfully they can treat many conditions that conventional medicine fails to address, whilst in other cases they frequently match or exceed conventional drugs in their effectiveness.
The bitter truth is sweeter than we thought
Read Time: 10 min (image © Achim Schleuning / CC-BY-SA-4.0) Cocktail bitters like Angostura and Peychaud’s have pedigrees going back to the 1830s. Looking like something out of a Victorian …
Neanderthal Herbal Medicine
Read Time: 6 min Recent evidence has uncovered the use of herbal medicines amongst our closest evolutionary cousin. We look at the therepeutic properties of these herbs.
Aloe vera plants – why every home should have one
Read Time: 5 min Aloe vera is the number one treatment for first and second degree burns. Easy to grow – a must have plant for every home. We always …
The three wise herbalists brought… Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh
Read Time: 7 min HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL MY READERS AND PATIENTS! Everybody knows the story of the three wise men bringing gifts of Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh to the infant Jesus in the …
A quick tour of my clinic
Read Time: 3 min I have just finished giving my consulting room a make-over. May I show you around?.
Mistletoe in Cancer
Read Time: 9 min Mistletoe: sacred herb of the Druids. Photo – Stephanie Berghaeuser This legendary herb of the druids has been shown to have anti-cancer properties in multiple studies.
Echinacea
Read Time: < 1 min Study shows that Echinacea reduces common cold frequency and symptom severity.