Glandular Fever
Practicing naturopathy in my small community has allowed me to watch the local children grow into teenagers. The kids that I once treated for chicken pox are now coming in with problems that seem to affect their older age group. One of these illnesses is more...
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Morning Sickness
We have often been asked for information and advice on morning sickness. I would like to start by honouring the miracle and wonder of conception and pregnancy. It humbles and inspires while reminding us to honour the divine energy that enlivens all thin more...
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Sneezy Spring, Vol 23
Spring is one of the most beautiful times of the year; warm sunshine, gentle breezes, the smells of blossoms in the air… Ah, Ah Ah-choo! Excuse me! Oh, I forgot about the hay fever and allergies.
The name hay fever comes from back in the early British co more...
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Fertility and Conception Care
I feel passionately about preconception and fertility awareness as it immediately affects not only us but the future generation. As a health professional for over 25 years I have noticed the definite decline in my patients’ overall health, wellbeing and f more...
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Stress:
As we settle into our work/school year again and the Christmas holidays become memory, the stress in our lives tends to resurface.
There are so many causes of stress in our modern lives, from traffic jams to difficult family or work situations. A commo more...
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What diet is best?
‘Eat this eat that, don’t eat this don’t eat that’ advice is every where but who do we listen to? I have been a naturopath for 15 years and a mum for 20 years and still the information on diet changes daily. I don’t think I or anyone else really know abso more...
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Teenagers Wellbeing
This issue we will focus on older children’s health. Teenagers suddenly find themselves in a phase of whirling emotions from aggression to depression, body parts are taking on new shapes and dimensions and pimples may be erupting at the most inconvenient more...
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Summer Days
As we are now moving into summer, this time we will address health issues relevant to the hotter weather. Summer is a good time to lighten up the whole family’s diet. Raw foods and salads are great foods for this time. I like to make sprouts so that they more...
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Spring Renewal
Spring seemed to come earlier this year for many of us. In spring mother nature wakes up after winter and begins sprouting and growing. Energy moves up and out, the natural world is blooming and flowering, full of colour and greenery. Generally we become more...
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Spring Cleaning
As we are now moving seasonally into spring it is appropriate to look at spring cleaning of the body. Cleansing is often referred to as the basis of good health and the best time to cleanse is spring. After the colder more inner time of winter, spring is more...
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Simple Ayurvedic tips for enhancing your family’s wellbeing
Ayurveda is a holistic system of healing which evolved among the Brahmin sages of ancient India some 3–5000 years ago. Ayurvedic understanding states that on our individual paths on the human journey, each of us is meant to learn the truths of our physica more...
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Parenthood
Once baby is born we are suddenly plunged, often unprepared, into parenthood. The celebration of birth ushers in a new beginning. A new journey begins – you have a real live baby. A joy and a responsibility, the process of growing into our full human pote more...
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Mumps
We have been looking at common childhood illnesses over the last three issues, covering chicken pox, measles and whooping cough. These illnesses we see frequently in the clinic at Mullumbimby Herbals and have had a lot of experience guiding parents throug more...
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Mullumbimby Herbals
Each issue Mullumbimby Herbals will feature a naturopathic and herbal perspective of health issues. Questions and answers as well as related articles will be featured. To introduce this department for our inaugural issue, following the Q & A are personal more...
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Immune System balance
Spring has returned to us. Hopefully we have rested deeply in the inner months of winter. With spring our energy moves upward and outward again. Now is the time to prepare our bodies for the longer warmer days ahead. Often, spring is the time that stran more...
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Health Tips for Young Children
As our babies make the huge step into becoming toddlers, their needs, and possible mishaps, change. This is the time of the ‘Terrible Twos’ — a new independence for the child as she moves on from being breastfed, begins to walk, and explore the world. For more...
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Health Tips for School Aged Children
Much health advice can be applied to any aged child simply by varying doses and using common sense. Always the best health prescription is: prevention! As our toddler moves off into the big world of pre-school then school he/she is exposed to many more in more...
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Flu Season
It’s that season again. Some people are becoming concerned not only about flu in general but about the Bird Flu. It is important to understand that there has yet to be a case of Bird flu that is passed on from human to human. Remember too, that there are more...
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Eating Habits & Food Allergies
In issue 9 we discussed basic nutritional guidelines. Food is always a big topic when it comes to children. Cultural and societal backgrounds will influence many families. One of the biggest problems we are faced with as parents is excess sugar and chemic more...
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Cleanse time!
As I drive through the beautiful north coast scenery to my work every morning, I love to listen to Life Matters, an ABC (Australian public) radio program about life, family and children. Lately there have been many discussions about the rising incidence o more...
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Childhood Diseases Part 3
The healthier our families are, in mind, body and spirit, the stronger the resistance to any childhood disease. Good health starts with whole, pesticide-free, nourishing foods, which are easily digested by our bodies. Paying attention to improving digesti more...
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Childhood Diseases Part 2
When a parent comes into my clinic and asks, ‘Should I immunise my baby against childhood diseases?’ my answer is never a yes or a no. My answer is more of a question. ‘How are you going to raise this child?’ I ask. I also suggest the parent read both sid more...
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Birth - Choice and Surrender
Birth is the woman’s second blood rite of passage, the first being Menarche, our first menstrual cycle, transition from a girl to woman. Birth is the transition from lover to mother, and bringing conscious awareness to this powerful life transforming time more...
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Childhood Diseases Part 1
Generally, allopathic medicine has treated childhood diseases as meaningless invasions of germs requiring elimination at all costs. A more holistic approach understands that these diseases are necessary for the healthy development of the immune system and more...
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