Category: Health & wellbeing
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Perimenopause & menopause. Can herbal medicine help?
Perimenopause and menopause affect women in different individual ways. A herbalist will identify the specific symptoms affecting the patient and work towards reducing and alleviating the discomforts and improving life enjoyment. These may include irregular bleeding, hot flashes, vaginal dryness or atrophy, urinary incontinence, mood changes, sleep disturbance, pain and aching joints, brain fog, memory…
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Dysbiosis vs SIBO
Just thought I’d share this here. I’ve been using social medias mainly to share my work lately but thought I would revive the newsletter with some useful information. Today I tackle the digestive upsets of dysbiosis and SIBO, read below for a short introduction. Dysbiosis is a broad term that signifies an imbalance or disruption…
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Heart medicine from the hedgerow
I fell down the rabbit hole with hawthorn! It started popping up everywhere with such verve, apparently that’s what happens when a plant is meant for you. I already intuitively felt it as a medicine I needed and started taking a cuppa here and there, now a tincture. What I learnt was so rich from…
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A Disco Ball That Packs A Punch, recipe inside
Simple to make and full of flavours these energy balls are great to keep in your bag, lunchbox or for when the kids get home. Use them whenever you need that little bit of natural energy boost but don’t want to load your digestive system. They are moreish though and will patch up energy leaks…
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Abracadabra!
Not long ago I read and chuckled at a post by Mammasaurus where she lashed out at the word ritual and its “all-trendy” status making it the rage these days. Now, I love the word ritual. I loved it all the way back when it was not the hype and puff it is now, blame the Owens…
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Make it a habit
Working on my online course today, I am writing about evolving and creating new healthy habits, starting by considering our “crimes against wisdom” or Pranjapradha as Yoga and Ayurveda calls it. It sounds very serious and scary but basically why do we continue to do what we know is not good for us? All this…
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Ojas: the essence of life
The word Prana has become somewhat mainstream if not for the famous yoga clothes brand also for its actual Sanskrit meaning of life energy. A word you may not be so familiar with from the yogic world is Ojas which describes the essence of immunity and vitality in the body. Ojas is closely related to Kapha…
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Start the year with a fresh palate
I am slowly waking up from my deep winter hibernation to wish you all a happy new year. And so you’d have guessed I’m not referring to a new colour scheme for your wardrobe but mouth hygiene. Where’s the glamour in that? Better health begins this January. If we want to start the year the way we mean to carry on…
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Liquid gold
I’ll keep this post real short with having a mad dash week (haven’t we all) but that doesn’t make this advice any less important. Sip. Hot. Water. All day. Ayurveda has a different view to drinking water to the one we have all grown to in the West. One that naturally agrees with me but…
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When life throws you lemons
This beautiful picture of organic Bangalow Bush lemons is my inspiration this week and it comes credit to Lorien Waldron from Wholesome Loving Goodness all the way over the pond in sunny Byron Bay, Australia. I absolutely love this picture and from now on it will be my blog profile picture and a banner on…
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