Catnip has a popular reputation for modifying feline’s brain chemistry. The herb falls into the family of Lamiaceae. Catnip has also been called catnep and catmint (for it’s minty smell). What some people don’t know about catnip is that it is not just used to intoxicate cats, humans can very well take advantage of it’s [...]
Aloe
Both the Greeks and Egyptians knew the medical and cosmetic values of aloe juices. It is believed to be used by Cleopatra to keep her complexion clear and soft. Aloe or aloe vera, is a herbal plant that grows wild in the tropics, mostly in South America and Africa. Now a days it is grown [...]
Agrimony
In the time of ancient Greece this herb was believed to have magical healing powers. Later it was added to mixtures of herbs that were used to heal wounds and even snake bites. This herb is a perennial that grows on waste lands, country lanes and hedgerows. This herb often grows to be about three [...]
Traditional Chinese Medicine
More than 2000 years old, Traditional Chinese Medicine is based on creating and maintaining balance and harmony between various types of polar opposites, for example Yin and Yang, heaven and earth, cold and hot, wet and dry, inner and outer, and so forth. Also important are the five elements: wood, fire, water, earth, and air. [...]
Therapeutic Touch
Therapeutic Touch is a non-invasive, and in fact non-touch, system of energy work that was developed in the 1970s by Dora Kunz and Delores Krieger, Ph.D., RN. In Therapeutic Touch, energy is transferred from the practitioner to the energy field of the individual receiving treatment. As with other energy techniques, major effects include relaxation and [...]
Reiki
Reiki is a type of energy work that draws on several techniques of touch and visualization in order to improve the flow of life energy. In fact, the Japanese term “Reiki” translates to “universal life energy.” Practitioners are sensitive to — and trained to correct — difficulties of energy flow on all levels: physical, emotional, [...]
Reflexology
Reflexology is a system of bodywork in which the practitioner applies finger pressure to specific points on the feet and/or the hands. Reflexology is based on the correspondence between reflexes in the feet and hands and the various organs and areas of the body. Pressing on these reflexes aids in healing by stimulating a return [...]
Naturopathy
Naturopathy is a system of therapy that employs natural forces such as light, heat, air, water and massage. This system differs most significantly from allopathy by focusing on building health rather than on treating disease. The techniques used are non-invasive and may include foods, herbs, fasting, nutritional supplements, bodywork, hydrotherapy, forms of exercise or body [...]
Natural Healing
This involves moving the body from a state of non-health to a state of health using only natural (non-synthetic and non-invasive) means. Examples of this include fasting to cleanse the body of mucous, massage therapy to ease aching and painful muscles and the use of herbal formulas to soothe an irritated throat.
Natural Health
Natural health means maintaining good health, naturally. This takes into account the air you breathe, the water you drink, the diet (food and fluid) you ingest, your daily physical movement and activities, your rest and sleep and your human interactions. In summary, this is how you live in your body on a daily basis.