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Our approach to Health
I also provide the following Counselling services; CBT, EMDR, DBT and ACT. These are often used in an overlapping way to help with the complexities of mental health. I treat the following conditions, Depression, Addictions, PTSD, Anxiety, Burn out, Stress, Low self esteem, Trauma and other conditions.
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I personally make various formulae to treat my patient's conditions. I use the highest quality medical grade herbal medicines which have all passed strict quality control protocols and are quality assured to insure the herb used is the correct species and the correct compounds are isolated and present in the medicine. Please feel free to contact me for more details on specific conditions or formulae.
For example type 2 diabetes is very much a disease of the modern age and modern lifestyle. Conventional treatment for type 2 diabetes is metformin. However, I believe there are ways of naturally improving our blood sugar levels by restricting our carbohydrate intake and very moderate walking.
A Brief History of Herbal Medicine
The practice of using herbal medicine is as old as humanity itself. The earliest evidence of using herbs as a medicine dates back as far as 13,000 B.C. according to carbon dating. The Lascaux cave paintings in southern France depict different herbs and the people's familiarity with them. The tradition of herbal medicine was taught orally and later was written down and recorded, the following are a few examples of the written history of herbal medicines.
More recently 2,400 B.C in Mesopotamia in the ancient city of Nippur the Sumerians wrote using cuneiform onto clay tablets which listed over 250 plants and their medicinal uses.
Ayurvedic herbal medicine was written down around 1,500 B.C with the four main Vedas: Yajur veda, Rig veda, Sam veda and Atharva veda. The healing properties of the herbs were written down in poems called Shlokas. The Rig veda is the most well known, it describes around 70 plants and 1028 Shlokas (poems). The Yajur and Atharva vedas describe around 370 useful medicinal plants. Agnivesha compiled the knowledge from the vedas, and it was later edited by Charaka and other scholars. Today Charaka Samhita describes all aspects of Ayurvedic medicine.
Chinese herbal medicine was written down around 2,500 B.C, the book Pen T'Sao (grasses and roots) was written by the emperor Shen, in the book there are 365 medicinal plants listed, many are still in use today. The most famous Chinese medical text is know as the Yellow emperor's classic which was written around 300 B.C. The yellow emperor's classic is considered a fundamental medical text, which is still in use today.
Western herbal medicine was partly influenced by earlier Egyptian tradition, especially the writings from the Ebers Papyrus 1,550 B.C, which listed over 850 herbal medicines, and later on the writings of Hippocrates, known as the Father of medicine in 400 B.C and others such as Pliny and Dioscorides. Dioscorides was the most influential Greek writer of the Materia medica of herbal medicines. His Materia medica, which consists of five volumes was used well into the 1700's, such was the influence of Dioscorides
A Brief History of Iridology
Iridology or Iris diagnosis as it is sometimes referred to, is the observation and diagnosis of disease in the body from the iris, pupil and Sclera (whites of the eyes). The observation of changes in and around the eyes is very old. References to this can be found in Chinese medicine approximately 2000 years ago. And also in the works of Hippocrates references to the eyes and diseases can be found.
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In 1670 Philippus Meyens in his book Chiromatica medica mentions markings in the iris and their interpretation.
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In 1786 Christian Haertels published his dissertation titled "The eye and its signs".
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Then in 1881 Dr Ignatz von peczely published his work; Discoveries in the field of natural science and medicine: instruction in the study of diagnosis from the eye.
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In 1887 Ophthalmologist Schlegel wrote a book supporting iris diagnosis, entitled; The eye diagnosis of I.v. Peczely.
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In 1893 Pastor Liljequist published his work entitled Om Oegendiagnosen, which built on and greatly improved the previous work of Dr Peczely.
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From 1896 to 1925 Pastor Felke is credited with expanding the field of iris diagnosis, he influenced the development of this field through his various students.
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A. Müller wrote a book entitled; The Eye diagnosis based upon the principles of Pastor Felke.
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More recently a true pioneer in the field Dr Josef Deck wrote extensively on iridology from 1955, 56, 65, 75 and 82. His last work was Differentiation of iris markings, differential diagnosis textbook 2.
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In 1977 and 1984 Josef Angerer wrote 3 important works on iridology.
In 1984 H.W. Schimmel wrote Constitution and disposition from the eye, which is still a reference book today.
There are many more researchers worthy of mention who have, or who are expanding the field of iridology, the likes of Dr. B Jensen, Prof H.W. Schmidt, Dr. Schnabel, Dr.Unger, Dr. Wermuth, Dr. V Serdyuk, R Stolz, Dr. E. Velchover, Dr. D Pesek, H Wolf, W Hauser, Josef Karl, Dr. D Lo Rito and J Andrews to name but a few.
