RECIPE FOR NETTLE SOUP

Nettle is understood, by both traditional Chinese medicine practitioners and western medicine dietitians, to be a great tonic. Here’s a recipe for making a tasty nettle soup.

Ingredients: 1 onion peeled and chopped; 2 large potatoes, peeled and chopped into half-inch cubes; 2 pints of vegetable or chicken stock; 175 g of nettles (only pick… Continue reading

INTERNET CONTACT

My internet is still not working at home, so for the time being, if you wish to hear back promptly, it remains better to contact me by telephone.

CONTACT DIFFICULTIES

I have limited internet access at the moment. For the time being, if you have any important inquiries, please try to contact me by phone instead.

 

COFFEE CONSUMPTION & ACUPUNCTURE

Recent research has demonstrated that insertion and rotation of acupuncture needles stimulates the body to produce adenosines. These naturally occuring chemicals have a wide range of potential functions. They help to regulate sleep, can increase energy, help certain heart and lung conditions, encourage vasodilation, assist wound healing, have anti-inflammatory properties, inhibit local nerve signals to… Continue reading

WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION & ACUPUNCTURE Part 2

In addition to those diseases, symptoms, and conditions for which the WHO recommends acupuncture treatment based upon clinical trials, it has also highlighted these  for which the therapeutic effect of acupuncture has been shown but for which further proof is needed:

Abdominal

pain (in acute gastroenteritis or due to gastrointestinal spasm)

Acne vulgaris

Alcohol… Continue reading

WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ACUPUNCTURE

In an official report, Acupuncture: Review and Analysis of Reports on Controlled Clinical Trials, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has listed the following symptoms, diseases and conditions that have been shown through controlled trials to be treated effectively by acupuncture:

Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy

Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)

Biliary colic

Depression… Continue reading

MEDICAL TELEPHONE NUMBERS

I recently did a refresher first aid course, and I learnt all about the 112 emergency service number. It was pointed out to all of us on the course that in many ways this is better than the older and more well-known 999 number.

112 can be used all over Europe and in many other… Continue reading

PATIENT TESTIMONIAL

“I have a stressful job which it can be very difficult to switch off from, and recently my sleep has started to become poorer with problems falling asleep and also waking up in the night. I had my first acupuncture treatment with Mark last week. I found the experience to be wonderfully relaxing and calming,… Continue reading

VIRAL LINK TO MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

People with multiple sclerosis regularly demonstrate increases in antibodies to several viruses, such as Epstein-Barr and measles, and comparisons have been made between MS and SSPE, a very rare and similarly-presenting disease that has been linked with the measles virus (Zilber et al 1983). No positive link has been proven as yet, but many studies… Continue reading

DAIRY CONSUMPTION AND MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

Back in 1974, Agranoff and Goldberg suggested that dairy consumption, not latitude, could most accurately explain a global predisposing factor for MS occurrence. They hypothesised that consumption of bovine milk could lead to a weakened blood-brain barrier or immunological defence or else stimulate the production of defetive myselin suspectible to an aetilogical agent. There are… Continue reading

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