Black Cohosh (Cimicifuga Racemosa)
Enter a woman in her late forties to early fifties with hot flushes, nervous depression, dwindling memory, insomnia, vaginal dryness and dull aching joints. Is there really one herb to treat all these symptoms?
More than two centuries ago, Native Americans discovered that the root of the Black Cohosh plant helped relieve menstrual [...]

Take a Better View of your Health with Live Blood Assessment (Hemaview)
Live Blood Assessment, (LBA) or Hemaview is a form of live blood screening that helps to determine the health status of an individual. Using only one or two drops of your blood, Miriam will use LBA to investigate the size shape and ratio of [...]

The quantity of water for the enemas should be 2 litres.
The temperature of the enemas should be body temperature or just above. Use boiled filtered water that has been cooled.  Or you may fill the enema kit approximately just over ¾ full with filtered room temperature water and then top up with boiling water from [...]

“Infertility occurs equally amongst men as it does women. Currently one in six couples is infertile, one woman in five will suffer a miscarriage and one child in ten suffers from learning difficulties.” F Naish
The best thing you can ever do for yourself, and your unborn child is include pre-conception care in your current lifestyle. [...]

If the whole of humanity knew what I know about herbal medicine, all those in the Western world using orthodox medication for their primary form of health care would consider, if not make the full change to herbal medicine.
Herbal Miracles
Mary, (not her real name) is 43 years old, working part-time and has two children. When [...]

If you lack satisfaction in your life, you may be attracted to quick sugar fixes like chocolate or cake. The quicker and higher your sugar levels raise after you have had a sweet treat, the faster and lower it will drop afterwards. And once again, you will be left feeling agitated and dissatisfied. Many women [...]

St John’s Wort (Hypericum perforatum)
With so much media hype it seems appropriate that the first herb I profile in Portrait of a Medicinal Herb should be St John’s Wort (Hypericum perforatum). Doctors in Germany are prescribing more St John’s Wort than any other anti-depressant drug including Prozac. In fact "The Natural Prozac" is a term [...]

Pau D’Arco
Pau d’arco or Taheebo (Tabebuia avellanedae) is an indigenous tree to South America. The Brazilian Indians have used the inner bark of Pau d’arco for over 1000 years. They have used Pau d’arco for treating dysentery, fever, malaria, carcinomas and stomach ulcers and topically (externally) for treating skin diseases, fungal infections and [...]

OLIVE LEAFOlea europea
The Failure of Antibiotics

Due to our travelling community, new and exotic viruses are being delivered to our doorsteps – those viruses that were once isolated only to certain parts of the globe. And due to the evolution of microbes, which are now resistant to our most [...]

Cayenne Pepper
Capsicum Minimum
Cayenne, (Capsicum minimum), or red pepper is your common everyday household red chilli pepper, yet it’s uses are perhaps not so well known. Cayenne is one of the most valuable herbs in the medical world. It is absolutely harmless, yet it [...]