Love Your Life

29/02/2024

Ultra-processed foods are harmful to health! This may be something we've all known for ages, and we've been working towards eliminating them from our diets but now a review has pulled it all together ###

World’s largest review finds direct associations with higher risks of cancer, heart disease and early death

22/10/2023

Whoop whoop! Fenland Natural Health are very excited to have been nominated as 1 of the local organisations the Coop is supporting this year. If you have a Coop account, or love us enough to sign up and become a member please consider voting for us and sharing this link with your friends and family. We have 12 months now to raise some funds to enable us to help more of our local community ###

The Co-op Local Community Fund is supporting Fenland Natural Health. Become a member or sign in to choose a local cause to support.

15/06/2022

Well done Dr Dixon, GP from Cornwall for spelling this out. This model is exactly what Medical Herbalists offer and it works. We are always happy to work with our patients and the medical profession and many Consultants already collaborate. Let's hope we start to see this happening more and more

12/04/2022

Found a clump of beautiful Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara) growing quite happily in a discarded pile of tarmac.

Traditionally made into sweets and syrups, it has sadly fallen out of fashion due to it containing pyrrolizidine alkoloids (which may or may not damage the liver. I won't go into the iffy research here)

I still make a syrup from the flowers and use it personally for:
🏵 Sore throats
🏵 Coughs
🏵 Asthmatic bronchospasms

01/02/2022

Safe and effective which is why I love using hypnotherapy with my patients

Science is revealing that pain is a protector, not a detector. Understanding this is the first step towards managing it, says doctor and author Monty Lyman

05/09/2021

Excited to be part of this

03/08/2021

Back out again doing what we love

We really enjoyed the first Wild Natural Medicine Walk yesterday. Fenland Natural Health were incredibly knowledgeable, engaging and friendly. If you would like to try this you haven't missed your chance there are 2 more walks on 16th August! Book your place here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/communities-team-at-shdc-33927331437?fbclid=IwAR0jlgYturwnAeMWKJ88xzmLlCAYmDjgvogWSb-HS-3y0nFGvYWnitjn42Y

09/06/2021

"What would love do" Today I finally got a tattoo.

About 15 years ago when I was training with the National Federation of Spiritual Healers (now the Healing Trust) I went to a seminar lead by Jack Angelo and fell in love with this quote of his: a reminder to always be heart-centred. I even chose emerald green for the heart chakra

15/05/2021

I'm noticing more and more that the word Adaptogen, like microbiome, is becoming mainstream. No longer just the arcane domain of the Medical Herbalist these amazing plants are being recognised as an ally we can all benefit from

Adoptogens are those herbs which help your body adapt to physical and/or mental stress. Most herbalists add at least 1 to most of their patient's medicines as we recognise the stresses of modern lives play out in most of us

Adaptogens can be gentle like oats, or more pokey like the ginsengs. My favourite is Ashwaghanda (pictured). It's latin name Withania somnifera refers to its benefits as a sleep aid although, like all our herbal allies it does so much more

28/03/2021

Found some lovely Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara) a couple of days ago so decided to make this recipe from The Herb Society . I've substituted coconut sugar for brown sugar. Coltsfoot is a traditional and effective cough remedy but this is for personal use only as it contains controversial pyrrolizidine alkaloids, which in high doses may cause liver damage so I'm not able to prescribe it currently. Anyone make their own cough mixture of remember coltsfoot rock? I used to love it as a kid ###

07/02/2021

Yet another herbal medicine book! This one is by one of the lecturers who taught me. Looking forward to reading it ###