Mim's Blog

The COVID-19 virus is 1,000 times more virulent than the 2003 SARS virus. That virus affected around 8,000 people whereas COVID-19 has already infected over 500,000 folk and counting. CO .....

With the amount of hype surrounding detoxification, you’d think detoxing was a new fad. Not so. For centuries, herbalists have been detoxifying their patients, it just wasn’t called deto .....

“A bitter pill to swallow" is a saying that must have had its origins in herbal medicine. Many herbal medicines are bitter, in fact, in the view of this grammatically flummoxed herbalist .....

A history and guide to naturopathic medicine in Australia. A history and guide to naturopathic medicine in Australia. Naturopathy endeavours to find out and tr .....

It wasn’t too long ago that natural medicine was considered a vestige of the flower power era, something only hippies were into. Nowadays, complementary medicine has become almost main .....

You may have read in the papers of a trial reported in the New England Journal of Medicine which concluded that Echinacea has no effect on the prevention and treatment of the common co .....

The Doctrine of Signatures is an ancient belief whose origin is lost in the mists of time. It purports that certain physical attributes of a plant indicate its therapeutic val .....

In the 1930s Edward Bach was a poo man — a gastroenterologist who practised in Londons famous Harley Street. After many years of treating patients he began to .....