Alzheimer''s Disease
... Mysterious and frustrating, Alzheimer''s afflicts nearly four million Americans, about 10 percent of the population over age 65, and over 45 percent of those over age of 85. (In rare instances, Alzhei...

Nutritional Approaches to Mental Health
... Let food be thy medicine.- Hippocrates Besides the oxygen we breathe, all that we need to survive comes from what we eat. Food nourishes both the body and the brain. In fact, the brain has first call ...

Suicidal Thoughts
... A lot of people think about suicide or say things like, "I wish I was dead" at times of great stress. For most people these thoughts are a way to express anger, frustration, and other strong emotions....

The Natural Pharmacy: Herbal Medicine for Depression
... "The physician is nature''s assistant."              Galen, 2nd century AD

Fighting Depression the Herbal Way
... Sarah, a normally exuberant young woman, felt fatigued and out of sorts. For three weeks, she had dreaded getting out of bed in the morning and found little joy in her occupation as a physical educati...

Overcoming Shame
... Edith was 54 when she came to see me to get help with her depression. She was a frustrated artist and had suffered two nervous breakdowns in her early twenties which she described as periods of being ...

Releasing Fears and Phobias
... Many of us are annoyed, hindered, or even incapacitated by our fears. Perhaps these fears are generated by frightening childhood incidents such as being bitten by a big, growling dog, or being left cr...

Aromatherapy for the Nervous System
... The nervous system provides the intricate connection between mind and body. As a result of mental or emotional responses, a problem in one area of the body may affect another. For stress in general, t...

Grief/Bereavement
... Grief is a deep sadness or sorrow that results from a loss. The loss can be from something big or small. It can be from something positive or negative. Causes Examples of things that cause grief inclu...

Contacting Your Higher Self
... One of the most important steps in making your creative visualization work effectively and successfully is to have the feeling of being connected with your inner spiritual source. Your spiritual sourc...

Healing Meditations
... Here are some techniques that can be very effective for healing ourselves and others. Healing Ourselves This meditation can help us discover an underlying cause for an ailment and/or begin to release ...

Herbs for Psychological Imbalances
... Herbs and other natural remedies are increasingly called upon as important additions to a total program to help restore emotional and psychological equilibrium in people who have problems in these are...

Psychological Problems: Treating Mind and Body
... Charles Frederick Menninger, M.D., the founder of the famous mental health facility called the Menninger Clinic, was actually a homeopathic physician. He joined the American Institute of Homeopathy i...

Healing with Homeopathy
... Judy had been diagnosed with a thyroid problem a year ago. "Your thyroid is enlarged, with nodules," her endocrinologist told her, and prescribed synthroid. Now the nodules were smaller and her thyro...

The Psychophysiological Approach
... "The Physician should not treat the disease, but the person suffering from it." A brief survey of healing practices throughout history and throughout the present world is both illuminating and though...

A Simple Exercise in Creative Visualization
... Here is an exercise in the basic technique of creative Visualization: First, think of something you would like. For this exercise choose something simple, that you can easily imagine attaining. It mig...

Inside Schizophrenia: Before and After Treatment
... Introduction Early in July 1995, a severely agitated and depressed young woman came into my office. She complained that she was experiencing visual and auditory hallucinations, the voices coming from ...

Indications For the Use of Homeopathic Flower Remedies
... AGRIMONY For those who conceal deep troubles behind a cheerful care-free mask, and rarely wish to impose their personal problems on others. Easily distressed by arguments, they will "give in" just to ...