HEALTH CONSULTATIONS

What happens in a consultation?

  When visiting a herbalist for the first time, a detailed case history will be taken. As well as discussing your current health a herbalist will want to know about your diet, lifestyle and family history to determine any inherited health patterns. This comprehensive information enables the herbalist to decide on the best form of treatment and to prioritise the most important issues. A herbal medicine specifically tailored to each client's need will be prescribed often in conjunction with vitamins, minerals, dietary advice or other food supplements. Usually this consultation will take 1 – 1.5 hours.

  Common complaints such as skin conditions, colds, flu, cystitis, digestive problems, insomnia right through to complaints of a more serious nature such as depression, inflammatory diseases, arthritis, circulatory diseases, gynaecological problems, blood pressure, and hormonal problems.

  Because stress plays a major role in a lot of diseases, part of the consultation will involve looking at relationship with self and significant others, your work situation and general feeling about life ….any emotional issues that might be contributing to the physical problems.

Medicines are prepared solely from plants - leaves, roots, barks, berries and oils, and are dispensed as fluid extracts, tinctures, creams, ointments, and herbal teas.

How Herbalism Works

  Herbalism is the name given to the use of plant remedies to bring about physical healing. This information has been passed down for centuries through many different cultures and is today supplemented by our knowledge of anatomy, physiology and pathology.

  The physiological actions of plant drugs are still being discovered and understood. Sometimes they work directly on symptoms and in other cases, herbs act as a general tonic to a particular body system. Other herbs are referred to as “adaptogens” which enhance the body's ability to respond to all kinds of stress. Herbs are very complex organic packages which have been carefully balanced by nature and even the simplest herb will have many different actions in the body. Although herbs can work symptomatically, a herbalist will always be looking at the body as a whole and working to address the underlying causes of any problem.

Metaphysics

  Many people are now looking beyond simply physical causes and possible remedies for dis-ease states, re-discovering the knowledge that we are affected by many aspects of the unseen world – energy, gemstones, colour, belief systems, inherited time-risk factors, astrology, the integrity of the aura and inner urgings of our soul. The opportunity to explore these subtle forces as part of a total wellness programme is optional for those wanting to go deeper in their healing journey. Bach Flower Essences and White Light Essences along with Counselling or Mentoring will provide the opportunity for emerging emotional issues to be safely acknowledged and transformed.

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