Five Kogi Indians in Europe for a diagnosis of the Earth's health
The meeting was organised by the Tchendukua - Ici et Ailleurs association, founded in 1997 by Eric Julien and Jacqueline Bac. Its mission is to restore to the indigenous Kogi people their ancestral lands in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia.500 years after the arrival of the conquistadores in Colombia (1523), a historic dialogue is underway to broaden our view of the world and care for the Earth together. The Rhône basin was the main site for the study of this diagnosis, called "Shik...
October 23, 2023Study shows integrative doctors heed antibiotic warnings
The World Health Organisation (WHO) again warned about high rates of antibiotic resistance. It has noted that a growing number of infections, such as pneumonia, tuberculosis, gonorrhoea and salmonellosis are becoming harder to treat.Yet prescription rates of antibiotics continue to exceed what is clinically justified, especially in Respiratory Tract Infections (RTIs).It seems that changing the long-ingrained behaviour of medical practitioners may prove an uphill battle.But a study in the B...
March 3, 2023Proposals for prevention and treatment of light and early forms of Covid-19
Our series of articles looks at the different stages of Covid-19 prevention and treatment, which help us understand the type of interventions that would be helpful. Most interventions of course require the help of your doctor and/or naturopathic doctor. Integrative medicine physicians are more likely to have studied nutrition, micronutrients, homeopathy (in some countries) and plant-bases therapeutics, which may be useful in reducing inflammation and supporting the immune system. The autho...
December 17, 2020"Deep Health is connecting with the universe, with the earth, with the plants, at a deeper level than physical"
Dr Denise Furness is a molecular geneticist, medical researcher, public speaker and author. Dr. Furness is particularly passionate about helping couples achieve optimum health and wellness to improve their chances for natural conception and healthy pregnancy outcomes. In addition, she holds regular educational seminars and workshops discussing the links between our genes and our environment and how these impact on our health throughout all the stages of the life cycle. Dr. Denise Furness l...
July 7, 2020Covid-19: The Way Forward
By Dr Penny Caldicott, President Australasian Integrative Medicine Association "Health is 16-18% dependent on medical care and 80% dependent on cultural and social determinants," recalls Dr. Penny Caldicott. In the same way for the Covid-19 crisis, we focused on the virus but what does this crisis show us about our political, economic, scientific, educational, health, and economic systems? What are the possibilities of evolution?Dr. Penny Caldicott invites us to break down our siloed...
June 19, 2020Proposals to improve your well-being and lifestyle as we move out of confinement
By P. Caldicott, C. de Bartha, B. Milbert et S. Scheffer, Doctors of medecine, C. Laurant, Anthropologist PhD, and H. Zaphiriou-Zarifi, psychoanalyst The containment imposed by most states to protect the most vulnerable (especially the elderly) and to avoid overloading intensive care services is gradually being phased out. This period required a fringe of the population to work more intensively (hospitals, teleworking in different companies/associations, while managing the family at home, etc.);...
May 17, 2020The pineal gland, essential and multifunctional
By Dr. Sophie Scheffer, general practitioner Endowed with exceptional properties by René Descartes or Hindu mythology, the pineal gland has benefited from recent scientific research which seems to corroborate these ancient intuitions. So, what does this tiny gland do? Measuring 8 mm, the pineal gland, also known as the epiphysis, is the smallest gland in the human body. It owes its name to its conical shape similar to a tiny pinecone. Located in the middle of the brain, it plunges into th...
January 16, 2020A consequence of pollution: Lyme disease
Formerly an airline pilot, Judith Albertat is a naturopath and has been dedicated for the past 10 years to deepening her knowledge and understanding of Lyme disease, from which she herself suffered. More generally, she is interested in chronic diseases, whose growth is promoted by our toxic environment. This lecture by Judith Albertat was recorded during the symposium "Choose the Living" organized by the Denis Guichard Foundation in Paris on April 14, 2018....
April 25, 2019The impact of Harmonization on children’s behaviours and learnings in a primary school
Whenever she is confronted with first graders, Birgit von der G., primary school teacher, notices the tremendous differences between the pupils: "some are vocally enthusiastic at the prospect of finally being in school, while others sit motionless and look at me anxiously. Some are unable to sit still and listen, while others pay absolutely no attention to what I’m trying to teach them and instead focus intensely on their neighbours..." Retain children’s inner openness Birgit von der G. has ...
February 1, 2019Dr Bruce Lipton inspires at integrative health conference
Attendees at this year’s Australasian Integrative Medicine Association conference in Auckland, New Zealand were wowed by an opening presentation by world – leading biologist, Dr Bruce Lipton. Dr Lipton’s presentation took a riveting journey through medicine, from its early origins, through Newtonian science and into the world of Quantum physics. A passionate pioneer of the new biology and epigenetics, Dr Lipton emphasised that medicine must now be relevan...
January 25, 2019The memory of water
By Dr Béatrice Milbert, General Practitioner. The first person to speak about the memory of water was Jacques Benveniste, - but his theory concerning the memory of water essentially caused the end of his career. Having brought an extraordinary light to the mysterious aspects of homeopathy and opened the way to new uses for our classical pharmacopeia, Jacques Benveniste found himself deprived of his position as Director of Research at INSERM (French National Institute of Health and Medical ...
March 10, 2018What’s new on the amazing life of plants?
By Claire Laurant, ethnobotanist These days we hear a lot about the intelligence, memory and sensitivity of plants. Recent scientific research reveals the astonishing properties of certain species. Let’s not forget that the fundamental characteristics of plants are already quite extraordinary… Using the intermediary of the sun’s energy, they are able to transform CO2 into absorbable substances which are necessary to their vitality (sugars). Certain species do the same with gaseou...
December 9, 2017A farmer saves his crops from a devastating virus with... music!
Read the whole article by Mathilde Golla (in French) in Le Figaro Economie Extract Gilles Josuan grows courgettes in the South of France. Ten years ago, his plants were contaminated by the Mosaic Virus. He decided not to tear up the whole crop, the only solution recommended by conventional agriculture. "I visited the site of Genodics, who instead propose healing plants with proteins of music! I had nothing to lose, so I gave it a try", says the farmer, who cultivates 40 hectares under...
December 9, 2017Homeopathy in oncology: a contribution to the quality of life and patient healing
Many people afflicted by cancer turn to "supportive care" in order better to manage the shock of the illness and its treatments - operation, chemo or radiotherapy. Homeopathy is the remedial care most frequently used to attenuate fatigue, anxiety, the side effects of the treatments or the decrease of immunity. We talk about this with Dr Sophie Scheffer, general practitioner and homeopath in Limal, Belgium. ...
October 26, 2017The power of the touch therapy to help patients in distress
By Dominique Neuilly, General Practitioner. In my work as a physician in a psychiatric hospital, I am regularly confronted with patients' psychic difficulties (somatisation) and with their physical problems. This is often due to secondary effects of psychotropic medications (obesity, diabetes) or addictive behaviour (alcohol, drugs). Many of these patients become trapped in a repeating cycle, with regular relapses and re-hospitalisations. I began to realise there was a ‘missing link’ ...
September 16, 2017A fair go for homeopathy
By Dr Penny Caldicott, President of the Australasian Integrative Medicine Association. A 2015 Australian report on homeopathy wasn't particularly good news for at least 200 million consumers worldwide who use homeopathic remedies. Or for the new wave of integrative medicine physicians who combine the best of conventional medicine with evidence-based complementary therapies. The homeopathy review, by the Australian Government's National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) stated " The...
June 23, 2017The cost of a polluted environment: 1.7 million child deaths a year, says WHO
A new report, Inheriting a Sustainable World: Atlas on Children's Health and the Environment reveals that a large portion of the most common causes of death among children aged 1 month to 5 years – diarrhoea, malaria and pneumonia – are preventable by interventions known to reduce environmental risks, such as access to safe water and clean cooking fuels. A companion report, Don't pollute my future! The impact of the environment on children's health, provides a comprehensive overview of the...
March 16, 2017Stress – the underlying sickness of our civilisation
By Dr Sophie Scheffer, Centre Epidaure, Belgium. Acute, adaptive stress is necessary for our survival. But often, and particularly in our Western life style, stress becomes repetitive and a daily, debilitating occurrence. Stress is a response adapted by the organism in order to deal with danger or a demanding situation. The body switches to a state of extreme vigilance so as to evaluate very quickly what it needs to do. It also activates, the autonomic nervous system, which handles the me...
December 9, 2016Are all plants medicinal?
By Claire Laurant, Ethnobotanist, France. About 350,000 different species of plants have been recorded across the planet. Most of our chemical medicines copy molecules of herbal drugs, but are unable to reproduce the complex therapeutic action of a medicinal plant. Plants have the same cellular composition as humans and animals, and have similar enzymatic reactions. Lichens, mosses, and horsetails appeared in the Primary era and their decomposition fertilized the soil to produce humus. Without p...
November 30, 2016Air pollution on the rise
It is the silent killer. As societies become more industrialised we put more pressure on the planet. But the completion of that 'vicious circle' is when this pressure comes back on us, as an additional health burden. Outdoor air pollution is a classic example - it has risen 8% in the last 5 years and according to WHO, the impact on health is also rising. WHO collected data from 3,000 cities around the world and while the health impacts of rising pollution are worst in fast-growing countr...
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