This form of filtration is only available in plumbed-in units. It uses a membrane with microscopic holes in it that only water molecules can get through. Tap water is held in one chamber and water molecules slowly seep out into the other. It removes the vast majority of organic pollutants (but see below), and takes [...]

Vegetables Celery, fennel and celeriac Avocado pears Lettuce Swede (can be eaten raw, grated, in salads, as well as cooked) Watercress Spinach Alfalfa sprouts Okra (also called bhindi, or ladies’ fingers) Asparagus Meat and fish Turkey Duck Goose Rabbit Pheasant or other game Lamb Fish (except smoked fish and shellfish) Fruit Gooseberries Blackcurrants Redcurrants Bananas [...]

The more allergens a baby is exposed to during the first year of life, the more likely it is to develop allergies. The first three months are much the most crucial. Airborne allergens are just as important as food allergens for the high-risk child, and reducing exposure to the main ones may help your child [...]

This is a typical day in the life of a hyperactive child, as described by an exhausted mother to Dr Doris Rapp, a paediatrician working in Buffalo, New York: ‘In the morning Matthew was stuffy and tired. He was cranky and would get upset over homework not done, cry, call himself stupid, and pester his [...]

Another of our cultural myths is that the past is a perfect guide to what we should eat. Hence the common criticism of ideas about food intolerance: ‘Surely foods that have been eaten for thousands of years can’t cause serious health problems – if they did it would have been noticed before.’ In fact, experience [...]

The alpine plant is usually richer in its constituents and medicinal value than its lowland relative. I have proved this for myself through analysis. For example, the lowland yarrow contains less essential oil and is less aromatic than the highland yarrow from the Engadine, the Lower Engadine to be exact. Mind you, it may be [...]

Young people often suffer from pustules all over the face and on the back. The condition may be attributable to a disturbance in the internal hormone secretions and especially associated with the sex glands. At the same time, an external bacterial infection -mainly staphylococci or streptococci – may also be diagnosed. This unpleasant condition usually [...]

As the expression indicates, a dead tooth is completely lifeless. Since it can no longer be regenerated, bacteria are able to form pus and abscesses. It may seem strange, however, that pain, or a toothache, is not always felt. An X-ray picture will disclose the presence of a granuloma full of bacteria at the root [...]

Then there is the time spent in caring for the patient and the deep sympathy felt for his suffering. Both are a strain on the energy reserves, apart from the shattering experience of the loved one’s eventual death, the resulting loss being difficult to bear. The feeling of loneliness after decades of companionship can be [...]

‘Now I can watch television for hours without any difficulty, participate quite normally in conversations, and I read a lot.’ Letters like this one from our Belgian patient are indeed encouraging. They show that if we support nature it has the power to bring about a regeneration even in serious cases of illness. The patient [...]