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  • The Science Of Complementary Medicine

     Recent TrendsFour out of ten Americans were using alternative-medicine and not telling their doctors(1). Chinese herbal medicine helped people with Irritable Bowel Syndrome(2). A ketogenic diet decreased intractable seizures in children(3) But according to other researches, Echinacea extracts did not prevent upper respiratory infections(4) and chiropractic manipulations did not improve episodic-tension-type headaches.More

  • Hypnosis, Meditation and Imagery

     In the western world people are comparatively comfortable with ‘hypnosis’. In the east the word ‘meditation’ does not raise any eyebrows. Hypnosis has been used mainly for ‘directed healing’.More

  • Emotions and Health- Is There A Connection?

     Health is defined as a condition of physical, mental and social well- being and the absence of disease or other abnormal condition. According to some forms of traditional medicine practices, an ill condition develops because the individual has violated a course that Nature wants them to follow. Whenever, the body’s natural rhythm is disturbed in some form, the body responds to undo the disturbance.More

  • Alternatives In Mental Health

     "Health" and "illness" are contrasting terms. They can be used in physical or in mental context. We know that physical exercise done on a regular basis keeps us healthy.More

  • Healing Power Of Hypnosis-Fact and Fiction

     A group of young doctors were once fascinated by the presentation a hypnotherapist was giving them. At question time, one of them asked the therapist to show how the subjects were hypnotised. The hypnotherapist broke their trance by making them aware of their focused attention to what he was saying.More

  • Cognitive Therapy - Why it does not Work in Every Psychological Condition

     A lady was once referred for treatment for emotional distress. This distress had resulted from unpleasant memories of having undergone sexual abuse. In her case cognitive therapy had been unhelpful, Her own opinion was that cognitive therapy did not address the anger and fear that she was feeling strongly .More

  • Emotional Issues Behind Insomnia

     Insomnia is a common condition seen by family physicians. The usual short-term treatment for it is medication that involves hypnotics. These medications are habit-forming drugs and with long usage people can become dependent on them.More

  • Psychiatry - llnesses or Conditions

     John was a highly intelligent young boy. With higher than average intelligence, he was also emotionally sensitive. He was obviously a handful for his parents because they did not know how to deal with him.More

  • Depression- Self Help With Meditation

     A young lady I had seen, suffered with Post-Natal Depression. She was advised to take antidepressant medication for an indefinite period of time by her psychiatrist. She wanted to have another baby but was advised strongly against it because of the medication and the possibility of having depression again if she had another baby.More

  • Depression = Anger + Grief + Trauma

     Many years ago, when I started my psychiatric training in Europe, I realized that mental illnesses happen to those people who are not allowed to work through their emotional issues. It was then an acknowledged scientific fact that stress events in life triggered depression and other psychiatric conditions. But how does unexpressed emotions turn into an ‘illness’ is something that mainstream medicine still has difficulty with.More