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Issue 76 May 2002

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Healing Energy Disturbances with Encryptograms by Nicholas Biggins Encryptagrams are flat images varying from credit card to dinner place mat in size. Each flat image is made up of coloured patterns. There are eight Encryptagram patterns, each mounted on flexible magnetic ferrite material, similar to that which is used to make fridge magnets.

Energy Medicine Self-Healing Tools by Ray Wilson Throughout history, people have created shapes and designs that can attract and channel energies, like the Great Pyramids of Egypt, beautiful patterned mazes, complex and compelling mandalas and ancient stone circles. Why did people create these shapes and designs? Do they have special properties that can help us today?

Mercury Amalgam Fillings – Removal & Detoxification by Catherine M Crawford With a grand total of 13 fillings collected over some 38 years, I have been absorbing mercury in ever increasing amounts daily via different routes: chewing food; having hot drinks; breathing in the vapour; swallowing the saliva containing mercury; chewing of gum in my teenage years.

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The Craniosacral Approach to Essential Health by Michael Kern Exploring the principles behind craniosacral therapy, which was developed by Dr William Sutherland and is rooted in osteopathy.

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A Vision for Reiki Healing by Joan Hitchco The author, a Usui Tradition Reiki Master/Teacher, explains how she discovered the power of Reiki - meaning 'universal life force energy' - can be harnessed to clear blockages, bring back balance and harmony within the mind, body and spirit, and effect healing.

Properties of Good Quality Essential Oils by Lowana Veal The author offers useful advice on how to choose a good quality, unadulterated oil by examining the Latin names given, specific components listed, country of origin, part of the plant used, price, batch number, GC/MS readout, 'best before' date, labelling and organic alternatives.

Adaptogen - Eleutherococcus Senticosus Maxim Shrub by Dr Moira Williams Medically trained Dr Williams focuses on the most renowned and most widely researched adaptogen, Eleutherococcus senticosus maxim, a shrub whose root has been found to enhance the body's ability to cope with internal and external stressors without harmful side effects. 

Clinical Hypnotherapy for Irritable Bowel Syndrome by Michael Mahoney Research conducted over the last few years has shown hypnotherapy to be particularly effective in treating conditions of the digestive system such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), as well as in controlling nausea and pain.

Regular contributors and listings

Editorial by Sandra Goodman, Ph.D.

A Glimpse of the Psyche Who Me? by Beata Bishop

The Art & Science of Reflexology Back Conditions and Holism by Mary Martin

Nutrition for Health Breast Cancer: Helping the Healer to Heal Herself by Judith Price

Mind the Body; Embody the Mind The Bone-Eaters  by Joël Carbonnel

Case Studies Crystal Healing by Caroline Lawrie

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Letters to the Editor

Research Database Updates –  Alternative Medicine; Cancer; Heart Disease; Herbal Medicine; Nutritional Status; Pain; Stress/Meditation; Women's Health.

Training Colleges, Schools and Centres  UK     US

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