Editorial Issue 178 |
PH Online's 17th year of publication since 1994. Everyone who knows and is in contact with me will agree that as each issue is worked and slaved on (there is truly a huge amount of material in each issue), I will invariably state that this is a great issue. Of course I would say that, wouldn't I, since guess who commissions the features, selects the Research Updates, publishes the letters, book reviews and so on? So perhaps that is as it should be.
Here we are on the cusp of another New Year - 2011 - which will make it Positive Health I get to look back to issues from previous years, particularly when, out of the blue, I am emailed with a request from a practitioner or publisher to reprint a particular article sometimes from one of the first issues of PH Online. It is at these times that I realize how relevant is the content on PH Online - even 10-15 years later. Some 3,000 articles, many thousands of research updates - and still in date and useful. However, nothing makes one more humble in the face of life's curve balls, and health or illness more real, than to be suddenly afflicted with a condition which doesn't respond to usual remedies, and which causes life to become a misery with no certainty regarding the resolution of symptoms. We are not speaking here of life threatening conditions like heart attack, stroke, cancer and the like. Rather, more mundane excruciatingly niggling, annoying complaints such as itching, restless legs, shingles post herpetic nerve pain and tmj pain. Or, as happened to one of PH Online's Expert Columnists, a practitioner fell and injured her shoulder and had to cease working as a practitioner for several months while undergoing physiotherapy and bodywork to heal her injury. It doesn't help either that, as a practitioner, one is an 'expert', knowledgeable and veritably fully read on the condition, its causes, multiple treatment options and inevitable prognoses. That is why I think it so important to attempt to include the widest ranging articles, research, case studies, book reviews and letters, as well as the promotional Brief Takes and Short Features, because despite the fact that we are in the 21st century, the cure and solution to many of life's health problems are simply not available. This issue publishes features across a wide spectrum of subjects - Naturopathy - Living Medicine, NLP for Depression, Presenting the Case for Complementary Medicine, Home Birth Choices for Expectant Mothers, Chronic Fatigue - Immune Modulation, Cellular Nourishment, Mercury Toxicity, Phytomedicine for Herpes Zoster (Shingles), Causal Healing and Gentle and Natural Birth Induction. The authors of these features are, without exception, practitioners of long clinical experience. As is usual, there are also nuggets of gold within the Research Updates, including the review under Cancer from Sun et al from Chengdu Medical College, Chengdu, China, regarding berberine - an alkaloid in medical plants used in traditional Chinese Medicine. www.positivehealth.com/research-list.php?subjectid=49 "Natural products represent a rich reservoir of potential small chemical molecules exhibiting antiproliferation and anticancer properties. An example is berberine, a protoberberine alkaloid widely distributed in medical plants used in traditional Chinese prescriptions. "Recent advances have shown that berberine exerts anticancer activities both in vitro and in vivo through different mechanisms. The Letters page contains an invaluable resource - courtesy of Orthomolecular Medicine News Service This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- regarding the use of Vitamin C for Nutritional physicians, including a
vast wisdom clinical expertise from the most experienced clinicians
worldwide, as well as a resource bibliography with web links to die for.
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