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A … psik! Cheers. Cheers! That’s the thing about the runny nose.

A … psik! Hearing “Cheers!” resounding around you, you think to yourself, “What health, as I just have a runny nose”. What does a runny nose have to do with our health? Is a runny nose something good for our body? Do you block up a runny nose? Do you dry it out? The runny nose starts, you feel that tingling in your nose. Already a clear discharge is pouring

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A painful ailment of our “three letters”

An embarrassing and … painful ailment. I will share with you some tips on how to deal with bleeding nodules called haemorrhoids, which have sprung up … on top of us. Female, 42 years old, sedentary, office job. Little exercise. Vegetarian diet. Regular bowel movements (i.e. daily). Circulatory disorders (according to TMCh – blood stasis). She has had problems with haemorrhoids before, but never so severe. What happened? The nodules

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Chocolate and happiness, how chocolate chemistry works

The secret of chocolate’s happy power lies in the cocoa bean. And what’s in the beans? Some difficult words with easy sounds and good effects: Theobromine Caffeine Anandamide And a few others Caffeine, what it is and its effects, everyone knows. Everyone who likes and drinks coffee. And theobromine? It is also an alkaloid that can: – Stimulate heart activity and dilate blood vessels. – Influence the activity of the

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Streetwaves – herbal meeting

The ‘Find a Neighbour’ campaign came to an end on Sunday. And it wasn’t about missing people, it was about friends. Clusters of neighbours took to the streets and, as part of Streetwaves 2015, flowed in waves to the Valley of Joy too. I had the great pleasure of meeting them. And they were happy to talk to me about herbs. Our, very tiny, neighbours. Sometimes passed by, trampled on,

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