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Our Practitioner of the Season is... Stuart Ainis

Stuart is a Skilled Therapeutic Massage Therapist who has been practicing from the HNC clinic since its opening in 1999. Stuart’s therapy is firm and his acupressure techniques are second to none.

The acupressure points used in his therapy are to free blocked    meridians which causes pain in the muscles. The pain felt when firm pressure is applied is an indication of how much blocked chi (energy) there is in the meridians of the body. Stuart’s therapy is a neuroholistic massage therapy which treats all levels of the body which includes physical, mental & spiritual aspects of our well-being.

Stuart also has a diverse range of other professions within the health and fitness service sector. Stuart is a Sports Trainer for the Manly Seaeagles Rugby League Club which further assists with his treatment of sporting ailments & therapeutic relief for professional sports people.

Stuart is also a personal trainer who assists individuals to achieve any level of fitness, his techniques of achieving this are modified to suit the clients needs.

Stuart is a qualified swim instructor and is also a Life Guard at the Leichhardt Aquatic Centre. Stuart offers lessons to learn to swim through to stroke correction. Lessons are available in private pools only.

Yet another one of Stuarts professions within the health and fitness sector is within NSW TAFE as a fitness teacher. Stuart teaches courses to those who are interested in becoming a fitness teacher.

So please do not hesitate to contact the clinic as you require any or all of Stuart’s knowledge of the health and fitness sector. 

The Essential Oils Spotlight… Vervain

This common herb can help many conditions from water retention to poor appetite. The Romans called it the “herb of grace” and gave it to soldiers during wartime to protect them against the enemy. Young girls gave   vervain to their lovers to keep their affections warm.

Vervain also has healing qualities and is used to combat a range of nervous and digestive disorders including:

• Muscle Strain Vervain is a good painkiller. A warm poultice helps soothe sprains and eases muscular and rheumatic symptoms.

• Beating the Chills The symptoms of a cold can be eased by sipping warm vervain tea, due to its mild antiseptic qualities. As well as
  soothing a sore throat, vervain promotes gentle perspiration,     ridding the body of toxins. Infuse the fresh herb in a tea pot for 10 minutes or use tea bags. Adding a little cinnamon, honey and lemon will enhance the healing process.

• Migraine Relief  Vervain can assist with migraine relief and for the best results add some vervain essential oil to your bath.

• To lift your mood long winter months can bring you down, and it seems that vervain can help to relieve anxiety and reduce depression.

• Good Digestion Vervain help to stimulate the liver and enhance the digestive process. Heavy food can lead to a sluggish liver, which
  consequently causes lethargy, vervain can intervene and help to stimulate your liver.

Consult our Aroma therapist is your have any further enquiries or concerns about vervain essential oil.

Pure Health 2001

Cases where a Medical Clearance is needed

We recommend that you seek your doctors advice prior to a massage consultation if you suffer from the following conditions;

• Acromegally

• Alzheimer’s Disease

• Ankylosing Spondylitis

• Cancer

• Candidiasis (systemic)

• Chorea

• Diabetes

• Guillain Barre Syndrome

• Heart Attack

• Hepatitis B

• Hodgkin’s Disease

• Hypertension

• Martan’s Syndrome

• Pyelonephritis (if not completely healed)

• Stroke

• Underlying Cardiac Disease

• Septic Arthritis (f not completely healed)

• TB

• Kidney Stones

These conditions pose a serious burden on your health which is why it is recommended that you seek you doctors advice.

Natascha Stark

History of Flower Essences

The concept of Flower Essences healing was the result of emotional, spiritual and mental harmony. It was found that as a patient’s psychological imbalances were treated their physical disturbances disappeared also.

Consequently, physical complaints were viewed merely as a symptom of a deeper emotional or spiritual imbalance. This concept embodies the philosophy of the healing modality of flower essences.

A flower essence is obtained by extracting the healing quality from the highest evolved part of the plant - the flowers. Cultures all over the world, including the Egyptians, Australian Aborigines, Asian and South American inhabitants have been doing this for centuries.

Until the mid 19th century, people in many countries were familiar with the emotional healing qualities of the plants and flowers growing around them. This is evident in Europe through the literature on the language of flowers, where the emotions associated with each specific flower were listed.

Today, we still see remnants of this system with roses associated with love, rosemary with remembrance and white lilies with grief. The Flower Essences have been further developed resulting a resurgence of flower essence development around the globe.

Today flower essences are a powerful catalyst for helping people to heal by bringing them into emotional, spiritual and mental harmony. This healing is achieved by resolving a vast range of negative emotional states.

Flower essences harmonise negative feelings and brief patterns held in the subconscious mind and are very specific in the issues that they address. The essence can assist by working through and resolving problems and imbalances.

They can also help to give an understanding of why these difficulties come about in the first place and what needs to be done to clear them, by unleashing the positive healing qualities inherent in everyone. The essences allow people to develop their intuitive abilities by turning inwards to get in touch with their higher self.

Well Being Issue 96
 

Combat addiction through acupuncture

According to the Archives of Internal Medicine, researches at the Yale University School of Medicine have concluded that ear acupuncture is effective in the treatment of cocaine addiction. The study involved 82 cocaine addicts who were on a stable dose of methadone.

The participants were randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups: the first received an acupuncture treatment five times weekly for two months. The second group received ‘dummy’ acupuncture treatments, where the needles were inserted in ‘inactive’ points in the ears, while the third group watched relaxing videos and listened to meditation tapes.

The result? Participants in group one were three times more likely to be cocaine -free at the end of the trail period that the others.

Nature & Health 2004

Stay Healthy This Winter -

& beat the flu season

Winter gets a bad rap. It's called the flu season, the cold season, and the season when contagious diseases abound. Yet, winter doesn't have to be this way. Winter is actually the best season to improve immunity. It's not a weakening season if you know how to strengthen immunity.

To understand how to improve immunity in the winter season, you first need to understand a unique Ayurveda concept of immunity. The ayurvedic word for immunity is ‘strength’ and this goes far beyond the Western concept of physical immunity. Besides physical immunity, it includes psychological immunity, spiritual immunity and provides endurance against any disturbance to these areas.

In ayurvedic terms, immunity is connected with the digestion. When digestion is strong and appetite is good, then immunity is strengthened. Whatever weakens digestion weakens immunity.

Raising your immunity can be achieved through eating healthy foods, lifestyle changes and rest.  People associate winter with having diminished immunity as appetite increases, people start eating more junk food and heavy, hard to digest foods, and thus weaken their immunity. But it's important to understand that we are creating the bad immunity, not that nature is giving us that.

If you have good dietary guidelines and lifestyles for each season, including winter, you can develop an established, permanent state of immunity, when sickness is no longer a threat. This is the higher level of immunity, a state without disease is what one desires to achieve.

So this winter, try giving your immunity a shot in the arm -and spend the cold season staying warm and healthy.

Did you know?

That the colour of a tablet can play a

significant role in its effectiveness.

A recent study at the University of Amsterdam found that people tend to think that yellow, orange and red tablets will have a stimulating effect and that green and blue colours will be more calming. After taking placebo pills the study found that 72% of people said that the blue tablets made them feel sleepy compared to only 37% of people responding that the pink ones made them feel sleepy.

Nature & Health 2004

 
Giorgio Repeti will be returning briefly

to Haberfield on a break from his busy work schedule in New York and will be available for appointments from mid September through until the beginning of October. Call the Clinic to arrange appointments.

Hannya Medical College

Have you ever considered doing a course in natural therapy?
Well if you have, don’t delay it any longer as Hannya Medical College is taking enrolments now for the following courses commencing in September

• Hannya Holistic Herbal System Course - an intensive herbal course designed to demonstrate the healing power of nature herbs       

• The Hannya Massage Statement of Attainment Course - a four week intensive massage course providing students with the foundation knowledge of massage principles and the unique Hannya Massage application.

Interested parties are invited to visit our website hannyamedicalcollege.com or call (02) 9797 0422 for further information.

Written and compiled by Debbie Stride

Edited by Rosa Ghidella

Copyright © 2004 Haberfield Naturopathic Centre.