Uta Mittelstadt

Chestnuts/Aesculus – one for food, one for medicine

Are you fearful of flying or boarding a plane? There is gentle help!

Spring is here, and whether or not a vacation is already booked or only just in planning, it is likely to involve travel. Unfortunately for some the travel to the distant retreat or exotic destination can involve anxiety, sickness or jetlag, which can reduce much of the joy associated with the upcoming vacation, or canContinue reading “Are you fearful of flying or boarding a plane? There is gentle help!”

Blood-letting with leeches- an ancient practice celebrating a revival – in particular for circulatory complaints

As part of the ancient ‘mainstream’ medical practices that have existed since antiquity, Hirudo-therapy, as a form of blood-letting to cure patients of ailments and diseases, has, throughout the millennia, been used to treat almost any infliction with illness. Only with the birth of what we today define as conventional medicine, has the medicinal useContinue reading “Blood-letting with leeches- an ancient practice celebrating a revival – in particular for circulatory complaints”