Sonia Jones ND from The Haven Spa and Alternative Treatment Clinic Recurrent long-term asthma or bronchitis can result in something known as COAD chronic obstructive airways disease, a narrowing of the lung’s passages. This could also be the end-result to smoking, fumes and industrial pollution. This progressive restriction of the airways leads to shortness of breath...
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Sonia Jones ND from The Haven Spa and Alternative Treatment Clinic Some people find their asthma, or aches and pains get worse or they get a headache after cleaning the house, due to a number of chemicals some people are sensitive to. Once they change to all natural cleaning products many symptoms clear up or...
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Sonia Jones ND from the Haven Spa and Clinic People have been seeing practitioner’s of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for 2000 years. It has certainly stood the test of time. The therapy is based on the idea that the body has a life force, a female and male energy known as Yin and Yang and...
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As you know asthma and eczema are related generally if the is asthma in the family there is eczema. Eczema is an inflammatory condition of the skin, found mainly but not exclusively on the face, wrists, inside the elbows and knees. It can be cracked, dry, weepy, itchy and red in varying degrees of severity. There...
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Sonia Jones ND from the Haven Spa and Alternative Treatment Clinic Shock horror, you have just been told your practitioner cannot see you, as they are too ill to treat you! Even natural practitioners with an excellent life-style, can become pray to modern life and stresses. However, having a bout of illness isn’t always a bad...
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Sonia Jones ND from the Haven Spa and Alternative Treatment Clinic Echinacea has a good reputation for enhancing and boosting the immune function. It was used by the North American natives, to treat fevers and wounds. By the 1930 the herb had become famous for being anti-viral, anti-bacteria, and anti-fungal, and the last 25 years...
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Using herbs to treat and heal is as old as the human race, today 70% of the worlds population still uses this form of therapy. Some of the sickness nations nations in the world have almost abandoned using this type of medicine. The World Health Organization (WHO) promotes the use of Medical Herbalism, and is...
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One of the treatments we do in the spa is really helpful for reducing breathing problems, and encouraging the body to detox. It is also an extremely relaxing treatment which has shown to help the body produce the right chemicals. An aromatherapy wrap can be helpful to people with all sorts of lung and sinus...
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Sonia Jones ND from The Haven Spa and alternative Treatment Clinic Candidia albicans is a fungal organism that lives in our body, when it get out of hand it can cause thrush or multiply in the bowels. When it gets out of control in the bowels, growing long tentacles which latch themselves to the lining...
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Sonia Jones ND from The Haven Spa and Alternative Treatment Clinic It is thought that 1 in 10 people dread the end of winter, due to the misery it causes them, due to hay-fever. First the nose begins to run, the throat becomes itchy and irritated, and finally your eyes water accompanied by sneezing. Problems in spring...
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If you have an allergy to pollen, animals, house dust mite,  or traffic fumes it is pretty much impossible to escape these things entirely unless you live in a bubble. Homeopathy can help, studies carried out some years ago at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary verified this. For 8 weeks patients were given a homeopathic dose...
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Sulphites are used as preservatives, they can release sulphur dioxide into the body, causing irritation and destruction. They preserve colour and inhibit the growth of bacteria and other micro-organisms. Found in many foods and wines plus other alcoholic drinks.  Some people have adverse reactions especially those susceptible are asthma suffers. Symptoms can be – shortness...
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Sonia Jones ND from The Haven Spa and Alternative Treatment Clinic Research done in many countries has shown there is a big problem to asthma suffers from the droppings of domestic dust mites. It is a tiny little creature we can not see. Living in places like North America, Europe, Russia, Australia, and so on. These...
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Sonia Jones ND  from The Haven Spa and Alternative Treatment Clinic There are many headlines declaring chocolate is good for you, it is not quite true in the sense a lot of articles don’t clarify what exactly is meant by chocolate. Most people eat chocolate bars and this month there will be plenty of chocolate...
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Sonia Jones ND from The Haven Spa and Alternative Treatment Clinic. Horseradish It grows to about 30cm tall, with large shiny tooth-edge leaves and swollen roots. It comes from the same family as mustard and cress and is rich in sulfur. Horseradish contains a compound called sinigrin, which acts as a decongestant. In Japan it is...
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Sonia Jones ND To reduce inflammation, it is essential to eat the right types of fat. These essential fatty acids also encourage the metabolism, speed up healing and so much more. There are omega-6 fatty acids and omega-3 fatty acids. We need approximately a balance between 2:1 of omega-6 to omega-3. In the typical diet these days...
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Mark Perren-Jones (Adv.D.App.SC.Acu, Rem.Ther) Acupuncture is an ancient technique that has been around for thousands of years however it is still not certain exactly how it works. One thing the experts do agree on though is that it does work. It has been proven time and time again, with scientific studies all around the...
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Sonia Jones ND It has been noted that many asthma suffers improve if they get well hydrated, when they drink hydrating fluids and remove dehydrating fluids. Research shows that so many people are dehydrated – for those that are susceptible it can make asthma worse. Every function in the body is totally reliant on getting enough...
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