You may know the kind of flu that comes as a weight rather than a fever. Your arms and legs feel like they’ve got lead in them. The eyelids won’t stay up. A shiver runs up the back and won’t settle. You aren’t thirsty, and you don’t want anyone fussing. Read more
A child comes off the trampoline at the wrong angle. A walker turns an ankle on loose stone, sits down hard, and insists they’re fine. In a lot of homes, the next thing that happens is someone reaches for the Arnica. It’s the remedy Helen reaches for first in her Read more
Introduction Picture a London dinner party in the 1840s. Charles Dickens is at the table. So is William Thackeray. The man keeping the room laughing is a doctor, and one of the best-known wits in London society. His name was Frederic Hervey Foster Quin. He was also the man who Read more
Introduction After more than thirty years of studying and practising homeopathy, Helen Campbell’s remedy kit has been on hill walks, family holidays, long car journeys, and into more kitchens than she can count. It is not a textbook selection. It is the kit that experience built. We asked her to Read more
Introduction The idea that colour heals is not new. It is older than homeopathy, older than Western medicine, older than most things we think of as modern. Egyptian papyri from 1500 BC list colour cures. Their temples were designed so that sunlight passed through coloured crystals, casting specific colours onto Read more
Introduction Most parents notice them suddenly. A repeated eye blink. A shoulder shrug that won’t stop. A throat-clearing sound that happens dozens of times a day. These are tics, and they are far more common in children than most people realise. Up to one in five children will experience a Read more
Introduction In the summer of 1890, Vincent van Gogh arrived in the village of Auvers-sur-Oise, northwest of Paris. He was unwell, fragile, and looking for a doctor who might understand him. The doctor he found was Paul-Ferdinand Gachet. Gachet was a physician who practised homeopathy. He was also a painter, Read more
Introduction Something remarkable has happened in British farming over the last decade, and most people outside agriculture have no idea. Antibiotic use on UK farms has dropped by 57% since 2014. Sales of the most critically important antibiotics, the ones human medicine depends on most, have fallen by 84%. For Read more
Introduction Most dog owners have seen it. The trembling during a thunderstorm. The destroyed cushions after an hour alone. The dog that freezes at the sound of a car engine because something terrible happened near one, once, and the memory never left. Canine anxiety is not rare. A study of Read more
Introduction You’ve been staring at a screen for three hours and your eyes start to sting. You blink, rub them, maybe tilt the screen. It passes. Then it comes back. By the end of the day your vision is slightly blurred, there’s a dull ache behind your eyes, and your Read more
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