Cathy's Healing Hands!
My Weekly|December 01,2018

The Casualty legend loves to practise her healing powers on family and friends…

Sue Crawford
Cathy's Healing Hands!

She’s spent the best part of 30 years playing Casualty’s warm-hearted nurse Duffy – but it’s not just on-screen that Cathy Shipton is a dab hand at dishing out healing advice.

The actress has always had a keen interest in fitness and health – few people know that she is actually a qualified aerobics instructor. But over recent years she’s also developed a passion for homeopathy and alternative medicines, so much so that her Casualty colleagues jokingly nicknamed her Witchy-poo.

“I’d say, ‘Try this and see if it works,’ and they’d go, ‘oh my God, my cough has gone,’ or ‘my headache has gone,’” Cathy says. “I can also do acupuncture and I can get rid of people’s headaches with acupressure.

“My mum had a crushed pelvis and I gave her Symphytum and Arnica, and she was up and about and walking, and lived five years after her crushed pelvis. Doctors couldn’t believe it. I can do all sorts!

“I should trace my ancestry, because Old Mother Shipton was a white witch who lived in Knaresborough in the 15th century, so I don’t know if we were related.”

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