Natural Medicine South Africa - January/February 2018

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This issue we’re celebrating our 150th issue! We look at enhancing memory retention, remedies every home should have, bone health, detoxing. We also take a look at the nasties in your cleaning products and cosmetics, the sunscreen minefield and how to spice up your sex life.

Coconut - Water, Milk & Oil

Coconuts are synonymous with island life – palm trees with huge coconuts swaying in a light breeze along a sandy coastline.

2 mins

Genes To Plate

– nutrition made personal

5 mins

Spice Up Your Sex Life

Herbs and spices have been used for centuries for their healing and health-boosting properties. A number of herbs and spices are recognised as aphrodisiacs. An aphrodisiac is a food, drink or substance that increases sexual desire. This can be accomplished through a number of ways, such as reducing stress, increasing blood fl ow, or positively affecting neurotransmitters – all of which are able to improve your libido!

4 mins

Healthy & Hearty Lunch Box Ideas

Feeding children a wholesome, nourishing meal at school has never been more important.

4 mins

Every Dog Has Its Day!

Dog-lover Ann Gadd digs into what acceptable dogwalking behaviour on SA beaches entails, and offers advice on how to make your pooch a top (beach) dog.

5 mins

Eyes Right!

Taking care of our eyes in our modern world also requires attention to the environment, lifestyle factors and nutrition.

5 mins

The Sunscreen Product Minefield

Dr Sandi Nye‘Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it.’ ~ Mary Schmich, 1997

4 mins

Discover Beauty Products Containing Indigenous - African Botanicals

Many indigenous African botanical extracts are blessings in disguise, for all manner of purposes and uses, from therapeutic to cosmetic. These brief comments highlight some of the topical cosmetic benefits.

2 mins

How The Bach Flower Essences And Tissue Salts Relate To Astrology

‘It is better to hide my pain from pretentious physicians, perhaps I will be cured from the “Treasury of the Invisible”.’ ~ the Persian poet Hafiz

6 mins

Chronicillness​ – A Four-phase Journey To A New Life

Learning to accept and live with chronic illness isn’t easy. This four-phase model provides helpful guidelines.

5 mins

Les alle historiene fra Natural Medicine South Africa

Natural Medicine South Africa Magazine Description:

For more than 15 years, Natural Medicine has been dedicated to inspiring and guiding the general public and practitioners across all modalities on the uses and benefits of complementary and integrative medicine.

A panel of independent experts, consisting of doctors and other healthcare professionals, write our objective, specialist articles from practical experience. As a result, Natural Medicine delivers the industry’s most credible information.

As people across multiple demographic groups become increasingly aware of the benefits of a healthy lifestyle, we see a growing trend toward self-medication and increased confidence in natural products, which are led by well-known brands.