Complementary medicine has shown to be just as effective as conventional drugs for managing chronic illnesses, according to research out of France. The ‘EPI3 study’ looked at 8,559 French patients who were being treated for a range of conditions including asthma […]

In May last year, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) released a ‘low risk products’ consultation paper which included an option to declare essential oils and aromatherapy products to be ‘non-therapeutic goods’ – and remove quality controls for the manufacture of these products. What these […]

“As a counsellor who works with parents and children, I have parents enthusiastically share with me the positive impact herbal and homeopathic medicine has on the behaviour and wellbeing of their children.” In many cases, these parents are seeing these […]

A National Health Survey has given a snapshot into the use of integrated medicine in Australia and who is using natural therapies. It shows 32 percent of people who had visited a complementary medicine practitioner had also visited a doctor […]