Cenacle Treatment Centre

Natural remidies for sleeping disorders

Insomnia is a surprisingly common occurrence, with some estimating thirty percent of the population suffering some difficulties. Sleep is essential to both body and mind and impaired sleep, altered sleep patterns and other disturbances can impair the physical health and mental well-being of the person.

Herbs that help

Milk Thistle (silybum marianum) contains the compound silymarin and has been used in Europe for hundreds of years as a treatment for liver disorders. Research seems to back up this claim and modern herbalists use milk thistle to help in cases of jaundice and hepatitus, or in cases of alcohol abuse or protecting liver agianst weight lifting suplements.  Milk thistle is available in tincture or caps. 

Grow your own drugs

Herbalist James Wong gives us an insight into growing and using natural remedies, follow the link to watch his latest series.

Prince Charles detox

Prince Charles and his company Duchy Originals have released a detox tincture including a range of  other herbal products. The Prince has been criticised by open minded professor Edzard Ernst, the UK's first professor of complementary medicine, who accused the Prince of quackery.

Blood pressure

 The standard blood pressure from a medical point of view is 120/80. Although low blood pressure is sometimes a problem it is high pressure, or hypertension, that is the more common problem. Anything over 140/100 is considered high and many factors such as stress, smoking, weight problems, excess coffee and alcohol and high cholesterol are all considered to affect blood pressure.

Any programme to reduce blood pressure will always look at lifestyle and diet factors. However, a number of herbs can help with general cardiac health as well as specifically hypertension, and is one of the most common reasons people seek the help of the herbalist.

Cervical cleansing pack

This pack can be used as a regular annual cleansing routine as a proactive protection, or can be used at the first sign of cervical dysplasia following a routine smear test.

It will draw out toxins and malformed cells from the area and boost the bodies natural systems for maintaining a healthy balance.

Male infertility

 Male infertility is a growing problem. There are many enviromental pressures that are lowering the general fertility of the male population. If a couple are struggling to conceive there can be a wide range of problems responsible but it is quite common that a low sperm count is a contributing factor.

When a sperm count is done both the motility and morphology of the sperm is taken into account but a figure of twenty million healthy sperm plus is considered a fertile sample. However, very often it can be in the low teens which doesn't make conception impossible but difficult.

There are a number of things that can be done including diet, lifestyle and supplements that will be advised.

There are also a number of herbs that have a proven result of raising sperm counts by two to six times over a period of three months which can obviously change the odds dramatically.

A consultation will address all these factors in full confidentiallity.

Dealing with Insomnia

Insomnia is a surprisingly common occurrence, with some estimating thirty percent of the population suffering some difficulties.

Sleep is essential to both body and mind and impaired sleep, altered sleep patterns and other disturbances can impair the physical health and mental well-being of the person.

Sleeping pills can be effective in the short term but are not designed for long term use as they are addictive, have numerous side effects and can cause unnatural sleep patterns. As a result people enter a vicious cycle of taking a pill to get to sleep, awakening groggy and using caffeine to get going making the insomnia worse.

The herbal approach to Gout

Gout is a member of the arthritic family of conditions. It occurs when the body is not expelling sufficient toxins and so uric acid is deposited in the joints and crystallises. It is these crystals in the joints that creates the pain and inflammation.

Because the acid and crystals are heavy they tend to be deposited in the lower extremities first. Hence the big toe and ankles suffer initially.

Although it was historically linked to rich living, there can be many factors that lead to the poor elimination.

The task of the herbalist is to identify through a full consultation the reason that the toxins are being retained and then giving advice and prescribing herbs that are very successful at cleaning the bodies systems, leading to long term and not just symptomatic relief.

Statins: Too many people are taking them (and they’re doing far less good than you think)

Cholesterol-lowering statins have become one of the most popular ‘just in case’ drugs on the market.  They’re handed out to anyone who may be at risk from developing heart disease – which, in the eyes of the doctor, will be pretty much everyone over the age of fifty or so.  

So it’s not surprising to learn that thirty six million Americans take a statin every day, generating annual sales of $15.5bn for the manufacturers, and making two statins - Lipitor and Zocor - the top two best-selling drugs in the USA.