Nutritional Therapy and Herbalism

What is included in Nutritional Therapy and Herbalism?

Some of the aspects of Herbalism and Nutritional Therapy are outlined below.

Nutritional Therapy

Nutritional Therapy itself is the analysis and planning of the correct nutritional plan for the individual client. This includes ensuring you are taking in a full range of nutriments and vitamins in a balanced diet.

Nutritional therapy is often sought when a person is either suffering from bad health, or wishes to loose weight.

If you are not feeling well, it may well be because of an inadequate, poor or imbalanced diet. It may even be that you are eating foods that do not "agree with you" causing intolerance effects. You should first however seek a medical check-up with a medical doctor before embarking on nutritional therapy, just in case there is a medical reason for your symptoms.

When people wish to loose weight, it is important that they choose a healthy combination of foods that suit their metabolism and body type, speed healthy weight loss and ensure wellbeing in the long term. Crash diets do not work, health eating does. Most people benefit from a well balanced diet, avoiding irritant foods and sticking to sensible portions. Obviously sensible levels of exercise are essential to everyone's wellbeing.

The right balance of all the main food stuffs (carbohydrate, protein etc) is essential for health, as is the intake of the correct range and dose of vitamins and minerals. In an ideal world you could get all your nutritional intake from your diet alone. However over farming has drastically reduced vitamin and mineral content in many foods, some intolerances and illnesses and stress all reduce absorption or increase need, and chemical poisons in the environment can destroy or prevent absorption of certain nutriments (e.g. cigarette smoke and vitamin C).

Some vitamins work together, some conflict, some can benefit you, some can even be toxic. it is important to seek qualified advice when taking complementary medication, which vitamins and minerals are.

Biochemical tissue salts are an important supplement used by some people. They are trace elements of highly absorbable minerals. They are destroyed very easily by toxins, malabsorbtion and even electro magnetic fields. They are fairly inexpensive and often have a very fast beneficial effect, making results easy to detect.

Herbalism

Herbalism is the medicine of herbs and plants. Many modern medicines (such as aspirin) come from plants. Many people believe that taking natural form medicines provided naturally by mother nature is healthier than cooked up chemicals in a laboratory. Others turn to herbalism because of the toxic effects of many modern drugs, and the increased problem of drug resistance.

Herbs can be used in a number of ways, taking them in pill or tea form, applying them topically (for example as a poultice) or burning or inhaling them (e.g. aromatherapy oils).

Herbs are often used to treat the person more holistically than conventional medicine. In other words looking for underlying causes of imbalance. Some herbs can also be used as self medications for minor complaints. 

If you suffer an illness or injury you should still seek medical advice. In such cases it is very important that a qualified herbalist is consulted before taking herbs in addition to medication. A qualified herbalist will know whether the medication you are taking might interact with herbal treatments. Likewise take advice from the herbalist if you are prescribed medication when taking herbs, so you can be advised whether there could be a problem. It is dangerous for the client to take herbs and medication together without a qualified opinion.

Herbs are often gentle in effect, holistic and good preventers of problems. Unlike conventional medicine they can be used to strengthen the body, as well as reacting to illness once it occurs.

Herbs can strengthen, prevent, treat holistically and treat more gently than many conventional medicines. Ayurveda principles can also be used to create a blend between the use of herbs and the use of nutritional therapy, as part of an overall holistic approach.

Ayurveda

This is a traditional system of balancing the body using nutritional therapy, herbs, supplements, lifestyle choices and exercise to ensure holistic wellbeing. Much like traditional Chinese medicine, it uses the concept of elements and balance.

Diet and Weight Loss

We provide the full package:

• Nutritional Therapy ensuring a tailored healthy diet

• Vitamin Supplement Advice

• Herbalism Supplement Advice

• Ayurveda Overall Holistic Integrity

• Emotional Support to prevent comfort eating and diet breaking using NLP and Hypnotherapy techniques

• Eating Disorder Counselling where needed

We have Nutritional Therapy and Herbalism assistance for diet planning also available HERE

 Weight loss can only be achieved with appropriate dieting and exercise.