| Arnica
- Surprising Results from a Surprising Herb
A
little while ago I gave a lecture in Stoke-on-Trent and it
was most encouraging to see that there were people there whom
I hadn’t seen for a long time, but all following up
the advice I had given them years before.
Whilst I was speaking I recalled
that 12 years previously in that same hotel, during the question
and answer session, someone in the audience had asked me if
there was anything really outstanding for sports’ injuries.
I replied that Arnica was one of the best things to use. The
questioner then said that it would be beneficial if there
was a remedy that gave very quick results and I told him that
Arnica Ointment applied to the affected area, coupled with
homoeopathic Arnica taken internally would be ideal.
After the lecture I approached the gentleman to discuss sports’
injuries further, as this is one of my favourite topics, having
treated so many sports people in my life. I learned then that
I was speaking to Sir Stanley Matthews, someone I was truly
delighted to meet. My older brother Nicholas, an excellent
footballer himself, greatly admired him, commenting that nobody
could use their feet like Stanley Matthews. I told Sir Stanley
that story and we became very good friends. I am only sorry
that he never got the chance to use Arnica in its most up-to-date
formulation, Arnica Gel, in his time as a footballer. It is
such an outstanding remedy and one of which Alfred Vogel would
have been very proud.
We have known Arnica over the ages as an excellent remedy.
Today it is known as one of the best healing gels for sports’
injuries and other inflammatory conditions. It works quickly
and effectively, as I know from personal experience. Not so
long ago, in my usual hurry, I fell down aircraft steps. Both
legs were very sore and bruised but luckily I had a tube of
Arnica Gel at the clinic where I was consulting. I rubbed
it into both legs for a couple of days and they quickly healed.
I have often said that Arnica montana has been of
service to mankind in various forms for a very long time and
one can be grateful that this excellent version of an age-old
herbal remedy is available today.
| My
Life and Work with
Alfred
Vogel
 by
Jan de Vries
Publication
Date:
November 2005
My Life and Work with
Alfred Vogel is the third volume of Jan de Vries’s
memoirs covering his life and career as a renowned alternative
health practitioner. This volume focuses on his long
and fruitful working relationship with the revered Swiss
naturopath Alfred Vogel, which prospered right up until
Vogel’s death in 1996. Jan de Vries was the only
person to whom Vogel taught his unique healing methods
and philosophies, and as a result of their close professional
links they also became great friends, sharing a mutual
respect and trust over a period of 40 years.
In this revealing and informative memoir, de Vries details
the methods employed by Vogel and the profound influence
that the eminent herbalist and nutritionist had on him
and his career. He reflects upon the controversial,
often almost impossible, situations that he shared with
Vogel as they travelled throughout the world to promote
their methods and practices.
ISBN 1 84018 985 1
£9.99 (paperback)
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