Caroline Galloway BSc, MNIMH, RSHom

Specialties

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Infertility / hormonal imbalance

Chronic fatigue

Teenage Acne, acne rosacea

Childhood obesity

Eczema and Psoriasis

Heart , Circulation and  Cardiovascular health   

Arthritis and rheumatism

Insomnia and fatigue

Digestive health

Allergies including Food allergies & intolerance

Diet and Detoxification

Geopathic Stress

Electromagnetic Radiation Sickness

Methylation Dysfunction MTHFR gene polymorphism

A Herbalist's Story

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Studies in medical herbalism have revealed the nutritional and health giving medicinal properties of exotic ingredients, such as ginger, (a ''woman's ginseng''); turmeric; cumin; galengal; corriander; lime leaf; mace; nutmeg; lemongrass; cinnamon; allspice;  cloves; orange peel and many, many more.  They don't just give flavour; extend a food's keeping qualities in a hot climate; improve digestion, but also possess powerful healing medicinal properties. 

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The ''Spice Road'' was the medicinal supply route for important medicines of the day.  Herbs and Spices and their medicinal properties were valuable, and highly prised.  For example, Black pepper was more valuable than gold in those days.  

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Each ingredient has powerful medicinal and healing properties of its own, and have often been used traditionally as an individual or in larger quantities, 

as a medicinal substance in medicine, and more recently in more modern medicine.  For example Turmeric is now marketed commercially as tablets.

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Cinnamon has been scientifically proven to have powerful medicinal properties and is available as a commercial medicinal product.

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Garlic is known as ''Russian penicillin'' due to its powerful antiseptic properties.

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As a herbalist Caroline gained three years experience working for Janet Hicks FNIMH, fellow of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists.  Janet specialised in gynaecology and other female endocrine health and fertility related issues.  Janet supported many of the early ''test tube'' babies through to full-term pregnancy, using hormonally active supporting herbs.  Janet's use of the Native American Indian herbs for infertility and female health problems stemmed from the knowledge of 19th centuary herbalists such as Harvey Felter and John Uri Lloyd  (Kings American Dispensary).  She used herbs some of which were traditionally named for their medicinal properties, with names such as ''Papoose root''  and ''Squaw vine''.

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Caroline worked for over 14 years for Dr Ann Walker, a senior lecturer in Human Nutrition at Reading University, who also practices as a medical herbalist specialising in chronic fatigue syndrome and immunity.

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Caroline has lectured for 9 years at the University of Middlesex, lecturing on ''Nutrition Through the Ages'', for the male and female reproductive stages, delivered to third year medical herbalism students.

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She's written and delivered a 5-week Introduction to Medical Herbalism course for Raworth College nutrition students, and taught first and second year HND Animal Nutrition full-time for 2 years at a local agricultural college.

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She has some past experience working as a student, at a local hospital pathology lab as a medical laboratory assistant (MLA) in cytology, and is interested in the bacterial and viral associations of chronic disease and some so called  'auto-immune'' disease conditions.  IBS, Ulcerative colitis and Crohns disease were found to be associated with a M.A.P. bacterial infection by Professor Hermon-Taylor.  She uses herbs for which M.A.P. is sensitive to support such clients.

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The recent explosion in use of electronic communication devices such as iPads and mobile phones, hand held computer games, rechargeable handfree phone handsets, Smart meters, WiFi hubs and routers has left a vacuum in understanding of the importance of safe use of these new devices.  We are  ''electrical'' humans, having electrical charges and a flow of electricity around the  body.  Much like x-rays used to be used to diagnose pregnant women, the use of these devices, and their exposure to health needs to be respected, understood and limited to safe, less harmful levels.

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A lack of understanding of their health effects  and over-exposure to them, has led to a new outcrop of  ''mystery'' illnesses, including depression, ''zoom fatigue'', insomnia, fatigue,  anxiety and panic attacks in teenagers, and severe headaches which may simply be relieved by reduced exposure to the electromagnetic radiation emitted from these devices. Everything in moderation as they say.  Earthing or grounding are very important to discharge excess positive energy from the body.  Please see below an interesting article about the electromagnetic fields found in a modern car with Bluetooth.  Worth a watch.

https://vimeo.com/244746945?signup=true

Kopfschmerzen im Auto - Headache in the Car (English Subtitles) on Vimeo