“Good morning Dublin” says Susan Jane of a Monday. Â She’s got a great slot on Tom Dunne’s show on Newstalk, where she sings wonderfully from the hymnsheet of good foods, extolling the virtues of buckwheat for rosacea, soaking your porridge to improve your absorption of minerals such as caclium amongst myriad other wonderful health […]
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Some years I have had to watch the plums and apples fall off the trees in my garden, simply because I havenâÂÂt had the time to deal with the fruit.àNot that the trees are cared for.àThey arenâÂÂt.àSome of them have been here, apparently, since around 1850.àAll I do is an annual […]
Recent research published in The Irish Times has shown that essential oils such as clove, lemongrass, citronella, thyme, oregano, cinnamon and tea tree oil display significant antibacterial activity. The oils were tested against such nasties as MRSA, a bacteria with a well known history in Irish hospitals, and were found to be effective even in […]
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Excuse the punctuation overkill…no don't, because in the world of meta-analyses they seem to be forgiven most of the time anyway. Â Most especially when the handpicking of certain studies leads to big headlines, not just nationwide, but worldwide. Â But that is the big story of the day (last Friday at least) when the […]
Thig an nathair as an toll Là donn Brìde, Ged robh trì troighean dhen t-sneachd Air leac an là ir. “The serpent will come from the hole On the brown Day of Brigid, Though there should be three feet of snow On the flat surface of the ground.”* As we sit on our little tightrope, […]
Zzzzzzzzzz ⦠oh, hello! Happy New Year 🙂 Looks like I’ve been caught napping. I rarely get a full night’s sleep, so I need those few extra zees. The only way to be fully alive, after all, is to avail of deep, refreshing sleep. Preferably every night of the year. So I’ve decided to beat […]
Last week I attended a magical herbal workshop â magical in the sense of wonderful and inspiring. Our teacher for the day was Gina McGarry who runs St. Brighidâs Academy in Westmeath. Gina makes all her own house cleaners, cosmetics and medicines from plant material. She began the day by demonstrating how to make our […]
The web site Anyone who knows me knows I’ve been boring them to death for 20 years on the healing and rejuvenating powers of raw foods, instead of loving them to life with delectable uncooked morsels swimming in enzymes, vitamins, minerals and life force. Some are born to raw delight; some are born to endless […]
It’s a cosmic joke that I should be writing about exam stress. When I was in college I was such a nervous examinee that they used to lock me up (or, more kindly put, deposit me in a room of my own to do my exams in peace). Without turning it into an exam, I […]