Feeling Better - Naturally!
DO YOU want to feel better, eliminate health problems, look younger, live longer?
DO YOU want to understand yourself better, resolve issues, have freedom from pain, heal faster, become stronger and healthier?
DO YOU?
Well I can’t promise you a miracle!
But if better health, pain relief and being stronger, happier and healthier are what you seek, then let me help you to reach your goals.
Health Solutions is the name of the Natural Medicine Clinic we operate in the small rural town of Dannevirke, New Zealand. Our clinic services the needs of the wider surrounding districts and many of our patients come from further afield. Our goal at Health Solutions is to bring each patient to a new level of wellness using the best of natural therapies.
Everyone is treated individually in a creative and empowering way.
Our commitment is to listen, naturopathically assess health needs, give personal attention
and careful choice of treatment - to help you to better health - naturally.
Following a naturopathic diagnosis (which may include computerised meridian scan, iridology, sclerology, urine tests and questionnaire) we offer our recommendations for safe, viable and effective treatments.
From research and experience, we are confident that together we can make a difference to your health.
At Health Solutions your professionally qualified Naturopath offers a wide range of health care options for effectively treating health issues - to get you feeling great!
Andrew Gowan, N.D. NONZ, Hbt, BTAA
Naturopath, Bowen Therapist
Member New Zealand Charter of Natural Health Practitioners.
Electronics Service Technician.
Dannevirke - Where’s Dannevirke?
Are you in peak health? DO YOU have any particular health concerns? Do you want HELP now?
Nutrition & Diet
Your body needs certain basic minerals and vitamins to function correctly. Lack or imbalance of these nutrients can cause a breakdown in your body’s natural ability to remain healthy.
Today we have access to powerful well researched nutritional supplements that are manufactured to the highest standards. Most treatments at Health Solutions will include nutritional support, and dietary changes along with other therapies. Nutrition is the foundation upon which good health rests.
You may consider your diet is good, but in our modern world with depleted soils, it is increasingly harder to obtain a balance of nutrients. You are not necessarily what you eat, but what you absorb. Many people have weakened digestion (as a result of chemicals, stress, modern living) and are sub-clinically deficient in vitamins and minerals.
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Body Work
Because some causes of discomfort are “mechanical”, use of body therapies to treat such disorders is essential. While most of us have experienced strained or injured muscles a lot of people prefer to avoid the exposure of a full massage. Without the necessity to remove clothing, yet arguably more effective than any other body therapy in resolving body injuries, the Bowen Technique is our answer to your musculo-skeletal aches and pains.
A gentle, non-invasive therapy that works over the muscles and connective tissues, allowing the body to reset itself and heal. Totally relaxing, excellent for stress, injuries and pain. procedures are almost all done through clothing, and sessions are usually 40 to 60 minutes in length.
The Bowen Technique consists of a series of precise connective tissue moves which stimulate the energy flow and activates the body’s natural healing abilities. It is safe to use on anyone from newborn babies to the elderly. Considred to be the world’s most exciting healing modality and now experiencing phenomenol growth and recognition in over 27 countries. Though gentle, this technique is powerful and has to be experienced to be understood. Bowen work continues to be a top performer and what I use most in practice with consistant (and often profound) clinical results.
I love it and so do my patients.
For more information about BOWTECH click here or to go to our links page.
This is a very powerful, effective tool for total body healing. The moves are of a more energetic nature than Bowen work and target the fascial tissues that cover the entire body. I refer to this technique as muscular re-education but it has far reaching effects on the entire myo-fascial tissue, and musculature of the body.
For further information about VHT please click here.
Get the foundations right and the whole structure will be corrected.
It makes perfect sense that if the feet are not supporting the body in the best way possible then the body will come under structural stress and mis-alignment. When upright, the body relies on the feet for balance and stability. There are 28 bones in the feet and if any are incorrectly aligned the whole body is affected. The foot does not even have to be painful to create problems in almost any area of the body.
Nerves within the foot send impulses throughout the body with every step. If the foot-bones are poorly aligned or there is restriction of their movement, these nerve impulses become confused which can lead to muscular and joint dysfunction anywhere else in the body.
So what happens in the feet will impact on the health of the whole body. The knee can rotate inwards, putting strain on the hip which then affects the lower back. This abnormal strain can go on to stress the shoulders, neck and head as the body attempts to compensate.
Foot-Joint Mobilisation takes care of all this by gently re-aligning the individual bones in the feet over a period of several weeks. During this time resolution of other problems and pain is often seen, despite the therapy being applied to the feet only.
Treatments are usually 30 minutes duration 2 times weekly for 8 weeks.
Pain free feet mean mobility and independence. Try Foot-Joint Mobilisation today, your feet (and body) will thankyou!
The Space Healer is a revolutionary micro-current Electro-Neural Adaptive Regulator (ENAR) that brings about rapid pain relief. This hand-held device is applied directly to the site of pain or inflammation and held there for a few minutes. The general area may also be massaged by the device.
The micro-currents reach deep into the tissues and influence nerve signaling. At the same time the device operates in a biofeedback loop with the central nervous system. Similar to a TENS machine but more advanced, the Space Healer relieves pain, inflammation, and provokes healing in any type of condition.
This “Star Trek” wonder device has undergone extensive research and development for over 30 years in Russia, and recently in it’s present form by a group of engineers directed by Dr Yuan Alexander.
Fifty thousand case studies show the effectiveness of the Space Healer to be better than 70% across the spectrum of human disease.
For more on this amazing device click here!
Homeobotanical Therapy (HbT)
Homeobotanical therapy is what we use most in our clinic. These clever remedies are dispensed in a 25ml dropper bottle and can cover any and all conditions. From acute colds/flu infections, earache, tummy bugs through to more chronic problems such as arthritis, diabetes.
Homeobotanical therapy is a specialized combining of homoeopathy and botanical (herbal) medicine that was developed in New Zealand by Dr Brian Murray.
These remedies consistently make a difference and provide an economical form of medicine as they are taken by the drop and last about a month.
Homeobotanicals are a specially blended herbal concentrate, mixed and matched to a specific need. They are treated like single herbal formulas but act in a homeopathic manner.
For more information on these awesome little formulas, please click here.
Sometimes a condition requires a stronger more targeted approach, in which case either a homoeopathic or else a herbal formula is chosen to add to the treatment.
Iridology
The coloured circle in the eye can reveal information about the whole body. When examined by a trained Iridologist, the state of health can be assessed. This is a very accurate and non-invasive method to pinpoint problem areas.
An iris exam can be a simple 5 minute procedure or more involved, depending on the case.
In Iridology we do not diagnose illness, rather, we view certain markings, colours and areas in the Iris as indicating states of inflammation, weakness, stress or degeneration. The iris is divided up into many areas, each representing a part of the body.
How does this work?
Basically, there are about 30,000 nerve endings in the iris. This seems a lot, because essentially all the iris does is to open or close the pupil, depending on the brightness of the incoming light. Each of these nerve endings has its source in tissues elsewhere throughout the body. If there is a problem at one end of the nerve, we can expect to see a corresponding change, a reflex action at the other end.
Sclerology
What do the whites of your eyes say about your health?
Or more specifically, what do the red lines show about the stresses, toxicities, and nutritional needs of your body?
“Sclerology” means the study of the sclera which is the white, hard, outer coating of the eye. But Sclerology is actually a method of interpreting the red lines, colourations, and markings in the sclera as they relate to health. There is literally more to your blood-shot eyes than meets the eye!
Similar in its approach to Iridology, but more focussed in terms of indicating what is happenning right now in the whole body. The sclera reveals many forms of disease (stresses, imbalances, blockages, congestions, weaknesses, fatigus, infections), wherever they originate. It has been said the IRIS is like the centre of the flower whereas the SCLERA is the petals around the outer edge, showing more readily what the state of health is.
Sclerology is not a diagnostic tool. It is a whole person health evaluative science.
In obtaining a sclera reading, I make a careful observation of the four quadrants of the sclera of each eye, and a sketch of the highlights is drawn, then the lines are compared with a chart, and interpreted based on signs and symptoms. In a matter of minutes I can ascertain what body systems are being affected by stressors, the cause of the stress and how the body is responding to that stress.
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Ryodoraku Meridian Therapy Computerised Meridian Scan and Laser acupuncture Wouldn’t it be great if there were some way to tap straight into your body and get a readout telling you the areas that are imbalanced and where likely sources of poor health and immune dysfunction might be? Can you imagine being able to see which organs are stressed and which are functioning well? |
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Bringing ancient Chinese acupuncture into the 21st century, Ryodoraku Meridian Therapy is a scientifically proven form of whole body assessment. It traces imbalances within the meridian pathways and, once located, enables treatment of those out of balance points with low level laser stimulation rather than the traditional needle. For more information please contact us. |
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HAQ
Comprehensive Health Appraisal Questionnaire
The Health Appraisal Questionnaire is a very comprehensive health screening tool that covers all body systems and level of wellbeing. The areas are broken up into: gut/digestion, liver, detox, pancreas, thyroid, immune, cardiovascular, lungs, kidney/bladder, reproductive, musculoskeletal and neurological. By answering each question the scores for the various sections are noted on a carefully weighted chart which provides a clear indication of the most serious areas that need addressing in the body.
We use this chart to then design an effective treatment program. The chart can be filled out while at our office, at home in your own time or online, for our internet clients.
If you want help now, please contact us and we will send an email to direct you to the online HAQ page.
EFT – Emotional Freedom Technique
Tap your way to better emotional health and wholeness!
Though not professionally qualified in this very clever method, I have taught myself the basics and passed this on to many people who have experienced profound changes, specifically with anxiety, panic attacks, and phobias.
Emotional Freedom Technique is a system involving tapping several times on specific acupuncture points while being mindful of the emotional or physical problem. The particular need or problem is first addressed and a phrase is spoken that captures the core issue. The phrase is repeated while tapping at each point. The phrase does not neccesarily have to be the exact deepest level core issue (which may even be subconcious), however, it must reflect where one is at for that particular session of tapping. With successive tapping, the problem may resolve (often in one session), or the problem is understood in a different light and the phrase will then be changed in order to more acurately reflect the core issue.
Continued sessions will (should) eventually tease out the core issue, if one is open to it, but often results are forthcoming without necessarily digging that deep.
There is a great deal of information on the web about EFT, my favourite sites are listed on our links page.
Tests
In clinic it is often helpful to provide a measureable “benchmark” of certain factors relating to health and various conditions.
We use the following tests:
pH
The urinary pH is measured by the client for several mornings in a row to get an idea of the acidity of the body. Most people are over-acid as modern lifestyles, stress, anger, environmental pollution and foods cause acidity in the body. ALL chronic disease is result of a shift to an acid state. For example, cancer cells cannot live in an alkaline tissue environmnet, so keeping the tissues and bloodstream just slightly alkaline is critical for maintaining good health.
Urinary Indican
This test shows up the degree of dysbiosis in the intestinal tract. Dysbiosis means the over growth of undesirable bowel bacteria, as well as the possibility of intestinal permeability - also known as "leaky gut".
Leaky gut is where protein fragments and endotoxins from the dysbiotic state, can pass more readily through the bowel wall.
By testing the urinary indican we know how much bowel detox and repair work will be required, and we know when to finish the detoxification program when the test is clear.
For information on our DETOX click here.
Ionic Heavy metals
Are heavy metals affecting your health? Are there dangerous levels of heavy metal present in your water?
The IONIC HEAVY METAL TEST is a clever means of determining the presence and degree of ionic heavy metals both in your urine and in your drinking water. By means of a small sample, a test is made which detects ionic heavy metals which are the reactive, damaging forms of toxic metals in your body. If the body has the least amount of exposure, and high antioxidant levels, then the test would be clear.
Generally, people are exposed to more than one element so the test becomes more of an indication that levels are high and need addressing, which involves a detoxification program and heavy metal chelators.
Please see our detox pages. For more info on the test see our links page.
Hair Analysis
Hair Elemental Analysis and Toxic Elements Profile.
In some cases it is advantages to know exactly which toxic elements are present, which are the highest amounts and which nutritional elements (such as magnesium, selenium, chromium and calcium) are lacking and by how much. For less than $200 this can be done by collecting a very small sample of hair which is then sent to a specialised laboratory that analyses the sample and produces a comprehensive report. Sixteen toxic elements are profiled along with twenty-two essential and trace elements.