Doctors have said that up to a million people in the U.K. have completely preventable severe headaches, that is caused by taking too many painkillers, and that some people were trapped in a vicious cycle of taking pain relief, which then caused even more headaches.

The warning came as part of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence's (NICE) first guidelines for treating headaches. It is also recommending acupuncture in some circumstances.

 The combination of sunshine and showers has launched the Dandelion into a bid for world domination. Their smiling faces are brightening up grass verges and roundabouts through out South Leicestershire. Dandelion (taraxacum officinale) is very fond of people, congregating in lawns and veg plots, trying to get noticed. 

Research published in the journal Rheumatology suggests that acupuncture is an effective complementary treatment for patients suffering from gout.

The painful condition is characterised by a build up of uric acid crystals in the joints and tissues that can lead to inflammation, intense pain and flaky skin over affected areas. Often, it affects the joint of the big toe.

The Archway Herb Garden is a new project which aims to show off some of the herbs used both past and present for traditional herbal medicines. It will be a source of information used in future talks and plant studies, and also a thing of beauty. As a herbalist it is important to me to share plant knowledge and hopefully this garden project will plant the seed of an idea that every one could have a herb garden at home.

On Thursday 5th July from 7pm to 9pm, members of the Archway Health Centre Team are holding a FREE seminar on Stress and how it can effect your health

 . . . is that Healthcare is an event not a process. The NHS was established to give people who were ill access to treatment. It was never set up to take care of your health just to treat your illness. Unfortunately an unwanted side effect of the NHS is that as it has grown and made more and more treatments available that as a nation people have taken less and less responsibility for their health to the point that now, decades later, we see illness as something that happens to us, an event not a process.