Background: Animal chiropractic, an internationally sanctioned profession, assists veterinarians with a complementary approach to animal healthcare therapy. Animal chiropractic in South Africa appears to be within its novel ...
It has been shown that patient satisfaction evaluation is an excellent tool that may be used to determine whether practitioner services are meeting the needs of the general public. Furthermore, it has been observed that ...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the immediate and short term effectiveness of dry needling the primary, active Biceps TrP on the pain experienced during shoulder flexion and abduction range of motion, as well ...
Background
South Africa is burdened by consistently high maternal and perinatal mortality rates. In a move to alleviate this burden the South African National Department of Health (DoH) instructed the adoption of the Basic ...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the
understanding and utilization of Strychnos henningsii (umqalothi, Red bitterberry) by
Zulu traditional healers and the signs and symptoms induced ...
Until recently homoeopathic remedies have been studied and understood by
considering each remedy in isolation (Scholten, 1993). In the last few years a
new method of understanding homoeopathic remedies, called group ...
Two centuries ago it was possible to practice with only 100 remedies. Today with the
constantly expanding materia medica, complexity itself tempts the homeopath to
remain inside this range of remedies. It is due to ...
Group analysis of homoeopathic remedies is a relatively new methodology, linking naturally related substances via their common symptomatology. At its very basic level of understanding, it is an attempt to identify a mechanism ...
Until recently the most important method of studying homoeopathic remedies has been to look at each remedy separately and not in the context of a particular group to which it belongs. Group analysis, as defined by pioneering ...
Introduction: This study aimed to apply the methodology of group analysis, as
proposed by Sankaran, to an under-represented and poorly-understood biological
class. The intention of the study was to extend the group ...
The aim or purpose of this study is to determine the injury profile of gymnasts in the greater Durban area of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; and to compare it with the international data that are available. Factors that ...
Provings are important to expand known materia medica and advance homeopathy.
The Dead Sea was chosen as a substance because it has numerous therapeutic
properties in its crude form, making Yam ha-Melach an invaluable ...
Introduction
The aim of the study was to determine the effect of Acridotheres tristis 30CH on
healthy volunteers (provers) and to record the clearly observable signs and
symptoms produced, so that Acridotheres tristis ...
This study was conducted by administering Chamaeleo dilepis dilepis 30CH to healthy individuals with the aim of eliciting and documenting the resulting mental, emotional and physical symptomology. Chamaeleo dilepis dilepis ...
The purpose of this investigation was to determine the effect of Chamaeleo dilepis dilepis on healthy volunteers (provers), and to record the signs and symptoms produced, so that it may be prescribed to those suffering ...
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of Gymnura natalensis in the thirtieth centesimal potency on healthy volunteers and to record the signs and symptoms produced by the volunteers during the study. These ...
The aim of this study was to elicit and document the effects, in the form of signs and symptoms produced in relatively healthy volunteers, of the venom of Hemachatus haemachatus, prepared in accordance with the methods set ...
The proving substance Hemachatus haemachatus commonly known as the Rinkhals belongs to the family of Elapidae. This spitting-cobra is a local snake found only in Southern Africa. This proving tested the effects of the ...
Introduction
This dissertation entails a homoeopathic proving of ivory from the male African elephant (Loxodonta africana) 30CH with a subsequent comparison to Lac Loxodonta africana.
Objectives
The primary objective ...
A proving of ivory from the male African elephant (Loxodonta africana) 30CH was conducted. The proving symptoms were then analysed according to the doctrine of signatures, and compared to the proving symptoms of Lac Loxodonta ...