Embarrassing Illnesses

Embarrassing Illnesses Month at Foreman and Jones, Hythe – March 2011

To see all our ‘Embarrassing Illnesses Month’ blog posts, click here. More posts will be added as the month goes on.

The recent television programme ‘Embarrassing Bodies’ on Channel 4 has caused lots of controversy amongst the general public as it tackles many health complaints that are usually kept secret.

It’s not just G.P.s that come across patients with illnesses that they find embarrassing. As herbalists we have seen many, many patients that have suffered with long term embarrassing complaints.

The benefit of seeing a Herbalist about your embarrassing illness is that we treat the root cause of the problem and not just the symptoms. For example, when treating patients suffering from thrush they are often given creams and pessaries by the doctor but that often isn’t enough; when they stop using the cream the symptoms return. We have seen patients who suffer again and again with recurrent bouts of thrush. As herbalists we treat the cause of the problem and this means that the condition is resolved completely and the person can live symptom free.

This month we are focusing on 5 complaints that our patients have told us are embarrassing for them.

Thrush
Impotence
Constipation
Acne
Body Odour

Each week we will post blogs that explain how we might treat each condition using herbal medicine.

We hope that this series will publicise the fact that although certain conditions may be embarrassing to patients it’s all in a days work for us and in the privacy of the consultation room we can get to the real cause of the complaint and resolve it for good.