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Avicenna Naturopathy and Massage

Locality: Ipswich, Queensland

Phone: +61 408 956 505

Address: Shop 6, 7 Bell Street 4305 Ipswich, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.avicenna.net.au

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25.01.2022 Just went to @kitchentopia on Brisbane Street across the road from Coles. It's lovely. They've just opened last month but they've been at the Rocklea Markets for years. #ipswichqld #ipswichsmallbusiness

25.01.2022 Making #abfe Australian Bush Flower Essences Emergency Essence for someone who has an intense fear of the dentist.

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24.01.2022 #elderberry syrup on the way, from #elderberries that I grew. For boosting immunity, fighting colds and flu and as a ripper of an antioxidant. This will be a sugar free version for someone with histamine sensitivity with just lemon juice added at the end. I will simmer it down, blend and then strain. #herbalist #ipswichnaturopath #herbalmedicine #naturopath #naturopathicmedicine #naturopathy

24.01.2022 Update time. Finally out of the wrist brace. Have been trialling it at home since Wednesday last week. I still wear the brace out and at night, in case I knock it or get jostled. Hand therapy continues. It is a bit sore today after using scissors yesterday. Currently working through the big pile of sewing on my kitchen table so I can get on with the next step of rehab: writing. Will see how that goes, a bit every day. Hopefully soon if I master that I will be able to start trialling massaging. I think I will trial it a few times before taking bookings, rather than having to cancel anyone. So I am fine. Progressing well. Just frustrated. I hope you are fine as well.

22.01.2022 #Garden surprise of the week. These are blueberry #flowers. I didn't expect any as it's sharing a lot with my enormous feral cherry tomatoes and #blueberries like a lot of sun. It could be the gasping plant trying to save it's future generations. I decided a couple of years ago that it's absurd we get our berries sent over from the other side of the planet and found a variety that grows well in Queensland. Look up #foodmiles if you're interested.

21.01.2022 More #elderberries #herbalist #herbalmedicine #naturopath #ipswichnaturopath

21.01.2022 Played hookey and watched the Umbrella Academy yesterday instead of working. Back to it. The folder is full of client resources I compiled in 2006 and then forgot about. I should find the bones of good handouts for my naturopathy clients in there, and even if not I will be well satisfied getting rid of more stuff out of my life.

21.01.2022 Fresher is definitely better. In much less pain after putting the latest batch of #arnica cream on the ankle that I sprained last night. Probably the other cream was a bit old. I have also improved the recipe since then. I am interested to see how I like this batch in particular as I made it with shea butter after I ran out of beeswax. It absorbs faster and is less greasy, which is not a bad thing for ankle injuries. Those of you who love Avicenna's Arnica Cream - would you like the formula to be less greasy? #herbalmedicine #herbalist #aromatherapy #ipswichnaturopath

21.01.2022 I haven't talked about what how I have been treating my injured wrist as a #naturopath the past few months. I take some form of herbal anti-inflammatory, such as the InflamAid, which contains turmeric, boswellia and white willow as well as a few other things. I take my liquid herbal tincture every day. Every herbal tincture in my clinic is blended by me. The past few months one of the ingredients has been Teasel Root, which is great at healing soft tissue injuries. The myster...ious white powder is MSM, which is an anti-inflammatory that is great for collagen production. And finally, there is the label of the the brand that I am not allowed to promote in social media. (I signed a form at the beginning of the year and everything. Amazing. It is one of the top three brands that any naturopath in Queensland will stock) Anyway. The other mysterious powder has all of the building blocks I needed for joint repair in one scoop per day. Gelatine. Glucosamine. Minerals for laying that stuff down where it needs to go. It's been lovely. And discontinued. (Of course it is.) I am going to pester the rep when I see him next month. So all of this is more than I would give my usual client. My prescriptions are usually a bottle of herbs and maybe some tablets or flower essences as well as dirt and lifestyle advice. I don't like insisting on major life changes with my clients and I don't want them to have to remember to take things all day. Even I have been taking things only morning and night while I have been home for months. I always work with the client to find out what they're prepared to do, as I think every naturopath should. #naturopathy #naturopathicmedicine #nutritionist #herbalist #ipswichnaturopath #professionalhealer

20.01.2022 Native #bees all over me #lettuce that's gone to seed, rainbow lorikeets in the trees.

20.01.2022 Still going. Naturopathic detective following a line of reasoning and confirming my memory of things I haven't had to think about since 2004, when heavy metal testing cost hundreds of dollars. (Can we just not, please.) My current thinking is that the immune system blood results seem pretty normal so there may not be hundreds of dollars of something to worry about. I will of course be double checking that.

20.01.2022 #bee party at my place. Meet you in the #elderflowers

19.01.2022 I am in the process of making new naturopathy client handouts. Here is one that will benefit everyone. Have a great day!

18.01.2022 Good morning! This thing. I suppose we should chat about it. My wrist is actually doing really well. It just pinches and catches a couple of times a day and gives an intense jolt of pain, rather than hurting all the time. I can do more things normally with no pain, like drink from a glass and pour. (Yes, I *really* mucked it up.) The left side is feeling more like the right side to touch. It doesn't hurt to be out of the brace anymore except at night, so I still wear it then ...and when I go out. Thank goodness. I am very paranoid about looking after it now, because I don't want it to heal so much and just ruin it out of impatience. As you can imagine, this is getting pretty boring. I am left-handed. So I am feeling pretty optimistic. I can't say when I will be taking clients again, but I will continue to look after myself and we will see what happens. Hopefully not long now. Have a great day! See more

18.01.2022 How many of you knew I do all of this?

18.01.2022 Woke up chipper today. I finally get to come back out of social isolation again after going to that huge Black Lives Matter protest in Brisbane a couple of weeks back (you all know I wouldn't have been satisfied with just a performative black profile picture). To celebrate I am going to be ducking into the clinic to mix myself some herbs and going grocery shopping. Rock n roll. But I get to be in the same vicinity as my family instead of leaving things in the letterbox and ch...atting from the veranda, so that is nice. I am also pleased with how this is going. I have started doing a bit of knitting every day as part of my recovery from the wrist injury. This is the second time I have done cable knitting. It looks gorgeous but I have ripped it apart twice because it wasn't working. Art gave me a very high tolerance for failure, for which I will be forever grateful. Perfection is a myth. Have a lovely Sunday. See more

17.01.2022 Saturday night shea butter wrasslin'. A new batch of Arnica Cream on the way. #ipswichnaturopath #herbalmanufacturing

17.01.2022 Tonight it's a refresher on a half-forgotten skill. #naturopath #ipswichnaturopath #holistichealth #professionalhealer

17.01.2022 My life is so glam. Hand rehab ongoing. Behaving myself so much my nails are growing. Wouldn't have been able to do this a couple of weeks back.

17.01.2022 A long read for me over the weekend. When COVID looked like it was coming I stocked up on a lot of the herbs Buhner used to treat SARS when that was around. I didn't expect to treat COVID in the clinic (I still don't), but I knew I would want to put my hands on herbs to treat it immediately should the need ever arise. The after effects of COVID I probably will see at some point, so I am very curious to find out what to do. I think this is where #herbalmedicine in particular ...is going to be a great help. Conventional medicine doesn't really have options to support someone who is convalescent while herbal medicine has so many options. (I am understating that statement vastly.) I think the recovery is going to be key for avoiding secondary problems later on in life, when even people who had COVID when they were young and healthy now have weakened lungs, or a weakened heart, or goodness knows what. That kind of thing can carry someone off twenty years before their time. Or (I know this won't be written about or really thought of for a long time) could COVID be an initiating factor for auto-immune disease? You usually find there's one event, illness or an extremely stressful time that they've never been right since. Or in the same way, could it turn previously silent genetic predispositions into active problems? Let's just not go down that road if we can help it, shall we? I don't want anyone's life to be narrowed down to symptom management of chronic illness. Let's all wash our hands, follow directions and not be meatheads about it "just being a flu" and I will stay on top of things my end. Have a lovely weekend. #naturopath #naturopathicmedicine #herbalist #ipswichnaturopath

16.01.2022 A self-indulgent day in the #garden for me and G after I spent the rest of the weekend researching and presented the case yesterday. First job is to plant these, which were picked by young Olivia to grow in their townhouse garden. She snuck them in the shopping trolley and didn't get busted til they got home, so a gold star and a round of applause to Olivia. I will do my best with those watermelons. I will probably be chatting away in Avicenna's stories if that interests you.

15.01.2022 Morning tea reading the Fassifern Guardian & Tribune, which now covers #ipswichqld as well. It's out every Wednesday.

15.01.2022 Well. Wikipedia is quite salty about #naturopathy. Vitalism? Psuedoscientific? Do they have that enchanting belief that it's only possible for scientists and doctors to read research papers and for the rest of us it automatically turns into that windings font? I did watch a webinar on covid by American herbalists recently and it surprised me how folky their approach seemed to be. (Those herbalists in particular, possibly not all American herbalists) But there's important thi...ngs to remember before comparing American to Australian naturopaths. We don't have the American health system, if you get sick here your family won't be bankrupted. This makes our clients a lot less desperate and most Australian naturopaths not as hostile towards to the medical industry. In my experience, specialists are pretty mellow about their clients seeing naturopaths and GPs a bit more rigid (so I usually empower my clients but stay out of it). I think GPs and emergency department staff get stuck with the consequences of people doing silly things with natural remedies without naturopathic supervision, like putting essential oils in drinking water and then suffering from chemical burns internally as a result, so some of them think that's all it is. The truth is I spent three years in the student clinic, where I had to justify everything that was done with scientific papers, and that's something I have continued ever since, and in fact I wouldn't have graduated or be able to keep up with my peers in the industry if I didn't. It's my general practice to request pathology tests with all of my naturopathy clients and I love sitting down to read them, then hunting around the research databases to figure out what's going on and then find validity for what I plan to do. I tend to be a big old science nerd over on Avicenna's blog in case you want to read more, so this Wikipedia entry is just laughable to me.

14.01.2022 A less fun prospect about coming back to massaging soon is figuring out Avicenna's covid protocol. I will have masks available, but I am leaning towards if masks are necessary I shouldn't be massaging. What about an infrared touch free thermometer so I can check the temperature of everyone coming in (and myself). Would you find that invasive? Let me know.

13.01.2022 I am in the clinic today being case detective. Someone who has had headaches of unknown origin for 10+ years had a test result that could indicate a particular heavy metal toxicity. I looked up the symptoms and that person might have been sitting in front of me as I read it. So.... Do we finally have causation? Where from? Where is it stored? Are there likely to be other toxic heavy metals that haven't been tested for yet? What is the test about? What is the disease the resul...ts suggest? Is there something specific to get rid of them? I haven't had to think about this stuff for years and there's half-remembered treatment plans from lectures I attended back in 2004 rattling around in my head. So it's time to go back through my old notes and answer as much as I can before looking at more recent research papers and possibly consulting with the naturopath's Brains Trust later on this arvie. See more

12.01.2022 Physician treating herself. Mixing up new #herbalmedicine for the month. The wrist injury is doing great but I am exhausted as I go back to very light duties, even though I made use of my forced down time by doing cardio exercise to the limit of my capacity for half an hour at least five days a week in the hopes I wouldn't feel this way. Doesn't matter! Hands are complicated pieces of kit and using them more normally has sent me back to needing naps every afternoon, just like... when I had the brace on, was doing rehab three times a day and it hurt to touch my thumb to my pinkie. It's frustrating. So this month I have Teasel Root in there to continue connective tissue healing, Licorice for adrenal support and Siberian Ginseng as an #adaptogen to boost my energy and get me through this convalescent recovery phase. #herbalism #herbalist #ipswichnaturopath #naturopath #naturopathicmedicine

12.01.2022 I find health goals much more attainable when I start small. I started this year with Learn To Eat #Kale, mainly because it lasts a lot longer than the baby spinach in a bag and I am a cheapskate who hates single use plastic. I mean, sure, it's also very rich in phytonutrients like sulfuraphane as well as vitamin C and a whole host of minerals. Woohoo, etc. But less plastic and shelf life made me resolved. Six months later and I make special trips to get kale, I have kale gr...owing, I get pouty when there's no kale in the salads and curries. Which means I eat more salads and curries. Which was great for going mostly vegetarian. And great for now that I have that wrist injury and cooking is harder. This curry is dinner for days. It is also outrageously healthy, with sweet potatoes, chickpeas, lentils as well as my new mate kale. I will serve it on brown rice (lean in, go for gold, etc) with lemon juice and Nigella seeds over the top. A girl can't live on grilled cheeses alone. What have been your #healthgoals this year? How are you going with them? #nutritionist #naturopath #naturopathy #ipswichnaturopath #vegetariancooking #homecooking

12.01.2022 Ran through these two pretty quickly. They were new to Avicenna's #herbaldispensary last time. Magnolia is for people who are anxious and depressed, especially when their mood affects digestion. It is *lovely*, especially when every client I see is anxious at the moment. Teasel Root is one of the things I have been taking to heal my wrist injury, which is working, but I am also giving it to the client who comes in for turmeric for the arthritic degeneration in his neck and someone else with disc degeneration in their lower back who wants to fall pregnant #naturopath #naturopathicmedicine #naturopathy #ipswichnaturopath #herbalmedicine #herbalist

12.01.2022 Modest #red afternoon #harvest

12.01.2022 Quick cruise around the #garden after waiting all day for a delivery. (It might still arrive! Twenty minutes to go!) It is nice to see that Spring is happening out there even though my garden is outrageously overgrown (which just shows I have been behaving myself and resting that wrist!) #Jasmine at the back, #elderflower buds down the front.

11.01.2022 Blue Flax Lilly berries. First time I'd gotten it to flower so I am pleased. One of my Lockyer Valley natives.

11.01.2022 It's hard to talk about custom #herbalformulas and why they're ingenious without breaking confidentiality. Here's mine. It's a mix of my stalwart favourites and my newbie experiments. Ginger is warming and assists digestion and I read a couple of days ago it works synergistically to enhance Magnolia when both are at low doses. Gentian as a digestive bitter that I use to prevent heartburn and therefore manage sinus congestion. Glossy Privet I use as a remedy for tinnitus, as I... am hearing impaired due to nerve damage and have had gnarly tinnitus forever. I am also using it as an anti-viral as well as in a Traditional Chinese Medicine sense to tonify the kidney qi, as for a long time I have been the poster child for kidney qi deficiency, meaning most simply that I've been washed out and sleep badly. St John's Wort and I are old mates. It's a mild to moderate anti-depressant that has been found in studies again and again to be equivalent to Prozac. I am always chemically (rather than situationally) a little bit depressed. It's also great for anxiety and has anti-viral activity. Teasel Root is new and I have put it in to heal my wrist, as it mends what has been severed and is great for pain relief (especially for things relating to bone damage). It's also a yang kidney tonic that will work together with the Glossy Privet. Finally, Magnolia is for stress and anxiety, especially when accompanied by headaches and depression. So as you can see, I use one bottle of herbs to get a lot done. Why not see what a custom herbal formula can do for you? #naturopath #naturopathicmedicine #herbalmedicine #herbalism #plantmedicine #ipswichnaturopath

10.01.2022 Spent yesterday getting ready for a new #naturopathy client. My fledgling graphic design skills are coming along. All this time at home has not been wasted. #naturopath #naturopathicmedicine #nutritionist #ipswichnaturopath #ipswichqld

09.01.2022 There we go. Took a while. Chicken and speck spag bol sauce made with cherry tomatoes from my garden. I'm not going to pretend it's the healthiest thing ever but it's probably the nicest I've made. Probably six servings, so some will go in the freezer. Time to start filling that up again, if I am looking at going back to massaging soon (!!!). Big fan of the freezer meal when I don't get home til after 7. #homecooking #homegrown

09.01.2022 Morning dose. It always surprises me that some people kick so much against taking liquid herbs because of the taste. Mine at the moment is 10ml twice a day, which is pretty standard in how I prescribe. Two mouthfuls. Of a medicine formulated specifically for me without fillers, binders or other excipients. The tablets are naturopath practitioner only, which means you can't get them in a chemist or shop. Two are my every day, two are to treat something specific and will be sho...rt term. The black one is my favourite multi, which is heavy on the B vitamins, contains more active forms of the nutrients (so the body doesn't have to work as much to break it down and absorb it) and the latest version has some ingredients designed to prevent DNA degradation, which is exactly what you want in something you take every day. This is why you go see a #naturopath. Targeted health care and quality products. #ipswichnaturopath

07.01.2022 Putting together someone's herbal medicines #ipswichnaturopath #herbaldispensary

07.01.2022 In my Facebook memories this morning:

07.01.2022 Well. You're quite dated. This is a diet plan for lowering cholesterol from 1999. Note the margarine, skim milk everything and the complete lack of attention paid to glycaemic index, like someone with high cholesterol isn't also needing questions asked about blood sugar to be asked. I am all about meeting my clients where they are in their health journey (I am rolling my eyes at myself for using that phrase, don't worry) and I have to be prepared for people needing speciality diets who don't cook much but what is THIS. I suspect a generational shift has happened since this was written. My grandmother would have eaten it, but a Boomer today would be very unimpressed and would leave me if I suggested it and go on Hello Fresh. And they would be right. #nutritionist #naturopath

06.01.2022 Handwritten label. Retro. Had the biggest stack I've had in years last night and thankfully I found this baby. When I first started making #arnica cream in 2005 I made it strong enough that I could stand on a sprained ankle for eight hours in retail and be fine. Things aren't pretty here this morning so I won't manage that today, but the relief last night was significant and I am getting around better today. I will try the latest version and see how that compares. #herbalmedicine #herbalist #aromatherapy #herbalmanufacturing

05.01.2022 And these are native #raspberries that I am waiting to plump up. I got them from Kurt at Flora 4 Fauna on Facebook. He's in #Gatton now and sells plants that are supposed to grow in the Lockyer Valley, but I don't think native raspberry plants are that hard to find. You'd get a decent feed if you grew a bank of them. I decided it was absurd that we get our berries shipped from the other side of the planet so I found varieties that grow here in #Queensland. I have things like midyim, native grapes, and riberries as well, but they're not currently fruiting. #gardening #ipswichqld #homegrown #queensland

05.01.2022 New blog post! (Yes! Avicenna has a blog!) https://avicennaipswich.wordpress.com//tips-for-good-slee/

05.01.2022 Continuing education. Manipulating Taste for Therapeutic Effect. Basically, if you're a naturopath and Kerry Bone talks, you turn up. Those herbs in my wall in the clinic? They're his life's work.

04.01.2022 Checking the #blueberries

04.01.2022 Working hard. Clearly. G was napping elsewhere and I have been putting together a blog post on why exercise is so critical for blood sugar control. My day so far has been a trawl through scientific research and firmly resisting the urge to wander off on fascinating tangents. Basically, if things are working correctly 80-90% of your blood glucose gets used by your skeletal muscles, and this process is the first thing to go wrong years earlier if you're heading towards prediabe...tes, diabetes type 2, cardiovascular disease, metabolic disease and some cancers. So go and exercise, especially if you've got that tidal wave of a family history listed above heading towards you like I do. And exercise anyway, even if the tidal wave has arrived and your figurative lilo and beach umbrella has been carted out to sea. The paper I am reading at the moment states your skeletal muscles will still take care of about 30% of the blood glucose, which isn't nothing. #nutritionist #naturopath #ipswichnaturopath #naturopathy #furryassistant

04.01.2022 #Homegrown feral cherry tomatoes were getting a bit enthusiastic. I am currently cooking them down before putting them through the blender for passata, and from there I will turn it into something bolagneise-y with some chicken mince, vegies, speck I pulled out of the freezer and merlot salt I pulled out of the back of the spice cupboard. #homecooking

04.01.2022 Bell Street #ipswichqld 1910. Where the man in the white hat is standing on the left would have been the railway station, then the Caledonian Hotel.

04.01.2022 And then there's this. Who knocked down that pretty tobacconist and built the considerably less pretty arcade that Avicenna stands in today? I would like to have a word with them. #ipswichqld

04.01.2022 This afternoon's job us to watch what will no doubt be a fantastic class on the herbal treatment of long term effects of COVID-19 symptoms with Jon and Tara Baklund. Unfortunately, #herbalists in the US are able to share with us a wealth of experience in treating the condition. I don't expect I will be treating COVID myself, as I am sure Queensland Health will have that very tightly locked down (which is fine) but I fully expect to see what is being called Post-Covid Syndrome at some point and I already spent years of my life learning everything else that I know so I don't have a problem taking more time to learn now. #naturopath #herbalmedicine #herbalist #herbalmedicine #naturopathicmedicine #ipswichnaturopath

03.01.2022 Hello, you. Soon, hopefully. I go in and out of Avicenna seeing naturopathy clients but my treatment room is just not itself. (I put the massage table away in April when I did my first aid certificate covid-stylee. I am not wrestling with it again with an injured wrist.) I am also not too sad to not be massaging at the moment while we wait and see if Queensland is going to have a second flare up like Victoria. I would hate to fill up my diary and then have to cancel everyone again. When I do start taking bookings again I will contact everyone I cancelled in March first. Thank you for your patience. I hope you have a great week.

03.01.2022 #Homegrown vegies as part of dinner from my Lockdown Vegie Garden. Will definitely be continuing this going forward. The carrot is one of the few that sprouted from seeds that expired in 2015. I will be eating the beetroot greens along with some longevity spinach that I have growing in a jar on my bench. #gardening #gardener

03.01.2022 Hard to beat a lovely big fat scented #rose. My garden is doing alright in spite of me. My hand, however... I am grumpy about that this week. Had intended to start doing practice massages. It no longer hurts to cut pumpkin or cheese. Then I spent an hour two days last week handwriting and immediately both times had to go to bed and was wiped out asleep for three hours, which is what happened every day doing rehab when it was worse. Yesterday it just ached. The delay gives a bit more time for the soundproofing materials for the clinic to arrive, which I suppose isn't bad, but I really am getting tired of this now. Don't injure your wrists or hands. The recovery is rough.

03.01.2022 Different to the usual feral cherry #tomatoes I get.