Shauna Ashewood Naturopath & Medical Herbalist in Adelaide, South Australia | Alternative & holistic health service

Shauna Ashewood Naturopath & Medical Herbalist

Locality: Adelaide, South Australia

Phone: +61 8 8242 2083

Address: 25 North St 5000 Adelaide, SA, Australia

Website: http://www.sanaturopath.com

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23.01.2022 Yes!! This is hopeful...

22.01.2022 One of the many positive outcomes of our international conference over the weekend was a direct approach by Senator Richard Di Natale, who wanted to discuss con...cerns around private health insurance reform. Assoc Prof Jon Wardle was in Canberra today and met with Senator Di Natale, as well as the Department of Health and Dr Kerryn Phelps MP to discuss these issues. Jon presented each with a package including the White Paper co-authored by the NHAA, ARONAH, and UTS (summarising the significant evidence for naturopathy), plus a copy of the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, the Lin report, and the program for our wonderful conference. Watch this space!

18.01.2022 Hi all Health fund rebates not too be reinstated this year. This is not what we wanted to hear, but there is still promise for change in the long term. We have good people working on it.

18.01.2022 The truth comes out.....

17.01.2022 You won't need a study to tell you this if you do it !

17.01.2022 Sensible all round advice. I would add the use of respiratory antiseptics as well as immune modulating herbs. See a professional for specific advice.

16.01.2022 This is quite a backlash. Health fund rebates, restrictions on compounding pharmacies....and the spotlight also on Integrative doctors. The clients and comsumers of these health choices are proactively looking after their own health!

15.01.2022 Well thats good news!

14.01.2022 As a GP and conjoint professor at the National Institute of Complementary Medicine, I will continue to fight the Morrison Government’s decision to remove the co...mplementary therapies yoga, pilates, tai chi, Western herbal medicine and naturopathy from receiving private health insurance rebates. Practitioners want certainty and patients want choice. Internationally, health systems are adopting complementary therapies rather than shunning them. Thousands of practitioners and patients have gotten in touch with me due to sheer frustration at the Government’s decision that comes into effect today. The medical evidence for complementary therapies exists and they can be part of an effective medical treatment program for patients. A total of 16 natural therapies have been banned from receiving private health rebates from April 1 because the Morrison Government thinks they lack scientific evidence. The problem is that the evidence relied upon to make this decision was out of date, with no studies included that were more recent than 2014. Around 80 per cent of Australians use natural medicines and treatments. The move was designed to push down private health premiums, but experts admit it will have a minimal impact. I spoke to Sky News today and said the following: I think that the net was cast far too wide for these complementary therapies. I have asked the Health Minister to reconsider the list of prohibited therapies and particularly to remove from that list yoga, tai chi, Western herbal medicine, naturopathy and pilates so that people can continue to get value from their private health insurance for these modalities. I think it is very important that both sides of Government understand the importance of integrated therapies for individual choice. We have people who are integrating a variety of complementary therapies which do have support, with evidence, for their healthcare, and particularly for their preventative healthcare and for recovery and rehabilitation. To not be able to get the value out of your private health insurance by being able to use these therapies of choice is a very backwards step. It is certainly out of step with what is happening internationally. One example is that for low back pain in the NHS in the UK, first line therapies are tai chi and yoga, yet these are two of the therapies that are being removed from the list of subsidies for private health insurance - I think that this needs a rethink.

12.01.2022 More progress we hope!

04.01.2022 Well here is evidence, if you need it. Or you could just spend time in nature.........

04.01.2022 We are lucky to have committed herbal professionals and bodies like the NHAA to lobby to reverse decisions like this. A return of one of our favourite urinary herbs will be welcome!