Health Triangle - November 2023

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“O martyred youth and manhood overthrown The burden of your wrongs is on my head.”
When Siegfried Sassoon wrote these words over 100 years ago, they referred to the ‘war to end all wars.’ If only…! The Heroes feature in this edition confirms that was only wishful thinking around the end of the so-called Great War. At around the same time, Dr Ita Wagman was proving the healing power of mistletoe. In the first quarter of the last century, the human race, which had relied on plants for thousands of years, switched direction in favour of pharmaceuticals and surgery. Today sofi.health, a newcomer to UK Health Radio, is applying rigorous discipline in order to present ‘Nature’s science for modern medicine’, with regular individual feedback from an online community some 15,000 strong! Since the global pandemic in recent years, health has become everyone’s single biggest issue - physical health and mental health and the synergy between the two. The power of the mind is acknowledged time and time again in this issue. Joanne-Divine Life Yogini offers optimism is her passionate ‘dark night of the soul’ article. Niki Cassar and others acknowledge that the power to heal all our dis-ease is available within us. Dr Spiegel and others believe we can and should access it ourselves. How better to deal with potentially debilitating stress or anxiety than by identifying it clearly? And perhaps recording it on a daily basis in a personal journal? Our only indisputable power is over our own attitudes towards the problems which confront us. And the behaviour which is born of those attitudes. It is not realistic to imagine any individual among us can solve the war in Ukraine or in Gaza or anywhere else on earth. In Henry V, Shakespeare glorifies war with the idea that the ‘youth of England is on fire.’ More realistically he says: ‘Now thrive the armourers!’ And the Funeral directors, too, of course.