Health & Wellness Clinic

“Our pledge of commitment and personal care towards your health and well-being”

The Health and Wellness Clinic is founded on a natural and holistic approach – working with the individual's body, mind and spirit. With personal care and attention, the patient is counselled and the ailment is treated with natural medicine. This can also be combined with reflexology, where pressure points are used during a massage on the hands, body and feet to relieve tension and treat the illness. The reflex points are connected to other parts of the body as a whole, using a special massage technique to stimulate energy flow.

Ethnomedicine Practitioner, Poomany (Linda) Naidoo, founded the Health and Wellness Clinic with a vision of encouraging people to try the alternative medicine routine, which has a gentle, holistic approach. “I want to see happy, healthy people! I want people to view their condition as something that can be managed. Many illnesses can be prevented with simple lifestyle changes. I am happy when patients embrace this vision as well because there is hope. I work with patients side by side, counselling them, taking time to assess what treatment they require. We work with a manageable program, in an environment that is caring, supportive and relaxing,” she says.

Ethomedicine is a practice using science to explore the traditional natural system that helps the human body restore its health and well-being. This is done with herbal medicinal plants such as leaves, roots and flowers to stimulate the body's self-healing capabilities to counter-act physical symptoms and boost the body's immunity. Herbs are known for their natural cleansing and detoxification property that flushes out the toxins and harmful substances. According to the World Health Organisation, it is estimated that 80% of the world's population use herbal medicine. Alternative medicine is also becoming popular, notably with doctors getting more requests for referrals and in many cases including alternative therapy in their treatment.

Conventional medicine treats the symptoms rather than focusing on the root cause, prevention of diseases and sustenance of health. It is proven that illnesses such as diabetes, obesity, arthritis, high blood pressure, depression, coronary artery disease etc are lifestyle diseases and develop over time. It can be treated using a combination of lifestyle management and counselling where these illnesses are controlled and even reversed. Alternative medicine uses an approach that pain is a body's way of self-communication rather than the conventional medical diagnosis of something going wrong. E.g. a simple change of a person's diet, can alter many problems, while ensuring that a person is counselled in an environment that is relaxing and caring, which accelerates healing. It has been documented that cancers, strokes and life-threatening diseases has been made more manageable using alternative medicine and in many cases even cured. Cannibis oil is also known for its miracle healing abilities. The Health and Wellness Clinic is the only known practice in KwaDukuza that stocks cannibis oil.

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