Home Remedies

ODYSSEY Magazine September/October 2005 pp. 20-21 Reports & Comments All that high-calorie olive oil is good for you By Elena Paravantes *Elena Paravantes, RD. is a Registered Clinical Dietitian/Nutritionist It seems tha...

In 2003, holistic biologist, and transpersonal psychologist Rupert Sheldrake published a book on The Sense of Being Stared At, which he subtitled - And Other Aspects of the Extended Mind. Sheldrake's biography, career an...

In 2003, holistic biologist, and transpersonal psychologist Rupert Sheldrake published a book on The Sense of Being Stared At, which he subtitled - And Other Aspects of the Extended Mind. Sheldrake's biography, career an...

In 2003, holistic biologist, and transpersonal psychologist Rupert Sheldrake published a book on The Sense of Being Stared At, which he subtitled - And Other Aspects of the Extended Mind. Sheldrake's biography, career an...

In 2003, holistic biologist, and transpersonal psychologist Rupert Sheldrake published a book on The Sense of Being Stared At, which he subtitled - And Other Aspects of the Extended Mind. Sheldrake's biography, career an...

My grandmother used to tell me in Kythera,that I should always have in my pocket a piece of mouldy bread.When I asked her why,she replied that if I ever wounded myself,I should rub the mouldy bread on the open wound. Is...

FOREWORD by Dr Archie Kalokerinos, Bingara, N.S.W. (Dr Kalokerinos, now in general practice, was for many years health advisor to the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee in Canberra and previous to that was Medica...

Exe ta pothia sou zesta Ti kefali sou kria To stomaki sou athyano Yiatro ne exies xria Keep you feet warm Your head cold Your stomach empty You will never need a doctor Many Kytherian sayings were based on a powerful bel...

When I was a little boy, one of the practices that my father used, and was particularly good at administering -was "verduzzes". This practise was both alarming and exciting for a little Kytherian-Greek boy. First of all...

Most Australians will recognize Aerogard as the registered brandname for a fly and mosquito repellant that is applied to the skin. It can be purchased in the form of a spray-on or a roll-on. My maternal Uncle - Theothosi...

What follows is the Speakers programme for Cancer Treatments in General Practice Conference, of 2002. What is interesting to me is that two Kytherians feature prominently: Dr Archie Kalokerinos, and Dr Christos Miliotis....

Maybe we should have a heading on superstitions? Anyway, around our house in Michigan in the Fall, we used to get bats in our home on nights when the weather would start to cool in the evenings and the little bats would...

Scorpions are one of the few venemous creatures on the island of Kythera. My mother Evangalia, (Angie) Poulos (nee Coroneos) told me that her mother Georgia (nee Mentes) used to ask her children to bring any scorpions th...

My mother, Evangalia - Angie Poulos (nee Coroneos) used many Kytherian remedies throughout our childhood. Some were simple, but miraculous in their effect. I recall sustaining a very large swelling/bruise - about 3 cm's...

This remedy isn't specifically Kytherian, but I learnt about it on Kythera about 20 years ago, and have found it useful ever since. One of the world's most famous herbalists, Juliet de Bairacli Levy, lived down at Paliop...