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Issue No. 130 | 05 April 2002 |
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Lights Out on The Hill
Interview: Change Agent Industrial: Balancing the Books Unions: Breaking Out Politics: Pissing on the Light on the Hill History: Of Death and Taxes International: Now That's a Strike! Satire: Mugabe Voted Miss Zimbabwe: Denies Election Rigged Poetry: Flick Go The Branches Review: Red, Red Clydeside
The Soapbox Sport Week in Review Postcard
 Puplick's SermonChikka's LegacySocialists in the UKOrganising GloballyGrape DisappointmentUnion Resignations : Crisis or Opportunity?
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News Workers Health Centre Offers Affordable Care
Normally only available to people with relatively high levels of income, the service is being provided at prices that allow anyone to turn up and be treated. What's more, you can also get your pets treated! Providence Homoeopathic Medical Service is an initiative of the Sisters of Charity in conjunction with the Workers' Health Centre and members of the Australian Homoeopathic Medicine Association. It is situated within the Workers' Health Centre, Ground Floor, 133 Parramatta Rd. The clinic is staffed by qualified and insured practitioners who are giving their time free of charge so that we can offer a professional service to persons without sufficient means to approach fee for service practitioners. Obviously we need to have some income to help pay the rent and replenish consumables, so fee paying clients are encouraged too. Who can come? Anyone - grandparents, adults, children, infants. Ring 9897 2188 and make an appointment. Initial consultations for humans take from 1 to 1 ½ hours, and follow up consultations approximately 45 minutes. Small animal phone consultations are available on request. If you have a Health Care Card or are a pensioner with medical entitlement your consultations will be free and medicines will be charged at the same rate as subsidised doctor's prescriptions. Prices for other clients are modest, and union members receive a discount. Family rates can be negotiated according to circumstances. GST applies. If you are covered by ancillary health insurance, then most funds offer rebates for homoeopathic consultations but not medicines. We will give you an appropriate receipt to present to your fund if required. What is homoeopathy? Homoeo-what? Well might you ask. No, it has nothing to do with sexuality. Homoeo in Greek means similar. Pathy is our pathology. Loosely translated, homoeopathy means a similar condition. The aim of homoeopathy is the rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of health in the shortest, most reliable and most harmless way. It cures the causes of illness and does not merely relieve or suppress the symptoms. Your GP treats your diarrhoea with medicines that cause the opposite effect to the symptoms you have. So he will give you kaolin or opium based mixtures in order to suppress those symptoms. If you took these medicines without the diarrhoea you would soon end up constipated, that is, in an opposite condition. A homoeopath will try to find the one medicine that is an almost exact fit for your personal history and your physical symptoms. We believe and can demonstrate that like cures like. We can practice in this way because for the past 200 years homoeopaths have been conducting experiments on healthy persons with substances derived from the mineral, plant and animal worlds. The exact symptoms that followed taking theses substances have been meticulously recorded. This process is called proving. The symptoms of provers throughout the last two centuries are available in print and via electronic media to homoeopaths all over the world. But knowing that onions make healthy persons' eyes smart and water and their noses run means that we don't just mince up an onion and give it to a person who in sickness has these symptoms. By the time you get Allium Cepa 30 as a homoeopathic remedy the humble onion has gone from the crude substance through a series of 30 dilutions. Starting with one drop of onion solute in 100 drops of alcohol it is shaken vigorously, then one drop of this goes into another 100 drops of alcohol and the process repeated as many times as is required for the potency (strength) sought. These days your homoeopathic medical practitioner will rarely hand make a medicine for you as there are pharmaceutical companies that produce these medicines for us according to strict homoeopathic and good manufacturing process standards. In this way the energetic potential of the crude substance is released, without the side effects. The service is available Mondays to Fridays, from 10am to 5pm (public holidays excepted). Appointments are necessary. As well, it is possible to provide regular on-site clinics if your work place is within reasonable travelling distance of Granville. Call Carol Pedersen on 0409 152040 if you would like to explore this option. Feel free to advertise the service to your members in NSW.
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