Image via Wikipedia REHAB THE FRENCH WAY After they leave hospital, the French will often get their doctor to book them in to a spa for rehabilitation. In France they have been going to spas for centuries, and are serious about spa treatment... (Continue reading)
La Roche Posay Is one of the best medical spas I have ever visited. When my skin was rough, peeling and horrid to look at, from Tamoxifen and the other drugs I was on, their doctors just examined me – sent... (Continue reading)
Kylie Minogue Image by Getty Cancer treatment Where do celebrities like Kylie Minogue, Marianne Faithfull and others go for cancer treatment? To France. But there is nothing stopping British cancer patients following celebrities and taking advantage of superior French hospitals. A new... (Continue reading)
Mountain Flowers Steve Selwood FLOWER POWER MAKES A STATEMENT For centuries people have used Aromatherapy: the use of plant oils for medical purposes (e.g. antiseptics) for treatments and for well-being. Today, Aromatherapy as an art or basis for treatment is well-known –... (Continue reading)
La Ferme du Soleil in summer – view of mountain . . . and winter – eating outside . We had come to La Ferme du Soleil for a relaxing “wellness” break. As a group we thought ourselves fit and healthy, but the thought of... (Continue reading)
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Brides-les-Bains (easily reached via any Eurostar/Rail Europe service to the French Alps) is a lovely old Thermal spa that has been sympathetically modernised. Instead of visitors walking sedately around the gardens, today they go ski-ing in the winter, and indulge in... (Continue reading)
M.E. IS A DIFFICULT PROBLEM But sufferers can find help in France. The French have been experimenting with banning pesticides for years, and this definitely seems to have a beneficial effect . In Savoy Alps of France some villages took the... (Continue reading)
Image by Lady_Elixir via Flickr Aix-les-Bains The British have been coming here for years. Queen Victoria loved to visit here ‘incognito’ as the Countess of Balmoral, bringing her daughter Princess Beatrice, who suffered from rheumatism – as the waters are good for... (Continue reading)
Sunrise from our balcony FOR SKIN PROBLEMS inc. ECZEMA, ASTHMA, PSORIASIS, AFTER CANCER, etc. And Wellness treatments. Young men wafting around in bath robes were an unexpected, but welcome contrast to the elderly people we expected to see at the medical spa of... (Continue reading)