Choosing a good health practitioner is a very important decision. This website gives you an overview of Richard Whelan and his work, to help you feel well informed before making an appointment.
Since 1989, Richard Whelan has helped many people with both common and complex health conditions using (1) Diagnostic Services - to determine and treat the cause of health problems; and (2) Advanced Herbal Medicines - natural, strong and proven remedies from around the world.
Richard Whelan studied for his diplomas in Australia in the mid 1980s and has been working in Christchurch, New Zealand, as a Naturopath and Medical Herbalist since 1989.
Richard is a qualified, registered practitioner who works with the highest professional standards and ethics.
He has built a busy and full-time practice through attention to detail and by using safe, effective medicines that get good results with his patients.
In a very real sense herbal medicine has been the subject of an ongoing clinical trial for at least 40,000 years! The great test of time has proven those herbal medicines that work, now the tests of science are helping us to understand how they work, and in the process new possibilities are constantly coming to light.
Today it is recognised by the World Health Organisation that herbs are by far the most widespread form of medicine used by people living on our planet. Enormous amounts of scientific research and discovery have taken place within herbal medicine in modern times.
Health problems seen by modern herbalists have typically developed over considerable periods and involve a weakness or imbalance of one or more of the body's core systems. Herbal medicine is especially suited to the safe and successful treatment of such long-standing problems.
You are very welcome to contact the clinic to enquire if the problems you are experiencing are likely to respond to Richard’s help. Or use the Online contact page to make an enquiry.
Compared to conventional medicine, holistic medicine has several great strengths:
Treatments are safe, gentle and natural, with lasting strength.
The focus is on finding and treating the cause of health problems.
There is time, and the desire, to help the whole person, to give the tools to care for health and be protected against future illness.
