Mother Nature’s Little Helpers
by Dr Andrew Tresidder
A workshop for the Tamar Dowsers at North Hill Village Hall
Any event run by Andrew Tresidder is a joy to attend. His evident positivity and enthusiasm lighten up even the gloomiest of autumn afternoons, and you leave the venue feeling much better than when you arrived. It was worth the TDs membership fee for this session alone!
I n the workaday world, Dr Andrew Tresidder is 'practitioner health south-west clinical lead, a GP educator, Somerset clinical commissioning group GP patient safety lead and GP appraiser'. He is very experienced personally, and he regularly shares those life skills and his training with other mainstream, medical professionals. But Andrew also has decades of experience that lies at the edge of conventional health-care.
When he first came to talk to us, over five years ago, it seemed unlikely that someone with such a diverse skill set could co-exist within a field that is so fearful of straying too far away from the straight and narrow. Yet AT is still there, still working on both sides of the ethereal fence and still helping people in such different, yet completely complementary, ways.
In this session, Andrew gave us a general introduction to how the body and the mind can be aided by the application of appropriate infusions. He described the process of determining which plant-based materials to select for which issues, and how to use them medically. He does not shy away from using dowsing to determine the appropriate essences for any given set of personal circumstances, or the combinations in which to apply them.
In times gone by, many of those who have promoted homeopathy have sought to justify their work in terms of yet-to-be-determined fringe chemical reactions - or by resorting to describing it as 'just' being a placebo effect, as if that were in some way an inappropriate method of healing However, here Dr Tresidder is stating that, in his opinion, we are talking about straight information transfer. As someone who has ploughed this same, sometimes lonely, furrow for many years, it was music to my ears.
But Andrew is always very much the professional GP. He is using Bach and Saskia plant essences, not because they seem to be worth a try, or because someone else once wrote about them, but because he has used them at the coal face himself - and he has seen the results. He knows that homeopathy works for many people, including some of his own clients.
Having worked at a major acute hospital myself, I know that in the world of mainstream medicine there is much, understandable, concentration on Evidence-Based medical results. Less scrupulous suppliers can be all-too-keen to get their goods to market as quickly as possible (think thalidomide). But this reticence has the unfortunate side effect of excluding most of those medicines and procedures that only work to some extent most of the time, or whose benefits are statistically significant yet not indefinitely repeatable.
Potentially, this is a big loss to the well-being of society generally, especially when the substances in question are biologically harmless - and can be used alongside more conventional approaches with no known harmful interactions.
While much of modern healthcare is about efficiency in a finance-based society, Andrew shows how much could be gained by addressing the underlying catalysts of so many of today's familiar ailments, using nature-derived medicaments and benign information transfer. We seek, and have come to expect, instant pain relief and immediate medical intervention, when all too often the root of the physical malaise can be found in an individual's work and/or social stress, aided and abetted by an unforgiving built environment.
Additionally, Dr Tresidder ventures out into the even more contentious world of co-incidence. By choosing a number of cards from a pack of face-down images of Bach remedy essences, we are encouraged to select the infusions that will be most beneficial for us to use today. What seems like a modified child's card game is in fact the entrance portal of the tangled web of information field theory. Not only are we choosing what to use, but we are doing so without exercising any active choice. In the conventional world, the interface between human action and external vectors is pretty clear, but here we are merging intuition with undetectable input and applying the results - or is it that we are using our deep perception to analyse the etheric input to our own, or our mutual, advantage. Maybe we should just stick to the cards for now!
Andrew has always been, and remains, a very generous and engaging man, who brings his own workshop materials for us to use and take away - and sells complementary tinctures and infusions at trade or cost price. Even his book Healing and Self-care is available online for nothing. He shares his knowledge and wisdom at minimal cost - and he strikes you simply as a messenger on a mission for all who seek him out. It's something he has come to understand from his own journey and he proffers it for anyone with an open mind to take it away to consider. No evangelism, no hard sell, just a very genuine chap with information to transfer - if you wish to receive it.
Many thanks to Dr Andrew Tresidder and to his colleagues for making the trip down from Somerset to be with us in East Cornwall. Many in the room were clearly very taken with both his attitude and his processes. He will always be a welcome presence at the TDs.
Nigel Twinn
Tamar Dowsers
October 2024
Health and Self -Care is a free book available as download from https://healthandself.care
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