KC was unable to work.She had had a reaction to a flu shot.She had been to many doctors and had many test.Her diagnosis was fibromyalgia with Cytomegalo Virus.When I met her, she had been ill for 18 months.She was able to work as a nurse one day per week and slept most of the rest of the time.Her symptoms matched the flu.There is a homeopathic remedy that matches that.She was given Hom. Gelsemium.After one week her symptoms were 90% gone.She had one relapse, was treated with a different remedy and 3 years later she is still doing well, working 5 days per week.
It is not scientific, but the only explanation that makes sense to me is that her immune system was “stuck” thinking she had the flu.The remedy pushed her through that and allowed her system to return to normal.Cost about $20.00
DC is a woman in her fifties with giant cobweb-type floater in the visual field of her Right Eye.The ophthalmologist said it was caused by a vitreous separation and would go away on its own in 6-10 weeks.She took homeopathic Phosphorous.The black webs disappeared in about one week.Cost $8.00
MM is a 6 year old.By age three, he had had 5 ear infections and the doctor wanted to place tubes in his tympanic membranes.We took him off dairy products and he was given homeopathic Chamomilia very time he had a little ear ache.In three years he has had no infections and no antibiotics.He remains off dairy products.
JS had been to ER twice for chest pain.He had seen cardiology, had a stress test and chest x-ray.I saw him three weeks into this whole ordeal.My determination was that he had a sliding hiatal hernia that caused part of his stomach to be up into his chest, creating most of his symptoms.I had him stand on his tip toes and drop down onto his heels.We both heard the sucking sound as the stomach slipped out of the chest and back into this abdominal cavity where it belonged.He had immediate relief of his symptoms.Cost: one office visit.
Every day the miracles of modern medicine occur.Every day the failures of modern medicine cause harm and death as people have reactions and complications.Natural medicine using herbs and homeopathy have little or no side effects.Of course, not every case is successful, but we have more tools if we incorporate this into traditional medicine. With additional tools and safer options integration of all available therapies is the best.
What is health?
Traditional medicine would say it is the absence of disease.
Health really is having a vital energy every day to do the things that one wants to do with no limitations.Our first level of health is what we were born with.This is called the constitution.This is a summation of the influences of the pregnancy and the genetic tendencies.Even before birth, we begin to be touched by the world around us.Toxic exposures, infections, physical trauma, emotional shocks all begin to exert their influence on our constitution.
Some of these may cause us to experience a lower lever of health.We may recover fully or we may only recover partially.As we go through the years, the constant impacts create changes in our level of health.If our recovery and self-healing potentials are greater than the insults to our body, mind and spirit then we will retain a reasonably good level of health.
If the insults (often self inflicted) are greater than our self healing ability we will begin to experience acute and then chronic illness which may eventually become degenerative beyond the point of repair.
These conditions are then named as diseases.As parents we can do our best to maintain a good fetal environment for our child.Then as the child grows from infancy to adult hood, we do our best to reduce toxins, provide good water, food, etc.We can attempt reduce physical and emotional shocks.We encourage the growing child to avoid the tobacco, alcohol, caffeine, sweets, things that are known to be detrimental.
We should do periodic cleanses to remove the accumulated toxins.
Use prayer and meditation to remove the emotional shocks affecting our mind and spirit.
Use homeopathic medicine to remove the bad effects of physical and emotional trauma.
Use foods, herbs and natural methods to build our self-healing and recovery methods.This is how to remain healthy our whole lives.Put Your Health in Your Own Hands.
Mind Body Spirit Connection
When I started in medicine 30 years ago in Physician Assistant School, I learned mostly about the body and its problems. We studied a little psychology but very little about how the mind works and nothing about the body mind spirit connection. I noticed that many physical illnesses were caused by stress and how we think. And over the years, I have begun to understand that our mind is the connecting link between the body and our spiritual self. When we learn how to control our thoughts, then our bodies become more whole because we are more connected to the perfect spiritual side of our selves.
Many of us have religious beliefs that help us develop our spiritual side. But let us suppose it is the opposite, maybe we are spiritual beings, trying to become more human. If that is the case then it is extremely important to learn how our minds work so that our spiritual part, which is perfect, can connect with our bodies to instruct it how it can improve to become healthy and happy every day that we are alive.
We can learn to consciously control our thoughts to focus on solutions instead of the problems; the desired perfect outcome instead of the worst-case scenario; the good in people instead of the faults. We can begin to listen to the still small voice of intuition that is constantly guiding us. Intuition comes as mental pictures, self talk, or feelings. It is the perfect inner spiritul part of us trying to guide our bodies to do the correct thing for the best outcome for all concerned. It is important to learn as much as possible about ourselves. Read books, listen to tapes, or attend classes to learn more.
About Naturopathic Medicine
Naturopathic Medicine is a system of health and healing that does not rely on a diagnosis. It involves an assessment using questions, iridology, and muscle response testing to identify the underliying cause of the symptoms.
The search is for root causes. The causes are disruptions in the normal body systems mostly related to nutritional deficiencies, toxins, imbalances in normal healthy bacteria, or chronic injury and abuse.
This natural health assessment results in a prescription for health which may include nutrition and diet, supplements, herbs, massage and reflexology, exercise, cleanses, chiropractic, and energy work. The foods are the most important. They are the fuel for your body. They should be live and organically grown if possible. We think that Eating Right 4 Your Blood Type is an excellent, easy to follow system of selecting foods that are most beneficial to your body.
The other things are designed to restore the natural physiology and energy flow within the body. The goal is perfect health so that your body can fight off disease in a natural way. Our job at The Healing Center is to help you find your root cause and lead you to a healthy way of life.
About Homeopathy
Homeopathic Medicine is a system of Life Care created by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann over 150 years ago. He was a Physician and after his own daughter died, he devised a totally new system. This is based on the concept that "like cures like" and based totally on symptoms and not on a diagnosis. He found that certain natural substances, if given to a healthy person, would make them ill with specific repeatable symptoms. (He called this proving). But if that substance was given to a person who was ill with the same symptoms as the proving, it would cure them, hence the term, Homeopathy (like cures like).
The exact mechanism of action of this is not known, but it has proven to work very well. For example, the influenza of 1918 (which was also bird flu) killed over 50 million people. Homeopathic remedies cured 80% and Traditional medicine cured aout 20%.
Of course, traditional medicine has come a long way since them, but Homeopathy does work well and will be a safe, successful treatment for the upcoming bird flu.
Homeopathy can be used for acute and chronic health issues. These are some of our favorite remedies to help our clients. They are inexpensive and when you get the correct remedy, it takes care of the mental, physical and emotional issues.
As I study and understand the depth of homeopathy, I want to talk a little more about it and show you some of the possibilities.Homeopathy has been around for 200 years.It is a complete system of therapeutics with over 3000 remedies. In Europe, it is often the primary form of medical care with prescription medicine and surgery used only for emergencies or if herbs and homeopathy fail.
I have found it to be a great tool for things that traditional American health care cannot address.Here are a few examples:The shock of bad news.Grief or loss that you just cannot get over.Fatigue ever since a bad flu or mono.Headaches every since the birth of a child.Confusion or memory changes since a head injury.Autism.Accelerated healing of sprains and fractures.Colic in children.Teething.Depression.Physical and mental effects of premenstrual syndrome.Muscle cramps and spasms.And the list goes on.
Our emphasis at the HealingCenter is on food and nutrition first.Give your body the correct fuel it needs.Give supplements and herbs to cleanse, repair, and rebuild.Use homeopathic medicines to correct the functional conditions.
Take prescription medicine and use surgery to deal with the pathologic or damaged tissue that has deteriorated too far.
Remember our motto, “Put Your Health in Your Own Hands”, means you have to be responsible for your own health.You can not expect the doctor to fix everything.Keep in mind, there are remedies for those things that traditional medicine seems to ignore.
About Holistic Medicine
Holistic Medicine (I like Wholistic) is a system that looks at the whole person and incorporates all the aspects of traditional, natural, and homeopathic medicine, depending on what the person needs.
My old Mentor, Dr. Bruce Bennet, once told me, "use everything available". If a person has back pain, send them to a Chiropractor, not a Surgeon. But if the patient has appendicitis, send them to the Surgeon, not the Chiropractor. And so it is with Wholistic Health.
Many different ingredients are used to help patients achieve good health. This is what we provide at The Healing Center. We like to apply the good parts and pieces from all the different types of medicine to whatever the individual needs at that time.
I am a Physician Assistant, trained in Traditional Medicine, but for 15 years I have been doing Natural Health Options. Barb is a certified Massage Therapist and Naural Health Consultant with 15 years of experience. We are both studying Homeopathy and are Certified Natural Health Consultants. We can provide traditional and natural health assessments. We make recommendations for nutrition, vitamins, minerals, supplements, cleanses, herbs, massage, exercise, hypnotherapy, dream work, Chiropractic, homeopathic remedies, Meditation, Reiki and energy work.
Mind Coaching
Many years ago, I worked with cancer patients doing something I called Cancer Therapy Coaching.This used Mental Training Exercises which were a combination of Hypnosis, Neuroluingistic Programming (NLP), Guided Imagery, and Prayer.The purpose was to reduce side effects and improve the benefits of radiation therapy and chemotherapy using the power of the mind and emotions.It proved to be very successful, but took too much of my time and I was unable to continue that work.I did promise myself that I would someday put this material together on a recording so anyone could use it.So after nearly twenty years, we have prepared these CDs for the benefit of people with many health issues, not just cancer.
"The basic concept of mind coaching is this: The conscious mind, the information that we are aware of, is limited to about 10 bits of information at any given time. The subconscious mind, on the other hand, can handle millions of bits of information at any one time, but we are mostly unaware that this is going on. This part of our mind controls all the autonomic functions, cellular activities, and complex chemistry in our body. By getting into a relaxed, dream-like alpha brain wave state we can learn to program, de-program, and re-program many of the operational systems of our brain and body that are out-dated and are no longer serving us and our best interest.”
There are two versions of the original CD.Some people, when they face life’s challenges, feel a reliance upon God.So, we have prepared "Christian Coaching for Perfect Health", which makes reference to God and Jesus throughout the Mental Training Exercises.Many other people do not share that view, so “Coaching for Perfect Health” was created without the religious language.Use which ever version fits your needs at this time in your life.
Two more CDs with be available in February 2009, "Pay Attention -- Mind Coaching for Kids and Teens", and "Fit, Clean, and Sober -- Mind Coaching for Recovery from Addictions". More are planned for Athletes, Insomnia, Toddlers, and Hospice.
Bach Flowers -- The Amazing Healing Properties of Flowers
Edward Bach (1886-1936) was a Physician.In 1930, at the age of 43, he was frustrated with traditional medicine in England, and he decided to search for a new healing technique. He spent the spring and summer discovering and preparing flower remedies - which include no part of the plant but simply what Bach claimed to be the pattern of energy of the flower. In the winter he treated patients free of charge.
Rather than being based on medical research, using the scientific method, Bach's flower remedies were intuitively derived and based on his perceived energetic connections to the plants.If he felt a negative emotion, he would hold his hand over different plants, and if one alleviated the emotion, he would ascribe the power to heal that emotional problem to that plant.He would then research that conclusion with patients to see if he was correct.He believed that early morning sunlight passing through dew-drops on flower petals transferred the healing power of the flower onto the water, so he would collect the dew drops from the plants. Later, he found that the amount of dew he could collect was not sufficient, so he would suspend the flowers in spring water and allow the sun's rays to pass through them. Today these remedies are made by placing plant parts (usually the flowers) in alcohol, in the sunlight for two weeks, then straining off the solids and using that tincture to make the remedies by diluting them with spring water.
Rather than recognizing the role of germ theory of disease, defective organs, genetic, and other known sources of disease, Bach thought of illness as the result of "a contradiction between the purposes of the soul and the personality's point of view." This internal war, according to Bach, leads to negative moods and energy blocking, which causes a lack of "harmony," thus leading to physical diseases.
Since his practices did not follow any scientific protocol, and his methods were not well understood, they were never accepted by the established medical community.In his book “Heal Thyself” he wrote:
"Disease will never be cured or eradicated by present materialistic methods, for the simple reason that disease in its origin is not material . . . Disease is in essence the result of conflict between the Soul and Mind and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort."
Although the mechanism of their action is not well understood, these remedies are highly effective for mental / emotional difficulties like anxiety, depression, worry, mental chatter, and many more.They are safe and can be taken with any other medicine. They have no side effects.They either help with the problem or nothing happens.
These remedies will not fix an infected gall bladder, but they might help deal with the anger and bitterness that is one of the underlying causes of gall bladder disease, thereby fixing it long before it becomes a physical, pathologic disease.
So if you have resentment, anger, jealousy, worry, hate, or other “negative” emotions these Bach Flower remedies may be helpful.Put Your Health in Your Own Hands.
HOW TO TAKE NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS
Nutritional supplements should be taken with meals to promote increased absorption.Fat-soluble vitamins (such as vitamin A, beta-carotene, vitamin E, and the essential fatty acids linoleic and alpha linolenic acid) should be taken with the meal which contains the most fat during the day.Do not take fat-soluble vitamins with your fiber supplements as the fiber will absorb the nutrient and you will not benefit.
Amino acid supplements should be taken on an empty stomach at least an hour before or after a meal, and taken with fruit juice to help promote absorption.Whenever taking an increased dosage of an isolated amino acid be sure to supplement with a complete amino acid blend.
If you become nauseated when you take tablet supplements, consider taking a liquid form, diluted in a beverage.
If you become nauseated or ill within an hour after taking nutritional supplements, consider the need for a bowel cleanse or rejuvenation program prior to beginning a course or nutritional supplementation.
If you are taking high doses, do not take the supplements all at one time, but divide them into smaller doses taken throughout the day.
Take digestive enzymes with meals to assist digestion.If you are taking pancreatic enzymes for other therapeutic reasons, be sure to take them on an empty stomach between meals.Refer to Food Enzymes, the Missing Link to Radiant Health by Humbart Santillo, MH, ND.
Take mineral supplements away from the highest fiber meals of the day as fiber can decrease mineral absorption.
Whenever taking an increased dosage of an isolated B vitamin, be sure to supplement with a B-complex.The same applies to amino acids.
When taking nutrients be sure to take with meals unless otherwise advised or with sufficient healthy liquids.
