Introduction
No subject excites me more than Health. At a very young age, I was introduced to natural medicine. My father was an herbalist, and much of my youth was spent helping him to gather and process the many plants and herbs he used in his formulas. He truly believed you are what you think, eat, breath, and drink, and that God has provided us with a medicine for every sickness. My father was also very adamant that he grow most of the food that was put on our dinner table.
Unlike medicine chests of today, filled with a host of pharmaceuticals, our medicine chest was filled with various herbs. Sickness was rare in our home; however I remember on occasion coming home from school with the flu, only to be put to bed with extra blankets and given an infusion of blue vervain and mint tea. Within a few minutes, I would begin to perspire, my fever would subside, and by the next day I was back to school.
It was common to have my fathers patients stay at our home for one or two weeks at a time. This time was used to counsel them in regard to improving their health through diet, nutrition, lifestyle changes, and the use of nature's medicines.
After thirty-five years in practice there isn't a day that passes when I don't thank God for the knowledge and wisdom I have obtained in the area of natural healing. I'm constantly asked if I ever become sick, and how I withstand working such long hours, and the truth is that now, at the age of fifty-five, I enjoy empirical health. To date, neither I nor my family members have required the services of a medical doctor, though I have experienced personal affectations that have confirmed my philosophy that we are, emotionally, mentally, and physically, one being.
In my early twenties, every July 1st weekend, I would fall ill with a severe influenza, characterized by high fever, body pain, and extreme sleepiness. This malady occurred every year, and always at the same time. The question I needed to answer was, why? Every year around this particular time I became overwhelmed with the responsibilities of my father's herb business, which resulted in sleep deprivation. Once I became aware that this was the real problem, I was treated homeopathically, and there has never been a recurrence.
Similarly, when I was working in the medical homeopathic hospital in India, which I must say was the most stressful two weeks of my life, the patient load was horrendous and the working conditions were very poor. On the day that I was to return to Canada, I awakened in the morning with conjunctivitis of my left eye. The eye was inflamed and swollen, and the pain was like being scraped with razor blades. During my time at the hospital, I had treated several cases of viral conjunctivitis, so one could assume that I had contracted it from a patient. What I needed to ask myself now was why had I become susceptible to this? Susceptibility is, after all, the underlying cause of all viruses. In the last days in the hospital, I had found myself in a very anxious state. I was wondering if I could maintain the pace at which I was working, and of course there was the issue of performance. I treated my conjunctivitis based on this, and within three hours there was a 70% improvement in my case.
Now, it is not my intention with this philosophy to create a sour taste in your mouth regarding medical science. There may be times when drugs may be necessary due to the severity of your condition; however you should still ask yourself if homeopathy can compliment the drugs you are taking. Homeopathic remedies do not conflict with drugs in any way. In fact, I've seen many patients requiring drugs for health issues such as asthma, hypertension, and angina, and since coming under the care of homeopathy, these same patients require few to no drugs for their conditions.
Presently I have many patients who go to their doctor for a yearly check-up and are given a clean bill of health. During the year these people deal with their everyday health issues by successfully using homeopathic remedies. With the philosophy I am going to present to you, I hope that I can create an awareness of the importance of having two healthcare professionals attending to your health, one medical, and one homeopathic. You should feel confident telling your medical doctor that whenever possible you'd like to treat your health concerns more naturally, with the use of homeopathy.