You can get a vision for a healthy future through a variety of professionals, including what I am, a massage therapist. But massage therapists cannot diagnose or recommend. If you are very sick, as I was, you need a variety of visions from health professionals who can both diagnose and recommend and who practice holistic medicine. These folks are doctors: a doctor of chiropractic, a doctor of acupuncture, and a doctor of medicine.
I said four in my title, and the fourth one does not diagnose nor recommend, but is often an invaluable consultant to the other three to do exactly that: a holistic pharmacist. Luckily, pharmacists are always more easily accessible to you for your many questions. If you are living in the western world, and if you are very sick, you are most likely taking multiple prescriptions drugs and therefore, you have a pharmacist. If you do not have a holistic pharmacist near you, then please call one of the pharmacists at Peoples' Pharmacy in Austin, Texas http://www.peoplesrx.com/.
Why holistic? What does holistic mean? The simple answer is this. If you want each of these folks to actually respect one anothers' disciplines, and if you want them to look at the whole you, not just a small part of you, you want your four vital professionals to be holistic.
How do you get holistic doctors? Call the doctor's office and ask, "is your doctor holistic?". If the receptionist says, "I have no earthly idea what you are talking about", then this isn't the office for you. If the receptionist says anything similar to the effect of, "Yes, Dr. Wonderful looks at the whole you, looks for underlying causes, and gladly works with your other health care professionals for the success of your overall health" BINGO, we have a winner, worthy of your valuable time for an interview consult.
Before I go further into how to find these awesome professionals that are going to turn your life around, let me tell you why you need them. You need them because they will each look at your problem from an entirely different perspective.
Here is an analogy: Four blind men were introduced to an elephant, each for the first time. The first man, feeling the elephants leg said, "oh the elephant is about ten inches around, very hard, with a bump in the middle. The man feeling the tail said, "No the elephant is about four inches around, and constantly moving. The man feeling the ear said, "What are you talking about? Yes, the elephant is constantly moving, but it is large and very flat. The man feeling the elephants stomach said, "yes, the elephant is definitly flat, but not moving at all, and is rather rounded and firm. Just like we who can see, know that the elephant is all these vital parts together, we want doctors who treat the whole of us as well.
Unless you have doctors who treat the whole of you, the whole you will never get well. Back about nine years ago, when I had nine doctors, I used to be amazed at how even my general practitioner really didn't want to take responsibility for the whole of me. He'd see me for colds and the flu, but for any problem I had to do with any of the other doctors, like high blood pressure (my heart) or asthmatic breathing (allergist), and my GP would refer me immediately to my specialist. I don't know if it was a fear of liability, a lack of knowledge, or a fear of peer pressure in a relatively small town (specialists exist by referral cash flow) or what, but I do know it didn't help my overall health nor my mental well being. I often felt alone and lonely.
Perhaps you are like I was. I knew, for years, that not one doctor was looking at the overall me. I would go into my appointment with each doctor, and each doctor would always say the same thing: "you are doing fine". It wasn't until Dr. Dorene Witter, http://www.thewittercenter.com/, a holistic chiropractor, took a good look at the whole me that I began to get well. By looking at the whole me, Dr. Witter found what were to her, very simply underlying nutritional deficiencies causing an overlap of many of my symptoms. And treating these underlying nutritional deficiencies is what put me on the road to the unbelievable, great health I have today! I went from having nine medical doctors I saw regularly (at least one a month) and 11 pharmaceutical prescriptions I took daily, down to zero pharmaceutical prescriptions and only one medical doctor appointment annually. WOW.
And I feel great. I will cover my symptoms in another blog, but for now, register this in your brain: doctors, who treat the whole you, can often find underlying causes of multiple symptoms and begin your path to really great health just like it did mine. Mine is not a unique story.
Another reason to have a holistic chiropractor, acupuncturist, medical doctor and pharmacist is because often one discipline will work for you when another will not. For example, my friend Albert http://www.albertsaenz.com/had torn a muscle in his foot from running. For over six months time, neither a medical doctor, nor a chiropractor, nor tons of exercises outside of the doctors' office could eliminate the cause of the problem. Ironically, during this time Albert was organizing a fun run for the governors office! Unable to run and getting more and more depressed about the situation.
Finally, desperate, Albert turned to acupuncture. Not that he thought of it on his own. He was showing real estate to one of his clients who happened to be an acupuncturist. She said, "Albert, come see me, I think I can help." Within one week of just one acupuncture treatment, Albert was not only pain free, he was running again! What if Albert had had the acupuncturist already on speed dial six months before hand? He could have scheduled appointments with them all, and began a process of elimination for which treatment would work for him. What took six months could have taken six weeks at the most. Having all four disciplines to call on when you need them eliminates not only time and money wasted, but also, pain and worry.
I have given you two reasons to have these four vital holistic health care practitioners of pharmacy, medicine, chiropractic and acupuncture. Those are one, by treating the whole you they can often find underlying causes and by looking at the whole of disciplines of medicine available they have more options for you, and two, if one discipline doesn't help you, another may.
In closing, just remember, there are a lot of very effective ways to treat the same illness. By having holistic health care professionals in these three disciplines, you increase your odds of finding the one effective way that is needed for your body to begin to heal your illness. Now, that's vision for your future!
Joke of the Day: "Women speak in estrogen and men listen in testosterone." Matt Groening
Easy recipe of the Day:
Raspberry Chipoltle Pork Roast
- One boneless Pork Roast
- One bottle of Raspberry Chipoltle sauce (you can find the brand I use, Fisher and Weiser, at HEB, health food stores, Whole Foods, Central Market, Cosco and many other stores as well.)
Plop the pork in large enough baking pan, and pour the sauce over it, enough to cover. Stick a meat thermometer in the middle of it and bake till the thermometer registers for pork (this is ususally about 165 degrees). The baking time will vary according to the size of the pork. A small roast for just Curtis and me will take about 20 minutes to cook in a preheated oven. But a larger roast will take about an hour or longer. Just keep checking about every 20 minutes so as not to overcook. Writing these directions is harder than making this roast, and it is delicious!! YUM!
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