Family health is a most important issue in
my practice and a great place to start. Naturopathy sees mother as first
healer. So I educate mothers in the use of simple herbal remedies. Some
examples: echinacea herb on the onset of colds, astragalus when immune
compromised from fatigue, ginseng for a daily tonic and digestive aid,
ginger for nausea and mucus accumulations, bilberry to improve eye
health.
Simple bruises are helped with arnica gel. In Chinese medicine the
bruise is treated with hot and cold compresses. My grandmother used to
put onion on pustules to draw out the toxins. In martial arts an injury
is treated with strong, vigorous massage and frankincense oil.
I think families have to rethink their priorities to make the effort to
use more benign natural remedies in order to both improve the health of
the family by avoiding stronger medicines and to improve the family
politics. Being able to self-treat is an empowering tool that can build
on family ties and a more loving atmosphere.
Prayer and meditation are effective healing technique. Children accept
visualization prayer easily, so, when I treat children I use this to
assist in healing.
We can learn that healing is a daily process. What we eat, how we eat, what we
say, how we say it, become daily issues. This has a profound effect on
family health
Family is the water of life. Water is one of the most amazing substances
on the planet. It is used in all life processes. It is the vehicle of
communications. Dr. Emoto of Japan performed some amazing experiments
with water. He illustrates this in Messages from Water, Hado Kyaikusha
Co., Ltd. (Web site, www.hado.net).
Firstly, he
began taking microscopic photos of water as it froze. He observed that
healthy water crystallized and looks like a snowflake. When he captured
polluted water it looked amorphous, no order. Then he got an idea: to
photograph water after it has been exposed to music, and to his surprise
the water made even more beautiful crystals and polluted water changed
from "ugly" to beautiful. Receiving yet another idea, Dr. Emoto began to
put words on the jars that held the water-lo, the bad water turned good
with positive words like LOVE. Water remembers and changes with our
intent. We are 70 percent water: this is the message.
In Chinese medicine water is genetics. Water governs the kidneys and
procreation. Water is the spirit of the ancestors. To understand family,
meditate on water and its properties. Water expands when frozen. Is this
Love? We have lost that most precious ability to heal naturally.
Modern
society removed us from the "real." Grandma would pick herbs to heal,
use oils for gastritis, chicken soup for a cold, oats for skin rashes
and chicken pox or eucalyptus oil for chest congestion. In Russian,
Hungarian and Chinese culture, garlic soup was popular for sore throats.
All these and more are available for the family health. These remedies
still work but we have forgotten how to apply them.
