Just the other day I was in the waiting room with a new patient who told me she wanted to get rid of her Cholesterol. She scrunched up her nose when she said it. "Cholesterol", you know that evil stuff that gives you heart disease.
The very word "CHOLESTEROL" is like a curse word in America today. It's funny to me because I'm a Doctor and I know that you cannot live without Cholesterol. Cholesterol is made by almost every cell in the body and is an essential part of the healing process. In fact your brain is mostly Cholesterol. No Cholesterol = you're dead. But it's not surprising that it has a bad rap. Most people are under the influence of the diet-heart myth. It's not to say that diet isn't an essential part of overall Health, but to isolate heart disease to diet as the predominate single cause is ridiculous.
In Chinese medicine there is so much to heart health. Chinese Medicine even bridges the emotional gap that Western Medicine won't touch. To that school of medicine the heart is just a pump of bodily fluids. We all know that it's not that simple, but the flash of technology and the latest and greatest medicine on the market that some gigantic corporation wants you to swallow wins out most of the time over common sense and listening to your own body. Consider how many people you know that take a medicine with a serious adverse effect like nausea, diarrhea, or migraines but they keep taking it because the doctor told them to. I'm sure we all know at least one. Do you realize that as a practitioner of Chinese Medicine in America, if I was to give you a medicine that had a single side effect, even if it was only bad breath, do you know how fast that would be criticized by the popular medicine today. And yet it's perfectly OK for other doctors to POISON my patient's body and mind, leaving them even sicker and more fearful, without any visible benefit.
What's worse is that these patients are too afraid to try anything but what the Western physician prescribes because they are held hostage by the fear of becoming even sicker or even 'deader' if you try anything else. (Yes I said DEADER, you'd think that was possible if you listened to these guys) If having your life threatened wasn't enough, they really drive the FEAR into you by telling you that your insurance coverage will be gone if you don't do everything they say. Now it goes beyond just killing you, they are going to stick you with an even bigger bill and take your life savings or the food right out of your children's mouths. Criminal. I face this garbage every day. If you only knew how much of what I do is to just reverse the "healing" done by other "Doctors" with good intentions. Most of the time their "Good Intentions" are only to fatten their own wallet by prescribing the latest "Cholesterol Killer". Insane! Is it any wonder that a drug designed to affect the balance of cholesterol in your body also makes you nauseous. That's like taking the salt out of the ocean to make it taste better. That won't work, it's not the way to find balance. Balance comes from looking at the whole she-bang, you as a person, a person that has habits and favorite foods or gets excited at the football game. A physician MUST look at the basic unit of health - the person - and bring that person into balance to get any beneficial lasting result from any sort of treatment.
Being a Healer means treating the person. What happens today is that the doctors try to treat diseases that have people, it doesn't work that way. As a doctor I don't heal you. In truth, no doctor can heal you; they can only work on behalf of that healing force that comes from you by teaching you and showing you a different way. Healing and staying healthy is what should be taught, education isn't the key to everything. Without that basic knowledge of how to increase the healing energy in your own body your life will fade quickly and be cut tragically short.
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