You Want A Cream For That…? 04/18/2009
Have you ever felt like you just weren’t getting the help you needed from your doctor? Not that you wouldn’t get relief from your symptoms for a week or so, but the problem would come back, and you were tired of taking all those antibiotics? Yeah…Me too. I was traveling back from Boston, having attended a friend’s wedding, when the slight scratchy throat I woke up with cranked up the heat. By the time my plane landed in San Diego some five hours later, my scratchy throat had become full-blown tonsillitis. I spent the weekend wishing I could die and just be done with all. I stumbled into my doctor’s office the following Monday and received the first of several doses of antibiotics. It began with the left tonsil, moved over to the right tonsil, then changed it’s appearance to hives before moving on to yet another symptom. At the end of three months I had a head to toe body rash and a borderline urinary track infection from all the medications. At that point the doctor’s threw up their hands, not knowing what else to do. Would I like a cream for the rash? I was frustrated, for clearly I was not getting anywhere with traditional medicine. I decided to see what therapies alternative medicine might have to offer. I already was using fresh and dried herbs, with success, as teas to alleviate my early menopause symptoms. I knew that my basic immune system was in chaos. I thought that if I could locate the underlying cause, then with the proper herbs I might be able to stem the tide. Recently, a friend had introduced me to an alternative medicine book entitled Prescription for Nutritional Healing by Phyllis A. Balch and James F. Balch, he being a doctor of traditional medicine and she a practitioner in alternative medicines. I now turned to this reference as one would turn to their Bible – for a miracle. Using the premise that I was facing a systemic condition, meaning that my problem was now everywhere in my body, I determined that I might have an overdose of yeast, known as Candida. Turning to the pages on Candida, I began following the recommendations in the book, supplementing my body with the much needed vitamins and minerals and eliminating those foods from my diet that were known creators of Candida. By providing my body with the proper nutrients it needed to combat the problem at the cellular level, my body was now able to heal. Within one week of starting this regimen I was rash free and felt better than I had in the last three months! Alternative medicine had worked its miracles for me. | AuthorI’m an artist and a teacher by training. I backed into the alternative health field contending with the health issues of aging parents and a few of my own. After my 94-year-old Dad over-medicated himself with an over-the-counter chocolate-flavored laxative, I began to research alternative and natural solutions. ArchivesDecember 2009 CategoriesAll |
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