The Freedom to Choose Alternative Medicine
The Freedom to Choose Alternative Medicine
The Importance of Chinese Medicine Pattern Discernment
At Heaven and Earth Chinese Medicine Healing Center, we have built our business on education first and foremost, understanding that most of you desire to decide for yourself what to put into your own body. Chinese Medicine is based on the logical sense that no one knows an individuals’ body better than that same individual. That is why we respect each person’s right to decide for themselves, based on self introspection, what may be the best route of healing. It is for this reason we publish at length the nature of all the Chinese Herbal Formulas we sell from a Chinese Medicine perspective.
Now that this huge opportunity has been opened through DSHEA, how is one to begin? The human body is complex. Perhaps it is the most complex assemblage of chemicals and substances in the universe. It is always making different arrangements and quantities of these various chemicals, even on an hourly basis.
Many times a person may take a trial and error approach. Perhaps they hear about a supplement from a friend, or they came across an article in a book, magazine or on the internet. They often times dive a little deeper to learn more about a specific supplement before trying something new. And so the journey has begun; the search for better health and balance continues.
Yet, with the free market place comes the incredible freedom [and the confusion!] to choose for oneself of what might work, what doesn’t work and what will work for that exact person in that exact moment. The task of going to and fro from supplement to supplement, theory to theory, and from Alternative modality to Alternative modality is often exhausting…and expensive. One must also consider the nature of the continually changing chemical balance of the human body that occurs over one’s lifetime. Couple this with seasonal changes, stressful and emotional issues, personal genetics and it can be sometimes very hard [or even impossible] to pin-point the right solution.
Is it any wonder that most people are confused about how to approach their health within the enormous field of Alternative Medicine modalities? Aside from choosing which method to use, one must also have a basic understanding of what is to be realistically expected within that particular healing system. This may include guidelines on dietary changes, environmental changes and consistency with the modality, itself. Is this too much to ask of one individual?