What
started my journey into alternative medicine?
My interest in homeopathy blossomed when my mother
became very sick with Rheumatoid arthritis, which she’s
had for about 20 yrs.
I watched allopathic MD’s giving her toxic drugs
year after year, with no results. Her immune system
was being destroyed from all these drugs. Not only
were they not helping, it was causing crippling adverse
effects. She lost so much weight and fell to just 80
pounds.
My family moved from the Netherlands ( Holland) to
California thinking the weather would benefit my mother’s
health problems. The severe freezing cold in Holland
is not welcome when you have Arthritis in your body.
I was already extremely interested in herbal plants
but had just used them on myself.
I made a giant move to try and help my mother overcome
this disease with the use of my obstinate personality
and study of plant medicine. I started by trying to
convince her to change her eating and drinking habits,
meaning foods that are toxic to her and things she
was drinking that were working against her journey
towards health. In the case of Arthritis, foods such
as the nightshade family must be avoided.
Many methods of alternative meds were introduced into
my mother’s life from then on.
Starting with Ayurveda and all it’s treatments
of massage - Panchakarma - using amazing plant oils
of various kinds. Each day she had to drink a detoxing
liquid called Ghee and used a special breathing technique
called Pranayama.
All of this helped a lot, but I wanted more for her.
So I started into my journey of Homeopathy by going
to the alternative healing bookstores and spending
hours and hours sitting on the floor reading about
Homeopathy. I found a few books to take home and started
to study. The book that stood out the most was Miasmatic
Diagnosis - a Homeopathic book written by Dr. Subrata
Banerjea in India. After reading this I wanted more
and looked up this author, finding out that he taught
Homeopathy in Calcutta India. The journey has not stopped
from that point on.
I flew to India and took the clinical course. To my
amazement I was not prepared enough. I should’ve
taken more of the basic lessons in Homeopathy before
I engulfed myself in the intensive hands-on Homeopathic
clinic in Calcutta.
When I came back to California more studies for years
to come, but by then I was making use of all my knowledge
in Reflexology, Herbs, Aromatheraphy and Kinesiology.
Today as I write, the update on my mother is amazing.
She is healthy, strong and energetic. She is the proper
weight for her size body and travels with me to all
corners of this planet.
She is the only one out of all her friends age 65-75+
that does not have hundreds of prescription drugs in
her medicine cabinet. In fact, she only takes homeopathy
and a few herbs.
This story is a condensed version of my learning path. |
