OBIMANSO Mag 2nd ED

BY DR. MAKEBA MORING
“Let food be thy medicine and
medicine be thy food.” Hippocrates
“All healing already exist,
“
you just
have to align yourself with it.”
—Dr. Makeba
THE Holistic Health revolution has
come! FINALLY…. Back to basics….
back to nature… Holistic health medicine
and practices is surging in America. I said
“finally” because as a Holistic health
Practitioner we have felt the pain of the
mis-education and mis-representation of Holistic healing
and natural remedies. One common question I am often
asked is “what is a Holistic health”…So let me explain:
Holistic Health is one of the oldest forms of healing and
health practices known to man. Holistic Health means to
include all components of the being - mind, body and spirit.
The practice of Holistic health is to consider the whole
person when under treatment. It is the understanding that,
all parts of the body of a person function as one system.
The practice of Holistic health focuses on the root cause
of an illness and treats the root cause rather than just the
symptoms of an illness. Traditional allopathic medicine also
known as medical practices routinely treats symptoms with
not much regard for the other body parts. As an example,
a medical doctor may treat a patient with a swollen hand
problem with drugs such as steroids.
The drug may cause harm to other body parts and the
symptoms may eventually return or manifest elsewhere in
the body. Whereas, in Holistic Health medicine the focus is
on what caused the hand to be swollen and then the cause is
treated. The cause may be arthritis and in that case, the
practitioner may change the client’s diet, give herbs and therapy
treatment to eradicate the causes of arthritis, through treating
the whole person and not just the symptoms. Not only will the
arthritis be healed but also the whole body may function better
as there is one less malady keeping it from being healthy.
THE HOLISTIC
HEALTH SURGE
IN AMERICA
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