Tips and Secrets

Here are 12 wonderful Alternative Therapies that often solve very common problems quickly, cheaply, and inexpensively.

About the picture above:

Once, when I was a young boy, perhaps no more than four or five years old, I got very sick. My parents called our family doctor (what a quaint concept!), and he came to our house to tend to me. He carried a black leather bag, and from it, he took out a tongue depressor, a blood pressure cuff, a light to look into my eyes and ears, and then up my nose. He even had a little hammer with a rubber head on it which he used to tap on my ankles, knees and elbows. They would jerk up as he tapped them- all by themselves, or so I thought. 

A moment or two later, he reached into his bag again, got a bottle of medicine and a needle, filled his syringe, and gave me an injection. It stung, but within a few days, I was well again.

I was impressed, and I thought about that physician and his bag many times as I was growing up. I suppose it was he who inspired me to become a doctor, and he became my role model in a number of ways.

I remember his gentleness. I was frightened when he first came into my bedroom, but he sensed this. He didn't rush; he explained everything he was going to do. He also seemed to sense what would worry me, and he reassured me even before I had a chance to express my fear. He answered my questions before I had a chance to ask them. When he drew out his needle, I knew it would hurt a little, but I was no longer afraid.

With the instincts of a child, I trusted him, and I knew he would get me better.

But these are the reflective thoughts of an adult. At the time, I was mostly impressed with his black bag.  It was neat!

Like a small portable hospital, it contained everything he needed to bring relief and healing to a sick child.

No, there was no CAT scan or EKG machine, as this was a time long before medicine became complicated. But in the imagination of a small boy, I knew there was a treasure of "stuff" in that bag, everything that anyone could ever need to get better.

In my way, I would like to bring some of that kind of health care back to the present. To restore the goodness, gentleness and simplicity of that kind of treatment. Care repaid with trust and appreciation, without the emphasis on the exchange of money.