There are many signs that reflect where you are on the continuum from disease to optimum health. Almost all diseases result from an imbalance in one or more of the key body processes or systems. On the other hand, if you’re firing at 100 per cent in all these processes, your body’s spontaneous healing system will also be firing at 100 per cent, and it’s very unlikely that you’ll get sick.
The holistic model used by the Family Herbalist and Green Healer views prevention as the vanguard of health and focuses on the body’s own capacity to heal and repair itself. The treatment modalities most valued in holistic natural healing are therefore those that can promote the “good”, assist the body in maintaining balance, and enhance its own healing mechanisms.
The green healer is blessed with a well rounded and extensive apothecary (materia medica) consisting of five main modalities that extends way beyond the modern notion of organic drug therapy.
In this module, we will introduce you to the five main therapeutic modalities used by family herbalists in designing protocols to deal with diseases in a holistic natural way.
Don’t read too much in the order we present them in. Contrary to popular belief, in the hands of a skilled family herbalist, herbs will often be the last modality employed. And it will seldom if ever, be the only modality used.
In this module, we give you a brief introduction to each. In the Herbal Therapeutics courses, you’ll learn how to incorporate them into actionable therapeutic protocols.
Detoxification is as ancient as herbology itself and an important modality in a large number of treatment protocols.
Herbal Tonics to support the body systems and processes involved, and Herbal Remedies to provoke a natural healing response.
Healing Diets packed with high-vitality foods to boost the body’s healing response; and excludes foods, drinks and patterns of eating that hinders the body’s healing system or directly impacts it.
Exercise and physical activities designed to stimulate the circulatory and lymph systems and to generate vitality.
Mind/Spiritual activities that will alleviate stress and generate mental clarity and emotional balance.
Let’s get started…
The 5 Therapeutic healing modalities makes so much sense to me.
Earlier on in the course I noted the importance of faith and the need to maintain a healthy and balanced lifestyle.
Through my faith in Christ, I have come to embrace the idea that we have been wonderfully designed and that a perfectly healthy paradigm would include the idea of a balanced body soul and spirit. A human body system in balance.
Hence the work of the family herbalist as I understand it is to provide support to our created systems ( Body, Soul and Spirit) in the context of the will of God who created us all in love to thrive and eventually to share in His Glory.
Bear with me. So in terms of the 8 obstacles to health, my approach as a family herbalist is to treat this idea as an absolute. Without breaching the right to individual choice, I would first consider the spiritual and mental state of the patient and where necessary, prayerfully and perhaps quietly, ask God for spiritual intervention and support both for the patient and myself.
Seeing that the family herbalist focus is on acute disease, I would want to have a systemic approach to the entire idea of the body’s designed capability to self heal. I believe that much of our disease and healing begins in our minds. The idea of Spirit is little understood and therefore there is little discussion on what the spirit is and how it functions. Suffice to say at this point that a spirit inclined to love and in particular an ‘unconditional love’ is one that manifests a liberated mind that is not only enviable but a mind/personality that reaches out with healing to all nearby. We are not all there but hopefully moving in that direction.
Those who show the greatest disability in spiritual and mind development (renewing) are perhaps dangerously close to a Pre-Mature Death. At least a spiritual death. My conclusion is that the concept of Holistic Healing must include (for me at least) all that God has created in us,-Body-Soul and Spirit. Thank you for allowing me to express my mind and forgive me if I have offended any of your own spiritual beliefs.
Yes please!
I agree
Short and straight to the point.