Personal private belief

I didn't expect to ever write about this, since I refuse to talk about it with my patients. But A) you are friends,not patients, and B) I think I have one follower and no commentors. So, what's to be afraid of?

Anyway, I was inspired by a couple of people in the last couple of days to express my idea of God (or some Supreme Being) as I see Him through acupuncture and herbs.

I am not big on religion, and I respect anyone who is, provided they aren't hurting anyone to promote it. I went to church in my high school years, and then decided I had a better relationship with God from home other days than I did dressed up on Sunday. I don't talk about it, but I have a deep admiration for Him, whether or not He is the God I was taught about.

That vagueness being said, I think Chinese medicine is so effective while being so natural, that it was a divine plan. "There is going to be disease in these humans, so I need to put the cure on earth along with them to find." How patient, careful, and enlightened we had to be, though, to discover each herb and it's use! I'm sure we aren't done, because we haven't found the one for cancer or AIDS. Maybe they are at the bottom of an ocean. Or maybe we will wipe out the human race first. Who knows?

Sometimes these herbs make me laugh. For instance the bark of the mimosa tree cures one symptom of anxiety and depression: the cycling negative thought. You know the mimosa tree? It has a pink plume that sticks up in a curved feather-like shape. It looks like a headpiece for a costume called "Crazy", in my opinion. (But maybe 2000 yrs ago, it just looked like a pretty bird sitting in a tree.) Either way, that image of the mimosa tree makes me think it is waving us to come over to it when we feel like crazy is taking us down in a spiral of thinking one horrible thought. The latin name for the herb is Albizzia, and the formula I have used and prescribe with it stops cycling thoughts that make you stay up all night, or cry all day/week, and or start panic attacks. Doesn't matter what disorder or disaster someone has endured. It just stops the cycling thought so you can move forward. Within minutes!

And my other fave: the egg sack of the praying mantis. I know! Hilarious! Who figured this one out? It treats urinary incontinence and night emissions. I can imagine some ancient sage looking at a pregnant praying mantis and thinking, "that thing is so delicate, but the eggs are so secure! My grandma needs some of that material to keep her from peeing everytime she coughs." And...they work. Amazing.