I read an interesting article in Prevention magazine (Feb 2013) about a couple who were vacationing in the Himalayan foothills. They inadvertently found themselves in the home of a 90 year old healer/sage who gave them some tea for their respective ailments. As it turns out, Dr. Ho is a world renowned healer who works only for donations. He started out with a degree in Medical Engineering but fell ill and returned to his village and immersed himself in the study of herbs. The couple took the tea as prescribed and continued on their journey. After a few weeks of consuming the tea they were rid of their health concerns but wrote the experience off as the power of placebo. When they returned to the United States they had the tea analyzed by AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine, a Chinese medicine school in Austin, Texas , and it did contain properties that addressed each of their concerns.
The couple was delighted that the tea helped them but theorized that "the tea was a tremendous placebo." The technician disagreed and informed them that herbs are medicinal and do work irrespective of your belief in their ability to heal.
In addition to consuming healing herbs, Dr. Ho's health advice to patients is to "be confident in their own cure,
OPTIMISTIC in attitude, conduct rational lives and apply both Western and Chinese medicine where appropriate." The article went on to say that
OPTIMISM is the secret. Above all else be OPTIMISTIC. The entire article can be found in the February 2013 issue of Prevention Magazine.
Finding Dr. Ho by Jeannie Ralston.
To your Health and Optimism!
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