 "Healing is not something that is done to us only when we are sick, but an ongoing process that we initiate and maintain ourselves even when we are feeling energetic and healthy."
Jason Elias, Feminine Healing
Internationally acclaimed author, acupuncturist and herbalist, Jason Elias has had over 30 years of
experience working with a variety health issues. Traveling around the world, Jason has trained with healing masters in China, Japan , the Philipines, and India. Seeing certain parallels among virtually all of the healing traditions, Jason has innovated his unique approach.
In his practice, Jason integrates herbs, supplements, acupuncture and meditation
to successfully treat a wide range of diseases. A number of the formulas offered on this site
are found in Jason's latest book Chinese Medicine for Maximum Immunity published
Random House, which follows his previous two books A to Z Guide to Healing Herbal Remedies
published by Dell and Feminine Healing published by Time-Warner.
The world we live in is precariously out of balance.
Living in stressed, degraded, and
polluted environments, is it any wonder that our bodies themselves often fall out of
balance?
The "magic bullet" and miracle drugs of the last 5 decades now give us cause for alarm.
The antibiotics and steroids, lifesaving miracles of 20th century medicine, are becoming
less and less effective. We are developing tolerances to them, which require us to take
the drugs in either greater quantities, higher potencies, or in a wider spectrum.
Resistent strains of many bacteria are becoming common. Even worse, our natural ability
to heal ourselves has been depleted due to the overuse of such drugs.
Our immune systems are also weakened by other factors:
Poor nutritional habits, exposure
to environmental toxins, adulterated food and drink, as well as chronic stress levels
and lack of time for self-care. As chronic immune diseases become more endemic, and
antibiotic resistant pathogens proliferate, people in our culture are beginning to
turn back to healing modalities from our past and from other cultures. With lack of
solutions from our doctors for these chronic dis-eases, we are reaching out for help,
often turning to employees of health food stores or pharmacists.
Reinforce Your Body's Own Processes
Unlike traditional Western (allopathic) drug methodologies, our herbal healing
formulas seek to reinforce your body's own processes and reinforce your internal
immune system rather than replace and dominate your body's systems. The idea is
that if the underlying imbalances themselves are treated, then the symptoms will
subside as a proper balance is restored. While this method often takes longer to
affect the symptoms, the balance achieved in this way helps to strengthen one's
body instead of weakening it. So, if you have suffered a condition for years,
please be patient and give the herbs a chance to assist your body in creating a
better balance.
Jason's Approach to Healing
"All healing is bian-bao," the Chinese are fond of saying. If a tree has a diseased branch (bian), it is possible to treat only the symptoms by cutting off the branch, but a sick tree will eventually sprout another diseased branch and then another and another. To understand the nature of the problem, we must look deeper, to the root (bao) and then beyond the root to the soil and the atmosphere that nurture and support life. Continuing with this metaphor, we gain a different perspective on the inherent biases of conventional Western medicine, which focuses almost exclusively on the diseased branch, ignoring prevention in favor of a cure." Jason Elias, Feminine Healing
Jason's approach to healing involves integrating the Western approach toward alleviating distressing symptoms (using acupuncture, herbs and nutrition), yet at the same time, he works to address the underlying causes which create the environment in which these symptoms develop.
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