A Visit to the Herbalist

    Apparently your tongue speaks volumes…. about your health without        you saying  a word.  And,  as you already know,  she examines the tongue. She showed me several photographs of  tongue types.  A white coating and  its thickness — she said, pointing to a really unattractive picture — reveals the level of toxicity in the bodyThis  formulated  from January 30,  2013  Article |Dawn Turner Trice.

     And this is why Dr. Lisa ,  a Chicago herbalist,  has her patients saying “Ahhhh.”  A  few minutes after any “Ahhhh” moment, Lisa Lau will tell you  that Eastern medicine  focuses on strengthening  the immune system. This makes sense to me,  especially since  there’s a new strain of  norovirus that has just recently arrived on our shores.

  Lisa Lau is a  fourth-generation herbalist in her  family, after her father, grandfather and great-grandfather.  There are also pictures of each in her office. Lau hadn’t planned to be an herbalist but she wound up taking over her father’s business.  She said, “she’s lucky in that she grew up eating this way.  While watching her  father wrap leaves,  seeds  and herbs  in butcher paper  for customers who visited his store  for decades.”

 Most of  what she learned came from watching her  father but also school    in China.  She said that during an exam,  she’ll check a patient’s pulse — which reveals information about the heart,  the circulatory system and how well the kidneys are doing their job. She checks the lungs, the stomach and the spleen to determine how well they’re functioning.

   She said,  most people who come to her have ailments that have persisted through many visits to Western doctors. Also that patients are hoping  for a second opinion  and to supplement their previous care. “We like to bring out the symptoms and not suppress them,” Lau said. “You get well quicker.” She said that with some cases, such as cancer or fertility problems, the best care may be a combination of  Western and Eastern approaches.

   “In Eastern Medicine  we  also  believe  the immune system  is the base,”  and  she’s not  fond of  diets  that are either solely vegetarian,  or heavy on the meat.  Lau recommends that her clients avoid  foods that are spicy and deep-fried, because she believes they weaken the immune system. Balance, she said. “The yin and the yang.”  Add to that:  moderation.

    However,  Lau does avoid  foods heavy on preservatives,  additives and food dyes. Food and chemical sensitivities are what is wrong with Western Diets.  Therefore,  when  I look  at  differences  in cultures even  from  a trip taken  to  Indiana’s  Amish  Country  (Iridologist)  Solomon Wickey.  Note:  cancer  rates  differences   in  China  where  there incident rates  are much lower than in the United States  (the Chinese Mortality Rates Are Higher.)


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