Health Wisdom: Returning to our Roots
by Jude Thilman
The April/May 2014 issue of the AARP Magazine informs us that heart disease, cancer, diabetes and arthritis remain seriously prevalent in the US. With all the new drugs on the market, why aren’t the rates of these and other diseases going down? Could it be that those drugs aren’t all they’re cracked up to be? I am a bit skeptical whenever I read the lengthy warnings that accompany each ad for a new miracle ‘treatment’ or ‘solution’ that is ‘proven to increase bone density’, etc, etc. You gotta wonder if some of them may be doing more harm than good.
We turn to nature to calm our anxious minds; to stimulate our creativity; to inspire our spirits. Why not turn to nature to heal our bodies? There are many approaches to achieving and maintaining good health. Our body is a vital, dynamic organism and is best served with many different natural remedies, not one symptom-targeting pill created in a laboratory.
More and more people are taking charge of their own health and turning back to natural remedies. They believe that many natural healing treatments and herbs complement each other and should all be available in the same place. There are no static formulas, no ‘one size fits all’ medicines. At Dragonfly™ we help you explore options and find what is right for you. What is comfortable to do or take for nausea, pain, sleeplessness? If one therapy doesn’t work, we try another. Having trouble with mobility? Is your energy low? Have you tried acupuncture? Bowen therapy? A Yoga, stretching or T’ai Chi class? Lymphatic or other kinds of massage? Are you anxious or stressed out? Try meditation (it’s not what you think).
Dragonfly™ offers Chinese medicines, locally grown herbs, and a variety of cannabis and non-cannabis preparations, including juices, tinctures, capsules and salves.
Many of the cannabis herbs are not psychoactive and none of them are addictive or have side effects. We specialize in the high CBD
[cannabidiol] medicines, which are made from the part of the cannabis plant that reduces inflammation and has been especially useful in treating epilepsy, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, neuropathies and other conditions. The CBD medicines are non-psychoactive. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, on CNN, has been eloquent in his description of the effectiveness of CBD medicines.
“… Someone dies in the United States every 19 minutes from a prescription drug overdose, mostly accidental. Every 19 minutes.”
—Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN.com, August 8, 2013
At Dragonfly™, we like to humorously point out that we are not “alternative” medicine. Herbal medicine has been around for thousands of years. We are “traditional” medicine. The pharmaceutical industry is the “alternative”. It’s only been around for less than a century!
