Conditions Treated

You likely are visiting this web site because of concern about your health of body or mind. You may have been given a name -- a "Diagnosis" -- for your concern. Your medical doctor or dentist may have referred you to see me for treatment that will improve your medical diagnosis. If we had a chance to sit down and talk I likely would start by saying:

My training is in primary care with a Doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine [more]. I have an active license as a naturopathic physician in Washington State, Hawai'i and the District of Columbia. Because of my deep experience with Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) I generally prefer to not treat specific named medical diseases.

This means that when I agree to work with a patient it does not matter what is their official mainstream medical diagnostic label. I find that usually there is some degree of imbalance in overall health and so I work with the individual so they can regain balance. I do not use prescription drugs (except in Washington State). My recommendations and homeopathic/ herbal prescriptions center on natural approaches that support the body's innate ability to heal itself. When appropriate [such as for dental work or surgery] I work with another practitioner who holds the appropriate license for that service.

Besides my training in general practice primary care naturopathy I have a focus on:

Support for those whose condition has been labeled Autism.

Support for those whose condition has been labeled Cancer.

Support for Recovery from dental stressors supporting Biological Dentistry.

Support for concerns about Sexual Health (Family Friendly version)

Support for Mental Health Counseling and Personal Wholeness.

Laboratory Testing information

My main approach to assessing and treating human conditions is to use the Dynamic System of Thought that looks at Disease as deeper than named "diagnoses". To honor Dr. Samuel Hahnemann this is called "Medical Heilkunst" (the art of making Whole). It describes the difference between "Healing" and "Cure" of Disease. See Homeopathy Science | Expanded Paradigm | What Can Homeopathy Treat?

I want to be sure you understand how important it is for you to know that you are unique. This web site helps you learn about your biochemical individuality and other ways to understand the differences you have from other people. I talk about this in the Your Health and Health Concerns section and the Unique Healing Response graphic.

"It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has."

-- Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.)

Nutritional support for mental health and wellbeing. This video introduces the hope for restored mental health. Featured are such healthcare pioneers such as Abram Hoffer, M.D. (he coined the term "Orthomolecular Psychiatry"); Jonathan Wright, M.D.; Alan Gaby, M.D. Click on picture to view video in new window.

Have you been labeled a Hypochondriac?

[He is 'The Enigma', dismissed because he cannot be understood by those around him.]

Read some expanded ways of evaluating the person shown as The Hypochondriac. It falls into place if one understands neurotoxicity, nutritional medicine and has studied the work of doctors and researchers of acumeridian theory, Ayurveda, and other non-mainstream systems of health care.

Humorous presentation of this information:

Homo toxicanus: a "new species."

[>> My Mental health/Counseling services]

Environmental Illness / Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: EI/MCS Overview Page.

If you are concerned about Flu:

This is a page where I give suggestions.

A quote that I find particularly relevant is:

"A doctor who prescribes an identical treatment for an identical illness in two individuals and expects an identical development may be properly classified as a social menace." Lin Yutang

News from a country that uses a lot of Homeopathy:

Highlighting traditional therapies in the modern context should be the right solution, which is indispensable for achieving the millennium development goal of "health for all" by 2015. As MDR TB [Multiple Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis] is becoming resistant to tuberculosis treatment, homeopathy treatment is coming to the rescue of the patients, and many a case has responded favourably and been cured...

AIDS and HIV infections have emerged as an all-time threat to the human race. In South Asia itself, the number of patients suffering and dying of AIDS is quite alarming. Homoeopathy as such is able to provide a booster to the vital energy of the suffering patients...

Homoeopathy does not underrate the efficacy of other systems and surgery, but derides their commercial abuse. There are quite a large number of cases, which can be saved from unnecessary surgery if homeopathic treatment is given at a proper time. Homoeopathy has a role to play in preventive medicine, just the way it has done in the case of plague and dropsy. The 21st century will see homoeopathy emerging as a global system of medicine acknowledged and used by many.

News editorial from Nepal [view original]

Regarding your health condition, when you have a specific problem there is often some deeper underlying reason for it. This is what doctors and practitioners of Integrative Medicine aim to treat at the same time as they help with the "presenting concern." To learn more about the ways that Integrative Medicine practitioners can find these underlying factors, you can also look at the information in the sections titled:

Philosophy of Health & Medicine, and Your Health and Health Concerns.

Also see pages on 1) Mental Health and Wholeness, 2) Detoxification - the Concept, 3) Cases helped by treating toxins for puzzling problems in the mind and the body, 4) Microbial toxins and FMS and CFS and 5) The toxics that may be related to Alzheimer's Disease and neurodegenerative conditions, 6) Mold and brain effects, 7) Microbes [Lyme] and brain/body effects. 8) Autism

Other resources would be for you to learn about the assessment guidelines of Homeopathic Medicine, and the Acumeridian Theory as applied in Chinese Medicine and described in the book by Dr. Ted Kaptchuk, The Web That Has No Weaver: Understanding Chinese Medicine.

-- "What diseases can acupuncture [and acumeridian therapies] treat?" This is an essay about the benefits of the body energy approach to health care.

My expanded understanding of the role of stressors on the body that can cause different conditions is in my essay titled: "The Shackles on Job's Body".

In the case of severely challenging health conditions, I find those patients who have some kind of "higher perspective" on their life -- sometimes called "spiritual", sometimes "globally humanistic" -- handle the situation in a good way. [Spirituality Considerations]