Caring for Our Veterans cont..

…I started treating Veterans in the Fall of 2019. Due to a switch in Insurance carriers, I have only recently started to again treat the “Vets”. I cannot begin to tell you how satisfying and gratifying it is to treat the ones who have helped preserve our personal freedom and liberties. I tell my friends all the time that we, Americans, take our freedoms for granted. I’ve traveled to most parts of the world and have seen how people function in a society where personal liberty is severely limited.

I have also learned a great deal in talking with the Veterans about their experiences. All of the Veterans I have treated owe their experience to the wars in the Middle East. The first thing that they express is how happy they were to serve out people and to help to fight for freedom for the ones who are oppressed in that region. Once they start opening up, they start to share some of their experiences in the actual war.

I can only tell you that I can see why they suffer from the PTSD and Chronic Pain that they do. I purposely highlighted these two disorders due to the fact these are the ones I treat most often as “primary” with the Veterans. These people have been involved in matters and have seen things that are just horrifying. The thing is that you can’t just erase these experiences from your existence. They are now part of you forever.

Is this fair? Absolutely not. However, it is how human existence operates. Other than treating them through the modalities of TCM, I always take time to discuss any lingering psychological thoughts or emotions that they are still having from their experiences. Predictably, some Veterans are very open and want to talk while others are most comfortable keeping those feelings to themselves.

However, I am always open about expressing my deep gratitude for their service and them leading the way in allowing me to still live a “free” life.

The effects of the COVID virus is being felt in the healthcare community, in a big way. I’m sure that this is not a revelation to most of you. However, I’m also confident that most of you are not appreciating just how the manner in treating patients is being affected.

As I have explained before, what makes TCM so unique is the natural manner that a practitioner uses to both diagnose and treat. What I mean by natural is how TCM practitioner uses his own senses, such as touch and feel, as instruments to treat a patient. With the advent of policies such as wearing masks/face shields or the need now to perform temperature checks on every patient has definitely altered the pristine nature of the treatment. Yes, I am speaking from personal experience of my current treatment of patients.

However, as with any factor that causes such a change to society, there are avenues by which members of society can help to curb the intensity of these effects. Most of you appreciate that COVID is a virus and thus there are symptoms that are associated with it, as with any other virus like the flu. The Western medical community naturally looks to treat such a virus, like COVID, by finding artificial means.

What do I mean by artificial means? If you are keeping up with the Western medical establishment’s response, you should be realizing that they feel that a vaccine is the surest way to combat the virus. They push this vaccine without listing the ingredients in the vaccine and publishing any trials that this vaccine is going through. However, what is most pertinent to this blog is their lack of acknowledging the natural means that are effective in treating, at the very least, the symptoms of the virus.

In the next blog, I will address how certain TCM protocols are very effective in treating COVID symptoms…

Your wellness is our #1 priority!

Caring for Our Veterans cont..

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