| When I was a teenager, I was involved in a serious | | | | phase. In fact, I felt that Western medical treatment |
| car accident that left me in a coma. In the hours, | | | | sometimes produced adverse side effects that |
| days, and weeks that followed, I was kept alive by a | | | | impeded my progress towards whole body health.In |
| vast array of sophisticated medical technologies, | | | | Search of Natural Health and Wellness |
| high-precision devices, and advanced western | | | | AlternativesThat's when my interest in alternative |
| pharmaceutical treatments. Fortunately, that was | | | | forms of healing first took root. As a young adult, I |
| precisely what my body needed following my | | | | researched and experienced a wide range of |
| near-fatal accident. And that is precisely what | | | | "alternative" healing modalities: Chinese medicine, |
| "conventional" Western medicine does best -- keeps | | | | acupuncture, and Ayurvedic medicine were just some |
| bodies functioning in the face of acute trauma, | | | | of the ancient medical systems I explored as I blazed |
| life-threatening illnesses, or severe accidents.During | | | | my own trail towards natural health and wellness. I |
| my post-coma rehabilitation, I had to relearn | | | | also experimented with and integrated meditation, a |
| everything. Literally. While other teens were learning | | | | healthy diet, and yoga into my bag of natural health |
| how to drive, I was re-learning how to walk, how to | | | | tricks. Ultimately, though, the medical science that |
| talk, how to read and write and dress myself. During | | | | made the most sense for my health was |
| that time, I began to question the role of | | | | homeopathy.Contemporary Western homeopathic |
| conventional medicine in my recovery. While Western | | | | medicine was developed by an 18th-century German |
| medicine had done a great job of keeping my body | | | | physician, chemist, and scholar named Samuel |
| alive during the crisis phase following my accident, I | | | | Hahnemann. Dr. |
| didn't feel it was as effective in the rehabilitation | | | | |