***Feeling Integrative Medicine. - Healing Magic

Written by Pamela McDonald

A question I am asked quite often is - What is Integrative Medicine? It is difficult question to answer quickly – Integrative Medicine is an intelligent combination of conventional and alternative medicine – however I believe it is more than that.

To help give you get a feeling of integrative medicine – I have very powerful poem from the book - THE APO E Gene Diet – an integrative medicine approach to preventing heart, Alzheimer’s disease and chronic illness.

Enjoy! Pam McDonald NP Integrative Medicine Fellow

Healing Magic
You say you are a healer,
binding up wounds and
applying potions and salves
for a broken humanity.
Tell me, kind healer,
have you found on your journey
a wound deeper
than lovelessness?
A person more broken
than the one who’s own heart
was long ago abandoned
in search of what we do not know,
if not for Love itself.
And tell me gentle healer,
how do you bind the wound
of lovelessness?
What potions and salves
do you carry
in your black bag
that can mend a broken heart?
“I’m sorry,” you say, “I have nothing,
there is nothing I can do.”
And that, dear friend,
is where you are wrong
Put down the bag:
Leave go of the rummaging
for magic other than your own;
open your heart,
pick up a hand,
Gaze into an eye,
Share in
one
true
moment,
and watch healing begin.

Many Thanks to Janet Quinn PhD RN.
Source: Quinn, Janet, 1996. Alternative Therapies.