The Foundation of Integrated Health

A human life, all too brief, is a leaf floating from a tree, subject to climactic conditions that seem beyond our control, as we drift to our destination. Wind buffers us about as we ward off pathogens or else suffer their wrath with cold and flu. So sensitive to exposure to heat and to cold, we clothe ourselves carefully and attend to our homes to nest. When heath concerns become serious, we pursue the only avenue apparent to us – licensed and carefully regimented prescriptions and procedures which, on the path to a cure, seem daunting and terribly expensive. There is some relief offered by our health insurance plans which may buffer the great expense, but cannot offer the one and only thing our heart requires for health: happiness, protection from fear.

In many traditional societies, before the degradation of agrarian cultures, we would have had access only to fresh, local, and organic foods, attentively raised and enjoyed seasonally: whole grains and legumes, prolific vegetables, cultured dairy, pickles, and kraut to keep digestion robust and inoculate us from pathogens. Animals producing our meat, eggs, and milk were carefully tended and the value of their sacrifice was plain to see, for we would all have met the creature who grew for our food.

This simple practice, of eating the appropriate foods and kitchen herbs, creates a true foundation of health care and health insurance. The healing wisdom of the plants, and those who raise them and administer them skillfully, have deep and lasting effects that vitalize and detoxify the body tissues, and wholesome relationship with our food has lasting mental and emotional benefit.

When stronger methods are required, the community herbalist is available to recommend therapeutic diets or fasts, and offer potent herbal formulae to mobilize and invigorate our innate healing potential. We work and play hard, so healing hands live in our community to massage and align our tissues, joints, meridians, and organs.

A renaissance of natural remedies and plant-based healing is the mission of the grassroots healthcare revolution. Our work at the Grass Roots Vitality clinic is to bring these tools into our contemporary lives though education, personal guidance, and massage therapy. Our doors are open to you.

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