Contest Reminder
Last week we announced our
new alternative therapies contest!! This one is really simple and we hope that by entering you will all be able to help each other find new (or old) ways of keeping your family healthy.
One of our
guest bloggers Dr. Angela Foran of
Meridian Flow Acupuncture has offered a free consultation and treatment (acupuncture or herbs or tuina massage) along with an information and sample kit. The consultation can take place over the phone, via email or in person. The contest is open to all Canadian residents.
As a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine Angela got us thinking about the ways we incorporate alternative therapies into our approach to healthy living and we decided to have our readers share the naturopathic, ayurvedic, homeopathic and other alternative practices that they (or their parents) have used over the years. This can be anything from acupuncture to using a spoon full of honey to soothe a sore throat, basically anything that falls outside the scope of typical western medicine.
For example, when I was a child and had a splinter of wood lodged in my finger, my Nana made a milk-bread concoction to extract it. She would heat up some milk on the stove, and then add a small piece of bread to suck up the milk. She would let it cool a bit, but not too much, just enough to avoid burning me. Than apply the saturated bread with a band-aid to my finger where it would stay until it had cooled completely. Amazingly the splinter would come to the surface of the skin where it could easily be extracted and the warm gooey feeling of the concoction on my skin was always comforting and entertaining.
So all you have to do to enter is share an alternative approach to health and wellness in the comments section below. You are allowed to enter a maximum of three times so think of all those "Old Wives’ Cures” and share with the rest of us. For each comment you will be entered in the draw for a free consultation and treatment (acupuncture or herbs or tuina massage) from Dr. Foran!!
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