Do you have a health condition where your GP wants to send you to a specialist for further investigation?
Here’s why this may not be the best option for you and what you can do instead.
‘Modern’ allopathic (allopathy is conventional medical treatment that uses substances or treatments to oppose or suppress the symptoms) medicine splits our bodies up into different ‘parts’, hence why your GP will refer you to a dermatologist, if you have a skin issue or an endocrinologist, if you have hormone issues etc
What is Wrong with Conventional Specialists?
Allopathy does not take into account that we are all one being and our organs and systems work in harmony with each other. It also does not believe that our physical health is influenced by our mental and emotional health. It often does not look at the individual’s lifestyle and their diet. Mostly, when one is referred to a Specialist Doctor, they are looking to diagnose the issue and to then prescribe a drug or sometimes surgery or other intervention, in order to suppress the symptom that you are experiencing. Rarely, if ever, is the root cause looked for. Rarely is the root cause looked to be ‘healed’. Does the dermatologist consult with other specialists? No, usually they work in isolation. It’s like wearing a blindfold and feeling one specific part of an elephant and trying to guess the animal.
How Conventional Medicine Worked For Me
Let’s take an example. Back when I was in my teenage years and early twenties, I kept getting recurring sores/ lesions on my face. Like cold sores but I was told that they were not. I went to my GP over and over again and all he could offer me were oral antibiotics and antibiotic cream. Which of course worked as my symptoms were being suppressed. The lesions kept coming back though time and time again (which was particularly harrowing as they looked ugly and made me very self-conscious at this young age). I insisted that he refer me to a specialist which he did, but this was useless as my appointment was when the lesions were not present. The specialist did not ask me any questions that could be related to the possible root cause and in fact he ended up just giving me cauterization of broken capillaries on the back of my hand and telling me that the age of skin on my arms was older than I was. 100% waste of my time and energy. But they continued to sporadically appear throughout my life, often after times of emotional stress. Back then, I did not consider seeking a more holistic solution.
It was only until later on when I started to learn about holistic health and even later still when I started my Naturopathic studies, did I understand that these lesions were my body’s way of detoxifying. What was it detoxifying? Hormones, vaccines, drugs, toxins from food from a sub-optimal diet, toxins from emotions. Once I started to focus on giving my body what it needed in terms of nutrition, sleep, exercise, deleting use of chemicals on my body, managing emotions and stress, and other forms of self-care, the lesions ceased to surface.
Was the Specialist or my GP bad, incapable or stupid? No not at all. They just didn’t have the tools in their toolbox to understand about root causes of conditions. They were taught in med school to diagnose and treat. They were not taught to ask the questions that I would do.
Here’s how I would approach ‘me’ holistically if ‘I’ came to me for a consultation presenting with the same symptoms:
-Ask ‘me’ to complete a full questionnaire referencing physical mental and emotional health
-Follow up with a deep dive into the possible causes- asking further questions to correlate
-Iridology- take photos of my eyes to see where my body’s inherent weaknesses lie and give further clues as to the root cause
-‘Prescribe’ a programme of diet and lifestyle changes, herbs and other naturopathic protocols, with the aim of making the body stronger and eliminating the lesions
-Following up to see how “I’m” doing, adjusting the programme as required.
-Get to a stage where “I” don’t need ‘Me” anymore as I feel great and I no longer have the le
sions.
See the difference?
Is this crazy? Is this woo? Is this quackery?
No not at all. It’s how medicine and healing should be. It’s how it used to be, before allopathy, drugs made from petrochemicals and the Medical Industrial Complex took over. We’ve just been brainwashed into thinking that healing comes after seeing a doctor for 5 mins and taking a packet of pills.
The problem is that the naturopathic way takes time and it takes the patient’s investment into the healing process. There is no ‘magic pill’.
Which process would you prefer? Which are you ready for? Are you ready for a holistic way of looking at your health and to take responsibility for your own health?
Ally van de Pol is a Certified Naturopath; Herbal Medicine Therpast, Iridology Consultant & Healing Diets Coach
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