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| Introduction |
| Who hasn't suffered from a bout of hay fever, felt the sinus congestion of a winter cold or wheezed through an asthma attack? Respiratory distress can be anything from annoying to life threatening, and a good part of modern medicine is devoted to treating its symptoms. |
| Masking or suppressing a symptom with drugs may bring temporary improvement, but this approach seldom cures a condition. Over time, most pharmaceutical drugs lose their effectiveness or cause adverse side effects while the condition that caused the symptom remains in place. Most American physicians consider the illnesses that cause respiratory distress, such as asthma, allergies and emphysema, to be chronic and incurable. They believe these diseases can't be cured, prevented or reversed, only "managed" by suppressing the symptoms for as long as possible. |
| Well, that's one point of view. Another is that respiratory illnesses can be prevented, reversed and curedand that the best therapies treat the cause of an illness as well as its symptoms. |
| The Holistic Approach |
| A physician who takes a holistic or "whole body" approach to healing appreciates that a human being is more than a machine. We are conditioned in the industrial West to think of ourselves as cars or robots. Our oil needs changing, our sparkplugs need replacing, our clogged parts need reaming out, our batteries need rechargingand we want it |
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