***Feeling Integrative Medicine. - Healing Magic

Written by Pamela McDonaldnnA 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. nnTo 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.nnEnjoy! Pam McDonald NP Integrative Medicine Fellow nnHealing MagicnYou say you are a healer,nbinding up wounds andnapplying potions and salvesnfor a broken humanity.nTell me, kind healer,nhave you found on your journeyna wound deepernthan lovelessness?nA person more brokennthan the one who’s own heartnwas long ago abandonednin search of what we do not know,nif not for Love itself.nAnd tell me gentle healer,nhow do you bind the woundnof lovelessness?nWhat potions and salvesndo you carrynin your black bagnthat can mend a broken heart?n“I’m sorry,” you say, “I have nothing,nthere is nothing I can do.”nAnd that, dear friend,nis where you are wrongnPut down the bag:nLeave go of the rummagingnfor magic other than your own;nopen your heart,npick up a hand,nGaze into an eye,nShare innonentruenmoment,nand watch healing begin.nnMany Thanks to Janet Quinn PhD RN.n Source: Quinn, Janet, 1996. Alternative Therapies.