Dr. Teitelbaum explains:
This patient represents the type of patient I see all day, every day in my practice. They have loads of imbalances, making them feel highly symptomatic with poor quality of life. Yet, when they seek out medical treatment and have had all kinds of tests performed and bloodwork taken, they are told there is nothing wrong with them. So either a) they continue suffering in silence getting more and more frustrated or b) they take some pharmaceutical to try to cover up some of the symptoms, but usually the side effects are worse than their myriad symptoms.
This is because modern medicine’s focus is basically on diagnosing and treating disease. However, it takes several stages (six, according to Ayurvedic texts) to develop a disease that you can actually name and diagnose. So, the vast majority of the patients I see have no disease yet, so they are left untreated.
I have numerous cases right now of patients who are told some of their markers for Lupus or RA are there in the bloodwork, but not all of them. I have many who are told their blood sugar is slowly creeping up but they don’t have diabetes yet, so they too are left untreated. And many are told they are well on their way to getting MS, but when the lesions finally show up on the brain and spine, they will begin treatment. So they are watching them and retesting them periodically. When they are sure they have come down with the disease, then they will give them something like Methotrexate to shut down their immune system.
Our approach is to intervene now, before the disease is even diagnosed, and start reversing the numerous imbalances they have. We change their diet, put them on a program of herbs and teach them correct Ayuvedic cleansing, according to Vaidya Mishra’s SVA family lineage teachings: we detox in a way to keep the liver cool — most detox protocols actually heat up the liver, like in the case of milk thistle or maple syrup/cayenne pepper cleanses. This type of cleansing no longer works in the modern era, where people are holding onto very hot toxins (ama visha and gar visha). We teach them correct diet and daily routine. And in no time, they are well on their way to experiencing radiant health again!
And one more thing: this type of patient has numerous imbalances, which have been let go for too many years. Therefore, they require numerous herbs to rebalance everything. However, if we had to give the crude herb (tablets, teas) it would be too much for their already overheated and ailing liver to handle. This is where Vaidya Mishra’s transdermal creams and herbal glyceride memory nectar drops come in. We can now treat everything we need to by either delivering the herbs through the skin and bypassing the liver (everything you swallow goes through the liver), or giving the vibration of the herb in a quart of spring water, so it slowly comes into the liver. This makes our job as practitioners very easy for treating these more complicated cases, and brings instant relief to the patients who know they cannot tolerate too many herbs orally.
It is so fulfilling to be able to help the suffering of so many patients and it is such a joy to hear every day in my practice the relief expressed by hundreds of patients who knew they were getting worse and worse with their health yet didn’t know where to turn. I will forever be indebted to Vaidya Mishra for teaching me how to treat almost every patient that presents to my office everyday, no matter how complicated the case may be.
Dr. Marianne Teitelbaum
Cinnaminson, New Jersey
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