Illness as Amnesia

Diagnostically this is how medicine works – which note is off? You can look at what is awry if you know the distinctions and correspondences. Hum the note to fix it. When the note is sounded, as string that is silent begins to resonate – all of the craziness falls away and you get back to the true note. Be the pitch pipe to the client. It’s not how loud you blow the pipe or how strong you needle the patient it is how precisely you do it. You must do it with Wu Xing Shi Yao (the medicine without form).
Illness, in some way, is always amnesia.
-Thea Elijah, LAc

The most important thing that we can do for our patients is to give them the clearest note to heal themselves. Herbal formulas with additives or formulas with unidentified ingredients have shades of impurity preventing their notes from being clearly heard. When people put their trust in us to reunite them with their true selves, we owe it to them to offer the best tools to heal.