Recently I have become fascinated with the term domestic or domesticating, it’s many meanings and how the process affects our lives. One such definition I find timely if not freighting is: make fit for cultivation, domestic life and service to humans. When we state service to humans are we referring to animals, humans or both? The French word for domestic is domestique a derivative of the word domus or house. The Latin term for domestic is...

PTSD and Pain Dr. Jeffrey Meyer   Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is most often associated with the military service. In combat solders are living twenty-four hours a day in fight or flight mode. That aspect of your brain that keeps you alert and prepared to protect yourself. Folks who have never been in the military also experience trauma, psychologically and physically. Not as constant or severe as military combat, but trauma never...

Medicine comes in all shapes and sizes from pills to exercise and at times even a heart felt experience. Recently, I attended a free outdoor concert presented by St. John’s College in Santa Fe. These concerts are presented throughout the summer; however, this week also was the opening week of the International Folk Art Market. The Folk Art Market occurs one weekend a year and brings in artisans from all over the world. St John’s College in...

It has always been about balance. Right and left, up and down, acid and alkaline and so on. I was taught that when we maintain physical and emotional balance we maintain health. The human body as well as animals, plants, all organic life was designed to heal itself if balance is maintained. As physicians we are witnessing growing numbers of people with cancer, stroke, bacterial and viral conditions, allergies as well as behavioral health...

When a branch becomes diseased it probably began at the roots. The cause of a disease is the root hidden behind a symptom. Treating only the symptom results in a momentary relief. Treating the root involves evaluating a patient from a holistic perspective (body, mind and spirit).