How I stay healthy

Oct 30, 2006

Like all cultures where supermarkets do not exist, the food is freshly cooked and delicious. Because this family is one generation from Persia, much of their food is Persian in taste as well. The roti is much thicker than what one finds in India or Malaysia. They have tea at 10:30am, mid day meal about 2:00, tea again at 7:00 and evening meal at 10:30pm. People stay up late and sleep late. The weather is still very challenging and hot 35 degrees and we are headed into winter!

I’ve had to be very careful with my health. Being 62 is not so much a factor as the heat, dust and pollution. So I thought I’d discuss how I keep myself healthy. I’ve had a lot of experience over the years living in developing countires. When I work as a natural health provider in traditional communities, I bring about 300 homeopathic remedies so I can treat people.

Usually in developing countries I am filling in the health gap between their traditional health practices and the modern medical system. I also bring accupuncture needles and do lots of hands-on Gentle Muscular Relaxation.

This is not my relationship in Pakistan. I am here to share The Pink Kit skills however I do have about 100 remedies for myself and a few others with whom I will work. Like in every country there are unique health issues due to the climate, environment, food, availability to clean water and diseases as well as common injuries. In every village childbirth is considered to be very challenging to the health and wellbeing of both mothers and babies. This is real. It is.

I also carry two homeopathic books: Biochemistry by J.P Chapman from Jain publisher in India. Jain is one of the largest and best homeopathic publishers in the world. This is a book about the 12 tissue salts and I carry all of those with me. Then I have The Family Guide to Homeopathy by Alain Horvilleur. MD. I carry the small edition. This is a simple book to use and very thorough.

I customize my homeopathic kit depending on what I know about where I’m going and the problems I might encounter. When my children were small they also traveled with me. I carried remedies also suited for children’s complaints. I knew nothing about Pakistan and assumed it was sort of like India, so much of what I put together was a kit using some of the remedies I used in India and then some I realized I picked up when I worked in India in the early 1990s.

The first thing I had to deal with was the heat. This weather is between 30-35 degrees every day and lays me flat. I mix up an oral rehydration formula for myself with table salt and sugar … just a bit of taste of each flavour in one liter of water. I drink 3-4 liters of this each day. Water must be boiled so I don’t always have access to as much fluids as I would like.

Every room has a ceiling fan whipping around at a million miles an hour. This is very drying particularly to the eyes and ears. Fortunately I carry homeopathic eye drops and I put tissue in my ears so the wind from the fan doesn’t cause ear aches. Then I explain to my hosts I’m not yet hungry. This takes a bit of explanation. Every where people love to share food and rarely understand a lack of appetite.

When in dry climates I tend toward constipation rather than diarrhea. Either way it’s important to be thoughtful. I make every effort to stay healthy every day for the first few weeks. By then I will have adjusted. I'm still in the adjustment phase.

As soon as I adjust here then I'll head to high altitude and cold climate. A few weeks to adjust there.

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