Mouk Healing Center Newsletter

“The nervous system controls and co-ordinates everything in the body.” This statement is taken from the classic textbook Gray’s Anatomy, which is used everywhere in the teaching of physical body anatomy and function. Nerve pathways extend from our brain to each and every one of the trillions of cells that make up our wonderful and amazingly designed body. This constitutes the major communication system between our brain, which runs our body, and our individual tissue cells which function on a day-to-day basis to make our life a dynamic energetic experience or just a pain-filled dawn to dusk existence.

Throughout the history of mankind, healing of various types has been practiced in every culture. Recorded history gives us information regarding some of the kinds of healing that continued to be practiced over the centuries. Certain types of healing were used in various cultures and later abandoned while others stood the test of time. Through the centuries they continued to be utilized in one culture after another because they showed consistent results with patients. One of these methods of healing was developed by the ancient Chinese and referred to as acupuncture … it has remained a viable healing method for several thousand years because it gets sick people well. There were no “scientific studies” done with these ancient healing methods … they either worked in getting people well or they didn’t work, and if they didn’t work they were abandoned.

Another method of healing that has been practiced over the centuries, in one form or another, by most of the cultures on this planet was spinal therapy. Various types of spinal therapy were consistently used as a major form of healing for many centuries continuing up to modern times. These possibly dated back as far as Hippocrates, the “Father of Healing," in ancient Greece. Native Americans had their small children walk on their spines as they lay prone on the ground. Eastern European cultures practiced a type of spinal stretch to aid in healing. There are ancient paintings that were found in China showing acupuncturists doing a type of spinal alignment while using the traditional needles with their patients.

Our spine is closely involved with the major nerves that leave the spinal cord and eventually go to all of our 500+ muscles and to all of the organs in our body. These muscles and organs function, well or not well, primarily as a result of the nerve impulses from our brain consistently reaching the cells. Anything that stimulates and improves this flow of nerve impulses to our cells has the potential to improve our body’s function. This is why so many cultures have used and continue to use some form of spinal therapy as a major part of their healing. Like acupuncture and other healing methods, it has stood the test of time. It works, it helps sick people get well, and that is the bottom line in any type of healing!

Spinal therapy is nothing new on this planet. It was, however, rediscovered in this country by Dr. D. D. Palmer in 1895 when he found that he could help various conditions in the physical body by gently “thrusting” into the spine to realign the vertebrae to apparently remove pressure on the nerves where they left the spine to go to the various tissues of the body. Dr. Palmer called this spinal lesion a “subluxation”(meaning a joint out of its normal alignment, but not actually dislocated.) The spinal subluxation is not yet fully understood and much continuing research is being done to reveal more about it, but the excellent healing results achieved when it is skillfully corrected are undeniable. The name CHIROPRACTIC means “Done by Hand” and is based upon Greek words that were so often used in medical terminology. This name was applied because the early “adjustments” of the spine were done only by use of the practitioner’s hands. However, over the past 111 years since the rediscovery of this method of healing, gentle low-force methods have been developed for correcting these spinal subluxations, including the use of specific computerized technology.

But perhaps one of the most important ones was left out. Keeping our nervous system functioning at its very best, not only allows us to be free of pain and discomfort, but also ensures that our entire body functions at its peak, always no matter what our age. Our nervous system controls the function of our body and our spine. It has a substantial effect upon our nervous system, for good or for bad. If we keep our spine aligned and balanced (and follow the other rules for good health), we all have the potential to ‘live long and prosper.'

This is the exciting promise that this rapidly dawning age of Natural Healing brings to us all…to be able to live our lives: “Like a candle, burning brightly from end to end, then flickering slightly and going out..." peacefully and with dignity.

Aluminum, like all heavy metals, comes from the earth’s crust. It has many uses in industry, but has no known biological function. Workplace exposure to aluminum during processing has well-known health risks, and workplaces must follow strict guidelines to prevent workers from being exposed. Aluminum is found in food, drinking water, bottled water, prescription medications, over the counter medications, deodorants, antiperspirants, and cookware, as a food additive to keep powders from clumping (such as flour and baking powder and soda) and has a waste by product found in many other forms called FLUORIDE. Aluminum has been known to be toxic to the nervous system for many years (since at least 1937) and has been linked to such health issues as encephalopathy (dementia), bone disease, anemia, neurological damage, metabolic bone disease, Alzheimers, senile dementia, short term memory loss, slowness in thought, confusion, disorientation, difficulty in communicating thoughts, slowness in movement, loss of physical function, and many others. Aluminum is most easily absorbed into the body through the skin, drinking water, cooking in aluminum pots, storing foods such as sauerkraut, tomatoes etc, in aluminum or covering with aluminum, these are the worst because they are acidic.

Aluminum exacerbates (worsens) oxidation and inflammation and has been proven to damage nerve tissue.

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