Fair offers chance to learn about holistic health - NewburyportNews.com, Newburyport, MA

To expose residents to some of those treatments, Janelli recently held a Holistic Health Fair at the Merrimac Usual Library so people could be aware of the benefits that advance from holistic care - treating the whole person, rather than just a specific pain or disease.

Janelli, who has been practicing Reiki for 12 years, has a dodge in Merrimac where she and four other therapists offer polarity, crystal work, massage therapy and Reiki. Jane Binder of Merrimac, who attended the objective with her husband, is a Reiki patient. She believes that alternative medicine works, but that "people don't give it a chance." She described how, at the age of 6, she could no longer stand as a result of calcium loss in her legs.

Her doctors predicted that she would never regain the use of her legs. Nevertheless she recalls the "miracle" of walking again after drinking liver blood prescribed by her grandmother, a part-Native American lady who lived to the age of 99 in spite of never visiting a doctor.

Her husband, Ed, said he like better to rely on "a lot of vitamins and herbs." I hate drugs," he said.

Binder's dislike championing formula medication came after he experienced a severe reaction to drugs prescribed for his cluster headaches.

His wife said that medication "almost crippled him," and lone lifetime he was carried to the infirmary because he could not walk. That's when we swore off" the drugs, she said.

His headaches were ultimately cured by handling of from a chiropractor. Among those participating in the impartial was Emily Flaherty of Em's Earrings Etc. West Newbury. She put together jewelry by hand, using consistent stones that she chooses representing their curative properties.

Flaherty described how the amethyst necklace she was wearing "helps me get upon this cold." An amethyst can be cast-off for emotional, physical and spiritual healing, according to Flaherty. Longtime Merrimac resident Joanne Vien of Joanne's Jewels also heals using jewelry made of crystals.

Vien wire-wraps the stones so they can be held closer to the body, such as a pendant or ring, compared with simply holding a stone. Some of the unusual stones she works with include citrine, which she said increases self-esteem and self-confidence, and moldavite, which enhances the strength of other crystals and was formed from a meteorite.

Also participating at the health fair was medicinal herbalist Cassandra Campbell of Hidden Enchantments. She explained how she happen on with first-time clients for at least one hour to find out what's going on. Herbalism is not different from science," she said. It's formulas."

She finds that herbal remedy "work great for chronic symptoms" of medical problems such as arthritis, osteoporosis and any hide condition. Campbell identified eczema and psoriasis as examples of conditions that herbalists impression as symptoms of an underlying disease.

As an herbalist, you look at the skin as an organ," she said. Your skin is the first pointer to tell you something is faulty with your body." Merrimac resident Joyce Clohecy said, "This is how we dealt with our problems" before recipe medication. Her success with alternative pharmaceutical began with what she describes as "tremendous sinus headaches" that were not alleviated by medication.

She finally received treatments from an acupuncturist, and the headaches she had endured for weeks disappeared and never returned. Of her acupuncture experience, she said, "You feel heat. You can feel it when it drains. It's the energy."

Others participating in the fair were Sharon Linnea Smith of Metamorphic Art Works (animal intuitive, fiord healer, vital spirit retriever, Reiki master, Tong Ren); Pat Zalewski (sound therapist, polarity practitioner); and Kim Cooper of Rewind Bit (nonsurgical face-lifts).

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