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Herbs & Nutrition  Patti Howard Holistic Nutritional Consultant Patti Howard, chef and owner of Casual Gourmet on Whidbey Island for the past seven years, is also completing a masters program in Holistic Nutrition. Since being diagnosed with a serious chronic condition in 1989, Patti has turned her focus to the power of food as medicine while integrating mind, body and spirit. She has, with education and results, seen the power of making subtle, though powerful, changes to diet that bears witness to a pain-free, healthy lifestyle that she enjoys today. Patti holds a passion for exploring nutritional dilemmas. She is ready to consult and discuss ways to gain energy, feel better, shed stubborn excess weight, and/or transition to a new nutrition level due to illness (or continued wellness!) In conjunction with an initial consultation of your specific concerns, Patti will be with you to design a custom plan that incorporates your current lifestyle. Discover your inner authority. Learn to see and feel changes while listening to your body as your friend. For an appointment, Patti can be reached at 221-3933 and 321-4696. Herbal medicine is one of the four treatment methods within Oriental medicine. Oriental medicine is the world's oldest continually practiced, professional medicine. Its written history stretches back over 5000 years. Although acupuncture was the first Asian modality to gain wide acceptance in the West, herbal medicine is quickly establishing itself as one of the most popular and effective alternative therapies. Chinese herbal medicine is... Chinese herbal medicine is based on an individualized pattern diagnosis as well as a disease diagnosis. This means the patient receives an herbal formulation designed to treat both the symptom of disease and also their individual pattern. Such a pattern is made up of a person's signs and symptoms as well as their emotional temperament and bodily constitution. Herbs... they aren't all vegetables... Although called herbal medicine, practitioners use ingredients from all three kingdoms, vegetable, animal and mineral. However, the majority of these are from vegetable sources. Leaves, flowers, twigs, stems, roots, tubers, rhizomes and barks are some of the many vegetable parts used. Know your practitioner! Although Chinese herbs are safe when professionally prescribed by a trained, knowledgeable practitioner, they are strong medicine nevertheless. Therefore it is important that a practitioner be adequately schooled and experienced in their use. A prospective patient should feel free to ask about the training and credentials of a potential practitioner.
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