The Holistic Advantage

Our bodies have the innate capacity to heal themselves. This core principle serves to guide the fundamental teachings and practices of a diverse array of systems of healing, including Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine, chiropractic, osteopathy, homeopathy, naturopathy, energy healing, and shamanism. Conventional western medicine, however, remains the only field of medicine that has yet to embrace this core teaching as a basis for its medical education, training and practice.

Dr. George Kosmides clinical practice, the art of applying the core principle that we have the innate capacity to heal is what makes the holistic approach an advantage for ultimate healing and the maintenance of optimal health. This applies to wellness care or injury.

It's is Dr. Kosmides professional belief that we need to experience symptoms in order for our bodies to heal and stay well. Dr. Kosmides believes that wellness can be successfully restored and maintained if we stop suppressing the symptoms they express during their acute and chronic phases.

Correcting cause is the key.

Acute symptoms, such as pain, fever, vomiting, diarrhea, rash, cough, runny nose, mucus production and wheezing, are all important ways in which we discharge stored accumulations of wastes or toxins from our bodies.

These toxins enter and are stored in our bodies from repeated exposures to trauma, air, food, water, skin, nervous system stress, and injected materials, that for whatever reason, don’t easily exit our bodies through the normal means of detoxification. These toxins are too irritating to our bodies and must be removed. Eventually, a critical level of the toxins is reached, and we get sick with symptoms to purge them. Children, therefore, must be allowed to be sick, in order for them to get well. Adults have the same capability.

In his practice, Dr. Kosmides encourages parents to allow children to express their symptoms when they’re sick. No one wants children to “feel” sick. Parents can learn to use remedies; however, that help children feel better and heal more effectively, without altering the important physiology which is helping them cleanse their systems. Letting children have their symptoms, without suppressing them, can be a challenging process both for parents and health care practitioners.

We often come face-to-face with our own discomfort when children experience discomfort from their illnesses. It’s hard for us to watch them “suffer”, so we reflexively give them something to bring immediate relief. This reflexive response to suppress their symptoms, however, weakens them and delays their healing process.

Dr. Kosmides strives to educate families to avoid most over-the-counter medicines, which are sadly overused and abused, and which ultimately hinder the healing process, and inhibit children as well as adults from purging the toxins on their own. The very existence of chronic illness means that there has been a loss of our body’s ability to successfully remove the toxins inside. As a result, these toxins (waste material) accumulate and lead to the development of the symptoms of chronic illness.

Dr. Kosmides works with families to remove the known, and as-yet-to-be identified interferences, which are preventing us from harnessing our innate natural healing abilities. Opportunities to advance our health may include chiropractic adjustments, changes in nutrition, lifestyle, coaching and education; the use of supplements, essential oils or herbs; a reduction in their stress levels; and referrals to homeopaths, acupuncturists, and medical doctors and/ or other health professionals.

Dr. Kosmides job is to observe the symptoms we all experience, permit the process to unfold on its own, and intervene when necessary.

His primary role is to partner with the children and parents and to make sure the necessary healing process is underway and supported. Ultimately, the goals in prevention and treatment are to ensure that we respect the innate capacity that we all have to heal.