by Bonnie McLean O.M.D., A.P. Author of Integrative Medicine: The Return of the Soul to Healthcare There is no doubt that we are in some intensely changing times, and with these changes come some major challenges. Many like me are deeply...
About a year and a half ago, maybe longer, 11 roosters showed up in my neighborhood. They have taken up residence at a vacant house about a block away fro me. Nobody seems to know where they came from. All of them except a white one, are black...
A Natural approach to breast health Dr. Bonnie McLean, BELLAMAGAZINE.COM 11:30 a.m. CDT September 28, 2016 (Photo: Steve Debenport, Getty Images/Special to Bella) In our busy lives how many of us think about keeping our breasts healthy? Dr...
by Bonnie McLean O.M.D., A.P., M.A., B.S.N. As a practitioner of Chinese Medicine, I would imagine that I would be considered to be in the category of alternative healing. Complementary healing incorporates both allopathic medicine and...
by Bonnie McLean O.M.D., A.P., M.A., B.S.N. Plant Medicine brings forth a special interest in this modern cultural emergence of alternative healing sources. Mark Plotkin and others have stimulated especially a resurgence in interest of the plants...
by Bonnie McLean O.M.D., A.P., M.A., B.S.N. I doubt if there is a human being who has not felt like they hit a wall at some point in their life. It’s really not something we discuss much with each other. A wall may be an unexpected accident or a...
Chinese Herbology by Bonnie McLean O.M.D., A.P., M.A., B.S.N. The historical roots of modern pharmacology were embedded in herbal medicine. For example: ASA- white willow bark Morphine- seeds of poppy flowers Penicillin from fungus Quinine from...
Instead of hitting our walls, can we learn to dance with them and ultimately walk through them?
Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine by Bonnie McLean O.M.D., A.P., M.A., B.S.N. Chinese Medicine is about 5,000 years old. It is originally based on Taoist philosophy which speaks about the human body in terms of energy rather than...
On the way home I met the most amazing people in the Atlanta airport and airplane. I sat next to a young Vietnamese man who was a professor at Vassar and had just published a book. Talking to him gave me hope for our young people and the future...
This is a very personal book for me. About 35 years ago I embarked on a journey to find the soul in medicine. What I didn’t know at the time was that I was also on a journey to retrieve parts of my own soul that had been lost during...