A personal account of how an alternative healer uses minerals such as calcium and magnesium with ancient Chinese theory to relieve back, neck, shoulder pain as well as headaches, menstrual cramps, and TMJ in her patients. The doctor reveals startling information that soda pop and beef steal vast amounts of these valuable nutrients causing much of the back pain and headache tension that cripples both men and women. How to repair the damage, what foods will heal you, and which will drop you to your knees, are all addressed along with what nutrition strengthens nerve problems. Add a touch of metaphysical wisdom that your disease is somehow your special gift and you will love Dr. Marcia Schmidt's loving and down-to-earth approach to recovering your health.

PUBLISHERS NOTE: The author blends her personal acquaintance with a ninety-year-old Chinese herbalist, the exceedingly gentle manipulation of Naprapathy, whose beginnings are Bohemia in the early 1900's, with wisdom learned from Dr. Rosita Arvigo, one of the world's leading experts of medicinal plants from Belize in the Central American Rainforest. The result is herbal medicine in which the power of the plant is Mother Nature's simple gift toward healing.