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Wholistic care — new way of survival

The Young Reporter (1994, May 27), 26(07), pp. 7.
Author: Celia Chow.
Permanent URL - https://sys01.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/bujspa/purl.php?&did=bujspa0002070

By CELIA CHOW

NANCY Bekhor said she was shocked when she had come to Hongkong eight years ago and realised there was no wholistic health centre here.

“I thought we need a centre here because it’s missing,” she said.

Wholistic health, according to her, a specialist in this field, is to consult a person based on his physical, emotional and mental state as a whole, rather than just a particular set of symptoms.

Instead of using the word “alternative therapy” which sounds “opposite to medicine” according to her, Miss Bekhor prefers to address it as “more preventive” or “wholistic” kind of treatment.

She said that this kind of healthcare was different from the traditional medical treatment.

The major thing is that the traditional medical treatment works with symptoms while wholistic medical care deals with the sources of the symptoms.

Miss Bekhor referred the origin of this health care to the old Chinese who understood that health problems could not be dealt with superficially.

She said, “Chinese medicine is a wholistic system already, that’s why all the Western wholistic systems really develop from the Chinese medicine.”

Miss Bekhor, who has run a wholistic health care centre for seven years, said that people did not come to their centre to get cure.

“People come here to lift their energies gently.

“If their energies are lifted, their bodies will be allowed to get well by itself,” she said.

She explained that some of the health problems were so subtle that even the doctors might not realise them.

She said people could prevent certain health problems which would usually start in their old ages.

Her centre, provides ten kinds of therapies, namely: Chiropractic, Acupuncture, Shiatsu, Aromatherapy, Counselling Psychotherapy, Fasting & Nutrition, Deep tissue massage, Alexander technique, Postural Integration and Breath work.

No drugs and surgery are given in this clinic, but clients are expected to do some exercises, such as walk better, sit better and pay attention.

“Someone who has un-fortunately no success with other system of health come here hoping that they can help themselves.

“Actually, when people live right, eat right and exercise right, they really need nothing,” Miss Bekhor added.

The clinic claimed to have 40 per cent of Chinese clients, compared with only 10 per cent when the business started in 1987.

About the matter of control, Miss Bekhor admitted that the government exercised no control on her clinic.

“It isn’t really any control, it’s understood,” she said.

“They (practitioners) aren’t giving anything to clients’ mouths other than natural food, so there is no danger in that sense,” she added.

Nancy Bekhor studied chemical engineering, philosophy and pure maths in university. And she had also studied different kinds of intensive healing.

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