THERE ARE SOME cases which illustrate why I am not, and never could be, a practitioner of conventional medicine. Such was the case of the “UFO abductee.”
We were introduced by a mutual friend. “Ronnie” was a middle-aged man who, despite having a master’s degree, felt barely capable to hold down a job as a hospital orderly. He was on psychiatric drugs for anxiety, depression and insomnia—one for each. I took a standard intake. When asked what made his anxiety worse, he paused and said, “I suppose it would be OK to mention here. I am a UFO abductee.” He went on at great length to describe how he had been abducted and how terrible an experience it was. “They treat us just like we treat cattle or something. It is completely violational.” He described a typical scenario in which the aliens stole genetic material by making an incision on the scrotum. His girlfriend was similarly accosted and after the aliens returned to show her the cross-bred baby produced with her genes she committed suicide. They were members of an alien abductee survivor’s support group.
If I’d been tactless, my mouth would have been hanging open for several minutes. My apprentice, sitting in on the case, also held her tongue. Rather than asking additional questions about something I knew only by reputation—and so far, it seemed he was telling a fairly typical UFO abductee story—I simply said, “What do you think would help you?"
“I need to be more grounded,” he replied. Well that made sense. It seemed likely that a grounded person would not be lifted off the ground so easily! This also matched the physical symptoms. He tended to hunch over a little bit, as if protecting the emotional centers in the stomach area. That would be the solar plexus, where we feel a “thump on the belly” when the enteric or animal brain, i.e., the autonomic, is stimulated by deep, instinctual, or emotional reactions. (As I was later to learn, the aliens are entirely counter-instinctual.) There was also the fact that a stomach ulcer was his major physiological complaint. The tongue was red, shrunken, and dry, an indication of mental anguish (heat rising to the head) and poor assimilation. We often see the red tongue in psychiatric cases. In traditional Chinese medicine it is said that the heart (which maintains psychological equilibrium) is overheated, the fire rises, and the mind is agitated. Psychiatric drugs tend to exaggerate the redness of the tongue.
My apprentice knew her stuff, so I asked Julie, “What would you give here?” “Wood betony,” she answered without hesitation. That’s the remedy for lack of groundedness, a feeling of disconnection from the world. It is excellent for older people in their declining years. It is also a remedy that strengthens digestion and assimilation, improving food and water uptake, thus indicated when the tongue is dry and shrunken. I decided to add goldenseal in very small doses, because it is such a good remedy for ulcers.
More at the link:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040829103547/http://www.tcwellness.com/article.php?id=535 
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