My introduction to alternative medicine began in my twenties. in my younger years I used to get multiple bladder infections one right after the other. Medical doctors didn't know what to do other than prescribe antibiotics. Even at that time, I knew antibiotics taken multiple times was not getting to the root of the problem. In desperation my mom found a homeopath who prescribed a remedy that tood my bladder pain away immediately and healed the infection. Eventually, the need to take the remedy became less and less until I rarely, if ever, got another bladder infection. I continued seeing a homeopath for other conditions but what I found was if the homeopath didn't find the right remedy, nothing happened. When I am not in the office or reading about health or acupuncture, I am learning Aikido or camping, biking, and hiking with my husband and two very active teenagers.