The Immune Issue

I’m very excited to greet you with my first newsletter, The Philosopher’s Stone from The Herban Alchemist and Apothe-Carry Natural Remedies.

I chose the name The Herban Alchemist for my new business. The word Alchemy suggests Transformation and Change from a lower to higher state. The mission of The Herban Alchemist is to use natural medicine as the vehicle for Transformation of the Body, Mind and Spirit. No matter where we are on the journey of transformation and growth, we always have opportunity to refine our lives to a place of more joy, happiness and well being. The Herban Alchemist offers different opportunities for you to experience this change and growth.

1.  You may visit me in my private practice in either New York City or in San Francisco. I provide Naturopathic Medicine, Chiropractic and Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine as treatments for all natures of imbalance. For more information about my private practice you can go to Dr. Gabrielle Francis on our site.

2.  You will receive this Newsletter for useful hands on information on current health issues, in your inbox monthly. You may also link to the newsletter through our website under Magnus Opus.

3. Our products are available through the website too. You can purchase directly, products prescribed to you by Dr. Francis by going to our website under Elixir Of Life.

4.  I am developing some workshops that will be soon available in person, On Line and by DVD. These will include some of the major themes that I work with such as: Detoxification, hormone balancing, whole foods eating, fertility and more. You will be able to access information about our workshops by going to Magnus Opus on our website.

5.  Coming this later fall is a new product line called APOTHE -CARRY Natural Remedies, in which you can buy various natural medicine first aid kits. I am so excited about this project. To find out more, you can visit the Apothe-Carry website.

Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

Knowledge is not intelligence.

In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected.

Change alone is unchanging.

The same road goes both up and down.

The beginning of a circle is also its end.

Not I, but the world says it: all is one.

And yet everything comes in season.

— Heraclitus

As we move into fall, I choose 2 major themes for the first issue of my newsletter, The Philosopher’s Stone.

• The first is the Immune System, as I know all of you are concerned about colds and influenza and what we can do to protect ourselves and our families.
• The second issue revolves around the seasonal characteristics of the fall such as Change and the element of metal in Chinese medicine.

This has been an incredible year of change for me. I am embracing change as an opportunity for transformation and growth. It has been a difficult year with more work than I could ever have imagined. But the fuel for me was the desire to share my knowledge and experience with more people. And at the same time to move to a place of deeper personal fulfillment. As many of you know, I got married this July.

So, I am including some thoughts and quotes on change and transformation. Allowing ourselves to flow with the changes can open us up to opportunities that we never imagined possible. If we resist change, we will find ourselves feeling like we are in a state of Crisis. If we embrace change, we will find ourselves in a state of Flux. Remember to enjoy the journey and embrace all the experiences along the way.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
— Alan Cohen