Healing Magic and Major Health Breakthroughs

By Darrel Crain, D.C.

Healing is nothing short of pure magic. We can see it happen, we can describe it and even assist in its amazing mystery, yet Nature’s magic remains far beyond the bounds of human comprehension.

We are talking about real magic, not the kind of conjured illusions and clever deception performed by show people for entertainment. Trying to describe real magic is tricky. As author Tom Robbins has pointed out, “Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.”

Nature’s healing magic is glorious, mysterious and awe-inspiring, yet the few words that sum up the whole process make it sound as mundane as washing your socks. Oh well, here are those words: normal cellular activity and healthy cell renewal. See? It does sound dull, but only until one recalls that the human body is a community of around one quadrillion cells multitasking one septillion separate tasks every single second (that’s a one followed by 24 zeros).

Let’s have a look at an ordinary, everyday piece of magic to get a feeling for what we are talking about, such as mending a broken bone.

I will never forget one beautiful spring afternoon when my nine-year-old son Charlie climbed on his bicycle and propelled it over a jump. Only a few hours into his gleefully anticipated spring vacation, things went from bad to worse while “catching air.” The bike landed on top of the boy and the humerus bone in his left arm snapped right in two, just above the elbow.

The ride to the hospital was excruciating for Charlie and agonizing for my wife Nancy and me as each tiny bump in the road caused him to cry out and moan anew. His older brother John sat next to him and promised that hospital nurses would soon give him powerful drugs to make the pain go away.

Before long Charlie lay on the emergency room bed waiting to be examined. Every minute or so, remembering his brother’s words he howled, “Give me drugs, I need drugs!” Everyone, especially Charlie, was relieved when the morphine drip dulled his awful pain and caused him to become comfortably numb.

Late that night, doctors in the operating room lined up the pieces of his bone using real-time x-ray, inserted a couple of metal pins to hold them in place and immobilized his arm in a cast. It was modern emergency medicine in all its brilliant glory, dispatched with skill by loving doctors.

As magical as the skills of those young doctors seemed, the real magic was just beginning. Even as Charlie’s body was first knitting the adjacent pieces of bone back together with a temporary bone “callus,” an innate process was already underway to remodel the patch, replacing it with new bone cells in a strong, organized fashion.

Remarkably, only three weeks later Charlie’s cast was cut off and the pins removed. With the empty sling intended for his arm dangling uselessly around his neck, he went tearing down the driveway on a scooter as I scolded him loudly for defying doctor’s orders. After two more weeks of faithfully following his daily exercise routine, Charlie’s arm was restored to its full range of motion. Today, five years after his big break, he sometimes hesitates when recalling which arm it was.

We are not required to understand how this magic works, but it does work better when we feed it. Here is what you feed magic: love, healthy food, beautiful thoughts, abundant motion, a clean environment and pure water.

Everyone is born with healing magic. I am told that mending a bone is no more nor less miraculous than a spontaneous cure from terrible cancer. Do we need to understand the nature of celestial gravity to bask in the bright sunlight? We do not. Even when clouds obscure our view, nature never ceases producing miracles.

Major health breakthroughs enjoyed in recent centuries are basically the result of finding reliable ways to enhance natural processes, primarily improved nutrition and sanitation. Shortly after the health benefits of closed sewage systems and indoor plumbing were being realized, it was discovered that a simple lack of key nutrients was behind scurvy, rickets and beriberi. These disfiguring and debilitating disorders are gone for good as long as people continue consuming adequate vitamins C, D and thiamine, respectively.

We continue learning new ways to feed the magic. Recently, countless babies have been spared the tragedy of neural tube defects by simply requiring the addition of folate to certain foods. Heart disease, autoimmune disorders, obesity and cancer are increasingly being reversed with strict adherence to healthy food habits, regular exercise, emotional support and therapeutic levels of key vitamins and nutrients.

Releasing limitations to internal communication and freeing up the flow of subtle energy within the body is emerging as a key element of well being. We are also realizing the necessity of strictly reducing the toxicity we let in the body, and the profound benefits of eliminating those toxins already present.

We are learning that the greatest expression of health occurs when symptoms are no longer suppressed. When things are out of balance in the body, we experience dis-ease. With balance we experience ease, or health. Occasional discomforts such as fever, nausea and congestion are signs of a robust immune response and should be allowed to run their course if possible. This is a prime example of “shift happens.” It is the magic required to clean house in all our bodily systems, make us want to rest and sleep, drink extra water and so find our way back to better balance.

Tom Robbins proposed that “Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.” That disbelief may also cause people to ignore the true source of their powers to heal.

The famous pediatrician, the late Robert S. Mendelsohn, M.D. called himself a medical heretic. He envisioned a new era of health care he called New Medicine. Interventions in this new era will share distinct qualities. They will be minimally invasive, sustainable, nontoxic, highly effective, low risk and low cost. The main focus of the New Medicine era will be the promotion of normal cellular activity and healthy cell renewal. I like Dr. Mendelsohn’s vision, it sounds like magic.

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