Clinical-Level Self-Care: Integrating Ancient and Modern Healing | Ep 250
🌿 Episode Recap: The Healing Intelligence of Nature with David Crow
In this deeply enlightening episode, Melissa sits down with renowned herbalist and acupuncturist David Crow, a pioneer in classical Asian, Ayurvedic, and Tibetan medicine 🌺. With over four decades of experience, David shares profound insights on the spiritual and biological bond between humans and plants — revealing how nature’s intelligence supports our immunity, vitality, and consciousness 🌞🌱.
He introduces the concept of “clinical-level self-care,” empowering listeners to take full responsibility for their own healing through an integrative approach — blending herbal medicine, mindfulness, and informed modern medical choices. Together, Melissa and David explore how natural and conventional medicine can work in harmony rather than opposition, highlighting prevention and education as the true roots of wellness 🌿💫.
David closes with heartfelt wisdom on reconnecting with nature’s rhythms and invites listeners to explore his teachings and consultations at crowconsultations.com and The Shift Network.
✨ Key Takeaways:
1. 🌱 Plants and humans share a sacred biological and spiritual connection — nature is our original medicine.
2. 🧠 True healing begins when we take responsibility for our own health decisions and become active participants in our wellness.
3. 🧘♀️ Combining natural wisdom and modern medicine creates the most powerful path to balance.
4. 🌿 Awareness of how our bodies respond to nature helps us align with the Earth’s intelligence.
5. 💚 Prevention, education, and conscious care are the foundations of lifelong health.
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Episode Summary:
David's background @ 00:00
Melissa has David introduce himself and discuss his backgroun. David shares how he became interested in classical Asian medicine, Ayurvedic and Tibetan medicine, and how he has integrated these modalities into his clinical practice over the past 40+ years.
The spiritual and medicinal relationship between plants and humans @ 12:19
David explains the deep biological and spiritual connection between plants and humans, noting that plants created the biosphere that enabled human life to evolve. He discusses how the compounds plants produce for their own immune systems can also be used to support human health and immunity. David emphasizes the importance of developing a heightened awareness of how our bodies respond to the elements and compounds in nature.
David's approach to clinical-level self-care @ 31:04
David describes his current focus on providing "clinical-level self-care" through telemedicine consultations. This involves helping clients make informed decisions about medications, understand the potential side effects, and integrate herbal medicine, dietary changes, and meditation/stress reduction techniques to support their health. He emphasizes the importance of patients taking responsibility for their own healing journey.
The complementary roles of natural and conventional medicine @ 43:01
Melissa and David discuss the strengths and limitations of both natural and conventional medicine, and the importance of an open-minded, balanced approach that utilizes the best of both systems based on the individual's needs. They note that prevention and patient education have historically been core tenets of traditional medical systems.
Closing thoughts and resources @ 54:56
David shares how people can connect with him through his website, crowconsultations.com, and his courses on The Shift Network. Melissa and David express gratitude for the discussion and encourage the audience to reach out to David for consultations and to share the episode with others who may benefit.
About the Guest:
David Crow has been a clinician, consultant, researcher, and educator in the field of natural medicine for over 40 years. A world-renowned speaker, author, and thought leader, David emphasizes reimagining healthcare and empowering individuals to become their own self-care experts.
As a teacher, David has taught extensively for more than twenty five years, throughout the US, Canada and in Europe. He has been a top faculty member at The Shift Network since 2015, where over 10,000 students have taken his online courses. He pioneered and hosted The Shift Network’s most popular annual Plant Medicine Summit, which has been attended by over 300,000 people from more than 120 countries.
David was one of the first Westerners to train and be licensed in Chinese medicine, and one of the few to study Ayurvedic and Tibetan medicine in traditional internships in Nepal and India; he was also one of the first medical pioneers to use essential oils and aromatherapy in clinical practice, and to integrate these diverse modalities into comprehensive treatments.
David has traveled extensively for ethnobotanical research and to study traditional medical systems, including Central and South America, Europe, North Africa, Taiwan, Burma, Nepal, and India. He has worked with many communities around the world to establish a network of projects supporting sustainable cultivation and production of botanical medicines and artisanal essential oils.
David has studied extensively with numerous spiritual teachers and meditation masters in Asia; he integrates these teachings into his medical practice and presentations on natural medicine and ecological spirituality.
Contact:
Website: https://www.crowconsultations.com
The Shift Network website: https://theshiftnetwork.com type in David’s name to find his courses.
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About the Host:
Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Master Trainer of Hypnotherapy, Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements. Melissa’s business is 100% virtual – the lab tests are mailed directly to your home and she specializes in holding your hand and guiding the way to healing so that you don’t have to figure it all out on your own.
Melissa has launched Amplify Impact Academy, with business partner, Billie Aadmi and together they train other coaches, practitioners and counsellors in the 4 mind-body healing modalities mentioned above, giving them powerful tools to use with clients to get results with greater ease, speed and grace. These courses teach life skills and anyone can take them, if you want to be a better leader, parent, partner, be empowered in your own life, these courses are for you!
Melissa’s passion project is her non-profit, Girls Matter (www.girlsmatter.ca), breaking the poverty cycle 1 girl, 1 family, 1 village at a time. The mission is to keep girls in school and stop teenage marriages, because school isn’t free in over 50 countries around the world and when parents have to make the difficult choices of feeding their kids or paying for school, food wins. And when the girls hit their teen years, they will often be married off so that someone else becomes responsible to feed them. Keeping girls in school instead creates a generational ripple effect, because an educated girl is more than twice as likely to ensure her own children are educated. Educating girls also grows the GDP of countries, when they get into the workforce. This is how together, we can change the world. Guests on this podcast are invited to donate to this important cause. Learn more here in this short video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R3-xqzJLZW14om1PhFClcU_oRSZ8zgip/view?usp=share_link
Melissa is also the winner of the 2024 Women in Podcasting Awards in the “inspiration & motivation” category and the 2021 & 2022 Quality Care Award by Business From The Heart and is also the recipient of the Alignable “Local Business Person of the Year “Award 2022, 2023 & 2024 for Whistler.
Melissa has been featured at a number of Health & Wellness Summits, such as the Health, Wealth & Wisdom Summit, The Power To Profit Summit, The Feel Fan-freaking-tas-tic Summit, the Aim Higher Summit and many more! She has also guested on over 90 different podcasts teaching people about the importance of prioritizing our health and how to get started.
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