An employee at a Dok Alternatibo clinic shows the health drink turmeric juice and camote rolls that form part of the natural food program of the thriving health enterprise. GERMELINA LACORTE <\/p>\n
Edgar Delibos foray into alternative medicine was driven by the search for a cure to his wifes many ailments. <\/p>\n
She had asthma since she was a child. She had myoma after childbirth. She was diagnosed with a rheumatic heart, hypertension and hyperthyroidism. She had insomnia, migraine and a lot more, said Delibo, who is now known here as Dok Alternatibo. <\/p>\n
Doctors told the family that they had only two optionssurgery or maintenance drugs. Delibo, however, refused to accept that he was limited to the two choices. <\/p>\n
The cost of operation was so huge for a media man to afford, so I started to look for solutions somewhere else, said Delibo, who had worked as a broadcaster before his involvement in alternative medicine. <\/p>\n
He spent long hours doing research on the Internet and reading medical books, but they simply corroborated what doctors had told him about his wifes ailmentsthe choices were just surgery and maintenance drugs. <\/p>\n
Eyes of faith <\/p>\n
It was only when I stopped my search using my eyes and began to search using the eyes of faith that I began to see, Delibo said. <\/p>\n
He said a voice inside him kept telling him that the very food that they (doctors) dont allow patients to eat may be the ones that can bring about healing. <\/p>\n
So while doctors told him root crops were bad for patients with toxic goiter, which his wife had, he gave his wife camote, pounding it and mixing it with scraped coconut meat. <\/p>\n
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