Evadne Gooden-Harper, back in Jamaica after 20 years as a nurse in the United States, is on a crusade.

Hers is a mission to guide people to good health and wellness, through lifestyle change and a holistic viewpoint that incorporates body, mind and spirit.

From her base in Savanna-la-mar, Westmoreland, Harper offers what is commonly referred to as alternative health care but what she sees as simple and essential, preventing illness through proper nutrition, lifestyle change and a healthy state of mind.

Naturally, she does all this without the use of what she considers harmful medications, utilising instead, methods of diagnosis, purification and treatment with natural herbs. It is therefore no mistake that her Savanna-La-Mar practice is known as Tropi-Eden Farmacy.

The use of the word Farmacy, she notes, is no mistake. She strongly believes that all that one requires for good health comes from the earth.

For diagnosis Harper utilises BioResonance Feedback Technique (BRFT), a form of energy medicine that tests the body at the cellular/energy level. This type of diagnosis focuses on the body as an electromagnetic field that can transmit and receive electromagnetic vibrations.

When organs are sick or diseased they emit disharmonious energy and this computer-based BRFT machine is therefore able to pinpoint these disharmonies, determining areas of longstanding illnesses or stressors on the body and feeding back energy to these areas to eliminate this bad energy – returning the body to a state of balance.

Harper says she has been able to effectively treat chronic pain, allergies and even Attention Deficit Disorder in children, detect instances of cancers, tumours and illnesses using this technique.

This form of diagnosis is not new and is also utilised locally by Dr Leonard White, a naturopathic practitioner who notes that this form of diagnosis is able to pinpoint illnesses in the body much earlier than other forms of diagnosis, and has proved invaluable to his practice.

Harper also utilises ionic detoxification and infrared sauna therapy. Her clients are usually persons who have been told repeatedly by doctors that they are unable to diagnose their illnesses and have grown tired of traditional remedies.

She notes that her path to natural medicine has been a journey, which started back in early 2000, when she became disillusioned with traditional methods, which focus on medicating instead of educating.

“We are treating symptoms and not causes,” she notes. With her new methods she said she is able to get to the root cause of people’s illness and therefore what they need to eliminate from their life or incorporate into their daily living to return to good health.

Most illnesses, she said, originate and thrive in the body when it is in a state of disharmony and imbalance and that is able to eliminate this kind of toxic environment most of debilitating illnesses cannot survive.

A past student of Mannings School and Kingston School of Nursing, Harper believes that good health is possible for all persons and through her practice and a weekly radio programme is determined to do her part.

Source: Observer Western News