A Paradigm Shift? 16 February 2026 Dear friends, colleagues and supporters, “In the bleak midwinter”, as one of our Christian hymns begins, we often turn to gray thoughts during the gray days of February. Over the past 4 to 5 years, I’ve struggled to keep up with all the advancing technology. Learning about websites with categories and tags and uploading vs downloading along with correct ways to format for digital presentation instead of on printed paper. During this time of “supposed to be retired” (in my ‘70s) I’ve

Wisdom From the Past . . . Progress Into the Future November 2025 My dear friends, colleagues and supporters, I must admit as we approach the holidays and the end of another year, I found sitting down to write this monthly commentary challenging. There are still so many aspects of the virus and political situations that are discouraging and negative, that I went looking for something – anything – that would be positive and encouraging as we approach the change into another season and another year. It was

Exciting News! September 2025 My dear friends, colleagues and supporters, I simply cannot think of any greater news nor a more exciting announcement. After four years of research, recovery and transition, I am so very pleased to announce that the recently completed (well for now, anyway) OIRF.COM website has gone live! My gratitude is unbounding for my tech support, Chad Jerrett of JR Direct IT & Marketing Services in Delta, BC Canada. Chad initially worked for OIRF as my assistant back in the mid-1990s prior to our move

A Small Conundrum 13 May 2025 There is one event that I always look forward to each spring, and that is making the journey to St. Louis to participate in Dr. Simon Yu’s Introductory Acupuncture Meridian Assessment seminar and workshop. It’s a long day of travel and flying each direction for me from our beautiful little resort community in the interior of British Columbia – but well worth it. Attended this spring by nearly 20 docs and dentists, this session was exceptional. I was able to present all

Main Focus Invisible Attackers Living with Inanimate Nature For those in a hurry To prevent disease, it is not a matter of killing germs, but rather of creating a healthy environment and a strong immune system in the body. For example, it can help to cleanse the detoxification and excretory organs such as the liver, intestines, kidneys and skin through naturopathic drainage and detoxification therapies. Viruses and bacteria have already existed for millions of years and are part of life. So that people can still

In Memory Heinrich Rossmann, MD Dr. H. Rossmann was one of the few doctors who also cooperated as an expert on behalf of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians with Dr. Reinhold Voll, the founder of electroacupuncture (EAV). Now he has died shortly before his 90th birthday. Since 1970 he has been involved with EAV, found a special methodological approach, which he continued with curiosity, imagination and the joy of experimentation. Together with Dr. N. Mayer, among others, he developed the HOMOPATH© test program, today the most

Birthdays, Philosophy & Exit Strategies With the culmination of the 101st Birthday celebrations and activities for my beloved Mom Catharine, I’ve once again found myself wandering through the newsletters and ever changing information about the virus, the vaccines and the possible resolutions for the health of our families and patients. I’ve stated it before that without a doubt, this is a unique time in history – for conventional medicine, so-called alternative medicine, politics, economics and society as a whole. I am not so prideful and self-centered as to

Impressions, Thanks and Quiet Time March 2022 There was a night recently where thoughts whirled and sleep escaped me. Rather than stew in frustration, I did a “Carolyn” and just sat at my computer in the early hours of a new day and wrote – just notes and thoughts and an attempt to make sense of recent events. It is certainly a turbulent and highly charged time in history. As I’ve mentioned before, I believe this is the time of millennial transition that many expected in those first

Rhetoric, Politics, History and Points to Ponder 09 February 2022 These are interesting and maddening times, are they not? But times of change – those moments of Kairos – are certainly never easy to participate in. In recent weeks I’ve had several reminders of the past and of the history that have once again compelled me to put my fingers to the keyboard and “spit it out” as the old saying goes. On the day I began writing, I was filled with optimism. In spite of the promise

History, Foundations and Variants December 2021 During these final days of 2021 it is difficult to believe and understand the ongoing challenges of the p(l)andemic that have now extended into two years. My interest and curiosity about the history and background of our field has bored many during my lectures, but I still believe Sir Winston Churchill’s words: “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it”. Today, most people hear the news on TV and whether they like our current political leaders or not,