We are changing how we think about health care. In our midst, a clinic for Chinese medicine serving farmers and lawyers, philanthropists and volunteer leaders. The climate change has to do with attitudes, with an opening to cultures and practices once distant and mysterious. This opening, this closing of gaps, presages a shift toward healing away from consumption, from quick fix to long term commitment rooted in knowledge of life's rhythms.
Above: At the Laurel Creek Clinic of Chinese Medicine in Floyd County, Woody Crenshaw, left; and Louise Ridenour, right, visit the clinic's apothecary.
Top: left to right, Woody Crenshaw, Minnis Ridenour, and Louise Ridenour visit Jason Redenbo, far right, the teacher and founder of the Laurel Creek Clinic.
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