J. Yusuf Q. Erskine, D.O.

Welcome to the home page of: The Family Wellness Medical Center, Osteopathic Medicine, the medical office of Dr.Yusuf Erskine. We are located in Sebastopol, California, USA.

We hope that this page will provide you with an introduction to the comprehensive medical services that we provide.

I endeavor, in the care that I provide patients, to engage with, support, and enhance the body's natural and inherent tendency to strive toward a state of health and homeostasis. With a solid, valued background as a residency-trained MD family practice osteopathic physician, I feel fortunate to be able to orient my medical practice beyond a disease model approach. Utilizing the vital resources found in osteopathic manipulative medicine and classical homeopathy, my practice focuses on stimulating the patient’s intrinsic impetus towards health and healing. The beauty for me, of practicing both osteopathy and homeopathy, is that I have access to such a full continuum of healing assessment and therapeutics.

For example, with Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, I am trained to palpate (feel) the body's "living anatomy", i.e. the flow of fluids, motion and texture of tissues, and the status of the structural makeup. With this non-invasive system of osteopathic medicine, "Osteopathic Manual Treatment" is performed to restore normal function in areas impaired by trauma, acute health problems, and or chronic illness. Osteopathic medicine can address successfully a myriad of health problems.

Homeopathic medicine promotes health in its unique way. Through an interview process, which is called ‘case-taking’ (and can be extensive if the patient’s health issues are complex), the homeopathic physician ‘takes the case’, bringing into view the full picture of the patient; especially the symptoms and sensations and their congruence with the patient’s state of being. The breakthrough in the promotion of health that came with Samuel Hahnemann MD’s discovery of the science of homeopathy is that this ‘symptom-sensations-state has been found to possess a resonance with a specific homeopathic remedy. For over two hundred years, homeopaths have researched, studied, and compiled this homeopathic materia medica. This compilation of homeopathic remedies and their applications towards treating disease continues to evolve as homeopathy matures as a healing discipline and as illnesses transmute their expressions. The homeopath selects the appropriate homeopathic remedy, determines the potency and optimal dosing schedule. The homeopathic remedy stimulates the vitality of the patient to shed symptom patterns and move into health.

I hope that this brief introduction provides you with sufficient information to encourage you to contact our office, The Family Wellness Medical Center.

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