After struggling for about five years,
I finally saw a ray of light at the end of the tunnel. It was in
April 2002, I attended the Healthy Lifestyle Retreat at Titi
Eco Farm. I learned about that retreat from the NTUC Lifestyle
magazine. I was interested in that retreat and started to surf
the related website, Aromatic Science. I
later went personally
to Aromatic Science in Chinatown Point, in order to see who
Sebastian Liew was. After talking to Sebastian, I decided to
join the retreat organised by him.
I suffered from skin problem since 1995.
The problem became severe in 1997 after I changed my work place
to Jurong. My family doctor thought it could be caused by
the "hard water" after I had traveled to other countries.
Later the doctor advised me not to take nuts and chocolates.
There was one type of medicine subscribed to me helped much,
but it made me very drowsy. I needed to visit the doctor almost
every three months.
It could be the side effect of that
medicine and the pressure of the work, I was not feeling well
one of the day in December 2000. I was giddy after lunch
that day, and was not recovered after three hours. My colleagues
sent me to hospital. I was discharged the second day noon. I did
not get a satisfied answer on what I was suffered from. I decided to
consult my family doctor. I still felt giddy very often after
discharging from hospital and I did not feel like driving to the
clinic of my doctor. Therefore I visit the doctor near where I stay.
As the new doctor subscribed the medicine
for me and helped me to overcome the giddiness, I changed my family
doctor from January 2001. Later I started to refer my skin problem
to this doctor. He subscribed medicines for me. Those medicines helped
to release the itches and rashes, but the problem repeated about
forty-five days later. The doctor and myself finally decided to go
through a blood test. Before getting the result, I went for the retreat.
At the retreat, we learned about healthy
lifestyle, stayed in the natural environment, took vegetables meals, etc.
I felt good during the three days?stay at the Eco Farm. I decided to
give myself a chance to heal the skin problem by becoming a vegetarian.
When the blood test result was ready, I went
to see the doctor. The result made us very upset as I was not allergy
to nine types of food, house dust and house dust mite. My doctor told
me that I was very troublesome as he had never seen such a case. I told
him my experience about the retreat. He then told me that to go ahead
to be a vegetarian.
I took raw vegetables such as carrots, cucumber,
green pepper, lotus root, cabbage, celery, parsley, maize, avocado, etc. with
brown rice. My skin problem became better, but there were still rashes
and itches. I started to visit Sebastian for body massage in May 2002.
I later told him about my skin problem. He asked me about my lifestyle.
He advised me to boil the vegetables instead of taking them raw. He also
blended natural herbs for me to carry out the detoxication. I started my
detoxication programme from August till November 2002. During
those three months, I still suffered from rashes and itches. But I
believed that I should complete the whole course. Therefore I did
not take the two-hour-sure-"healed" medicine from my family doctor.
I had the confidence in the detoxication program and tried very
hard to bear with the itches. Two months after taking the herbs,
I noticed that the rashes and itches "moving" from top
to the bottom. They appeared under the arms, near the chest, then
they moved to the abdomen, thigh, finally to the legs and healed.
