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Natural health expert
promote wellness
by Jeanna Covington
/Carolina Peacemaker/
Originally posted 12/28/2007
From the common cold to influenza, there is a cure for every
ailment,
says
Greensboro resident Artis E. Hinson.
The purveyor of natural therapeutics believes personalized natural
therapies and ingestion of oxygen-rich water and “live”
foods—uncooked
fruits, vegetables and nuts—are the remedies to end any affliction.
According to many nutritionists and Hinson, who has been a “live
foodist” for roughly 35 years, living foods have greater nutritional
value than cooked foods.
Those who follow a raw food diet report having increased energy,
increased creative mind, need less sleep, and appear young for their
age.
Hinson, 63, was born in High Point and raised in both High Point and
Greensboro. He stumbled upon natural healing by analyzing the
world
around him—a practice he began as a child questioning religious
doctrine.
Years later he studied economics at
Howard University in the 1960’s.
After graduating in 1967, he traveled to South America, Europe, Asia
and
Africa to establish an import business.
“As I saw a similar well-being in the activity of the individuals…I
just
put it all together and said that the thing I must do is seek
enlightenment,” said Hinson.
And he chose to enlighten himself through self-study of religion and
philosophy and traveled practically around the world to gain first
hand
experience of his studies.
He eventually returned to Washington, D.C. and launched an import
store,
but found it difficult for many to understand cross-cultural
experiences. To “cause individuals to seek [knowledge and] dispel
personal ignorance,” Hinson transformed the import store into a
health
food store and healing facility in 1974.
He moved the Body Ecology Attunement Center to
Greensboro in 1987 after
witnessing an increase in “strife and unrest” occurring in the
District
of Columbia.
Hinson said, “I decided I better protect my knowledge, myself and my
library. So I knew a nice place to bring it to.”
Body Ecology was located in downtown
Greensboro until 2001 when it
burned down. Hinson then built the store at his home in
East Greensboro
where it has been ever since. He resides there alone as a single
man. He
has a brother, his only living immediate family member, who lives in
the
area and helps out with the store from time to time.
Inside are organic fruits, nuts and vegetables, various herbs and
essential oils, healing crystals, natural hair care and skin
products,
candles, incense, clothing, videos and books. Programs pertaining to
stress management, weight loss and hair growth, and personal
readings
are also offered.
Hinson creates healing formulas based on the healing properties
associated with various plants, but also individualizes the medicine
for
each client. A healing formula he creates for clients with diabetes
includes eucalyptus, juniper and geranium herbs.
Although he uses herbs for many remedies, Hinson says much of his
therapeutics is essential oil-based. Essential oils are oils
extracted
from plants.
Throughout his first fifteen years of being in business in
Greensboro,
Hinson said many of his clients were Caucasian, eventually a mixture
of
both Caucasians and African Americans, and now mostly African
Americans.
He believes the shift in population is primarily a result of his new
location on Stephens Street.
Most people visit Hinson after being unsatisfied with mainstream
conventions of healing.
Hinson said he has worked with individuals to overcome various
ailments
including high cholesterol, cancer and
AIDS. A women that was diagnosed
with Alzheimer’s disease by medical doctors ten years ago, still
visits
him for treatment.
“Up until late she’s still been able to read and keep her memory
together…and she’s in her middle 80’s,” said Hinson.
The operational hours at Body Ecology are Monday through Saturday
from
noon until 7 p.m. Hinson accepts walk-ins but requests that
individuals
call before stopping by.
Hinson feels he is currently applying what he acquired as an
economics
major at
Howard University to his life’s work as a natural healer.
“Economics is the getting the most out of the least. If we’re gonna
get
the most out of our minds…we must uplift our bodies so that it is
not a
burden to our minds,” Hinson said. “And I’m teaching people how to
do
that. For those who have been burdened by their bodies, I’m showing
them
how they can heal themselves of every possible reality. There is
nothing
incurable.”
In his new book, “From Dogma to Light,” printed by a local,
independent
publisher, Hinson presents “esoteric concepts of philosophy,
spirituality, diet, health, the environment, government,
extraterrestrial control and relationships.”
Hinson said, “When you’ve seen a source of light, you’ll never
forget it,”
Body Ecology Attunement Center is located at 926 Stephens Street in
Greensboro, N.C. For more information, call
336-273-7406. Additional
photos of the store can be viewed at
www.bodyecol.net. |
