About Me

Gila B. Varis, LAc, RN

My life in the health field began at home. My father was a Western trained physician from Hungary. Dinner conversations always revolved around the patients he saw that day. After I graduated with a bachelor's degree in Kinesiology from UCLA, I went to nursing school. I then worked at Cedar-Sinai Medical Center in the respiratory and medical intensive care units, the emergency department, and then the utilization review department, reading charts of patients throughout the hospital. I spent a total of thirteen years as a registered nurse in a large Los Angeles hospital called Cedar-Sinai Medical Center. This was in the 1980’s and early 1990’s. It provided me an education as well as experience in the western medicine field.

After the hospital work experience, I went back to school to study Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). After two years of practicing what I learned at Yo San University, I entered a new phase of my learning which helped me identify and treat symptoms. The acupuncture meridian system is the energy map of the whole body. It is the blueprint of the physical body and the pathway that energy moves within the body. It connects one organ with another. The meridian system is like an internal web of the body.

I have learned a language called Biophoton diagnostics based on photon emissions the cells of our body emit. Bio means body, photon means light. Through this language, I am able to identify why a symptom occurs and where it’s coming from. I identify which herbs helps the body to remove the obstruction of energy in the meridian pathway. I also identify which naturally occurring nutrients in common foods are not being processed fully by the body and therefore, are causing symptoms.

Our environment is relatively toxic. This toxicity is in our air as well as in our food supply. Identifying the environmental toxins and making an effort to avoid them is critical in eliminating symptoms and our healing process. Using the biophoton diagnostic language, I am able to identify which toxins are affecting the movement of energy within the body.

The treatment modalities include making dietary modifications which I call “medicinal diets”. The medicinal diets often look like a form of food elimination diets or a form of fasting. The fasting does not mean not eating. It means avoiding the culprit food items that need to be avoided in order for the body to heal. In addition to the diet changes, a custom made herbal formula can the body to release the offending toxins. Once the toxins are removed, the body knows how to heal and regenerate.

We are designed to heal. We can assist in the healing process by making choices to what we eat and how to live.

Results Of My Healing Journey

What I Learned On My Healing Journey

I have been on a healing journey all my life. My life experiences I had during infancy and childhood involved traumatic events on a personal level as well as on an ancestral levels. The traumatic events included having all the usual childhood illnesses as well as a few extras. Because my father was a western trained medical doctor, he was my doctor. However, when I was fifteen years old, my father passed. I no longer had a personal doctor to administer the antibiotics needed to overcome the numerous bacterial infections I had.

As a young adult, I started to learn about the human body. My first educational experience was learning about the body on the physical level. The experience in the intensive care units and emergency room provided me direct patient care for the most critically sick people in the hospital. I also saw and took care of people experiencing end of life conditions.

After thirteen years of hospital work, I immersed myself in the study of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). This expanded my education and experience to the Energy body. The conditions people experience when they go to seek acupuncture and herbs are on a less severe level. The symptoms were more on the chronic levels. Also, the language used to describe the body and the conditions people suffer from is very different than the language used in Western medicine. In western medicine, the body is divided into parts, in TCM, the body is looked at as a whole with the parts interconnecting to each other through energy pathways. These pathways is the meridian system which is the energy map of the Energy body, also called the Etheric body. The Etheric body is the blueprint of the physical body.

In order for the body to function optimally, the pathways need to have a clear path for energy to flow. If there is a blockage anywhere, pain is one of the symptoms. The job of the TCM practitioner is to identify where the blockage of energy is located and release it. The release of a blockage can happen with acupuncture, Qi gong exercises, herbs and dietary modifications.

We are now living in the 21st century. In this era, our environment contains elements that our bodies need to adapt to. It’s easier for our bodies to adapt to the elements when everything is working well. I have identified some common foods in people’s diets that can contain non-nutrients. These items, if not expelled from our body, cause a back up in our eliminatory organs which results in symptoms. The eliminatory organs include the bowels, the bladder, and the skin. If there is inflammation affecting the tissues of the body, the non-nutrients are not able to get released and symptoms appear.

I have identified the non-nutrients commonly found in some foods. By identifying which of these items are not expelled properly and avoiding them, the physical body is given the chance to heal. This is the first step in mastering self-healing.