The Health Detective

Sharon Richlark, Homeopath

Wholistically Speaking, wholisticallyspeaking.com

Tamara Letkeman

photo by Jaime Kowal

Sharon Richlark is a self-proclaimed Sherlock Holmes. But instead of solving murders, she unravels the mysteries of her clients’ bodies. Richlark, who’s been practising homeopathy for the past 20 years, likens the body to a jigsaw puzzle—one that is often a challenge to piece together. “I just can’t rest till I’ve figured it out,” says the Vancouver resident, whose background is in both traditional Chinese medicine and French homeopathy. “It’s like being an athlete and wanting to win.”

Richlark treats everything from unsightly warts to diseases of the central nervous system with herbs, tinctures, botanicals, home remedies, and advice about diet and lifestyle. Many of her clients are acute sufferers who come to her as a last resort. “They’re desperate or fed up or scared,” she says.

Recently, she treated a woman in acute pain who was waiting to have surgery to remove her gall bladder. Three months later, thanks to diet changes and remedies prescribed by Richlark to remove toxins and dissolve the gallstones, the woman still has her gall bladder and is no longer in pain. “She goes to work happy as a clam. There is a 90- to 95-per-cent chance the gall bladder will not need to be taken out.”

All of our ailments are rooted in stress, Richlark maintains, which man-ifests itself as blockages in our system. By making even small changes in our lives, we can give our bodies the chance to eliminate these blockages and heal.

“In my world, the body has its own agenda,” she says. “Once the body is given the tools, it will go back to the divine blueprint of being in balance.”