Clinic

My name is Todd Caldecott, and welcome to my website. My training as a clinician in herbal medicine began in 1992 during my search to resolve a chronic digestive disorder I acquired while traveling on the cheap in India. In my search for relief I tried many different things including modern medicine, naturopathic medicine, homeopathy and Chinese medicine, but nothing seemed to shift my health issues until I met an Ayurvedic physician named Dr T. Sukumaran. His simple and informed recommendations, which essentially taught me how to take care of myself, sparked what has now become a life-long fascination and study with Ayurveda and traditional medicine. Since then I have gone on to become a practicing medical herbalist, studying Ayurveda in India, later becoming director of herbal college and publishing a textbook in Ayurveda. I have been in clinical practice since 1995, and now offer my clinical services here in Vancouver and in some cases by email, telephone and skype.

Tradition is my inspiration. I explain this in large part by being born without any kind of tradition, my heritage being the ethos of a city on the western edge of the Western world, where East has become West, but yet both suffused and tempered with the raw abundance and beauty of the Pacific Northwest. Tradition inspires but it is also the confluence of tradition that excites me, where connections and new insights can be made. As a clinical practitioner I have followed this intertwining of traditions and practices, and the more closely I observed the more clearly I have seen that all medicine has a common root, is born from a common tapestry. But at the same time I have learned that there is no source of medicine, no source of knowledge but perhaps the Absolute itself, which is perfect - and thus the error of contradiction exists everywhere, especially in medicine. To me it has been a great fortune to learn and see the interconnected of all these systems, if only to account for some discrepancy, to solve some conundrum that the other doesn't explain. I personally am interested in the very best option for good health and a balanced mind, and I am not hesitant in challenging beliefs and practices that run counter to these. But this doesn't mean that I equate the value of health with anything other than the virtue it affords you, the user. Everyone makes personal choices, and I work with pretty much everyone. My only motivation is to get you to a place where you are more empowered. My only requirement is that you actually take some self-responsibility in the matter - I am just a sign-post.

New patients to the clinic are required to complete a clinical intake form and sign a waiver. Please arrive on time for your appointment, and call at least 24 hours in advance to reschedule if you can't make it. For your convenience, you can download the intake form here: print it out and complete it before you come to the clinic. If you want to fill out this form at the clinic, please come 30 minutes earlier.

I look forward to meeting you.

Todd Caldecott Dip. Cl.H., RH(AHG)

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"I want to thank you for the help you gave me in getting healthy. I have been off all pharmaceuticals/drugs for over a year now and am managing my Ulcerative Colitis purely by your diet, your tinctures, and your lessons that taught me to tune into my body better. I got to KEEP my large intestine, and am able to live at an incredibly stable state for the most part. My GI told me I'd never be healthy and that the large intestine HAD to go. Well, western medicine failed me but you did not!"

K. Agius, Vancouver

"For Lent (the 40 days leading up to easter) I decided to follow your diet recommendations completely 100%, no cheating, nothing.  I know you'll be thinking "I told you so"  but yeah, I should have just done this from the beginning!  My skin has been like 5 million times better, I've had 2 periods which have been the most pain-free periods of my life (that tincture you had made up at Gaia Garden is fantastic!) and in general, things are really good.  My periods are much closer together than I'd prefer, but the lack of pain makes them much more manageable.

I've found that my skin becomes most inflammed/rashy/blistery during ovulation and leading up to my period, and as soon as my period comes the rash diminished rapidly (hurrah!). Since Lent began I've been so pleased to find that the amount of rash during ovulation is like.....barely noticable at all.  Honestly, it's been life changing.  THANKYOU for everything......and thanks for letting me come to these realizations on my own without forcing me into it!"

A. Yeates, Vancouver

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