10 17 LOCAL HEALER HELPING YOUTH IN NEED WITH LOWCOST OR FREE CARE By Jack Etkin Until she turned seven this year, birthdays came with a cost for Audra. She would eat cake and drink juice and savor that center-of-attention joy. Within a matter of hours, invariably, she would throw up. Gabby Ettinger, Audra's mother, was explaining this predictable sequence while her daughter sat across the room. Audra was lying on a table and being treated by acupuncturist Judi Terrill. Terrill has a private practice in Lakewood where she sees children “any time I can get them in.” Recognizing a particular need, Terrill established a clinic just for children. Every other Friday, she treats six to eight children like Audra at 855 Inca St. “Audra’s struggled with acid reflux since she was born,” Ettinger said. “We got to a point where we needed to try something else. We’d gone through the medical route. We’d only gotten so far. She was on a high dose of antacids, a higher dose than most adults take. And she was missing school.” Ettinger said her husband receives acupuncture treatments at the Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and while there, he asked for a recommendation for someone to treat a child. Terrill was highly recommended and began treating Audra in October 2016. She has been able to significantly reduce the amount of her medication and Audra currently sees her pediatrician only for wellness visits. Frequent visits were the norm before Terrill began treating her. “I wish we had started earlier, honestly,”
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Be sure to mark your calendars for Denver Bontanic Gardens' Glow at the Gardens. The Halloween-themed light event is Wednesdays and Thursdays, Oct. 18, 19, 25 and 26, 5:30-9:30p.m. (last entry at 9p.m.). Photo courtesy Denver Botanic Gardens. Ettinger said. Terrill treats children from the ages of two months to 18. She does not use needles on younger patients like Audra but does acupressure on the appropriate meridians pertinent to the patient’s symptoms and Chinese medical massage known as Tui Na. In 1997, Terrill established Jade Woman Enterprises, her private practice. She works in the naturebased Five Element theory of Chinese Medicine that uses water, wood, fire, earth and metal “to identify individual characteristics, needs and the best environment for healthy development and well-being.” From 2001 until earlier this year, Terrill taught a 500-hour Five Element program and certified “well over 100 students.”
“In the Five Element realm, we don’t just treat physical,” she said. “We treat physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.” Terrill discovered the bulk of her adult clients are dealing with physical symptoms that have a mental and emotional component that are almost always trauma-based. “Then I was finding out it’s much more from childhood trauma than adult trauma,” Terrill said. “So I said, ‘Why don’t we see what’s going on with the kids, so we can resolve their trauma as children instead of as adults.’” Terrill began treating children in 2008 and did CONTINUED ON 10
DENVER ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR MARIJUANA SOCIAL CONSUMPTION LICENSES, BUT ARE THE REGULATIONS TOO RESTRICTIVE? By Lucy Graca Let’s say you’ve been waiting since last November to open a cozy place where folks could congregate and enjoy some cannabis products. After voters passed Initiative 300— the measure allowing social cannabis consumption in Denver—a Social Consumption Advisory Committee had to put together the necessary rules. Finally, on Aug. 31 of this year, Denver started accepting applications for licenses, so now you can make your plans. Or can you? Before one can even begin to think about
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opening such a place, or even applying for a Designated Consumption Area (DCA) license, they might find they’re going to have to jump through a circus’ worth of hoops. Besides meeting the normal indoor air quality, noise, odor and fire regulations, and besides providing security, checking IDs and preventing folks from driving around stoned, those interested in applying for a DCA license also need to demonstrate support from the neighborhood. They must also locate more than 1,000 feet from: schools; drug treatment, daycare and recreation centers; parks; liquor stores and marijuana dispensaries.
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District 6 Councilman Paul Kashmann speculates all these requirements may explain why Denver Excise and Licensing has received not a single application for a DCA license at the time of this story. However, according to Dan Rowland, the department’s Community Relations Director, the department has heard from “a handful of folks who have let us know they are working on it.” Those applicants include Liv Well on Capitol Hill, Strainwise near University CONTINUED ON 10
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