Blather, rinse, repeat

I've got a bunch of ailments at the moment and I don't even want western medicine anymore--the end prescription is always surgery. (I'm due for thyroid surgery--can't run from this one, alas.) but I've been going to a Eastern doctor, described all my problems, and she gave me all sorts of herbs and then some, some of which she didn't tell me the effects until later. There was one for sleeping better. It worked, and I'd had no idea the herbs were helping it, until she told me, and I was floored. Not because I don't believe in the stuff, but I always pictured the stuff taking a loooong time to work, and the more serious the conditions, the more time it took, etc. I just wish my other complaints could be as easily fixed, because I think they're coming from my life and emotional place.