I get asked this question often, it seems like a confusing term and there are a lot of different health care practitioners who use this terminology.

Let me back up a bit. I am a sixth generation Texan, raised in the Hill Country next door to my German grandparents, Oma and Opa. I thought everyone had a smokehouse and made deer sausage at home. When I went to college, I realized that was not the case for most people.

I found wild along the road today

Twelve minutes by foot,

A flowing, gurgling, crystal-clear creek

With a path alongside,