Dr Jewel
Jewel Pookrum, M.D., Ph.D.
Preventative and Wholistic Physician
“My purpose is to see the perfection of every person’s present state of health. I will support them in feeling joyful and energized in mind, body and spirit.”
Background:
Jewel I. Pookrum, M.D. brings a sense of vitality and boundless energy to her work. She is the Medical Director and founder of Perfect Health Institute of Nutritional Medicine, a health environment where clinical medicine and wholistic practices are combined in a highly individualized approach. Her treatments have helped patients to heal visible signs of cancer, erase aging lines and learn to live happy, balanced and pain free lives. According to Dr. Pookrum, nothing in our world has the power to make us weak, sad or diseased if we adopt the proper attitude, diet and commitment to wellness. Each of us can live in infinite perfection.
Dr. Pookrum’s wholistic philosophy incorporates her training as a physician and a gynecologist and a 20 year odyssey into wellness therapies and techniques. The capacity for health lies within the human body. The body is a barometer for assessing one’s ability to live in harmony with his or her environment.
Techniques:
Bringing the body into balance, Dr. Pookrum blends the best of modern medicine with American Indian healing techniques, Bach flower remedies, Neuro linguistic programming, Macrobiotic diets, Pi-sonic cell regeneration and a cornucopia of concepts gleaned from travel lectures, textbooks and directed studies.
Dr. Jewel Pookrum founded Perfect Health Institute in 1986 to share these therapies with wholistic medical professionals and an ever-expanding list of patients. The Perfect Health Institute conducts a full patient history and physical examination, provides nutritional and life style patterning counseling and recommends holistic, somatic, mental and spiritual therapies. In tandem with medical professionals, each patient develops a plan to get control of life and live it in a centered and positive manner.
Achievements and Recognition:
Dr. Pookrum is an acknowledged leader in the natural healing movement. Among her most notable recognitions was the selection by Nelson and Winnie Mandela to be their consulting physician during their historic visit to the United States in 1990. She has hosted wellness talk shows on WCHB and WQBH radio stations in Detroit, Michigan from 1986 to 1991. She has conducted lectures for major corporations, secondary education institutions, colleges, medical organizations and churches. She has received high praise for her dedication to sharing her vast knowledge of wholistic healing techniques.
She has been cited as one of the Outstanding Young Women of America, named by the Detroit News as one of Detroit’s leading physicians, and honored by the Coalition of 100 Black Women, selected as a subject of a Commemorative Person. Born in Detroit in 1948, Dr. Jewel Pookrum grew up in Chicago and returned to Detroit for residency and medical practice. She is the mother of four children and she credits her great grandmother and an aunt with helping her shape a preventative and wholistic career path.
Education:
Dr. Pookrum graduated from Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois in 1968, where she completed graduate work in microbiology and received her master's degree in 1971. Dr. Pookrum then went on to graduate from Creighton University Medical School in Omaha, Nebraska in 1975. She completed her Obstetrics-Gynecology residency at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan in 1979, where she remained on staff from 1979-1981.
Wholistic Studies:
A growing interest in wellness and self-Initiated healing prompted Dr. Pookrum to pursue an independent education in foods, nutrition and related subjects for six years before attending formal programs. She has completed Macrobiotic seminars, including intensive workshops and lectures with Michio Kushi and Michael Rossoff. She studied with Dr. Alvenia Fulton at the Fultonia Institute and Fasting Center in Chicago, Illinois, where Dick Gregory developed his fasting and nutritional plan. Dr. Pookrum also attended The Iridology Institute, The International Institute of Reflexology, The School Orthomolecular Nutrition, and The School of Pisonic Medicine of Cellular Regeneration in London, England, founded by Dr. David Tansley. She also completed a number of interpretive Astrology courses, studied Neurolinguistic Programming with Tony Robbins and Richard Morales, and learned ancient healing techniques in Mexico, Egypt, West Indies, Hawaii and North America.
Professional Experience:
Dr. Pookrum began her medical career as director of the Gynecology Obstetrics Department Woodrow Wilson Clinic, at Henry Ford Hospital, supervising a 10-member staff. As she practiced traditional medicine, she observed that surgery did not always cure acute pain as is presented. At the same time, she became aware of the fact that the body often cured itself by simply changing and improving the patient’s diet. Dr. Pookrum soon became aware of the fact that by examining certain parts of the body — the iris or the feet, for example, she could have a barometer of the body’s current condition of health. She quickly understood that the human body is a whole entity in which the anatomical structure, the physical function and emotional state are interdependent and reciprocal in relationship; a patient got well when the healing was self-initiated and self-achieved.
Dr. Pookrum opened the doors of her individual practice in 1981 and founded the Perfect Health Institute of Nutritional Medicine in 1986. The principle that “perfection” is the innate capacity of human health guides the mission of the Perfect Health Institute. Within every challenge is the lesson of giving and receiving more love and in doing so, the impact of disease is neutralized.
Philosophy:
In Dr. Pookrum's own words, “perfect health is our birthright, a gift we already possess. I can help you discover it by supporting you mentally, spiritually, emotionally and physically. Medical techniques are designed specifically for each patient. No one needs to live with pain, fear or disease. We are all individually responsible for the quality and condition of our health. I support the use of natural, non-invasive therapies.”
It is Dr. Pookrum’s goal to guide her patients past a reliance on the more external modalities of treatments such as drugs and surgery. She supports the use of diet as the body’s natural medicine. Dr. Pookrum notes that with the combination of ten key vitamins from food sources and appropriate physical activity and mental conditioning, “the body begins to heal and the aging process slows or reverses itself.”
Update:
Dr. Pookrum’s desire to create and provide the ideal healing environment for humanity has led her to take a leave of absence from her medical practice to learn finance, banking and high end investing. These studies were initiated to acquire large funds to build a first class alternative medical center.
Dr. Pookrum remarried in 2003 to a prominent merchant banker. Together they are diligently developing a worldwide healing platform, expanding upon the ideals and principles first articulated in the Perfect Health Institute. It is their intent to complete this project with the opening of a state of the art alternative medical care facility and neurodevelopment center. The medical center will provide instruction and support to those seeking lifestyle changes that can build perfect health consciousness, as well as brain balancing techniques for left and right hemisphere integration. Their projection for the opening of this center is 2010 in the USA.
In 2006, The Mt. Arafat Embassy Clan Yamassee Native American Nation appointed Dr. Jewel as their Surgeon General.
