| Something profund is happening in U.S.
medicine. Patients increasingly unhappy with mainstream medicine are embracing treatments that used to be looked upon as quackery. Nearly half of all Americans are now using at leart one of the unconventional regimens or products known collectively as "alternative medicine", and visits to alternative treatment centers outnumber those to traditional doctors offices, clinics, and hospitals. Mainstream medicine is beginning to acknowledge that unconventional protocols may have some worth after all. HMO are allowing doctors to refer patients to chiropractors and massage therapists. |
The National Institutes of Health has establish
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine with
a $50 million budget. And nearly all medical schools have quietly
slots in thier curricula for Oriental techniques, lectures on herbal
remedies, and even classes in yoga and medidation.
But health seekeer venturing into this alternative world find the landscape as bewildering as it is intriguling,. Here practicioners range from staid MDs to snake oil salesman in a world with few rules, little scientific data, and outrageous claims. Even believers have difficulty explaining how some of the treatments work. But the movement is huge, the results are often confoundingly |
successful, and the eventual effects
are likely to change forever the face of American medicine. The epicenter of this movement is a sixth-floor clinic of the teaching hospital of Tucson's, University of Arizona College of Medicine. I'm sitting here with Dr. Andrew Weil in a room with soft lighting, a wooden exan table, a rug on the floor, and flowers on the table. Ämerican medicine is in trouble". Weil tells me. "The public is frustrated. Hospitals are going bankrupt. Medical schools are merging or laying off faculty.The whole system, in fact, is hurtling toward economic collapse. It must change, and an integrative approach is one answer.Weil, 58, a clinical professor of internal medicine with two |
Harvard degrees, is probably the world's
bestknown practicing physician. Thisbald, bewhiskered revolutionary
inflowered shirt and shapeless pants, trailing a whiff of garlic
behind him, is lookek upon by his millions of followers as a one-man
paradigm shift. His eight books have sold 6 million copies, his
Self Healing newsletter has a circulationof nearly a half million.
His speaking tours draw thousands. His Web site(www.drweil.com)logs some 84,000 hist a day. Weil's goal is nothing less than the reshaping of American health care, to meld the best of conventional medicine with respected alternative therapies-some new, some thousands of years. Herbals Shop  |
Peru a country rich in traditions and
culture is recovering is recovering their dominant position that
maintained for over decades. Curators and Shamans were In The Amazonian other healers discover the power of the Ayahuasca another herb with certain Hallucinogenic properties today used for drug addiction treatments in conjunction with the mate coca Hallucinogenic plants have been used by man for thousands of years, probably since he began gathering plants for food. The hallucinogens have continued to receive the attention of civilized man through the ages. Recently, we have gone through a period during which sophisticated Western society has "discovered" hallucinogens, and some sectors of that society have taken up, for one reason or another. According a recent study by Antonio Brack Egg, Ecosystem Researcher and Consultant for PNUD there are over 1,400 medicinal herbs with medicinal properties that represents a great treasure for the humanity. Just few of them are on use such as the amazing coca, or mate
coca, maca, camu camu, purple corn,
cats claw, manayupa, pasuchaca, chuchuchu, kiwi, quinua, sachainti,
caigua, graviola, achiote, humanpinta, wild hunarpo, parapara,
The list of product will continue because Peruvians and the whole
world community are turning to the “mother nature”
to look for a healthier and more natural life. |
According Dr. Brack and Cabieses, there
are over 25,000 herbs that have been identified, but because the
lack of economical resources the research just have been started
and need to be continued or we will lost the knowledge that have
been there for decades. |