CAM News, Vol. I, Issue 8
Dear Friends,
it has been extremely busy in my neck of the woods. I just came back from our final meeting before our “Is this The Future of Food?” seminar. Once again Fatou, Vancey, Cynthia, and I are mobilizing to educate people about Genetically Engineered Foods a.k.a. GE or GMO’s. If you are in the Spring Lake, Michigan on Saturday July 29th, please don’t miss this important seminar about our food supply and the big gamble large corporations are playing with our health and future of food. Definitely a “Don’t Want to Miss Event.” Best of all: It’s FREE!
Athenian: “Do you agree that there are two kinds of physicians?… Have you observed that, as there are slaves as well as freemen among the patients, there are also physicians for slaves and physicians for freemen?
Slaves are treated by slave physicians, who pay their slave patients a hurried visit… Slave physicians scarcely give their patients time to express their complaints. They will then give their slave patients some potion with airs of great knowledge and the demeanor of despots, and then rush away to see other slaves…
A free physician who attend free men, on the other hand, treats his patients’ diseases by going into them thoroughly in methodical manner, and he takes his patients and families into his confidence. Thus a free physician learns from his patients, and at the same time instructs them to the best of his ability. A physician for freemen will not prescribe before completely winning his patients’ trust and, after gaining their trust, he will steadily aim at bringing about complete restoration of health by persuading his patients to comply with his treatments.
Now, which of the two do you consider to be a better physician?”
From Book IV of The Laws of Plato
Let me pose this question to you. “Now, which of the two do you consider a better physician?”
Which brings me to my recent subject of posts on the Alternative Medicine Blog. I posted many interesting articles pertaining to Homeopathy. As a matter of fact, if you have not been logging on for a while, I have been posting a whole series about The History of Homeopathy. This series serves as a perfect introduction to the subject of Homeopathy. Over the next month I am hoping to delve deeper into Homeopathy by giving you some concrete examples about homeopathic medicines, how they work and why. Just a quick reminder. Homeopathy is a system of medicine taking the whole person in account when trying to eliminate imbalances of the body. In homeopathy, symptoms are perceived as messengers of the body, giving you an idea of what is wrong and also a way of the body trying to heal itself. The last thing you want to do is suppress these symptoms. Orthodox medicine’s purpose is to just do that, get rid of the symptom and you are considered healthy. Big mistake, as suppressing symptoms, without addressing the cause of the symptom, could cause further decay of health and more serious health problems down the road. Don’t take my word for it. Read The History of Homeopathy and find out for yourself. You will hear and read more and more about homeopathy, a system of medicine, very popular in the rest of the world and according to Yehudi Menuhin, a famous violinist and humanitarian:
“Homeopathy is one of the few medical specialties which carries no penalties- only benefits.”
Homeopathy will be on the forefront of 21st Century Medicine as orthodox medicine comes to terms with the fact that it is helpless when it comes to the treatment of chronic and stress related diseases. I will make it my continued mission to educate you, (name) right here on The Alternative Medicine Blog about the best alternative medicine has to offer.
We also have started to actively solicit funds for the Adolf & Maria Absenger Cancer Foundation. Click this link for more information about AMACF. We are raising $2,850 to apply for IRS tax exempt status pursuant to 501(c)(3) and establish AMACF as a non-profit entity. For any donation of $25 or more you will receive Christopher Bedford’s latest film “What Will We Eat?” A documentary revealing the growing crisis in industrial agriculture and how a grassroots coalition of consumers and farmers is inventing healthy, humane, homegrown alternative. “What Will We Eat?” focuses on the success of the Sweetwater Local Foods Market in Muskegon- Michigan’s first farmers market to exclusively sell locally raised produce according to organic standards and products from humanely raised animals. “What Will We Eat?” is a story of hope…
“This film offers activists an invaluable tool. It is a must see!” Niel Ritchie, League of Rural Voters
As you can see it has been pretty busy here. I hope you continue to enjoy your summer and until next time:
Beste Gesundheit,
Werner