The Western medical revolution will not be on your I-pod

[Guest guest]

What drew me to Asian Medicine in the mid-seventies was the different conception

of the

body and therefore life. Just missing the time when I might have been drafted

(and having

endured several militaristic gym instructors) my body seemed to be a political

tool. Then I

ran across this little brown Do-in book, printed in both French and English.

Western

Medicine helps the earth body keep going, as I guess our military keeps us safe,

but as the

recent horror-show in Florida shows us, there is little WM can tell us about

ourselves

within Nature. I think all of us have had patients who refused Western Medicine

or even

our own treatments so they may go out on their own terms. Interesting how many

of them

take a trip back to the home town before hand. Really, non-Western medicines

will always

survive as long as humans feel some connection to heaven even as we often cling

to earth.

I'm not sure how attractive or useful CM is as " a better Western Medicine " or

even better

Science.

Which brings me to a book called About Face by Simone T. Malikalim, a white

Muslim

deeply embedded in the African American community. It's a semiotic analysis of

Race and

he concludes that European fear of Africans is Europeans tendency to fear death

itself.

(Reading it also provides insight into why there is such a polarity between

African and

Asian cultures) So we can look at all these herbs stalled on the docks of the US

not just as

a " safety " matter but a chance for Western Science to once again reassert itself

over the

processes of nature.

But should doctors get involved in such talk... probably not.

 

 

doug

 

 

 

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> I don't want to see the profession become

> too rigid at the same time.

> >>>>Agreed

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