Re: MEDICINE THREAD
Randall,Holly-SEA (RANDH@perkinscoie.com)
Mon, 06 Oct 97 16:09:00 PDT
>hey now!
>Each of us is Free to find our own way on the healing trail... I
>think it is obvious that neither path can be oblivious to or polarized
>from the other much longer...
>I believe that we are responsible for our own health, and that when
>we use the services of a surgeon (as I did to remove a fibroid from
>my colon, cysts from my ovaries, a lump from my breast, and to
>restore the use of my arms) we are consumers responsible for
>expecting healing hands on us, and should shop around for those
>doctors that will not laugh at us when we tell them the vitamins we
>take, the herbs we use, or the meditation we rely on to maintain some
>vestige or approximation of sanity in todays stress filled world. I
>agree that women can deliver their babies, (Ina Mae delivered my two
>step-kids, and was still as strong as I remember her from the late
>70's and early 80's when she came to Athens and spoke at our Human
>Rights Festival this year... I followed the midwives path until I
>realized it was not right for me)... I know that we are each shaped
>by our experiences, and that it is possible to focus on the weakness
>of any tradition rather than it's strengths, the differences rather
>than the commonalities... and for that reason, I work with straight
>m.d.'s to turn them onto what's up, with diet, and wholistic
>treatments. If they ain't into it, I don't go to them.
>I agree that it is a shame that many herbalists expect us to use
>herbs as symptomatic treatments rather make use of the actually
>more realistic preventative value of herbs over the long haul, to
build a better body, and address imbalances within... If herbalists
>act like western physicians, they're just substituting substances for
>chemicals... most of which were derived from those herbs anyway...
>It's a fine line, a matter of balance...
>and each individual's choice...
>because we are all free to choose.
>Please, let's not need to be right or wrong about this, let's look
>for and make use of the best in any and all of it... and be
>responsible for ourselves.
>loving you,
>lot's,
maddy clare
maddy clare,
well said!!! thanks!
Peace -
Spring
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