Alternatives
Although we in the USA have the best trauma care, and the most advanced medical procedures in the world, sometimes it can seem as though our allopathic system tries to smother the fire with retardants, instead of looking for the gas shutoff valve.
Professional arrogance, without discussion, toward remedies which have been used for millenia, seems contrary to the scientific method which developed our modern society.
Such aversion and niggardliness can hold true for "alternative" therapies, as well. Whenever someone mentions "quantum mechanics" or "tachyons" as part of their arcanic treatment, many questions should be raised.
Manual Bodywork can help facilitate healing and stabilize body systems and energy before extreme treatment is needed.
Nevertheless, always consult a medical doctor before beginning an exercise or treatment program, or when you have new symptoms.
Vegetarian thoughts:
I respect vegetarians' personal quests for minimizing pain and suffering. However just because one can not hear the scream of a carrot being yanked from the earth, does not mean that it experiences no anguish.
Perhaps to an alien that sentence will make the same sense as when a PETA activists cries about animal slaughter. Have you seen a cat catch and play with its food? Would a PETA activist want cats to be jailed for feeding on sentient beings?
From my experience, vegetarians tend to be weaker and less tolerant to cold and disease. Most of my relatives that lived functional lives to their 80's and 90's ate animal products like meat, lard, milk and butter daily. Of course it was all organic and unpasteurized back then.
These days it seems that if you can't cut it or drug it, the medical mainstream doesn't know what to do with it. - William Campbell Douglass II, MD
al·lop·a·thy -
A method of treating disease with remedies that produce effects antagonistic to those caused by the disease itself.
[Greek allos, other; see allo- + Greek patheia, suffering; see -pathy.]
ho·me·op·a·thy -
A system for treating disease based on the administration of minute doses of a drug that in massive amounts produces symptoms in healthy individuals similar to those of the disease itself. [Greek homoio-, from homoios, from homos, same. See sem-1 in Indo-European Roots.]
bod·y·work - 3. The application of physical therapy methods such as massage, yoga, exercise, and relaxation techniques for the purpose of promoting physical and emotional well-being.
(Source - American Heritage Dictionary)
