Archive for the ‘To The People’ Category
Monday, July 25th, 2011
Demystify Cancer-The chronicle of Cancer which humans have lived with for thousands of years
 Many people think that Cancer is the disease born from the stressful and polluted modern world. In fact, Cancer is thousands year old disease, first recorded on the papyrus 2500 BC in Egypt.
This papyrus contains the collected teachings of Imhotep, and one of his cases was about a bulging mass in the breast cool, hard, dense as a hemat fruit, and he said there, “there is no therapy.”
I have lost several patients with different kinds of cancer over the course of 5 years and found that people don’t really know about cancer as much as they think they do and also cancer therapy should need a good medical team, conventional medicine with alternative medicine such as acupuncture, Asian medicine, diet, nutrition, qigong, meditation etc.
If you want to know more about Cancer, its birth, origin, how cancer therapy has developed in the history of Medicine and where it is going to in the future etc, this is the book you really need to read.
The author, Siddhartha Mukherjee himself is a cancer physician, has been working on this field of medicine.
Tags: cancer
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Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
The Important Role of Complementary Medicine In Our Healthcare System
Allopathic,” or conventional, medicine excels in acute care. The “ill to the pill” mentality may be needed to fight an infection; surgery can be lifesaving. But allopathic medicine is not proactive; it is not focused on disease prevention and it has failed at chronic disease management. Allopathic medicine is focused on diagnosing disease after it has occurred, offering treatments based on surgery and pharmaceutical therapy.
As a board certified internist, cardiologist, and nuclear cardiologist, I recognize the value of the medicine I was taught at SUNY Downstate, Cornell, and New York University. But as a physician who practices the Hippocratic Oath — “first do no harm” — I have been compelled to seek out methods to heal my patients, relieve suffering, and prevent disease that are not part of the allopathic medicine paradigm.
As a cardiologist, I practice holistic integrative cardiology. “Holistic” means I treat the whole person: body, mind, emotions, and spirit. We know that our environment interacts with our genes, resulting in illness or health. Our environment is both physical and emotional. The air we breathe, the water we drink, micro and macro nutrition, toxins, stress, and our relationships will interact with our genes, leading to health or illness. Through holistic integrative medicine, I am able to address these issues, utilizing the best of western allopathic medicine along with the wisdom and teaching of many global healing traditions.
Today the foundation of our medical pyramid is drugs and surgery. I believe the apex of the pyramid should be drugs and surgery and the foundation should be clean air, and water, nutrition, sleep, resiliency, and community.
Mimi Guarneri, M.D., is a clinical cardiologist and the founder of the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine in La Jolla, California.
I am happy to find someone from the allopathic medicine with the holistic perspective treating people and also 100 % with her that “the physicians first do no harm-the Hippocratic Oath.”
And thinking of the good analogy of the medical pyramid, Acupuncturists and Traditional Asian medicine doctors have been working hard for the prevention of disease and the chronic disorders and mind-body medicine, and as we all know, each physician and therapist play his or her role in the whole medical or healthcare system to help more people to live better with less or no pain in mind or/and body, therefore there is no superior or inferior medicine in this view but the best and most fitting medicine to each different disease or condition.
We always make an effort to find out the right and best way under any circumstances, which is our physician’s duty in this world.
if you want to read the whole article, go to the link-“First Do No Harm”
Tags: allopathic medicine, alternative medicine, preventive medicine
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
So glad, finally I am writing about the way of being sick, or how you feel still O.K. even when you are sick housebound or bedbound. Since My mother has been ill for years, now at a nursing home, can’t walk, wheelchaired, with hemodialysis three times a week, hypertension, so fragile, I started thinking about the memories with her more and the feeling of being sick and weak.
Should ‘being sick’ really mean that you have no joy or peace or compassion in you?
I’d like to see this whole preconception differently.
We are allo aging and dying inevitably, however this doesn’t need to mean that any of those negative ideas come to your mind such as unhappiness, failure, loss, pain and ending.
I wish that I could never lose myself LOVE, JOY, PEACE AND FREEDOM under any harsh condition.
Below is the book about the attitude of seeing the sickness from the one expriencing the long term chronic disorder. hopefully many people benefit from this.
When I first got sick, it didn’t take long for me to accumulate a collection of healing CDs from a variety of spiritual traditions. They had one thing in common: I was instructed to breathe in peaceful and healing thoughts and images, and to breathe out my mental and physical suffering.
In tonglen practice, however, the instruction is to do just the opposite. We breathe in the suffering of the world and breathe out whatever kindness, serenity, and compassion we have to give. It’s a counter-intuitive practice, which is why the Buddhist nun and teacher Pema Chodron says that tonglen reverses ego’s logic.
If you want to read more about the author and her book, go to
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/31/132675079/learning-to-live-a-full-life-with-chronic-illness
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