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Did you know that in ancient times, in countries
like China, the doctor only got paid if the patient was well? If the patient got sick, the doctor paid the patient! Imagine
that today!
That is why eighty-five percent of the contents in the earliest text book of medicine is all about prevention, the key to sustainable health.
I began training in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) immediately after graduating in medicine, initially through long, slow, gentle and deep breathing exercises (Tai Chi Chi Kung) for 1-2 hours per day, every day, until, ten years later, I could do them 24 hours non stop, rain, hail or shine, at work, at play, at prayer.
I persisted and advanced along ‘the way’ to sustainable health, training under different ‘masters’ around the planet.
Somewhere along 'the way' I discovered it is not so important to know what kind of problem (or disease) a person is having as it is to know what kind of person is having a problem (or disease). This approach is wholistic.
In wholistic medicine we are not in separate compartments. We take the entirety of the person, see the imbalance and try to balance the energy. This is wholistic medicine.
Western scientific medicine is a chemical medicine. Each has its’ own area, therefore each is not the truth by itself. As the second decade in the 21st century begins, we have to see the bottom line of what we have done.
Most certainly the record of scientific medicine is brilliant, but there are a number of blemishes. The first shortfall is that scientific western medicine is only a medicine for our material body.
Secondly, the most spectacular things that we have discovered - antibiotics, penicillin, streptomycin, aureomycin, and so many other sins - are sins to our body, because the unnecessary use of many of these antibiotics has created a number of monsters including many resistant forms of bacteria and parasites.
With all these health problems that are looming, what kind of medicine are we going to use? That is going to be a critical question. That is why we must remember that all medicine was made by man and that man himself is imperfect; therefore all these different medicines we have made are imperfect.
In that humble spirit, we must learn to take the best of all medicines and combine them, integrate them to produce a better medicine for the next century.
All these compartments of western, eastern, traditional, and ayerveda are all quirks of history. That is why we have to get together and structure a better medicine - an integrated medicine - for the next century, to bring back health for all and our planet.
Wholistic Medicine is the subject of my first film series A Better Medicine.
That is why eighty-five percent of the contents in the earliest text book of medicine is all about prevention, the key to sustainable health.
I began training in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) immediately after graduating in medicine, initially through long, slow, gentle and deep breathing exercises (Tai Chi Chi Kung) for 1-2 hours per day, every day, until, ten years later, I could do them 24 hours non stop, rain, hail or shine, at work, at play, at prayer.
I persisted and advanced along ‘the way’ to sustainable health, training under different ‘masters’ around the planet.
Somewhere along 'the way' I discovered it is not so important to know what kind of problem (or disease) a person is having as it is to know what kind of person is having a problem (or disease). This approach is wholistic.
In wholistic medicine we are not in separate compartments. We take the entirety of the person, see the imbalance and try to balance the energy. This is wholistic medicine.
Western scientific medicine is a chemical medicine. Each has its’ own area, therefore each is not the truth by itself. As the second decade in the 21st century begins, we have to see the bottom line of what we have done.
Most certainly the record of scientific medicine is brilliant, but there are a number of blemishes. The first shortfall is that scientific western medicine is only a medicine for our material body.
Secondly, the most spectacular things that we have discovered - antibiotics, penicillin, streptomycin, aureomycin, and so many other sins - are sins to our body, because the unnecessary use of many of these antibiotics has created a number of monsters including many resistant forms of bacteria and parasites.
With all these health problems that are looming, what kind of medicine are we going to use? That is going to be a critical question. That is why we must remember that all medicine was made by man and that man himself is imperfect; therefore all these different medicines we have made are imperfect.
In that humble spirit, we must learn to take the best of all medicines and combine them, integrate them to produce a better medicine for the next century.
All these compartments of western, eastern, traditional, and ayerveda are all quirks of history. That is why we have to get together and structure a better medicine - an integrated medicine - for the next century, to bring back health for all and our planet.
Wholistic Medicine is the subject of my first film series A Better Medicine.
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