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If you do a Google search for druidry, you are as likely to find modern-day discussions of ancient Celtic healing practices as you are to learn the latest tactics for druid characters in an online video game or Dungeons & Dragons. There is as much mystique that surrounds the ancient Celts’ polytheistic priests as there is research being done and …
The Anglo-Saxons are German tribes that emigrated from northern Europe in the Middle Ages for the island of Great Britain. Their history spans seven, culture-rich centuries from the fifth century to the 12th century. During the reign of King Alfred in the latter half of the eighth century, he inspires learning and literacy like no other king before him. With …
Thank you, Giver of Life, for all the life that was brought here before we arrived in this world. I thank Grandfather Sun for giving us our shadows because our shadows are direct representations of our ancestors who have gone before us. And, they follow us everywhere we go. They protect us. They guide us. So we thank Grandfather Sun …
Nearly a millennium-and-a-half after the cultivation of corn in Mesoamerica, around 1,200 BCE, the Olmec civilization is founded. This thriving society gives rise to the first cities and evidence shows advanced surgical procedures such as trephination (to treat a wide range of ills such as epileptic seizure, brain swelling and blunt trauma to the head). The fall of Olmec leads …
In the yoga tradition, your body bases its fulfilling your healing and wellness maintenance needs on the use of a conceptual framework called chakras. Chakras have a long history within Hinduism and Buddhism with varying degrees of similarity to what is commonly understood of chakras in modernity. Chakras can be understood today in integrative medicine as metaphors for the energetic …
In Western medicine, we consider the human body an open system, says Dr. B. M. Hegde, Indian medical scientist, educationist, and author, and Editor-in-Chief of the medical journal, Journal of the Science of Healing Outcomes. But, he tells the audience in his 2016 TEDx MITE talk, “Ayurveda Over Western Medicines,” that the human body is a closed system. All it …
If you have a chance to step back in time, one of the best places in the United States is located in Williamsburg, Virginia. Williamsburg offers a glimpse of the early start to colonization and of how we provided healing and healthcare before the American Revolution. If you visited the apothecary, you would have a chance to comprehend life before …
Harmony and balance are the hallmarks of health and wellness of our biological systems. The ancient Japanese understood this and developed healing practices that attempted to bring order when disharmony and imbalance, in the manifestations of stress, anxiety, and disease, affected people. One such ancient healing practice out of Japan is Jin Shin Jyutsu, an art designed to help release …
For more than two millennia, before there were doctors and allopathic medicine was born, traditional Chinese medicine was helping heal people. Compiled during and attributed to the mythical Yellow Emperor Huangdi, the Huangdi Neijing (or, Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor) contained two sections, Suwen (or Questions of Organic and Fundamental Nature) and Lingshu Jing (or, Divine Pivot), which covered …
Our healthcare system is ever evolving for numerous reasons. We are, as humans, constantly changing physically, adapting to our environmental changes and experiencing new illnesses. There are also new discoveries and interventions improving the possibilities of better health and there are new threats too such as viruses, weakened drug therapies and contamination such as hospital-acquired infection diseases. MUPS: Who Do …
