The history of blood in medicine and its symbolic meaning is as old as medicine itself. Human beings, from ancient times, have viewed blood as miraculous, sacred, have been terrified of it, killed because of the “purity” or “impurity” of it and have died rather than betray it. Blood is the ultimate symbol of life […]
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Randomness
Is this the actual order and growth of the Universe? Is this the way things unfold themselves in life? Could this be it? Only by random? Could this be explanation in medicine to the toughest question that a patient with cancer can ask you: Why? and Why me? This concepts troubled me for a while […]
Why do you laugh when tickled?
Have you ever wondered why do you laugh when tickled? And what is the mechanism behind this? Well, I had and I want to share with you my findings. You don’t spend a lot of time in any medical school learning about laughter. Almost at all. All you hear is that laugher is good for […]
The effectiveness of Ancient Medicine is exaggerated and romanticized
I encounter in my practice patients from all walks of life and sometimes, in my discussions with them, this idea comes often along: that the Ancient Medicine was evolved somehow in diagnostics and therapeutics and that the healers of the ancient past were really skillful in restoring one’s health and that, somehow, we are losing […]