Medically known as aphtous ulcers, these nuisance, small lesions on the inside of your mouth or at the base of the gums, are a medical mystery in its own right. We don’t know how and why they appear. Mystery. Medicine doesn’t have all the answers, after all. The work canker means “spreading ulcer” and it […]
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About FASTING and its benefits
Throughout the history of the human beings on this planet, fasting has concerned with both spiritual and physical parts of a person. Traditionally, fasting was a way to communicate with the sacred, with the Creator and it was used for this purpose alone for thousands of years. It makes sense too, from an anthropological and […]
Blood – sacred fluid or commodity?
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 […]
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 […]