Cheap Drugs on the Internet – Buyer Beware!
Those of us who knew LBI, Life Before Internet, recall the most famous travel book of our generation – Europe on $5 a Day. It appealed to students and backpackers who wanted to travel on the cheap. Even today, students studying or volunteering abroad are searching out bargains. Money is tight and saving a few bucks here and there can make the difference.
However, don’t let frugality overtake sound judgement.
Our friends at ProMED reported a study that many on-line pharmacies are selling fake medicines at discount prices. While most drug websites are safe, there are internet scammers out there who are pushing snake oil on travelers struggling to stay on budget. Budget travel should still mean safe travel. Read the rest of this entry »
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The Medical Philosophy of Homeopathy
In the early 19th century, most hospitals were for the poor and physicians were not a crucial part of most American patients’ experience. Sick people relied on the advice and help of neighbors and midwives. When patients did seek out a medical practitioner they had a plethora of options, perhaps the widest choice in American history. At the time, there was no single medical profession in the US. There were no national boards, specialty boards, government or private research institutes, or certification committees. Because there was no national examining or regulatory agencies, the doctors’ practices were even more individualize than it is today.
Medical practice was not unified. American medicine was diverse and competitive; perhaps the most open medical marketplace of any Western nations. Doctors often disagree about the proper therapy and about diagnosis. Their practice had to be responsive to the context in which it occurred. They frequently complained that as they entered a patient’s home, it was not the doctor but the patient and family who made the final choice of treatment. Until the 1850s most medical education did not take place in medical schools. An American practitioner did not need to have a medical degree or any formal certification from the state to be regarded as a legitimate physician. Medical training was done by apprenticeship. Doctors obtained medical skills and knowledge from older skilled healers in their communities (Rogers). Read the rest of this entry »
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Nature Worship
Founder and leader of Circle Sanctuary, an internationally linked Nature Spirituality resource center and Shamanic Wiccan church based in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin. Animism: ancient philosophy that views everything in Nature as having an indwelling spirit/soul, including the plants, rocks, waters, winds, t tires, animals, humans, and other life forms.
Animism is the foundation of shamanism and has been considered the earliest form of human religion on planet Earth. {Sorry, philosophy students, who are often told Aristotle and his work ‘Anima’ is original, these same students aren’t told about his Secretum Secretorum which is an alchemic treatise covering what he was taught that he sent to his pupil Alexander the Great.} Read the rest of this entry »