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Native Healing: Four Sacred Paths to Health
Alternative medicine, holistic health, and spiritual healing are promoted as recent innovations in modern medicine, yet all have been practiced by native peoples for thousands of years. Native Four Sacred Paths to Health is unique among health-related books. Native healers explore and promote the powerful effects of family and community, as well as spiritual and traditional treatments, on personal health. Today they are beginning to be integrated into the health care system, and this book shows how you too can benefit from their wisdom. In words and photographs, Dr. Peate draws on his personal experience to describe native healers' holistic approach to healthcare, from sings to sandpaintings to chants and cures.
184 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2002
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April 15, 2008
Dr. Peate started his medical practice like most doctors without a second thought about the potential benefits of native healing, completely ignoring the inherent knowledge of his own Mohawk and Onondaga ancestry. However, while completing his normal rounds at the Tuba City Hospital on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona he came face to face with a native healer who changed the doctor's outlook forever. A particular patient was comatose and our modern medicine really couldn't do much for the man. However, the healer's results were amazing. Despite his immediate irritation at having the healer getting in his road, the doctor couldn't help but notice that there was something about the traditional ways.
Native Healing is filled with numerous accounts of traditional healing working in conjunction with modern medicine. Modern medicine can do amazing things for our bodies but concern for our fear, anxiety, and need to be reassured is pretty much non-existent. To make the best use of both types of healing to heal the whole person is much more humane.
Native Healing is filled with numerous accounts of traditional healing working in conjunction with modern medicine. Modern medicine can do amazing things for our bodies but concern for our fear, anxiety, and need to be reassured is pretty much non-existent. To make the best use of both types of healing to heal the whole person is much more humane.
July 18, 2009
Humans are more than a list of complaints. Does our worrying about what is wrong with us actually cause more pain? I picked this up at the NM Visitor's Center and I liked the read about a doctor who learned to listen to his patients.
May 16, 2010
This was excellent. Full of science, facts, from a highly accredited MD.
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