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05 February 2008, 07:20
allAfrica.com: Nigeria: Meet Ayodele Akindipe, Registrar, Federal College of Compleme (Page 1 of 1)
Before revealing the genesis of his rest in the cosmos of complementary and additional medicine, Akindipe, a alumnus pl alumni of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife and a top staff fellow of Federal Ministry of Health, explained the apprehension of complementary and alternative medicine.
The concept of complementary and alternative medicine is not just all about herbal medicine. There is a difference between herbal drug and herbalism.
Herbal medicine is under alternative medicine, because below it, you can go as a good as cool the toxicology and pharmacology of the tree contents, but in herbalism you don't need this.
Herbalism is under household medicine. You actually don't need to move away any research as upon the components of the plant. Its herbal medicine that has been passed from one generation to the other.
But our plants pass washed-up toxicology and pharmacology in order to detect the effect of the flower - if it's poisonous or not.
Alternative and supplementary medicine is basically another form of medicine which is parallel with orthodox medicine. The substructure is the alike but distinct in treatment.
While orthodox practitioners give drugs, we offer what we call remedies or manipulation. Remedies are some of the things produced from our treated shrub and can come in configuration of capsules. Another difference is that, while drugs could be manufactured with a formula, you cannot manufacture natural remedies, because it has got to do with the nature.
Manipulation purpose therapy. It involves neither medicament nor remedies. Manipulation can come in form of bone or muscles adjustment. It's now in vogue in Europe and America. There is again acupuncture, which can be applied to relieve soreness easily from the body. It's also applicable in surgery without necessarily opening up patients."
From a young age, I developed affection in herbal medicine and plants.
Many humans find it difficult to buy that by oneself from my formal training, I had gotten to be schooled the usefulness, application and efficacy of most of the plants on ice my dreams ethical from a very crude age," Akindipe revealed.
The registrar, who holds a PhD from Open International University for Different Medicine, India, explained what led to the surfacing of the academy and its morals compared to what is obtainable in other division of the world.
The advocacy for the establishment of the college had been on right from former president Obasanjo's days in office. Though I bullwork in the Federal Ministry of Health, I had always been in the vanguard, along with other colleagues of mine, advocating for the establishment of the college.
Our prayers were in reality answered by the President Umaru Yar'Adua polity when he granted our request. Right now, apart from Abuja which minister to as our leading campus, we have campuses in Enugu and Lagos.
And our projection is to establish campuses in all the six geopolitical zones. In order to achieve the expected standard, the college was actually set up by an act of the parliament, just like any other government-owned tertiary institution.
Any moment from now, we will be commencing the academic session, and we get a beefy determination to take the health care distribution system to the next level.
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30 January 2008, 10:28
Fair offers chance to learn about holistic health - NewburyportNews.com, Newburyport, MA
To expose residents to some of those treatments, Janelli recently held a Holistic Health Fair at the Merrimac Usual Library so people could be aware of the benefits that advance from holistic care - treating the whole person, rather than just a specific pain or disease.
Janelli, who has been practicing Reiki for 12 years, has a dodge in Merrimac where she and four other therapists offer polarity, crystal work, massage therapy and Reiki. Jane Binder of Merrimac, who attended the objective with her husband, is a Reiki patient. She believes that alternative medicine works, but that "people don't give it a chance." She described how, at the age of 6, she could no longer stand as a result of calcium loss in her legs.
Her doctors predicted that she would never regain the use of her legs. Nevertheless she recalls the "miracle" of walking again after drinking liver blood prescribed by her grandmother, a part-Native American lady who lived to the age of 99 in spite of never visiting a doctor.
Her husband, Ed, said he like better to rely on "a lot of vitamins and herbs." I hate drugs," he said.
Binder's dislike championing formula medication came after he experienced a severe reaction to drugs prescribed for his cluster headaches.
His wife said that medication "almost crippled him," and lone lifetime he was carried to the infirmary because he could not walk. That's when we swore off" the drugs, she said.
His headaches were ultimately cured by handling of from a chiropractor. Among those participating in the impartial was Emily Flaherty of Em's Earrings Etc. West Newbury. She put together jewelry by hand, using consistent stones that she chooses representing their curative properties.
Flaherty described how the amethyst necklace she was wearing "helps me get upon this cold." An amethyst can be cast-off for emotional, physical and spiritual healing, according to Flaherty. Longtime Merrimac resident Joanne Vien of Joanne's Jewels also heals using jewelry made of crystals.
Vien wire-wraps the stones so they can be held closer to the body, such as a pendant or ring, compared with simply holding a stone. Some of the unusual stones she works with include citrine, which she said increases self-esteem and self-confidence, and moldavite, which enhances the strength of other crystals and was formed from a meteorite.
Also participating at the health fair was medicinal herbalist Cassandra Campbell of Hidden Enchantments. She explained how she happen on with first-time clients for at least one hour to find out what's going on. Herbalism is not different from science," she said. It's formulas."
She finds that herbal remedy "work great for chronic symptoms" of medical problems such as arthritis, osteoporosis and any hide condition. Campbell identified eczema and psoriasis as examples of conditions that herbalists impression as symptoms of an underlying disease.
As an herbalist, you look at the skin as an organ," she said. Your skin is the first pointer to tell you something is faulty with your body." Merrimac resident Joyce Clohecy said, "This is how we dealt with our problems" before recipe medication. Her success with alternative pharmaceutical began with what she describes as "tremendous sinus headaches" that were not alleviated by medication.
She finally received treatments from an acupuncturist, and the headaches she had endured for weeks disappeared and never returned. Of her acupuncture experience, she said, "You feel heat. You can feel it when it drains. It's the energy."
Others participating in the fair were Sharon Linnea Smith of Metamorphic Art Works (animal intuitive, fiord healer, vital spirit retriever, Reiki master, Tong Ren); Pat Zalewski (sound therapist, polarity practitioner); and Kim Cooper of Rewind Bit (nonsurgical face-lifts).
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24 January 2008, 08:29
WiscNews.com : Sauk Prairie Eagle
She lay her institute horticulture classes to functioning so she could tarry home and raise her children, creating Four Seasons at Nature's Acres. My passion became how plants can heal," she said. Stevens is a herbalist.
She also elevate grass-fed beef. With her husband, David, she has a 130-acre certified biological farm.
She cast-off her vegetable therapy on her children and said she saw decided outcome and began producing teas, soaps, salves, creams, balms, oils and tinctures, marketing them at health food stores and local outlets.
Now, at the exit of her 21st year, she is expanding. She plans to attend a trade show in New York, the Integrated Condition Symposium, where she will market her products to doctors and practitioners. She already is marketing to 10 clinics across the country. Medical practitioner have to learn," she said.
It feels chilly bringing Sauk County to New York City and the national audience of health care practitioners. I've focused on herbs since 1981. I have the honesty to mart to the clinic niche."
For quality control, all her products are unreal in microscopic batches from bush grown on her property. This time in history is a great time," Stevens said. We have study to back us up and we have background." She was referring to all the history of western herbalism, such as the exercise of nettles and mother's wort, the 3,000-year history of Chinese herbalism and the Auruevedic herbalism of India.
There are the three most general herbalism cultures from which to learn," she said. We know herbs heal." Stevens said the German equivalent of the Federal Narcotic Administration tests both prescriptions and herbal remedies.
She said the evaluation ofttimes are used to set standards herbalists can follow. She said she is proud to be recognized for her quality products. There's exceeding and more competition, individuals and cooperatives," she said.
About 80 percent are owned by multi-nationals." Stevens has her products at The Spirit Horses Wellness Center, 529 Water St. Prairie du Sac. On the business' shelves, Stevens has 10 herbal teas, two lip balms & 8212; Candy Violet and Holy Basil & 8212; salves, creams, soaps, tinctures, skin moisturizers and bath salts. We keep making new products," she said.
For any issue there's an herb to assist us." She has an arthritis remedy composed of prickly ash, an herb with a numbing quality. She also has joint and muscle botanical liniment and anti-wrinkle cream, herbal remedies to help people with asthma or breathing difficulties breathe choice and heart remedies.
Her most recent issue is body butter. Creams are our best-selling category," she said. Stevens has a staff that includes four part-time employees. Lisa Hartman has worked part-time for Stevens for eight years and specializes in soaps. Other part-time pole members include Karen Dennis, Janet Moliter and Mary Luckhardt-Klemm.
All are local women.