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Notes on “Healing Logics” edited by Erica Brady
This book is a collection of essays that was put together after the Utah State University’s conference on folk medicine, which made it evident that existing models of investigation and research proved to be limiting in exploration of the health belief systems that exist in multitude in the US. The general conclusion of this conference (and the collection of essays) is that these health belief systems are built on the bases of very diverse sources of authority, such as community and ethnic tradition, spiritual beliefs, personal experience, and persecutions of the formal medicine. Through the essays we can observe the relationship between these systems of authority being competing, conflicting, and…
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Notes on “Five Element Accupuncture”
an article by Moss The article explains in detail how the Five Element acupuncture is used to treat various diseases and illnesses. While there is much said about the approach, the most important point here seems to be that the emphasis is always on the person as a whole, including his Mind, Body, and Spirit – these concepts are inseparable. The article describes the interdependence between the Five Elements (Wood, Fire, Earth, metal, and Water) which divide the human experience into 5 distinct groupings. The groups consist of organs, diseases, mental health issues, and spiritual issues, so that these Elements act as maps that reflect all levels of human function.…