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TRADITIONAL
MEDICINE AND ACUPUNCTURE
8
th
International Conference on
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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ISSN: 2591-7951
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Volume 2
Traditional 2018
FROM ELEPHANTS, TRADITIONAL AFRICAN
MEDICINE AND MODERN MEDICINE: WHERE
TO FROM HERE?
Barbara Cawood
Cawood Medical Clinic, South Africa
A
perspective from a grass roots allopathic medicine clinician of 31years,
who experienced as a child the best classroom in her backyard, Nature.
Growing up, being integral with nature, she learnt about life and Healing before
venturing to the city to study medicine. Her constant awareness and search
for healing across cultures and continents has shaped her perspective.
Nature has an innate capacity for organisation and healing. Elephants have
inhabited earth for 50 million years. A case presentation of elephants is
shown within the environment they find themselves. A Baobab tree of
4000years is still thriving, and a baby baboon has a conversation with us. In
contrast, the probability of anthropogenic human extinction in America within
the next 100years is a topic of active debate. Kenya has an extinction rate
1000times faster than other events in the last 65million years which makes it
plausible that in the next 300 years Kenyans will be extinct.
An interview with a Traditional African Medicine (TAM) healer who is a young
white African boy and his family reveals the calling, the training and society
and the church’s attitudes toward TAM.
Economies globally struggle to afford health care costs. Market trends show
the consumer is driving change. The focus needs to shift to mass prevention
and diagnoses and to wellness aspects of body mind and soul. A new
treatment model for medicine is proposed.
Barbara Cawood, Arch Gen Intern Med 2018, Volume 2 | DOI: 10.4066/2591-7951-C1-002
Barbara Cawood completed her medical degree at
the age of 25years from the University of the Witwa-
tersrand Medical School. She is director of Cawood
Medical Clinic, providing General Practice, Occupa-
tional Medicine and Health, Integrative Medicine, Fast
Weight Loss, Wellness and Dispensing to a rural com-
munity on the northern tip of South Africa, which is the
gateway to Africa. Barbara has affiliations with the
South African Medical Association (SAMA), South Af-
rican Society of Integrative Medicine (SASIM), South
African Society of Occupational Medicine (SASOM)
and the Australasian College of Nutritional and Envi-
ronmental Medicine (ACNEM). Barbara has lived and
worked in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Canada, New Zea-
land and Australia during her career and has always
chosen to live rurally within cultural diversity.
BIOGRAPHY