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8th International Conference on TRADITIONAL MEDICINE AND ACUPUNCTURE
July 23- 24, 2018 | Rome , Italy
Barbara Cawood
Cawood Medical Clinic, South Africa
Scientific Tracks Abstracts : Arch Gen Intern Med
Abstract:
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.
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