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Ear Candling: The Basic Facts

Listed in chinese oriental medicine

This article looks at ear candling, an ancient treatment that was re-discovered by the Western culture from the Hopi Indian practices in North America. Traditionally ear candling wa...

The Blood Test - What kind of information does it Provide?

Listed in clinical practice

Since the introduction of the blood test as a means of helping with the diagnosis of diseases the number of things tested for has dramatically increased as well as the number of so ...

The Role of Authority

Listed in authority rights freedom

Rules and regulations with the intention to avoid conflict, on the one hand, and the intention to increase efficiency on the other, are being invented every single day of our lives....

History of a Healthcare System – Why We Have what we've Got

Listed in clinical practice

Authorities of our healthcare system are very keen to emphasize that we are so lucky to live now, a time of medical excellence, instead of in those primitive days without medical ca...

Independence and Freedom

Listed in authority rights freedom

Whenever people feel constrained by their environment, a power to break free is generated, whether it is breaking free from a government, from an authority or even from parents and ...

What Can I tell You About ……

Listed in clinical practice

Establishing the cause of death is a doctor’s prerogative. Only a qualified doctor is allowed to fill in the form, which officially makes his statement the true cause of death for ...

A Virus Mutates

Listed in dna gene expression

Not only does the medical world struggle to keep their story on the existence of viruses and their impact on our health alive, but they also are constantly readjusting the narrative...

A Diagnosis

Listed in clinical practice

The most important thing in medicine is making a diagnosis. Everything else follows on from that. A diagnosis basically means ‘naming’ the disease. As long as a disease has not bee...

Self-Empowerment – Mind over Matter

Listed in authority rights freedom

We live in a material world. That much should be obvious. This makes our first observations about life materialistic too. All we encounter seems to be a matter of matter. It appears...

The Promise of a Better World Part I

Listed in authority rights freedom

The Covid pandemic is leading us away from the known normal and into a new normal, one that we, ordinary citizens, are not supposed to know yet. On a need-to-know basis we will be t...

The Promise of a Better World Part II

Listed in environmental

We need to go green. Sustainability is one thing, but a green economy, even if the cost is more than we can bear, is a must. Massive amounts of money are being pumped into the idea ...

Infectious Diseases - Nomenclature and Causation

Listed in infections and inflammation

To an ordinary person, that is you and me, it looks like magic how doctors know what the name of the disease is we are suffering from and what has caused it. If we take infectious d...

Our Prime Enemy is Fear

Listed in authority rights freedom

It strikes me that humanity is the first part in the entire creation of living organisms that live life in perpetual fear. All other plants and animals lead a basic life of acceptin...

The New Self-Sufficiency

Listed in authority rights freedom

When people use the term ‘self-sufficiency’ we understand they are talking about being able to maintain oneself without any outside help. It makes us think about the basic needs of...