School to Support personal, educational and spiritual growth

 
The Legacy of the Rose Society, Director: Peter Tongue - www.legacyoftherose.org  Established in the heart of Victoria, BC, Canada, we are a community which supports the personal, educational and spiritual growth of ALL members through an integrated holistic approach, in a safe, nurturing and sustainable environment.  
This is an Education system for Humanity’s Highest Potential!

Mission Statement:
  
To [...]

MDs bone up on once-scorned remedies

By JULIE DEARDORFF Chicago Tribune
Twenty years ago, the mind-body connection was largely dismissed by U.S. doctors as a wacky concept in healing. Today it’s a staple of integrative medicine, the discipline that blends complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM, with conventional treatments, and places more emphasis on treating the whole person.About 75 percent of [...]

personal battle against Alzheimer’s

 Wade VanRyzin says he’s been married to three women in the last 39 years who’ve all inhabited the body of his wife, Christine Baum VanRyzin.

“The first one took a lot of chances,” the Appleton man said of the high school sweetheart he married in 1969 who is the mother of his two children.

Then there was [...]

Dealing with dry mouth

Dr. Andrew Weil, For The Calgary Herald
Published: Monday, February 11, 2008
Q: No matter how much I drink throughout the day, my mouth is uncomfortably dry, and it’s getting worse. What causes this?
A: Dry mouth or “xerostomia” is due to insufficient secretion of saliva. This happens to everyone occasionally. You’re most likely to notice dry mouth if [...]

Calgary MD Unveils “Wellness Curriculum”

CALGARY, Feb. 12 /CNW/ - At a time when the public health system appears
to be suffering from its own aches and pains, a Calgary-based clinic says it
may have the solution to Canada’s health care crunch. Like Oprah’s Dr Oz, The
Hoffman Centre espouses prevention; treating the whole patient, not just
physical symptoms.
    The Hoffman Centre for Integrative [...]

Broken bones set right by herbal medicine

What could be more miraculous for those with  fractures who can be cured without painful surgery  through Ayurveda? Sounds interesting!
A  bone-healing centre in Tamil Nadu state is gaining  popularity among  orthopaedic patients who believe that traditional  therapy has miraculous healing powers.
A  family  runs the clinic located at Puttur, 100 km  away  from Chennai,  for over [...]

Holistic medicine has a place

This past week, I found myself obliged to serve as an expert witness for the defense in a medical malpractice lawsuit. This was not because I am inclined to defend my profession in general (I often find my sympathies go the other way), but because in this case, I felt an unfortunate outcome had nothing [...]

Hospitals Relax Pain Away In Shock Trauma Patients

Kellye Lynn
Reporting
(WJZ) MARYLAND Local hospitals move beyond medication to treat individuals with severe pain.
Patients at Shock Trauma are benefiting from a Japanese relaxation technique.
Healthwatch reporter Kellye Lynn reports doctors at Shock Trauma are turning to Reiki therapy to help traumatic injury patients better manage their pain.
A patient’s room at Shock Trauma is transformed into [...]

Acupuncture treatments using low levels of electrical stimulation can lower blood pressure

In tests on rats, the researchers found that electroacupuncture treatments provided temporary relief from the conditions that raise blood pressure during hypertensive states. Such treatments, they believe, potentially can become part of a therapeutic regimen for long-term care of hypertension and other cardiovascular ailments in people.
“This study suggests that acupuncture can be an excellent complement [...]

Healing touch: A new patient outreach program

By Phil Galewitz, Special for USA TODAY
Susan Iliff was out of the hospital within four days after open-heart surgery and never needed any pain medication.
She credited her speedy, painless recovery not just to her doctors, but also to an unconventional type of therapy she received at Scripps Green Hospital in La Jolla, Calif.: a daily [...]