Like many progressive people in the USA, I was extremely disappointed in the weak, watered down healthcare reforms that were passed by congress during this past year. Even though it could be argued that the healthcare reform bill that was passed was a major step in ending the worst abuses of the private, for-profit health…
STARTING THE NEW YEAR OFF RIGHT – THE GREEK MEDICINE WAY
The New Year is the time for making all your resolutions to improve your life. And especially, for the New Year, people resolve to take better care of their health. Health and fitness club memberships skyrocket, and everybody really goes at it, and hits the weights, or the treadmill, or whatever it is that they’re…
GETTING THROUGH THE HOLIDAYS WITH HERBS
Christmas time is here, by golly, disapproval would be folly, Deck the halls with boughs of holly, fill the cup and don’t say when! So opens a satirical song on Christmas by Tom Lehrer. Its tongue in cheek sarcasm captures the way many of us feel about the holidays: It’s nice to be joyful and…
Comments and corrections from Orit – and my reflections
Orit Baruch, the subject of my previous blog entry, emailed me with some comments and corrections regarding what I wrote. I would like to share these with you, and to add some reflections and commentary of my own. Orit’s comments and corrections brought me to a couple of important conclusions, or realizations: The first is…
With Orit and Egal at Amirim
From Jerusalem, I took the bus north to Tiberias, which I used as a base for touring the Galilee. From Tiberias, I took a bus to the scenic mountain village of Tsfat, which is famous for Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism. I had lunch in a restaurant in Tsfat’s Artists’ Quarter that consisted of a sandwich of Tsfat cheese…
A Talk on Tibb in Nablus
The following Monday evening at a hotel overlooking Nablus, I gave an introductory talk on Greco-Arabic Medicine, or Tibb, at a conference of local physicians. I gave a historical overview of Tibb, and introduced the doctors there to some of its basic concepts. After the talk, I was given an award. An Herbal Secret Weapon “Mohammad,…
My Healing Journey in the Holy Land
My own personal healing journey in the Holy Land started as soon as I arrived. I read the internet weather report on the morning of my flight to Israel, and saw that it said that the weather in Jerusalem was quite warm and balmy, at least ten degrees Fahrenheit warmer than it was in Bucharest…