One of the many things I like about the culture here is the use of food as medicine. If you are drinking a glass of agua de pipa (water from a young green coconut) someone is sure to mention to you how excellent this is for your kidneys.
The following is about just one of the plants foods that people in Panama are aware of and use for health and healing.
Borojo, is a fruit that grows in a tree. The fruit is about the size of a small to medium round watermelon, and its color is green. The pulp is brown, acid, and very dense (SOUR!) consisting mostly of fructose and glucose. The fruit has around 90 to 600 seeds, and it is considered ripe when it falls from the tree.
The Borojo has exceptional properties for the nourishment health. It has demonstrated to be very excellent for:
Bronchial afflictions
Providing protein in vegetarian diets, helps to compensate the protein and amino acid levels in the body.
Sugar equilibrium in the blood
Desnutrition (absorption of proteins in the stomach)
Treatment of arterial hypertension
Increasing sexual potency Contains Sesquiterpelantond, which inhibits cell growth in harmful tumors
It is highly energetic, with very high protein content. It has huge quantities of essential amino acids for the body, and its phosphorous content is surprising (60mg/100g of pulp). Borojo has one of the highest levels of vitamin b (water soluble), compared to any other fruit.
The pulp is used to prepare juice (jugo del amor), compotes, marmalades, candies and wine.
In an article from the El Visitante Jorge Quintero Rubio is interviewed because of his production and marketing of tropical wines, one of which is a Borojo-Noni wine. Jorge told of giving the fruit concentrate to a man in David, Panama who claims it cured his cancer in 2002.
The gentleman had liver cancer with much pain and upon taking the fruit three times daily on the second day the pain had left and inflammation in the liver had started to subside. (According to the cancer survivor no other medicines or traditional treatments by physicians were administered.) In addition to the oral consumption of the fruit a poultice was applied to the outer surface of the body in a corresponding position with the liver.
The cancer survivor says he had sonographs taken before his treatment that should several lesions on the liver. After the Borojo-Noni treatment subsequent sonographs were taken and revealed the absence of lesions. Today the cancer survivor remains healthy and cancer free.
The article as said a wellness center would be opening in the late fall of 2006 that will be offering the Borojo and Noni.
I’ve include a recipe using Borojo in the ‘what’s cooking section of the forum. Borojo Sorbet
For more information, please visit:
http://www.panamaexpertos.com
http://www.panamaexpertos.com/forum/alternative-medicine-pt-2-ct106.html
http://www.panamaexpertos.com/info.php?page=content/visas_residency_citizenship
Jean Bouttet
http://www.articlesbase.com/business-articles/alternative-medicine-pt-2-96687.html
Alternative medicine?
What types of alternative care are available? How do you feel about traditional medicine versus alternative modalities of treatment?
i really reckon that you should take traditional medicine… i once took alternatives for my sinus infection… i had to go to the hospital and i was in a colma for two weeks… take what the doctors proscribed.
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Complementary and alternative medicine works to both prevent and treat disease in conjunction with traditional medicine.
Many, many pathologies can be prevented or treated with proper diet and lifestyle changes and there are many natural and herbal remedies that will treat disease better and with less side effects than "traditional medicine". But, there are times and conditions when the only thing one can do is to take pharmaceutical meds to treat certain pathologies.
The two schools of medicine work together and neither is able to completely do without the other.
By the way, no one has ever gone into a coma from a sinus infection.
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naturopath
I go to a fantastic natural doctor, he saved my life and I went to 20+ doctors who sat around saying there was nothing incorrect with me and I was just imagining feeling sick and come to find out I had a severe vitamin deficiency that they should have found then there was another time that one prescribed a medicine that they knew I was deathly allergic to. Natural doctors go to school just as long as a regular doctor does and they can run all the same tests, they just can’t prescribe medicine. I know from my experience 9 out of 10 regular doctors don’t care about people they only care about prescribing meds. that don’t even solve a problems only mask them, but some people do need medicine. People reckon their doctors care and some doctors do but most are just waiting for the 15 mins to run out on the clock and they don’t even know your name. Natural doctors treat the whole body instead of just one part which Hippocrates the father of medicine strongly believed in. So unless you want to be on meds. I would recommend going to a natural doctor who will not place you into a statistic and really sit down with you and listen and help you. Plus natural herbs really do work as well or better than perception meds. without the terrible side effects. Once I was going to a regular doctor that everyone recommend was so fantastic and come to find out he got his medical degree down in the Caribbean at a medical school that does not require a bachelors degree, so you never know what your getting with a regular doctor.
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Regular doctors just aren’t trained properly any more. The $billion dollar drug company’s finance the medical schools. So they dictate what is to be taught. So they teach to take all these pills for everything instead fo finding the cause for the problem and curing it. If doctors cured all that are sick they and the $Billion dollar drug company’s would be out of business,
Example, The Drs. give Antibiotics for everything. Antibiotics do nothing for fungus infection for example it feeds the fungus.
The Holistic medicine finds out just what is incorrect or caused the problem then treats it accordingly. They cure allot that drs. don’t even know there is a cure for.
Drs. do have their place like Broken bones, cancer etc.
Do your home work and learn.
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Alt med doesn’t work. It fails clinical trials continuously, and is based on magical thinking rather than science. This is why it’s not mainstream.
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(To really answer your question)
1. Chiropractic
2. Homeopathic
3. Naturopathic
4. Acupuncture,
5. Massage therapist
6. Chinese medicine
7. Many other varied techniques.
Many accepted medical therapies were considered "alternate" until quite recently (including exercise and diet control until quite recently – imagine that!)
Health will never come in a bottle of pills, and standard medicine has many shortcomings and hundreds of thousands die every year in the US due to medical mistakes and to drug interactions, so any blanket dismissal of alternate medicine by MD supporters is certainly the pot calling the kettle black.
Read up yourself and learn what’s right for you. Try it and choose what you reckon, but I never place all my eggs in one basket. Best luck.
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