Episodes
Saturday Jan 18, 2020
All Disease Comes From the Heart
Saturday Jan 18, 2020
Saturday Jan 18, 2020
This week, we discuss the ancient awareness that physical disease (dis-ease) arises when the natural flow of the Heart is restricted. This happens when we entertain false beliefs about ourselves or others, and let these prejudices dominate our inner wisdom. When our Heart is functioning freely, we experience ease and feel connected to the people and environment around us.
Seen from this perspective, disease isn’t an enemy to be eradicated, but rather a sign in the material world pointing to opportunities to relax, open and live our life in a more whole and authentic way.
Tuesday Dec 03, 2019
A History of Chinese Medicine in the West
Tuesday Dec 03, 2019
Tuesday Dec 03, 2019
Contrary to common belief, Chinese medicine came to the west long before James Reston’s New York Times account of acupuncture following his trip to China with President Nixon in 1971.
In fact, accounts of Chinese medicine practice in the Americas go back to at least the 1600’s. Heiner and Laurie interview expert Linda Barnes, PhD, who not only elucidates how, when and where Chinese medicine came to the west, but also provides insights about intercultural exchange that occurred. The discussion includes a consideration of how western understandings of medicine and the body were informed by interactions with Chinese medicine practitioners.
Dr. Linda Barnes is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine, and in the Division of Religion and Theological Studies at Boston University. She is also the Director of the Master of Medical Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Practice programs at BUSM. Among her publications are the following: Chinese Medicine and Healing: an Illustrated History, Harvard University Press (in press), and Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts: China, Healing and the West to 1848, Harvard University Press, 2005. She is co-editor, with Susan Sered, of Religion and Healing in America, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Tuesday Dec 03, 2019
The Problem of Iatrogenic Disease
Tuesday Dec 03, 2019
Tuesday Dec 03, 2019
While Western medicine can be a life-saver, it also is much more likely than natural medicine to cause serious health problems for the patient.
Heiner and Laurie discuss the issue of practitioner induced illness, and explain why this problem is much more likely to result from the practice of allopathic than natural medicine.
Sunday Apr 28, 2019
The China Study Re-visited—with very different conclusions!
Sunday Apr 28, 2019
Sunday Apr 28, 2019
Health writer Denise Minger shares her insights about the meat-no meat debate.
Denise Minger is exuberant and simply in search of the truth…about what the available data does and does not tell us about the nature of healthy nutrition. Following a raw food, vegan diet to become hearty and strong, Denise instead found herself becoming sicker and weaker. According to the conclusions in The China Study, she was on the diet that should prevent chronic disease. Puzzled by her experience, and a data wonk at heart, she obtained the original data upon which the book was based, and analyzed it herself. Join us for a discussion of what she found in that data, and in her subsequent quest for nutritional wisdom based in sound science rather than dogmatism or political agendas.
You can learn more about Denise’s work on her blog: deniseminger.com, and in her book Death by Food Pyramid. She also recommends you look at Mark Sisson’s blog: marksdailyapple.com.