Editorials

Editorial Issue 152

These are exceedingly frustrating times for those of us, and that includes most PH readers, who yearn for an integrated approach to healthcare which embraces the best of all disciplines and modalities from the entire medicine repertoire.Despite the polarized information from both the conventional and alternative/complementary medicine camps which posits a conspiracy on the part of the pharmaceutical and orthodox medicine establishment to wipe out non-drug medicine, I still harbour the hope that the majority of conventional doctors who espouse these views are more likely the victims of their inadequate training in other approaches, and the somewhat fundamentalist guidelines published by the medical hierarchy which favour RCTs (randomized controlled trials) over case-based medicine and the general media which are not expertly schooled in scientific and research methodology.

Editorial Issue 151

The work of Dr Stephen Mannion, profiled by Dr (Lord) Robert Winston on Super Doctors, aired Thursday 4 September on BBC1 Television is totally inspiring, and evidence of what an individual person can achieve, without money, resources or personnel. Dr Mannion, a medical doctor specializing in trauma medicine who has worked around the most war-torn areas of globe, currently works for 2 weeks each month in a London hospital, and the remaining 2 weeks in Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world, where his work is unpaid.

Editorial Issue 150

Having now reached the milestone of PH’s 150th issue, I am tremendously pleased with the editorial features published in this edition, their subjects ranging from the spiritual in Secret Life of the Inner Soul (page 9), clinical applications of techniques including Dr Daniel Benor’s approach for Migraine Headache (page 14), Terri Perry’s use of Thought Field Therapy (TFT) in Chemical Fragrances: Effects on the Autonomic Nervous System (page 29) and Michael Franklin’s Approaches for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (Page 37). Other original articles include Spagyric Medicine (Page 18) and the Lightning Process Treatment for ME (Page 41). The highly informative Expert Columns by Anne McIntyre, Alyssa Burns-Hill, Vivienne Bradshaw-Black and Joël Carbonnel are the icing on the cake.

Editorial Issue 149

It is indeed shocking these days to witness the spectacle of breathtaking spin and mendacity emanating from leaders of nations – Zimbabwe, Sudan, Burma, China, even the USA and the UK, spinning their version of events, political, religious and humanitarian disasters, in front of international organizations and televised around the world.
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Editorial Issue 148

Recently, the negative media coverage regarding the so-called worthlessness or even fraudulence of Complementary Medicine has been growing into an almost deafening crescendo. A week hardly goes by without books, journals, magazines and newspaper articles being published or reviewed stating that complementary treatments are a waste of money, and that many practitioners are snake oil salesmen. In fact, several of the authors of these books and articles are the very individuals who hold responsible positions within the world of complementary medicine.

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