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Mr Mahama Topie, Chairman of the Won Waana Traditional Healers Association in the Upper West Region, has advised herbalists to recognise the lead role orthodox medicine plays in the health delivery system. He also asked the herbalists not to become the first point of call for patients.

Mr Topie who gave the advice in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Wa at the weekend said herbal medicine should be the last resort for patients. "We should only go on with our therapy when patients have sought clinical treatment and failed to recover," he stressed.

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Reiki is a Japanese healing modality. It's a hands-on, non-invasive, non-manipulative therapy that balances our mind, body, and spirit through the use of Universal Life Energy.

Reiki is a way of bringing us "home", of reconnecting with the essence of who we are.
This work is done fully clothed, light hands above and on the body.

If you would like to learn more about our Reiki practitioner, Susan Martinez, click here to read her full bio. If you have booked a Reiki session but have never received Reiki at In Balance before, click here, fill out this form, and bring it with you to your session.

The Medicines Control Council has confirmed that the controversial traditional supplement Bhejane, taken by Aids patients in the belief that it will boost their immune system, is not registered.The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) on Wednesday issued a call for Business Report to print a correction of a June 21 article which stated that Bhejane was registered.

The article said Business Report had visited the premises of Zebulon Gwala, the manufacturer, and seen an MCC registration certificate with a registration number that confirmed the product was registered in the complementary medicines division effective in March this year.

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The Scientist that absolutely proves that Homeopathy has an absolutely proven mechanism of action will be a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Medicine.

According to alternative complementary medicine statistics This is a field of medicine that is currently in its 207th year of clinical implementation with unquestionable proven success but its scientific mechanism is still the subject of fierce debate in the Ivory towers of academia.

The field of complex Homeopathy developed by Dr Hans Heinrich Reckeweg MD is only in its 68th year with likewise unquestionable clinical marvels of help to ailing patients but it too eludes acceptance at the AMA level even though some marvelous breakthroughs have developed in just the last several years that May be the answers we have long been awaiting.  What observations capture our attention and how can we explain them? Can we view it as a holistic approach in medicine?

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A product called Magic Power Coffee, marketed for sexual enhancement, contains an ingredient that could lower blood pressure and should be avoided, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Samples purchased and analyzed by the FDA found the product contains hydroxythiohomosildenafil, a chemical similar to the active ingredient in Pfizer's blockbuster erectile dysfunction drug Viagra.

Like Viagra, Magic Power Coffee can interact with other drugs and cause dangerously low blood pressure. That can cause the brain to be deprived of an adequate blood supply. "Because the product is an instant coffee labelled as an 'all natural dietary supplement,' consumers may assume it is harmless and poses no health risk," said Deborah Autor, the director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Office of Compliance.

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SagaMedica’s online store has launched “SagaVita”, a herbal cold remedy made from Icelandic angelica herb; the same plant Vikings used in herbal medicine a thousand years ago. There are absolutely, and without a doubt, no accounts of Leif the Lucky ever having suffered from a cold infection.

Leif, like other Vikings, was probably an avid consumer of the angelica herb. And justifiably so, it would seem, as modern research suggests antiviral angelica remedies may be used for preventing colds and other seasonal illnesses. Angelica is one of very few medicinal herbs originating from the north; it has been used by the Nordics for over a thousand years and Iceland’s first law book even mentions specific fines for angelica theft.

Angelica was well known in herbal medicine during the middle ages and Icelanders used it as currency in foreign trade. Its value lay in the fact that it was thought to be more potent as a remedy than other angelicas growing further south.

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Modern medicine has made our lives better in many ways. It has helped older adults live longer, healthier lives. But people over 65 have to be careful when taking medications, especially when they're taking many different drugs.

Because mixing certain medicines can cause problems, be sure to let your doctor know about all the prescription and over-the-counter drugs you are taking.

Keep an updated list of medicines you are taking with you at all times. To learn more about drug safety, take time to read the Seniors & Medications brochure, located to the right.

Anything that you can do to be healthier is likely to reduce the number and amount of drugs that your doctor would need to prescribe for you.

A good doctor is certainly willing to see that you are taking as little medicine as possible.One reason to take only minimum doses is that all drugs carry a risk.

You could say that vitamins carry a risk, too.  You could say that everything in life carries some risk.  You could, but that would obscure the real point that drugs carry.

A higher than average risk, and they are regularly used by a very large number of people. Vitamin supplements have an especially high margin for error; drugs do not.

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Homeopathy is an “alternative remedy” devised in the late 18th century by a German physician, Samuel Hahnemann. It is based on the premise that “like cures like”.

However, unlike a vaccine that introduces a diminished form of a virus into a person’s body, thereby stimulating the immune system to becoming resistant to a potentially deadly dose of the virus, homeopathy.

On the other hand “works” by introducing an agent that induces similar symptoms into that person’s body and so fighting the symptoms of whatever it is that ails them.

For example, red onion is used to cure watery eyes, snake venom for stiffness, poison ivy for skin rash etc.  This is a completely unfounded premise that has no basis in science.

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Ever since Chinese doctors first poked their patients with sharp objects 4,000 years ago, and charged them for the pleasure, acupuncture has been shrouded in mystery.

Tradition has it that the procedure works by improving the flow of "qi" along invisible energy channels called meridians.

But research published today points to a less mystical explanation for the painkilling claims of acupuncture.

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