Alternative treatments - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 31 Oct 2013 00:19:52 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Alternative treatments - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Cockroaches: the new miracle cure https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/11/05/cockroaches-new-miracle-cure/ Mon, 04 Nov 2013 18:30:34 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=51338 The correct way to eat cockroaches at least in Shandong province, is to fry it not once but twice in a wok of smoking hot oil. As well as being a tasty treat, these delicacies have medicinal properties and are being used in China to cure a number of ailments. According to Liu Yusheng, a professor at Read more

Cockroaches: the new miracle cure... Read more]]> The correct way to eat cockroaches at least in Shandong province, is to fry it not once but twice in a wok of smoking hot oil.

As well as being a tasty treat, these delicacies have medicinal properties and are being used in China to cure a number of ailments.

According to Liu Yusheng, a professor at the Shandong Agricultural university they work much faster than other medicine." Read more

 

Cockroaches: the new miracle cure]]> 51338 Whanganui DHB alternative therapies trial courageous https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/07/31/whanganui-dhb-alternative-therapies-trial-courageous/ Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:30:22 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=30602

Warm, fuzzy media headlines are the order of the day when Police dogs or All Blacks visit hospital patients. Try introducing a trial of alternative therapies like Whanganui District Health Board is doing and the headlines become accusatory and dismissive. A range of therapies including Reiki, Christian prayer, Maori healing and massage will be on offer to Read more

Whanganui DHB alternative therapies trial courageous... Read more]]> Warm, fuzzy media headlines are the order of the day when Police dogs or All Blacks visit hospital patients. Try introducing a trial of alternative therapies like Whanganui District Health Board is doing and the headlines become accusatory and dismissive.

A range of therapies including Reiki, Christian prayer, Maori healing and massage will be on offer to Whanganui hospital staff over a three-month period. As far as I know, none of these therapies are claiming to cure disease or mend broken bones.
Despite that two District Health Board members have deemed the interventions hocus pocus or witchcraft. Their preference is for more effort to go into improving existing evidence based medicine, which has been a mainstay of the bio-medical model for the last few decades. An effort to ensure, as far as possible, that medical interventions do no harm. Read more
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Whanganui DHB alternative therapies trial courageous]]> 30602 Christian Prayer 1 of 16 alternative treatments at Whanganui Hospital https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/07/24/christian-prayer-1-of-16-alternative-treatments-at-whanganui-hospital/ Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:30:20 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=30127

Christian prayer and traditional Maori healing are to be offered at Whanganui Hospital as part of a natural therapy service. Sixteen alternative treatments are being provided on a roster basis. Providers have been police-vetted and will go through a thorough induction when the service is launched next week. The move has been described as a Read more

Christian Prayer 1 of 16 alternative treatments at Whanganui Hospital... Read more]]> Christian prayer and traditional Maori healing are to be offered at Whanganui Hospital as part of a natural therapy service.

Sixteen alternative treatments are being provided on a roster basis. Providers have been police-vetted and will go through a thorough induction when the service is launched next week.

The move has been described as a "seriously stupid decision" by Whanganui District Health Board member, Michael Laws. He says that it "hasn't gone anywhere near the DHB board table".

Victoria University biology sciences professor Shaun Holt says the therapies being offered were a "strange mix". "Meditation and massage great - the others not so."

He said there was no evidence-based research on reiki, Christian prayer and Maori healing being useful.

"What annoys me with things like this is there are lots of useful complementary therapies out there that they could be offering - yoga, tai chi, herbal supplements, even acupuncture or traditional Chinese medicine, that are all evidence-based."

He described reiki - which involves the practitioner placing their hands lightly on the body, supposedly allowing a free flow of universal energy - as "witchcraft".

Emergency department specialist Chris Cresswell, who helped set up the service, said the alternative therapies would complement conventional treatments.

"There is good research out there that lots of alternative therapies do have a lot of good to offer. I think our society has matured and people are more open-minded," he said

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