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View Post: How Alternative Medicine Started – From Past to Present
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View Post: Worst Thanksgiving ever for me....still emotional. - Children with ...
28 Nov 2009 by zell828  
We were talking about how some alternative medicine therapies can be helpful in certain circumstances, diabetes isn't one of those circumstances. Not once did she mention that we should try faith healing for Sam, its a good thing or I ...
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View Post: Faith healing in health care reform---blogs had the story first ...
3 Nov 2009
This is why few insurers will pay for alternative medicine. They realize that it's actually not cheaper to pay for alternative medicine before trying real medicine. Note: I do acknowledge that chiropractic can be beneficial in treatment ...
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View Post: the priest will charge you now « weird things
5 Nov 2009 by gfish  
As the law currently stands, faith healing is obviously allowed, but it's not seen as a real, viable alternative to genuine medicine. If parents do nothing to help their child outside of prayer, they will get jail time. ...
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View Post: 'Prayer Cult Nation: Faith Healing Scams & Healthcare Reform' by ...
4 Nov 2009 by Sikivu Hutchinson - blackfemlens  
Let the FDA (Federal Drug Administration) run their usual battery of tests on the effectiveness of prayer as an alternative to "regular" medicine. Let's start off with the easy one, amputees. Prayer versus prothestics. ...
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View Post: Alternative Medicine - Remedies - Herbs
25 Nov 2009 by Tanwa  
Alternative medicine has been described as "one of the various systems of healing or treating disease (as chiropractic, homeopathy, or faith healing) not included in the curricula of traditional medicine is taught in the States United ...
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View Post: Alternative Health Treatments Information
27 Nov 2009 by Admin  
Although the list is not complete here are a few of them: diets, massage, music therapy, herbal medicine, faith healing, folk medicine, naturopathy, homeopathy, chiropractic therapy and 'new age' healing. The above treatments are used ...
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View Post: Faith healers vow to confront fake pastors - modernghana.com/religion
17 Nov 2009
He expressed worry that for fear of stigmatization, some victims of mischievous spiritualists and traditional medicine practitioners keep their ordeal to themselves. Rev. Danquah appealed to the media to support the Association in the crusade to restore sanity in the ... Faith healing alongside traditional, complimentary and alternative health care interventions such as homeopathy, reflexology and naturopathy provide cure and healing for infirmity of some of Ghanaians. ...
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View Post: Healthcare proposals subsidize traditional forms of medicine ...
21 Nov 2009
Please, consider the idea of compensation for legitimate faith (religious or spiritual) based medicine and counseling, and alternative forms of traditional medicine, that are valid and do provide effective treatment to patients, ... We the undersigned come before you to request that each of these governing bodies take all necessary action to ensure healthcare proposals include subsidizing traditional forms of medicine/healing, with observation and regulation. ...
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View Post: Christian Scientists and Health Care Reform : Dispatches from the ...
15 Oct 2009 by Ed Brayton none@example.com  
Christian Scientists and other religious groups that believe in faith healing over conventional medicine want the health care reform bill to make sure they've got coverage for their "treatment" choices. Some of the bills advancing in the House and Senate would exempt religious .... And since when was it "discrimination" to say -- based on mountains of evidence -- that your faith-based "alternative medicine" doesn't work, and therefore isn't worth paying for by anyone? ...
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