Global Medicine Review is a talk show program hosted by Dr. Kamau Kokayi and Faybiene Miranda dedicated to exploring topics of interest in medicine, health, culture and healing. The show airs on WBAI every Wednesday from noon - 1PM. You can download individual shows below or from iTunes. You can also subscribe to our iTunes feed and get the show automatically downloaded to iTunes or to your mp3 player.

Archive for August, 2009

Healing Lyme Disease

Dr Kokayi interviews herbalist and citizen scientist Stephen Buhner, author of Healing Lyme: Natural Healing And Prevention of Lyme Borreliosis And Its Coinfections .Mr Buhner gets a clear presentation of the lyme spirochete, revealing why it is so difficult to eradticate and how it can adapt to 70 different species and to each individual human immune system. The reasons for Lyme’s growing presence are highlighted as well as the decreasing effectiveness of antibiotics. Mr Buhner shares with the audience an approach with botanical medicinces that has proven effective.

 

Survival Medicine in the Kitchen

Dr Kokayi interviews Gwen Scott ND who has produced a three DVD set exploring the use of kitchen medicines for a variety of first aid situations. Her DVDs also look at how these kitchen medicines can replace many expensive designer supplements that are on the market. In addition her DVDs actually show how to make various medicines. In this two hour fundraiser, in which WBAI raised over $17 000, Dr Scott shares something of her background and philosophy on medicine and healing and how she approached this work. Her therapeutic remedies come from a variety of sources, including modern science, Native American medicinals, African American herbal medicine of the South, and also her time as a student in Italy. Faybiene’s poem for the program was very well received.