Global Medicine Review

Dr Kokayi has the opportunity to interview two doctors who have just returned from Haiti earlier in the morning after being part of relief efforts for over the last seven days.  Dr Henry Paul a nephrologist is Hatian born and Dr William Lois a surgeon is Cuban born.  Both have practices here in the NY area and Dr Paul is president of the NY chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Haitians (noahny.org). Both share their impressions about the devastation taking place there and the field hospital that they were a part of establishing.  Both doctors along with Dr Kokayi’s long time friend Dr Jonel Daphnus, also a guest for this program, are preparing to return to Haiti next week.   All three doctors are looking to a future in which massive efforts will be needed to bring some level of restoration to a land where people are living under sheets tied to four poles with a rainy season just a couple of months away.   There account is emotionally provoking an informative.  Callers also shared comments and questions.

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 On the Ground in Haiti: Two Weeks after the Earthquake [60:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today we have the interesting task of trying to create a picture of a four dimensional reality  that you can appreciate on these airways.  I have an able guest…a professor of some thirty years but let me set the stage.

The question we have to ask ourselves in 2010 is whether our problems on a global level have outpaced our ability to solve them.  Western culture the dominant culture on the planet has taken the world in a direction that brings into question whether this wave of humanity can survive to 2100. While many of us are inspired by ancient an indigenous cultures the larger mainstream seems to be moving in a headlong course that guarantees an acceleration of cataclysmic event that will further destabilize human life. The machine can’t slow itself down whether its global warming or  need to maintain global dominance.  No sooner that do we create one solution perhaps in the form of an alliance with a political regime or inventions that are the hallmark of western civilization like the atomic age do we create a series of problems of increasing complexity  that will have to be confronted down the road.  You don’t have to be too old to see the similarities between Viet nam and AFghanastan..  The same is true for our own development. Any one who has spent time with themselves or undergone psychotherapy will be a witness to how certain situations will repeat themselves over and over in our lives until we have gained mastery.

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 The Double Helix of Time: A Tool for a Paradigm Shift [45:31m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

I wanted to take some time at the beginning of this year to share some of my own thoughts about medicine, healing, and health care.  Outside of my radio intros I have not put anything in print since last January’s letter to Obama.

The easy part of this commentary is the health care piece.  Health care for working people is abominable, this being the case for overwhelming majority of the American population whether you can afford it or not. And many times you really don’t realize this until you are sick and have to interface with the health care system on any consistent basis.   If your problem fits neatly into modern medicine’s conceptualization of what is going on with you then you may get thru the system unscathed and even recover your health.  But this is not the rule.  Being medicated is not the same as being healed.  Your options become really limited unless you spend disposable income.  Yet your premiums are going up.

Beyond the administrative and financial headaches the real  question is what is the intention of your practitioner and the health care system as a whole and how is your problem being conceptualized. Are you someone to be fit into a protocol or is something being designed for you during that five to ten minutes that you are with your doctor.  In modern medicine you are working in a closed solution set dictated by the pharmaceutical and insurance industries….not by science. Much of what goes on in medical practice is by way of convention and not the hard science that is constantly being referenced. Your doctor may not have any training in nutrition or any other modality other than making a pathology diagnosis and prescribing drugs.  Who would want to be in this situation?
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 Directions in Health Care and Healing: Liberation Cosmology [45:31m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Guest: Dr Lewis Mehl Madrona

Greetings…well it’s the third day of the winter solstice,  two days Before Christmas, three days before  Kwanza and four days since Hanukkah ended.   Regardless of your religious persuasion or lack thereof something shifts at this time of year.  Many people develop physical and emotional complaints as the holiday season unfolds and expectations and connections are not made or perhaps old wounds are reopened.  If this wasn’t enough we get to head into the fullness of winter  for at least another three months after the holidays.
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 The Spirit of the Holidays [60:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Guest: Alex Stark

Well its Holiday time or Holy Day time whichever one you ascribe to.   On the one hand we are being urged more than ever to buy an shop, with shopping made easy over the internet, but on the other hand  from the standpoint of cultures present and ancient,  from around the planet, rooted in the reality of the earth being a living and dynamic entity, there is not a better time to pray and meditate.  Its ironic that the culture that has demonstrated the capacity to dissect our world down to a subatomic particle can not create a system that allows humans to play their part in an interconnected, multidimensional  world.
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 Standard Podcast [60:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This week’s show is a rebroadcast of the show Good Calories Bad Calories that aired on 04/29/2009.

 

 Good Calories Bad Calories (Rebroadcast) [60:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Guest: Ken Campbell

Dr Kokayi continues his discussion on applied kinesiology with Ken Campbell and Erin Davis, faculty members of the International College for Professional Kinesiology Practice (ICPKP).  Joining them are students including a NY Podiatrist, George Morgano and two other lay students.  The conversation touches on various aspects of application of applied kinesiology, from pain management to emotional relief, to facilitating the augmentation of various healing and restorative properties of the body.  More information can be found at the internationalcollegeofhealingarts.com.  This is a professional training discipline that is offered to lay people as well with opportunities for professional development.

 

 Applied Kinesiology - Part 2 [60:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

DUE TO SOME TECHNICAL ISSUES, ONLY PART OF THIS SHOW WAS AIRED.

Guest: Ken Campbell

Well folks I have no words of wisdom concerning misgivings day tomorrow. A day called thanksgiving that clearly means different things to different cultural groups. One thing is for sure, those of us who are caught in the endless shuffle of being wage earners must use this time off to not only relax and enjoy the company of family and loved ones but to strategize about how to not only ensure survival but to prosper in the years ahead. America is truly in its winter season with no end in sight. We can not depend on government and corporate interests to do what is best for everyday Americans. They are becoming one in the same,…not just in the FDA or organizations that we have looked at because of their role in health care but indeed across the board for all the regulatory structures that are suppose to keep this democracy fair and just. So today I want to give you something to chew on over the holiday. I want to share something that I think is the future of medicine if the world were to take a more humane direction.
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 Applied Kinesiology [60:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today we are going to hear from the founder of the American Botanical Council, Mark Blumenthal so that we can get a better understanding of the botanical world and the world of plant medicines from the perspective of an organization that provides educational opportunities and helps to disseminate information about botanicals, appreciating them in their cultural/geographic environment as well as their medicinal qualities. All of these are of course related.

Plant medicines are all around us but in large measure we ignore and under appreciate them. There is a saying to the effect that a weed is a medicinal plant whose value has not been discovered. Even our kitchen cooking herbs and spices are underutilized with respect to their medicinal qualities. Yet we all complain about the side effects associated with pharmaceuticals and many of us are not motivated enough to do some herbal 101 work. On the other hand health professions have to be high on the list of people looking for a second career with a willingness to go back to get another degree or some recognized license. Why not herbal medicine. Unlike much of what goes on with pharmaceutical medicines plant medicines do heal and would be particularly useful for chronic health concerns.
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 Botanical Medicine [60:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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.

 

 Survival Medicine in the Kitchen [61:01m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download