The Art of Preventive Medicine: How can we Improve our Immune System and Help our Cells Keep their Order in our Body so we can Stay Healthy and Live Long and Happy Lives?
Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: Interestingly almost all premodern cultures have a strong focus on preventive medicine. The Native Americans form northern America have been thoroughly studied both by doctors and anthropologists [4,5]; the conclusion have been these cultures believe strongly in the health-improving effect of rituals that increases your self-knowledge and self-awareness: these rituals often includes the use of hallucinogenic plants like the cactus Peyote and San Pedro, “magical” Psilosybe mushrooms, Datura Stramoni plants etc.; but quite often the rituals are just pushing the participants to go beyond the daily and well-known world and into the unconscious and unknown, like the sweat lodge, the sun dance ritual, hanging from trees in meet hooks etc.
Author: Søren Ventegodt MD
Institution: Quality of Life Research Center
Language: English
Subfield: Physiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2202627895