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.
Highlights
MMedSci, EU-MSc-CAM,Director, Quality of Life Research Center, Research Clinic for Holistic Medicine, Nordic School of Holistic Medicine, Denmark
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
Today more than 40% percent of the population takes pharmaceutical drugs on a regular basis [2]
Summary
MMedSci, EU-MSc-CAM,Director, Quality of Life Research Center, Research Clinic for Holistic Medicine, Nordic School of Holistic Medicine, Denmark. Everybody wants to stay healthy and yet every second citizen in Denmark and the rest of our modern, rich, western world suffers from a chronic disease [1].
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