Native Healing: Four Sacred Paths to Health

By W. F. Peate and W.F. Peate

Native Healing is unique among health-related books. Native healers explore and promote the powerful effects of family and community, as well as spiritual and traditional treatments, on personal health. Today they are beginning to be integrated into the health care system, and this book shows how readers can benefit from their wisdom.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1887896392
• ISBN13: 9781887896399
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Rio Nuevo Pub
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.5"

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Native Healing: Four Sacred Paths to Health

Dr. Peate started his medical practice like most doctors without a second thought about the potential benefits of native healing, completely ignoring the inherent knowledge of his own Mohawk and Onondaga ancestry. However, while completing his normal rounds at the Tuba City Hospital on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona he came face to face with a native healer who changed the doctor's outlook forever. A particular patient was comatose and our modern medicine really couldn't do much for the man. However, the healer's results were amazing. Despite his immediate irritation at having the healer getting in his road, the doctor couldn't help but notice that there was something about the traditional ways. Native Healing is filled with numerous accounts of traditional healing working in conjunction with modern medicine. Modern medicine can do amazing things for our bodies but concern for our fear, anxiety, and need to be reassured is pretty much non-existent. To make the best use of both types of healing to heal the whole person is much more humane.

Combining the best of western and native healing

Through the experience of native healers from 35 tribes and his own career as a physician, Dr. Peate takes the reader on the health path. The author tells us that good native healers combine the best of their heritage with modern medicine. In other words, they use what works. The also provide what current health care often under values such as the importance of the doctor-patient relationships.At times the book reads like a good novel, with stories and examples. And like any good novel, it's hard to put down.Through story telling, Dr. Peate illustrates how people get themselves healthy, or in the case of the terminally ill, maximize their remaining time. He shows us the methodology of native healers in the healing process.The book is chock full of practical exercises and suggestions for keeping oneself healthy. This book is a must for anyone interested in combining the best of western medicine and alternative approaches to health.