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To:[log in to unmask] Subject: Canadian Hospital Opens Institute
for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Newsgroups: misc.health.alternative
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 01:52:56 -0600
Organization: Natural Health Village
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Canadian Hospital Opens Institute for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
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by Michael S. Evers
British Columbia's largest hospital has established the Tzu Chi Institute
for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, an ambitious project aimed at
integrating Western medicine with the traditional therapies of Asia. The
institute will provide acupuncture for headaches, herbal remedies for
cancer pain, and Chinese-style massage for Parkinson's disease sufferers.
"The mainstream health care system can't hide in a hole and pretend these
alternatives don't exist,'' said Vancouver Hospital's president, Murray
Martin. ``Alternative medicine is everywhere.''
The institute was conceived by a prominent Vancouver-based pediatrician
of Chinese descent, Dr. Wah Jun Tze. His medical training is entirely
Western, including postgraduate work at Harvard Medical School, but he
became fascinated by traditional Chinese medicine during more than 60
trips there since 1985.
"There are 1.2 billion people with very limited resources, and yet they
are able to maintain good health and good life expectancy, due in part to
traditional medicine," Tze said.
"There are a lot of things we need to explore. Even though some practices
are 2,000 years old, they've never been accepted by the Western world
because of lack of proper scientific evaluation."
The project is being initially funded by a generous endowment from the Tzu
Chi Foundation, a Buddhist charity organization based in Taiwan.
W E L C O M E T O N A T U R A L H E A L T H L I N E
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