Of course we can trace the use of energy in all its various forms for medical applications back to the beginning of man. But it is during the time of the past 60 or so years that has brought energy and biological medicine back into everyday use by natural healing experts around the globe. It is modern day research and technology that has given us the ability to return to and effectively use these natural energetic methods. But I’m not going to lay out thousands of years of history [...]
News and Updates after Germany Tour #42, 2015 As always during these Germany Tour programs, I have my own personal research and interests to pursue. Once my participants (especially the “first-timers) have graduated beyond “duckling” stage and the introductory days of the tour and have scattered among the exhibits in the Congress House, I have the opportunity to visit with longtime colleagues, former speakers, the book store(!) and of course my own journey through the exhibit stands. Although much always remains the same (like Dieter Jossner from Medical Electronics [...]
As Occidental Institute has worked, struggled and survived through 43 years of research and education in the fields of Acupuncture (TCM) and Biological Medicine we have witnessed, and often participated in, several cycles of acceptance and persecution that have directly affected patients, practitioners and educators. Within the Naturopathic community we have seen a strong shift to “prescribing”. Studying is done, exams are taken and that coveted permission to prescribe medications, supplements and homeopathics is achieved. In many ways this is closer to the traditional practices of the German Heilpraktikers. [...]
Environmental Medicine Environmental Pollution and Environmental Illnesses Therapy Possibilities The human being designates himself as the “crown of creation”. This implies a high sense of responsibility compared with the creation to which he belongs. Even so however this eminently important feeling appears to be missing. In August 1883 the Krakatoa volcano in Indonesia erupted with incredible force; enormous amounts of ash were sent into the atmosphere. This catastrophe had huge consequences for the whole northern hemisphere of the earth in the [...]
Prof. Dr. Manfred Porkert (*16.8.1933, †31.3.2015) Prof. Dr. Manfred Porkert (PHoto: Helga Porkert) Prof. Dr. Manfred Porkert passed away on the 31st of March, 2015. During his last years it became very quiet around him and his residences in France and Italy, and he accepted contact from Germany only occasionally. At one time this was different. However Prof. Porkert’s was a brilliant mind dominant in the spread of Chinese Medicine in Germany and Europe from the 1970’s until the 1990’s. His Curriculum Vitae speaks for itself: He graduated in [...]