How can holistic medicine help out the disaster relief efforts?
Holistic medicine has its place in disaster relief efforts. Our training provides us with amazing tools to alleviate shock and trauma, while at the same tome providing adjunctive naturopathic care. Furthermore, several practitioners who expressed interest in helping have additional training in disaster management and emergency medicine. Haitian people are very familiar with natural medicine, and I cannot think of a better team of practitioners to sustain and carry on the current medical disaster relief effort. Several teams of holistic practitioners helped in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and were able to meet diverse medical needs through herbalism, homeopathy, massage therapy, acupuncture and naturopathic medicine. 3) How will you organize this future trip? The best way to organize our trips is to have a well-prepared cadre of volunteers who have medical skills, understand French and/or Creole and are prepared to face the social, economic, medical and environmental disaster that
