Is there any unique thing that Native American healing contributes to medicine or healing in general?
I think all traditional cultures have something to offer. Native American culture is what is indigenous to this continent, so it may have something unique to offer for people who live on this continent. What some of the traditional elders tell me is that people who live here long enough learn to speak the language of the land. The ceremonies and the ways of healing that arise are those that are most natural to this land. If you live here, it may be that Native American healing has a more direct interpretation of the spirit of North America. The same thing would be true of Chinese traditional medicine for those living in China. That’s because of some electromagnetic, climactic or some other unique features of a continent? Who can explain why people evolved particular cultures in certain places? It’s my belief, which is a typical Native American belief, that the culture arises in synthesis with the spirit of the land that you live on. You don’t develop culture, language and religion in i
