Learning About Health: Alternative Health Care in Haliburton County

Title

Learning About Health: Alternative Health Care in Haliburton County

Author

Dombrowski, Conrad

Supervising Faculty

Wadland, John; Whillans, Tom
Departments: Canadian Studies and Environmental Studies

Reference Number

TPB-186

Date

2000

Location of Document

U-Links Office and online

Area

Haliburton County

Subject

Herbs as alternative therapies

Abstract

The author of this paper believes herbalism to be the therapy that is most bioregional in its approach to health. Herbalism offers more than a healthier body; it also shows us in a concrete way how we are connected to the life that surrounds us. By using herbs for medicine we become connected to the plant life around us and gain a greater understanding of our place in the environment. By knowing our bodies, and by knowing our connections to the plant life around us and the soil, water and air, we can realize the actuality of living in a place.

Alternative therapies are becoming more and more popular in Haliburton County as elsewhere and there is a reason for this. People find that they feel healthier when pursuing more than one doctrine of health care.

Publisher

Trent University

Files

Reference

Dombrowski, Conrad, Learning About Health: Alternative Health Care in Haliburton County, Trent University, 2000