Berkeley Digby - Introduction to Taoist Medicine & Healing
Channel: David Dornbrack
Date: 2013-11-18

Dr Berkeley Digby gives an introduction to Taoist/Vedic ways of looking at the human body and spirit in relation to healing and medicine at the Permaculture Festival of 2013.

Many permaculturists find conventional Western medicine and pharmacology to be overreliant on treatments that have harmful side-effects and not sufficiently focused on healing, which requires knowledge of and empathy with each individual patient in order to properly understand what needs intervention on the part of the healer. Requiring healing isn't pathologised or stigmatised in the same way that being 'sick' or 'diseased' is, and holistic, person-centred treatment is encouraged over generalised treatments that are assumed to 'work for everybody'.