The author, Lori Arviso Alvord in her article “Chantways” suggest that both song and present medication are necessary in helping sick people to recover from certain illnesses. First and foremost, the writer defines song as a product of the collision occurs in an implicit spot between the mankind emotion, psyche and physiology as well as it omits by the integration of resonance and respiration. Second, Mrs. Alvord says that the existing medication atmosphere can provide us finer insight about the genetic disorganization development while also giving more curing alternatives. In addition, she clarifies that song, which is constitute of psyche, mentality, fraternity, globe and family also being exercised in our world today. Plus, she also states …show more content…
Alvord reveals that this melody ability is not only applied by the Navajos but also the African, yet still a lot of experts disapprove this kind of treatment. Furthermore, she remarks that Charlie Nez, one of her patients that suffers from cancer, has recovered from that sickness since a healer comes to treat him by using the power of the song. The author also emphasizes that as a surgeon, she knows that the treatments which the hospital gives to Charlie is not the whole therapy he gets. Instead, when she saw that there is a hope in Charlie’s eyes, she reports that the shaman’s irregular voice has contributed a small miracle to Charlie. Lastly, she explains that both of the medications, either modern or song, are vital in curing the sick person as a song can give the patient strong feeling, good expectation and the desire to keep alive that will ease the doctor to help the patient by the modern medical …show more content…
No doubt about their effectiveness when the treatments are involved with the summoning of the other spirit to discharge the disease. Besides, traditional treatment which usually involve with the herbal usage also helps a lot in curing the disease when it is conducted by the experts. In my experience, my brother had once met with the famous shaman who conducted an effective technique to recover him from the chickenpox disease. The procedure, however, was so queer when the shaman reads something implicit before he spill my brother with the water in his mouth. Exactly, I believe that this process was involved with the tiny spirit summoned by the shaman to treat my elder brother. Eventually, the chickenpox was gradually cured by that weird traditional medical treatment. I do trust a bit in this way of treatment, but I put my entire trust to the today’s medical healing. I concur with the author’s point that present medical surrounding provides more recovering alternatives than ever for the sick person. I believe that today’s scientists have done a lot of homework to improve the effectiveness of sophisticated technologies that we possess in this era. The writer’s point about the notion of singing that can provide a person to wellness ,however, do not attract my belief at all as I really sure that the therapy practiced by the Navajo’s
but this was the best they could do. The search for effective treatments was hindered by the church as they believed that religion was the cure for the sick. The believe that Saints could cure by touch
...uals, even if they don't agree with them. It really falls to nurses to address the situation properly, and effectively ensure that the cultural communication between the doctor and the patient does not break down. Nurses most of all have to communicate with patients in a healing way, even if they do not agree with mystical remedies because the nurse has to recognize that there is nonetheless a function that mystical ritual remedies do serve, even to western medicine: to comfort the patients and their families. Ancient rituals or customs, retained to some extent or respected by western caregivers, can serve to maintain a healing and positive attitude, and as a psycholgocial support which the nurse can provide through respect and symbolic use of non-western cultural myths as a psychological stimulant to assist the healing process and inspire the patient thereof.
Folk medicine is an important aspect of the Appalachian region. According to Mathews, folk medicine is known in involving diseases or illnesses “which are the products of indigenous cultural development and are not explicitly derived from the conceptual framework of modern medicine” (Mathews 1). Folk or traditional medicine is found in all societies, throughout in history, and predates innovation of modern medicine. Folk medicine also explains roles for “indigenous practitioners”(1) who treat and restore health for the individual and community. Folk medicine beliefs and practices serve for the treatment and prevention of aliments and are resistant to change even when the cultural tradition may have gone extinct.
In Cherokee medicine, it is believed that councils of animals created diseases in order to avenge the loss of their families and living spaces. The plants, being sympathetic to humans, decided to each furnish a cure for these diseases. It is believed that the spirit of the plant will tell a sick person which one to use to cure his illness.
In the article “Body Ritual among the Nacirema” By Horace Miner, there are a few points that he is trying to put across. Firstly, it is sometimes difficult to collect accurate information about a culture when you do not belong to it. Not everything will be explained in great detail, which forces a person to make assumptions about what they are being shown or what they are hearing. Secondly, Americans seem to always believe everything that they are told from doctors because they have been highly respected for many generations and people learn from when they are very young that when they are sick, they must go see the doctor to feel well again. Lastly, People always believe that they cannot heal without medicine because doctors have been making people believe that medicine is the key to healing for many years.
A spiritual ritual would be performed while the ill received medicine. A spiritual ritual would be performed to rid the ill of bad spirits and cleanse the spirit. Native Americans believed that a person became ill when a bad spirit entered the body. It is the shaman’s job to try to purify the ill’s spirit. Every tribe across the nation has a shaman. A shaman or medicine man/woman would perform this ritual. A shaman uses the spiritual world to help heal the sick. Shaman were highly regarded as chiefs and tribal spiritual leaders. Shaman were often born into a family with many generations of shaman. Shamans who were not born into, they had visons that lead them to study medicine. Being the shaman was a full-time job. In return of their services to the tribe, the tribe would provide food, shelter, and any assistance needed to the shaman.
Illness was treated in many ways but the main goal was to achieve a sense of balance and harmony.(p82). Applications of herbs and roots, spiritual intervention, and community wide ritual and ceremonies were all therapeutic practices.(p71). “It was the healer who held the keys to the supernatural and natural worlds and who interpreted signs, diagnosed disease and provided medicines from the grassland, woodland, and parkland pharmacopoeia.”(p18). The healers knowledge of herbs and roots and ways to administer and diagnose had been passed down from generation to generation.(p85). Healers stood as an advantage for the Aboriginal people. “Trust and a personal relationships would naturally build between the patient and the healer.”(p77). This must have ...
Throughout time, mankind has persistently been seeking ways to maintain their health and to cure those that had not been so fortunate in that task. Just about everything has been experimented with as a cure for some type of illness whether physical, spiritual or mental. There has always been evidence of spiritual healing and it will continue to be an important part of any healing process, large or small. In particular, the roots of Native American Medicine men (often a woman in some cultures) may be traced back to ancient times referred to as Shaman. A special type of healer used by the Indians is referred to as a medicine man (comes from the French word medecin, meaning doctor).
Many people don’t believe in medicine at all. The most commonly used treatment is prayer. Ordinary people relied on methods their parents and grandparents used, such as lucky charms, magic spells and herbal cures. Some of the herbal remedies are quite useful. The monks who looked after sick travellers in the monasteries were very skilled in using herbs.
Music therapy works because of its three fundamentals: the application of systematic thinking through music theory, the creation of an individualized treatment plan, as well as the patie...
Every chapter starts with a quote from the patients’ family members or professions in hospice care about how music therapy is effecting the patients lives, then the introduction of the method and how it applies for music therapy in this specific area, after that the procedures what music therapists need to provide, the process of the method, examples, theoretical rationale for the method, and conclusion are stated. Comparing with the first main part, the second one states the session features and more specific music therapy structures, which makes music therapy more dependable, also it gives young professions a realistic view about how real music therapy looks like in hospice care besides entertaining. Professional issues is the last part of the main text in the book. Advancing music therapy in palliative care, the role of music therapy in care for the caregivers of the Terminally III, clinical internship in end of life care, and advanced music training in end of life care with many researches, suggestions, and literatures are
Music is everywhere we go; we listen to it in the car, while doing work, and there are even people who pay to listen or watch an artist perform live. Yes, life goes on without music, but music has such an impact on our lives. Life is a rollercoaster of emotions and we have music to fit our emotions to be just as we feel. Music has a great deal of importance of many people. It can have a meaning that they cannot explain to others and are able to connect with the song. By doing so experts are able to help patients overcome many sicknesses with the help of music. Music therapy is capable of being an advantage for many individual patients, it can encourage responses from patients that other methods of therapy cannot get from them. Also, it improves the patients in distinctive ways other than for an illness.
In 2005, the Ying Yang Twins released ‘one of the greatest rap songs about sex’, titled “Wait (The Whisper Song)”. This song hit “No. 3 on Billboard's R&B/hip-hop singles chart and was nominated for best rap performance by a duo or a group” despite the fact that it is unabashedly misogynistic (Ollison 2006). This song receives incredible praise for its brilliant use of sexy whispering and apparently needs special recognition for being “simultaneously ratchet and romantic” (Gonzales 2013). The video and audio simultaneously work together to actively reinforce gendered oppression/violence and perpetuate the preconceived stereotypes of black identity in the media. “Wait” re-secures hegemonic masculinity in hip-hop, viewing black males as having
As a first way to heal, when people use alternative medicine, they take fewer drugs and chemicals in to their bodies and there are fewer side effects for them and if people protect themselves before they sicken, they do not need any pills. This means that, when people caught in any kind of disease if they use herbal therapies to heal their illnesses, they do not harm their organs or systems. They...
On the other hand, infectious diseases (e.g. ebola, polio) often require more specialized treatment, which traditional medicine is less able to provide (para. 4. The integration of traditional medicine causes doctors to become familiar with the strong and weak facets of either system, and expand their understanding of their patient’s health and treatment. 15). The syllable of the syllable. In healthcare systems in developed countries, the regulation of traditional medicine and medicinal plants reduces strain on healthcare systems and results in safer complementary and alternative medicines.