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How this Sacramento health center works with indigenous communities’ traditional healing methods
KCRA ^ | Dec 5, 2022 | Orko Manna

Posted on 12/06/2022 6:23:49 AM PST by artichokegrower

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Nathan Blacksmith is the Sacramento Native American Health Center’s first chief traditional health officer, and his role was recently created to weave cultural practices and medicines through the center's services.

One of those cultural practices is gathering in a drum circle. Blacksmith said the beating of a drum and the accompanying vocals creates a spiritual song, brought to life with a sacred sense of pride and purpose.

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elderberry was used to reduce fevers and other cold and flu symptoms.


Just do not use it in California to fight off COVID. California physicians who spread misinformation about COVID-19 and treatments for that disease could face penalties under a new law.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 2098, which designates “the dissemination of misinformation or disinformation related to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, or ‘COVID-19,’ as unprofessional conduct.” Physicians found doing so could face sanctions from the state’s licensing boards and some news reports described the law as the first of its kind in the nation.

The legislation cited the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB), which in July 2021 stated physicians who generate and spread COVID-19 misinformation or disinformation risk disciplinary action by state medical boards, up to suspension and revocation of medical licenses. California’s State Assembly echoed medical organizations in declaring health misinformation has become a public health crisis.

1 posted on 12/06/2022 6:23:49 AM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower; little jeremiah

heads up


2 posted on 12/06/2022 6:29:09 AM PST by thinden (buckle up ....)
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To: artichokegrower

Now Commifornia uses taxpayer dollars to pay for traditional witchdoctors, shamans, soothsayers, medicine men, and voodooists hired by Commiefornia health centers in indigenous communities.

Devotees of Mary Baker Eddy feel sort of left out.


3 posted on 12/06/2022 6:37:38 AM PST by Carl Vehse (A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
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To: artichokegrower

So, beating drums and chanting is considered good medicine but taking medicine that helped President Trump recover from COVID is baaaaaad.


4 posted on 12/06/2022 6:44:44 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, BY FAR, is that almost all of big media is agenda-driven, not-truth driven.)
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To: libertylover

That it helped President Trump recover is exactly why it is evil in their minds.


5 posted on 12/06/2022 6:55:12 AM PST by sjmjax
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To: artichokegrower

Soon classes in drum circles, native practices and shamen healing will be mandatory classes in med school.


6 posted on 12/06/2022 7:03:34 AM PST by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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To: Bon of Babble

Taught by “Doctor Jill” Biden....


7 posted on 12/06/2022 7:04:15 AM PST by nascarnation (Let's go Brandon!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Ivermectin is a veterinary medicine that can't and must not be used to treat any human ailment. Meanwhile, in Single Party State California...

8 posted on 12/06/2022 8:20:05 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: artichokegrower

Beating drums and chanting are probably safer than the clot shot.


9 posted on 12/06/2022 9:10:46 AM PST by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: thinden

voodoo, sanitaria, shrunken heads


10 posted on 12/06/2022 12:04:34 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: ronnie raygun

they missed some traditional native remedies like mescal, peyote, psilocybin............


11 posted on 12/06/2022 12:22:33 PM PST by thinden (buckle up ....)
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To: artichokegrower

Gris-gris gumbo ya-ya


12 posted on 12/06/2022 6:27:19 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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