World TB Day and the Moxafica Answer
The world needs more solutions, more individual and communal healing, more healing modalities that are both cost-effective and easy to use.
In light of Dr. Margaret Chan's recent speech about the waning efficacy of antibiotics, anitbiotic resistance and evolutionary developments that threaten the world's population, simple, traditional solutions have, perhaps never been more necessary. For those with lesser access to the medication they need due to shortages, lack of access and/or other factors, traditional medicine has offered significant advantages.
Documented throughout several milennia, moxabustion is one of the most important modalities within Classical Chinese Medicine, Japanese medicine and others. For TB it has proven effective, delimited the development of anitbiotic resistant strains and proven itself cost-effective. In the hands of community healers and other professionals, moxabustion can be utilized within the community, exactly when and where it is needed. Drawing upon community values and the community healers prevalaent in Africa and most nations throughout the world, moxabustion could prove to be an invaluable treasure in TB treatment, even in the cases of HIV/AIDS comorbidity.
Answering the call for more flexible, low-tech solutions, Moxafrica.org is engaged in moxabustion research in Uganda. Funding the research of the charitable insitution, Moxafrica and those sickened with TB in Uganda and throughout the world stand to benefit. If you wonder how many might be affected by your effots consider these facts.
According to Merlin Young of Moxafrica (2012 based upon WHO figures):
If you'd like to be a part of the solution, part of the research to help Moxafrica demonstrate how this simple low-tech treatment (moxa) might well be part of the larger solution , please consider offering your contribution to Moxafrica.org's first properly controlled trial is starting in Uganda. They really need your help!
Please share this Moxafrica.org World TB Day video today and whenever possible. So many resource poor populations and people throughout the world may well depend on it. Together we can make a difference in so many lives! Thanks in advance for being part of something much larger than yourself. Namaste~
The world needs more solutions, more individual and communal healing, more healing modalities that are both cost-effective and easy to use.
In light of Dr. Margaret Chan's recent speech about the waning efficacy of antibiotics, anitbiotic resistance and evolutionary developments that threaten the world's population, simple, traditional solutions have, perhaps never been more necessary. For those with lesser access to the medication they need due to shortages, lack of access and/or other factors, traditional medicine has offered significant advantages.
Documented throughout several milennia, moxabustion is one of the most important modalities within Classical Chinese Medicine, Japanese medicine and others. For TB it has proven effective, delimited the development of anitbiotic resistant strains and proven itself cost-effective. In the hands of community healers and other professionals, moxabustion can be utilized within the community, exactly when and where it is needed. Drawing upon community values and the community healers prevalaent in Africa and most nations throughout the world, moxabustion could prove to be an invaluable treasure in TB treatment, even in the cases of HIV/AIDS comorbidity.
Answering the call for more flexible, low-tech solutions, Moxafrica.org is engaged in moxabustion research in Uganda. Funding the research of the charitable insitution, Moxafrica and those sickened with TB in Uganda and throughout the world stand to benefit. If you wonder how many might be affected by your effots consider these facts.
According to Merlin Young of Moxafrica (2012 based upon WHO figures):
- 32% of mankind is latently infected with TB; this percentage is higher in Africa (80%...).
- Normally 1 in 10 go on to develop infectious disease;
- this is higher in Africa because of HIV/AIDS (no-one has a figure);
- An estimated 35% of those who develop infectious disease die never having been diagnosed or treated (again this is higher in Africa, but who knows....?).
- 98% of deaths from TB occur in the developing world.
Innovative
treatments are needed now as the scourge of drug resistant disease grows, and
treatment becomes unaffordable for more and more vulnerable people.
If you'd like to be a part of the solution, part of the research to help Moxafrica demonstrate how this simple low-tech treatment (moxa) might well be part of the larger solution , please consider offering your contribution to Moxafrica.org's first properly controlled trial is starting in Uganda. They really need your help!
Please share this Moxafrica.org World TB Day video today and whenever possible. So many resource poor populations and people throughout the world may well depend on it. Together we can make a difference in so many lives! Thanks in advance for being part of something much larger than yourself. Namaste~
