Posted in Uncategorized on June 7, 2007 | No Comments »
Complementary and Modern Medicine: Strange Bedfellows? (Satis Shroff, Freiburg)
In the 80,000 hamlets of Nepal, there are over 400,000 shamans and traditional healers, who have to some extent acquired the basics of modern medical treatment through the Health Ministry.
The old tradition of the dhami-jhakri in which the fate of a person can be influenced by appeasing [...]
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Posted in Bong-thing shaman, Dhamis-Jhakris of Nepal, Kräutermedizin, Miteinander, Traditional Medicine, botanical extracts, dhangro (drum), healers & physicians, not concurrence, not rivalry, phuk-phak methods, zoological on June 7, 2007 | No Comments »
Posted in Code of Hippocrates, Doping in sport, Epo, amphetamines, big money, candid confessions, doping-control, ethics, fairness, gene-doping, sportsmanship, testosteron on June 5, 2007 | No Comments »
When Erik Confesses, Can Jan be Far Behind? (Satis Shroff, Freiburg)
It was a pathetic, unprecedented scenario in Germany’s TV channel when Erik Zabel, the cyclist, with tears in his eyes, and an emotionally distorted face, confessed in front of 5,5 million viewers that he had doped with Epo during the Tour de France in 1996. [...]
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Posted in Gorkhali, Gorkhapatra, Gurung bhasa, Khas Kura, Land of Yaks and Yetis, Land of the Sherpas, Lepcha, Nepal Bhasa, Nepali, Rai bhasa, Shah dynasty, Tamang bhasa, The Land of the Gurkhas, The Rising Nepal, maithili, village campaign on June 4, 2007 | No Comments »
Memoir Kathmandu Blues:
Once upon a time there was a kingdom in the Himalayas called Nepal. People in the outside world also called it the Land of the Sherpas, the Land of Yetis and Yaks, the Land of the famous Gurkhas and the Land of the highest mountains in the world. It was ruled by a [...]
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