The Center for Sustainable Medicine

Homeopathy and Epidemics

Didi — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:00:22 +0000

Julian Winston, (1941-2005) was one of our best scholars and historians of Homeopathy. His article about homeopathy in the treatment of epidemics has been widely republished. I include it here as it is becoming more relevant each year as global warming and antibiotic-resistant bacteria create new generations of epidemic illness that standard pharmaceutical medicine [...]

Ecological Medicine: A Call for Inquiry and Action

Didi — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:36:59 +0000

This very important collaborative statement was written in February 2002 by the Science and Environmental Health Network. I first found it soon after writing the Sustainable Medicine Manifesto, and was amazed and delighted to find that I was in such good company. Ecological Medicine: A Call for Inquiry and Action Ecological Medicine is a [...]

The Case for Ecological Medicine

Didi — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:29:39 +0000

By Ted Schettler, MD MPH Medical advances have resulted in substantial decreases in morbidity and mortality in many parts of the world. Some of these advances come at considerable economic as well as environmental costs, and benefits are not equally distributed. Now medicine and public health struggle to address the changing patterns of disease resulting both [...]

What’s Turning America’s Doctors Green?

Didi — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:24:21 +0000

This article, (originally published in 1998) by Randy Peyser, highlights the work of Joel Kreisburg, founder of Teleosis, another organization that focuses on ecologically sustainable medicine. What’s Turning America’s Doctors Green? The Case for Ecologically Sustainable Medicine [...]

Homeopathic Patterns: Animal, Plant or Mineral?

Didi — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:31:13 +0000

In this systems model of homeopathy, each person or organism contains patterned information about all the other organisms in the larger [...]

An Acupuncturist’s Visit to Cuba

Didi — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:27:51 +0000

This article first appeared in The American Acupuncturist, Volume XXIII, Winter 2000. I am reprinting it here because Cuba is a country we will wish we had studied closer as we enter the post-peak-oil era. Cuba has already been through the changes we are just barely starting to feel the effects of, and their solutions [...]

Didi Pershouse featured in Upper Valley Life Magazine

Didi — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:19:53 +0000

Didi Pershouse, founder of the Center for Sustainable Medicine, is featured in this month’s (March/April 2008) issue of Upper Valley Life Magazine. The article (written by Elizabeth Ferry) discusses her practice as a homeopath and acupuncturist at the Two Rivers Clinic in Thetford Center, Vermont, as well as her ideas on Sustainable Medicine. [...]

Replenishing the Tools in Your Toolbox

Didi — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:19:58 +0000

If you are like me, you may be super-high functioning in certain areas (writing, helping people, being a loving and creative mom) and practically disabled in others (keeping your house clean, changing a fuse, asking for what you need, ). Growing up in a family that struggled with issues of alcoholism, codependency, divorce, mental [...]

Phoebe and the Wolf

Didi — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:30:30 +0000

Sometimes working with an M.D. (Medical Dog) can be a bit tricky in unanticipated ways. Phoebe is a quiet dog, unusually quiet for a small dog who is only 18 months old. My friend Beth Rettig who is a massage therapist, had given me all her favorite music to play for clients, and I have been [...]

Your Backyard Food and Medicine

Didi — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:46:26 +0000

A Local Herb Walk with Peggy Fogg Sunday, May 18th, 2- 4 PM, beginner/intermediate level. By Donation. Get to know your local community: Your plant community that is! Peggy Fogg, who works at the Two Rivers Clinic was the first person who taught me how to really look at, smell, taste, explore, and even listen to plants, and [...]