Don't think so? Well then listen to today's show with my special guest Eliot Tokar and you may change your mind and start taking some very much needed action!
Want to know more about Eliot and his work....
Eliot Tokar practices Tibetan medicine in New York City, and is one of very few Westerners internationally to have received extensive textual and clinical training in this field. He has additionally trained in aspects of Chinese and Japanese medicine. Beginning in 1983, Eliot studied first with Dr. Yeshi Dhonden, and then from 1986 with Dr. Trogawa Rinpoche, cofounders of H. H. the Dalai Lama's Tibetan Medical Institute in Dharamsala, India, as well as with numerous other Tibetan doctors.
He has served as an adviser to the American Medical Student's Association, to His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Office of Tibet and was a nominee for the White House Commission on CAM Policy.
Eliot has lectured at institutions such as the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Princeton University, New York's Asia Society and at the NY Botanical Garden.
His publications have appeared in journals such as Alternative Therapies In Health And Medicine and he has been featured in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Beijing Review and on National Public Radio. Eliot's web page www.tibetanmedicine.com brings accurate information on Tibetan medicine to the Internet.
Contact information
Eliot Tokar
etokar@aol.com
Some Links
* Tibetanmedicine.com: http://www.tibetanmedicine.com
* The Principles of Tibetan Medicine in the Context of American Health care: http://www.jcrows.com/EliotArticle1.pdf
* A Tibetan medicine doctor's view: http://www.jcrows.com/EliotInterview1.pdf
* Seeing To The Distant Mountain: Diagnosis In Tibetan Medicine: http://www.tibetanmedicine.com/html/article3.html
* Building A Means Of Discourse For Integrative Medicine A Tibetan Medical Perspective On Irritable Bowel Syndrome: http://www.tibetanmedicine.com/html/article2.html
* Ancient Wisdom Modern Healing: http://www.ittm.org/publications/AyurVijnana/Vol_05/AV_V05_4.htm
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