Good post Don! I have a story or two about a quack doctor and will put them
on the forum. For those who've not been there, take a look at the forum.
It's a very different format (no e-mailing a list like this one). So far
the subjects are categorized and organized in a sensible way and it's not
difficult to cruise around. I wouldn't be surprised if Don and his "guides"
don't shut this one down and move over permanently (it's that good IMHO).
Ron
----- Original Message -----
From: <don.herrington@
To: <LivingInThePhilippi
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 6:31 PM
Subject: [LinP3] Quack Doctors in the Philippines
> Dear friends,
>
> Some of us from the West laugh at "quack," doctors here. I know I have and
> still do sometimes. But we will also agree the body has tremendous powers
> of
> self healing, with faith in something. Maybe anything you truly believe
> will
> help you get your immune response in gear. Or at least, belief can bring
> things into play you need for healing or recovery.
>
> I was a biofeedback practitioner at one time, using electromyography (EMG)
> here with stroke victims. As most of you know, it is a way of training new
> muscles to take the place of those lost in a stroke, said to speed natural
> healing by medical authorities, covered by many insurance plans, for that
> and other purposes.
>
> I once had a Filipino friend who lived with his father in a squatter area.
> The father had a stroke and was partially disable from it. He could not
> raise his right had up to his belt. And he had a limp, right leg. But
> could
> walk though not very good. There were no problems with the facial muscles
> though. He was told to exercise, the best therapy. That was good advice
> from an M.D. He was also on blood pressure medicine, diet, etc.
>
> I visited him to try biofeedback, see if I could help him along. His
> children begged me to go to him. His house was in what a lot of people
> here
> consider a dangerous area of Lebangon, Cebu, now more populated I think
> and
> safer. But I felt very safe there, had an entourage of escorts with me. I
> am
> not sure where they came from. I was like the wilderness at that time, a
> jungle, but in Cebu City only a few miles from the midtown.
>
> I started "treatment," in his one room cardboard and nipa house with his
> family and him. I was shocked to find my biofeedback machine has one set
> of
> batteries dead. And they were the ones for the EMG respone meter! The only
> batteries left were smaller AA batteries for the temperature sensor I used
> for relaxation training. The galvanic response (GSR) batteries were out
> too.
> The batteries for the digital temperature I had were enough to light up
> the
> machine and make it look like it was working to the untrained. But for EMG
> for stroke, the remaining sensors, were worthless without their batteries
> working. And we were far from batteries.
>
> So like a "quack," doctor I continued with my treatment placing the
> sensors
> on him as if I could read the correct of the LED read outs. I could not,
> of
> course. But he did not know it. In fact later he told me, "I could feel
> the
> power going into my body when the wires were connected healing me!" No
> power
> ever goes in. Only the output from the body is read. I did not correct
> him.
>
> After only about 15 minutes, I was bored. I knew nothing was going to
> happen, ever without feedback. So I told him, "That is all for now. I will
> see you next time." He was so thankful. He immediately raised his right
> hand to the top of his head! "Now I can comb my hair," he said. And he
> could! And further, he walked without a limp!
>
> The power of the mind and faith is unbelievable. I expected "healing," not
> to last, for him to relapse on a few hours, maybe a day or at most a week.
> But he did exercise as the MD and I told him. And year later sill kept his
> almost totally regained motor skills.
>
> Let's not be too quick to sell the "quack dok's," short. Most don't charge
> and only treat people who can't afford other treatment anyway, have
> patients
> who cannot pay. I didn't even get an offer of an egg or a cracker. But
> that
> only because he did not have any. But he had the power of his mind to heal
> himself. We all do. But sometimes need a guide or "higher authority." to
> help us do it. Here in the Philippines, the quack doctor does a pretty
> good
> job from what I have seen.
>
> I would love to hear some successful "Quack" doctor stories if we don't
> get
> a violent reaction from the "empirical," among us. Maybe next time I will
> tell you about Sister Helen in Leyte and her "secret medicine," P500 a
> pop.
> I don't recommend it, though the folks in Leyte say, "powerful medicine."
>
> But that will be on the Forum at the Living in the Philippines Community,
> http://www.livingin
>
> Sister Helen. . . Feel the power: to be added.
>
> Very best always,
> Don
>
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