The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times, Issue #28, March 2015 | Page 12

How exactly are alternative medicine
and Western medicine related?
in Alfonso Ortiz and Richard Erdoes
suggest that "Mysterious but real
power dwells nature
(http://keller.clarke.edu/~english/h
onors/rose/index.html#nature) -in mountains, rivers, rocks, even
pebbles. Western people may
consider them inanimate objects,
but to the Indian, they are enmeshed
in the web of the universe, pulsating
with life and potent with medicine"
(in Paula Gunn Allen 2). Nature is
the most important aspe