Wednesday, May 17, 2000
Healing alternatives explored
Doctors get look at other methods
By Tim Bonfield
The Cincinnati Enquirer
About 150 health professionals — from doctors to energy medicine practitioners — are expected to gather today for the start of a three-day conference on how to work alternative medicine concepts into mainstream American medicine.
The conference, to be held through Friday at the Omni Netherland Plaza downtown, reflects the gamut of non-Western health care thought, from acupuncture for sports injuries to yoga for stress relief.
Among the most unusual speakers will be the Rev. Rosalyn Bruy ere, founder of the Healing Light Center Church of Sierra Madre, Calif. She is scheduled to demonstrate “How to Use the Human Electromagnetic Field in Healing.”
After realizing millions of Americans spend billions every year on alternative health products and services, several Cincinnati hospital groups have jumped into the field.
The conference has been organized by the Alliance Institute for Integrative Medicine, a part of the Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati. Doctors can pick up continuing medical education credits from the University of Cincinnati.
The integrative medicine institute, which opened in Kenwood in June 1999, is run by Drs. Steve and Sandi Amoils, husband and wife family physicians who trained in South Africa, then completed residency programs at UC.
Their center offers Ayurvedic medicine, an Indian form of healing, acupuncture treatments, massage therapy, chiropractic care, reflexology, energy medicine and other therapies.
The main goal of this week's event is to bring longtime practitioners of alternative medicine to Cincinnati so doctors can learn ways to use their methods in practice, Dr. Steve Amoils said.
If doctors remain highly critical and skeptical about alternative medicine, patients will continue using the remedies. They just won't tell their doctors.
As result, some herbal products may clash with medications and potentially useful approaches will never get proper evaluation, Dr. Amoils said.
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