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How Ancient Sound Therapy Helped<br />
Ancient healers knew that sound therapy was a powerful<br />
healing modality. All the cultures made use of sounds in<br />
different forms to contribute to healing. Aboriginals in<br />
Africa and Australia did it, so did the Native Americans.<br />
Vedic healers of India knew how powerful sound was as<br />
also the ancient Egyptians who used sounds as a part<br />
of medicine and spirituality. The Greek philosopher and<br />
mathematician, Pythagoras, was reported to have used<br />
therapeutic sound to treat physical as well as emotional<br />
illnesses. Wrote one of his biographers, Iamblichus,<br />
“Pythagoras was of the opinion that music contributed<br />
greatly to health, if used in an appropriate manner in the<br />
place of medicine.” Today, it is accepted that the right<br />
sounds heal both at the cellular and psychological levels.<br />
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- Khalil Gibran<br />
Out of suffering have<br />
emerged the strongest souls.<br />
Why People<br />
In 12 th C Took<br />
Honey Baths<br />
Moses Maimonides, a 12 th century<br />
physician, was often visited by people<br />
suffering from headaches. He had a<br />
sweet cure for them. He asked them<br />
to immerse themselves in a bath of<br />
warm, sweetened water that had<br />
generous quantities of honey, which,<br />
he claimed would help draw out the<br />
vapours that brought headaches. It<br />
was possible that the bath did help<br />
his patients to relax though it had<br />
more to do with the hot water, which<br />
can be soothing. It would have helped<br />
better if he had asked the patients to<br />
take honey orally. Honey is known<br />
to be rich in minerals, especially<br />
potassium and magnesium, and has<br />
been proven to relieve migraine<br />
headaches.<br />
Invoking Plants &<br />
Animal Spirits To<br />
Heal<br />
The Ese'eja, a hunter-fisher-gatherer tribe of<br />
Amerindians, occupied the southeastern part of Peru.<br />
Their culture was impossible to be disassociated<br />
from religious beliefs. According to the journal<br />
‘Ethnopharmacology’, the tribe believed that disease<br />
could be caused by accident, distraction or indolence,<br />
or by evil powers. These evil powers come either<br />
from the direct action of a harmful shaman or by<br />
interactions with the devil. Diagnosis and treatment<br />
included invocation to plant and animal spirits and the<br />
use of a few medicinal plants like ayahuasca.<br />
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