Unconvential Medicine.

„Unconventional medicine...”

The sick come to them when „normal” medicine fails. They say themselves that their powers come from God. Who are they? Can they really help?

Their ads appear in the newspapers; television informs about their seances. The practitioners of unconventional medicine are becoming more and more popular in our country. Only several years ago people used to talk about their visits to healers in low voices. Today there are some 50 000 of them in Poland. The suffering seek help from the healers not only in our homeland but also in other countries – USA, Germany, France, Great Britain etc. What makes people turn to the healers for help? I would like to tell you now about a few people who are the healers. They have normal families and live normal life but they also possess some uncanny talents.

One of them is Madame Picoron, who heals at a distance. All she needs is a photograph or an object that belongs to the sick. Madame Picoron lives with her family in a small village in Vendĕe province in western France. When she was seriously ill, she discovered she had unusual healing powers. Since then she decided to share them with others. Magnetism is an inherited gift in her family. All family members for several generations have had it. When a 7-year-old boy was dying from leukaemia, his grandmother brought his photograph to Madame Picoron. In the beginning Madame Picoron didn’t promise much. She would just try to make the boy feel better. When she left alone with the picture, she sensed that she should, and even must, place it on a reproduction of an icon of the Holliest Virgin Mary from Medjugorje. And so she did. After three days the boy’s grandmother came to tell Madame Picoron that the boy had fully recovered!!!

Another person I want to tell you about is Chaski. He was born in the Amazon region of Peru. Since early childhood he was interested in magic, studied the mysteries of plants and the powers of stones. When he was 16, he met his spiritual teacher who exposed him to the secret teachings of Incas.
Chaski takes his patients to Machu Picchu. He uses healing ceremonies to rid them of suffering. He heals digestive disorders with herbs collected in the mountain valleys. He also cures children with anorexia. One of Chaski’s greatest achievements is the healing of an Italian doctor who suffered from hearing problems and was awaiting a serious surgery. Chaski met him on the mountain track. They wandered together for four days. During that time, Chaski regularly served the doctor teas made from herbs picked on the hillsides. He also prepared ointments and applied them on the ailing ear of the doctor. After these treatments the operation was no longer neccessary.
These are just two examples of individuals who can do more than normal people or more than...”normal” doctors! The conventional medicine often is helpless.
Sometimes doctors can’t even properly diagnose the patient. The healers approach their patients differently. They have more personal contact with them.

In Poland, the unconventional medicine became popular in 1972. That year Clive Harris made his first visit and touched approaching people with his „energetic” palms. Practitioners of the classical medicine more and more accept the healers, even if they can’t always rationally explain their achievements. Still, they advise their patients not to interrupt the treatments and stop taking the pharmaceutical drugs under the healers suggestions.

The unconventional medicine has always been, is and still remain a mystery for us. Nobody understands how it is possible to heal just by touch or with the power of will. One thing is sure though. There are more and more healers and those who trust them among us. And no one can say that all this is just a hoax. Would then the popularity of the healers grow as fast as it does now...?



Vocabulary:

Unconventional - niekonwencjonalna
Fail - zawodzić
Ads - ogłoszenia
Seances - seanse
Practitioner - praktykujący
Healer - uzdrowiciel
The suffering - cierpiący
Homeland - ojczyzna
Possess - posiadać
Uncanny - niesamowite, zagadkowe
Magnetism - magnetyzm
Inherited - dziedziczony, przekazywany z pokolenia na pokolenie
Leukaemia - białaczka
Reproduction - reprodukcja
Icon - ikona
Recovered - w pełni wyleczony, zdrów
Childhood - dzieciństwo
Spiritual - duchowy
Expose - odsłonić, ujawnić
Rid - uwalniać, oczyszczać
Digestive - trawienne
Disorders - zaburzenia, dolegliwości
Herbs - zioła
Achievement - osiągnięcie, wyczyn, dokonanie
Wander - wędrować, włóczyć się
Hillsides - zbocza, stoki
Ointments - maści, kremy
Apply - tu: przykładać do...
Ailing - niedomagające, chorowite
Approach - zbliżać się
Interrupt - przerywać
Remain - pozostawać
Hoax - oszustwo, mistyfikacja