Last November 2009, I attended the annual conference organized by the Phil. College for the Advancement of Medicine (PCAM) where I learned tons of information on natural healing.
I would like to share some of them in this blog. I will do it in parts and start with the talk of of Dr. Jaime Galvez Tan, former Secretary of Health.
Kamote Leaves and Tubers
Food, diet and nutrition constitute important components in the maintenance of a person's total well-being and in the promotion of human health and the prevention of diseases. However, not yet fully appreciated is the concept of food as medicine and that certain foods or their combination have healing properties. Healing foods have always been an Asian tradition. And more recently, Europeans and North Americans have become more aware of this concept.