Thursday, October 15, 2009
In
1978, Dorene Petersen founded a college in New Zealand, designed to
bring distance-learning and study of Complementary Alternative Medicine
(CAM) a.k.a. holistic health, to interested students, living outside
the college geographic locale. In 1989, Ms. Petersen brought ACHS to
the United States, establishing the college in Oregon, where it has
grown and expanded during these 20 years.
The value and
necessity of holistic health practice and treatment, which considers
the person--mind, spirit and body--as a whole, has increased
tremendously since 1989, as Western medicine has consistently been
shown to be incomplete in its approach to treatments of many conditions
(especially preventative practices). Often Western medicine will damage
a system of the body, in treating another system, such as is the case
with chemotherapy. Holistic health knowledge and practice has never
been more pertinent and ACHS is the leader in the holistic, alternative
healthcare world, providing serious instruction and guidance to
hundreds of students, most of whom have eyes on a career as alternative
healthcare practitoners--but also "hobbyists" who wish to apply these
ancient, time-tested principles of healing and health maintenance to
themselves and their families.
>>Download the complete article about ACHS in PDF format here
© 2009 Emerson Sandow, Real Authentic Woman Magazine: http://www.bluetoad.com/publication/?i=21687