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  • Menghan Sunday market. A "Barefoot" Doctor using herbal healing in Xishaungbanna, China.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio with broken leg, Napa Valley, CA
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  • Vista Clara, health resort & spa. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Meditating after exercise as the leader beats an Indian drum.
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  • Shot for a New Age story written by Bernard Zekri for Actuel Magazine. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. .MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Pouring water over hot rocks to create steam at River's sweat lodge. Shot for a New Age story written by Bernard Zekri for Actuel Magazine?France. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA..MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Ant wine, pictured on the famed Great Wall of China, among a kilo of black ants, is actually ant-steeped rice brandy, and is lauded by Chinese traditional medicine doctors for its medicinal treatment of hepatitis-B and rheumatism.(Man Eating Bugs page 104 Bottom)
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  • You Zhiming, a young scorpion salesman, allows a scorpion to climb up his arm as a woman and her son choose scorpions for dinner in Guangzhou, China's Qing Ping Market. Scorpions in China are used as both food and traditional Chinese medicine. Scorpions are in such demand that they are raised domestically (ranch style) by Chinese entrepreneurs. They taste a bit like sautéed twigs. (Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects page 93)
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  • Shot for a New Age story written by Bernard Zekri for Actuel Magazine. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. .MODEL RELEASED.
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  • River's sweat lodge, with hot rocks, steam, beating drum. Shot for a New Age story written by Bernard Zekri (left, gasping for breath) for Actuel Magazine, France. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. .MODEL RELEASED.
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  • River's sweat lodge, with hot rocks, steam, beating drum. New Age. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA..MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A young Somalian girl recovering the hospital after losing her leg to a landmine in Hargeisa, capital of Somaliland, an unrecognized breakaway Republic of Somalia. The three leading causes of death in Somalia are gastro-enteritis, T.B. and trauma, mostly from land mines, gun shots, and car accidents. March 1992.
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  • On Sunday, coal miner Todd Kincer and his family attend Millstone Methodist United Church in Mayking Kentucky, where the Reverend Harold Kincer, Todd's father and a retired coal miner, asks Jesus's blessings as he kneels and lays his hand on his wife, Judy, who plays music in the church. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The service features fire and brimstone, interspersed with some fine singing by congregation members who take to the mic after handing over their CD of background music to the music director.
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  • Scorpions swarming at the Ru Yang Boda Scorpion Breeding Company, a new business in China's burgeoning market economy in Luo Yang, China. Scorpions in China are useful as both food and traditional Chinese medicine. Scorpions are in such demand that they are raised domestically (ranch style) by Chinese entrepreneurs. The Boda ranch's thirty employees are raising more than three million scorpions for public consumption in a football field-sized brick building. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A "barefoot doctor's" (traditional healer's) display of herbs and roots in the Sunday market in Menghan village, Xishaungbanna, China. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A traditional medicine doctor surrounded by his patients in the Fu Lin Tang Pharmacy in Kunming, China. The doctors, and all those in the line, listen to a series of health ailments, after which the doctor prescribes specific prescriptions of herbs and insects. From the project, Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Bugs.
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  • Caterpillar fungus, sold in markets and traditional medicine dispensaries throughout China was available here in the Qing Ping Market in Guangzhou until the market was closed in the early 2000's. The parasitic fungus Cordyceps sinensis attacks the larvae of the ghost moth Hepialus armoricanus, and grows into the body of the caterpillar. The fungus literally takes over the caterpillar, forming a hard, brown, mummy-like fungus sculpture of the caterpillar. The fungus is used to treat asthma, colds, jaundice, and tuberculosis and is very expensive: It sells for 4,000 yuan ($500 U.S.) per pound. (See "Fungus in your tea" on page 89 of Man Eating Bugs)
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  • A traditional medicine doctor surrounded by his patients in the Fu Lin Tang Pharmacy. The doctor, and all those in the line, listen to a series of health ailments, after which the doctor then prescribes a specific prescriptions of herbs and insects, among other natural ingredients. Kunming, China. (Man Eating Bugs page 105 Top)
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  • A small pot of Caterpillar Fungus Soup with Black Chicken, prepared by the Wine Forest restaurant costs 50 yuan, or $6.25 U.S.; the relatively high cost, especially considering that the soup contains only three or four of the fungi, originated from its medicinal value for the treatment of asthma, colds, jaundice, and tuberculosis. Guangzhou, China. The bamboo sticks are marked with the names of dishes available at the restaurant and act as a rustic menu. (Man Eating Bugs page 100,101)
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  • Vista Clara, health resort & spa. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
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  • Caterpillar fungus gift boxes for sale in a traditional medical pharmacy, Kunming, China. The parasitic fungus Cordyceps sinensis attacks the larvae of the ghost moth Hepialus armoricanus, and grows into the body of the caterpillar. The fungus literally takes over the caterpillar, forming a hard, brown, mummy-like fungus sculpture of the caterpillar. The fungus is used to treat asthma, colds, jaundice, and tuberculosis and is very expensive: It sells for 4,000 yuan ($500 U.S.) per pound. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A scorpion ranch in Luoyang, China. The scorpions are fed mealworms and watermelon. Scorpions in China are useful as both food and traditional Chinese medicine. Scorpions are in such demand that they are raised domestically (ranch style) by Chinese entrepreneurs. Man Eating Bugs page 93.
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  • Hou Songfeng in the concrete mausoleum-like breeding room of his scorpion-raising facility: Ru Yang Boda Scorpion Breeding Company,  a new addition to China's burgeoning market economy. The Boda ranch's thirty employees are raising more than three million scorpions for public consumption in a football field-sized brick building; Songfeng would like to expand his market into the United States, Luoyang,  China. (page 94, 95) .
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  • Swarming scorpions, members of Fan Yuelian's family business; the scorpions are raised in the family's apartment in plastic bins and are intended for sale in the city's Bird and Flower Market. (Man Eating Bugs page 97)
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  • A sample of caterpillar castings tea, called chongcha. The tiny hard pellets of caterpillar excrement are steeped in hot water to produce a tea of sorts which is reputed to possess certain medicinal properties, Kunming, China. (Man Eating Bugs page 105, 101)
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  • Los Angeles, California - Venice Beach Boardwalk with massage tables on a Sunday morning.
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  • Tourists soak in mud baths at the Indian Springs Mud Baths in Calistoga, Napa Valley, California.
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  • Woman enjoys an enzyme bath at the International Spa in Calistoga, Napa Valley, California.
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  • Lourdes is a world pilgrimage center for Catholic faith healing. It has 5 million visitors per year. Lourdes, France.
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  • Namgay with his holy texts in the prayer room of his rammed earth house, Shingkhey Village, Bhutan. Namgay, who has a hunched back and a clubfoot, grinds grain for neighbors with a small mill his family purchased from the government.  Namgay is also a reader of sacred texts and conducts house cleansing and healing ceremonies for their 14-house village. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Lourdes is a world pilgrimage center for Catholic faith healing. It has 5 million visitors per year. Lourdes, France.
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  • Lourdes is a world pilgrimage center for Catholic faith healing. It has 5 million visitors per year. Lourdes, France.
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  • Lourdes is a world pilgrimage center for Catholic faith healing. It has 5 million visitors per year. Lourdes, France.
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  • RADON CURE: Defunct gold and uranium mines south of Helena, Montana, attract ailing tourists, who bask in radioactive radon gas and drink radioactive water to improve their health. Each summer, hundreds of people, come to the radon health mines to relax and treat arthritis, lupus, asthma and other chronic cripplers. Visitor Ralph Clark at the Merry Widow Mine, which is a tunnel into the mountain, with a temperature that remains around 60 degrees in both winter and summer. The typical vacation at the Merry Widow Health Mine lasts anywhere from a week to two weeks and visitors are recommended to sit in the mine two or three times a day. Visitors also soak their feet in the freezing cold mineral waters or drink the mine water, which they claim is very productive to good health. The water at the Merry Widow Mine has been tested by the State Health Department and found to be pure for drinking purposes. The mineshaft touts radon levels as much as 175 times the federal safety standard for houses. The permitted total visit is determined by the radiation level of the particular mine. The average visitor is 72 years old. The mines appeal to "plain people," such as the Amish or the Mennonites, because of the "natural" healing aspects, the lack of commercialization, and the relatively low cost-per-hour for treatment sessions. MODEL RELEASED (1991)
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  • RADON CURE: Defunct gold and uranium mines south of Helena, Montana, attract ailing tourists, who bask in radioactive radon gas and drink radioactive water to improve their health. Each summer, hundreds of people, come to the radon health mines to relax and treat arthritis, lupus, asthma and other chronic cripplers. The mineshaft touts radon levels as much as 175 times the federal safety standard for houses. The typical vacation lasts any where from a week to two weeks and visitors are recommended to sit in the mine two or three times a day. The permitted total visit is determined by the radiation level of the particular mine. The average visitor is 72 years old. The mines appeal to "plain people," such as the Amish or the Mennonites, because of the "natural" healing aspects, the lack of commercialization, and the relatively low cost-per-hour for treatment sessions. (1991)
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  • Millie Mitra and her yoga teacher at her home in Benson Town, Bangalore, India. (Millie Mitra is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Millie Mitra, a vegan, has a thirst for alternative medicine and homeopathic healing, as well as a deep interest in how her diet affects her body. She has practiced Shivambu (sometimes spelled Sivambu), which is the drinking of one's own first morning urine (200 cc in her practice) as a curative and preventative measure, for over 15 years. Millie applies urine to her skin as well, for the same reasons. Her husband Abhik has tried Shivambu and she helped her children to practice it when they were young, but currently only Millie practices urine therapy.
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  • Millie Mitra, an education consultant and homeopathy devotee, holds a glass of urine that she drinks everyday. (Millie Mitra is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Mitra has a thirst for alternative medicine and homeopathic healing, as well as a deep interest in how her diet affects her body. She has practiced Shivambu (sometimes spelled Sivambu), which is the drinking of one's own first morning urine (200 cc in her practice) as a curative and preventative measure, for over 15 years. Millie applies urine to her skin as well, for the same reasons. Her husband Abhik has tried Shivambu and she helped her children to practice it when they were young, but currently only Millie practices urine therapy in her family. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Nalim and Namgay's family of Bhutan, with all of their possessions. The family of subsistence farmers lives in a 3-story rammed-earth house in the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Namgay, who has a hunched back and a clubfoot, grinds grain for neighbors with a small mill his family purchased from the government. They are paying for the mill as they can (often the payment is made in grain and mustard oil). Namgay is also a reader of sacred texts and conducts house cleansing and healing ceremonies for their 14-house village.(Material World pages 72-73)
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  • Nalim and Namgay family portrait outside their home in Shingkhey, Bhutan. The family of subsistence farmers lives in a 3-story rammed-earth house in the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Namgay, who has a hunched back and a clubfoot, grinds grain for neighbors with a small mill his family purchased from the government. They are paying for the mill as they can (often the payment is made in grain and mustard oil). Namgay is also a reader of sacred texts and conducts house cleansing and healing ceremonies for their 14-house village. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions.
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  • Millie Mitra, a vegan, who has a thirst for alternative medicine and homeopathic healing, drinks a glass of urine at her home in Benson Town, Bangalore, India. (Millie Mitra is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  She has practiced Shivambu (sometimes spelled Sivambu), which is the drinking of one's own first morning urine (200 cc in her practice) as a curative and preventative measure, for over 15 years. Millie applies urine to her skin as well, for the same reasons. Her husband Abhik has tried Shivambu and she helped her children to practice it when they were young, but currently only Millie practices urine therapy. MODEL RELEASED. .
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  • Millie Mitra (center in red top) eats dinner with her family at her home in Benson Town, Bangalore, India. (Millie Mitra is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Millie, a vegan, has a thirst for alternative medicine and homeopathic healing, as well as a deep interest in how her diet affects her body. She has practiced Shivambu (sometimes spelled Sivambu), which is the drinking of one's own first morning urine (200 cc in her practice) as a curative and preventative measure, for over 15 years. Millie applies urine to her skin as well, for the same reasons. Her husband Abhik has tried Shivambu and she helped her children to practice it when they were young, but currently only Millie practices urine therapy.
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  • Millie Mitra (center), an education consultant and homeopathy devotee, enjoys dinner with her family at home in Benson Town, Bangalore, India. (Millie Mitra is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Millie's quest for health includes yoga, a vegan diet, a daily glassful and topical applications of her own urine. She has a thirst for alternative medicine and homeopathic healing, as well as a deep interest in how her diet affects her body. She has practiced Shivambu (sometimes spelled Sivambu), which is the drinking of one's own first morning urine (200 cc in her practice) as a curative and preventative measure, for over 15 years. Millie applies urine to her skin as well, for the same reasons. Her husband Abhik has tried Shivambu and she helped her children to practice it when they were young, but currently only Millie practices urine therapy in her family. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Nalim and Namgay's family of Bhutan, with all of their possessions. From pages 72-73, Material World. The family of subsistence farmers lives in a 3-story rammed-earth house in the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Namgay, who has a hunched back and a clubfoot, grinds grain for neighbors with a small mill his family purchased from the government. They are paying for the mill as they can (often the payment is made in grain and mustard oil). Namgay is also a reader of sacred texts and conducts house cleansing and healing ceremonies for their 14-house village.
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