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...Treating her illness is low on her list of priorities. In a good week, when she gets paid to give talks about AIDS to employees of the local railway company, she manages to scrimp enough to buy a palliative for her recurrent diarrhea or a dose of the latest herbal AIDS "cure." But even those she considers luxuries. "We are dying because we don't have medicines," she says. "I heard that there are new treatments. But I cannot afford them...
...humid weekday afternoon in Washington. Seven men were sitting in the spare, modern living room of Bob Squier's Capitol Hill town house making tense small talk, eating deli sandwiches, sipping diet sodas and herbal tea. Although the debonair media consultant was the nominal host, the meeting had been called by Dick Morris, Bill Clinton's stealth strategist. Morris had been secretly advising the President for six months and had emerged from the shadows only in April. Now Clinton had asked him to assemble the campaign's creative team. But despite Clinton's endorsement, Morris' position inside the White House...
...year out of their own pockets on a bewildering array of breakaway treatments, including chiropractic, colonic irrigation, meditation, homeopathy, naturopathy, hypnotherapy, music therapy, folk medicine, guided imagery and Shiatsu massage. More than 1,000 homeopathic medicines are sold over the counter, along with a bewildering variety of vitamins, minerals, herbal remedies, fat burners, passion promoters and bee pollen...
...Office of Alternative Medicine and a Yale-trained physician, feels the present distinction between alternative and conventional medicine will eventually be blurred. Jacobs, whose father was part Cherokee and mother a full-blooded Mohawk, appreciates how folk medicine can effectively combine with modern methods: his mother used herbal remedies but still took her children to the family doctor when necessary. "I'm neither a proponent nor a naysayer," he says, "but there's a whole gray zone there, and eventually it will just be a matter of different approaches...
...ultimately Gabriel Garcia Marquez) has recently become a trademark of Latin American productions. But here it somehow manages to seem fresh as clouds boil around the head of an angry Celeste and magic potions glow with cosmic energy. Indeed, the fortune-telling visions of the astrologist and the odd herbal concoctions of the witch-doctor seem hardly stranger than the post-Freudian tactics of the head-shrinker...