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• Available Now:
  Preventing and Treating Diabetes Naturally: The Native Way

  A Comprehensive Evidenced-Based Course for Practitioners and Families Living with Diabetes.
  Including: Video, Audio, eBook
  Click here for a Diabetes Nutrient Protocol

• News

  • Dr Leslie Korn presents on Traditonal Medicine for the Prevention and Treatment of Cancer at:

    Mayo School of Continuous Professional Development
    The 8th National Changing Patterns of Cancer in Native Communities: Strength Through Tradition and Science
    September 11-14, 2010, Westin Hotel, Seattle, WA

  • Traditional Medicine in Ghana recently added to research papers

  • WHO Congress Passes Beijing Declaration on Traditional Medicine

    Click here to download the WHO article (PDF format)

  • The Beijing Declaration: A Landmark for Traditional Medicine

    November, '08 in Beijing, government officials representing member states of the World Health Organisation adopted a declaration that provides a powerful endorsement of traditional medicine and may one day become the foundation for a legally binding resolution.

    Click here for more...

  • Mexico City Respects Traditional Medicine, Languages: Official
    by Alexander Manda

    MEXICO CITY, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- The government of Mexico City is promoting respect for indigenous culture, including languages and medicine, head of community equality for the city, said in a recent interview with Xinhua.
    Indigenous people "have been excluded (from the mainstream society) for centuries because of culture, language and habits," Maria Rosa Marquez Cabrera said. "This has been reducing but that does not mean it has ceased to exist."
    The Mexico City is trying to address the issue by, among others, reviewing cases of indigenous citizens in prisons under its jurisdiction and supporting indigenous herbalists, she said. Click here to read more...

• Resources

  • Policy Brief: Declaration of the International Healers Conference on Promotion of Traditional Medicine for Sustainable Healthcare, Bangalore, India,19-20 Nov. 2009

    Download/View the PDF: IHE.PolicyBrief.20091122.pdf

  • Encyclopedia on Indian Medicinal Plants

  • NAPRALERT

    NAPRALERT℠ is a relational database of all natural products, including ethnomedical information, pharmacological/biochemical information of extracts of organisms in vitro, in situ, in vivo, in humans (case reports, non-clinical trials) and clinical studies. Similar information is available for secondary metabolites from natural sources.

    NAPRALERT.org

  • WHO Collaborating Centers for Traditional Medicine

• Conferences and Events

  • Tribal Leadership Development Institute Presents:
    National Leadership Conference Opportunity

    The Tribal Leadership Development Institute is an educational component of the American Indian Social Research Institute.
    February 15 - 19, 2010, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA
    Questions or comments, please contact:
    Donald Lake
    President – American Indian Social Research Institute
    (605) 275-8434
    TLDInstitute.org

  • The Pacific Region Indigenous Doctors Congress 2010

    "Sharing Our Stories: Building Strength through the Circle of Knowledge Translation"
    August 26 - 29, 2010, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
    Hosted by the Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada
    www.aida.org.au/PRIDoC2010.aspx