Welcome to the Center for Sustainable Medicine!
Didi Pershouse, CCH, LAc—thinker, writer, and healer—founded this website in 2006 as a way to share ideas about sustainability and health care in one interconnected place. These topics include:
- Sustainable models of healthcare
- The intelligence of nature
- Food as medicine
- WHO Research list of Conditions Treatable with Acupuncture
- Homeopathy
- Community Acupuncture
- Co-counseling
- Cuban Sustainability
- Recovery from trauma and addiction, and the
- Healing power of community
You will also find information about Our Clinic (formerly The Two Rivers Clinic), in Thetford Center, Vermont, where Didi Pershouse practices homeopathy, acupuncture and health counseling on a sliding scale.
The Sustainable Medicine Manifesto proposes that real medicine must benefit the whole system—our communities, both human and natural. There is no need to separate the processes of healing ourselves, the environment, and our communities.
There are a number of upcoming classes and talks in Transition Towns in the area. (Transition Towns are dedicated to building communities that are resilient in the face of dwindling oil supplies, global warming, and economic crises.) Didi Pershouse is teaching Introductory Classes in Homeopathic Medicine for Parents and Other Caregivers. She will be giving talks on Acupuncture as a Low Cost Treatment for PTSD, and on “Cholesterol Hype: the Dangers of Statin Drugs and the Benefits of Butter” Check back soon for a date for the upcoming talk on “Sustainable Health Care Models for Transition Towns,” as well as a film series at Lightgate Learning Center. See Classes and Workshops on the right hand menu for more information.
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This project and Didi’s upcoming book on Sustainable Medicine are made possible by donations from readers like you. Thank you for your ongoing support If you like what you see here, please DONATE today so that more people can read about these ideas. Please use the contact page in order to donate.