Recommended Links
Healthcare Resources
Third Root will add to and amend this list periodically, and we encourage you to browse our Bibliography and visit our Resource Library at Third Root for other resources. (Also, if you find a broken link here or have a link to add to this list, drop us a line at website@thirdroot.org and let us know.)
Organizations
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AcademicInfo
www.communityacupuncturenetwork.org
AcademicInfo is an online education resource center with extensive subject guides and distance learning information. Their mission is to provide free, independent and accurate information and resources for prospective and current students (and other researchers). (JHC)
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Community Acupuncture Network — International
www.communityacupuncturenetwork.org
Community Acupuncture Network (CAN) is a nonprofit organization of practitioners, patients, and supporters whose goal is to make acupuncture more affordable and accessible by promoting the practice of offering acupuncture in community settings for a sliding scale ranging within $15-40 a treatment. (JHC)
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The Health Law Unit of the Legal Aid Society — New York, NY
www.legal-aid.org/en/ineedhelp/civilproblem/healthlawunit.aspx
The Health Law Unit (HLU) assists clients and advocates on a range of navigational issues within public health programs. These issues include barriers to enrollment and retention of benefits, denials of health care services, coordination of benefits, access to care for uninsured persons, immigrant access to healthcare, and reduction of medical debt. (JHC)
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High Falls Gardens — Philmont, NY
www.highfallsgardens.net
The High Falls Gardens’ mission is to make efficacious traditional medicine available at affordable cost to all Americans, help recreate sustainable cultures right here and now, and stop the war on nature! (JH)
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The Icarus Project — New York, NY
www.theicarusproject.net
The Icarus Project envisions a new culture and language that resonates with our actual experiences of “lmental illness” rather than trying to fit our lives into a conventional framework. We are a network of people living with experiences that are commonly labeled as bipolar or other psychiatric conditions. We believe we have mad gifts to be cultivated and taken care of, rather than diseases or disorders to be suppressed or eliminated. By joining together as individuals and as a community, the intertwined threads of madness and creativity can inspire hope and transformation in an oppressive and damaged world. Our participation in The Icarus Project helps us overcome alienation and tap into the true potential that lies between brilliance and madness. (JB)
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Institute of Traditional Medicine — Portland, OR
www.itmonline.org
The Institute for Traditional Medicine (ITM) enriches the lives of people seeking traditional medicine knowledge and services by clarifying the nature of traditional medicine and demonstrating how it can be utilized in the modern setting. ITm operates two clinical facilities, provides numerous educational materials, conducts background research in traditional medicine, provides specially designed herbal forumlations for us in ITM clinics and other practitioners, supports traditional environments where traditional medicine can be preserved, and provides information to other organizations about traditional medicine. (AU)
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Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective
www.kindredhealingjustice.org
Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective was a project conceived by healers and organizers in the South in 2007, as a response to the crisis of trauma, violence and social conditions in our region. Through conversations and strategy sessions many organizers and healers continue to identify a need to be able to respond to the increased state of burnout and depression in our movements; systematic loss of our communities’ healing traditions; the isolation and stigmatization of healers, and the increased privatization of our land, medicine and natural resources that has caused us to rely on state or private models we do not trust and that do not serve us. (JB)
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Mayo Clinic
www.mayoclinic.com
Mayo Clinic is a not-for-profit medical practice dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of virtually every type of complex illness. It is part of Mayo Clinic’s mission to serve as a reliable source of health information. It’s easy to understand and they often provide home remedies and prevention information. (JHC)
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Medicinal Herbs Consortium — Philmont, NY & Petaluma, CA
localherbs.org
After 15 years of work, the Medical Herbs Consortium is selling domestically and ecologically grown Chinese medicinal herbs directly to practitioners of Oriental Medicine. Their website has been created as a gateway, with their goal to link growers and practitioners, to join forces and form the alliances needed to enact this vision of a sustainable, healthful future. (JHC)
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The Social Medicine Portal: An Alternative to Corporate Health — New York, NY
www.socialmedicine.org
The Social Medicine Portal is a project developed by faculty members of the Department of Family and Social Medicine of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The portal contains links to websites, documents and presentations devoted to social medicine. Our goal in creating this site is to link together the diverse international community of people working in social medicine and health activism. We encourage visitors to e-mail us materials for inclusion. (GWL)
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WebMD
www.webmd.com
WebMD provides valuable health information, tools for managing your health, and support to those who seek information. It’s easy to understand and they often provide home remedies and prevention information. (JHC)
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Weston A. Price Foundation — Philmont, NY & Washington, DC
www.westonaprice.org.org
The Foundation is dedicated to restoring nutrient-dense foods to the human diet through education, research and activism. It supports a number of movements that contribute to this objective including accurate nutrition instruction, organic and biodynamic farming, pasture-feeding of livestock, community-supported farms, honest and informative labeling, prepared parenting and nurturing therapies. (JHC)
Articles
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Zen Shiatsu: The Legacy of Shizuto Masunaga
www.itmonline.org/arts/shiatsu.htm
This article on Shiatsu, as published by the Institute of Traditional Medicine, provides a reliable and detailed introduction to the practice of Shiatsu. (GWL)
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BalanceFlow Health and Bodyworks
www.balanceflow.com/BAtuina.htm
This is an eloquent description of Tuina by Jan Henderson, PhD, a practitioner in California. (GWL)
