I received this today from ACC
One of the practitioners (above) is promoted and the following claim is made:
"“When you are out of alignment or out of balance – whether it’s mental, psychological, physical, or spiritual – it’s normally an indication, or a tohu (sign), that there is something deeper going on than the symptoms that are presenting .”
The ACC is well aware that medical evidence has long debunked this sort of approach. If you do a simple PubMed search on Rongoa, there are 21 citations (out of many millions). Only one controlled trial (of Kanuka oil for ezcema), is shown. There is no issue with doing western styled research on plants and traditional medicines - it is something that has been going on in pharmaceutical research since the 19th centrury, but what is distrubing, is the apparent acceptance by ACC that somehow the spiritualism of Maori Rongoa traditional medical practice is acceptable whereas it is not acceptable if coming out western cultures. Much of this sort on thing is pure religious mumbo jumbo and there is simply no scientific evidence that anything these practitioners do is superior to western medical approaches, for Maori or anyone else.
We are tax / levy payers that have to pay for this nonsense and should be taking ACC and the Health Department for the double standards being applied here. Christian or other exorcisms would not (& should not) be tolerated on the Health budget.
Perhaps a haka will also help, I mean it seems to be the thing for everything….