Rock Medicine reports ‘mellow’ BottleRock

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Mellow is the way Gordon Oldham, director of Rock Medicine, describes the crowd at BottleRock. Its a very behaved crowd, he said Friday afternoon.

The five-day BottleRock music festival, which began Wednesday night, is expected to bring as many as 35,000 people daily to the Napa Valley Expo.

As of mid-day Friday, 44 patients had been treated by the volunteers of Rock Medicine, which provides free medical care at special events throughout Northern California.

Of those 44 BottleRock patients, two needed treatment during the first day of the festival (Wednesday), and 42 required medical care Thursday. All of the patients were treated on-site, and none needed to be taken to the hospital, Oldham said.

Oldham declined to provide details on specific ailments, but in an April interview with the Napa Valley Register, Oldham said most patients at outdoor music events are those who drink too much alcohol.

Other common maladies at large festivals are sprained ankles, exhaustion and, sometimes, drug overdoses, Oldham said.

Sixty volunteers will be staffing the medical tents at BottleRock every day except Saturday, when Rock Medicine will ramp up its staff to 75.

Rock Medicine has two urgent care medical tents at the festival, and the ability to treat 60 to 70 patients at a time. The organization also has a smaller tent to provide people with sunscreen, Gatorade, Tylenol and Band-Aids.

Oldham said Rock Medicine volunteers treats all patients in a non-judgmental way. The goal is to take care of the person and get them safely back to their family and friends, he said.

Rock Medicine, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, provides volunteer medical staff at more than 700 events annually including events at AT&T Park, the Oakland Coliseum, Arco Arena, and Golden Gate Park.

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Medicine Wheel Celebration to offer plant sale, garden workshops and more

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Published May 8, 2013 at 3:16 pm (Updated May 8, 2013)

WANTAGE The Medicine Wheel volunteer group are hosting their fifth annual Medicine Wheel Celebration on May 18 and 19 with the Heritage and Agriculture Association, a friends group of Lusscroft Farm in Wantage.

The two day event features local music, gardening workshops, tours, perennial plant sale, craft and food vendors, community discussions and more to support the continued growth and preservation of the gardens and historical buildings.

Gardeners Paul Cardillo and Brian Hennessey installed a community garden, Medicine Wheel Garden, at the historical Lusscroft Farm area of High Point State Park in 2009.

The Medicine Wheel group has given Lusscroft Farm and New Jersey a healing and growing presence, a living example of people and nature together, which is the Sussex county motto," said Hennessey.

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Activities include a Garden Meditation, Dedication in the Sister Moon Garden, Spirit Hoopers, Garden Tours, a Plant Walk, workshops on Gardening and Mushroom Propagation, Round Table Discussions on Water Quality and Community Food Protection and an Open Mic with Poetry and Music hosted by Morning Door on Saturday.

Plant sales, raffles and auctions will generate money for projects at Lusscroft Farm. The plant sale will offer native and deer resistant landscape, medicinal plants and herbs, heirloom and organic vegetables, fruits, berries and more.

Sunday there will be a panel discussion on Living Art and Culture in Northwest New Jersey. Workshops include Compost, Mushrooms, Garlic as Medicine, Organic Fruit Propagation and tours of the Gardens. An afternoon of local music features Alex Phillips, Maribyrd, Jordan Koza, Maura Glynn, the Hawk Owls, Eric Waldman, Mike Lawlor with Friends and The Matty Carle Band.

The Friends of the Medicine Wheel work with the Heritage & Agriculture Association, a Friends group supporting Lusscroft Farms buildings, trails in cooperation with the NJDEP/Division of Parks & Forestry to restore historic Lusscroft Farm.

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67% of alternative medicine users are women

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More and more patients are turning toward alternative medicine because modern medicine is expensive and has failed to treat diseases such as cancer, said Abdullah Al-Badah, executive director of the national society for complementary and alternative medicine.

He said 67 percent of alternative medicine users are women.

According to him the forms of alternative medicine practiced in the Kingdom include Qur'an recitation, honey applications, Nigella sativa oil and garlic.

He said there are more forms of alternative practices including acupuncture, oil treatment and massage.

He said it was important for practitioners of alternative medicine to be licensed. Any unqualified exercises can result in complications, disability, poisoning and death, he said. Al-Badah was speaking at Hamad Al-Jasser's weekly forum in Riyadh.

The medical methods used by practitioners to diagnose and treat people still have to be scientifically proven to be safe.

Al-Badah explained to the audience that alternative medicine practices were in vogue in ancient China, Egypt, India and Greece.

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Let’s Play GTA: Liberty City Stories 100% – Part 40 – Staunton Island Races – Video

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