{"id":6212,"date":"2010-07-16T00:35:29","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T06:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=6212"},"modified":"2010-07-15T22:59:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T04:59:51","slug":"army-looks-at-alternative-spiritual-medicines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/16\/army-looks-at-alternative-spiritual-medicines\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Looks at Alternative, Spiritual Medicines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/-news\/2010\/06\/26\/41446-army-looking-at-yoga-acupuncture-to-treat-pain\/\">official news release<\/a>, the US Army is researching &#8220;alternative treatments to medication&#8221; in its efforts to compose a &#8220;comprehensive pain-management strategy&#8221; including acupuncture, meditation, yoga, and biofeedback.<\/p>\n<p>The first three of those have some form of spiritual or ethereal undertones, almost exclusively from eastern religious traditions.\u00a0 The proposals, as discussed by Army surgeon general Lt. Gen. Eric B. Schoomaker, are an attempt to reduce the reliance on medication for every complaint.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, religious faith does play a role in many aspects of life, including both physical and emotional healing.\u00a0 Campus Crusade&#8217;s military ministry (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/links.htm\">Links<\/a>) has invested considerable energy in creating faith-based resources for returning servicemembers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militaryministry.org\/families\/bthm-2\/ptsd\/\">struggling with PTSD<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent official news release, the US Army is researching &#8220;alternative treatments to medication&#8221; in its efforts to compose a &#8220;comprehensive pain-management strategy&#8221; including acupuncture, meditation, yoga, and biofeedback. The first three of those have some form of spiritual or ethereal undertones, almost exclusively from eastern religious traditions.\u00a0 The proposals, as discussed by Army surgeon general Lt. Gen. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[710,707,69,706,709,2,5286,225,10,708],"class_list":["post-6212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-acupuncture","tag-alternative-medicine","tag-campus-crusade","tag-eric-b-schoomaker","tag-meditation","tag-military","tag-military-ministry","tag-ptsd","tag-religion","tag-yoga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}