Wow, I can't believe my sixth week here is half-way over already! I'm enjoying Rishikesh a lot, but by the end of the week, I will be ready to go back to a place where I get to see more clinical cases. Here, we don't actually watch the doctors interact with the patients much, because by naturopathic theory, the modes of healing are natural. They prescribe massages, baths, diet restrictions, and other less-used treatments, so I can understand why we don't watch...

Hello, hello! I have managed to make it to the internet again, but still haven't found a place here in town where I can upload more photos. There are quite a few from this past week. We went rafting down the Ganges yesterday, which was a ton of fun! I even jumped off the cliff into the water :-) We're taking daily lessons in naturpoathic theory, and last week started learning about Swedish massage, whcih is the kind they do for patients here at our site. We...

Hello! I am in Rishikesh now under way with the naturopathic medicine rotation. We got here yesterday a little before lunch and were shown around the naturopathy site where our ashram is. (An ashram is the Rishikesh version of a hotel, and patients receiving naturopathic care stay in the same on we're in, so they eat in our cafeteria are and everything.) Sarah, another girl from the last session who is staying longer with Alyssa and I, helped show us around ...