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Marsha Woolf is the founder and director of New World Medical Centre, Wisdoms Way Medical, and Alternative Resources Unlimited, Inc. II, a 501c3 registered non-profit organization, which has offices in Massachusetts and New York. Initiatives established under the auspices of Alternative Resources are the Tibetan Refugee Health Care Project (TRHCP), Menla Tibetan Medical Institute (MTMI), and Menla Tibetan Medical Research Initiative.
Her early credentials were at the French and Polyclinic Medical School and Health Center, (New York City), New York School of Naturopathy (1969), and New England School of Acupuncture, oldest licensed school in the USA ( Mass.). In the early 80′s, working closely with the House Minority Leader, as liaison, she organized the many diverse groups of acupuncturists in the state for the purpose of collaborating and co-authoring a bill which, with a lot of hard work of many people, led to licensing acupuncture in the state of Massachusetts in 1988. She was a founding member and first Vice President of the Massachusetts Acupuncture Society. In November, 1983, in Beijing, China, she initiated formal dialogues with the Chinese Ministry of Health to establish a vehicle allowing qualified acupuncturists to travel from the West to China to attend classes with a component that included hospital and clinical internships, and, for qualified Chinese teachers of Traditional Oriental Medicine (TCM) to travel to the West to teach acupuncture in Western schools.
She has practiced Natural and Preventative Medicine for 36 years, specializing in Chinese Medicine since 1975, and Tibetan Medicine since 1981, with a focus on treating cancer and the immune system. Her interest in all areas of indigenous and alternative healing practices led her to study and practice in Europe, Central and South America, India and the Far East. Dr. Woolf is Clinical Director of an ongoing informal registry of hundreds of cancer patients for the purpose of proving the efficacy of Natural Medicine.
Inspired by an audience with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in spring, 1983, Dr. Woolf traveled to Tibetan refugee resettlement camps in India and on to Tibet. Having witnessed firsthand the enormity of the suffering of the Tibetan people, she has committed herself to their health and well-being for the last 28 years. In September, 1990, she established the Tibetan Refugee Health Care Project (TRHCP). further formalizing her relationship with the Tibetan Government in exile, taking teams of medical, health care, and general volunteers into the Tibetan resettlement camps to offer services free of charge. Many Indians living in these remote areas have also taken advantage of our services.
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Many thousands of people have been attended to over the years.
Clinics known as camps offering acupuncture, nutrition, medical and preventative medicine, as well as womens and general health education, have been foremost in the work of the teams. Under her direction, TRHCP’s most recent project (since 2002). has been to bring clean and safe drinking water to the Tibetan populous living in remote regions where people are in great peril due to polluted water. The primary focus of this project is on children, the elderly, nuns and monks, including schools, hostels, small hospitals and clinics, Homes for the Elderly, monasteries and convents.
Her most recent teacher of the last 30 years is Dr. Yeshi Dhonden, (India), personal physician to His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama (1960-1980). Under the direction of His Holiness, Dr. Dhonden instituted the first formal Tibetan Medical School outside of Tibet. Men Tsee Khang. In addition to working with Dr. Dhonden, she has studied with many well-known teachers such as Dr. So Tin Yau, Hong Kong, founder of the New England School of Acupuncture, the first licensed school for acupuncture in the U.S. ; Michio Kushi, founder of the Kushi Institute, (Boston), and, pioneer of Macrobiotics; Dr. Tatsuzo Nakamura, senior professor of Japanese acupuncture, Meiji Institute, (Osaka, Japan); Dr. Ted Kaptchuk, (Cambridge), one of the first Westerners to bring Traditional Chinese Medicine to the West; and Dr. Paul Nogier, (Lyon, France), neurophysicist / neurosurgeon, founder of Auriculomedicine.
In 1995 Dr. Woolf founded Menla Tibetan Medical Institute to further the work of Dr. Yeshi Dhonden and to preserve the integrity of Tibetan medicine through research and education. She collaborated and co-authored a cancer research project with Drs. Debashish Tripathy, University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and Helene Smith, Director of Geraldine Brusch Cancer Research Center, California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC). Dr. Woolf served as clinical director and liaison between Western scientists and physicians and Dr. Dhonden on that first formal FDA approved clinical trial in the world assessing the efficacy of Tibetan Medicine in the treatment of stage IV Metastatic Breast Cancer. The study culminated in 2000, indicating the value of additional trials.
Dateline, NBC, on January 1, 2000, after closely following the study and research team for a year, aired an award winning documentary of the study.
While other cancer studies are planned, pending funding, it is a slow process. Funds go primarily to Western medical trials. Therefore, it is difficult to get support for alternative and complementary medical trials.
Dr. Woolf is the author of The Rainmaker, in English, by Sigo Press, Boston ; The Rainmaker, in Tibetan, by Wisdom’s Way Press, India, to be released in 2012, The Rainmaker, updated reprint in English, to be released in 2011 by Wisdoms Way Press , and From Precious Pills to Precious Health to be released in 2012.
ALTERNATIVE RESOURCES UNLIMITED, Inc.
Help us to help others
Alternative Resources Unlimited is a grass-roots, registered, 501c3 non-profit organization and depends solely on your donations. We know these are difficult times but every act of kindness counts. Here are ways you can make a difference.
WHAT YOU CAN DO—NOW!!!
- Make a tax-deductible contribution, by check, payable to Alternative Resources, sent to the address below. Please designate in the memo which aspect of our work you would like to support. Please review our website to see what we are doing and where you would like to help. Or, you can make a general donation to our organization.
- Help fund our cancer research projects
- Donate frequent flyer miles to help our staff with travel costs
- Travel fund: Help us with transport costs to transport patients to hospitals and clinics within India.
- Donate money for medical equipment, medical supplies and medicine for our work with Tibetan and Haitian refugees.
- Water Projects are in dire need of support for our ongoing work.
- Tithe money monthly, if you prefer, to support our ongoing work.
- Donate working laptops and electronics (not more then 5 years old) for us to distribute to Tibetan schools, hospitals, monasteries, convents, and administrative offices that need them.
Thank you for your support,
Dr. Marsha Woolf, Executive Director
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