Page 8. Portland Observer. April 3, 1965
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by Robert l.othtan
Welfare benefits dropped by al
most 22 percent in the last 12 years,
according to a study by the House
Ways and Means Committee.
fa ilu re o f states to keep benefits in
line with inflation and President Rea
gan's 1981 welfare amendments were
the main reasons for the reduction,
according to the study.
The value o f welfare and food
stamp benefits for a fam ily o f four
dropped 21.8 percent nationwide be
tween 1972 and 1984, said the study.
In 1984, benefits averaged $6,995,
according to the study, almost $2,000
lower than the 1972 high o f $8,894.
Benefits rose steadily through the
1960s and early 1970s, it reported.
Purchasing power for welfare fam
ilies dropped in each o f the 48 conti
nental states, the study found.
On the average, a working welfare
mother with three children and an in
come o f hall the federal poverty level,
had 28.5 percent less purchasing
power in 1984 than in 1972, it said.
Other reasons cited fo r the reduc
tion were higher social security and
personal income taxes.
Portland welfare officials were un
able to verify the findings o f the House
study locally.
l^irry Boyles, supervisor o f the
Southwest Portland office o f the
Adult and fa m ily Services Division,
did say that new requirements and
ending the W IN program had elim
inated some people from welfare
rolls.
At the Multi-Service Center at
Alberta and Vancouver, a woman
with a little boy cried as she left an
interview. She had applied for as
sistance, but was turned down be
cause her papers weren’t in order.
She said she would have to wan long
er for the benefits even though she
needed them immediately.
“ I believe they should just quit
giving people hassles just to get ‘ ‘on
welfare,” she said. ‘ ‘ I want a stable
job . but they just aren't hiring.’ ’
“ It's definitely down, food stamps
is down, everything is down,” said
another woman.
A nurse, she hurl her back lifting
a patient. She now receives benefits
for herself and two daughters “ I
can’t live on $328 a m onth,” she
said “ And there's no way you can
life and feed your kids with that $145
a month in food stamps they give
you.”
“ You end up living in dumps with
cockroaches and mice because you
can’t afford a decent place. They treat
you like animals here,” she added.
"They herd you in and herd you out."
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Welfare
benefits
decreasing
worse by movement o f any kind. She
docs not get more limber with con
tinued movement. Her joints are
improved by rest, and interestingly,
site feels better if her knees have pres
sure on them. She is thirsty although
not for milk and has an irritable na
ture.
Is this the same disease? Both these
patients have different physical symp
toms and a different personality.
The diagnosis o f arthritis is the same
for both, but each manifests his or her
sickness in a unique way. What we
have in each patient is an individual
ized manifestation o f imbalance
They are both sick but in different
ways. And accordingly, our homeo
pathic medicine is different for each
o f them.
Lor personalized and wholistic
health-care, both you and your doctor
must pay close attention to everything
that is being expressed by your body
and mind and emotions. Your fatigue
and your fears, your appetites and
your energy level: this is the language
that your body speaks. The unique
and peculiar symptoms help fill in
the broad picture that includes your
whole life. It is your capacity to indi
vidualize your symptoms that can
lead you to greater health and free
dom.
This is the wholistic approach to
health-care. At its root is the central
idea that is as old as the art o f healing
itself: that each person, each organ
ism, has at a deep level the w ill and
wisdom to be healthy. It is the aim
o f the true healer to enlist that wis
dom in effecting a cure.
A Cía t !
Must o f the time we take our bodies
for granted When they work well,
they do thetr duties and perform ne
cessary tasks for us, and we have little
regard for maintenance or long term
use. We go about daily life as i f our
bodies cannot make suggestions to us,
or ask us for anything or communi
cate to us at all. The truth is, that your
body is talking to you all the time in
every minute o f the day in a number
ol ways. It talks to you through pain
and sensations It talks to you through
symptoms.
Symptoms are very important, and
labeled in our modern disease-care
system, for example, as an “ ulcer,"
and given the same ulcer medicine as
other ulcer patients.
A wholistic concept includes a lit
tle bit more. Your symptoms tell us a
lot about you. They are your way o f
expressing a deeper disturbance >n
your whole system. A ll o f your sensa
tions are important to your wholistic
doctor, because your entire personal
ity is involved, and your inherited
constitution, your nutritional status,
and many other factors. As many
mental, emotional, and physical fac
tors are considered as possible.
Consider, for example, two people
with arthritis. To the conventional
doctor, arthritis is arthritis, and each
person would receive essentially the
same treatment. A wholistic doctor,
however, treats the person and not
the diagnosis, although a diagnosis is
made in every case. The following
descriptions illustrate the type o f
inform ation that is important to a
doctor who uses homeopathic medi
cines (a wholistic medicine).
The first patient is a laborer who
has worked hard all his life physical
ly. His hip and knee joints are s tiff
and painful, especially upon first
moving in the morning. He finds that
once he is "lim bered u p " everything
is not so stiff, and so he likes to stay
active. He feels better with warm ap
plications as well. He is a person in
gixxl humor most o f the time, and he
has a strong desire for milk
The second patient has the same
diagnosis (but different symptoms).
She, too, is s tiff and achy, but is made
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particularly unique symptoms. It is
common to think that a pain is a
pain, and that all headaches are basi
cally the same, but they're not Every
patient has symptoms which are a lit
tle different from those o f another
person And why not? They are d if
ferent people.
When asked questions like: what is
the quality o f the pain (does it ache,
or burn, or dig in?) or asked the time
o f day when it is bettet or worse,
everyone begins to realize that there is
a distinct aspect to their complaints.
Not all pains arc alike, and no two
headaches are alike. But very few
people realize how important their
symptoms are.
One o f the keys to a healthy life is
to be able to learn the language o f
your own body. If you can listen to
your aches and pains, and watch your
body, and observe changes, you will
see how dynamic and unique the
symptoms can be. You will be learn
ing the language o f your body. It is
the way yiiur body expresses itself in
its attempt to slay well. Lor all symp
toms are related to the reactive and
healthy response o f your system to a
disease process.
Historically there have been two
main opposing viewpoints about
what pain and symptoms mean. The
conventional concept says that symp
toms arc I lie disease itself. Hierc is no
need to individualize symptoms be
cause patients are seen as "cases’ * ol
a "diseuse." Conventional doctors
have no interest in the aspects that
make you different from all other
cases o f the same "disease." You are
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