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Q N/um tchai: the ceremonial dance of the!Kung Bushmen. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Watch as the Ju/’hoansi use prolonged dancing to heat the n/um or “medicine” that resides within their bodies. Once heated, this medicine passes from healer/dancer to patient. What role does stress in the form of sensory overload, disorientation, hallucination, dizziness, exhaustion and muscle spasm play in producing a healing effect? How might the healers be employing cross-resistance? Given the core principles of this healing tradition, where might we expect it to collide with biomedicine? How can these approaches be reconciled?

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There are many factors in the environment that demand excessive attention from us and being threatening in nature, they lead to responses to those environmental demands as they threaten the well-being of the mind and the body. Often high levels of stress lead to an altered state of consciousness that can involve disorientation, hallucination, dizziness, exhaustion and muscle spasms and be a result of sensory overload, as seen in the case of the effect of music on the healers of the N/um Tchai tribe.