What do we mean by the term alternative medicines?

What, if anything, does the Bible have to say about that?

And what is the connection between a person's faith and his or her health?

These are some of the questions we'll talk about today with our guest, Dr. Donald Omuthuna,

who is the author of what I think is a fairly exhaustive,

although he tells me it's not, but it looks to me like an exhaustive compendium on alternative medicine,

entitled by that, alternative medicine, the options, claims, the evidence, and how to choose wisely.

Donald, thanks so much for being with us. We really appreciate you coming on with us, and I'll look

forward to having you, having this conversation with you. I'm your host, Scott Ray.

I'm your co-host, Sean McDonnell. This is Think Biblically from Talbot School of Theology,

Biola University. Donald, welcome. Great to have you with us.

Thanks very much, Scott and Sean.

Tell us a little bit about your background.

Now, Donald and I have a relationship that goes back many years in the bioethics community through a number of projects that we were on.

But Donald, tell us how you got interested in alternative medicine enough to write a book of this length on the subject.

Well, I grew up in Ireland, and my dad was a pharmacist in a small town in County Monaghan.

And he was always mixing up different things, And it was always really curious to me. And then I went to

college and decided to go into pharmacy. And in, I loved the science. It was, it wasn't the retail

dimension of it. I loved, but it was the science.

And in my senior year, I got to do a research project looking at herbal remedies, trying to see

where there are active ingredients in them. And I just really loved that kind of puzzle dimension to that research and ended up pursuing

my PhD in that area, came to the US to do that work. And so just really loved the investigation, trying to figure things out.

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