Ethnobotany offers one model for the dissemnation and integration of trauma healing techniques.
"No medical system has all the answers — no shaman that I've worked with has the equivalent of a polio vaccine and no dermatologist that I've been to could cure a fungal infection as effectively (and inexpensively) as some of my Amazonian mentors. It shouldn't be the doctor versus the witch doctor. It should be the best aspects of all medical systems (ayurvedic, herbalism, homeopathic, and so on) combined in a way which makes health care more effective and more affordable for all." ("The Shaman's Apprentice". Retrieved February 16, 2013. South American Explorer, Autumn 1988)
"No medical system has all the answers — no shaman that I've worked with has the equivalent of a polio vaccine and no dermatologist that I've been to could cure a fungal infection as effectively (and inexpensively) as some of my Amazonian mentors. It shouldn't be the doctor versus the witch doctor. It should be the best aspects of all medical systems (ayurvedic, herbalism, homeopathic, and so on) combined in a way which makes health care more effective and more affordable for all." ("The Shaman's Apprentice". Retrieved February 16, 2013. South American Explorer, Autumn 1988)