Joe Rozencwajg

Bio

I am a Brussels' Sprout, and proud of it. Born and raised in Brussels, Belgium, 1951. When I was 5 years old, I told my paediatrician that one day I would be a Doctor and I would cut people open…so I started the long road to become a surgeon, which is slightly more acceptable socially than Joe the Ripper. I graduated from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Medical School, one of the oldest European Universities, in 1976 "cum magnum laude". Then off I went into General Surgery, in Israel and Belgium; once that was achieved, I followed up with Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
While in private practice in Brussels, suddenly, out of the blue, and as usual on a week-end, my back locked up: I could not move, I was in atrocious pain; no pain medication whatsoever helped, so I resorted to call a friend who was practicing Acupuncture and whom I teased all the time about his superstitious voodoo practice: he had a good laugh, enjoyed sticking needles in my defenceless body, but after twenty minutes I was mobile and ready to go. What a slap in the face of my ego! Me, the scientist and the specialist, I could not solve a simple backache and this primitive, baseless technique did it! I had only two choices: either deny it ever happened or try to understand what happened. I am extremely curious and nosy by nature, so I choose to understand and registered for the three years course of Acupuncture at the ABMA.
Soon I started sticking needles in my patients, and to my surprise and excitement, it worked.
When my son was born, I was still a firm believer in the values of vaccinations; after all I had been well indoctrinated…so after his first set of vaccinations, the rounds of ear infections, antibiotics, diarrhoea and nappy rashes started. During the third round, I asked his paediatrician, a big shot in Brussels, if there was anything that could be done; the answer was "no, he will outgrow it". By then I was slightly smarter and brought him to a homeopath. A few powders later, all was well. Another blow to my knowledge of medicine! And from there I became unstoppable. I studied Homeopathy in different schools at the same time, Herbalism, TCM, Nutrition, Homeobotanical medicine, Homotoxicology, Flower remedies, anything I could sink my teeth in.
After a four years stint in South Africa during which I taught Medical Diagnostics at the Faculty of Chiropractic and Homeopathy in Durban, I returned with the family to Israel where I worked for seven years for the National Health Service. Needless to say, there were daily loud vocal arguments about treatments, the NHS refusing to allow me to use non-conventional methods of treatment. By December 2000, I really had a gutful, slammed my resignation and the door and abandoned the practice of techno-chemical medicine. On July 2, 2001, we immigrated to New Zealand and settled in New Plymouth, Taranaki.
By now, I have my Doctorate in Medicine (MD), a Doctorate in Naturopathy, a PhD in Homeopathy and a PhD in Natural Medicine, working toward an OMD and a DO.
I also started studying and using Visceral Manipulation, Ortho-Bionomy and Dorn Therapy. I have authored many articles, the book "Dynamic Gemmotherapy" and another one "Organotherapy, Drainage and Detoxification". I have recently received the position of Professor of Natural Medicine at Calamus International University and I am now Director of Clinical Studies at the School of Gemmotherapy, UK.
Until recently, I used a lot of alphabet soup letters after my name: MD, PhD, NMD, and others. In its infinite wisdom, the Ministry of Health requested that I cease using the letters MD, as I am not registered to practice conventional medicine in New Zealand and it could confuse the patients, leading them to believe I am a "real", "normal"
doctor. Despite legal counsel saying otherwise, I thought it was not worth a court fight, so I complied and decided to remove everything other than NMD: Doctor for the highest degrees I have achieved and Natural Medicine as an overall designation for everything I practice, meaning medicine according to the laws of nature.
I am a First Dan Black Belt in Aikido, Second Dan Black Belt in Karate, a Tai Chi and Qigong practitioner and a student of Yoga.

And that is about it……..

Boeken door Joe Rozencwajg:

	Dynamic Somato-Structural Integration DSSI
	Drawing on his vast experience, Dr. Joe Rozencwajg has the rare ability to unite the essence of ...
	Homeopathy through the Chinese Looking Glass: Homeosiniatry Revisited
	Mental, emotional and spiritual issues are not the easiest problems to reveal. We depend on wha ...
	Organotherapy, rozDrainage and Detoxification
	How comes that sometimes a remedy, obviously well chosen, works poorly? How comes that a well-c ...
	The Potency - Fibonacci Series
	The choice of the potency of a homeopathic remedy has always been a subject of controversy.