I’ve written about the benefits of drumming on this Web site since its beginning, about how drums have helped with healing for eons, about the uses of alternative and complementary methods to reinforce mainstream medicine. And now, I’ve found two medical studies that confirm these points:

Positive Effects of Group Drumming On Your Immune System

And this: Drumming is helping to retain students at a Pennsylvania school of nursing, a model that could save billions of dollars for health care providers and patients nationwide: http://www.mind-body.org/Bittman-Allegany-Press-Release.doc
It is gratifying to know that science is catching up with what ancient peoples took for granted. If you know of similar reports, I would appreciate your passing them along.

Namaste.

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