Strengthening the Mind, Body and Spirit
Through resources and education, MRCE Foundation seeks to provide the opportunity for people suffering from chronic illness and disorders to experience the transforming power of chinese medicine.
The Misha Ruth Cohen Education Foundation Inc. is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to providing resources and education to medical professionals, patients, and the community. The foundation focuses on integrating Western and Eastern medicine, specifically Chinese traditional medicine, in the treatment of complex health issues including:
Cancer Support
HIV, HPV, HCV, HBV
Chronic Liver Disease
Complex Gynecology
A curious thing happens when you use Chinese medicine: Its transforming power insinuates itself into your unconscious as the treatments strengthen your mind/body/spirit. You find, despite your lack of understanding of how it works or what it can do, that repeated exposure to the basic treatments—herbs, acupuncture, dietary therapy and Qi Gong exercise and meditation—changes you in subtle but far-reaching ways. You become more tuned into your physical and spiritual self. You become aware of the profound impact of your breath on your physical and mental well-being; you begin to sense the flow of Qi —the life force—through your body; you tune into your own mental and physical strengths and imbalances; you learn to rejoice in the interconnectedness of all life experience.
This transformation creates a sense of empowerment that’s particularly important in dealing with a chronic disorder such as HIV disease, which can erode your sense of control over your own body and make you feel estranged from your physical and spiritual self.
Before we are born, the idea of what is normal is already there. All of those rules dictate who we are and have done so to every other person who has ever been born or ever will be born. Because you cannot free yourself from this web, you have to find some way to function within it.
— Judith Butler