By ANIKA CLARK

June 28, 2012 12:00 AM

NEW BEDFORD The Biological Medicine Network has announced an upcoming two-day seminar on Lyme disease treatment.

The seminar is scheduled for Sept. 20-21 at the Waypoint Event Center at the Fairfield Inn & Suites New Bedford.

The Biological Medicine Network is a program of the Marion Institute, according to network director Barbara Christian. She said the network's activities include organizing seminars and educational trainings with network co-founder Dr. Thomas Rau of Switzerland's Paracelsus Klinik and with other practitioners of biological medicine.

The network's website describes biological medicine as providing a holistic approach to healing and examining root causes of ailments.

The field incorporates practices ranging from natural European remedies to Chinese herbalism, according to the Biological Medicine Network.

September's seminar offers an approach to treating Lyme disease rooted in biological medicine and featuring four practitioners one of whom suffers from Lyme disease himself, Christian said.

"The overall importance is the different way of looking at stuff how everything ties together and supporting the person as a complete unit, while at the same time customizing," said Robert Milisen, one of the presenting practitioners, who earned a doctorate of naturopathic medicine at the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine and Health Sciences in Tempe, Ariz.

Milisen's topics include therapy designed to open biofilms, which he said are bubble-like walls built by microbes and impenetrable by antibodies. He will also address preparing patients for treatment.

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