MISSING PAGES FROM THIS WEBSITE!
I was reviewing this website the other day and was not surprised to find a couple of pages no longer available.
Since it occurs to me that these two pages probably contained the information most inimical to the agenda unfolding around us I thought I would try including that information on this Blog..
I have edited the pages so as to make them more acceptable for publication without removing the essential points. I have removed live links but encourage you to explore the work of all the practitioners mentioned.
The pages concerned come under the chapter heading ANOTHER WAY and are as follows:
2 ESSENTIAL HEALTH INFORMATION NOT PROVIDED....
6 WAS PRIMITIVE MEDICINE SO PRIMITIVE AFTER ALL...?
Here are my edited versions:
ESSENTIAL HEALTH INFORMATION NOT PROVIDED....
‘Your body was designed to stay healthy.
You hold in your hands the power to take control of your health
Never, Never let anyone take your right to health away from you’
Dr Joseph Mercola
Does this sound like hate speech?
Does this sound like radicalization?
Should this information be classified as terrorism?
Ask yourself this question:
WHY IS ANYBODY WHO SUGGESTS YOU CAN BE IN CONTROL OF YOUR OWN HEALTH, YOUR OWN LIFE, YOUR OWN BODY being Targeted, Censored, De-platformed And Subjected To Relentless Smear Campaigns In The Mainstream Media.....????
Find below a list of nine Health Practitioners identified by Britain’s Centre for Countering Digital Hate as members of The Disinformation Dozen. Far from purveying Disinformation these health practitioners provide information which is becoming increasingly critical to your very survival:
Dr Joseph Mercola
Robert F Kennedy Children’s Health Defence
Ty and Charlene Bollinger
Sherri Tenpenny
Rashid Buttar
Erin Elizabeth
Sayer Ji Greenmedinfo
Kelly Brogan
Christiane Northrup
I recommend you subscribe to the Newsletters of all these practitioners to receive daily/weekly tips and updates on how to boost your own immune system and look after your own health and hopefully never have to engage with the pharmaceutical industry again...
DR JOSEPH MERCOLA
Of all these Practitioners Dr Joseph Mercola has been singled out for particularly vicious censorship, no doubt because he has – or had – the largest following and shares with David Icke, Alex Jones and Jon Rappoport the ability to link the dots and see where all this is leading.
Mercola’s work is summed up in the concluding words of a speech he gave when required to limit access to information on his website:
‘Your body was designed to stay healthy.
You hold in your hands the power to take control of your health
Never, Never let anyone take your right to health away from you’
It will be seen that this is the precise opposite of what the world’s governments and health authorities are trying to convince you since the dawn of the COVID era.
You are being trained to think you have no control over your health.
You are being trained to believe you are a victim and nothing you can do will prevent you falling prey to the latest pathogen that they claim to be stalking the globe. Except that is a so called vaccine...
I don’t care how much money this man has made propagating his message. I don’t care what anyone says about him. His message is absolutely critical to the healthful survival of the human race.
The reason Mercola is so dangerous to the mainstream narrative is he has a huge following and he references every single statement he makes so the reader can check it out for him/her self, so at the end of the day there can be no question in the reader’s mind that he is purveying wild conspiracy theories. There can only be the conviction that he is purveying the truth.
IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE I RECOMMEND YOU ENGAGE WITH ALL OF THE FOLLOWING:
Two of my heroes throughout this Pandemic nonsense have been Dr Tom Cowan and Dr Andrew Kaufmann who each explain as clearly as anyone why the virus theory upon which this so called pandemic is based is outdated, anachronistic and erroneous. I’m surprised they weren’t included in CCDH’s Disinformation Dozen, since they have been incredibly proactive ever since the outset of the pandemic.
DR TOM COWAN
The clue to understanding Dr Cowan’s thinking is that he early discovered the work of Rudolph Steiner who was one of the great visionary teachers of the 20th century, who in turn was hugely influenced by the thinking of the poet and polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
For an interesting blog that gives a good flavour of Goethe’s attitude to science see:
GOETHEAN SCIENCE DISCUSSION: GOETHEAN SCIENCE’S NEW RELEVANCE AND SELF HEALING
https://blog.goethean.science/?sort=1
To find out more about Rudolph Steiner I suggest you go here:
RUDOLPH STEINER
https://www.rudolfsteiner.org
‘Steiner also understood that it is futile to answer a question that has not been asked. He waited until he found an audience in the Theosophical Society in Berlin that wanted him to speak out of esoteric wisdom and traditions. This activity immediately changed the public perceptions of Steiner from philosopher and scientist to spiritual teacher. The isolation of these categories—supposedly you can be either a scientist or a spiritual researcher—continues to interfere with understanding of his work. A genuinely holistic or integral worldview begins to be possible only when that prejudice is overcome.’
In my view Dr Cowan epitomises a ‘genuinely holistic and integral worldview’
See also LISTEN TO THE EXPERTS (Under Chapter 2 Main Index)
DR ZACH BUSH MD
I have explained elsewhere how I found Dr Bush’s perspective on the pandemic incredibly inspiring. He is above all an ecologist and understands how viruses and bacteria are an essential part of the world in which we live and how we have got it disastrously wrong when we set ourselves at war with the natural world – including viruses and bacteria upon which we depend for our very life and survival.
Dr Bush has given numerous interviews since the inception of the pandemic, which can still be found on You Tube. His voice is an absolutely essential corrective to the nonsense we’ve all been subjected to.
ALFA VEDIC – DR BARRE LANDO
Alfa Vedic still has a You Tube channel. This channel contains a wealth of information to help you understand how bodily ecology really works. See: HOW OUR BODIES ACTUALLY WORK..
.
This information is absolutely ESSENTIAL for an understanding of why Pasteur’s Germ Theory, upon which the entire edifice of the contemporary medical industrial complex is based, makes NO SENSE AT ALL:
‘MICROORGANISMS ARE NOT THE CAUSE OF DISEASE. THEY DO NOT CREATE INFECTIONS. THEY RECYCLE AND HELP CLEAN UP OUR TERRAIN’ BARRE LANDO
If you watch all the videos on this you tube channel you will understand why everything we are being subjected to by health authorities in 2021 is WRONG
SAYER JI
A man who understands the perspective from which Zach Bush and Barre Lando are coming is Sayer Ji. Above all he understands the paradigm shift that occurred with the discovery of the Human Microbiome and has worked tirelessly to spread the word about the new understanding of our biology that has emerged since.
This man has a profound understanding of the philosophical implications of the discovery of the Microbiome and the way in which it TOTALLY INVALIDATES the paradigm under which medicine is being practised in the world today and particularly in the COVID era. Up until March 2020 and the announcement of the COVID pandemic Ji was focussed on the development of his extraordinary resource Greenmedinfo.com.
Since March last year Ji has transformed himself into a major focus of activism against the insanity that is the COVID Plandemic. Because of his years of research he understands better than any how absurd is the narrative informing the COVID era. As befits a man with an exceptionally Inquiring mind Ji has dived down numerous rabbit holes in order to understand what is going on at the macro level; which is why he has been widely censored off you tube and all social media platforms. But it has all been in the cause of alerting the world to the true implications of what is transpiring in the world today.
Sayer Ji is also behind an invaluable website called:
QUESTIONING COVID
Now it maybe that every expert on this website is talking a pile of twaddle (highly unlikely) but what I like most about the website is the principle that informs it namely :
THE RIGHT TO QUESTION
THE RIGHT TO QUESTION IS THE MOST INALIENABLE RIGHT WE HAVE
KELLY BROGAN
A psychiatrist who understands the indissoluble link between body and mind, mind and body...
KELLY BROGAN, MD, is a holistic psychiatrist, author of the New York Times Bestselling book, A Mind of Your Own, Own Your Self, the children’s book, A Time For Rain, and co-editor of the landmark textbook Integrative Therapies for Depression. She is the founder of the online healing program Vital Mind Reset, and the membership community, Vital Life Project. She completed her psychiatric training and fellowship at NYU Medical Center after graduating from Cornell University Medical College, and has a B.S. from M.I.T. in Systems Neuroscience. She is specialized in a root-cause resolution approach to psychiatric syndromes and symptoms
BRUCE LIPTON
Author of The Biology of Belief this highly qualified stem cell biologist understands better than any the quantum reality of our biology and the way in which our thinking and our beliefs influences our biology.
Powerful! Elegant! Simple! In a style that is as accessible as it is meaningful, Dr. Bruce Lipton offers nothing less that the long sought-after “missing link” between life and consciousness. In doing so, he answers the oldest questions, and solves the deepest mysteries, of our past. I have no doubt that The Biology of Belief will become a cornerstone for the science of the new millennium. Gregg Braden New York Times best selling author
Sadly mainstream medical orthodoxy is studiously ignoring the truth of Lipton’s discoveries – because of course the reality he uncovers is highly inconvenient. It is therefore up to each individual to embrace the truths contained in The Biology of Belief to the extent we render the old allopathic paradigm redundant.... Don’t be misled by the clarity of Lipton’s style or his latter day theatrics. I have sat through several lengthy presentations from this man and he is one of the most brilliant men on the planet today. He exudes health and vitality.
ANDREW SAUL - THE MEGAVITAMIN MAN
This man has worked tirelessly to perpetuate the work of Linus Pauling and Abram Hoffer and their researches into Orthomolecular Medicine, namely treating major diseases with micronutrients.
His website is an absolutely invaluable resource that I have used repeatedly to treat myself and my family.
See Main Index 8.1 DOCTOR YOURSELF! on this website.
I love the title! Because this is what we should all be doing. And it is perfectly possible.
And the other missing page is:
8.6 WAS PRIMITIVE MEDICINE SO PRIMITIVE AFTER ALL...?
A HISTORY OF TRIAL AND ERROR
The entire history of medicine is a story of continuous trial and error – an awful lot of the latter.
Let’s get down to first principles.
What are we doing when we medicate?
Two things –
1 we are trying to save lives
2 we are trying to improve quality of life by removing unpleasant symptoms
Symptoms are the body’s way of signifying that something is wrong. Diagnosis of symptoms depends upon an understanding of the way in which the body works and what gives rise to the symptoms in the first place.
Medicine can only be predicated upon what is known and what can be seen. For the first few millennia without the assistance of microscopy what could be seen was literally that – what could be seen with the naked eye. The invention of microscopy inevitably changed all that – not necessarily for the better. Until that time arrived physicians were constricted by what they could see and what they knew of the body’s functioning.
PRIMITIVE MEDICINE
Jeremy Narby has described in his book The Cosmic Serpent how to this day the Navaho Indians imbibe psychedelics in order to be able to commune with the spirits of plants, because they know that in Nature there is to be discovered a remedy for every ill.
This almost certainly was the origin of all medicine, the origin of the notion that it is possible to heal through discovering an herb or any other plant that contains healing properties.
The problem we have in our much vaunted civilisation is we don’t have access to more than a fraction of what Nature has to offer. We only have access to that that has been monetized – either though drugs or supplements.
This is the main difference between the medicine of today and the medicine of the Stone Age. A BBC article comments condescendingly ‘The early physicians stumbled upon herbal substances of real power, without understanding the manner of their working.’ And we do?
This is the million dollar question – do we truly understand the ‘manner of their working’ – or do we just think we do...??
The same article gives the following examples of herbs that have been incorporated into contemporary medical practice:
1 Snakeroot plant is used in orthodox medical practice to reduce blood pressure.
2 Doctors in ancient India gave an extract of foxglove to patients with legs swollen by dropsy, an excess of fluid resulting from a weak heart;
3 Digitalis, a constituent of foxglove, is now a standard stimulant for the heart.
4 Curare, smeared on the tip of arrows in the Amazonian jungle to paralyze the prey, is an important muscle relaxant in modern surgery.’
Gradually over the centuries knowledge of the healing properties of plants accumulated so that by the 6th century BC we find a physician working in India in about the 6th century BC, Susruta listing literally hundreds of herbal remedies.
And these remedies have continued to be recognised as efficacious in treating the whole spectrum of human disease conditions to the extent that there has been mounting concern in the pharmaceutical industry at the continuing widespread use of herbal remedies in preference to pharmaceutical drugs.
Big Pharma will never lose an opportunity to warn against the dangers of self medicating with natural products – which is laughable when you consider the well documented lethality of many prescription medications.
In any case this should not lead us to imagine plants and herbs in ancient times were reckoned to be the main means of healing sick individuals.
So called primitive peoples were far more advanced than we are today in one respect – they realised that all illness has a spiritual or mental component as well as a physical component. They thus acknowledged something that we have lost, namely that herbs and plants could only address the surface of the problem – the symptoms. In order to truly heal a patient it was necessary to be rid of the cause of the ailment. And for primitive peoples this was often caused by evil spirits and would require an exorcism.
We may scoff at this, but the science of epigenetics has proved conclusively that sickness is always related to environmental issues, which includes primarily the state of mind and the emotional condition of the patient.
Thus it is not enough to address the symptoms. It is essential to get to the root of the problem that caused the diseased condition in the first place.
Of course we now know that environmental issues can include many physical challenges, principally pollution, whether of the water, the food supply, the air or the soil. Anything toxic is a threat to organic homeostasis. But the psychological factor remains a critical factor.
Read Viktor Frankl’s In Search of Meaning to see what I mean.
All the prisoners of the Nazi death camps were confronted by the same horrendous circumstances. All were malnourished. All were diseased to some extent. Those that survived were those that held on to a sense of meaning in their lives in spite of all the horror surrounding then.
Thus the shaman’s exorcism should not be discounted. The mind of man sabotages his health far more than physical stresses.
Incantation, spells and self-induced trances (often assisted by herbal drugs) form the standard practice of the medicine man or shaman.
And it could be said nothing much has changed except the intention behind the incantation, spells and trances. Whereas it used to be to rid the patient of evil spirits now it is to brainwash the patient into believing he or she needs whatever pharmaceuticals doctor thinks best.......
HERE’S A THOUGHT........
How about we stop devolving responsibility for our health onto pharmaceutical companies and their myriad minions and start researching for ourselves what constitutes Health and how best to go about attaining it....
See: ESSENTIAL HEALTH INFORMATION NOT PROVIDED....
ABOVE!
Since it occurs to me that these two pages probably contained the information most inimical to the agenda unfolding around us I thought I would try including that information on this Blog..
I have edited the pages so as to make them more acceptable for publication without removing the essential points. I have removed live links but encourage you to explore the work of all the practitioners mentioned.
The pages concerned come under the chapter heading ANOTHER WAY and are as follows:
2 ESSENTIAL HEALTH INFORMATION NOT PROVIDED....
6 WAS PRIMITIVE MEDICINE SO PRIMITIVE AFTER ALL...?
Here are my edited versions:
ESSENTIAL HEALTH INFORMATION NOT PROVIDED....
‘Your body was designed to stay healthy.
You hold in your hands the power to take control of your health
Never, Never let anyone take your right to health away from you’
Dr Joseph Mercola
Does this sound like hate speech?
Does this sound like radicalization?
Should this information be classified as terrorism?
Ask yourself this question:
WHY IS ANYBODY WHO SUGGESTS YOU CAN BE IN CONTROL OF YOUR OWN HEALTH, YOUR OWN LIFE, YOUR OWN BODY being Targeted, Censored, De-platformed And Subjected To Relentless Smear Campaigns In The Mainstream Media.....????
Find below a list of nine Health Practitioners identified by Britain’s Centre for Countering Digital Hate as members of The Disinformation Dozen. Far from purveying Disinformation these health practitioners provide information which is becoming increasingly critical to your very survival:
Dr Joseph Mercola
Robert F Kennedy Children’s Health Defence
Ty and Charlene Bollinger
Sherri Tenpenny
Rashid Buttar
Erin Elizabeth
Sayer Ji Greenmedinfo
Kelly Brogan
Christiane Northrup
I recommend you subscribe to the Newsletters of all these practitioners to receive daily/weekly tips and updates on how to boost your own immune system and look after your own health and hopefully never have to engage with the pharmaceutical industry again...
DR JOSEPH MERCOLA
Of all these Practitioners Dr Joseph Mercola has been singled out for particularly vicious censorship, no doubt because he has – or had – the largest following and shares with David Icke, Alex Jones and Jon Rappoport the ability to link the dots and see where all this is leading.
Mercola’s work is summed up in the concluding words of a speech he gave when required to limit access to information on his website:
‘Your body was designed to stay healthy.
You hold in your hands the power to take control of your health
Never, Never let anyone take your right to health away from you’
It will be seen that this is the precise opposite of what the world’s governments and health authorities are trying to convince you since the dawn of the COVID era.
You are being trained to think you have no control over your health.
You are being trained to believe you are a victim and nothing you can do will prevent you falling prey to the latest pathogen that they claim to be stalking the globe. Except that is a so called vaccine...
I don’t care how much money this man has made propagating his message. I don’t care what anyone says about him. His message is absolutely critical to the healthful survival of the human race.
The reason Mercola is so dangerous to the mainstream narrative is he has a huge following and he references every single statement he makes so the reader can check it out for him/her self, so at the end of the day there can be no question in the reader’s mind that he is purveying wild conspiracy theories. There can only be the conviction that he is purveying the truth.
IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE I RECOMMEND YOU ENGAGE WITH ALL OF THE FOLLOWING:
Two of my heroes throughout this Pandemic nonsense have been Dr Tom Cowan and Dr Andrew Kaufmann who each explain as clearly as anyone why the virus theory upon which this so called pandemic is based is outdated, anachronistic and erroneous. I’m surprised they weren’t included in CCDH’s Disinformation Dozen, since they have been incredibly proactive ever since the outset of the pandemic.
DR TOM COWAN
The clue to understanding Dr Cowan’s thinking is that he early discovered the work of Rudolph Steiner who was one of the great visionary teachers of the 20th century, who in turn was hugely influenced by the thinking of the poet and polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
For an interesting blog that gives a good flavour of Goethe’s attitude to science see:
GOETHEAN SCIENCE DISCUSSION: GOETHEAN SCIENCE’S NEW RELEVANCE AND SELF HEALING
https://blog.goethean.science/?sort=1
To find out more about Rudolph Steiner I suggest you go here:
RUDOLPH STEINER
https://www.rudolfsteiner.org
‘Steiner also understood that it is futile to answer a question that has not been asked. He waited until he found an audience in the Theosophical Society in Berlin that wanted him to speak out of esoteric wisdom and traditions. This activity immediately changed the public perceptions of Steiner from philosopher and scientist to spiritual teacher. The isolation of these categories—supposedly you can be either a scientist or a spiritual researcher—continues to interfere with understanding of his work. A genuinely holistic or integral worldview begins to be possible only when that prejudice is overcome.’
In my view Dr Cowan epitomises a ‘genuinely holistic and integral worldview’
See also LISTEN TO THE EXPERTS (Under Chapter 2 Main Index)
DR ZACH BUSH MD
I have explained elsewhere how I found Dr Bush’s perspective on the pandemic incredibly inspiring. He is above all an ecologist and understands how viruses and bacteria are an essential part of the world in which we live and how we have got it disastrously wrong when we set ourselves at war with the natural world – including viruses and bacteria upon which we depend for our very life and survival.
Dr Bush has given numerous interviews since the inception of the pandemic, which can still be found on You Tube. His voice is an absolutely essential corrective to the nonsense we’ve all been subjected to.
ALFA VEDIC – DR BARRE LANDO
Alfa Vedic still has a You Tube channel. This channel contains a wealth of information to help you understand how bodily ecology really works. See: HOW OUR BODIES ACTUALLY WORK..
.
This information is absolutely ESSENTIAL for an understanding of why Pasteur’s Germ Theory, upon which the entire edifice of the contemporary medical industrial complex is based, makes NO SENSE AT ALL:
‘MICROORGANISMS ARE NOT THE CAUSE OF DISEASE. THEY DO NOT CREATE INFECTIONS. THEY RECYCLE AND HELP CLEAN UP OUR TERRAIN’ BARRE LANDO
If you watch all the videos on this you tube channel you will understand why everything we are being subjected to by health authorities in 2021 is WRONG
SAYER JI
A man who understands the perspective from which Zach Bush and Barre Lando are coming is Sayer Ji. Above all he understands the paradigm shift that occurred with the discovery of the Human Microbiome and has worked tirelessly to spread the word about the new understanding of our biology that has emerged since.
This man has a profound understanding of the philosophical implications of the discovery of the Microbiome and the way in which it TOTALLY INVALIDATES the paradigm under which medicine is being practised in the world today and particularly in the COVID era. Up until March 2020 and the announcement of the COVID pandemic Ji was focussed on the development of his extraordinary resource Greenmedinfo.com.
Since March last year Ji has transformed himself into a major focus of activism against the insanity that is the COVID Plandemic. Because of his years of research he understands better than any how absurd is the narrative informing the COVID era. As befits a man with an exceptionally Inquiring mind Ji has dived down numerous rabbit holes in order to understand what is going on at the macro level; which is why he has been widely censored off you tube and all social media platforms. But it has all been in the cause of alerting the world to the true implications of what is transpiring in the world today.
Sayer Ji is also behind an invaluable website called:
QUESTIONING COVID
Now it maybe that every expert on this website is talking a pile of twaddle (highly unlikely) but what I like most about the website is the principle that informs it namely :
THE RIGHT TO QUESTION
THE RIGHT TO QUESTION IS THE MOST INALIENABLE RIGHT WE HAVE
KELLY BROGAN
A psychiatrist who understands the indissoluble link between body and mind, mind and body...
KELLY BROGAN, MD, is a holistic psychiatrist, author of the New York Times Bestselling book, A Mind of Your Own, Own Your Self, the children’s book, A Time For Rain, and co-editor of the landmark textbook Integrative Therapies for Depression. She is the founder of the online healing program Vital Mind Reset, and the membership community, Vital Life Project. She completed her psychiatric training and fellowship at NYU Medical Center after graduating from Cornell University Medical College, and has a B.S. from M.I.T. in Systems Neuroscience. She is specialized in a root-cause resolution approach to psychiatric syndromes and symptoms
BRUCE LIPTON
Author of The Biology of Belief this highly qualified stem cell biologist understands better than any the quantum reality of our biology and the way in which our thinking and our beliefs influences our biology.
Powerful! Elegant! Simple! In a style that is as accessible as it is meaningful, Dr. Bruce Lipton offers nothing less that the long sought-after “missing link” between life and consciousness. In doing so, he answers the oldest questions, and solves the deepest mysteries, of our past. I have no doubt that The Biology of Belief will become a cornerstone for the science of the new millennium. Gregg Braden New York Times best selling author
Sadly mainstream medical orthodoxy is studiously ignoring the truth of Lipton’s discoveries – because of course the reality he uncovers is highly inconvenient. It is therefore up to each individual to embrace the truths contained in The Biology of Belief to the extent we render the old allopathic paradigm redundant.... Don’t be misled by the clarity of Lipton’s style or his latter day theatrics. I have sat through several lengthy presentations from this man and he is one of the most brilliant men on the planet today. He exudes health and vitality.
ANDREW SAUL - THE MEGAVITAMIN MAN
This man has worked tirelessly to perpetuate the work of Linus Pauling and Abram Hoffer and their researches into Orthomolecular Medicine, namely treating major diseases with micronutrients.
His website is an absolutely invaluable resource that I have used repeatedly to treat myself and my family.
See Main Index 8.1 DOCTOR YOURSELF! on this website.
I love the title! Because this is what we should all be doing. And it is perfectly possible.
And the other missing page is:
8.6 WAS PRIMITIVE MEDICINE SO PRIMITIVE AFTER ALL...?
A HISTORY OF TRIAL AND ERROR
The entire history of medicine is a story of continuous trial and error – an awful lot of the latter.
Let’s get down to first principles.
What are we doing when we medicate?
Two things –
1 we are trying to save lives
2 we are trying to improve quality of life by removing unpleasant symptoms
Symptoms are the body’s way of signifying that something is wrong. Diagnosis of symptoms depends upon an understanding of the way in which the body works and what gives rise to the symptoms in the first place.
Medicine can only be predicated upon what is known and what can be seen. For the first few millennia without the assistance of microscopy what could be seen was literally that – what could be seen with the naked eye. The invention of microscopy inevitably changed all that – not necessarily for the better. Until that time arrived physicians were constricted by what they could see and what they knew of the body’s functioning.
PRIMITIVE MEDICINE
Jeremy Narby has described in his book The Cosmic Serpent how to this day the Navaho Indians imbibe psychedelics in order to be able to commune with the spirits of plants, because they know that in Nature there is to be discovered a remedy for every ill.
This almost certainly was the origin of all medicine, the origin of the notion that it is possible to heal through discovering an herb or any other plant that contains healing properties.
The problem we have in our much vaunted civilisation is we don’t have access to more than a fraction of what Nature has to offer. We only have access to that that has been monetized – either though drugs or supplements.
This is the main difference between the medicine of today and the medicine of the Stone Age. A BBC article comments condescendingly ‘The early physicians stumbled upon herbal substances of real power, without understanding the manner of their working.’ And we do?
This is the million dollar question – do we truly understand the ‘manner of their working’ – or do we just think we do...??
The same article gives the following examples of herbs that have been incorporated into contemporary medical practice:
1 Snakeroot plant is used in orthodox medical practice to reduce blood pressure.
2 Doctors in ancient India gave an extract of foxglove to patients with legs swollen by dropsy, an excess of fluid resulting from a weak heart;
3 Digitalis, a constituent of foxglove, is now a standard stimulant for the heart.
4 Curare, smeared on the tip of arrows in the Amazonian jungle to paralyze the prey, is an important muscle relaxant in modern surgery.’
Gradually over the centuries knowledge of the healing properties of plants accumulated so that by the 6th century BC we find a physician working in India in about the 6th century BC, Susruta listing literally hundreds of herbal remedies.
And these remedies have continued to be recognised as efficacious in treating the whole spectrum of human disease conditions to the extent that there has been mounting concern in the pharmaceutical industry at the continuing widespread use of herbal remedies in preference to pharmaceutical drugs.
Big Pharma will never lose an opportunity to warn against the dangers of self medicating with natural products – which is laughable when you consider the well documented lethality of many prescription medications.
In any case this should not lead us to imagine plants and herbs in ancient times were reckoned to be the main means of healing sick individuals.
So called primitive peoples were far more advanced than we are today in one respect – they realised that all illness has a spiritual or mental component as well as a physical component. They thus acknowledged something that we have lost, namely that herbs and plants could only address the surface of the problem – the symptoms. In order to truly heal a patient it was necessary to be rid of the cause of the ailment. And for primitive peoples this was often caused by evil spirits and would require an exorcism.
We may scoff at this, but the science of epigenetics has proved conclusively that sickness is always related to environmental issues, which includes primarily the state of mind and the emotional condition of the patient.
Thus it is not enough to address the symptoms. It is essential to get to the root of the problem that caused the diseased condition in the first place.
Of course we now know that environmental issues can include many physical challenges, principally pollution, whether of the water, the food supply, the air or the soil. Anything toxic is a threat to organic homeostasis. But the psychological factor remains a critical factor.
Read Viktor Frankl’s In Search of Meaning to see what I mean.
All the prisoners of the Nazi death camps were confronted by the same horrendous circumstances. All were malnourished. All were diseased to some extent. Those that survived were those that held on to a sense of meaning in their lives in spite of all the horror surrounding then.
Thus the shaman’s exorcism should not be discounted. The mind of man sabotages his health far more than physical stresses.
Incantation, spells and self-induced trances (often assisted by herbal drugs) form the standard practice of the medicine man or shaman.
And it could be said nothing much has changed except the intention behind the incantation, spells and trances. Whereas it used to be to rid the patient of evil spirits now it is to brainwash the patient into believing he or she needs whatever pharmaceuticals doctor thinks best.......
HERE’S A THOUGHT........
How about we stop devolving responsibility for our health onto pharmaceutical companies and their myriad minions and start researching for ourselves what constitutes Health and how best to go about attaining it....
See: ESSENTIAL HEALTH INFORMATION NOT PROVIDED....
ABOVE!