3g. Medicine
Our whole structure around health and medicine also houses stories.
- You are not responsible (or knowledgeable enough of) your own body to make it well if it goes wrong. You are not capable of maintaining sovereignty over your own body.
- If it goes wrong you take it to a ‘qualified’ allopathic expert (eg a doctor) who will tell you what to do. In the West will usually prescribe an intervention based on pills or surgery or some other treatment that creates profit for huge international pharmaceutical industries.
Don’t get me wrong though! If I broke my arm I wouldn’t be going to an herbalist!
Western medicine has, in the past, produced ‘world saving’ vaccines and antibiotics. It has created drugs and surgical techniques that do utterly amazing things. It has virtually eliminated all the serious communicable diseases (in the First World) such as leprosy, plague, tuberculosis, tetanus, syphilis, rheumatic fever, pneumonia, meningitis, polio, septicaemia. There are very few women dying in childbirth compared to the past.
Western medicine has been, and is, a triumph in the face of these problems that worried us back then, the way diabetes, dementia, cancer and heart disease worry us today. Even the big medical problems of the 1930’s and 40’s have literally vanished. The brilliance of these vaccines have saved untold lives and built an amazing faith in vaccines and the ‘silver bullet’ one hit wonder of pills and injections. So much faith in fact that precautionary principles have been abandoned to vaccinate the world against Covid-19.
But the age of infectious disease has given way to the age of chronic disorders. The major killers today are heart and vascular disease, chronic degenerative diseases and cancer, largely incurable and increasing in incidence. The strategies that worked so well for all but eliminating acute infectious diseases just don’t seem to work for chronic and degenerative conditions.
“The prevalence of asthma, multiple sclerosis, chronic fatigue, immune deficiency syndrome, HIV and a host of other debilitating conditions is increasing. Conventional biomedicine – so strikingly successful in the treatment of overwhelming infections, surgical and medical emergencies and congenital defects, has been unable to stem the tide of these conditions”.
James Gordon M.D., Washington, D.C.
During the time of Sir Isaac Newton the human body was viewed as an intricate biological machine. The Universe was an orderly, predictable but divine mechanism, ‘a grand clockwork’. Although hundreds of years have passed, Western scientific medicine still holds the same basic philosophy, but is more sophisticated in studying biological mechanisms at a molecular level.
The first Newtonian approaches were essentially surgical. The body was seen as if it were a complex plumbing system. If it went wrong the offending piece was removed or bypassed. These days instead of using knives, drugs are often used to do more or less the same things.
Humans though, are far more than walking sacks of chemicals. The animating life-force central to other medical systems is an energy that is not addressed by modern scientific methodology and there are no Western medical models that explain what it is and what it does. It is misguided by the concept that all illnesses are cured by physically repairing or eliminating abnormal cells. This is partly due to a conflict between Western and Eastern philosophies and has its roots in the division of science and religion along with the destruction of folk medicine in both U.S. and Europe.
There are different paradigms at work here. Research using essentially Newtownian science tells us that 5G for example is pretty safe. But people involved in quantam science or energy work see the radiation as major disruptors to human beings as energy beings or ‘fields of force’.
The strategies that worked so well for tackling acute infectious diseases are inappropriate for dealing with the chronic and degenerative conditions today. Patients with these can be at best increasingly ‘patched up’ by orthodox treatments but at spiralling health care costs and this plays directly into the hands of those with vested interests. Medical methodology in a ‘quantum’ reality is being held back by large corporate interest in league with government legislation. After all when you are diagnosed with cancer you are suddenly worth (a minimum of) $300,000 to the cancer industry.
“As a retired physician, I can honestly say that unless you are in a serious accident, your best chance of living to a ripe old age is to avoid doctors and hospitals and learn about nutrition, herbal medicine and other forms of natural medicine unless you are fortunate enough to have a naturopathic physician available. Almost all drugs are toxic and are designed only to treat symptoms and not to cure anyone. Vaccines are highly dangerous, have never been adequately studied or proven to be effective, and have a poor risk/reward ratio. Most surgery is unnecessary and most textbooks of medicine are inaccurate and deceptive. Almost every disease is said to be ideopathic (without known cause) or genetic – although this is untrue. In short, our mainstream medical system is hopelessly inept and/or corrupt. The treatment of cancer and degenerative diseases is a national scandal. The sooner you learn this, the better off you will be.”
A. Greenburg, M.D.
Licensing
Earlier in the book I mentioned the insidious effect of Codex Alimentarius on taking our choices away and putting them into the hands of Big Corporate. This limiting of choice usually takes place via an officially sanctioned licensing system. A practitioner or manufacturer of foods or supplements must produce under a licence, within the guidelines of that license, or they will be ‘struck off’. Often the requirements for that license are so complicated and expensive that small-scale operatives are unable to set-up in business or continue to operate if that already produce or apply ‘treatments’. A fast and effective way to eliminate competition. So hundreds of herbal medicinal products are banned from sale in Britain under what campaigners say is a ‘discriminatory and disproportionate European law’.
They do this through a system of licencing. The scam is simple: you introduce licences for something and then anyone who wants to do it must do it within your limits and restrictions or they don’t get a licence and so cannot practice. If you want to stop people doing that ‘something’ you make the requirements to get a licence so complex and costly that you are, in effect, denying them the right to practice or produce.
They use this licencing technique throughout society to impose control and nowhere more so than in what passes for ‘medicine’. A doctor needs a licence to practice and if they use healing methods that work, but are not recognised by the arbiters of the licence (ultimately Big Pharma) they lose their licence and are struck off.
The licencing noose is also being used ever more widely in alternative and complimentary medicine to install centralised control and dictatorship by a self-appointed authority. The major corporations have been buying up health store chains for years to kidnap the ‘alternatives’ industry.
It is still difficult to find definitives as to how the legislation actually works, it all seems so underhand. It seems under the radar of most people, it is a cynical way to make new laws that govern our choices. Some people think that the logical result of this is that even prescribing such things onion soup or peppermint tea as aids to health may become an illegal act because it is prescribing treatment without a license.
The new licensing system prescribes what is and isn’t a ‘treatment’ to those acceptable by the corporations in control – effectively banning whole realms of, sometimes experimental, sometimes traditional, always inexpensive, interventions. Even the most common plants like nettle and garlic, and what a doctor can and can’t do with them, come under this legislation.
At the same time, people are wising-up to the effectiveness of what were once called ‘simples’ in traditional folk medicine and their powers for health management. In the middle-ages in Europe the practitioners of this type of medicine were literally ‘burnt at the stake’ as part of social cleansing and religious persecution. This ‘burning of the witches’ robbed us of a truly important role, most often practised by women, of the local village healer, the hedgewitch. Simple, local, often food-based alteratives to help manage an ongoing state of health.
This aspect of our lives as self-healers is now controlled by the sometimes misplaced authority of doctors. Far too often they promote the products of big pharma over more simple remedies because if they don’t, they are liable to be ‘struck off’ under their own licensing system for promoting unscientific, untested and unproven treatments. Yet no research into simple, readily available and natural cures is made because there is no profit in it for the big corporations, like valueing a boost to the immune system over a vaccine.
Perhaps unwittingly this oppression opens the doors to two very important factors in a ‘post-capitalist economy’: mutuality and gardening. As people rediscover traditional techniques for growing and using plants in simple health management for themselves, they will not need the ‘tainted’ products of pharmaceutical industries. I hope that people will increasingly share their discoveries with each other using social media.
Many people are recognising that new legislation concerning food and health, under the guise of safety and harmonisation, is structured to limit our choices and access to natural foods and alternative medicines to profit Big Corporate.
Although licensing also affects the sale of seeds, it hasn’t yet stopped the simple sharing of seed between people in social networks, although, already in some places like Tanzania, you can be imprisoned for this. Genetic manipulation has highly questionable and wholly unpredictable effects on nature but it hasn’t yet reached the many wild and common plants at the heart of simple and effective remedies that can be grown even on the smallest windowsill, collected from the wild and made in a kitchen.
My hope is that Codex Alimentarius and similar ‘trade agreements’ will eventually have entirely the opposite effect intended by those who seek to exploit nature for personal profit. In the same way that ‘every action has an equal and opposite reaction’, many people, once they understand why their choices are being limited, will reclaim the responsibility for their own health from the profit motives of Big Pharma and a National Health Service that is really a National Sickness Service.
So far there is no legislation (that can be enforced) to stop people walking out to the countryside to pick wild plants for personal use – or to stop them growing and eating their own healthy foods and herbs at home, although Monsanto and other drug companies certainly have designs on changing this situation though the bio-piracy of plants.
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