May all your Medicines be Green
Hippocrates – the father of medicine – said, “Let your food be your medicine, and let your medicine be your food.” Medicines are a subset of foods, according to Hippocrates. I like that. What are medicines today? What are foods?
Foods are natural. They come from nature. Foods are things that live and grow. w in nature. When we concentrate our foods, or choose specific foods, they can become medicines and heal our illness. How does this work?
Hippocrates lived in 400 BC. Medicine was in it’s infancy, but he knew a thing or two. All illness is caused by a deficiency or an excess. If you are deficient in a nutrient – taking concentrated foods may help, or cure your illness. It is the only medicine that addresses the cause.
Illness is an imbalance. Illness can be caused by many kinds of deficiency or excess, not just foods. You might suffer from deficiencies or excesses of toxins, of exercise, of growth, of your immune system, of bacteria, etc.
When you deficient of a nutrient, eating more of, or concentrations of the right foods can correct the imbalance. When you have an excess, you might think the only solution is to stop eating the excess. But you might also treat an excess by eating more of other foods – which displace the excess. This can be mistaken, by the inattentive, for the ‘placebo effect’.
Hippocrates also knew something about toxic medicines. There have always been people who treat illness with poisons. Poisons appear to re-establish balance not be building up the weak side – instead by breaking down the strong. If you are suffering from pains of arthritis – a poison that anesthetizes your nervous system can make you feel better, even though your health is actually worse.
He knew that foods are the best medicine – and poisons are only resorted to when the natural approach fails.
Patent medicines are toxic medicines. They are not things that grow. They are not from the planet earth. They are things created by man, to try and ‘trick’ our bodies into feeling ‘non-sickness’. Patent medicines are not foods – they are unnatural poisons. According to Hippocrates – they are not proper medicines. I’m with Hippocrates on this one.
Natural medicines work by improving your healthiness. I call them healthicines. I think of patent medicines as ‘mad’icines. You only take them when you are driven mad by an illness that can’t be understood.
No-one keeps track of green medicines.
If a natural medicine has a success, it is not counted.
If you have cancer, and you take patent medicine – chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery – but you die, that’s normal. We expected you to die anyway. If 30 percent of cancer patients who take patent medicines live 5 years – that’s called success. There are so few cases of patent medicine actually ‘curing’ cancer, that they are not simply counted. Living 5 years after treatment is called success. Only now are we starting to learn that the sad, long term effects of chemotherapy and radiation – last much longer than 5 years.
If you have cancer, and you take a natural medicine – and you are cured – it doesn’t count. It wasn’t in the ‘big leagues’, so it doesn’t count. There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of people who have ‘cured’ cancer, specifically avoiding patent medicines. But that’s just ‘anecdotal evidence’. There were no clinical studies – they only happen with patent medicines. If you take a natural medicine and you die, it was your fault, for not taking patent medicines.
What about ‘clinical studies’? Aren’t they the real standard we use to measure our medicines?
Clinical studies are typically short (because they are expensive) and directed towards testing a single ‘patent medicine’ against a placebo. Drug companies don’t dare test against the ‘current best treatment’ because they want to market ‘new patent medicines’, not ‘best treatments’. Best treatments are not tracked. Even though clinical studies are short – ostensibly to save cost and get the product to market – they are not tracked when the ‘clinical study’ is released into the public. As a result, it can take years, and many deaths, to remove a killer medicine from the market.
If we really want to pursue healthiness, we need to track every diagnosis, every treatment, every cure and every failure. This is especially important for illnesses that our best medicines ‘cannot cure’, like cancer,multiple sclerosis, arthritis, Parkinson’s Disease, Alzheimer’s Disease, etc. Tracking a small subset of patients, whether they are in a ‘clinical study’ or not – is only anecdotal evidence.
Green medicines have proven to be effective and very safe in many cases. They are, after all, mostly foods. Patent medicines can be more effective in specific cases, but tend to be more dangerous, less safe. They are, for the most part – toxic little white pills or transparent injections. We use doctors and patent medicines to kill people on death row – if we are going to kill people, we should be more honest about it and not pretend we are ‘medicating’ them.
Unfortunately, your doctor is not likely to prescribe these green medicines, no matter how well they perform. And in many cases, if he tried, he would find they are simply not available – or even illegal. If you want to get them, you can only break the law. Many of the most effective medicines, green medicines and patent medicines, are simply not available for commercial or legal reasons.
Note: This post is a minor revision of a post that I originally wrote for GreenMedInfo.com. It has also been published on sott.net and on WakingTimes.com
