Diseases, including the terrific ones like small pox and malaria, are the products of unnatural living, that is, they are the consequences of civilization.
No animal in the pristine forests suffer from disease or old age. They are the curses of man only.
As soon as diseases appeared, man divined cures for them. These remedies were mostly herbal in nature. If you visit a traditional herbal shop in Kerala, India, you will be surprised to find heaps of dried leaves, roots, berries, and nuts there. A concoction of a few of these often aromatic plant products used to cure almost all the diseases known to the local people. There were also mono cures, that is, a single dose of a particular leaf, root, or nut that could effect a miraculous cure of a particular ailment.
All life forms are filled with the Universal Life force Energy, the energy that manifests itself as growth, regeneration and response to stimuli in living things. More than the chemical composition of the ingredients the Life Force in them, cause the healing. For example, when the njavara kizhi, a very effective Ayurvedic preparation in the treatment of acute rheumatism and consequent wasting of the limbs and muscles, was subjected to chemical analysis, nothing other than the usual compounds common to milk and rice was discovered. Still, in practice, the cure brought about by the preparation is undisputable.
In the eighteenth century, Pasteur discovered that many diseases were caused by microbes. Search for methods to prevent the infection of viruses like the rabies virus, and medicines to kill harmful bacteria in the human body resulted in the invention of vaccines and antibiotics.
To alleviate aches and pains and to stimulate retarded body functions, medicines were invented. For quicker action, the practice of injecting medicines intramuscular or intravenous came into practice.
There are only two ways in which foreign materials can enter the human body, the mouth and the nostrils. By piercing the muscles or veins and introducing medicines into the human body is clearly against nature, and therefore, unscientific. Most injections do not kill people but many do. In any case, the number of cases in which human lives are saved are not greater than the number of people killed immediately or gradually by injections.
Most drugs used in modern medicine are synthetic products. Man has lived on plant products for the last two hundred thousand years and, instinctively, human body can assimilate or eliminate plant products. In the case of low molecular weight chemicals, human body is incapable of breaking up or eliminating them. For example, aluminium hydroxide, used as an antacid, is converted into aluminium chloride in the stomach and finds its way into the bloodstream. Human body has no experience and mechanism in expelling this chemical. It may, therefore, get deposited in some part of the anatomy causing unexpected and often catastrophic effects. There are people who believe that the Ulshimer’s disease is caused by aluminium deposits in the brain.
In the desperate and often vain attempt to eliminate drugs from the system, the kidneys are damaged. The unprecedented increase in the nephrological disorders is a direct result of the use of modern medicines. Even the apparently harmless painkiller like paracetamol may damage the liver and kidneys in the long run. The thalidomide tragedy is one of the numerous misfortunes the advent of modern medicine has gifted human race.
Because modern medicine is the contribution of the West, which has had undisputed say in matters relating to science in the last few centuries, and because the political clout of the Europeans during this period was overwhelming, other system like Ayurveda and Acupuncture did not receive the attention and admiration they deserved. Even in India and China, where these great sciences got evolved, these systems of healing were neglected.
For most diseases, effective treatment without side effects is available in Ayurveda. It is high time that people in this globalized era woke up to the dangers of modern medicine and thought about ancient parallel systems of medicine.
No animal in the pristine forests suffer from disease or old age. They are the curses of man only.
As soon as diseases appeared, man divined cures for them. These remedies were mostly herbal in nature. If you visit a traditional herbal shop in Kerala, India, you will be surprised to find heaps of dried leaves, roots, berries, and nuts there. A concoction of a few of these often aromatic plant products used to cure almost all the diseases known to the local people. There were also mono cures, that is, a single dose of a particular leaf, root, or nut that could effect a miraculous cure of a particular ailment.
All life forms are filled with the Universal Life force Energy, the energy that manifests itself as growth, regeneration and response to stimuli in living things. More than the chemical composition of the ingredients the Life Force in them, cause the healing. For example, when the njavara kizhi, a very effective Ayurvedic preparation in the treatment of acute rheumatism and consequent wasting of the limbs and muscles, was subjected to chemical analysis, nothing other than the usual compounds common to milk and rice was discovered. Still, in practice, the cure brought about by the preparation is undisputable.
In the eighteenth century, Pasteur discovered that many diseases were caused by microbes. Search for methods to prevent the infection of viruses like the rabies virus, and medicines to kill harmful bacteria in the human body resulted in the invention of vaccines and antibiotics.
To alleviate aches and pains and to stimulate retarded body functions, medicines were invented. For quicker action, the practice of injecting medicines intramuscular or intravenous came into practice.
There are only two ways in which foreign materials can enter the human body, the mouth and the nostrils. By piercing the muscles or veins and introducing medicines into the human body is clearly against nature, and therefore, unscientific. Most injections do not kill people but many do. In any case, the number of cases in which human lives are saved are not greater than the number of people killed immediately or gradually by injections.
Most drugs used in modern medicine are synthetic products. Man has lived on plant products for the last two hundred thousand years and, instinctively, human body can assimilate or eliminate plant products. In the case of low molecular weight chemicals, human body is incapable of breaking up or eliminating them. For example, aluminium hydroxide, used as an antacid, is converted into aluminium chloride in the stomach and finds its way into the bloodstream. Human body has no experience and mechanism in expelling this chemical. It may, therefore, get deposited in some part of the anatomy causing unexpected and often catastrophic effects. There are people who believe that the Ulshimer’s disease is caused by aluminium deposits in the brain.
In the desperate and often vain attempt to eliminate drugs from the system, the kidneys are damaged. The unprecedented increase in the nephrological disorders is a direct result of the use of modern medicines. Even the apparently harmless painkiller like paracetamol may damage the liver and kidneys in the long run. The thalidomide tragedy is one of the numerous misfortunes the advent of modern medicine has gifted human race.
Because modern medicine is the contribution of the West, which has had undisputed say in matters relating to science in the last few centuries, and because the political clout of the Europeans during this period was overwhelming, other system like Ayurveda and Acupuncture did not receive the attention and admiration they deserved. Even in India and China, where these great sciences got evolved, these systems of healing were neglected.
For most diseases, effective treatment without side effects is available in Ayurveda. It is high time that people in this globalized era woke up to the dangers of modern medicine and thought about ancient parallel systems of medicine.
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