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Medical decolonization
By: guest5 Date: November 6, 2020, 12:55 am
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Western Conceptions of Depression and the Colonization of
Women’s Emotions Worldwide
[quote]In a chapter titled “Gender, Depression, and Emotion:
Arguing for a De-colonized Psychology,” scholar-activist
Bhargavi Davar investigates how narrow conceptions of emotions
in the West have led to the medicalization of depression, the
imposition of ineffective approaches to mental health throughout
the Global South, and the pathologization of women’s experiences
worldwide.[/quote]
HTML https://www.madinamerica.com/2020/08/western-conceptions-depression-colonization-womens-emotions-worldwide/
Psilocybin therapy 4 times more effective than antidepressants,
study finds
[quote]A new study is presenting the first published data from
preliminary human trials investigating the effect of
psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy to treat major depressive
disorder (MDD). The incredibly positive results have been
described as just a “taste of things to come” with larger a
Phase 2 trial well underway.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted
psilocybin, the primary psychoactive compound in magic
mushrooms, a Breakthrough Therapy designation on two occasions
over the past 24 months. Initially the designation was granted
to help accelerate trials for severe treatment-resistant
depression, but more recently the classification focused on
trials for major depressive disorder.[/quote]
HTML https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/psilocybin-therapy-major-depression-trial-results-johns-hopkins/
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Re: Medical decolonization
By: guest5 Date: November 16, 2020, 7:02 pm
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30 medicinal plants the Native Americans used on a daily basis
[quote]The Lost Book Of Remedies :
HTML http://bit.ly/natralremedybook
Native Americans are renowned for their medicinal plant
expertise. It is reported they initially started making use of
plants as well as natural herbs for recovery after viewing
animals consume certain plants when they were ill. In order to
shield these plants from over harvesting, the medication men
utilized to pick every 3rd plants they found. Right here are one
of the most versatile plants the Indigenous Americans used in
their daily lives.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8e09BUquB8
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Re: Medical decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 17, 2020, 1:44 am
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OLD CONTENT
In the light of the debate over 'Medicare for All' here in the
States (which implies Western medical care, in other words,
disease care) I think we should share different non-Western
medical practices that we have tried.
I'll start out: I started Urine therapy over a year ago. I don't
get constipated anymore, I feel less hungry because I'm
retaining more nutrients and enzymes, and I can go on longer
fasts without loosing energy. The secret is urea: In the blood
it's toxic, that's why it never gets reabsorbed from the bladder
like other components of urine, but when it's swallowed it has a
cleansing effect on the colon.
I think UT is a really good example of non-western medicine
because it precludes any kind of pharmaceuticals, drugs,
alcohol, and even meat and dairy.
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE6vfWoJcuo
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Decolonization refers to rejection of culture and/or reversal of
changes imposed during the colonial era. For example, putting up
statues of people other than colonialists alongside the statues
of colonialists is not decolonization. Only destroying the
statues of colonialists is decolonization.
Similarly, mere marketing of non-Western medicine is not
decolonization. In the context of medicine, decolonization
should strictly mean phasing out of Western medical practice or,
better yet, Western medical knowledge. In practice, public
availability of Western medicine (which is already widely the
case around the world) has not anywhere led to demand for
phasing out Western medicine. What happens instead is that the
non-Western medicine is interpreted and judged by the standards
of Western medicine.
The video you posted is a good example of this. Look at what is
on the whiteboard. "Urea":
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urea#History
[quote]Urea was first discovered in urine in 1727 by the Dutch
scientist Herman Boerhaave,[30][/quote]
"amino acids":
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amino_acid#History
[quote]The first few amino acids were discovered in the early
19th century.[21][22] In 1806, French chemists Louis-Nicolas
Vauquelin and Pierre Jean Robiquet isolated a compound in
asparagus that was subsequently named asparagine, the first
amino acid to be discovered.[23][24] Cystine was discovered in
1810,[25] although its monomer, cysteine, remained undiscovered
until 1884.[24][26] Glycine and leucine were discovered in
1820.[27] The last of the 20 common amino acids to be discovered
was threonine in 1935 by William Cumming Rose, who also
determined the essential amino acids and established the minimum
daily requirements of all amino acids for optimal
growth.[28][29]
The unity of the chemical category was recognized by Wurtz in
1865, but he gave no particular name to it.[30] Usage of the
term "amino acid" in the English language is from 1898,[31]
while the German term, Aminosäure, was used earlier.[32]
Proteins were found to yield amino acids after enzymatic
digestion or acid hydrolysis. In 1902, Emil Fischer and Franz
Hofmeister independently proposed that proteins are formed from
many amino acids, whereby bonds are formed between the amino
group of one amino acid with the carboxyl group of another,
resulting in a linear structure that Fischer termed
"peptide".[33][/quote]
"fatty acids":
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Eugène_Chevreul
[quote]Michel Eugène Chevreul (31 August 1786 – 9 April 1889)[1]
was a French chemist whose work with fatty acids led to early
applications in the fields of art and science. He is credited
with the discovery of margaric acid, creatine, and designing an
early form of soap made from animal fats and salt.[/quote]
"stem cells":
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell
[quote]Research into stem cells grew out of findings by Ernest
A. McCulloch and James E. Till at the University of Toronto in
the 1960s.[2][3][/quote]
"hormones":
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretin#Discovery
[quote]Secretin was the first hormone to be identified.[10] In
1902, William Bayliss and Ernest Starling were studying how the
nervous system controls the process of digestion.[11] It was
known that the pancreas secreted digestive juices in response to
the passage of food (chyme) through the pyloric sphincter into
the duodenum. They discovered (by cutting all the nerves to the
pancreas in their experimental animals) that this process was
not, in fact, governed by the nervous system. They determined
that a substance secreted by the intestinal lining stimulates
the pancreas after being transported via the bloodstream. They
named this intestinal secretion secretin. Secretin was the first
such "chemical messenger" identified. This type of substance is
now called a hormone, a term coined by Starling in
1905.[12][/quote]
Do you see what is going on? The guy is trying to argue why
urine therapy is effective using Western models! Even if
everyone believes him, no decolonization has occurred; all it
means is that he would have inaugurated one more form of Western
medicine!
You yourself fall into the same trap:
"I'm retaining more nutrients and enzymes"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzyme#Etymology_and_history
[quote]In 1877, German physiologist Wilhelm Kühne (1837–1900)
first used the term enzyme, which comes from Greek
ἔνζυμον, "leavened" or "in
yeast", to describe this process.[11] The word enzyme was used
later to refer to nonliving substances such as pepsin,[/quote]
I already warned about this when talking about "B12" in the
other topic.
I am not discouraging you from studying urine therapy, but I
advise you to start by throwing out all the Western models from
your mind. Only then can you properly study urine therapy as a
non-Western medical practice (as you claim to want it to be).
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What is "nutrition", then?
aryanism.net/culture/aesthetics/food/
What "nutrition" is destroyed from dry-cooking? Water-soluble
nutrients like Vit. C can be destroyed via heat (as well as
water and oxygen)... which doesn't seem to matter as vitamins
were discovered by westerners...
How does a child prevent getting rickets without dependency on
Vit. D (and calcium and phosphorus, I believe)?
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"What is "nutrition", then?"
www.dictionary.com/browse/nutrition
"What "nutrition" is destroyed from dry-cooking?"
Eat a slice of raw carrot. Eat another slice of carrot grilled
for an hour. Can you tell which is more nutritious?
"Water-soluble nutrients like Vit. C"
Do you think people in the ancient world (who had no notion of
"Vitamin C" in their minds) would be unable to tell which is
more nutritious?
(For that matter, how old were you when you first learned about
"vitamins"? Try to remember back to before you learned this. I
am quite confident that even then you would have been able to
tell which slice of carrot is less nutritious had you been asked
back then.)
"How does a child prevent getting rickets"
Sunlight.
"without dependency on Vit. D"
"Vitamin D" is just the model you choose to use to describe what
is going on. The ancients were well aware that exposure to
sunlight is healthy for children's bones without any notion of
"Vitamin D" in their minds. This is what I am trying to get the
world back to.
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I have no idea what nutrition tastes nor feels like (I ate heaps
of junk food as a kid - Mum was rad like that - and I think that
put my body out of whack).
It is stupid of me to assume the ancients themselves were stupid
and ate whatever all willy-nilly and I think that's because I'm
a bit pedantic about knowing EXACTLY what's going into my body
and if it's keeping me healthy. Being observational (what the
people of the ancient times would have been, I suppose) just
seems too... risky? idunno
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The first concept (common to many independently derived
non-Western medical systems) that I suggest you try to grasp is
hot and cold, which refers not to temperature but to the
character of the food:
[img width=1280
height=773]
HTML https://jameskennedymonash.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/chinese-food-chart.jpg[/img]
Which end of the scale do you prefer, tastewise? This will tell
you something about what kind of nutrition is good for you.
(Part of your answer is likely to vary depending on when you ask
yourself the question. But there are also likely to be some
constants independent of occasion, which should reflect your
personality.)
"I'm a bit pedantic about knowing EXACTLY what's going into my
body and if it's keeping me healthy."
The problem is that what keeps you healthy will not necessarily
be the same as what keeps the next person healthy. You are an
individual.
The real problem is that Western medicine does not treat people
as individuals, instead callously treating us as particular
cases of a generalization (hence RDAs). If you believe that
knowing what's going into your body provides you with sufficient
information to know if it's keeping you healthy, then even you
yourself have failed to treat yourself as an individual!
What should be going into your body is not a set of rigid RDAs,
but whatever is required by your unique body on each unique day
as it interacts in real time with unique (and constantly
changing) environmental conditions (habitat, weather, activity,
stress, etc.).
"Being observational (what the people of the ancient times would
have been, I suppose) just seems too... risky?"
What is more risky: trusting your own sensitivity, or assuming
your body just happens to be the most average body in every
parameter (which is what RDAs assume everyone is)?
And yes, if you have been Westernized, then the former really
may be more risky at first. But we have a duty to recover as
much as possible of the innate sensitivity that Western
civilization has beaten out of us.
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Ha!
www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/are-vitamins-a-waste-of-money-a-new-stud
y-says-yes-231521620.html
[quote]Like most people, you probably have a stash of vitamin
and mineral supplements in your bathroom cabinet. In fact,
nearly 70 percent of people take supplements, according to the
industry trade association, the Council for Responsible
Nutrition. Fueled by an increasing focus on health and
“wellness,” dietary supplements have become so popular that
they’re now a $32 billion industry.
But do they actually improve your health? Several studies have
found that taking supplements aren’t associated with living
longer and now a massive new study, published in the Annals of
Internal Medicine, shows that the vast majority won’t help you
live a longer life or reduce the risk of cardiovascular
problems.[/quote]
I do not take supplements.
[quote]Our bodies will always use the vitamins and minerals that
are in food much better than in supplements.”[/quote]
Maybe it's time to start thinking in terms of the foods
themselves as integral entities instead of - as per Western
reductionism - attributing the value of the food to the value of
supposed "vitamins" and "minerals" supposedly "in" food?
Repost:
frbkrm.com/2013/02/17/139/
www.shen-nong.com/eng/lifestyles/food_property_food_tcm.html
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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7554683/Hate-crime-psychologist
-brutally-killed-South-African-home.html
[quote]A brilliant psychologist and specialist in hate crime and
violence in South Africa was brutally butchered and had her
throat slit in her own home by a gang of armed robbers.
Leading scholar Dr Mirah Wilks was ambushed and attacked by the
men who had waited until her husband Frank left to worship at
the local synagogue, leaving her home alone.
The group had climbed up onto the roof and removed tiles and
dropped down inside the house and stabbed Mirah at least twelve
times in the chest and back then cut her throat.
...
Dr Wilks, 69, was renowned for her research into hate crimes,
trauma and violence and was a highly respected former Chair of
the Psychological Society of South Africa.
...
She had also gained degrees at the University of Queensland in
Australia and the University of Pennsylvania in the USA and was
working at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg when
she was murdered.
Dr Wilks had moved to Australia from Israel as a young girl and
had a daughter Tarryn and son Brett in Melbourne, Victoria, with
husband Frank and the family later emigrated to South Africa.
...
Counselling psychologist Dr Ingrid Artus said: 'We have a
scarcity of psychologists in South Africa and the service they
provide to society are vital and her loss will impact on
patients.[/quote]
Azania does not need Western psychologists. It should be
thinking about building its own system of psychology (and
medicine more generally), ideally based on local ancient
approaches, that can eventually replace the Western disciplines
as the national (and ultimately international) default. We are
here to help with this.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB87G1hsymQ
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Example of Western attitudes towards medical practice:
"I went to med school therefore only I know what medicine is
right!"
This also illustrates the (Western) corruption of education
which now only serves as a means to gain qualifications.
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Re: Medical decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 17, 2020, 1:56 am
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OLD CONTENT contd.
www.yahoo.com/news/avoid-taking-ibuprofen-covid-19-symptoms-2020
07508.html
[quote]Geneva (AFP) - The World Health Organization recommended
Tuesday that people suffering COVID-19 symptoms avoid taking
ibuprofen, after French officials warned that anti-inflammatory
drugs could worsen effects of the virus.
...
"In the meantime, we recommend using rather paracetamol, and do
not use ibuprofen as a self-medication. That's important," he
said.
...
Paracetamol must be taken strictly according to the recommended
dose, because too much of it can damage the liver.[/quote]
Non-Western medics have long warned that Western pharmaceutical
products in general, even if effective at rapidly mitigating
symptoms of specific illnesses, lead to unhealthy side-effects
elsewhere. This is due two main factors:
1) Western pharma is not custom-prepared for each individual
patient, but is ready-made for general consumption, thus will be
suboptimal relative to most patients' unique metabolism.
2) Western pharma delivers active ingredients in isolation,
hence necessarily stressing the patient's body (which was never
evolved to consume any ingredient except as part of a whole food
containing it alongside the other ingredients contained in the
same food) required to absorb them.
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This is because the medicine was designed with the "survival of
the fittest" Darwinist archetype in mind, the same archetype
which rightists exalt.
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If Yahweh is the creator then lady nature must be his evil
side-kick? "Survival of the fittest" is her paradigm right? Not
"survival of the funniest", or "survival of the noblest"....
Lady nature wants you to eat each other, think about that before
you go worshiping her!
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We need more of this:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcm0Oc_xz9U
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxesE8vEe9M
HTML https://www.amcollege.edu/hubfs/westvseast_medicine.jpg
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[img]
HTML https://images.theconversation.com/files/322764/original/file-20200325-194438-171frsu.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=1000&fit=clip[/img]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroxychloroquine#Side_effects
[quote]The most serious adverse effects affect the eye, with
dose-related retinopathy as a concern even after
hydroxychloroquine use is discontinued.[2]
...
adverse effects include the acute symptoms, plus altered eye
pigmentation, acne, anemia, bleaching of hair, blisters in mouth
and eyes, blood disorders, convulsions, vision difficulties,
diminished reflexes, emotional changes, excessive coloring of
the skin, hearing loss, hives, itching, liver problems or liver
failure, loss of hair, muscle paralysis, weakness or atrophy,
nightmares, psoriasis, reading difficulties, tinnitus, skin
inflammation and scaling, skin rash, vertigo, weight loss, and
occasionally urinary incontinence.[2] Hydroxychloroquine can
worsen existing cases of both psoriasis and porphyria.[2]
Children may be especially vulnerable to developing adverse
effects from hydroxychloroquine.[2][/quote]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azithromycin#Adverse_effects
[quote]Occasionally, people have developed cholestatic hepatitis
or delirium. Accidental intravenous overdose in an infant caused
severe heart block, resulting in residual
encephalopathy.[30][31]
In 2013 the FDA issued a warning that azithromycin "can cause
abnormal changes in the electrical activity of the heart that
may lead to a potentially fatal irregular heart rhythm." The FDA
noted in the warning a 2012 study that found the drug may
increase the risk of death, especially in those with heart
problems[/quote]
Duh!
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Here is a perfect microcosm of Western medicine (and Western
civilization more generally):
www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3342362/Doctor-magic-touch-Pa
ediatrician-reveals-secret-hold-baby-stop-crying-time.html
[quote]An American paediatrician claims to have found a miracle
way of holding an infant to make it stop crying.
Dr Robert C Hamilton, of Santa Monica, California, says his
technique, dubbed 'The Hold', works every time without
fail.[/quote]
HTML https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/c75/ec7/a353aa7036b16398760067413fb3db70b4-04-baby-hold.rsquare.w330.jpg
Sure, it "works" in that it mechanically short-circuits the
crying reaction. (For that matter, he could dunk the infant head
first into water for a similar effect.) This makes it in fact a
initiation of violence upon the infant, who is being
mechanically prevented from crying (despite being upset) by
being placed without consent into this position by a stronger
adult, no less than it is violent to use force to make an infant
cry (see below). And insofar that it is a technique prescribed
(like all Western medical prescriptions) for infants in general,
it has already failed to treat each infant as an individual,
never addressing why the infant is crying in the first place,
which will differ in each individual situation, but which I
guarantee is not because the infant wants to be put in a
submission hold by an adult!
A crying infant is trying to communicate distress and ask for
help. The compassionate response is to find the source of its
distress and remove it, thereby removing its need to cry any
more. When I am babysitting, I immediately look around and
identify what in the vicinity caused the infant to cry, and fix
the situation ASAP (whether by taking away a distressing object,
giving to the infant a wanted object, etc.). It is all about
satisfying the infant and thus radically ending its distress. Of
course, this requires a certain level of empathic sensitivity.
Lacking such sensitivity, Western medicine prefers to treat the
infant as a brain attached to a nervous system attached to a
respiratory system attached to etc. to be manually manipulated
in such ways as to smother whatever symptoms it wants to
smother.
And to top it off, can you guess why the infant being subjected
to 'The Hold' was crying in the first place?
[quote]An infant who has just received a shot at Dr Hamilton's
practice is crying[/quote]
Yep, Hamilton was also the one who violently made the infant cry
by injecting chemicals into it (again without its consent). This
is Western civilization: initiate violence that caused the
distress to begin with, and then initiate more violence to make
the sufferer unable to express it. From the perspective of our
True Left way of babysitting, Hamilton (and by extension Western
civilization as a whole) is the object requiring removal.
(It goes without saying that the ultimate way to ensure no
infants ever cry is to stop them from being born in the first
place.)
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www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccines-insight/a
s-pressure-for-coronavirus-vaccine-mounts-scientists-debate-risk
s-of-accelerated-testing-idUSKBN20Y1GZ
[quote]Studies have suggested that coronavirus vaccines carry
the risk of what is known as vaccine enhancement, where instead
of protecting against infection, the vaccine can actually make
the disease worse when a vaccinated person is infected with the
virus. The mechanism that causes that risk is not fully
understood and is one of the stumbling blocks that has prevented
the successful development of a coronavirus vaccine.[/quote]
I told you so.
But even if vaccines have no adverse effects, they are still
evil for the following reason:
[quote]Coronavirus vaccine developers are still required to
conduct routine animal testing to make sure the vaccine itself
is not toxic and is likely to help the immune system respond to
the virus.[/quote]
Some Western history:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_animal_testing#In_medicine
[quote]In the 1880s and 1890s, Emil von Behring isolated the
diphtheria toxin and demonstrated its effects in guinea pigs. He
went on to demonstrate immunity against diphtheria in animals in
1898 by injecting a mix of toxin and antitoxin.
...
In 1921, Frederick Banting tied up the pancreatic ducts of dogs
and discovered that the isolates of pancreatic secretion could
be used to keep dogs with diabetes alive.
...
In the 1940s, Jonas Salk used rhesus monkey cross-contamination
studies to isolate the three forms of the polio virus
...
Also in the 1940s, John Cade tested lithium salts in guinea pigs
in a search for pharmaceuticals with anticonvulsant properties.
...
In the 1950s the first safer, volatile anaesthetic halothane was
developed through studies on rodents, rabbits, dogs, cats and
monkeys.[29] This paved the way for a whole new generation of
modern general anaesthetics – also developed by animal studies
...
In the 1970s, leprosy multi-drug antibiotic treatments were
refined using leprosy bacteria grown in armadillos and were then
tested in human clinical trials. Today, the nine-banded
armadillo is still used to culture the bacteria that causes
leprosy[/quote]
etc. etc.
NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
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Re: Medical decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 17, 2020, 2:08 am
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OLD CONTENT contd.
This is the sensitivity that most humans (except competent
non-Western medics and a few others) have lost, and that is
becoming rarer even among non-Western medics due to
Westernization:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoopharmacognosy
[quote]Zoopharmacognosy is a behaviour in which non-human
animals apparently self-medicate by selecting and ingesting or
topically applying plants, soils, insects, and psychoactive
drugs to prevent or reduce the harmful effects of pathogens and
toxins.[1][2] The term derives from Greek roots zoo ("animal"),
pharmacon ("drug, medicine"), and gnosy ("knowing").
An example of zoopharmacognosy occurs when dogs eat grass to
induce vomiting. However, the behaviour is more diverse than
this. Animals ingest or apply non-foods such as clay, charcoal
and even toxic plants and invertebrates, apparently to prevent
parasitic infestation or poisoning.[3]
...
The methods by which animals self-medicate vary, but can be
classified according to function as prophylactic (preventative,
before infection or poisoning) or therapeutic (after infection,
to combat the pathogen or poisoning).[4] The behaviour is
believed to have widespread adaptive significance.[5]
...
Many parrot species in the Americas, Africa, and Papua New
Guinea consume kaolin or clay, which both releases minerals and
absorbs toxic compounds from the gut.[12]
...
Ants infected with Beauveria bassiana, a fungus, selectively
consume harmful substances (reactive oxygen species, ROS) upon
exposure to a fungal pathogen, yet avoid these in the absence of
infection.[16]
...
Great apes often consume plants that have no nutritional values
but which have beneficial effects on gut acidity or combat
intestinal parasitic infection.[1]
Chimpanzees sometimes select bitter leaves for chewing. Parasite
infection drops noticeably after chimpanzees chew leaves of pith
(Vernonia amygdalina), which have anti-parasitic activity
against schistosoma, plasmodium and Leishmania. Chimpanzees
don't consume this plant on a regular basis, but when they do
eat it, it is often in small amounts by individuals that appear
ill.[18] Jane Goodall witnessed chimpanzees eating particular
bushes, apparently to make themselves vomit.[citation needed]
There are reports that chimpanzees swallow whole leaves of
particular rough-leaved plants such as Aneilema aequinoctiale;
these remove parasitic worms from their intestines.[19]
Chimpanzees sometimes eat the leaves of the herbaceous Desmodium
gangeticum. Undigested, non-chewed leaves were recovered in 4%
of faecal samples of wild chimpanzees and clumps of sharp-edged
grass leaves in 2%. The leaves have a rough surface or
sharp-edges and the fact they were not chewed and excreted whole
indicates they were not ingested for nutritional purposes.
Furthermore, this leaf-swallowing was restricted to the rainy
season when parasite re-infections are more common, and
parasitic worms (Oesophagostomum stephanostomum) were found
together with the leaves.[9]
Chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas eat the fruits of Aframomum
angustifolium. Laboratory assays of homogenized fruit and seed
extracts show significant anti-microbial activity.[20]
Illustrating the medicinal knowledge of some species, apes have
been observed selecting a particular part of a medicinal plant
by taking off leaves and breaking the stem to suck out the
juice.[21]
Anubis baboons (Papio anubis) and hamadryas baboons (Papio
hamadryas) in Ethiopia use fruits and leaves of Balanites
aegyptiaca to control schistosomiasis.[22] Its fruits contain
diosgenin, a hormone precursor that presumably hinders the
development of schistosomes.[4]
African elephants (Loxodonta africana) apparently self-medicate
to induce labour by chewing on the leaves of a particular tree
from the family Boraginaceae; Kenyan women brew a tea from this
tree for the same purpose.[23]
...
Indian wild boars selectively dig up and eat the roots of
pigweed which humans use as an anthelmintic. Mexican folklore
indicates that pigs eat pomegranate roots because they contain
an alkaloid that is toxic to tapeworms.[26]
...
About 70% of domestic cats are especially attracted to, and
affected by the plant Nepeta cataria, otherwise known as catnip.
Wild cats, including tigers, are also affected, but with unknown
percentage. The first reaction of cats is to sniff. Then, they
lick and sometimes chew the plant and after that rub against it,
with their cheeks and the whole body by rolling over.
...
Many animals eat soil or clay, a behaviour known as geophagy.
Clay is the primary ingredient of kaolin.[34] It has been
proposed that for primates, there are four hypotheses relating
to geophagy in alleviating gastrointestinal disorders or
upsets:[35]
soils adsorb toxins such as phenolics and secondary metabolites
soil ingestion has an antacid action and adjusts the gut pH
soils act as an antidiarrhoeal agent
soils counteract the effects of endoparasites.
Furthermore, two hypotheses pertain to geophagy in supplementing
minerals and elements:
soils supplement nutrient-poor diets
soils provide extra iron at high altitudes
Tapirs, forest elephants, colobus monkeys, mountain gorillas and
chimpanzees seek out and eat clay, which absorbs intestinal
bacteria and their toxins and alleviates stomach upset and
diarrhoea.[36] Cattle eat clay-rich termite mound soil, which
deactivates ingested pathogens or fruit toxins.[1]
...
A female capuchin monkey in captivity was observed using tools
covered in a sugar-based syrup to groom her wounds and those of
her infant.[37][38]
North American brown bears (Ursos arctos) make a paste of Osha
roots (Ligusticum porteri) and saliva and rub it through their
fur to repel insects or soothe bites. This plant, locally known
as "bear root", contains 105 active compounds, such as coumarins
that may repel insects when topically applied. Navajo Indians
are said to have learned to use this root medicinally from the
bear for treating stomach aches and infections.[20][39][/quote]
Non-Western medicine is basically just humans doing the same.
This is what we need to get back to.
But can you guess what Westerners did after noticing
zoopharmacognosy? Yep, more cruel animal experimentation to
"confirm" (what has been totally obvious to everyone else since
ancient times) that the animals really are doing
zoopharmacognosy:
[quote]A study on domestic sheep (Ovis aries) has provided clear
experimental proof of self-medication via individual
learning.[6] Lambs in a treatment group were allowed to consume
foods and toxins (grain, tannins, oxalic acid) that lead to
malaise (negative internal states) and then allowed to eat a
substance known to alleviate each malaise (sodium bentonite,
polyethylene glycol and dicalcium phosphate, respectively).
Control lambs ate the same foods and medicines, but this was
disassociated temporally so they did not recuperate from the
illness. After the conditioning, lambs were fed grain or food
with tannins or oxalates and then allowed to choose the three
medicines. The treatment animals preferred to eat the specific
compound known to rectify the state of malaise induced by the
food previously ingested. However, control animals did not
change their pattern of use of the medicines, irrespective of
the food consumed before the choice.[27] Other ruminants learn
to self-medicate against gastrointestinal parasites by
increasing consumption of plant secondary compounds with
antiparasitic actions.[17]
Standard laboratory cages prevent mice from performing several
natural behaviours for which they are highly motivated. As a
consequence, laboratory mice sometimes develop abnormal
behaviours indicative of emotional disorders such as depression
and anxiety. To improve welfare, these cages are sometimes
enriched with items such as nesting material, shelters and
running wheels. Sherwin and Olsson[28] tested whether such
enrichment influenced the consumption of Midazolam, a drug
widely used to treat anxiety in humans. Mice in standard cages,
standard cages but with unpredictable husbandry, or enriched
cages, were given a choice of drinking either non-drugged water
or a solution of the Midazolam. Mice in the standard and
unpredictable cages drank a greater proportion of the anxiolytic
solution than mice from enriched cages, presumably because they
had been experiencing greater anxiety.[/quote]
FUCK YOU.
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Americans should especially look into reviving pre-colonial New
World medicine, which uses local herbs rather than Old World
herbs:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_ethnobotany
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumash_traditional_medicine
[quote]List of Chumash medicinal herbs[edit]
The climate of the Chumash territory supported a variety of
plant species, many of which were used in medicine. The
following list provides a sampling of commonly used plants in
Chumash healing practices, but cannot be considered complete.[2]
Chumash Medicinal Herbs
Plant
Uses
Common Yarrow
Toothache, cuts, excessive bleeding
Sacapellote
Cough, cold, lung congestion, asthma, constipation
Chamise
Childbirth and menstrual complications
Ribbonwood (Red Shanks)
Toothache, gangrene, cold, tetanus, spasms, lockjaw, paralysis,
ulcers, sore throats
Maidenhair Fern
Blood disorders, regulation of menstruation, bleeding, internal
injuries, kidney and liver problems
Coffee Fern
See Maidenhair Fern
Agave
Boils
Wild Onion
Appetite stimulant, sores, insect repellant, snake and insect
bites
Scarlet Pimpernel
Disinfectant, eczema, ringworm
Yerba Mansa
Cuts, sores, rheumatism, venereal disease, cough, cold, asthma,
kidney problems
Coastal Sagebrush
Headache, paralysis, poison-oak rash, disinfectant
Mugwort
Cauterizing wounds, skin lesions, blisters, rheumatism,
headache, toothache, asthma, measles, burns, infections
California Croton
Colds
Coyote Brush (Chaparral Broom)
Poison-oak rash
Spurge
Fever, snake and spider bites
Pineapple Weed
Gastrointestinal disorders, regulation of menstruation,
dysentery, inflammation, fever
Soap Plant
Consumption
Spineflower
Fever, warts, skin diseases
Creek Clematis
Ringworm, skin disruptions, venereal disease, colds, sore throat
Wild Gourd
Purgative, rheumatism, nosebleed,
Durango Root
Sore throat
Toloache (Jimsonweed)
Pain relief
Rattlesnake Weed
Rattlesnake bite
Coastal Wood Fern
Wounds, sprains, bruises
California Fuchsia
Cuts, sores, sprains
Yerba Santa
Colds, chest pain, cough, fever
California Buckwheat
Rheumatism, irregular menstruation, respiratory problems
California Poppy
Lice, colic, toothache, stomachache, analgesic
Sneezeweed
Colds, flu, scurvy
Sticky Cinquefoil
Fever, stomach problems, Spanish flu,
Wedge-Leaved Horkelia
See Stick Cinquefoil
California Juniper
Rheumatism, genito-urinary disorders
Peppergrass
Diarrhea, dysentery
Giant Rye
Gonnorhea
Chuchupate
pain relief, stomachache, flatulence, headache, rheumatism
Climbing Penstemon
Runny nose, sore throats, wounds
Laurel Sumac
Dysentery
Bull Mallow
Colds, cough, fever, stomach problems
Cheeseweed
See Bull Mallow
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Spanish colonization[edit]
1769 marked the beginning of Spanish military and religious
missions to assimilate Native Chumash in the Alta region of
California, roughly around modern-day Santa Barbara. This date
also coincides with apparent changes to the Chumash environment
and way of life that invoked declines in Chumash health. Prior
to colonization, the Chumash enjoyed ecological abundance and
diversity even during cyclical droughts and El Niño events,
indicating a millennia-long period of acclimatization to their
environment. However, this stability was significantly altered
by European contact.[9]
...
The effect of Spanish overpopulation and resource destruction is
documented by a Spanish missionary, Father Gregorio Fernandez,
in 1803. This letter documents the increasing number of Chumash
migrants to Spanish missions—not because of increasing Christian
beliefs—but because of the devastation of Chumash agricultural
plants. This effect was greatest on the Chumash staple of the
acorn, caused primarily by overexploitation of Spanish
cattle-grazing. The religious conversion of Chumash also
corresponds to documented disease increases and poorer health
from the vitality and healthfulness prior to colonization, which
was even recorded by early Spanish conquistadors.[9][/quote]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_traditional_medicine
[quote]There is growing interest in Brazilian medicine as the
Amazon rainforest is the largest tropical forest in the world,
and is home to immense biodiversity, including cures or
treatments for many ailments. Japanese scientists have found
strong anticancer activity in Brazilian traditional remedies.[2]
In one study in 1997 published in The American Journal of
Chinese Medicine, only 122 species existing in Brazil could be
related to the Chinese species (or 14.35% of the samples).,[3]
which means the vast majority of species are not known to
Chinese traditional medicine. Thousands and possibly millions of
species remain unstudied and/or susceptible to extinction by
habitat destruction.[/quote]
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Still trust Western hospitals?
www.yahoo.com/news/hungarian-doctor-left-boy-catastrophically-16
0248264.html
[quote]A Hungarian doctor who injected a four-year-old with a
potentially lethal dose of acid because he could not read the
label has claimed a requirement to learn English at his age is
discrimination.
Dr Gyorgy Rakoczy, 65, argued that he was being put at a
disadvantage because older people find it harder to learn new
languages.
The consultant paediatric surgeon was initially suspended in
2012 after he wrongly injected the unnamed boy with a
potentially lethal amount of carbolic acid when he misread a
label in an incident three years earlier.
The boy was left with 'catastrophic' internal injuries and
required a colostomy bag, having originally been admitted for a
suspected haemorrhoid.
He required over 30 corrective operations, including the removal
of a section of his bowel.
Despite the incident, Rakoczy returned to work at the Royal
Manchester Children's Hospital but he later failed English
language tests in reading, writing, listening and speaking and
was reported to the General Medical Council over concerns about
his grasp of the language.
...
The tribunal determined that Dr Rakoczy fitness to practice is
still impaired due to his lack of knowledge of the English
language but allowed him to continue to work with conditions for
12 months.[/quote]
It should be noted that injection is unique to Western medicine:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypodermic_needle#History
[quote]Christopher Wren performed the earliest confirmed
experiments with crude hypodermic needles, performing
intravenous injection into dogs in 1656.[7] These experiments
consisted of using animal bladders (as the syringe) and goose
quills (as the needle) to administer drugs such as opium
intravenously to dogs.[/quote]
The cruelty to animals involved in injection research should be
our first reason to refuse injections.
[quote]Wren and others' main interest was to learn if medicines
traditionally administered orally would be effective
intravenously. In the 1660s, J. D. Major of Kiel and J. S.
Elsholtz of Berlin were the first to experiment with injections
in humans.[6][8] These early experiments were generally
ineffective and in some cases fatal. Injection fell out of favor
for two centuries.
The 19th century saw the development of medicines that were
effective in small doses, such as opiates and strychnine. This
spurred a renewed interest in direct, controlled application of
medicine. "Some controversy surrounds the question of priority
in hypodermic medication."[9] Francis Rynd is generally credited
with the first successful injection in 1844.[10][11] Alexander
Wood’s main contribution was the all-glass syringe in 1851,
which allowed the user to estimate dosage based on the levels of
liquid observed through the glass.[12] Wood used hypodermic
needles and syringes primarily for the application of localized,
subcutaneous injection (localized anesthesia) and therefore was
not as interested in precise dosages.[8] Simultaneous to Wood's
work in Edinburgh, Charles Pravaz of Lyon also experimented with
sub-dermal injections in sheep using a syringe of his own
design. Pravaz designed a syringe measuring 3 cm (1.18 in) long
and 5 mm (0.2 in) in diameter; it was made entirely of
silver.[13] Charles Hunter, a London surgeon, is credited with
the coining of the term "hypodermic" to describe subcutaneous
injection in 1858.[/quote]
The second reason we should refuse injections is because our
bodies were never meant to absorb foreign substances other than
via the digestive system or the breathing system (including the
skin), something which all non-Western medical systems trivially
understood, but which Western medicine ignores. This is why
young children are automatically averse to injections (but are
violently forced by Western medics to be subjected to injections
anyway). Yet instead of taking a hint from children's distressed
reactions to injections to deduce that injections are wrong, in
a perfect example of Western insensitivity, Western medicine
proceeds to treat children's fear of injections as a phobia
itself requiring overcoming:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosocial_treatment_of_needle_phobia_in
_children
And no, children are not afraid of needles, Westerner, they are
afraid of injections. Children typically find acupuncture very
fun:
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I made an observation many years ago on white females I met at
the local sports club. Out of ten, at least five of them had had
hip replacement due to osteoporosis which is attributed to lack
of calcium and exercise. As they were definitely keen on sports,
I was perplexed because they were at the same time also lovers
of dairy products which are supposed to be rich in calcium. It
made me wonder why they would have osteoporosis in the first
place.
Why I am suddenly reminded of this after so many years is
because I am recently told that contrary to the advice of many
western doctors, drinking milk is detrimental to the bones
because dairy food makes the entire system acidic. In the
self-help process to neutralize the acidity, calcium in the
bones being alkaline would be released into the system. On
balance therefore, the more milk you drink, the more calcium is
drained from the bones back into the system to bring down the PH
level, thus ending up with brittle bones. This has answered that
query of mine from actual observation on real cases from long ag
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Re: Medical decolonization
By: guest27 Date: December 1, 2020, 11:39 am
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I believe in emotion. Nothing is meaningful without emotion,
feeling, or intuition; not our reason, not our beliefs, not
anything. And I've never seen my depression as a "disease", it's
a symptom, and I'm very glad to suffer depression for a bit of
noble pessimism, and because it "motivated" me to leave the rat
race, despite the painful cost of my cherished social status and
material success. It led me to enlightenment and insight,
because I ended up spending a lot of time with myself
ascetically, and nothing to push or pull me. Ultimately it led
me to Aryanism.
Antidepressants: I've been prescribed pretty much everything,
and honestly? I think hard drugs are safer and more effective
than antidepressants, in a sense (not that 'psychedelics' are
hard drugs btw; they're absolutely not). Explanation: You can
safely take a moderately strong opioid infrequently, whereas for
antidepressants to have any effect you're forced into chronic
use, which necessarily causes physical addiction. And
antidepressants aren't "inspirational", they're not "happy
pills", they don't offer joy or wellbeing, they just take the
edge off things, in hopes to function as a long-term recovery
aid (whether they even do this is dubious). You might as well
just meditate for 15 mins a day.
I'm really glad to see some psilocybin-sympathy, it's really
impressive what those little mushrooms can do and how safe they
are.
From my understanding, psilocybin increases global brain
connectivity (yet reduces its total activity, paradoxically),
granting us a more "whole" perspective, while simultaneously
relaxing certain connections (particularly in areas responsible
for ego, planning, decision-making), and strengthening or
creating others (like creating cross-talk between sensory
regions, and increasing activity in areas associated with
emotion and memory), resulting in a very dream-like pattern of
activity. It has great power to break one out of old and
unsatisfactory thinking patterns, and bring buried issues to the
surface which can now be dealt with in a novel way. Very very
therapeutic, I suspect (and in my personal experience) even for
physical conditions where there's miscommunication between the
brain and body.
Edit: I just learned that psilocybin specifically reduces
activity in the Default Mode Network, which is the network
adults default to any time they're not engaged in external
activities. It's the ruminating, self-absorbed, non-present,
easily-bored mind. The DMN is even more overbearing in people
with depression or ADHD. When the DMN is down, the brain reverts
to its long-forgotten, childlike pattern of brain activity -
which is also seen in meditation and dreaming. As children,
neuronal connections are based on proximity rather than, as
adults, functionality; which sounds more efficient and probably
explains why on psilocybin, global brain connectivity increases
despite a reduction in total brain activity/blood flow.
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Re: Medical decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 26, 2020, 10:25 pm
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Trust Western medicine at your own peril:
HTML https://twitter.com/epigenwhisp/status/1342933849911697409<br
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Re: Medical decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 16, 2021, 10:35 pm
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How's that Western medicine working for you?
HTML https://www.dhakatribune.com/health/coronavirus/2021/01/16/23-die-in-norway-after-receiving-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine
[quote]Besides those who died, nine had serious side effects —
including allergic reactions, strong discomfort and severe fever
— while seven had less serious ones, including severe pain at
the injection site.[/quote]
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Re: Medical decolonization
By: acc9 Date: February 17, 2021, 12:31 am
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HTML https://principia-scientific.com/uk-government-releases-shocking-report-on-covid-vaccine-side-effects/
HTML https://medicalkidnap.com/2021/01/26/cna-nursing-home-whistleblower-seniors-are<br
/>dying-like-flies-after-covid-injections-speak-out/
More information on Covid vaccine injections respectively in the
UK and US....
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Re: Medical decolonization
By: guest27 Date: February 17, 2021, 3:07 am
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What about the animals tortured and killed in coronavirus
vaccine testing? Western medicine is non-vegan and should be
rejected on ethical grounds as much as possible.
HTML https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.crueltyfreeeurope.org/sites/default/files/COVID-19%2520and%2520animal%2520tests.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwj0qPjIwPDuAhWvy4UKHefGBbQQFjAAegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw0gShkux6-cMgWPHeODAIEh
[quote]Six rhesus monkeys were injected with the vaccine before
being exposed to the Covid-19 virus. A control group of three
non-vaccinated monkeys were also exposed to the virus. All the
monkeys were monitored for 7 days for signs of infection before
being killed and dissected.
[/quote]
[quote]Ten rhesus monkeys were injected with two different doses
of the vaccine three times over a two-week period. The Covid-19
virus was then injected directly into their lungs through a tube
down their windpipes. A control group of five non-vaccinated
monkeys were also infected with the virus.
Seven days later, the monkeys were killed and dissected. All the
unvaccinated monkeys developed severe pneumonia before they were
killed.[/quote]
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