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Re: Medical decolonization
By: guest5 Date: May 2, 2021, 6:48 pm
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Apparently, my half-sister also had an odd reaction to here
latest Covid-19 shot....
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Re: Medical decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 2, 2021, 10:32 pm
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LOL:
HTML https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/pro-vaccine-cybersecurity-expert-dan-kaminsky-dead-at-42-following-experimental-covid-shot/
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Re: Medical decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 11, 2021, 11:33 pm
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Western psychiatry:
HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/30/health/psychiatry-racism-black-americans.html
[quote]Dr. Samuel Cartwright, spread the falsehood throughout
the antebellum South that enslaved people who experienced an
unyielding desire to be free were in the grip of a mental
illness he called “drapetomania,” or “the disease causing
Negroes to run away.”
...
White psychiatrists have pathologized Black behavior for
hundreds of years, wrapping up racist beliefs in the mantle of
scientific certainty and even big data.
...
T.O. Powell, superintendent of the infamous State Lunatic Asylum
in Milledgeville, Ga., and president of the American
Medico-Psychological Association (the precursor to the A.P.A.),
went so far as to outrageously state in 1897 that before the
Civil War, “there were comparatively speaking, few Negro
lunatics. Following their sudden emancipation their number of
insane began to multiply.”
...
Psychiatry continued to pathologize — and sometimes demonize —
African-Americans, with the result that, by the 1970s, the
diagnosis of psychosis was handed out so often that the
profession was essentially “turning schizophrenia into a Black
man’s disorder of aggression and agitation,” said Dr. Hairston,
a contributor to the 2019 book, “Racism and Psychiatry.”
...
Since then, numerous studies have shown that an almost all-white
profession’s lack of attunement to Black expressions of emotion
— and its frequent conflation of distress with anger — has led
to an under-diagnosis of major depression, particularly in Black
men, and an overreliance upon the use of antipsychotic
medications.[/quote]
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Re: Medical decolonization
By: rp Date: June 5, 2021, 12:58 am
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Indigenous herbal medicines helpful in treating mild to moderate
Covid
HTML https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/indigenous-herbal-medicines-ayush-64-kaphasura-kudineer-helpful-treating-mild-to-moderate-covid-703298
[quote]
Two indigenous herbal medicines have been found useful in the
treatment of mild to moderate Covid-19 infection, the Ministry
of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and
Homoeopathy) has said.
In a letter to J. Radakrishnan, Principal Secretary to the
Health and Family Welfare Department, P.N. Ranjit Kumar, Joint
Secretary at the Ministry of AYUSH, said that two herbal
medicines, Kaphasura Kudineer and Ayush-64, have emerged as a
ray of hope Covid patients.
Indian scientists have found Kaphasura Kudineer, a siddha
poly-herbal preparation consisting 15 herbal ingredients, and
Ayush-64, a poly-herbal formulation developed by Central Council
for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS), Ministry of Ayush,
useful in the treatment of asymptomatic, mild and moderate Covid
infection, and effective in immunity boosting as well.
[/quote]
I support this is in theory, however for true medical
decolonization to happen, the drugs must be developed and their
efficacy judged purely according to non-Western standards, not
by Western standards (i.e. peer review, clinical trials, effects
on treating the symptoms, etc.).
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Re: Medical decolonization
By: guest5 Date: June 5, 2021, 11:02 am
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UPDATE: 45%!?
Study links mushroom consumption to lower cancer risk
[quote]Hershey, PA — A mushroom – or more – a day may keep
cancer at bay, researchers from Pennsylvania State University
say.
The researchers, from PSU’s colleges of medicine and
agricultural sciences, conducted an analysis of 17 cancer
studies from 1966 to 2020 that included more than 19,500 cancer
patients. Results show that participants who ate about 1/8 to
1/4 cup of mushrooms a day had a 45% lower risk of cancer than
those who didn’t consume mushrooms.
Mushrooms are rich in vitamins, nutrients and antioxidants, PSU
says. And although the shiitake, oyster, maitake and king oyster
varieties have the highest amounts of a specific cancer-fighting
agent, the researchers found that patients who included any
variety of mushrooms in their daily diets had a lower risk of
cancer.
“Mushrooms are the highest dietary source of ergothioneine,
which is a unique and potent antioxidant and cellular
protector,” PSU epidemiology graduate student Djibril M. Ba said
in the release. “Replenishing antioxidants in the body may help
protect against oxidative stress and lower the risk of
cancer.”[/quote]
HTML https://www.safetyandhealthmagazine.com/articles/21316-study-links-mushroom-consumption-to-lower-cancer-risk
I realize this is still by Western models but 45% reduction is
very high for any medicine when it comes to cancer, thought that
was at least worth pointing out.
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Re: Medical decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 6, 2021, 9:57 pm
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[quote]Indian scientists have found Kaphasura Kudineer, a siddha
poly-herbal preparation consisting 15 herbal ingredients, and
Ayush-64, a poly-herbal formulation developed by Central Council
for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS), Ministry of Ayush,
useful in the treatment of asymptomatic, mild and moderate Covid
infection, and effective in immunity boosting as well.[/quote]
I don't understand why such articles do not at least include an
explanation of how these treatments work from the
Siddha/Ayurvedic/etc. perspective. This is just bad journalism.
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Re: Medical decolonization
By: rp Date: June 14, 2021, 11:01 am
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Western medicine in action:
HTML https://twitter.com/kuwait_tt1100/status/1404170418014072840?s=20
[quote]
إلا
الأطفال
جريمة
ووصمة عار
ستكون أسوء
من عقار
التالوميد
الذي أقرت
FDA
بسلامته
وأمانه
للحامل
لا وألف لا
من كل دول
العالم
Translated from Arabic by Google
only children
crime and stigma
You'll be worse than the Thallidomide you've approved
FDA
Safe and secure for pregnant women
No and a thousand no from all countries of the world
[img width=576
height=1280]
HTML https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3ydi9WWEAU_oY-?format=jpg&name=large[/img]
[/quote]
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Re: Medical decolonization
By: rp Date: June 24, 2021, 6:18 pm
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HTML https://youtu.be/5lpLvCheBWY
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Re: Psychological decolonization
By: Zea_mays Date: August 27, 2021, 4:07 pm
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One thing that always annoyed me is how anyone who deviates from
whatever Western medicine categorizes as "normal" needs to be
numbed with drugs.
Western psychologists are finally acknowledging what ancient
societies have always known--there are multiple "normal"
personality archetypes.
[quote]Social psychology researchers use extensive training and
complex empirical tools to explore the roots of human behavior.
However, a new study by Yale psychologists found a surprising
group of people are particularly good at accurately assessing
truths about humans’ “social nature” without formal training or
tools, they report March 15 in the journal Social Psychology.
So who are the best amateur social psychologists? Introverts
prone to melancholy seem to be more astute at understanding how
we behave in groups than their gregarious peers, the researchers
found.
[...]
Gollwitzer and co-author John Bargh asked more than 1,000
subjects questions about how people on average feel, think, and
feel in social contexts [...] Not surprisingly, intelligence and
wanting to engage with complex problems was a key predictor, the
researchers said. But they also found that introverts tended to
answer more accurately than extroverts, as did people with lower
self-esteem and those who reported being more lonely.[/quote]
HTML https://news.yale.edu/2018/03/15/study-sad-lonely-people-more-likely-be-natural-social-psychologists
Of course, the scientist in the article suspects this must be
because melancholic people are empiricists who have spent much
time "observing human nature"...rather than just being innately
empathetic.
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Re: Medical decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 27, 2021, 10:22 pm
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It is clear that whoever wrote the article has perhaps the
poorest understanding of all! A true introvert is someone who
doesn't feel sad from being alone (and hence who would not
self-report as feeling "lonely"), most likely because they have
such high self-esteem that they regard most people not worth
interacting with. The article, however, conflates "introversion"
with loneliness and low-self-esteem, as if the only reason why
anyone would be introverted is because they can't socialize
despite wanting to (e.g. incels), completely ignoring the
existence of those (e.g. us) who are disgusted by the idea of
socializing with barbarians.
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