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       Re: Medical decolonization
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: April 22, 2022, 8:37 pm
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       Weibo supports medical decolonization:
  HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/billionaires-son-influencer-banned-posting-055200967.html
       --- Quote ---
       > The influencer son of a Chinese billionaire has been banned
       from posting on China's Twitter-like Weibo platform after he
       questioned the efficacy of a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM)
       endorsed by Beijing to treat mild Covid cases.
       >
       > "The user is currently banned for violating relevant laws and
       regulations," reads a message on Wang Sicong's Weibo account,
       where he has more than 40.5 million followers.
       >
       > Known for flaunting his lavish lifestyle online, the
       34-year-old is the son of real estate mogul Wang Jianlin, who
       was once China's richest man.
       >
       > While Weibo did not provide details behind the ban, reports
       said it is related to the influencer's now-deleted posts on the
       Lianhua Qingwen capsules, a popular herbal medicine used to
       treat Covid.
       --- End Quote ---
       More about Wang:
  HTML https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/news-trends/article/3105729/beijings-real-life-crazy-rich-asians-wang-sicong-wang
       --- Quote ---
       > Passionate about supercars, he owns several Rolls-Royces,
       Aston Martins, Bentleys, a Porsche 918 Spyder – and a Pagani
       Huayra which cost a cool US$3 million.
       --- End Quote ---
       He also looks like what we would expect:
       [img]
  HTML https://img.i-scmp.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=contain,width=425,format=auto/sites/default/files/styles/768x768/public/d8/images/methode/2019/11/09/f4837d4e-02dc-11ea-ab68-c2fa11fa07a6_image_hires_222433.JPG?itok=CjWXEWqP&v=1573309479[/img]
       Subhuman bloodlines like his are what ancient China's:
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_familial_exterminations
       was designed to eliminate from the Chinese gene pool.
       #Post#: 13334--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Medical decolonization
   DIR By: Zea_mays
       Date: May 14, 2022, 1:54 pm
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       --- Quote ---
       > I am already worried that this will just be yet another route
       towards exploitation of non-humans. I can already envisage
       Westerners deliberately breeding a new type of ant to be
       especially adept at this task, without ethical regard for what
       else such breeding might mean for the ants themselves.....
       --- End Quote ---
       Well, it may be possible to train certain humans to do it as
       well:
       --- Quote ---
       > The woman who can smell Parkinson's disease
       --- End Quote ---
  HTML https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-34583642
       #Post#: 14513--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Medical decolonization
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: July 5, 2022, 8:17 pm
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       Our enemies report:
  HTML https://barenakedislam.com/2022/07/04/russia-muslim-husband-flies-into-a-rage-and-attacks-doctor-for-asking-wife-to-remove-her-hijab-and-expose-parts-of-her-body-for-examination/<br
       />(video at enemy link)
       Unfortunately the Western doctor survived.
       Non-Western medicine would not have required removal of clothes
       for general checkups:
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_diagnosis
       #Post#: 14581--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Medical decolonization
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: July 8, 2022, 9:18 pm
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       Potions FTW!
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/traditional-chinese-medicine-more-effective-202549536.html
       --- Quote ---
       > Traditional Chinese medicine more effective for children’s
       respiratory infections than standard drugs: new study
       > ...
       > In the report published in the journal Pediatric
       Investigation, a research team from China identified the formula
       Yupinfeng (YPF), which purportedly aids in treating kids
       suffering from RRTIs.
       >
       > The study involved a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of 351
       children with RRTIs divided into three groups. YPF was
       administered to the first group, conventional allopathic
       respiratory infection treatment pidotimod was given to the
       second, and a placebo was given to the third.
       > ...
       > 73% of children in the YPF group had their RRTIs return to
       normal standard while only 67% in the pidotimod group had the
       same improvement. Meanwhile, 39% of the placebo group returned
       to normal.
       > ...
       > The study showed that YPF was not only superior to pidotimod
       in treating RRTIs but is also safe to use for children.
       > ...
       > Renowned pulmonologist Dr. Julian Allen, who serves as
       director of the Asthma Program at Children’s Hospital of
       Philadelphia and the associate editor of Pediatric
       Investigation, called the research an “excellent step toward
       addressing western skepticism.”
       >
       > In an editorial piece for the journal, Allen further wrote:
       “Just because we don’t understand how a drug works, it doesn’t
       mean that it doesn’t work. This well-designed RCT could be an
       important step in addressing western skepticism surrounding TCM
       and reaping the benefits of its holistic effects.”
       --- End Quote ---
       It looks better too:
       [img]
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       vs:
  HTML https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Pidotimod.png
       This goes back to what I was saying here:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/re-psychological-decolonization/msg2283/#msg2283
       --- Quote ---
       > 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.
       --- End Quote ---
       #Post#: 14814--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Medical decolonization
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: July 21, 2022, 10:41 pm
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       I would like to re-highlight what I was trying to explain some
       time ago:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/re-psychological-decolonization/msg2282/#msg2282
       --- Quote ---
       > "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.
       --- End Quote ---
       Now:
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/man-hospital-overdosing-vitamin-d-toxicity-184442141.html
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       > Man hospitalized after overdosing on vitamin D: What is
       vitamin D toxicity?
       > ...
       > Vitamin D toxicity, also called hypervitaminosis D and vitamin
       D intoxication, is typically caused by ingesting too many
       vitamin D supplements, rather than by diet or sun exposure.
       >
       > This condition will not happen through sun exposure because
       our bodies regulate the amount of vitamin D produced and
       absorbed by the sun.
       --- End Quote ---
       I told you so. The Western model of nutrition is indeed
       medically inferior compared to ancient models.
       #Post#: 14971--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Medical decolonization
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: August 3, 2022, 1:12 am
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  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/aspirin-beta-blockers-linked-higher-182829236.html
       --- Quote ---
       > Certain medications to protect your heart may backfire in very
       hot weather, increasing the risk of heart attack, suggests a
       study published August 1 in Nature Cardiovascular Research.
       --- End Quote ---
       Certain Western medications, to be precise:
       --- Quote ---
       > They compared cases to use of medications that typically
       protect heart health, including anti-platelets like aspirin that
       reduce heart attack risk, and beta blockers that treat high
       blood pressure.
       > ...
       > They found that people taking beta-blockers or anti-platelet
       medications like aspirin were 63-65% more likely to have a heart
       attack on hot days, compared to more moderate temperature days.
       People who took both had a 75% higher risk. In contrast, people
       who weren't taking the medications did not have a higher risk of
       heart attack on hot days.
       >
       > While the study found a link between the medications and
       higher risk, it doesn't directly show that the drugs themselves
       are to blame. One explanation may be that people who are taking
       those medications are already at higher risk of heart problems,
       according to the researchers.
       >
       > However, the researchers found that young people, who
       generally had better heart health, were more at risk of
       heat-related heart attack than people in their 60s and 70s if
       they took the medications.
       >
       > People under 60 years old were also three times as likely to
       have heat-related heart attacks if they took statins,
       medications to lower cholesterol.
       >
       > The researchers hypothesized that the specific medications may
       make it more difficult for people to regulate their body
       temperature in warm weather, according to Kai Chen, first author
       of the study and assistant professor in the Department of
       Epidemiology (Environmental Health) at Yale.
       --- End Quote ---
       People living in tropical habitats using Western medicine makes
       about as much sense as people living in tropical habitats
       wearing Western suits.
       #Post#: 15056--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Medical decolonization
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: August 8, 2022, 8:16 pm
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       Continuing from:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/re-psychological-decolonization/msg14814/#msg14814
       next we have:
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-told-high-dose-b-203604162.html
       --- Quote ---
       > A man was told to take high-dose B vitamins after blood tests
       showed he was deficient. Then he lost his ability to walk.
       > ...
       > Taylor said her father didn't have any symptoms of poor
       health, but his doctor prescribed a 50-milligram vitamin B6
       supplement to up his levels. Vitamin B6, like other B vitamins,
       helps the body convert food into energy by breaking down carbs
       and protein. Research suggests it can help the body's immune
       system and certain brain functions.
       > ...
       > Within months, he started losing the feeling in his legs, and
       eventually went to the hospital after he could no longer walk,
       Taylor told ABC Radio.
       --- End Quote ---
       Also:
       --- Quote ---
       > Preventative care experts say vitamin A supplements cause more
       harm than good, as taking too many can lead to bone pain and
       hair loss.
       --- End Quote ---
       This is how stupid the Western model of nutrition ("vitamins"
       LOL) is.
       While we're at it, let's look at some history:
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin#History
       --- Quote ---
       > In 1881, Russian medical doctor Nikolai I. Lunin [ru] studied
       the effects of scurvy at the University of Tartu. He fed mice an
       artificial mixture of all the separate constituents of milk
       known at that time, namely the proteins, fats, carbohydrates,
       and salts. The mice that received only the individual
       constituents died, while the mice fed by milk itself developed
       normally. He made a conclusion that "a natural food such as milk
       must therefore contain, besides these known principal
       ingredients, small quantities of unknown substances essential to
       life."
       --- End Quote ---
       No, the mice died because you were experimenting on them, you
       Western scientist! If you had simply let the mice eat whatever
       they themselves wanted to eat, all of them would still be alive!
       And this does not require the mice themselves to have any
       abstract concept of "vitamins"! Therefore we do not need such a
       concept either! All we need are our tongues!
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/re-psychological-decolonization/msg2284/#msg2284
       #Post#: 15985--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Medical decolonization
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: October 5, 2022, 11:13 pm
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       Our enemies' latest complaint:
  HTML https://gatesofvienna.net/2022/10/whats-a-little-pain-when-youre-saving-the-planet/
       --- Quote ---
       > Are people supposed to now do without anesthesia during
       surgery in order to save the climate?
       > ...
       > if the invention of anesthesia was once considered a great
       medical achievement, since people no longer have to endure the
       pain of surgery while fully conscious, the broadcaster Arte now
       warns that anesthetic gases may damage the climate.
       > ...
       > “Did you know that hospitals are real climate killers? Many
       pollutants enter the environment there unfiltered… This also
       applies to anesthetic gases, which are used in seven million
       operating rooms in Germany every year. The gases are potent
       greenhouse gases and are often discharged directly to the
       outside via the hospital roof. But many hospitals are now paying
       more attention to sustainability.”
       > ...
       > So woe to those who need surgery: they pollute the climate and
       make tax increases necessary! One would think that the
       healthcare system would already have been sufficiently rundown,
       without the climate sect making calculations about the emissions
       from medical treatments.
       --- End Quote ---
       In short, our enemies want to keep Western medicine going
       irrespective of the environmental damage it is causing.
       We, in contrast, advocate looking for replacements to Western
       medicine. In the case of pain suppression for surgery:
  HTML https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2396469/
       --- Quote ---
       > Acupuncture anesthesia has some benefits: (i) it is simple and
       easy without complicated tools, (ii) there are no side effects,
       (iii) non-painful areas are induced without the involvement of
       innervations of the areas stimulated by acupuncture, (iv) the
       anesthetic effects last after acupuncture anesthesia and (v) the
       wound heals more quickly.
       --- End Quote ---
       Western anaesthetic equipment:
  HTML https://aneskey.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/m_butt5_c004f001.png
       Non-Western anaesthetic equipment:
  HTML https://history.physio/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/acupuncture-needles.jpeg
       This is how inferior Western civilization is. (No prizes for
       guessing which is more environmentally friendly!)
       --- Quote ---
       > There are some drawbacks, however: (i) anesthesia produced by
       acupuncture has individual variations and (ii) too much time is
       needed to induce anesthesia.
       --- End Quote ---
       Doctors are supposed to view patients as individuals! Yes, this
       requires a level of sensitivity on the part of the doctors that
       is probably out of reach of most Westerners.
       As for time, I would like to see a recalculation that takes into
       account the time required to manufacture the Western vs the
       non-Western equipment.
       #Post#: 16069--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Medical decolonization
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: October 15, 2022, 12:44 am
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       The shift begins!
  HTML https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11311645/Minnesota-medical-students-vow-honor-Indigenous-ways-healing.html
       --- Quote ---
       > Woke pledge replaces Hippocratic oath: Minnesota medical
       students vow to 'honor all Indigenous ways of healing
       historically marginalized by Western medicine'
       > ...
       > The students also pledged to fight 'white supremacy,
       colonialism [and] the gender binary' at the school's white coat
       ceremony on August 19.
       > ...
       > They then vowed to 'embody cultural humility' and affirmed
       'that patients are the experts of their bodies.'
       --- End Quote ---
       The last point is similar to what I was saying here:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/re-psychological-decolonization/msg2284/#msg2284
       #Post#: 21134--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Medical decolonization
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: July 26, 2023, 2:50 am
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  HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/took-blockbuster-drugs-weight-loss-192756033.html
       --- Quote ---
       > They took blockbuster drugs for weight loss and diabetes. Now
       their stomachs are paralyzed
       > ...
       > “I wish I never touched it. I wish I’d never heard of it in my
       life,” said Knight, 37, of Angie, Louisiana. “This medicine made
       my life hell. So much hell. It has cost me money. It cost me a
       lot of stress; it cost me days and nights and trips with my
       family. It’s cost me a lot, and it’s not worth it. The price is
       too high.”
       > ...
       > “And even now, being off the medication for almost a year, I’m
       still having a lot of problems,” Allen said. She said she was at
       urgent care recently after vomiting so much that she became
       dehydrated.
       > ...
       > Wright said she now vomits so frequently that she had to take
       a leave of absence from her job.
       >
       > “I’ve almost been off Ozempic for a year, but I’m still not
       back to my normal,” Wright said.
       >
       > The diabetes drug Ozempic, and its sister drug for weight
       loss, Wegovy, utilize the same medication, semaglutide. These
       and other drugs in this family, which includes medications like
       tirzepatide and liraglutide, work by mimicking a hormone that’s
       naturally made by the body, GLP-1. One of the roles of GLP-1 is
       to slow the passage of food through the stomach, which helps
       people feel fuller longer.
       >
       > If the stomach slows down too much, however, that can cause
       problems.
       > ...
       > Then, instead of just vomiting the food she’d recently eaten,
       Wright noticed that she was throwing up food she’d eaten three
       or four days prior.
       >
       > Another gastric emptying test showed her condition had
       deteriorated.
       >
       > “Then the GI doctor said, ‘Well, I’ve been seeing a lot of
       clients coming in with full stomachs on endoscopy who are on
       Ozempic. So let’s try taking you off the Ozempic,’ ” Wright
       said.
       >
       > Both Knight and Wright said they got some relief after coming
       off the medication, but their problems continued.
       >
       > Now, Wright said, instead of throwing up a meal she ate
       several days ago, she mostly vomits food she has eaten recently.
       --- End Quote ---
       Why would you even want to artificially slow down the passage of
       food through the stomach?! The speed of passage is what it is
       for a reason!
       Why not simply space out your meals differently? You decide when
       and how much you eat; that is the only control you should need.
       Why even try to exert control at a different point in the sytem
       when you already have control at the usual one? That is
       equivalent to playing a video game and not using the joypad but
       instead trying to move the character by directly manipulating
       the circuit board!
       But Western medicine doesn't care.....
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