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Title: Medical decolonization
Post by: guest5 on November 06, 2020, 12:55:05 am
Western Conceptions of Depression and the Colonization of Women’s Emotions Worldwide
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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.
https://www.madinamerica.com/2020/08/western-conceptions-depression-colonization-womens-emotions-worldwide/

Psilocybin therapy 4 times more effective than antidepressants, study finds
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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.
https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/psilocybin-therapy-major-depression-trial-results-johns-hopkins/
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: guest5 on November 16, 2020, 07:02:32 pm
30 medicinal plants the Native Americans used on a daily basis
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The Lost Book Of Remedies : 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8e09BUquB8
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 17, 2020, 01:44:24 am
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.

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

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Urea was first discovered in urine in 1727 by the Dutch scientist Herman Boerhaave,[30]

"amino acids":

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amino_acid#History

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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]

"fatty acids":

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Eugène_Chevreul

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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.

"stem cells":

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell

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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]

"hormones":

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretin#Discovery

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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]

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

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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,

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:

(https://jameskennedymonash.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/chinese-food-chart.jpg)

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-study-says-yes-231521620.html

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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.

I do not take supplements.

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Our bodies will always use the vitamins and minerals that are in food much better than in supplements.”

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

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

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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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.
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 17, 2020, 01:56:26 am
OLD CONTENT contd.

www.yahoo.com/news/avoid-taking-ibuprofen-covid-19-symptoms-202007508.html

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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.
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"In the meantime, we recommend using rather paracetamol, and do not use ibuprofen as a self-medication. That's important," he said.
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Paracetamol must be taken strictly according to the recommended dose, because too much of it can damage the liver.

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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcm0Oc_xz9U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxesE8vEe9M

(https://www.amcollege.edu/hubfs/westvseast_medicine.jpg)

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(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)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroxychloroquine#Side_effects

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The most serious adverse effects affect the eye, with dose-related retinopathy as a concern even after hydroxychloroquine use is discontinued.[2]
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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]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azithromycin#Adverse_effects

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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

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-Paediatrician-reveals-secret-hold-baby-stop-crying-time.html

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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.

(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?

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An infant who has just received a shot at Dr Hamilton's practice is crying

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/as-pressure-for-coronavirus-vaccine-mounts-scientists-debate-risks-of-accelerated-testing-idUSKBN20Y1GZ

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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.

I told you so.

But even if vaccines have no adverse effects, they are still evil for the following reason:

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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.

Some Western history:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_animal_testing#In_medicine

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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.
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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.
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In the 1940s, Jonas Salk used rhesus monkey cross-contamination studies to isolate the three forms of the polio virus
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Also in the 1940s, John Cade tested lithium salts in guinea pigs in a search for pharmaceuticals with anticonvulsant properties.
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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
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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

etc. etc.

NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 17, 2020, 02:08:03 am
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

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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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.
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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]
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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]

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:

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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.

**** 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

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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]
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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]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_traditional_medicine

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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.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhYbpHoCFuE

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Still trust Western hospitals?

www.yahoo.com/news/hungarian-doctor-left-boy-catastrophically-160248264.html

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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.
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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.

It should be noted that injection is unique to Western medicine:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypodermic_needle#History

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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.

The cruelty to animals involved in injection research should be our first reason to refuse injections.

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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.

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
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: guest27 on December 01, 2020, 11:39:03 am
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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Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 26, 2020, 10:25:56 pm
Trust Western medicine at your own peril:

https://twitter.com/epigenwhisp/status/1342933849911697409 (video at link)

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Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 16, 2021, 10:35:50 pm
How's that Western medicine working for you?

https://www.dhakatribune.com/health/coronavirus/2021/01/16/23-die-in-norway-after-receiving-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine

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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.
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: acc9 on February 17, 2021, 12:31:38 am
https://principia-scientific.com/uk-government-releases-shocking-report-on-covid-vaccine-side-effects/

https://medicalkidnap.com/2021/01/26/cna-nursing-home-whistleblower-seniors-are dying-like-flies-after-covid-injections-speak-out/


More information on Covid vaccine injections respectively in the UK and US....
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: guest27 on February 17, 2021, 03:07:21 am
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.

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
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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.

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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.

https://youtu.be/BymUKDp-omQ
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: guest5 on March 12, 2021, 12:00:28 am
Several European countries suspend AstraZeneca vaccinations over blood clot fears
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Seven European countries – Denmark, Norway, Austria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Luxembourg – have suspended all or part of their #AstraZeneca​ #vaccine​ roll-out as a #precaution​ while they investigate concerns relating to blood clots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGIWyaKi4sQ
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 14, 2021, 10:33:15 pm
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/boxing-great-marvin-hagler-dies-according-reports-icu-saturday-taking-vaccine/
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: rp on March 20, 2021, 12:08:51 am
Medical machinery in action:
https://youtu.be/TUIaezrSszo
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: rp on March 21, 2021, 08:42:22 pm
Covid 19 Vaccine contains gelatin (pork); not permissible under Muslim law, says Indian cleric:
https://youtu.be/si7GhC9jTnM
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: guest5 on March 23, 2021, 06:15:18 pm
Japanese Fasting Study Reveals Complex Metabolic Changes in the Human Body
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Fasting’s health benefits may be broader than scientists previously realized.
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Fasting is gaining popularity among biohackers looking for an edge, but there’s remarkably little information on what happens inside the body during a fast. While some research has shown that caloric restriction can increase lifespans in lab animals, and plenty of intermittent fasting enthusiasts swear it boosts their cognition and helps them lose weight, the molecular mechanisms have remained somewhat vague — limited mostly to the fat-burning phenomenon of ketosis. To start filling in this knowledge gap, a small new study shows that fasting’s effects on human metabolism are actually much broader than previous research has shown, and intermittent fasting could have unrecognized benefits.
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But for now, it’s safe to say that fasting is nowhere near as simple as it seems, and scientists are only beginning to bring the full picture into focus.
Entire article: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/japanese-fasting-study-reveals-complex-metabolic-changes-in-the-human-body?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: guest5 on March 23, 2021, 06:35:57 pm
Fungi: Why Are We Ignoring Nature’s Hidden Solution?
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Merlin is a biologist and author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures. He has a background in plant sciences, microbiology, ecology, and the history and philosophy of science. Fungi are a powerful force, why are we ignoring nature's hidden solution?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L790O6Ot3W4

The No-fail Beginners Guide to Growing Magic Mushrooms
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Life on Earth, as you know it, would be impossible without the humble fungi. In the beginning, fungi played an essential role in the development of our oxygen-rich atmosphere by mining phosphorous from the rocks and transferring it to plants to power photosynthesis. So, without fungi, your life as a human wouldn’t be possible.

Also, fungi decompose practically everything that dies or decays. Without fungi, death would engulf the Earth, and make it virtually uninhabitable for you and every other living organism.

And Fungi impact your life significantly in ways you’re likely unaware of, and you probably barely notice.
https://jashforth.medium.com/the-no-fail-beginners-guide-to-growing-psilocybin-mushroom-9bba080a9650
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Fungi and Your Health

Mushrooms fight cancer

A study in the Journal of Experimental Biology and Medicine found that all the common mushroom varieties reduced breast cancer cells by a whopping 33 percent. But breast cancer isn’t the only type of cancer mushrooms help. Studies on prostate and stomach cancer show similar results.
They’re immune-boosting and high in vitamins

Beta-glucan and lentinan are two properties found in mushrooms that give your immune system a much-needed boost. Plus, they’re high in crucial vitamins — many mushroom varieties contain high levels of vitamin D, and crimini mushrooms carry lots of B12, which makes them an excellent choice for vegetarians since B12 is most common in animal products.
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Fungi as Medicine

Red yeast rice is the earliest medicinal use of fungi on record. China developed it around 800 AD. Cultivating Monascus purpura (yeast) in rice produces a pharmaceutically active mixture of compounds.

Now, millions of patients with life-threatening diseases are treated each year with medicines made from fungi. The medicinal value of fungal metabolites is a knowledge that’s centuries old.

Perhaps the most potent yet controversial fungal medicine is psilocybin mushrooms, medicinal properties have also been used for centuries.

In his book, “How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence,” Michael Pollan delves deep into the history of these drugs.

Pollan explains that psychedelics were once legal and used successfully in the US to treat mental disorders, including anxiety, depression, and addiction. According to Pollan, “For most of the 1950s and early 1960s, many in the psychiatric establishment regarded LSD and psilocybin as miracle drugs.”
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 06, 2021, 11:17:28 pm
I told you so:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QaPCx0U7Go

About the mushrooms, while it may be true that they are beneficial, what we are here to do is to get rid of the Western way of explaining why they are beneficial:

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Beta-glucan and lentinan are two properties found in mushrooms that give your immune system a much-needed boost. Plus, they’re high in crucial vitamins — many mushroom varieties contain high levels of vitamin D, and crimini mushrooms carry lots of B12, which makes them an excellent choice for vegetarians since B12 is most common in animal products.

All these are Western models. Until we are able to explain why the mushrooms are beneficial without using Western terms such as "beta-glucan" or "vitamins", we are still not doing non-Western medicine. See my posts from earlier in the topic.

Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: rp on April 20, 2021, 07:46:23 pm
https://twitter.com/jeffreyboadi_/status/1380551597806194693?s=19
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Two truths:

We don’t need dairy, we need calcium.
We don’t need meat, we need protein.

The tweet is obviously from a False Leftist. But that's not the focus of my post, this reply is:
https://twitter.com/AxarNeo/status/1380727319124271108?s=19

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First part true,
second part is half true, there is no such thing as "protein" it's just a word

We are made up of 102+ minerals, and none of them are called "protein". Also, Glucose is not the fundamental energy source of the body, it is Electricity.

We need to do away with all Western nutritional terminology, before arguing about the health benefits of veganism
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 23, 2021, 10:19:02 pm
Still trust Western medicine?

https://techstartups.com/2021/04/23/5-month-old-infant-died-receiving-breast-milk-vaccinated-mother-recently-received-second-dose-pfizer-vaccine-cdc-vaers-data-shows/
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 30, 2021, 01:54:33 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aAk36PovnU
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: guest5 on May 02, 2021, 06:48:11 pm
Apparently, my half-sister also had an odd reaction to here latest Covid-19 shot....
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 02, 2021, 10:32:42 pm
LOL:

https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/pro-vaccine-cybersecurity-expert-dan-kaminsky-dead-at-42-following-experimental-covid-shot/

Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 11, 2021, 11:33:50 pm
Western psychiatry:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/30/health/psychiatry-racism-black-americans.html

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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.”
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White psychiatrists have pathologized Black behavior for hundreds of years, wrapping up racist beliefs in the mantle of scientific certainty and even big data.
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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.”
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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.”
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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.
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: rp on June 05, 2021, 12:58:47 am
Indigenous herbal medicines helpful in treating mild to moderate Covid
https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/indigenous-herbal-medicines-ayush-64-kaphasura-kudineer-helpful-treating-mild-to-moderate-covid-703298
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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.

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.).
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: guest5 on June 05, 2021, 11:02:53 am
UPDATE: 45%!?

Study links mushroom consumption to lower cancer risk
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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.”
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.

Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 06, 2021, 09:57:11 pm
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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.

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.
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: rp on June 14, 2021, 11:01:20 am
Western medicine in action:
https://twitter.com/kuwait_tt1100/status/1404170418014072840?s=20
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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
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Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: rp on June 24, 2021, 06:18:15 pm
https://youtu.be/5lpLvCheBWY
Title: Re: Psychological decolonization
Post by: Zea_mays on August 27, 2021, 04:07:00 pm
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.

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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.
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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.
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.
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 27, 2021, 10:22:22 pm
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.

Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: guest55 on August 27, 2021, 10:55:45 pm
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.

Such a great point!!! I never feel lonely or bored by myself. The only time I feel lonely and bored is when I interact with human-beings. I definitely prefer humans also! But, unfortunately they are very rare!
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: Zea_mays on September 02, 2021, 12:23:33 pm
I think the writer is saying all those traits were treated as separate variables, which just so happened to have similar responses, not that they necessarily all co-occurred in the same individuals.
Title: Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
Post by: guest55 on September 06, 2021, 01:15:29 pm
Drug Trial Goes Terribly Wrong: Emergency At The Hospital (Medical Documentary) | Real Stories
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On Monday 13 March 2006, eight healthy young men took part in a clinical trial of an experimental drug known as TGN1412. The drug was intended to treat leukaemia and had already been successfully tested on monkeys but never on humans.

It should have been a routine clinical trial but it soon spiralled into one of the most infamous medical emergencies in recent British history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9_sX93RHOk
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: guest55 on November 12, 2021, 07:01:03 pm
On the Body as Machine
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Thinking of our bodies as machines has led to widespread, unhelpful, and even militaristic approach to medicine.
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It used to be that when I looked in the mirror, I saw many things: a body; a collection of cells; a fantastic kind of machinery. I didn’t see these things because they were a reflection of reality, or because the body and brain are, in fact, machines. I saw them because I was born in America, and that is my culture.
This thinking does not derive from American culture at all but rather Western culture. The Industrial Revolution began in Britain, America's former colonizer!
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The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in Britain, continental Europe and the United States, in the period from between 1760 to 1820 and 1840.[1] This transition included going from hand production methods to machines, new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes, the increasing use of steam power and water power, the development of machine tools and the rise of the mechanized factory system. The Industrial Revolution also led to an unprecedented rise in the rate of population growth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution

Continuing with the article:
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In our country, we have what’s known as a mechanistic understanding of our bodies. We imagine ourselves to be machines made of meat and bone. We see the doctor as a mechanic whose job is to find the broken parts and fix them. For at least a century this has been our primary metaphor for talking about sickness and health, about how our bodies work and break down. In its popular 1960s television special, National Geographic flatly described the human body as “The Incredible Machine.”

The body is incredible, but my view of it as a machine — the validity of that metaphor — started to break down in the process of researching my book, “The Geography of Madness,” about the so-called “cultural syndromes.”
Entire article: https://undark.org/2016/07/06/mind-machine-medicine-militaristic-healthcare/

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The Body Is Not A Machine
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The origins of the machine metaphor

Once dissections became common and anatomical drawings by Leonardo da Vinci and Andreas Vesalius began to circulate in the early 1500s, it became pretty obvious that bones and muscles were just fancy systems of levers, ropes and pulleys. Nothing mysterious, just things. But it was not until the early 1600’s that the French philosopher René Descartes replaced vitalism with scientific materialism.  Most people think, “Oh yeah, Descartes. He is the cogito ergo sum guy who created the big nuisance of the mind-body problem, isn’t he?”  Yes, that’s him. But give the guy a break! Convincing the world that the body is a machine was a very big deal. He got into plenty of trouble for proposing the radical concept of the body as a machine. Suggesting that the mind too was a machine would have been touching the third rail!

As the industrial revolution transformed society, the metaphor of body as machine became increasingly influential. By the start of the 20th century, the idea dominated thinking in biology and medicine, probably because it is so useful. It has improved our lives by encouraging detailed analysis of the body’s mechanisms at all levels, from the details of anatomy, to understanding how hormones like insulin regulate chemicals like glucose.  It encouraged reductionism, the idea that everything large could be explained by analysis of smaller things. We are now down to genes, molecules, and atomic forces.  What an extraordinary bounty we have reaped from a metaphor! The metaphor of body as a machine provided a ladder that allowed biology to bring phenomena up from a dark pit of mysterious forces into the light where organic mechanisms can be analyzed as if they are machines.
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The body is not a machine

However, the body is not a machine. Machines are products of design, bodies are products of natural selection, and that makes them different in fundamental ways. The organic complexity of bodily mechanisms is qualitatively different from the mechanical complexities of machines. Machines have discrete parts with specific functions connected to each other in straightforward ways. Bodies have parts that may have blurry boundaries and many functions and the parts are often connected to each other in ways hard for human minds to fathom.  Bodies and machines fail for different reasons. Engineers can start from scratch if they need to in order to fix weak spot in the design of a machine. If only our human spine could be redesigned from scratch!  Its limits and compromises are the source of vast pain, but natural selection can’t start fresh, so we are stuck with a substandard design that can be improved only by small changes. The Table illustrates the substantial differences between machines and bodies.  These differences are, however, often ignored, in large part thanks to the power of the metaphor, and the fear that setting it aside will lead to the resurgence of vitalism.

For many scientists, hearing the phrase “the body is not a machine“ arouses an attack on vitalism that is almost automatic. They assume that any derogation of the machine metaphor is an attempt to sneak in vitalism in a new vestige. Their wariness is understandable. Naïve talk about the life force or energy fields has to be weeded out of medicine as steadily as crab grass from a lawn. However, far from endorsing vitalism, my thesis is that the metaphor of body as machine is as pervasive and pernicious now as vitalism was in the Middle Ages. OK, that is an exaggeration. The metaphor is not AS bad as vitalism. It does, however, distort thinking in ways that slows progress.

One powerful example is how we teach biochemistry and physiology. We describe systems using idealized diagrams with boxes and arrows. For instance, every medical student memorizes (then forgets) the chain of chemical interactions that make blood clot. This knowledge is essential for understanding clotting disorders, but the diagram is distant from the reality.

Current research often relies on tacit models of body systems as if they were designed. A multi-billion dollar effort has been started to discover the “wiring diagram of the brain.” But is there a master wiring diagram? The White House Brain Initiative will be most effective when based on recognition that there is no one normal genome, no one normal brain, and no one wiring diagram. Similarly, huge efforts continue to discover the functions of each location in the brain. The amygdala, a tiny almond shaped area deep in the side of our brains, has often been described as the locus of fear learning. Yes, if the amygdala is damaged, fear learning suffers. However, many other regions are involved in regulating fear, and the amygdala serves many other functions including social responses, self-control, aggression, and learning to get positive rewards.

This is a serious business with major costs. In psychiatry, thinking about the mind as a machine has led to a debacle about diagnosis. Many neuroscientists want to abandon the standard system because they cannot find specific brain abnormalities for any of the major disorders. They are sure that for every disease there is some findable broken part. If only.  Many mental disorders are, like heart failure, failures of systems with multiple causes and diverse symptoms.
https://evmed.asu.edu/blog/body-not-machine
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: Zea_mays on December 04, 2021, 06:16:47 am
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Tremendous indeed: The blood program saved many lives. But it also initially excluded African-American donors like Sylvia Tucker. When it did accept them, in January 1942, it did so on a segregated basis.
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To what extent military commanders segregated blood in the field was, during the war and afterwards, a matter of some debate. Officially, at least, the distinction between bloods remained in place for years. It was not until 1950 that the Red Cross stopped requiring the segregation of so-called Negro blood. And it was not until the late 1960s and early 1970s that Southern states such as Arkansas and Louisiana overturned similar requirements.

A forgotten civil rights struggle

In one internal memorandum, the Red Cross called its donor program democratic, since “the point of view of the majority … ” – which its leaders assumed demanded blood segregation – “must be taken into account in a democracy.”
https://theconversation.com/desegregating-blood-a-civil-rights-struggle-to-remember-37480

The point about democracy is very important.

For some reason these days "democratization" is utilized by many organizations as a meaningless buzzword used to mean expanding accessibility and equity of things (or something along those lines). In reality, "democratization" has always been about tyranny of the majority.
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: guest55 on January 10, 2022, 08:31:08 pm
Gravitas Plus: How Big Pharma pushes dangerous drugs and reaps profits
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The pandemic has revealed the power of big pharma. Major drug manufacturers and suppliers have the power to set prices, influence regulators and lobby lawmakers. This power has allowed big pharma to push potentially dangerous drugs. How? Palki Sharma tells you.
#Pandemic #Pharma #GravitasPlus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCciAJJMt9Q
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: acc9 on March 01, 2022, 03:08:21 am
https://std.stheadline.com/daily/article/2445338/%E6%97%A5%E5%A0%B1-%E6%B8%AF%E8%81%9E-%E9%80%A3%E8%8A%B1%E6%B8%85%E7%98%9F%E8%86%A0%E5%9B%8A%E7%AD%89%E4%B8%AD%E6%88%90%E8%97%A5%E7%99%82%E6%95%88%E5%A5%BD


.....and in Hong Kong,  packs of Chinese medicine from mainland China are being unloaded for free distribution as more and more people are self-tested positive and have to help themselves recover at home due to hospital overload. This medicine has been widely used during outbreaks on the Mainland and proved to be very effective in alleviating symptoms. What a welcomed and timely support!   
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 01, 2022, 03:47:27 am
This medicine has its own Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lianhua_Qingwen

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Its formulation includes 13 herbs which is said to have been used for medical purposes as early as the Han dynasty.[2] Sources of its formulation reportedly include apricot kernel, isatis root, weeping forsythia, Japanese honeysuckle flowers and ephedra.

Consider:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephedra_(plant)

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The Ephedra alkaloids, ephedrine and pseudoephedrine – constituents of E. sinica and other members of the genus – have sympathomimetic and decongestant qualities,[18] and have been used as dietary supplements, mainly for weight loss.[19]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsythia_suspensa

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It is one of the 50 fundamental herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine.[7] It contains the lignans Pinoresinol[8] and phillyrin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillyrin

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Phillyrin is an endophytic fungal isolate with anti-obesity activity.

Then recall:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/aryan-immune-system/msg11352/#msg11352

It all fits.

Pictures:

(https://www.newton.com.tw/img/6/ec4/cGcq5SZxYTOxQmNzcTZ0UzYlJ2N1kDZhBDM2QTMwkzM5UWMwATMkhTOkR2Nv0WZ0l2LjlGcvU2apFmYv02bj5SdklWYi5yYyN3Ztl2LvoDc0RHa.jpg)

(https://www.penzai.com/uploads/img/202105/03/1620009745904978.jpeg)
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: Zea_mays on March 14, 2022, 12:57:26 am
Western medicine vs ... ants.

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Cancer detection is a major public health challenge, and the methods currently available to achieve it, for example MRIs and mammograms, are often expensive and invasive. This limits their large-scale use. To bypass these constraints, alternative methods are being studied, like the use of animals' sense of smell.

A team of scientists from the CNRS, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Institut Curie and Inserm1 have demonstrated how a species of ants, Formica fusca, has performed in the area. After a few minutes of training, these insects, which use smell for daily tasks, were able to differentiate healthy human cells from cancerous human cells.
https://phys.org/news/2022-03-ants-cancer.html
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 14, 2022, 01:50:17 am
I would classify such training of ants to detect cancer also as Western medicine. While I do not doubt that ants' sense of smell can technically be used in such a way, 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.....

What we need fundamentally is a non-Western medical model that perceives what Westerners currently call "cancer" as something else altogether. For example:

https://apm.amegroups.com/article/view/2239%20/3341

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From the perspective of TCM, tumor is not only the morphological changes of a specific tissue or organ but also, and more importantly, the functional changes of tissues or organs. The pathological changes of tumors are clinically presented as dampness, toxin, phlegm, stasis (obstruction), and deficiency. Therefore, from the perspective of TCM, the mechanism of tumor can be summarized as: stagnation of toxin and heat, obstruction of phlegm/dampness, Qi stagnation and blood stasis, and imbalanced yin and yang in viscera and bowels. Patients often have the dysfunction of viscera and bowels (e.g., deficiency in liver, spleen, and kidney) and deficiency of the original qi. In addition, pathological changes can also occur due to the emotional impairment. The imbalance between yin and yang in viscera and bowels can be particularly obvious in patients with advanced cancers. According to the ancient Chinese physicians, the development of tumors is often associated with the dysfunction of viscera and bowels, particularly the spleen and kidney deficiencies. Kidney is the root of innate endowment, and spleen is the root of acquired constitution. Spleen and kidney deficiencies can result in the weak healthy qi, and the insufficient defense qi can not prevent the invasion of pathogen. If the healthy qi can not effectively eliminate the pathogen, it will easily spread inside body. As mentioned in the classic books, “When there is sufficient health qi inside, the pathogenic qi have no way to invade the health body”; or, “Where pathogenic factors accumulate, the parts of the body must be deficient in the vital-qi”.

This is the kind of vocabulary we need to be switching to. This in turn leads to therapy not necessarily involving going after the "cancer" itself:

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The largest difference between TCM and modern medicine in terms of efficacy is: after TCM treatment, the tumor does not shrink remarkably, but the patient has longer survival and dramatically improved subjective symptoms; after treatment with modern therapies, on the contrary, the tumor may obviously decrease in size but can recur rapidly, along with unprolonged survival and impaired quality of life.

Further details:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5506596/

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Comparing to modern Western medicine, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) comprises a particularly safe and effective strategy in the treatment of cancer. In TCM theory, disequilibrium between Yin and Yang and blockage of meridian and viscera caused by interior (long time stress, anxiety, depress, overwork, improper lifestyle, etc.) and exterior factors (physical and chemical hazards) leads to stasis of Chi (vital energy), blood, dampness and phlegm, where the pathogenic heat and toxins, which are similar to the factors that cause prominent inflammation, are generated and promote occurrence and development of cancer eventually after these long-lasting malfunctions. Therefore, heat-clearing and detoxicating (HCD) herbs, Chi-regulating herbs, circulation-enhancing herbs, dampness and phlegm-resolving herbs are often used to treat cancers in TCM. HCD herbs are mostly cold in nature and bitter in taste and commonly used to clear away heat, purge fire, dry dampness and cool blood, and relieve toxins. Since pathogenic heat and toxins are more directly related to cancer, HCD herbs or formulas play a predominant role in cancer management by TCM.
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 22, 2022, 08:37:46 pm
Weibo supports medical decolonization:

https://us.yahoo.com/news/billionaires-son-influencer-banned-posting-055200967.html

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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.

More about Wang:

https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/news-trends/article/3105729/beijings-real-life-crazy-rich-asians-wang-sicong-wang

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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.

He also looks like what we would expect:

(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)

Subhuman bloodlines like his are what ancient China's:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_familial_exterminations

was designed to eliminate from the Chinese gene pool.
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: Zea_mays on May 14, 2022, 01:54:56 pm
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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.....


Well, it may be possible to train certain humans to do it as well:
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The woman who can smell Parkinson's disease
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-34583642
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 05, 2022, 08:17:57 pm
Our enemies report:

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/ (video at enemy link)

Unfortunately the Western doctor survived.

Non-Western medicine would not have required removal of clothes for general checkups:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_diagnosis

Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 08, 2022, 09:18:35 pm
Potions FTW!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/traditional-chinese-medicine-more-effective-202549536.html

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Traditional Chinese medicine more effective for children’s respiratory infections than standard drugs: new study
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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.
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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.
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The study showed that YPF was not only superior to pidotimod in treating RRTIs but is also safe to use for children.
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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.”

It looks better too:

(https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/ij18rq5yn1kEc4VrYA7LGA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTcwNTtoPTM3NTtjZj13ZWJw/https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5gNxt_WmBjszC9Fs6TDZvw--~B/aD00MjU7dz04MDA7YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b24-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/nextshark_articles_509/a9aea06b344f608fa822afac67affdd2)

This goes back to what I was saying here:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/re-psychological-decolonization/msg2283/#msg2283

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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.

Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 21, 2022, 10:41:09 pm
I would like to re-highlight what I was trying to explain some time ago:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/re-psychological-decolonization/msg2282/#msg2282

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"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.

Now:

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?
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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.

I told you so. The Western model of nutrition is indeed medically inferior compared to ancient models.
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 03, 2022, 01:12:03 am
https://www.yahoo.com/news/aspirin-beta-blockers-linked-higher-182829236.html

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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.

Certain Western medications, to be precise:

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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.
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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.

People living in tropical habitats using Western medicine makes about as much sense as people living in tropical habitats wearing Western suits.
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 08, 2022, 08:16:53 pm
Continuing from:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/re-psychological-decolonization/msg14814/#msg14814

next we have:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-told-high-dose-b-203604162.html

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A man was told to take high-dose B vitamins after blood tests showed he was deficient. Then he lost his ability to walk.
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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.
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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.

Also:

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Preventative care experts say vitamin A supplements cause more harm than good, as taking too many can lead to bone pain and hair loss.

This is how stupid the Western model of nutrition ("vitamins" LOL) is.

While we're at it, let's look at some history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin#History

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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."

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!

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/re-psychological-decolonization/msg2284/#msg2284
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 05, 2022, 11:13:28 pm
Our enemies' latest complaint:

https://gatesofvienna.net/2022/10/whats-a-little-pain-when-youre-saving-the-planet/

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Are people supposed to now do without anesthesia during surgery in order to save the climate?
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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.
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“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.”
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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.

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:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2396469/

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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.

Western anaesthetic equipment:

(https://aneskey.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/m_butt5_c004f001.png)

Non-Western anaesthetic equipment:

(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!)

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There are some drawbacks, however: (i) anesthesia produced by acupuncture has individual variations and (ii) too much time is needed to induce anesthesia.

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.
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 15, 2022, 12:44:05 am
The shift begins!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11311645/Minnesota-medical-students-vow-honor-Indigenous-ways-healing.html

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Woke pledge replaces Hippocratic oath: Minnesota medical students vow to 'honor all Indigenous ways of healing historically marginalized by Western medicine'
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The students also pledged to fight 'white supremacy, colonialism [and] the gender binary' at the school's white coat ceremony on August 19.
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They then vowed to 'embody cultural humility' and affirmed 'that patients are the experts of their bodies.'

The last point is similar to what I was saying here:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/re-psychological-decolonization/msg2284/#msg2284
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 26, 2023, 02:50:54 am
https://us.yahoo.com/news/took-blockbuster-drugs-weight-loss-192756033.html

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They took blockbuster drugs for weight loss and diabetes. Now their stomachs are paralyzed
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“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.”
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“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.
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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.
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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.

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.....
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 18, 2023, 05:10:37 pm
https://studyfinds.org/cancer-drugs-nothing-for-patients/

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GOTHENBURG, Sweden — Cancer researchers continue to roll out new and promising treatments for patients all over the world. However, a new study finds that many end up being completely ineffective, failing to improve the quality of life or extend the lifespans of cancer patients. Specifically, researchers in Sweden found that up to two in three cancer drugs prove to be useless for patients after years of research.
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The Gothenburg team examined 22 cancer drugs approved for reimbursement in Sweden over the last 10 years, examining studies that tested their ability to improve quality of life or lengthen lifespans. On average, these reports examined the drugs for 6.6 years.

Results revealed only seven of the 22 drugs had at least one study which showed a clear benefit for cancer patients. Randomized controlled trials on the other 15 failed to show any tangible benefits for people with cancer. Only one drug in the study showed an ability to both improve the quality of life and extend lifespans for patients.
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Study authors say the fact that cancer treatment research is taking up more and more of the limited resources within health systems means there should be more scrutiny over the drugs which do receive approval for use.

“The lack of confirmatory evidence for important patient outcomes is problematic and creates uncertainty about how these drugs actually contribute to meaningful patient benefit, and ultimately how effectively resources are being used within healthcare,” Strand says.
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: acc9 on August 20, 2023, 02:24:04 am
https://meridianhealthclinic.com/how-rockefeller-created-the-business-of-western-medicine/

....One shocking fact that I found while researching this post was that Rockefeller didn’t stop at U.S. borders. He actually went into China to spread Western Medicine. Upon hearing this I actually got chills down my spine!  Rockefeller wasn’t content with just wiping out traditional medicine in America, he saw a bigger market on the other side of the world and wanted to remove Traditional Chinese Medicine from China!

https://inf.news/en/history/570ac1df50acfd9092bfaa31c1802e3b.html#google_vignette

https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/768167.shtml

In 2004, after the death of Rockefeller Jr., American Hans Rusk wrote "The Truth about the Rockefeller Drug Empire: The Drug Story" (The Truth about the Rockefeller Drug Empire: The Drug Story), which revealed Rockefeller's conspiracy against Chinese medicine.

With the spreading of the missionary movements, Rockefeller became increasingly interested in China. His foundation bought the Union Medical School and renamed it the "Peking Union Medical College."

The foundation not just wanted to establish a first-class school of medicine in China. It also introduced the US Johns Hopkins model to the Peking Union Medical College Hospital, and viewed it as a laboratory of their social ideas, which reflects the foundation's ambition to change China.
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 20, 2023, 02:59:29 am
Good links, but please quote the important information!

First link:

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In the early 1900’s there were a variety of doctors and healing modalities in America. Some of the medical specialties included chiropractic, naturopathy, homeopathy, holistic medicine and herbal medicine. To eliminate the competition Rockefeller he hired a contractor named Abraham Flexner to submit a report to Congress in 1910. This report “concluded” that there were too many doctors and medical schools in America, and that all the natural healing modalities which had existed for hundreds of years were unscientific quackery. The report called for the standardization of medical education, whereby only the AMA (another monopoly) would be allowed to grant medical school licensure in the U.S.
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With new laws in place, Rockefeller teamed up with Andrew Carnegie and started funding medical schools all over America on the strict condition that they only taught allopathic medicine. Through the power of their huge “grants”, this powerful team systematically dismantled the previous curricula of these medical schools, removing any mention of the healing power of herbs or natural treatments. Teachings on diet and other natural (non-drug) treatments were also completely removed from medical programs.

After removing traditional medicine from medical schools, Rockefeller made sure to secure his monopoly by launching a targeted smear campaign against his competitors. Homeopathy and natural medicines were discredited and demonized through the newspapers and other media of the time.  Some doctors were even jailed for using natural medicine treatments, including treatments that had been used safely and effectively for decades before. In a very short time, medical colleges were all homogenized. All the students were taught the same allopathic system and medicine was now defined as a process of prescribing patented drugs.
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To quickly summarize what happened in China: The China Medical Board (CMB) was created in 1914 by the Rockefeller Foundation (RF) and provided with a $12 million grant. The RF’s goal was to “modernize medical education and to improve the practice of medicine in China”.  They started by building a hospital in Beijing (Peking Union Medical College, opened in 1919), but they were unable to expand to other locations (as planned) due to mounting expenses.

Second link:

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The subversion of the status of Chinese medicine in China is closely related to the "capital conspiracy" of the Rockefeller consortium of the United States.
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Looking at historical data, it can be found that in the 1930s, the school of Chinese medicine not only lags behind Western medicine in terms of scale, but also began to fully accept the model of Western medicine in the system.
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After 1840, the West used gunboats to blast open the door of China, and step by step looted China from one of the richest countries in the world to an extremely poor country. The Chinese were conquered by them militarily, but it is not easy to conquer Chinese culture. Without conquering Chinese culture, one cannot conquer the hearts of Chinese people. So they adopted a long-term strategy: use part of the Boxer indemnity to establish universities in China and absorb a large number of Chinese students in order to cultivate their own spokespersons.
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China, a country with hundreds of millions of people at that time, was using Chinese medicine and traditional medicine. Most of the Chinese population does not see western medicine, so there is no market for western medicine.

  Therefore, in this context, a capital conspiracy to achieve "modernization, scientific and internationalization" of Chinese medicine, but aimed at eliminating Chinese medicine, appeared.
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In 1915, the Union Medical College was established in China to bring in Western medicine and train Chinese people to learn Western medicine for free in the name of an academic foundation. This foundation can sponsor schools that teach Western medicine in China, but there is a condition that these students and through these students instill the Chinese people the idea of ​​abandoning the "safe, effective and cheap Chinese medicine" that has been handed down since ancient times, and Believe in expensive western medicine. But Chinese medicine is safe, effective and cheap, and its competitiveness is very strong, but how to circumvent this? Through "science"! So the Rockefeller consortium said under the banner of "science": Chinese medicine is unscientific.

  This bypasses the most competitive aspects of Chinese medicine. From the ideological point of view, let the people know that science is the best thing. Chinese medicine is not scientific, so Chinese medicine is not good.
This made the traditional Chinese medicine developed by the Chinese since ancient times gradually disappear.
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In the name of the Academic Foundation, Rockefeller and his family donated a little money to the Chinese medical community. 'Internationalization' aims to make the Chinese people doubt their academic roots and systems of Chinese medicine, so much so that they are disgusted.
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the strategy of using Chinese people to eliminate Chinese medicine was applied seamlessly here, so much so that today, decades later, Chinese medicine has come to the end of the day. , The medical community is still debating whether TCM is scientific and modern.
Nowadays, people cannot see what the Rockefeller Consortium has done
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if they can't Through large-scale animal experiments to "verify" the effectiveness of their ancient acupuncture and moxibustion, this cannot be considered as having any "scientific value".
Title: Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
Post by: Paralyzed on September 01, 2023, 01:31:35 pm
People who took popular weight loss drugs say their stomachs are paralyzed
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The diabetes drug Ozempic and its sister drug for weight loss, Wegovy, utilize the same medication, semaglutide. The US Food and Drug Administration said it has received reports of patients on the drugs experiencing stomach paralysis that sometimes has not resolved by the time it’s reported. #CNN #News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR2djr_sqNM

Lawsuit filed against makers of Ozempic and Mounjaro l GMA
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The suit alleges pharmaceutical companies Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly should have included more explicit warnings about the risks of using their diabetes drugs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hju7tuqyTs

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Diabetes was first recognized around 1500 B.C.E. by the ancient Egyptians, who considered it a rare condition in which a person urinated excessively and lost weight...
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[...]Ironically, although scientific advances have led to effective strategies for preventing diabetes, the pathway to cure has remained elusive. In fact, if one views diabetes from a public health and overall societal standpoint, little progress has been made toward conquering the disease during the past 200 years, and we are arguably worse off now than we were in 1812. Two centuries ago, severe insulin deficiency dominated the clinical presentation of diabetes. Although it is possible that some people had milder forms of hyperglycemia at that time, they largely escaped clinical detection. In 2012, the commonly encountered spectrum of diabetes is quite different. Although severe insulin deficiency still occurs, it now accounts for only about 10% of cases overall and can be readily treated with insulin. The vast majority of patients with diabetes are overweight and have a combination of insulin resistance and impaired insulin secretion. The prevalence of this form of diabetes has been increasing dramatically, particularly in the past three to four decades, resulting in a worldwide epidemic that has made diabetes one of the most common and most serious medical conditions humankind has had to face...
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmra1110560
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 05, 2023, 03:37:11 am
Recall:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/re-psychological-decolonization/msg2282/#msg2282

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"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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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?

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/re-psychological-decolonization/msg2283/#msg2283

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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.

I told you so:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/taking-vitamins-may-help-tumours-070000856.html

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Taking vitamin or mineral supplements could be feeding tumours and allowing them to grow, suggests new research.

Common antioxidants such as vitamins A, C, and selenium and zinc when taken additionally can all cause blood vessels in cancer to grow.

The discovery has come as a surprise

Not to me.

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The researchers said that natural levels in food were fine but if people take supplements containing antioxidants as well then the extra amount can fuel tumour growth.

How did I know that supplements are unhealthy without needing to do any research? How inferior are Western scientists compared to me? How inferior is Western medicine compared to every other system of medicine in history, none of which used such crude concepts as "vitamins", "minerals" and "antioxidants"?

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“We’ve found that antioxidants activate a mechanism that causes cancer tumours to form new blood vessels, which is surprising, since it was previously thought that antioxidants have a protective effect.

Not by me. You thought so because you are inferior. You are inferior because you are a Western scientist.

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“The new blood vessels nourish the tumours and can help them grow and spread.”

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-a-health-hazard/
Title: Re: Medical decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 23, 2023, 05:28:05 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/fish-oil-omega-3-supplements-rancid-study-212940931.html

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Fish oil supplements have come under fire recently after research found many brands make claims about heart health that aren't backed up by clinical trial data. Now there's even more bad news for these supplements: Many consumers are getting fish oil pills that are rancid.
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The researchers discovered that 68% (or 23 out of 34) of the flavored supplements and 13% (five out of 38) of the unflavored ones exceeded the TOTOX (total oxidation value) upper limit set by the Global Organization for EPA and DHA, which measures oxidation in the supplements — meaning they had oxidized and were rancid.
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One study of 54 healthy participants who took oxidized (rancid) fish oil, high-quality fish oil or high-oleic sunflower oil found that those in the rancid fish oil group experienced significant (and unfavorable) effects on lipoproteins — particles made of protein and fats that carry cholesterol through your bloodstream to your cells
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Best-case scenario, says Frame, "these supplements don't work because they don't provide that beneficial antioxidant property." But, she says, there's also a risk they may increase inflammation in the body. Bodily inflammation has been linked to a slew of health issues, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes and some forms of cancer.

Keatley agrees. "Consuming rancid or oxidized fish oil supplements may not provide the intended health benefits. In fact, it may lead to digestive discomfort, such as burping, indigestion or diarrhea," she says. "Over time, the consumption of oxidized fats may contribute to cellular damage and inflammation."