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The Blanket that Made the Snake Throw Up...
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John Rose
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Date: April 02, 2020 07:25PM Most people have a hard time understanding the Dis-Ease Process thanks to all of the Brainwashing our so-called Experts have gotten, which they in turn use to Brainwash us, and the snippet below is from Dr. Russel Trall's Speech to the Smithsonian Institute in 1862. Although this Speech is over 150 years old, the entire Speech is a MUST READ for those with a genuine and sincere desire to understand that Dis-Ease is NOT an entity, as our so-called Experts would like us to believe, and is Body Initiated!
And herein is the explanation of the classes of medicines; the rationale of the action of medicines, which has so puzzled the brains of medical philosophers in all ages. • Emetics do not act on the stomach, but are ejected by the stomach. • Purgatives do not act on the bowels, but are expelled through the bowels. • Diaphoretics, instead of acting on the skin, are sent off in that direction. • Diuretics do not act on the kidneys, but the poisonous drugs are got rid of through that channel, • And so on And this equally mysterious entity called disease! Is not its essential nature sufficiently apparent? The disease is simply the process of getting the poisons out of the system; and so this perplexing problem is also solved. That the explanation I have given of the nature of disease and the modus operandi of medicines is the true one may be demonstrated in this way. We can take all of the medicines of the pharmacopoeia and produce all the diseases of the nosology. Thus certain combinations of brandy, cayenne pepper, and quinine will produce, in a healthy person, inflammatory fever; calomel, nitre, and opium yield typhus symptoms or typhoid fever; gamboge, scammony, and ipecac simulate cholera morbus; nitre, antimony, and digitalis, the Asiatic or spasmodic cholera; cod-liver oil, salt, and sulfur, the scurvy, etc. Castor oil, Epson salts, and a hundred other articles called cathartics, will occasion diarrhea; and lobelia, Indian hemp, tobacco, and many other drugs, will induce vomiting. And what in the name of medical science and the healing art are the diarrhea and the vomiting except efforts of the living system to expel the poisons--purifying processes, diseases? Any person, who can explain the philosophy of sneezing, has the key that may be applied to the solution of all the problems before us. Does the dust or the snuff sneeze the nose, or does the nose sneeze the dust or the snuff? Which is acted on or expelled, and what acts? Is sneezing a healthy or a morbid process? No one will pretend that it is normal or physiological. No one ever sneezes unless there is something abnormal in or about the nasal organ. Then sneezing is a remedial effort, a purifying process, a disease, as much as is a diarrhea, a cholera, or a fever. And this brings me to the rule for the successful treatment of all diseases. Disease being a process of purification, I do not wish to subdue it, but to regulate it. I would not repress the remedial action, but direct it. Patients are always safe, as the remedial action is nearly equally directed to the various depurating organs, or mainly to the skin. They are in danger just to the extent that the remedial action is diverted from the skin and concentrated on some internal organ. Our rule, then, is to balance the remedial effort, so that each organ shall perform its due share of the necessary labor, and no part be disorganized and ruined by overwork. And to direct and control the remedial effort we have only to balance the circulation; and to balance the circulation we have only to regulate the temperature, and for these purposes we have no more need of drugs than a man has of a blister on his great toe to assist him to travel. He wants useful, not injurious, things. Perhaps I can give an illustration of the leading problems of my subject still more obvious and satisfactory. I read in a newspaper the other day, that a boa-constrictor, while on exhibition in one of the theatres in Paris, having been kept without food for a long time, "Began to feel, as well he might, The keen demands of appetite," and took it into his fancy to swallow a bed-blanket. The snake was two or three days in getting the blanket down and after retaining it for some four or five weeks, the blanket, after another two or three days' struggle, was found in its former position, and not much the worse for the vain attempt of the monster to digest it. Now the questions to be answered are: did the blanket act on the snake, or did the snake act on the blanket? Again, to expel a bed-blanket from the stomach is not physiological. No boa constrictor in the normal state ever did it. Then it must be pathological, and pathology is disease. The blanket was the cause of disease--the obstructing material, and the disease itself was the process--the vomiting, which expelled it. Should this process of ejecting the blanket have been counteracted, suppressed, or subdued, or killed, or cured; or regulated and directed? All the functions of vitality may be resolved into two sets of processes one transforms the elements of food into tissue, and throws off the waste matters; this is Health--Physiology. The other expels extraneous or foreign substances and repairs damages; this is Disease--Pathology. Is this not all plain enough? But some authors tell us that medicines cure disease, and other authors tell us that the vis medicatrix naturae cures. They are both wrong. ‘What is the vis medicatrix naturae? It is vital struggle in self-defense; it is the process of purification; it is the disease itself. So far from the disease and the vis medicatrix naturae being antagonistic entities or forces at war with each other, they are one and the same. And if this be the true solution of this problem, it is clear enough that the whole plan of subduing or "curing" disease with drugs is but a process of subduing and killing the vitality. ‘We see, now, the rationale of the truth of the remark of Professor Clark: "Every dose diminishes the vitality of the patient." Once again, the snippet above comes from a MUST READ Speech - see 2 links below - that illustrates that NOTHING has changed in the last 150+ years when it comes to how the Powers that Be use Doctors to keep us SICK... [soilandhealth.org] [www.whale.to] THE TRUE HEALING ART: Or, HYGIENIC vs. DRUG MEDICATION AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE, WASHINGTON, D. C., BY R. T. TRALL, M.D. ... R. T. Trall, 1862 Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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