THE END OF MEDICINE: A RETURN TO EDEN (THE GARDEN OF LIFE)
Our rights to life and absolute
freedom from malady hangs on knowing the truth, which can be fully achieved
only when we wholly accept personally to take responsibility for ourselves caring
for who we are, what we do and what we become, not trusting in anyone else to
salvage our hope for a better future. Jesus said:
“if ye continue in my word, then are
ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make
you free.” (John 8:31-32)
Medicine no doubt is an
essential aid to life recovery especially in emergency situations like burns,
accident and traumas. However, over time, the practice of medicine has
continued to witness influx of high tech sophistication in service delivery
with little or no benefit to the end user particularly in chronic conditions of
spiritual, mental, physical and social imbalance. Instead, it creates
complications not just in results but also in their interpretations and
perceptions based on a wrong philosophical inclination, thus worsening
conditions of once before a failed adaptation of delicate functional aberration
characterised with signs and symptoms considered to be ailment. These
conditions of infirmity, which we call sickness or disease is actually a
healing process; a period of time when the body engage its sanitary workers to
clean up the systems of its endogenous waste and the mess we accumulate through
wrong choice of foods and negative lifestyles.
Moreover, some biased professionals
of the science community and her many advocates of the drug therapy have
usurped the threat and dread of such disorders to ignorantly or purposefully propound
charming theories, such as the germ theory and using fictitious fad advertorials
as a means and opportunity to gain fame and wealth thereby exploiting the naïve
to establish multi-million-dollar business empires, which are renowned pathological
(disease) centres contrary to solution grounds that ought to be serving as revolutionary
centres for healing. This is evident as we can witness today of the many
conglomerate edifices owned by the pharma and their allied companies advocating
for drugs in place of food and the “state-of-the-art” hospitals financed by the
multi-national pharma industry.
One may be forced to pause
and think along the too many questions popping up in mind randomly and
earnestly begging for answers: has the existing health-care delivery system alongside
its complex and sophisticated medical technologies lived up to its expectations-
not just saving lives at emergency departments, but ending the plague of many
illness and people’s chronic suffering? Has improving the quality of healthcare
services improved the quality of life (QoL)? Have the more sophisticated health
information systems and increasing awareness of consumer knowledgeability about
medical care services given the patient equal empowerment of the right to and
enough information on the health matters they earnestly seek? Have devices
becoming precise, sophisticated and powerful helped to solve a patient’s
fundamental need- an end to the dis-ease and suffering by identifying in absolute
terms the exact root cause for proper diagnosis, the right treatment and
biological mechanisms for resolving and containing the dysfunction as well as
overcoming fundamental flaws in the systems that finance, organize, and deliver
health care services, which makes it difficult for individuals to access
mainstream primary health care services often referred to as traditional
complementary and alternative medicine (TCAM)? Has drug therapy actually done
more good than harm in terms of how affordable, safe, reliable, efficient and
convenient really is conventional healthcare services in the delivery of
primary health care? What volume of the medical and nursing curricula is dedicated
to teaching medical and nursing students the requisite subjects on health and
nutrition rather than pathology? What percentage of the commonwealth- national
and international health budget is devoted to disease prevention, and
channelled to educating the people on how to produce and consume healthful
organic and nutritional foods rather than artificial and genetically modified
organisms (GMOs) in the course to combat malnutrition, and to build their
immunity with food rather than spending their life savings on drugs that
destroy their organs particularly the liver.
Instead, for greed and
private gains, the leaders embrace socioeconomic sabotage that only enrich
themselves and the pharmaceutical bigots when they spend bulk of the budgets on
purchasing ‘free’ drugs all in the name of disease control; a deliberate colonial
conquest that has today become a neo-colonial masterpiece, which has left
Africa and other under-developed nations in perpetual poverty? Until we
understand the politics and commercialization of the health industry we may not
value these questions or even observe at least a second to ponder over them.
Africa is ancient but
highly endowed as the last hope of the future for humankind. It predates all
known knowledge and human civilizations, and existed long before the modern
civilizations like the Greek and Roman or Western civilization because Africa
is Eden. Even before the Babylonian, Persian and Median eras, our fathers
practiced medicine, which was based on the principles of nature in accordance
with the ordinances of the Creator. Hippocrates (c. 460 BC - c. 375 BC) having
trained in Alexandria (a port city in Egypt that was very popular for ages particularly
during the Hellenistic period where Greek philosophers were groomed and
developed to translate the African art and science into Greco-Roman civilization.
It also housed the first storied library, which most Greek and Roman scholars
attended for their research) learned from the natives the art and science of
true medicine, which were then collected and later transformed, documented and
transmitted in the Hippocratic Corpus that have become popular quotes of the day.
Hippocrates was credited
to have begun western society’s development of medicine through a subtle combination
of the art of healing and scientific observations and thus referenced as the
father of western medicine. One of his attributed quotes, ‘let food be thy
medicine and medicine be thy food’ no doubt must have originated from the cultural
healing food ethics- a practice of rich healthy nutritional delicacies of
vegetables and fruits of the aborigines living a life that is pure and fully enshrined
in nature; a life that is beautiful and self-healing by the design of its maker
because natural living is the only means to actualizing the zest and optimum
quality of life with a spontaneous healing that only nature provides. That was
our denied inheritance in a world that thrives on lies and deceptions.
A major principle of
nature cure considered all diseases as one- that of imbalance stemming from
dehydration; metabolic imbalance existing as either deficiency (malnutrition) or
toxicity (toxaemia). Thus a return to Eden (the garden of life) where nature is
expressed to the fullest becomes the valid solution to the prevention and
eradication of disease. The many benefits and advantages of traditional nature
cure practice if fully utilized will obviously see the end of today’s
contemporary autocratic orthodox medicine and its nefarious drug therapy.
This clarion call is long
overdue but it’s never too late if we decide to answer today the call of our
maker who is ever willing and eager to heal us when He said:
“If my people, which are
called by my name, shall humble themselves, pray and seek my face and turn from
their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will heal their land.”
(2
Chronicles 7:14) KJV
God made the herbs (not
medicines) and gave them to man to serve as food and balm for his healing as we
can read from the following scriptures:
“And God said, Behold, I
have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the
earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed to you
it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the
air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I
have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.”
(Genesis 1: 29-30) KJV
“He causeth the grass to
grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth
food out of the earth.”
(Psalm 104: 14) KJV
“Go up into Gilead, and
take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many
medicines: for thou shalt not be cured.”
(Jeremiah 46:11) KJV
One man who saw the
future, Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931) once said:
“The doctor
of the future will give no medication but will interest his patients in the
care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease”
The human body is
self-regenerating, self-regulating and has the capacity to maintain, repair and
heal itself with its inbuilt resources and machinery such as the immune system.
Hence, all we need to do is give it the right environment including food
(adequate nutrition), oxygen (unpolluted air), natural pure ionized water
(without contamination or pollution), rest, sleep, exercise, sunshine, and
meditation. This truth is fundamental for the yearning for freedom from illness
in line with the thoughts and theories expounded in the Hippocratic corpus:
“The natural healing force within each of us is
the greatest force in getting well.”
“Natural forces within us are the true healers
of disease.”
“If we could give every individual the right
amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would
have found the safest way to health.”
“All disease begins in the gut.”
“Death sits in the bowels”
“Bad digestion is the root of all evil”
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy
food.”
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