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Just What Is Orthodox Medicine?  

 
Hippocrates: " Let your food be your medicine; let your medicine be your food."  

 
Let me make one thing very clear to avoid misunderstanding: I respect my medical advisers and value their expertise.  
 
Although I probably have a little more knowledge than most people, I certainly am no match for a doctor when it comes to diagnosis.  The doctor's prolonged training and experience should make him a valuable ally in maintaining or restoring our health.  Modern healthcare has a wealth of diagnostic equipment that can identify many if not most problems within the human body.  That is something we should never dismiss lightly. 
 

However, there is an important point that must be made: my health is my responsibility.    

 
We are each responsible for our own "primary health care"; our doctors are our allies when things go wrong.  Our society has lost sight of this principle.  I was with a family recently where a child had been absent from school over a month with throat infections.  I asked the parents to tell me what her throat looked like, and both looked aghast.  Neither thought it their responsibility to look at their child's throat: that was the doctor's job! 
 
I know other families that have two or three appointments at the surgery almost every week.  These stories illustrate the problem we have today: we have been so successfully brainwashed into believing healthcare is complicated and specialised that many do not feel competent to deal with even the simplest matters.   
 
Can you believe that a mother would take her child to Casualty to have a minor graze cleansed and swabbed with antiseptic?  Believe me, it happens!  

 
The other factor is the successful promotional strategies of the big drug companies: they have a pill or potion for everything, and we won't get better quickly without it.  

 
If there is a fault with modern medicine it is not in the skills of our doctors and the diagnostic tools at their disposal.  No, it is the focus on curative rather than preventive medicine, the reliance upon drug therapy to the exclusion of alternatives and the lamentable lack of serious attention to wrong nutrition as a primary cause of illness and disease.  
 
I have been interested in nutritional and "alternative" or "complementary" therapies for about 30 years since my wife was very ill with cancer in her mid twenties.  We did not refuse the help of doctors and surgeons, but when they had cut and burned they could only give a maximum 5-year life expectancy. 
 
We turned to nutritional supplements and used a combination of vitamins and minerals that was considered very cranky at the time.  "Mind you don't do more harm than good!" I was told many times.  Now most those vitamins and minerals are recommended anti-oxidants that are acknowledged to have anti-cancer and anti-heart disease properties.   
 
Because of the brainwashing we have received from the drug companies and food industry we have lost our sense of history.  Humankind has been practising medicine for around 6,000 years using herbs and plant materials as potent remedies for most of that time.   
 
Drug therapy is a very recent introduction.  In fact, if we look at human history as being the 12-hour face of a clock, modern medicine has been around for just about 15-20 minutes!  So the next time you are advised to stick to "orthodox" or "traditional" medicine you are perfectly entitled to question exactly what that means. 
 
Then there are drug side effects.  My own experience of drug therapy has been "enlightening" if not frightening.  I rarely saw a doctor until after my mother died of atherosclerosis. I was advised to have cholesterol tests and ended up on medication.  Then everything changed!   
 
My health steadily deteriorated in ways that seemed totally unconnected.  Eczema flared up and I started suffering badly from hayfever.  I then had a bout of 'mumps' that put me off work for three months and from which I never really recovered.  A year later I was off work again for two months with glandular fever - and was told I'd never had mumps at all.  
 
After nearly four years of chronic fatigue I finally asked my GP if I had ME.  "No", came the answer, "I think we're making you rather ill with the medication to control your cholesterol."  By agreement I stopped the medication and was vastly improved within three days.  No hayfever the following year and no eczema.  

 
Let me leave you with this.  Apart from God there are no healers.  

 
Our Creator gave us wonderful bodies that are self-healing if they are given what they need to do the job.  Doctors, good medicines, whether natural or drugs, can only help the body restore itself.  Every cell in your body, apart from the brain, is replaced over seven years from the bones out.  Most cells are replaced much more frequently.  Your body is very forgiving if you give it what it needs to repair the damage of the years.  
 

And it is never too late, or too early, to start.  

 
Herbs and the other food supplements we recommend on this site are dietary supplements.  We do not practice medicine or prescribe cures, that is for health practitioners.  No comment on this site should be taken as medical advice or a substitute for qualified healthcare advice.  

 
Hippocrates: " Let your food be your medicine; let your medicine be your food."  We commend that to you.  

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