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Continued from page 19 – How Food Helps the Body HealItselfhigh blood pressure ends up needing treatment forsecondary impotence or muscle pains caused by the drugsprescribed for him. Those on treatment for diabetes oftendie from stroke or coronary heart disease both promotedby the treatment.Cancer patients are more likely to die from thechemotherapy and irradiation treatment used to treat thecancer itself. Those that do not seek medical treatment inhospitals often live longer despite the doom predicted bytheir doctors.Radiotherapy and chemotherapy destroy tissues and theimmune system that are necessary for the recovery of thepatient from cancer. The cancer starts in the body wherethe immune system has been weakened because of factorlike chemicals used as medicines, poor nutrition,irradiation etc. Therefore these same agents could not bereasonably used to treat the very diseases that theycaused!By the same token, toxic chemicals like AZT cannot treatsuccessfully an immune disorder like AIDS withoutcausing a further deterioration of the immune system.In Uganda the author has used nutrients to improve thestatus of health of over 18000 people who had contractedHIV/AIDS. In 80% of these patients, improvementoccurred within a short time when they started on herbalnutritional supplements combined with an increasedintake of vegetables and fruits.These results were met with violent opposition from themultinational pharmaceutical companies alarmed by ournew found success based on our ancestral heritage. It isbecause they cannot patent these nutritional supplementsfrom foods and herbs for financial gain and monopoly.Supplements from natural sources are capable ofsuccessfully treating conditions like arthritis, diabetes,asthma, lupus, cancer and viral diseases like HIV/AIDSand hepatitis.It is this potential healing power of herbs that promptedthe pharmaceutical companies of the world to formulatethe CODEX Alimentarius that threatens to take away theuse of vitamins, minerals and herbs from the publicthrough a United Nations legislation. The war against thismultinational drug companies greed has started and it isdestined to succeed. The deception is being exposed bythe truth about the value of alternative medicine and theimportance of nutrition. Medical doctors are experiencingan ever increasing demand for holistic medicine asopposed to allopathic chemical based drugs of thepharmaceutical industries. This is just the beginning andthe end of the struggle is not yet in sight. ☻☻☻☻☻☻Continued from page 15- Villager Finds Life EmbalmingHe calls this, his dream job and his experience at themortuary, provided the stimulation to kickstart it. Most ofhis village-mates are poor and some cannot affordmortuary bills. “I was surprised when people startedlooking for my assistance since many knew my formerjob,” said Mr Oguma in an interview with SmartbizAfrica at his home in Kangeso, a three hour drive fromKisumu town.He charges between Kshs500 and Kshs 1,000 to apply theherbs to the body, and clients have started coming inneighbouring areas. In “a good” month he makes betweenKshs 8,000 and Kshs 10,000, earning that have made hima sort of village celebrity. “There is not much differencebetween what I do and what other people do. It is just ajob like any other business, except that the people I workwith cannot talk and see. They are dead,” he said.“Just as the doctor is compassionate and concerned aboutthe well-being of his patient, I am very concerned thatanyone who is placed in my care is treated with a lot ofcare and dignity. “When someone dies, the body is lacedon wet sand to keep the body cold, just like the mortuarycoolers would. He then washes it using salty water andherbs to drain the body of fluids.“Salt is used in many homes to preserve food and that isthe way I also use it to wash the body. It is a goodpreservative.” Luo customary laws prohibit “outsiders”from touching the body, so he makes sure close relativesstand guard. “Some people may have evil intentions,” hesaid. “When the body is touched by an outsider, itdecomposes faster and starts smelling.”If the rules are followed, he says, a dead person can evenstay for two to three days without rotting. Besides, thefeet are washed by in-laws using the salty water and thebody placed on the left side of the house to await burial.Much as he is revered in this village, not everyone wantsto shake his hands or just keep his company-some adultsand most children are likely to change direction whenthey see him. But the old man isn’t shaken.“Just as they like their jobs, this is the job I like most andthey should keep in mind that somebody will have tohandle their body when the time comes. “He says hecould still take a job at any morgue in the country as thatis the only thing he is qualified to do. “Although somepeople try to isolate themselves from me,” he says. “I donot see why they should behave like that. I’m a normalperson.Business Unusual is a showcase for Smartbizafrica.comstories that notably original, surprising, amusing or justplain interesting.☻☻☻☻☻☻-20- Traditional African Clinic October 2007
Continued from page 18 – Herbal Holocaustdisease, they died by the millions. Because Amerindiansbecame dependent on goods brought from the NewWorld, they forgot their traditional ways of life, and wereforced into trade. Skins for guns, metal kettles andknives. The fur trade opened up North America once andfor all to European settlers.Disease and dependence continue to be the tools bywhich multinational corporations enslave the world'spopulace. By placing themselves between Canadians andthe traditional healing arts, the multinationalpharmaceutical companies ensure that their hold over usremains strong. The gardener and naturopath, the growerand the shaman, all are outlawed in a society that seeks toexchange our bond with the earth for a bond of slavery.With a monopoly on health, the pharmaceuticalcompanies will have the power to extort the last pennyfrom ailing seniors and sick children, while those whocan't pay will be left to die. Who won't be willing to selleverything they have to save a loved one from disease?Synthetic cures won't come cheap when there's nocompetition or alternative.A health food store owner, who wishes to remainanonymous, has visions of a Canada without medicare."Right now they have plans to pad the system. Becausesoon whenever someone wants to get Vitamin C, theywill have to go to a doctor for a prescription. All of thosevisits will be charged to medicare, and sooner or later themedicare system will be bankrupt."When the medicinally beneficial hemp plant wasoutlawed, North America lost a versatile medicine, aswell as an efficient means to produce paper, fabric, andmany other items. This resulted in the unchecked cuttingof our forests, and the massive use of pesticides to growless hardy cotton. When all herbs are outlawed, and ourattachment to the earth is more fundamentally shaken,what destruction will be unleashed upon the earth then?Canadians need to learn a lesson from the prohibition ofcannabis and act out against the banning of other healingherbs, before the entire world is sacrificed to greed.Banned SubstancesThe following herbs are among many considered by theHealth Protection Branch to be harmful substances whichmay be seized by Customs or wherever they are sold:American Mandrake, Mayapple, American Mistletoe,False Mistletoe, American Pennyroyal oil, AmericanSassafras oil, Autumn Crocus, Meadow Saffron, Barberryroot and its extract, Betel Nut, Bittersweet, Nightshade,Bloodroot, Brazilian Sassafras oil, Ocotea Cymbarumoil, Calabar Bean, Calamus, Camphor Oil, CannabisSativa, Cascara Sagrada, Castor Bean, Catha Edulis,Chaparral, Coltsfoot, Common Celandine, CommonComfrey, Coonties Seeds, Florida Arrowroot Seeds,Croton Daphne, Mezereum, Deadly Nightshade, DevilPepper, Dogbane, Ephedra, Euphorbia, Spurge,European Mandrake, European Mistletoe berries,European Pennyroyal Oil, Foxglove, Germander, GinkgoBiloba Seed and Fruit, Golden Ragwort, Gotu Kola,Hemlock, Henbane, Kenbane, Horse Chestnut, JimsonWeed, Thornapple, Lantana, Lily of the Valley, Lobelia,Indian tobacco, Micranthrum Oil, Narcissus, Daffodil,Jonquil, Opium Poppy, Poison Nut, Prickley Comfrey,Ragwort, Red Baneberry, Red Pokeweed, RussianComfrey, Sage Oil, Savan Oil, Senna, Spanish Arrowroot,Spreading Dogbane, Bitter Root, Strophanthus, TansyOil, Thuja, White Cedar, Tonka Bean, White Bryony,White Baneberry, Wormseed, Yellow Jessamine,Yohimbe.Over the past decade, the HPB has removed at least thefollowing natural supplements from Canadian health foodstores. They are generally available in the USA withoutprescription: Pau D'Arco (taheebo), Arginine, Ornithine,Lysine, Carnitine, Tyrosine, D,L-Phenylalanine,Goldenseal, Tryptophan, Kava Kava, Melatonin, DHEA,Pregnenolone, Stevia, Chromium Picolinate, Germanium,Zinc, Manganese and anything else picolinate, VitaminK, Cramp Bark, Boron, Selenomethione, Horsetail,Sodium Oxide Dismutase.If vitamins, herbs, and other dietary supplements arebeing banned or restricted to protect public health, then itwould make sense that such health foods must pose anequal or greater health risk than the patentedpharmaceutical drugs which are fated to replace them.Yet vitamins and herbs are the most risk-free treatmentsin the world. When released to the general population,herbal treatments for particular diseases have been shownto be both safer and more effective than theirsynthetically produced pharmaceutical counterparts.Footnotes1. Codex:International Threat to Health Freedom, JohnHammell. Essay. 1996.2. HPB-Codex Connection Kills DHEA, Zoltan P. Rona.Essay. 1997.3. Will International Harmonization End Health Freedom?,Suzanne Harris. Essay.4. Archives of Internal Medicine, Journal. October 9, 1995.5. The Crime and Punishment of IG Farben, Joseph Borkin.New York: The Free Press, 1978.6. Canadian Health Protection Branch under fire, LauraEggertson. Article in The Globe and Mail, May 30, 1997.http://www.blackherbals.com\herbal_holocaust____underground_.htm☻☻☻☻☻☻-21- Traditional African Clinic October 2007
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