>
> Hi Everybody....
>
> I was raised in a home that believed in the AMA. Consequently I was
> in and out of hospitals from birth, my six brothers and sisters all had
> different things wrong with them like asthma, etc. At 13 years old I had
> had seven major operations. At 27 I had chronic symptoms for four
> different trips the AMA said were not curable, but were very willing to
> treat me for the price. Also, through all of this they insisted that they
> were the final judge and jury of what was wrong with MY body.
>
> At 28 it dawned on me that if I wanted a healthy strong body I was going
> to need to take responsibility for doing that and I started studying
> Macrobiotics. Within two weeks all my symptoms disappeared and I
> didn't have but very mild symptoms from colds or flu for the next ten
> years, five of which was spent in NYC. I had a Dingo, wild dog of
> Australia, who had distemper so bad the Vets had given up on him. I
> used macrobiotics and he lived to be the only true macrobiotic I ever
> knew. He lived on brown rice porage only, for five years, He was VERY
> healthy, beautiful and interestingly intelligent. The story of CuCo is
> interesting all by itself.
>
> The next five years I spent in hippy communes, then five in Arizona near
> the Hopi, who traditionally are naturally macrobiotic.
>
> I met a girl who wanted to live that way and we got married and started
> having kids in Jerome, AZ. at 6000 feet. I delivered all our children at
> home in a house that was not very airtight and cold in the winter. My
> oldest daughter is now 23 and the number of times my kids have been
> to doctors can be counted on my hands and that was for accidents.
> There is no doubt in my mind that the AMA's emergency medical is the
> best there is, but in preventive medicine they are in the dark ages and
> their chemicals area disaster for mankind.
>
> Later, as my wife gave in, more and more to her desires, less care was
> given to what the kids ate. So I needed to learn symptomatic medicine,
> much to my chagrin, to treat the symptoms that now were popping up.
>
> Dealing with symptoms in childrens diseases can be quite terrifying
> and it is easy to surrender and give the responsibility for their health
> to someone else. Imagine waking up in the middle of the night to hear
> your three year old hacking and hacking, almost unable to breath from
> croup. It's very terrifying,
>
> Macrobiotics has some treatment for symptoms, but not if your really
> eating badly. I started learning herbialism through Jethro Kloss,
> I picked him because he had the most experience, had treated the
> most patients. I was doing this for about ten people so I didn't learn
> very much, but I was able to keep those few well and comfortable. You
> need lots of patients and different symptoms to really learn herbs or
> else you're stuck doing what someone tells suggests. After my first
> child got croup, with Kloss' help I found some herbs that really worked
> and I never had that problem again. I can give my kids herbs that can
> help the body knock out strept throat in ten minutes.
>
> However, if someone is so self indulgent where they can't control what
> they put into their mouths, overeat and use junk food to the point there is
> more waste in the body than the body itself, then they should go to the
> AMA, they are perfect for each other. Herbs won't help much if a person
> won't pay attention to what and how they are putting into their bodys. It
> will will be to no advantage to take herbs for a symptom if one insists
> on continuing to eat junk foods. Eating less and very carefully is the
> secret to a long happy life. If one insists on going against natural laws,
>
> there is no cure for arrogance.
>
>
> Peace and Love FourCorners+Tribe.Rainbow ironwood / running bear
>
>
> Letting Go Through Music impromptu drums song dance
>
>
>
> =Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 14:51:08 -0700 (PDT)
> =From: Carla Newbre <c_newbre@efn.org>
> =
> =Heh, heh, Carla is gone for a bit. I, Snarla, have this to say about the
> =bigots who maintain that AMA medicine kills and that the worst thing you
> =could ever do to yourself is go to a regular doctor.
> =
> =I know a brother who lost a testicle because some herbalists felt he
> =should drink tea for his groin pain.
> =
> =I know of more than one sister who would have died if they had not had a
> =hyterectomy.
> =
> =People who need insulin to control their diabetes would slowly go blind,
> =have their kidneys shut down, lose their limbs if they did not use
> =allopathic medicine.
> =
> =It is not M.D.s who kill, it is ignorance and bigotry. People still have
> c=hoices, Mark, and rather than spreading hysteria and mistrust, why not
> ==focus on the positive aspects of both disciplines?
> =
> =People need to educate themselves on when any particular type of healing
> =is appropriate, not just throw the baby out with the bath water.
> =
> =Case in point: years ago, I was told by a so-called practitioner from
> =CALM that I could keep my teeth and gums in good shape by eating raw
> =foods. So I tried that, didn't go to the dentist, ate mostly veggie.
> T=oday I am battling gum disease, have lost one tooth to it, and am
> =fighting to keep the others. Seems to me, his info was incorrect and
> =dangerous. Brush and floss your teeth, see the dentist. Keep your teeth.
> =
> =I still use alternative medicine for lots of things. But I have learned
> =that putting off seeing a doctor just makes a lot of things worse.
> =
> =Above all, folks, please do not diagose and treat yourselves, unless you
> =really know what you have and know what you are doing. Herbal medicine
> =can kill, too. Hippies have gone through so many nutritional and healing
> =fads: macrobiotics (babies and kids died in the early days, before the
> =proponents of the system realized that macrobiotic means more than
> =eating beans and nothing else); the sprout craze
> =(don't give your baby breast milk, just feed him wheat grass juice); daily
> =ingestion of things such as comfrey, pennyroyal, etc., which can be toxic
> =in large amounts.
> =
> =Now the next generation is taking as gospel really bad advice given by
> =people like Victorus Kulvinskas, Jethro Kloss, and others.
> =
> =Please, please, educate yourselves before making serious explorations into
> =alternative medicince or nutrition. Do not use just one source to base
> =your explorations on. What one book written twenty years ago will
> =advocate may be completely contradicted by another one done more recently.
>
> =
> =Pregnant and nursing mothers should be especially careful, as should be
> p=eople with weakened immune systems, auto-immune diseases, and mystery
> =illnesses.
> =
> =As far as I am concerned, there is nothing worse than a politically
> =correct bigot. And you know what, you never see it more obviously than
> =you do in regard to issues around healing. An ethical practictioner will
> =NEVER say their methods are the only good or right ones. And an ethical
> =practitioner will never be threatened by you going to someone else to get
> =a second opinion, even if that practitioner is of a totally different
> =discipline.
> =
> =Growl,
> =Snarla
> =
> = On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Maryann Miller wrote:
> =
> ==> G
> => > My primary had me rx'ed on Augmentin 500 mg. (antibiotic) then
> referred
> => > me after 3 days to the MD. otolaryangologist E)ar N)ose T)hroat.
> => > Who rx'ed me Meclizine (anti-vert).
> => >
> => > This med masks dizziness about 60%. I have been using several of the
> => > other suggested remedies too. I'll compile the alt. therapies later
> and
> =>
> => Glenn, I hope you will not take offence at what follows. I'm not sure
> => this is the proper place for me to say things like this, but I offer
> => this in the sincere hope that it will in some way help. It will be
> => probably be concidered blunt, but here goes.
> =>
> => I think that it fairly well established, if you are open to the
> => evidence, that, in a nutshell, doctors kill. Most are completely
> => ignorant of what it takes to become well. The lifespan of an M.D. is 58
> => years. "Physician heal thyself". I recently did a iridology analysis on
> => a guy who's body was desparately trying to dispell some toxic
> => accumulations that were budening his system, thru several episodes of
> => sore throats/tonsilitis. Each time this happened his doctor suppressed
> => this action thru the use of antibiotics. This happened five times. The
> => last time he had a reaction to the antibiotics and his kidneys failed.
> => He spent several years on dialysis, and recently underwent a transplant.
> => He is in the process of fighting organ rejection. This is called
> => Iatrogenic disease. "Illness due to the treatment of other illness".
> =>
> => There are many examples these days of MD's who are practicing the "new
> => medicine". These people are sythesising the best of conventional and
> => holistic medicine. But it is like art, there are many artists, but if
> => your having the portrait of a lifetime, you really want a good one. I
> => implore anyone out there who is having serious difficulties with their
> => health, to do the research to locate themselves a serious medical
> => artist. They are simply functioning from a higher place. you owe it to
> => yourself.Even if you have to travel to see them. Do not just sacrifice
> => yourself at the altar of the medical mafia.
> =>
> => Some resourses if you wish, are... the alternative yellow pages
> => http//:www.alternativemedicine.com
> =>
> => These are the tel #'s of physicians that deserve respect, they will
> => propably be able to reffer you to someone closer to you.
> =>
> => Bruce Shelton
> => 6029781722
> => American metaboloc institute
> => 18003881083
> => Jonathon Wright/ tahoma clinic in tacoma Wa.
> => look it up.
> =>
> => Shalom
> => Mark...
> ==>
>