Harmonic resonance and rhythm, draw us in, and the words tell a story. Wars are fought over "words", but rately when they are lyrics to a song, or words within a poem. Today, on my pod cast, I take aim at the Portland City Leader's, the pharmaceutical madness, the military industrial complex, Police, and clown's.
Here is an article from M. Gandhi, entitled "Medical Madness" from "The African Voice" in November of 1911. Sound familiar?
Transcribed from
“Manav Mootra”
(Auto-Urine Therapy)
A treatise on Urine Therapy for universal health
By
Raojibhai Manibhai Patel
Bharat Sevak Samaj Publication
Pankornaka, Ahmedabad, 380 001
First Edition, 2,000 Copies, December 1963
Insert on front cover
Gandhiji on Nature-Cure
“Forty years before, I happen-
ed to read two books by Kuhne,
The New Science of Healing and Return
to Nature. Since then I am an
ardent believer in Nature-Cure.
Pages 238-242
Page 238
Chapter II
The Craze For Medicine
By Gandhiji
(Mahatma Gandhi while in South Africa, wrote a
few articles in Indian Opinion on “General Knowledge
about Health”, Therein he has given his opinion on
the medical profession. He has also quoted a number
of physicians. The articles appear to be more appli-
cable today even after a lapse of more than half a
century. We are quoting one below because of its
great importance for a seeker of true health. Indeed
it is worth mentioning here that Ghandhiji was a great
naturopath in practice and had cured hundreds of
patients thereby.)
It is our habit that, at the slightest illness, we
rush at once to a doctor, vaidya or hakim. And if we
do not, we take whatever medicine the barber or our
neighbor suggests. it is our belief that no sickness
can be cured without drugs. This however is sheer
superstition. People who suffer from other causes are
—and will continue to be—fewer than those who who
have suffered, and are suffering, because of this super-
stition. If, therefore, we can get to know what con-
stitues illness, we should be able to take a somewhat
balanced view. “Darad” means pain, “Roga” means
Page 239
much the same. It is right to seek a remedy for
pain, but it is futile to take drugs to suppress pain.
Actually, the result is often harmful. Taking medicine
has the same effect as my covering up the refuse in
my house. Refuse which is kept covered will putrefy
and cause me harm. Moreover, the covering itself
may putrefy and add to the refuse. I have then to
get rid of the refuse which has since formed as well
as that which was to begin with. This is the fate
that befalls people taking drugs. But, if one throws
out the refuse, the house will become as clean as it
was before. By giving rise to illness—pain (that is)
—Nature, in fact, informs us that there exists impure
matter inout body. Moreover, Nature has provided
within the body itself the means of cleansing it, so
that, when illness occurs, we should realize that there
exists impure matter in the body and that she h
both to cleanse me and cope with my resistance. I
page 240
can assist Nature, for instance by getting rid of the
effective cause of the impurity, so that more of it does
not accumulate.
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