10-08-2001, 12:00 AM
i use doctors cautiously and when their advice isn't productive of a cure i figure it's time to go. you just get into deeper trouble if you try to follow them out. but modern medicine has saved my life a few times also.
the chronic things are where our modern system is weakest, and that happens to be where the old systems shine. i had some trouble with ulcers a few years back and nothing the doctors did helped. i was basically starving to death, food wouldn't stay in me long enough to digest, and the medicines i was given cause diarrhea. so i made the docs mad because i wasn't taking the medicines, and i couldn't take the medicines because they were slowly killing me. i finally gave up on that and went about it as a shaman would. i had dreams that i should eat pemmican. hmm, that's mainly rendered animal fat. not too tasty and not healthy long term. but i started eating lots of fat, greasy sausage and vegetable oils i'm sure would not be recommended, and that helped. powerful food, kept me alive. i started thinking about the oils, how you treat burns that way, and starting looking for something i could drink that would coat my insides without causing me harm. came across a chinese remedy for burns using boiled flaxseed. makes an edible gel. i made tea out of that and drank it several times a day and healed the ulcers in a few months that had plagued me for almost a year. went back to a low fat diet afterward.
lots of people have examples like that. the psychiatric treatments people get these days are barbaric, i think. chemical lobotomies.
jimmy two hats
heyoka
the chronic things are where our modern system is weakest, and that happens to be where the old systems shine. i had some trouble with ulcers a few years back and nothing the doctors did helped. i was basically starving to death, food wouldn't stay in me long enough to digest, and the medicines i was given cause diarrhea. so i made the docs mad because i wasn't taking the medicines, and i couldn't take the medicines because they were slowly killing me. i finally gave up on that and went about it as a shaman would. i had dreams that i should eat pemmican. hmm, that's mainly rendered animal fat. not too tasty and not healthy long term. but i started eating lots of fat, greasy sausage and vegetable oils i'm sure would not be recommended, and that helped. powerful food, kept me alive. i started thinking about the oils, how you treat burns that way, and starting looking for something i could drink that would coat my insides without causing me harm. came across a chinese remedy for burns using boiled flaxseed. makes an edible gel. i made tea out of that and drank it several times a day and healed the ulcers in a few months that had plagued me for almost a year. went back to a low fat diet afterward.
lots of people have examples like that. the psychiatric treatments people get these days are barbaric, i think. chemical lobotomies.
jimmy two hats
heyoka