@victor@PraxisOfEvil If only we could bring in a wrecking ball and destroy the Ivory Tower. Seems like they're destroying it from the inside though so maybe we don't have ro do anything.
@SapientPearwood@PraxisOfEvil The thing we have to do is get smart on natural remedies. It turns out a lot of problems that modern medicine "solves" were solved a long time ago by various herbs, long forgotten, which are too inexpensive and easy for normal people to grow for companies to make obscene profits off of them.
Turmeric with black pepper fruit extract works *better* than ibuprofen to reduce swelling. Pure turpentine (not the denatured, byproduct stuff) helps with respiratory issues. Peppermint tea does wonders for an upset stomach.
There is a plant, called the "tootheache plant," that most people have never heard of, the leaves of which cause numbing when chewed. It's easy to grow and helps with, you guessed it, tootheaches.
Holy basil helps with basically everything but especially mood and stress, and there's a reason garlic was said to ward off evil in times past.
There's so much natural stuff out there that we have a responsibility to rediscover, because the "healthcare" system is really the "sick care" system that exists solely to keep you a customer for as long as possible, not to cure you.
I'm very against the rockerfeller medical establishment of 'sick care' and 'symptom suppression.'
its incredible how many people fall for it, and even after nearly 17 years of consistent poking at some of them, (family) they literally have not changed and still keep falling back to all the same things.
no evolution of growth, no curiosity, polite listen, but sincerely a waste of spirit to bother. wonder what i'd have done with all that time. the lesson was important though.
@kekkerel@PraxisOfEvil@SapientPearwood Personal and second-hand experience (YMMV), but if you’re interested in herbal medicine, a few books that are very much worth having are:
The Lost Book of Herbal Remedies (Nicole Apelian and Claude Davis)
Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine (Andrew Chevallier)
The Modern Herbal Dispensatory (Thomas Easley and Steven Horne)
I also occasionally read Dr. Axe articles.
For growing your own, the best teacher is experimentation. Find some herbs you think are interesting, check what kinds of climates they grow best in, and if it matches your climate, buy some seeds and give it a try. It’s not an exact science, either…I’ve had some things grow very well where I am that the guidebooks said wouldn’t and vice versa.
@ringo@kekkerel Another thing to consider is growing your own mushrooms. In particular, lion's mane, turkey tail, and reishi mushrooms have some potent properties discussed in the Lost Book (lion's mane for brain/nerve function, turkey tail for cancer and immune system support, reishi for stress control).
You can search for starter kits that grow inside, in indirect light, and you basically just have to mist them each morning and then harvest after a few weeks.
@radix023@kekkerel@SapientPearwood@ringo@PraxisOfEvil I haven't, but it looks interesting. The usual Big Pharma suspects seem to really think it's "dangerous" (which it probably is, to their bottom line). I'll have to investigate it more.
@victor@kekkerel@ringo A guy I know swears Lion's Mane brought him back from a serious TBI. There's a lot of anecdotal reports of this too. People saying that even like two or more years out from a stroke, when there shouldn't be much organic recovery left, they start taking Lion's Mane and it's like they're back to their old self or better.
@ringo@victor You just can't compete against that white lab coat. Often it's "I took X and everything got worse, I'll never do that again!" and then 6 months later they do exactly that, all over again. The same people with horrible unexplained autoimmune issues will post pro-vaxx memes (even long before COVID), but you try to explain that nobody had this shit 100 years ago and you just get blank stares.
@victor@SapientPearwood@PraxisOfEvil "White" is only so high because it conflates jews and gentiles. If you separated the 2 categories, white gentiles would have even lower acceptance rates than Asians (though to be fair, that category includes Indians...).
@BowsacNoodle@victor@kekkerel@ringo It's true that Lion's Mane is very potent but one should eat the mushrooms. The supplement extracts of it are almost all scam products because they are not extracted properly for the compounds that comprise the Nerve Growth Factor.