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Peruvian shamans join forces to call on Pachamama to end pandemic
A group of Peruvian shamans and healers joined forces on Wednesday in a mystic and traditional ritual, including an offering to “Pachamama” (Mother Earth), asking the forces of nature to make 2022 the year in which the Covid-19 pandemic ends. On San Cristobal hill, the most sacred promontory in Lima in pre-Hispanic times, the shamans and healers gathered, coming from the country’s coastal areas, the Andean sierra and the Amazon jungle with their different methods of calling for prosperity in the coming year.
“It’s going to be a very favorable year for all countries. There’s going to be a very good advance in health and the conflicts are going to diminish. There is going to be peace and tranquility, and good health for everyone,” healer Andres De los Santos predicted for EFE.
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Herbal Therapy Is Equivalent to Rifaximin for the Treatment of Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth
Conclusion: SIBO is widely prevalent in a tertiary referral gastroenterology practice. Herbal therapies are at least as effective as rifaximin for resolution of SIBO by LBT. Herbals also appear to be as effective as triple antibiotic therapy for SIBO rescue therapy for rifaximin non-responders. Further, prospective studies are needed to validate these findings and explore additional alternative therapies in patients with refractory SIBO.
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The most underused medical tools
- Fasting
- Sunlight
- Sleep
- Nature
- Real food
- Exercise
- Heat/Cold
- Salt
- Magnesium
- Earthing
- Meditation
- Laughter
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Three In One Exercise:
- Barefoot on grasses or sand or conductive surface
- Embracing the AM Sunlight
- Zhan Zhuang (Standing like a tree)
"In the silence and the void, Standing alone and unchanging, Ever present and in motion." - Tao Te Ching, Laozi
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This week we time travel to 1530 and Geneva
Text from François Bonivard (1493–1570), "Chronicles of Geneva", second volume, pages 395 - 402:
"When the bubonic plague struck Geneva in 1530, everything was ready. They even opened a whole hospital for the plague victims. With doctors, paramedics and nurses. The traders contributed, the magistrate gave grants every month. The patients always gave money, and if one of them died alone, all the goods went to the hospital.
But then a disaster happened: the plague was dying out, while the subsidies depended on the number of patients. There was no question of right and wrong for the Geneva hospital staff in 1530. If the plague produces money, then the plague is good. And then the doctors got organized.
At first, they just poisoned patients to raise the mortality statistics, but they quickly realized that the statistics didn't have to be just about mortality, but about mortality from plague. So they began to cut the boils from the bodies of the dead, dry them, grind them in a mortar and give them to other patients as medicine. Then they started dusting clothes, handkerchiefs and garters. But somehow the plague continued to abate. Apparently, the dried buboes didn't work well. Doctors went into town and spread bubonic powder on door handles at night, selecting those homes where they could then profit. As an eyewitness wrote of these events, "this remained hidden for some time, but the devil is more concerned with increasing the number of sins than with hiding them."
In short, one of the doctors became so impudent and lazy that he decided not to wander the city at night, but simply threw a bundle of dust into the crowd during the day. The stench rose to the sky and one of the girls, who by a lucky chance had recently come out of that hospital, discovered what that smell was.
The doctor was tied up and placed in the good hands of competent “craftsmen.” They tried to get as much information from him as possible. However, the execution lasted several days. The ingenious hippocrats were tied to poles on wagons and carried around the city. At each intersection the executioners used red-hot tongs to tear off pieces of meat. They were then taken to the public square, beheaded and quartered, and the pieces were taken to all the districts of Geneva.
The only exception was the hospital director's son, who did not take part in the trial but blurted out that he knew how to make potions and how to prepare the powder without fear of contamination. He was simply beheaded "to prevent the spread of evil".
Related: "Social Concern in Calvin's Geneva" - "Plagues, Poisons and Potions: Plague-spreading Conspiracies in the Western Alps, C. 1530–1640"
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Homeopathy Looks at the Horrors of Allopathy - painting by Alexander Beideman (1857)
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Nature's Psyops
Imagine if in the past 2 years the "elites" instead of running a giant pro-fear, pro-control, pro-pharma-mafia psyops, would of put all that time and energy into promoting nature and its many benefits. Imagine a massive global psyops promoting the cultivation of medicinal plants, mushrooms and mind-body-nature practices, such as forrest bathing, qigong and yoga. Goverment mandated ginger booster smoothies, healthy diets and stress reduction programs. What would the outcomes have been for the public's physical and mental health & well-being?
In some sense, Humanity should be thankful for the horrendous Covid psyops, as it has brought an extremely destructive cultural undercurrent to the surface: The wide-spread belief that humans are essentially just complicated machines which can be "fixed" exclusively through "magic" pharmaceutical pills, administered by scientific "experts". This is the single biggest bullshit story and self-perpetuating lie of the past 250 years, which is starting to self-destruct.
#Ideas #Nature #Health #Culture #FFHCI #Mindbody #Cryptocracy #Politics #Economics
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An illustration of the benefits of embedding nature in the built environment (Reeve, 2014)
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Benefits of Forest Bathing (Shinrin-Yoku)
Shinrin-Yoku, translated into English as ‘forest bathing', means taking in the forest atmosphere during a leisurely walk. It is a therapy that was developed in Japan during the 1980s, becoming a cornerstone of preventive health care and healing in Japanese medicine.
Researchers, primarily in Japan and South Korea, have conducted studies on the health benefits of spending time amongst the trees, demonstrating that forest bathing positively creates calming neuro-psychological effects through changes in the nervous system, reducing the stress hormone cortisol and boosting the immune system.
Every study conducted so far has demonstrated reductions in stress, anger, anxiety, depression and sleeplessness amongst the participants. In fact after just 15 minutes of forest bathing blood pressure drops, stress levels are reduced and concentration and mental clarity improve.
There are now 44 accredited Shinrin-Yoku forests in Japan, with the research conducted helping to establish Shinrin-Yoku and forest therapy throughout the world.
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Nature, Mind & Medicine: A Model for Mind-Body Healing - by Jason Kaufman (unpaywalled)
Objective: The human mind-body possesses a remarkable innate ability to heal. Grounded in the evolutionarily conserved systems of the brain and body, nature appears to function as the fundamental source of wellness along the two vectors of attention and relaxation. Yet, our species is moving away from nature at a time when humanity is just beginning to rediscover its benefits.
Conclusions: Exposure to natural environments may provide a "window" of healing that can be extended through a continuum of intervention through the use of guided meditation and ultimately hypnotic suggestion. The result may be an improved ability to promote greater executive functioning and more robust immune regulation. The time has come for a more holistic medicine guided by the hand of nature.
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Language extinction triggers the loss of unique medicinal knowledge
Over 30% of the 7,400 languages in the world will no longer be spoken by the end of the century. So far, however, our understanding of whether language extinction may result in the loss of linguistically unique knowledge remains limited. Here, we ask to what degree indigenous knowledge of medicinal plants is associated with individual languages and quantify how much indigenous knowledge may vanish as languages and plants go extinct. Focusing on three regions that have a high biocultural diversity, we show that over 75% of all 12,495 medicinal plant services are linguistically unique—i.e., only known to one language. Whereas most plant species associated with linguistically unique knowledge are not threatened, most languages that report linguistically unique knowledge are. Our finding of high uniqueness in indigenous knowledge and strong coupling with threatened languages suggests that language loss will be even more critical to the extinction of medicinal knowledge than biodiversity loss.
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Nature-based precision mindbody medicine will largely replace the pharmaceutical industry
During the past 200 years, countless ancient nature-based precision medicine knowledge traditions were "lost" (suppressed by the western pharmaceutical mafia and forgotten due to "modernization"). The Chinese probably did the best job at preserving their tradition (TCM), but many others got essentially wiped out (amazonian tribes etc.). There is a huge need & opportunity right now, to pull all these pieces back together and make it actionable for our generation. Just in time, as the pharmaceutical mafia is once again trying to murder and control all life on earth.
Related: Up until 100y ago, a primary component of animal feed was Cannabis. Cows, Pigs, etc. would eat hemp (fast growing & cheap), and humans would eat the animals - hence closing a loop that was highly beneficial for the animal/human microbiome and ecosystems. This cycle got disrupted in the 20st century by industrial agriculture, coinciding with the emergence of many new diseases.
#Health #Mindbody #Regenerative #History #Nature #KM #Culture #Business
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"We adhere to the values of..."
- Tao Te Ching, 400B.C.
- Confucian Ethics, 500B.C.
- The Cyrus Cylinder, 539B.C.
- Magna Carta Libertatum, 1215
- The American Constitution, 1781
- The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
- Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU, 2000
- The Rome Statute & International Criminal Court, 2002
- Most frequently adhered to "values" of the 2020s? Amnesia & Think Tank Defined "Ethics"?
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Sarco pods - Suicide pods now legal in Switzerland, providing users with a painless death 🤡
“We want to remove any kind of psychiatric review from the process and allow the individual to control the method themselves,” [...] “Our aim is to develop an artificial intelligence screening system to establish the person’s mental capacity. Naturally, there is a lot of skepticism, especially on the part of psychiatrists.”
