We Can Minimize, Delay, or Prevent the Devastating Effect of Diseases...discipline and patience are the keys
Posted on Friday, 23 October 2015
We
Can Minimize, Delay, or Prevent the Devastating Effect of Diseases
…discipline
and patience are the keys
By Apolinario Villalobos
Caring for our physical make up is our
responsibility in the first place, and not somebody else’s. We can prevent
diseases from pestering our body by espousing discipline and patience. We must
be disciplined as regards our diet and vices. And, we must be disciplined in
being consistent with the preparation of remedies not prescribed by doctors. We
must not wait until a disease has set in before we toe the line in clinics for
a costly diagnosis. Unfortunately for others, before they know that what they
“feel” is a disease, and not just a fatigue or temporary pain, it is already
beyond cure, so that the last resort for the doctor is to prescribe pain
killing drugs, and loads of antibiotics and other strange sounding-named
tablets and capsules.
Drugs are basically sourced from plants and
enhanced with chemicals to preserve them as capsules, tables, suspensions, and
injectibles. Curative properties of plants are “cloned” in laboratories to come
up with their synthetic equivalent. But not all curative properties of plants
can be cloned as in the case of guyabano (soursop), the information about which
has been suppressed by drug laboratories for so many years. Due to their
failure in cloning its curative properties, they finally let go of the
information to confirm what have already been circulating anyway, about its
anti-cancer substance.
Man since birth is already doomed with
diseases that can manifest at certain points of his life. Fortunately, there is
now a medical technique of predetermining the diseases that may befall infants
by “reading” their genes at the time of birth with the use of their blood. At
certain points of their life, diseases are already detected, thus, medications
are already prescribed to prevent the onset. This is possible for those who
will be born in hospitals and clinics, but for those in villages, this medical
effort is not heard of, as in third-world countries like the Philippines. These
children then grow without knowing that at a certain point of their life, they
are bound to develop diabetes, rheumatism, heart failure, cancer, etc.
There’s again the problem with poor parents
in urban areas who are told about the diseases that may befall their newly-born
infants, because they cannot afford the prescribed drugs. Consequently, their
children, though born in hospitals, grow just like those in the villages,
without taking the preventive drugs for the detected diseases that may manifest
at a certain age. Prescriptions are just set aside to be thrown later on.
The Philippines and the rest of countries
in Asia and South America are profuse in herbal “medicines”. Long before the western colonizers came, the
natives were already thriving on these. The folk medicine men who are unfairly
called “quack doctors” have been prescribing leaves, barks and roots of trees,
vines and shrubs to dispel diseases. For instance, guyabano or soursop was
first used by the South American Indians, particularly, those living in the
jungles of the Amazon, while the use of tanglad or lemon grass was first used
in Asia. In every country of these regions, there are always nooks and corners
occupied by herbal vendors. In Manila, these can be found in Quiapo, while in
the provinces, one can find them in public markets. But most of all, these
curative plants are found in neighborhoods, or if not, can be planted just
anywhere, even in pots.
Discipline is needed if one is really
interested in preventing the onset of a disease. A ritual is involved, because
every morning, all the necessary leaves, seeds or barks have to be boiled in a
kettle dedicated for this purpose, followed by the preparation of the
concoction to be drunk with coffee or as is. Most often, this simple effort is
abhorred by most, as they would rather take synthetic drugs in capsule or
tablet form which is a very convenient way. But then, the danger with such
“convenience” is the latest finding that not all components of these drugs are
dissolved, thus, turning into sediments that get deposited in the liver and
kidney, eventually resulting to a disease that destroy the said organs.
Those without discipline in their diet are
also easy victims of diseases. They are not satisfied with having tasted
certain unhealthy foods and should have told themselves “enough”.
Unfortunately, they want these to be part of their daily fare on the dining
table. Parents who have this kind of attitude pass it on to their children, who
will later on pass it on to their own, and so forth. And, when members of the
family develop and die of diseases, they blame their ancestor!
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