MEDICINE I like old sayings. Time and again I find myself relying on them to express my own thoughts (on whatever subject I might happen to be musing over). Take medicine, for example. My position on it is best expressed by that familiar phrase which goes something like, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." I haven't been to a doctor in years. Luckily, nothing has broken, and I don't believe in the annual checkup routine. As justification for that I appeal to the Bible:
... it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves ... (Psalms 100:3)
I figure if God made me, it's His problem. If He made me a certain way, then, well ... what can I say? It's just the way He made me. If He made me to last a hundred years, then He made me to last a hundred years. If He made me to last sixty or seventy years, then He made me to last for sixty or seventy years. I didn't make me. He did.
It is He that hath made us.
More than likely, barring something unforeseen, the time frame will be around seventy years:
The days of our years are threescore years and ten. (Psalms 90:10)
The word medicine appears twice in the Bible:
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine ... (Proverbs 17:22)
And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees ... and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine. (Ezekiel 47:12)
Did you know that the pharmaceutical industry (which I happen to believe is one of the most evil forces operating in the world today) has been around for about 75 years? Before the proliferation of drugs we relied on medicinal plants (... and the leaf therof for medicine). They're still around actually. They're called herbs these days. I believe in them, and I use them on a daily basis. I've studied Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for over fifteen years now. I much prefer it to the mainstream (Western) variety, which is so poking and prodding and utterly invasive. Human dignity suffers horribly at the hands of a Western physician. The TCM approach to disease is so much more sane. Consider the word disease itself. Notice the way it suggests a situation in which you are not in harmony or balance, a state in which you are not at ease, which makes you dis-eased. Instead of filling your body with harmful drugs manufactured in laboratories, or cutting you open to remove some of you, a TCM practitioner will strive to put you back in balance, to return you to a state of harmony, to put you at ease. When you're at ease, you're not dis-eased. Lately, it seems that Western physicians (prodded mostly by the pharmaceutical industry) are going around looking for diseases, sometimes (it seems) grabbing them out of thin air, and always they are maladies for which the only treatment is a drug of some kind. Did you notice that I used the word treatment (as opposed to cure)? The drug lords would not have you cured. It would put them out of business. They want you to be diagnosed with some sort of chronic illness, however contrived (like acid reflux for God's sake), and set you up for a lifetime of treatment. As long as you're being treated, the cash is flowing into their ever-burgeoning coffers. If, on the other hand, you are cured, the money stops raining down on their evil kingdom, a situation they are loath to accept. I didn't use to believe in conspiracies. I do now. I'm convinced there is something going on between the pharmaceutical industry and the AMA. I'm sure there are still some good physicians out there, ones who believe in old-fashioned remedies and aren't ashamed to prescribe them, ones who are actually interested in cures as opposed to getting you hooked on some lifelong treatment, virtually turning you into a legally-recognized drug addict. The whole scene is enough to give you a totally new perspective on the war on drugs.
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