Delightful. Just came in from 2 1/2 hours of clearing brush--on this penultimate day of being able to get Vit. D at my latitude, and 4 hours yesterday doing the same.. Also I took your temperament "quiz" last month--ended with sanguine. But, I wondered, how much of that rests upon my being a believing Christian?
A return to nature/ the wilderness- all the great prophets went into the wilderness where God revealed himself. I believe that crosses all religions from Christ to Buddha to Mohammed. Interesting that if we follow their lead we might regain health in this toxic modern world
My suggestion? Read about who Galen really was. He was two things. A totally committed doctor who traveled far and wide at considerable danger to himself to stock up on many remedies, and who had a stable of slave scribes to write down all he learned. He was also apparently a malignant, self-aggrandizing narcissist who did not hesitate to stage fake demonstrations of competing treatments in order to malign other doctors. And because he hated the school of throught (the Methodists) who believed medical traning should be mostly based on helping people fast, he focused on demeaning them and showing them up as idiots. And since Galen's writings were the backbone of medical education for the next millennium and half, he singlehandedly eliminated any focus on fasting to heal, and set western medicine back in so many ways.
The other thing you may find of interest is domestic medicine and the old compendia maintained usually by women. Or monks. Even the oldest ones have useful things in them. When modern docs decided to declare it all superstition, they never checked to sift the wheat from the dross. They were, many of them, like Galen. Maintaining their status was more important than being honest about what went before.
Delightful. Just came in from 2 1/2 hours of clearing brush--on this penultimate day of being able to get Vit. D at my latitude, and 4 hours yesterday doing the same.. Also I took your temperament "quiz" last month--ended with sanguine. But, I wondered, how much of that rests upon my being a believing Christian?
A return to nature/ the wilderness- all the great prophets went into the wilderness where God revealed himself. I believe that crosses all religions from Christ to Buddha to Mohammed. Interesting that if we follow their lead we might regain health in this toxic modern world
Great summary. I will pass on your colitis cure.
My suggestion? Read about who Galen really was. He was two things. A totally committed doctor who traveled far and wide at considerable danger to himself to stock up on many remedies, and who had a stable of slave scribes to write down all he learned. He was also apparently a malignant, self-aggrandizing narcissist who did not hesitate to stage fake demonstrations of competing treatments in order to malign other doctors. And because he hated the school of throught (the Methodists) who believed medical traning should be mostly based on helping people fast, he focused on demeaning them and showing them up as idiots. And since Galen's writings were the backbone of medical education for the next millennium and half, he singlehandedly eliminated any focus on fasting to heal, and set western medicine back in so many ways.
The other thing you may find of interest is domestic medicine and the old compendia maintained usually by women. Or monks. Even the oldest ones have useful things in them. When modern docs decided to declare it all superstition, they never checked to sift the wheat from the dross. They were, many of them, like Galen. Maintaining their status was more important than being honest about what went before.