How do you explain to people the difference..

[Taol]

Ive been wondering as of late how to tell people the difference between modern medicine and herbal medicine.

So far Ive come to that modern medicine intervenes with normal body functions to get a required result, whereas herbal medicine is more like you give something to support the natural body functions through which then the required result is obtained.

I think people whom come to alternative medicine are either fed up with the normal system, or have had good results in the past with herbs or follow their instinct and have a love for greens.

What are your opinions, or maybe better question, how would you explain this to someone?
And also to bring it somewhat convincingly.
To change the world requires knowledge and how to bring things (say them), and this requires studying and also practice.


Many plants have the active substance linked to a glycoside or something similar which then breaks down at the required place in the body.
Instead of treating every cell inside the body which is what modern medicine does.

I do not think that any factory made substance can be made to do this.

 

[ed8874]

I can tell you the one between traditional chinese medicine and western one.

Western medicine sees the body as a machine that has different parts and tries with their medicines to fix that one part that doesent work. (For example if you have gastritis they give u a specific medicine for that and don't look at where the problem comes from)

Tcm knows that the body parts are all connected so if you for example have gastritis it might mean that one of your organs isnt in harmony and unbalanced.

I am sure centralforce will give you a better answer, I think I read what I wrote from him.

 

[centralforce6661]

Herbal Medicine responds to body imbalances which are generally not isolated to one chemical pathway.

Often these imbalances are described energetically or in relation to their resemblance to natural phenomena.

Whilst Western medicine views each drug as applicable to all people with the same disease, herbal medicine is often applied differently to two people who have the same disease, as each person is in a different state of disharmony.

Many newer ideas of thought in Western herbalism have poisoned the art by using western disease names to diagnose and thus apply treatment which produces mixed results in terms of treatment success.

Herbal medicine is also polypharmic, meaning that often more than one herb should be used as many herbs have actions which are too strong to administer singularly and can cause greater harm than good.

A misconception about herbal medicine is that it is safe at all times - this is not correct.

Whilst many herbs are relatively mild and will not cause great problems if administered wrongly, they have the potential to change the energetic state of the body even in a permanent fashion.

Some herbs have compounds whose half lives in the human body extend over years and wrongly administering these can cause problems. There are also a number of herbal medicines which are highly toxic and overdose can cause death let alone the myriad of problems at lower doses of used incorrectly.

Herbal medicine requires a great deal of understanding, research and skill as well as a solid system of diagnosis and treatment application to underpin the practice of it, without which it becomes almost worthless.

I have chosen TCM as the underpinning method to apply this medicine however there is great merit to the Ayurvedic system and Western herbalism has its strong points too however much of it has been shifted to a Western medical paradigm as mentioned by others, where they focus solely on one active ingredient or apply herbs to Western disease names as though the herb is a drug.

Herbs are things which change the body's state by encouraging an action within the body, by moistening or purging or causing sweat (diaphoresis), heat can be added or drained away and energetic states can be harmonised by combinations of herbs with differing actions.

Some herbs are applied to treat the herbs themselves such as licorice which is applied in TCM purely as a moderator and harmoniser of the other herbs in a given formula, and not to achieve an effect necessarily of its own on the patient.

Different processing techniques also changes the property of herbs which enables one plant item to possess a few qualities based on how it is cooked or what it is mixed with when processed.

 

[Taol]

Those imbalances in applying herbal medicine like modern medicine does is because of jewish infiltration in those systems.

The real problem is when they make it purely scientific so it looks like something and they add wicca or new age crap or shamanism in the mix. Which ties into angelic crap and such. (Always red lights!! Never trust that)
There is also one that says 'trust your intuition' .. Well knowing how open those who are without are I wonder how well that goes..

However I was wondering and its just a thought, is it possible to set up an education book or something like this, so that SS that want to learn this stuff actually have good solid grounded bases to learn this from?

In my country there is a lot of the trouble I just noted. I will look into finding a tcm education though, I really miss the fact that people are energetic beings and that not one herb works the same as the others on one person.

Like I said before, I had to switch educations. The other one did take in regard the nature of the herb which is important because you dont apply cooling herbs to cold people. Unfortunately I couldnt finish it because of some reasons and things that eventually might have harmed me spiritually also.
But the book aside from the myths and magic which I dont believe holds any truth like so many herbal magic books out there, holds some useful information like the Reckeweg system I told about before.

Usually those educations are 3 years and some had to move to 4 because you have to learn a lot in a short time. However you would not have a lot of practical experience. So youd have to ask people 'can I practice anamneses on you? ' an anamnese is where you ask people questions about their health.

There are no poisonous herbs in my current education.

Also those compounds in the herbs do relate to their energetic nature and vice versa.

It does make sense now that if one eats a lot of abroad stuff that you wont always find the proper cure in herbs that grow locally.

 

[centralforce6661]

I agree that jewish infiltration has made alot of these systems inadequate. Even TCM has been cut down to a very formalised and standardised approach by the interference of Mao and and his views.

Luckily some of the classic books survived and knowledge outside the corrupted system can be gleaned from them.

This is important in the learning of any herbal medicine, access to the old books which describe the art in its true form, minus the medical jargon.

When there is sufficient understanding of these books, and a level of clinical experience using those methods, then one might think about writing their own book.

 

[Taol]

I wouldnt dare to otherwise. Herbalism is a practice quite directly connected with spirituality. The "monks" tried to preserve this art and grew herbs in their gardens, but one can only wonder how much has been lost and corrupted due to the xian faith.

Back in the days herbalists were persecuted just as much as any witches or pagans.

Also there are records of so called enhancing creams used by witches which basically involves the use of hallucinogenic herbs, a few others, some can be somewhat poisonous and they seem to be made on a base of animal fat.
I was not thinking of trying it, but this said to induce hallucinations, like flying, etc. This is done either to persecute crazy ladies and to discredit real paganism most likely.
Anyway these are my thoughts on it.


There are not yet a lot of things that I find important enough to do them to perfection, but peoples health shouldnt be messed around with and as a result Im kind of disgusted by the calendula promotors like it is a herb that can cure all. It may solve or help in a lot of things, but there are some indications that cant be solved by this herb due to a different background.