Just recently I came across a book called ‘Chattey forefathers’ written in 1998 and it is the history of my family who were farmers that lived in Somerset, the book follows their history from the early seventeen hundreds showing members of the family living to their late nineties all without the use of modern medicine.
There were no paramedics and at that time hospitals were very few and far between. It is proof that living simply with fresh food, ancient medicines ensures a healthy lifestyle.
Just recently a doctor was being asked by a female patient for something to give her more energy, the medicos reply was, ‘You are eighty-five what do you want more energy for?’
The phrase appears to sum up today’s attitude to elderly people, it indicates at that age people are expected to end. I should not say this, but I will. Is it so the vast modern Pharmacist Industry that supplies everything from tablets, creams and mobile devices can sell more wheelchairs and other supports.
Before continuing: I am positive that the people who look after our health are dedicated in their resolve to help the sick and are hard working to that end, I have every respect for them … however whilst the doctors and nurses on the front line are devoted to their work, it is the training and the control over them which I question.
There is the case of a person looking for advice for using alternative medicines and showed the doctor a packet of magnesium tablets by laying them on the desk, they were instantly pushed away saying you don’t want them. In other words, they were not allowed to prescribe, only what the computer informs is right.
And yet for those people in the story of the Somerset farmers magnesium would be important to their health and doctors at that time would have been trained in the use of natural medicines.
It is my opinion, and it is also the thoughts of others, that the medical profession is controlled by big Pharmacy Companies who are more interested in profit than healing. For instance, I am told there has been a seventy-five percent rise in cancers and other illnesses since that period. I would suspect that is because of the difference in fast food consumed today and also the possibility of modern medicines.
The Valentines is a public house in Gants Hill in Ilford. In the nineteen sixties on a Friday evening at five o’clock doctors would meet, perhaps they still do. Other businesspeople also joined them, including scientists from a Lucas Laboratory where they were converting a petrol fuelled car to run on some form of gas.
I remember one occasion very well. There was nothing formal about these events, relaxed discussion around the bar about local events, however on this occasion the doctors were debating their overview of new medicines.
One of the group, a not very tall scientist smartly dressed in a waist coated pinstripe grey suit with a bright coloured yellow tie, was at the bar ordering a gin and tonic. He turned saying, “People have been drinking alcohol for thousands of years with no real side effects.”
He was referring to the conversation the doctors were discussing, which was about modern untried drugs that were being introduced. One had said they were not certain of their value and prescribing them was a ten to twenty percent chance of getting a prescription right or wrong, either way.
One of the manufactured cures was a tablet called Thalidomide. It had been marketed with the promise of less pain for pregnant women. The outcome was unforeseen with an appalling, horrifying consequence for badly deformed babies.
There was one locally, she would have been in her thirties had no arms and other body parts missing. She fed herself with the help of others by laying on her back with her using her feet, which had fingers, to select food and pass it to her mouth.
A little after this time another new drug was brought to the medical market. A little yellow oval shaped pill called Valium, it was first seen as a drug to relieve pain, treat anxiety. This drug became extremely addictive, causing depression, the total opposite of what it was designed to do. Of course that was all a long time ago, have things improved? Yes and no.
Without a doubt taking drugs for short periods under the control of a medical professional should regulate the problem they have been administered for, but I question long time use of medication. For instance, there is one used for ‘blood thinning’ although my research has shown it does not thin the blood but prevents the formation of blood clots, however it can cause irritation to body organs and internal bleeding.
After more research I discovered one to settle the tummy, but it can have the opposite effect after long use, similar a treatment prescribed to reduce the acid produced by the liver, again it is possible for it to stop working as intended and a possibility of damage to the organ instead of slowing the caustic output.
Sleeping problems! There is a manufactured medicine which will help, but it is probably the most dangerous treatment, again when taken over a long period of time. Why is it dangerous? Because it puts the brain to sleep but not the brain’s activity and the consequences of talking nonsense in your sleep but worst, sleepwalking.
There is the case of the person finding himself on the kitchen floor in a mass of blood pouring from his head, 50 metres from his bed and not knowing how he got there.
Another occasion was a female lying on the floor in agony with a broken hip with no knowledge why she was out of bed.
There may be others including the lady who woke up on the living room floor with a broken nose, which pointed me in the direction of researching this sleepwalking treatment:
Duration: It should be as short as possible from a few days to four weeks, it then goes on to say it causes dizziness, amnesia and also a decreased ability to drive and includes talking in your sleep and sleepwalking.
And despite that information they are prescribed as tablets to help with sleeping over a long period of time.
If you are not sure of medication it is possible to go into google and research, just type in its name and various clinics will inform its good points and any side effects.
Finally: I must stress modern medicines are safe when administered as recommended. Take care
