Since beginning of Scientific Industrial Revolutions.
birth of man-made medicine
2 modern trends
been hurting our natural health needs & abilities, immunity & longevity
over a century in civilized countries, esp cities of hi tech pollution, seedy
power grids & war economy. Along
with toxins from industry, pollution & hi stress jobs & cities the new
DarwinÕs (1865) theory of ÒEvolution - Ôsurvival of the fittestÓ law of Ònatural
selectionÓ between creatures in food web ws applied to vitality & sickness,
maybe climate cycles & earth changes killing off the weakest offspring in Ôstruggle
to surviveÕ a fatalist belief. The
weather was often blamed if one got very cold, running out of fuel, stuck in
storm, flood, hungry/starving or accident or attacked. Vast victim beliefs
& reasons for disease, but no clear causes to prevent or heal there.
Euros didnÕt like or trust raw nature
with healthy living instincts in animals, plants or humans. DarwinÕs ÔevolutionÕ theories grew from his
nature travels & academic elite position in England at peak of British
empire when plagues & epidemics still hit Europe & UK with unknown
causes. Human instincts of healthy
living needs not considered, unless you live in the rain forest or jungle. The more
hyper busy, polluted, scary, trashy & filthy the more people got sick,
until they c hanged their habits in families, neighborhoods & cities.
What really made
people healthy, sick & healing ills was a mystery debated only by folks who
cared about it, had dying/dead relatives, or had nature remedies they used by
tradition or testing on sick folks &or for boosting immunity into healthy
living. Generally health awareness
was low, so when someone died wild guesses, debates, argu-ments & reasons
were tossed around. But rare
causeffects were known or agreed on, unless killed by attack, drowning, fire,
staving or the current epidemic, but its causes were ignored. My survey of
causes of Euro health degener-ation includes how people grew, processed,
stored, sold & fix foods, the common fears & hates, illusions &
family, churches & divine monarchies making people unaware, weak, get sick
&or die, not knowing why, often blaming god or the devil or pagans.
The belief in Ôhuman
healthÕ was feeling good now working or sick & hurting, not knowing the
cause, cure or progress of the disease, since they effect bodies differently. In France when Darwin was ÔEvolvingÕ his
theories of Ônatural species originÕ. Louis Pasteur was researching the microbial
cause of illness via infection bacteria he found under his micro-scope in sick
tissue. That was a new tool in science seeing the invisible & not used or
trusted much at all. Even tho the
cause of 1000s of deaths from epidemics was terror in cities attacked by
mysteries of fate, or GodÕs punishment?
The surge of science to find, fix, make or prevent things was a trendy
hope of the anti-Christian medical fans, sick of domin-ation by ÔholyÕ churches,
vainly trying to save some from dying of mysterious diseases.
It took Pasteur decades to ÔproveÕ that
bacteria existed hugely in sick peoples tissues, while he was testing the sick
with immun-izations to kill germs & prevent infections. So the new medical theory of microbial
infection grew while ignoring the whole sick persons health habits: food,
water, bad posture, hyperactive, pollution, smoke, drink, drugs, overwork, bad
sleep, abuse: fights, rape, beating, conflicts, & family health history, etc.
Getting infected from sick people
was easy for some to believe & other rejecting ills from contacts. But most
we open to theories or desperate for solutions from loosing relative to
epidemics. Even when Pasteur
finally found specific microbes for diseases: yellow fever, influenza, Cholera,
etc, that didnÕt explain why some got it, other didnÕt, some died & others
not. They craved something to
blame, besides parents, alcohol & bad weather, to then perhaps prevent or
cure by selling a new techno-savior miracle?!?!
One victory for microfobia (fear of germs) was in London when sewage
was found in drinking water & claimed causing 1000s of deaths from Cholera epidemic. But what was making the microbes go
into & grow in sick & dying people? Many possibilities of causes: emotional, dietary/starving, eating
sugar, drinking alcohol, smoking, pollution, over-work, fears of people, nature, hunger, death, pain, body
fluids, blood, snot, sex, the dark, demons, the church guilt, rejection, nitemares,
abandonment, poverty, smoke, fire,
water, etc.
Wholistic
healthways learning about the above habits,
beliefs, food, drinks, relation-ship, abuse, balance, loving & being free
to explore nature effect our whole lives inside & out. Befire the natural revolutions of
60-70s our Ômind at workÕ & emotions were ignored by most, except some
aware of beliefs & fears hurting our healthy. Still God , destiny, &or accidents were
believed causes of health (i.e. workability), ills & death from being
guilty of sins?
Even the genius
of O.Wilde, GB Shaw & psychoanalysis missed health. What about anger & rage,
abuse & neglect, sorrow, guilt & blame? were not considered causes of
health & illness, except by very aware sensitives using herbs, massage, sweating,
water fasting, gardening, foraging bathing, inversion, sunshine & praying
to feel deeply healthy, loving, creative, happy & bonding to family & Nature cooperating together
now.