DRUGS
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Definitions:

Collins English Dictionary:

    Drug n. Any substance used in the composition of a medicine.

    Medicine n. Any substance used in the treatment of disease...

To which we might add (my definitions):

    Recreational drug n. A substance which is taken to enhance or inhibit naturally occurring behaviour.

    These may be further classified as:

        Non-addictive drug n.ph. (noun phrase) A substance which is consumed but may be stopped at any time without negative reaction.

        Addictive drug n. ph. A substance which is consumed but which may not be stopped without serious harm to the body.

Given the above, one might assume that any substance whatsoever, that is ingested into the body might be termed a 'drug'. That is the way many people see this.

However, my problem is with the use of the word 'drug' itself. It has come to mean a substance that is either (in a polarised world) 'good' or 'bad'. Most media reflects this, even the so-called 'alternative media'. All driven by some vested interest (personal or financial).

I do not have any vested interests, only a quest for some truths.

It is the difference between the 'good' and the 'bad' that interests me. This not a bi-polar World. It is a multi-polar earth. Earth is nature, the World is a contrived fiction.

Medicine should be the science of looking after oneself. Nature provides all that is necessary, otherwise we would not be here now, at this time, in this place where we are.

But, there are wise people (those who have knowledge they have learned from experiences with themselves and others) and the not-so-wise (those people who will not learn from others or their own experiences). The former are the survivors; the latter the non-survivors. So be it.

Medicine was learned from practical experience. To honour my (old/er) History teacher at school when I was little, I'll resurrect Eo and Bobo, the cavemen. One day they were out walking in the fields (some poetic licence here, please!) and Eo was stung by some nettles. His friend Bobo quickly took some broad-leafed plants (what we call dock-leaves) and applied them to the quickly following rash. The symptoms (intensive itching) quickly subsided and they went on their way, spying game on the horizon.
Nature had provided both the antagonist and the anti-antagonist in virtually the same spot. And indeed Bobo spotted it.

This is how nature works. It works at all levels from the atom to the universe. It seems that only Man has come along to try to change this, but perhaps that is also part of the non-existent 'plan'; who knows.

These plants were 'drugs'. But they were natural ones. That is how medicine began and it, of course, still works today, despite a great deal of opposition from Big Pharma, the only vested interest here is money.

However, today, we still have natural drugs as described but also the drugs which have been concocted by Man himself, who claims to be the God of Medicine.

Drugs now become the responsibility of Man so long as he produces them in a laboratory. He's clever, this bloke. He can synthesise certain elements from nature but he cannot complete the process as nature does, that is the whole-drug. He invents a pseudo-drug with its apparent consequences.

For example, let's take Vitamin C. Common in nature it has now been 'synthesised' in a laboratory. We call it Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid). Now, the natural form is encased in a fruit (for example) with the other products of its natural manufacture. It is therefore not a single thing but relies on other 'bits' to perform its function as a complete Vitamin C.

What the 'clever' chemists have done is to isolate a portion of the fruit which is similar to Vitamin C but is not the same product. They call it Vitamin C because it looks the same, according to them but it isn't. It isn't because it patently does not act the same as natural Vitamin C with all the other bits added.

As of today, drugs are either natural (as provided untouched by nature), or synthesised in a laboratory of some kind. There is no doubt that 'positive' chemists (as we call these concoction artists) aim to emulate nature as close as possible. That is to their credit. However, there are those chemists who do not aim to produce as close to nature as possible, or through mistaken notions or speculative work produce something that is alien to the human species.

The human race has gone from survival to greed in a very short step. As soon as something is 'discovered' it is exploited. For example, from trees we get wood, wood makes many things from homes to warships. So cut the trees and make the produce. However, that does not account for the fact that to grow a tree takes many years, whereas cutting them down and making them into houses or boats, takes not time at all. So, outcome: no trees left.

When Man (not all inclusive, of course) decided that bartering was not good enough to make a profit, the greed took over. Profit is the income of the lazy borne from no physical labour. Many have made this their life's work. They do, however, rely on the labour of others, the home-makers, the boat makers otherwise they would not have a living.

You should by now, see that all this is linked to drugs.

Drugs, as of today, usually means those that are produced in factories of some sort (whether they are local or global). They usually have a negative connotation. Drugs that are natural and provided unscathed by nature are generally regarded as 'alternative' medicine, as though the drugs produced in the laboratory are the 'correct' ones. The emphasis is on 'pharmaceutical' drugs as being the 'norm'.

Well, that's what they like to think and they have convinced most people that that is correct. Pretty sad, if you ask me.

It is well known that ALL pharmaceutical drugs depress the immune system. Natural drugs do not. There is always a danger in the 'more is better' syndrome but that is up to the individual consumer (and why older people who have experience are so important, not the git you writes your newspaper) but that is by the way.

The immune system was given by nature to keep us alive. It is easily compromised in today's world because that is the way it seems to have been designed. But you can do something about it. I beg you to find out how in your own time.

Anyone who relies upon others to prescribe pharmaceutical drugs or takes and manufactured drug or takes even natural ones that compromise their survival has only themselves to blame, there are no others. If you listen to others, verify their information before making a decision, in anything.

I don't say that ALL concocted drugs are harmful; that would be too sweeping a statement. However, modern medicine rarely looks at a whole person (which would be holistic medicine). Thus what are prescribed (however shonky some of the diagnoses are) are merely suppressing certain symptoms. Most drugs lead to side-effects. The side effects become symptoms and further drugs are required to treat those symptoms and so on in a descending spiral of unhealth.

No-one whole-healthy gets sick. Patients on a rattling good cocktail of pills are never well and never will be.

As I always say, your choice, your responsibility. So be it.



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