It’s a sobering thought that our culture is destroying the foundations of everything we need to be healthy. The air, the water, the food and the communities we need to thrive are being systematically degraded.
Big agriculture means GMO monocultures, pesticides, feedlots with animals pumped full of antibiotics and growth hormones all enter the food supply. Amid all this destruction the pharmaceutical companies, offer to make us well again, for a price.
For instance, Novartis makes Atrazine™, the most widely used weed killer in the US. It is a proven endocrine disrupter leading to infertility and increased breast cancer rates, but not to worry Novartis has just the drug for that in its oncology stable, Femara™. It typically costs several hundred dollars per month.
Pharmaceuticals are poorly tested, one at a time, by those with vested interests. They are then prescribed in entirely untested deadly cocktails. Later, with monotonous regularity, these so-called wonder drugs are often recalled after many thousands of deaths and injuries. Our precious children are given more and more vaccines, none of which are properly tested for safety. Parents, who are sure their children have been irreparably damaged by them, are ridiculed or ignored, even as autism soars to 1 in 88 children. (CDC: 2008). As sane, conscious people we need to ask our selves:
“How can the answer to mass poisoning be more poison?”
In the US, each year, almost 1 in 4 deaths will be due to cancer. Even more will die from heart disease. Levels of diabetes and obesity are also soaring. As a result this generation will be the first to have shorter life spans than their parents.
Prescription drugs, taken as directed, cause an admitted minimum of 106,000 deaths, annually, according to a report in The Journal of the American Medical Association http://tinyurl.com/JAMAreport. Given the well established tendency to always deny liability, the true figure is likely to be much, much higher.
Aside from causing deaths and illness, conventional medicine, by ignoring the root causes of illness, is tacitly supporting the continued sale and marketing of millions of noxious substances and the relentless degradation of our world that comes with it. Chronic health care based on business as usual and pharmaceuticals is expensive and unsustainable.
How can holistic medicine break this cycle? By perceiving the problem more deeply. Our symptoms are not the dis-ease,they are friendly warnings that dis-ease exists not only in our bodies, but also in our environment.
Pretending this isn’t happening and refusing to recognize our total inter-dependence will only lead to deeper and deeper dis-ease.
To return to health we have to salvage the building blocks that are its foundation. Sometimes we will only be able to make personal changes. At other times we can work with our fellow citizens to change the law. We can insist on a “polluter pays” principle and fines large enough to really make an impact on bottom lines. We can focus all our creative energies and talents on repairing the catastrophic and escalating damage our species has done over the past few hundred years.
If reading this has left you feeling depressed and anxious about how messed up things are, fear not, Krishnamurti once said:
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
Homeopathy is ideally placed to be part of the solution, rather than part of the problem. Homeopathy is one of the greenest medical modalities. It has a very small, sustainable footprint, it doesn’t pollute, it’s not tested on animals and the experience of taking a homeopathic remedy often awakens us, at a profound level, to the inter-connectedness of all living things and helps us to recognize suppression both on an individual scale and on a global scale.
Time will show that materialism, in its many guises, is destroying our beautiful home, the Earth and that Homeopathy, with its gentle, yet effective micro-doses, is the perfect medical modality for the 21st century.
Great post. We love homeopathy and use it daily. I totally agree about it being the great medicine of the 21st century
Thanks for commenting, Kaley. Please share with us your most memorable experience of using homeopathy. I know people who are new to Homeopathy really love hearing stories from experienced homeopathy fans like you!
Great Post! Its all sadly true. I think whats vitally important for us Homeopaths, is to practice Homeopathy in a very grounded way.
Just had a case of a 3 week old who was roughly handled while still in hospital with Mum in High Dependency Unit-I kid you not!- baby had shown real distress, scrunching up its face and going bright red. I gave Mum a dose of Staphysagria 200c, split dose, and she was amazed when Baby went bright red and scrunched up his face! He is now settling nicely. thank you Dr Hahnemann. Sue
Thanks, Sue and YES YES thanks to dear Dr Hahnemann!
Wonderful post…..
Thanks very much, Gina.
Shame or intentional this was posted on 1st April?
Hi Andrew – Kind of appropriate as we have all behaved very foolishly in destroying our home planet! Thanks for all your support for Homeopathy.
Homeopathic medicine has been proved by Prof Ennis Queen’s University Belfast NI. (Belon et al, 2004)
The Faculty of Homeopathy has been incorporated in NHS by an Act of Parliament since 1950 in UK
Yes, Eileen, it was part of the NHS in the UK from the start and let’s hope it stays that way.
Wonderfully well written Mary, thank you for your great work!
Thanks Kay and thanks for tweeting it for me!
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Great article Mary! I just shared this and your April 1 “Sustainability” article on Twitter. Do you have a Twiiter account. FYI I’m at @amazinglyhealth
Thanks for helping to get the good news out there, John. I tweet @mary_aspinwall
Hi John
I am mary_aspinwall on Twitter. Let’s tweet this year!
Mary
Dear Maria Aspinwall, great piece as usual. How are you? Shall we catch up one of these days?
Hi Susana
Happy New Year. Sorry I missed your kind words, until now. Much appreciated.
Mary
Such an important message Mary! I’m a 2nd year homeopathy student and am humbled by the experience! Feel like shouting your message to the whole world!!!!!
Will share it on facebook!
Hi Isabel
Thanks so much for joining me in shouting from the rooftops – the more the merrier. I really appreciate all of you who tweet and share this vital info on Facebook.
Be well and spread the word!
Mary