CAVIAT
WE MAKE NO CLAIM TO CURE ANY ILLNESS
WE HELP THE BODY TO HEAL ITSELF
Herbs
And the Placebo Effect
Herbs are
safe and harmless ask any drug addict e.g. poppy cannabis, tobacco
and many modern day drugs are made from herbs. So
therefor herbs have properties that affect the brain to help the body
to heal itself. How does the placebo effect relate to herbs
Take the herb garlic it contains natural antibiotics yet people in
France who take a lot of garlic have as many illnesses as people in
England
This is because the body adjusts to the garlic.
In the past
it was said that all illness was caused by evil spirits and you had
to get the good spirits on your side for you to fight the evil spirits.
Sounds rubbish today but hold on. In those days they did not have
the ability to see germs but they knew that something invisible was
attacking the body so what else could they call them but evil spirits
and they said the good spirits had to fight the bad spirits.
Now take the
example of a man with a heavy cold who goes into a room that has twenty
woman in it and he sneezes all over them I can guarantee if there
was woman in that room who had just returned to work after loosing
a loved one she will get that cold, but if there is woman in that
room who just fell in love the night before she would not get that
cold. So when your spirits are high you are more resistant. When your
spirits are low your resistance is low.
Now what has that to do with herbs and the placebo effect. Consider
this example. In the old days they gave people a lemon as a cure for
scurvy. They did not give it to them because it had vitamin c but
because it had worked in the past. Now in those days it was said that
a persons spirit had to accept the lemon or it would not work.
Nowadays we know that it is vitamin c that does the job, but we all
so know that the body cannot absorb vitamin c if it lacks vitamin
b The body loses vitamin b when the brain is under stress so the brain
has to be stress free for the body to absorb vitamin c.
Now consider this, science knows that all herbs are made with the
same building blocks but just in different positions!
Now we have a liver that is a better chemical plant than all ICI chemical
plants put together and has the ability to turn carotene (a carrot)into
nicotine(tobacco)and the brain instructs the liver, therefore, by
effecting the placebo effect the brain can instruct the liver to produce
the healing chemicals. That is why in the past when prescribing herbs
the herbalist always prescribed a ritual whether it was to take the
herbs at certain times, or boil twice etc. Therefore the placebo effect
is important, that is why scientist take this into consideration when
testing new drugs. Remember as far as herbs are concerned logic tells
you.
THAT WHAT WORKED IN THE PAST MUST WORK TO DAY.
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