For thousands of years indigenous people have employed the wonders of natural medicines. Often times these cultures have a medicine man/woman, who serves as the keeper and practitioner of the ancient knowledge and art of herbal healing. It is only in recent history that medicines have been produced in large quantities using artificial ingredients produced in some laboratory. These artificial aids often cause harmful side effects within the user, which in some extreme cases includes death. Conversely, natural medicines such as herbs and plants are from the natural environment and cause very little if any side effects. Also, the artificial methods and medicines of the Western world only ease symptoms and allow the patient to participate in everyday life with minor hindrances, where the focus of indigenous Eastern medicines is to cure the patient where they never have to worry about the ailment again. For example, in America many children are stricken with asthma, and they are taken to doctors who prescribe all types of drugs and apparatuses to only ease the pain and prevent death. But our tour guide showed us an elixir that is made of all natural ingredients that can cure asthma in children between the ages 6-12. Also unlike western medicine which only focuses on empirical sciences like biology, physics and chemistry, eastern medicine takes a holistic approach and involves metaphysical sciences along with empirical sciences to ensure that all possible causes of an illness may be handled properly.
The center we visited had a plethora of medicines and herbs that could be purchased and used for common diseases and illnesses that plague African Americans. I purchased some tea to help diabetes, some syrup that helps cure anemia, and some meringue pills which strengthen the whole body and its systems. I will send the e-mail address to order some of the medicine in a later post. Peace.
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