Cheap cures is about alternative medicine, food as medicine, nutrition, disease prevention, healthy lifestyle, exercise and health, herbal medicine. The alternative medicine part means it covers, spiritual, Oriental, Chinese, ancient, and Ayurvedic medicine, public health, libre, gamutan, bayan, kaya
Here are some quotations on health from J. C. Kurian book:
"Every person should have a knowledge of nature's remedial agencies and how to apply them." E. G. White
"There are simple herbs and roots that every family may use for themselves and need not call a physician." E. G. White
"Fresh air will prove more beneficial to the sick than medicine, and is far more essential to them than their food." E. G. White
"Stop sugar water drinks, sodas. It clogs the system."
"Don't eat or drink food too hot or too cold. Hot food causes cancer of the throat. Cold foods slow down digestion."
"The Lord God has provided antidotes for diseases in simple plants." E. G. White 1899
"Morning exercise, in walking in free invigorating air of the heavens, is the surest safeguard against colds, coughs. congestion of brains and lungs, and a hundred other diseases"
"Those who make a practice of taking drugs sin against their intelligence and endanger their whole afterlife. There are herbs that are harmless, the use of which will tide over many apparently serious difficulties." E. G. White
"Fast for one or two meals and drink only pure soft water.The loss of one or two meals will enable the overburdened system to overcome slight indispositions and even sometimes greater difficulties may sometimes be overcome by this simple process."
Quotes on Food and Health
"Let food be your medicine, and medicine be your food" - Hippocrates
"A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings and learn by his own thought to derive benefits from his illness." - Hippocrates
"One must eat to live and not live to eat." Moliere
"To eat an apple going to bed
Will make the doctor beg for his bread." - Old Rhyme
"Land with lots of herring can get along with few doctors" Dutch proverb.
"Eat leeks in March and wild garlic in May
And all year after, physicians may play." Old Welsh rhyme
"The right kind of food is the most important single factor in the promotion of health; and the wrong kind of food is the most important single factor in the promotion of disease." Robert McCarrison
"Every disease is a meaningful defensive measure on the part of the body, an attempt to compensate for damage caused by homotoxins. Therefore supporting the body's antihomotoxic efforts is the most effective and well tolerated form of treatment" Hans-Heinrich Reckeweg (from Dr. C. E. V. Gonzales book on cancer prevention.)
This blogger came across a herbal product that did very very well in just five years, growing from mere P500,000 sales in first year to over P140,000,000 this year. It is a berry juice with its main component imported from abroad. It commands a hefty price, does not use mlm, and uses a different marketing strategy. Very briefly, it sells more because there is more benefit but because there is more hype.
On the other hand, there is this local juice that sells only 30% of its production locally and the rest exported to Japan and Korea (another case of the prophets not known in its own country).It only managed to grow to 1/7 of the size of the sales of the imported product.
The imported product faces great risk because it is imported and the foreign currency fluctuation does not favor imported goods. Furthermore, the shelf life is limited because the potency of their product is affected by the shelf life.
The indications are the same: cancer prevention, better over all health, more energy, for more potency as a male. They could be very well considered generic product but the difference lies in marketing.
So why pay more; patronize our own native products and give more jobs to Pilipinos if the product is cheaper and as effective
This afternoon I accompanied a neighbor who has been ill for unknown reasons for the last six months. He has spent over P50,000 for six doctors and ultrasound, CAT scan, blood test, colonoscopy. The first dx was for coleostomy fater a colonoscopy. But he sought second opinion and concluded otherwise. After the CAT scan, there seems to be nothing wrong with him . The sick man is also a self taught Chinese medicine man. but could not cure himself. He became thin and pale. His trouble is trouble urinating and moving his bowels. It is either for the latter, having lbm or having nothing. He was given potassium, herbal (sambong) analgesics, and even antibiotics.
Last Saturday, I met Sonny Baarde on his birthday, and claimed he has cured others of their illness through herbals. Sonny seemed to be a good medicine man. He knows the basics of herbs, and seem to do good dx, asking what you ate, do you exercise or not.
We were accompanied by Restie also a spiritual and herbal medicine man. He claimed he was well to do before having worked with a clinic in Manila with Madam Auring
