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.)
There has been allure of more income (multi level marketing) and more business for distributors to reap huge profits from the masses through spin and huge adspend. say like on Acai berry, on mangosteen, wheat and barley grass. They claim to have huge health benefits such as more energy, strong immune system, better circulation, cancer cures. But most are anecdotal and story telling and not supported by research. Furthermore, having been processed for capsule or other forms, they would have lost their potency or bio availability.
I just came yesterday from a product and strategic plan presentation of Acai Berry Juice distribution in the Philippines and was wondering about the claims made as to efficacy, active components that re beneficial to the drinkers/users. At P1,800 per 500 ml container, the Acai Berry whose contents are made and exported from USA, and whose berries come from South America, are not cheap. And yet the Noni juice contents seem to be similar with Acai berry and would be cheaper since Noni trees abound in the Philippines. I came across a professor who from Los Banos, from UP formerly from FAO who manufactures and markets Noni Juice and other variants here and abroad. Acai berry targets the health conscious AB and emerging C (middle class) Primary Target Market and employs premium pricing
Noni juice is more competitive and higher phytonutrients
The Noni juice looks like a value for money and would help the local industries/Filipinos more. But the Acai Berry is a P140 million business.
And yet these fruits have higher anti oxidants than acai berry: mango, strawberry and grapes. Why spend more
MX 3 which comes in various format and in affordable packages like tea and tablets. Acai Berry is in tablet and liquid form.
What are they supposed to be good for: 1. Increased energy 2. Increased circulations (as there is less inflammation of the blood vessels. 3. Vs cancer since they are contain anti oxidants 4. For strengthening the immune system
I was warned by my family physician that a mangosteen extract capsules which retail for P20+ is absolutely worthless. No effect at all for any symptoms, even for more energy and better sleep as claimed by a fellow senior citizen. I tried it when I had painful eye infection and the Dr. was right.
The products which are marketed in processed form lose their high potency in fresh form, as the phytonutrients lose their potency as their molecules are processed. Thus being organic and natural becomes a false claim.
I thought that Morinda citrifolia or the source of Noni Juice as an exotic plant to be found only in Tahiti or South Pacific. It the Philippines it could be only in coastal towns near the Pacific Ocean?
Please take note that as per Dr. Tito Contado, CEO of PMCI, Morinda is no 2 among the herbal medicine; no. l is mangosteen.
But then my brother told me in the bike ride last Sunday that there are plenty of Noni juice plants in 4th st. I went there immediately after the bike ride and saw just one plant heavily laden with ripe fruits. I picked two fruits for curiosity.
This young plant is growing in front of our House
A forest of Morinda C at 4th Street in Carebi
Even at a busy street, there is fruiting morinda tree!
Today, I returned for the pictures and really my brother was right; there is a multitude. I even have a growing plant in front of the house. I must have uprooted a dozen of those young plants when I did the yard keeping.
How is the Plant Useful?
Also known at Indian mulberry, Noni or Morinda citrofollia has been used by Polynesians for 2,000 years for various diseases. According to Dr. Rey Sahelian, Noni is useful as anti viral, anti bacterial, anti hypertesive, anti inflammatory, auto immune system enhancing.
Some suggest that it is effective in cancer cure (see link at the bottom)
It exhibits mild action as anti helemnthics (eradication of worms) exhibits mild activity for infection, chewing its leaves is used for reducing blood sugar. In Bicol region, Morinda is used for controlling high blood pressure.
In some researches in cancer, Noni used in conjunction with other regimen produced significant results in controlling neoplasm growth,
Noni Juice need not be imported. It is manufactured by PMCI headed by Dr. Tito Contado; they are based in Los Banos Laguna. He can be contacted at t2contado@yahoo.com
PHL is so blessed to have so so many medicinal plants and herbs published in many health, nutrition and healing journals, and also in you tube. These are the low cost cures. May we mention them again:
