From across the Atlantic the Europeans arrived and found a condition of“ opportunities unlimited”. Their civilized ways brought about many changes. From this time hence the New World has progressively depended on a more modern approach. Granted, some things were put here to be improved upon by man for man. Food, as medicine, does not need modernization, for in the natural state it contains all the living chemical elements essential to man. Nobel prizes have been given for medical achievements of serums and formula in the pharmaceutical industry.
Many compounds have been discontinued in the search for improved and effective pathological results only to be replaced by another sincere attempt to redeem the formula, and persons of the administered past. The wonder drugs of ten years ago are seldom used or remembered today, yet the search goes on.
Specialization is so deep and often misleading. We are getting closer to the bacilli than the man himself in our search for an antibiotic to rid the system of unwanted microbes. Very often a different and more complicated type is encountered and the patient slips farther out of reach and we have the modern cliche of“ accumulated side affect” or“ he or she is allergic”.
Our Indians were not trained to our civilized technicalities of the body, and scientific names of malfunctions were uncomplicated. Basically, our original people were constitutionally more fit than we are in our refined, polluted, chemical, tense way of provoking existence. Their nature healers were thought of as inspired individuals with vivid importance to their people. When necessary they administered innocent remedies which never injured their patients. They soon recovered without accommodating the acute or chronic symptoms of modern preparations. These men never claimed to know more than our physicians. They simply relied on the created organic properties of plants and the blood through its circulation, that knows more about individual chemical balance than technical equipment or means. Which in reality, after all is said and done, boils down to how we respond and feel. They never analysed a cell, bacteria, germs or micro-organisms of any kind. Their psychology must have been much as 1 Cor. 12:20 – 26 refers to:“ God hath tempered the body together that there should be no schism in the body but that the members should have the same care one for another, and whether one member suffer, all members suffer with.” Physiological laws of nature and ideas of divine providence concerning our health are abusively unjust. As if health and sickness were previously sanctioned and bestowed according to a Heavenly plan. This ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion, in this case, locking in self pity, sickness because of old age, and misfortunes as if it were meant to be. This may be interpreted as being controversial by those professing to know more about the events of divinity than our individual physical requirements. But for some it is more convenient than to admit that the condition could be due to our own unfavourable indulgence, with or without knowledge of the consequence. Would we agree to: will and duties are ours, events are providence?
Man’ s conception of nature should be commanded by obeying the vast material fact symbolizing the sovereign creator of the universe. Modern science of civilization will explain the medical culture of the past, as nature and wisdom are one and the same.
EMPIRISM AND DYNAMICS OF HERBALOGY
To the majority, human evolution of 200,000,000 years or more is negligible. Modern medical practice is estimated within the past twenty generations. Folk Medicine and Herbalism are in scrolls of the oldest written histories, after or together with religion.