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Spice Medicine and Oxygen
Part I
Spices have comprised the major part of the indigenous
pharmacopeia — "spice medicine" seems to be a suitable name for it — throughout
history in all parts of the world. Among practitioners of that art, the ancient
Indians and Chinese were the most advanced. The hill that separated India and
China never fully prevented discourse among the peoples of those lands. Indeed,
the most highly recommended and most commonly prescribed spices (as well as
plant-based remedies) in Ayurvedic medicine and traditional Chinese medicine are
the same. Furthermore, Greco-Roman medicine was essentially based on the two
older systems of India and China.
The Arab pharmacopeia during the age of the Arab glory was essentially
"Indian-Chinese-Greek" medicine integrated with other plant-derived phytofactors.
Thus, Arab medicine during the ninth through twelfth centuries A.D. was spice
medicine as well. Interestingly, spices (along with silk) are what lured the
Europeans to India. Vasco da Gama (1460-1524), a Portuguese explorer, discovered
an ocean route from Portugal to the East. He rounded Africa's Cape of Good Hope
on November 22,1497 and reached Calicut (modern Calcutta), India on May 20,
1498. (He fought with Arab traders as well the Indians, using extreme torture,
when he could, to establish his superiority over the natives. Vasco da Gama and
his patron, King Manuel I of Portugal, were as interested in
the spices of the East as they were in the silk.
Accordingly, the journey of Christopher Columbus to the
Americas, of course, was simply another trip made to satiate
the European feeding frenzy on spices and silk — with an eye
for future colonization. (I wonder how the celebrated French
cuisine might taste today had it not been for those fabled
spices from the East. Most likely it would be what English
cuisine is today.)
Then the dark century of medicine arrived when the chemical drug industry used
unenlightened disease doctors of drug medicine as their tools for suppression of
natural therapies. Those control-crazed pseudoscietists of medicine dismissed
all empirically-validated remedies as unscientific. There is a sharp contrast
between synthetic blockade medicine — drugs that block cell membrane receptors,
channels, pumps, and molecules of healing responses — and phytofactors and
nutrients that facilitate healing responses in integrative ways. Blocker drugs
work fast but cause long-term problems of the blockade of essential cellular
functions. Natural remedies, by contrast, work slowly but restore crucial
cellular functions. Why don't the pseudoscientists in medicine understand
something that simple? Perhaps because they are not paid by their paymasters at
drug companies to think. Fortunately there is a change taking place. The
community of physicians is beginning to see through the phony expertise of those
pseudoscientists of medicine, and is recognizing the anti- inflammatory,
bowel-restorative, blood-cleansing, and liver-detoxifying characteristics of
many spices. There is an explosion of studies that are delineating the biologic
benefits of the various components of spices with advanced analytic technology,
as I show in other articles of this series.
Why bring oxygen into discussions about the medicinal benefits of on spices?
Succinctly stated, what prevents unregulated inflammation restores oxygen
homeostasis which, in my opinion, is the final goal in all healing work. In that
sense, all spices with anti-inflammatory benefits contribute to the correction
of the oxygen disorder (the dysox state) and the restoration of oxygen
homeostasis. However, there is another crucial issue here: I do not consider
spice therapies to be complete treatment for any of the so-called inflammatory
disorders — colitis, arthritis, vasculitis, thyroiditis,
asthma, nephritis,
eczema, and others. At the bioenergetic cellular level, all inflammatory,
autoimmune, and neurodegenerative disorders are caused by
the oxygen disorder (dysfunctional oxygen utilization)
caused by cellular toxicity in the cells. In that light, I
consider it a serious clinical error not to add relevant
direct and indirect oxygen therapies to spice therapies as
components of all integrative treatment plans.
A friend recently insisted that turmeric is an excellent anti-inflammatory but
garlic is not. He also asserted that garlic is an effective antiviral food while
turmeric is not. I wondered what might be the basis of those statements. In my
clinical work among patients with the common cold, I find that turmeric — one-
half teaspoon taken with organic vegetable juice or grapefruit juice three times
a day — is far more effective than garlic. Putting that aside, my friend's
assertions raise a deeper question: Can the antiviral and anti-inflammatory
effects of spices ever be seperated with confidence? What is antiviral, by
definition, is anti-inflammatory. What is anti-inflammatory is also antiviral
when seen through the prism of oxygen homeostasis. Stated another way, every
pre-existing non-physiological inflammatory process increases the pathogenicity
of viruses, and every existing viral infection feeds the pathologic inflammatory
response. (See the article entitled "The Dysox Model of Inflammation" on
www.majidali.com and Integrative Immunology, the fourth volume of The Principles
and Practice of Integrative Medicine for further discussion of this subject.)
All spices (and herbs) with empirically known benefits for digestive- absorptive
disorders also have anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial effects. That is easy to
understand since pathological (but not physiologic) inflammation and infectious
processes feed upon each other. Again, the issue of dysfunctional oxygen
metabolism (the dysox state) is equally important in the treatment of both types
of clinical problems.
Principles of Spice Medicine
In closing this first of my series of article on the spice medicine and oxygen,
I briefly state the following important aspects of such therapies that may be
considered the principles of spice medicine:
1. Mono-spice therapy in large doses but for short periods of time can be very
effective for acute conditions. To cite one example, large doses of ginger are
often helpful in controlling motion sickness and pregnancy- related nausea.
However, continuous mono-spice therapy for extended periods of time should be
avoided.
2. Poly-spice therapy — the concurrent use of spices with empirically-
recognized complementary roles — is generally more beneficial for controlling
acute infectious and inflammatory processes. For instance, turmeric, ginger,
garlic, and cayenne (when tolerated well) can be combined for better results.
3. For chronic inflammatory and infectious disorders, mono-spice therapy should
be avoided. Poly-spice therapy for such disorders yields superior results when
combined with direct oxystatic therapies, such as hygrogen peroxide foot soaks
(done with one part 3% peroxide and 30 parts of water with a pich of salt
added).
The discussions of the therapeutic benefits of specific spices are presented in
other articles of this series.
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Dr.
Ali discusses Dysoxygenosis and varying
chronic diseases.
Chapter 1 Under Darwin’s Glow
Chapter 2 Energy Deficit States
Chapter 3 Integration
Chapter 4 The Oxygen Order of Life
Chapter 5 Oxygen
Chapter 6 Aging
Chapter 7 Inflammation
Chapter 8 Pain
Chapter 9 Heart Disease
Chapter 10 Asthma
Chapter 11 Renal Insufficiency
Chapter 12 Osteoporosis
Chapter 13 Metalicised Mouths
Chapter 14 Hormone Disorders
Chapter 15 Arrested Growth |
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