Posted on 02/22/2018 5:54:31 PM PST by bitt
...."Last year, my reader sunnydaysall, from BrainHavenNet, posted Dr Christopher’s Herbal Legacy Newsletter from July 7, 2017, ‘The Untimely Death of America’.
It is well worth reading, especially for those interested in natural remedies.
One would have thought that George Washington would have had the finest medical care available. It seems he did in principle, but, judging from his final days, not in practice.
A summary and excerpts follow, emphases mine."...
(Excerpt) Read more at churchmousec.wordpress.com ...
You are so right. Below is a post of mine on Facebook addressing Washington’s presidency. I cite the late Forrest McDonald’s comments in his The American History: An Intellectual History. Quite simply, no George Washington, no United States!
Rereading his ‘The American Presidency: An Intellectual History’ I realize what a debt of gratitude I owe the man. Like McDonald, I’ve always maintained Washington was our greatest president. It sounds like a cliche but he believed, as I do, that Washington was a man of almost unparalleled virtue.
From a C-Span transcript:
BRIAN LAMB, HOST: Forrest McDonald, author of “The American Presidency,” almost at the end of your book you write the following: “The caliber of people who have served as Chief Executive has declined erratically but persistently from the day George Washington left office. The Presidency has been responsible for less harm and more good in the nation and in the world than perhaps any other secular institution in history.” The Presidency has gone down, down, down since George Washington?
FORREST McDONALD, AUTHOR, “THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY”: No, it’s erratic. I mean, it went abruptly down with John Adams. It went back up again with Jefferson, but Jefferson was no Washington. Washington was such a great man; that’s not an act to follow. We can perhaps talk about that some more, but it began to decline throughout the 19th century. From Jackson to Teddy Roosevelt, who have you got? You’ve got Lincoln and a bunch of other people that — Mort Sahl once said in 1960, “Vote no. Keep the White House vacant another eight years.” Well, they voted for 75 years to keep the White House vacant. There have been some ups and downs in the 20th century, some good ones and some bad ones, but it’s been by and large a downhill trek, I think.
LAMB: If you could pick one of all 41 men, which one would you pick?
McDONALD: Oh, Washington.
LAMB: Why?
McDONALD: Washington was the indispensable man. He was the Revolution; it was just by sheer force of character that he held the Continental Army together and that he hung out for seven, eight years, brought the victory. He astonished the world by laying down his arms. Successful generals in revolutions had never done that, and the world was aware of that, from Caesar all the way up to Cromwell. He announced his retirement; he would never reenter public life, but the country was going to hell on a raft because the Articles of Confederation were inadequate, and they had to create an executive branch and had to create the Constitution.
He came back and he served, and he was acutely conscious of the duality of the office. One is symbolic, and the other is chief administrator, head of state, head of government. And he was wonderful at both roles. He was the symbolic embodiment of the nation as President, which Presidents have to be. I mean, even the bad ones; we look to them as the symbol of what we are, what we aspire to be and so on. But the reason that he was so much better than the rest of them is that he could play both roles very, very effectively.
For anyone interested in our history the man is a must read.
When I turned 50 back in 2016, I looked at all the data to get an answer to the question “what medical care do I need if I feel good?” My conclusion looking at the data was “almost nothing.” Annual exams? No benefit found. Prostate cancer checks? Better off without them. Cholesterol checks? Better to focus on good diet and exercise.
Here’s one point of evidence. We spend almost 17 times per capita on health care than Albania does and we live on average 9 months longer.
“I think hands down, our best president.”
gets my vote
In scientific terms, George Washington was/is a Singularity.
He put down power, twice. Once after the war was over. Then after his second term.
And today herbs, which still heal, are still thought of as quack remedies, and the doctors do drastic chemo and immune destroying treatments, chopping up patients and torturing them with drugs. Not always. Good docs save lives. But we still have treatment by consensus more than by science.
Read up on it. it kills any bacteria they try it on.
I liken chemotherapy to bleeding a patient with leaches. It might sound ‘good’ to our understanding of medicine, but it sure seems like killing a fly on a plate glass window with a sledgehammer.
I agree. Not too far into the future, we will see chemo as utter barbarism as well.
There may be some indirect lessons from it, though: there are people who survive both the cancer AND the chemo.
Well, My Goodness...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3669629/
(How do you determine that you’re getting the ‘real’ stuff?)
Of course there are (science lessons from chemo), and from one angle if chemo does save lives, it gets that credit.
Right now, like many parts of what we call medicine, chemotherapy doesn’t take into account enough about the bacterial biome makeup of each individual and its effect on the immune system (or, actually, its existence as a large part of the immune system), and oncologists practically ignore the desperate nutritional needs of the cancer patient. They are to this day told to eat whatever sounds good, whatever they can get down. Cancer thrives on sugar. They should eat ketogenic diets of natural clean foods only.
The wound care line from australia/new zealand was the one i knew about.
Cinnamon good for sugar diabetes, helps lower blood sugar.
Cayenne mixed with warm water - for sore throat (gargle), flu/cold symptoms.
Apple Cider vinegar 2T to 8 oz water good for cholesterol (so I’ve been told.
Muscle cramps? - suffer from leg cramps: ingesting a tablespoon of regular yellow mustard helps these to subside in a matter of minutes in most instances.
I don’t think bleeding a patient with leeches is what was being described..
I don’t think this is what was beign referred to here on Washington, I think they just opened Washington’s veins and let it rip.
Could be wrong. Leeches actually have their place in modern medicine, they release a strong anto coagulant into the bloodstream.
Thank you. I have a friend under treatment for c. diff now, and I don’t think he could take oil of oregano.
One of my ancestors from that era was named George Washington Colman in honor of him. My family has been in this country since the early 1600’s and never on the wrong side
Semper Fidelis
Sic Semper Tyrannis!
You could always dilute the oil of oregano, you probably need to as it is very strong. mix it into something else. if applied topically add a few drops to a carrier oil like coconut or sesame oil.
I put it in OJ, for me, and drink it with a straw. I’m not sure my friend would even tolerate the smell.
what about adding it to his favorite italian tomato-based sauce? with onion powder and garlic and basil?
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